Small contentments

[flexagon]

Life is full of small triumphs, and not just my own. Last night the Leaning Tower stood on a Bosu for a while at the gym -- I think she surprised herself!

And I discovered that it is good to set Pandora to some of the bands recently recommended to me and think about the music while knitting. Great Big Sea = yick, by the way; and Neutral Milk Hotel wavers between pretty good and annoying in a very Decemberists kind of way; but the station based off Explosions in the Sky is providing uniformly good work-music. There's something to be said for instrumental rock.

I was very deeply content yesterday, and today wasn't bad either. Moses was late to gymnastics, so we just had an open gym and Moses hung around to coach a little. My balance wasn't great and I didn't push myself hard. Spotted handstands where Moses keeps me close to balanced, but makes me pull myself off his hands if I start to fall forward or back, help more than anything else. I tried doing some drills with pulling myself off a wall, and I stretched out my splits and my pancake... repeatedly but gently. Nothing seems to be overstretched from Sunday, a minor miracle.

Mmm, and I've been reading Persepolis and really enjoying it. I love when random people on the subway are moved to tell me the book I'm reading is amazing. It's ironic that I'm reading this graphic novel about average people in Iran -- culturally sophisticated, finding it hard to take their government seriously -- just as our government seems to be thinking about attacking theirs. Hey, I have an idea, guys... let's not... kay, thanks.

Anyway, speaking of contentment, I have a new down comforter to be crawling under. It came last weekend and I've been sleeping much better ever since... it probably has to do with the not-shivering that came for free along with the blanket. Hope you all in internet-land are well tonight, too.

Comments

[belacane.livejournal.com]

Persepolis is absolutely one of my favorite books EVAR!!!!

(and is currently sitting on the shelf where I keep the books I read over and over and over again).

[nahele-101.livejournal.com]

I personally think NMH is very, very overrated!

I don't get it!

[flexagon]

Yeah, I dunno... I did better just listening to all the samples on Amazon than I did with the radio station. The surrealism is something I could get into in a Tori Amos-ish way, or an XTC-ish kind of way. I like surrealism.

That said, their radio station got really annoying after half an hour. :P Stop playing me the Decemberists, Pandora!

[nahele-101.livejournal.com]

thumbs down, thumbs down!

I'm a big fan of spearhead radio!

[nahele-101.livejournal.com]

P.S Pandora.com ROCKS!

[apfelsingail.livejournal.com]

Hey, Persepolis is on my list of things to read, too- glad it's getting good reviews. :-)

[flexagon]

You can look at it while you're here on the 20th! :)

[webrat.livejournal.com]

My pandora profile:
http://www.pandora.com/people/webRat

I bookmark via Pandora anything that's interesting (to me) so that I can hunt down artist/songs later.

[flexagon]

Thanks, that's really cool. I didn't know you could share profiles and bookmarked songs... I just learned a few days ago that you can email your radio stations to friends. All in all, it's a much better site now than when I first heard about it.

[webrat.livejournal.com]

Yup, don't forget to check out Open Pandora ( http://openpandora.googlepages.com/ ) for a desktop app if you're tired of running it in a browser.