Seen on a forum I frequent

I certainly understand when real life creeps up. I try and post a rear guard to prevent that from happening. Usually it just plows through the rear guard though, or performs some sort of flanking maneuver and comes at me from the side.

Spiders, my headspace and an amusing tidbit

So my office now has several big plastic spiders hanging from the ceiling, doorframe, & doorknob by threads of human hair... they really look like spider silk. Yeah, I like the Halloween office decorating contest, but next year maybe I won't pick spiders as a theme. Between my office and my next-door neighbor's (which is COVERED in that fake web stuff and more spiders) I'm getting too freaked that a real spider will sneak in and hide among the plastic ones and, like, land on my head.

I ended up being fairly cheerful last night. Work was fine, I went to half a TKD class and then home, and we cooked a lot... all of it was yummy, everything was nice and normal and clearly far beyond anything the universe would actually give me to keep. Yeah, I've been backsliding on that whole acceptance thing again. ( My headspace is dumb )

Thought for the morning: if you're making a somewhat controversial movie about the christian God and keep getting struck by lightning, would you take it as a hint? Hmmm.

So much better

My watch is on my wrist & telling the right time again! It lost its little time-setter knob a few days ago (or sometime before DST, anyway) and I've been feeling off-kilter ever since. Finally, rather than pay $25 and wait four weeks for it to be sent off to Fossil and fixed, I asked the nice watch place to just set the damn thing for me. They did, and they didn't charge me either! So the problem has been pushed back.

The bad news: I'll be travelling between time zones at least 3 times between now and spring--uncomfortable when you can't set your watch. I don't consider it feasible to live without a watch for four weeks. And in that watch store I happened to see a beautiful Raymond Weil one in the sale case for half off... yes, half off of what?, you might ask with some suspicion. Half off $750, I would admit. Must resist. Next time I hear them say oh, just wander around the store for 15 minutes while we fix this I think I'll head out of the store for 15 minutes just to give my poor willpower a break.

(Edited to say: aw, damn, resisting evil just got easier. HLM reminded me that the place in Porter Sq did say they could do it overnight... so okay, I'll pump another $25 into this $60 watch that I'm sure I've now spent way over $100 on maintaining! I've gotten it a new crystal face, a few leather bands, a few batteries, and now this... it's like one of those philosophy questions about when we stop saying it's still the same watch! Ah well... I'm just amused at this whole entry now. I sure hope y'all care deeply about my watch situation, because now you know it intimately. Congratulations. :)