Mid-Summers

Hurrah I have a car again. The whole lead up to getting it was very long and nerve racking. However, now there is great relief and pleasure in the knowledge that I can drive where and when I want.

I took it for a small trip yesterday, along some freeway driving and such to see how she felt. “Dreamy” fits pretty well. Although the car was great the trip itself was not so good. Well, the trip back wasn’t so good.

After completing the task I had at the other end of this trip I began the trip back. The first stop, about 2 minutes down the road, was a gas station. $2.89.9 per gallon was a little depressing, gas went up a good 15-20 cents since I last had my own car. That wasn’t what made it so bad though, what made this stop bad was completely unrelated to cars.

I stood in front of the little panel and slid my card in. Then, as I stood waiting for it to process my pin number something went into my left eye. I have no idea what it was but I felt it, its uncomfortable and instant tear inducing mass. I spent a good 3 minutes trying to read the panel through the layer of fluid. Eventually it seemed to be out, or at least out enough to function again.

That wasn’t all that went wrong on the tip home however. It took substantially greater time then it should have. What might have been a 25-30 minute drive turned into an hour and 10 minutes do to the two miles of almost completely stopped traffic. I don’t know what happened because by the time I got to where the fire trucks and police cars were stationed they were picking up the cones and clearing away.

That was the worst of the day, my Summer Solstice dinner came out great. A ground turkey meat pasta dish. The meat was cooked up with red and white and green onion, garlic, various herbs, and some red wine. That was mixed into the rotini pasta with fresh cut tomato chunks and a olive oil and vinegar sauce. All of this was served over a bed of fresh red leaf lettuce. We had some raspberry sorbet and blackberry ice cream for dessert.

The eve turned out well despite my still irritated eye. Today my eye still seems bothersome but I think it is getting better, though I can’t quite tell. Either way I am not too worried by it, just annoyed.

I hope everyone is having a nice Mid-Summers day. I know I am happy, for today is the longest day of the year. From here on the nights shall be getting longer once again.

A Week Alone

So today is the 8th day of being alone, so to speak. I’m not really alone, there are the three other people living in the house, and my friends I have seen a bit of. It is definitely different though, most notably at night.

It had been quite a while since I had multiple days of solitude in the early morning. An empty room to really call my own at all times. There are nice things about it. For one, I feel that I am relaxing easier, there is just less to think about for the most part.

Perhaps I am accounting for the wrong thing however. It has also been almost a full week of knowing what car I shall buy. It has also been 3 days since I figured out exactly how and why I am paying for it. Even though I don’t have the car just yet, the certainty of the situation is a great relief.

Summer Nights

I have some serious problems with sleeping on summer nights. I have come to the conclusion that it is because my body wants a certain amount of darkness before heading to bed. This becomes a great problem when the nights start so late and end so early.

In the past 2 weeks I have noticed the curtains over my windows beginning to light up as I am still trying to fall asleep. I can’t quite figure out how to word the way that makes me feel. Its not exactly a dread, and I am not quite disappointed in myself. Its almost an annoyance but at the same time it doesn’t really agitate.

Just a week and a few days till mid-summers though, then the nights will start getting longer again, and hopefully that will help me goto sleep a little earlier.

Hopefully it will help me get back on track with posting on Sundays too.

Big Buy

So I have all but commit to the car I shall be getting. Yet things are progressing on that front slower then I would like. Dealing with and thinking about this car has been taking up most of what I consider my free time.

It doesn’t seem like it should be as stressful as it is. But then again, why shouldn’t it be? Even if I only look at the fiscal side of it, I am pretty much looking at spending all of the money I can say that I have.

I know this is a short blog, and a late one, but I don’t have much else to think about these days.