Today’s Amazon Recommendations Especially for Me

1.  Oxo Good Grips i-Series Swivel Peeler

2. Devo – The Complete Truth About De-Evolution

3.  Henkel Duck 24-Inch-by-9-Feet Extra Wide Bubble Wrap

4.  Country Cuzzins / Midnight Plowboy

5.  Snowmen Pop-Up Book

Conversations with my Boss

Setting:  My office.  Enter Stabler.

Stabler:  So NAWLA is going to be coming on board soon.

Me:  Yeah, I heard you talking about them the other day.  Everytime I hear NAWLA, thought, I think of NAMBLA.

Stabler:  NAMBLA?

Me:  The North American Man/Boy Love Association.

Stabler: …

Me:  I can’t help it.

Stabler:  You do realize that it’s weird that you know things like this.

Responsibility vs Manic Creativity

I’ve been on a roll the last 2 weeks. Out of nowhere, I started painting again. And it turned into this.

And while this as a good thing, obviously some things in my life were out on the back burner. Number one, obviously, being the fact that I said I’d be writing 3 entries a week. Not that anyone’s live were totally thrown off course because i DIDN’T write 3 entries a week, but it’s the principle. I was determined to develop some discipline in SOMETHING. There were other things that got put on hold as well so i could cater to my new obsession. Meals, sleep and exercise being the top 3. I was so into my “projecting” as I started calling it that I would forget to eat, and then all of a sudden I would find myself starving, but I didn’t want to stop what I was doing, so I’d grab a banana or a Fiber One bar (which are much more awesome than they sound) and wolf it down on my way back to my “creativity station” (aka. the entire living and dining room.) In the same manic state of mind, i haven’t been to the gym since 2 Monday’s ago. I haven’t even cared about the 30 pounds I want to lose before my wedding. However, this was canceled out by my 600 calorie a day diet, because 8 toilet seats later, I’ve lost 3 pounds.

I’ve also inhaled a lot of glue and acrylic fumes, haven’t wanted to go to work (I have, though, I’m not that bad yet), and my wedding invitations are 3 weeks late being sent out. Or, if you want to get technical about it, 3 weeks late from being finished. But despite this whole mental tug of war between “want to” and “should be,” my brain has felt SO FUCKING GOOD. And this is after 2 and a half weeks of sitting on my ass in the living room and watching horrible horrible television (i need to have the tv on, but it has to be something I don’t care about, or things will not get done.) I know I can’t continue my life this way (i’m driving Smacky crazy because i start every sentence with “you know what would make a good toilet seat?”) so I have set some boundaries for myself:

1. No more toilet seats until wedding invitations are DONE AND MAILED.

2. I am allowed to purchase only TWO SEATS A WEEK if necessary.

3. Before I can sit on the couch for the rest of the night, I NEED TO HAVE DONE SOME SORT OF CARDIOVASCULAR ACTIVITY. (Initially, my plan had been to go to the gym in the morning before work, because I knew once I go home I’d want to just “project,” but that hasn’t worked out too well so far.)

4. Three Monotonous Momentous’s a week.

And somewhere in there I’ll need to go to work and eat actual meals.

Starting tomorrow.

Or Tuesday.