(could be a temporary post, just fyi)
Events of the past several days have lent themselves to many thoughts and few words. I feel overfull in that sense, like a heavy cloud low over a dry field in summer. Snatches of poem fragments are scribbled on whatever paper was at hand last night and today on my desk, and it's going to take more craft than I possess to cobble them into something worth reading. I'll manage somehow.
Eventually.
I'm sorry I haven't done our fall version of SC's front porch yet. Last night was the first truly chilly night we've had this season, and today was cool enough for long sleeves (I'm in 3/4 sleeves, and that says a lot, since I tend to wear short sleeved/sleeveless shirts 10 months or so out of the year).
[small giggle]
Now "sleeve" looks funny to me. Ever had that happen, when you use a word often in a short period of time? It doesn't look like a real word any longer.
Maybe this whole lack of soda thing is making me moody. Day 2 of no soda has gone reasonably well. I even left the beautiful deep green cartons of Dew untouched as we passed the huge display at the store today. If it's not here, I can't drink it. (Darn.)
It's been one of those nights yet again, one of those "can't quite shake the mood" nights that feels almost lonely-choked for reasons that don't lend themselves to easy explanations. I need to make some night-owl friends and get over the phone thing or something.
MIL called earlier. She's excited for our upcoming visit and kept filling my ears with what we'd be doing and how much we'll love it over there. I'm sure she's right, although even that has a twist. Some days I'm not so sure I'm proud to be American, and this has been one of those days. I don't really see that changing, though, since DH is heartily opposed to living anywhere else long-term.
That's another thing. It's been really easy to slip into fights with him lately, and I don't even mean to - but even when I draw it off/try to just let it slide, he pokes and pokes until I don't have anything particularly unsharp left to say, and it's my fault if any of it slips out. It's almost like he's looking for an excuse to get mad. Then it's, "I'm trying not to fight with you, [Infernal], but..." (Then don't do it, darnit!) I just go behind us and put things back in place as well and often as I can. We survive just fine anyway. :)
If it stays cool, which it's supposed to do all through next week, we're going to make chili this weekend. Yum! (Anyone in SF feel like overnighting me a few sourdough bread bowls? The ones here aren't the same at all. :-D)
It occurs to me that I don't have many socks, and that the ones I do have are mostly random mis-matches (again, it's warm here so much of the year that I don't usually have to wear them). I guess I should fix that. I love slipper socks - anybody else addicted to fuzzy/strange/colorful socks? Cool socks can just make your day, even if nobody else can see them between your pants and shoes. :)
Sleeve, sleeve, sleeve. :-D That's going to make me grin all night, dork that I am.
the_infernal_optimist posted on Nov 02, 2007
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Mr_Box said on Nov 02, 2007....
I just subscribed to you, Infernal. So that means I don't know anything yet. Why'd you give up soda? Is there a story there?
I can relate to your 'can't shake the mood' mood. I'm there too. But being as perceptive as you must be, you figured that out.
I don't have any fancy socks though. Sorry. But once when I was at Target with my wife, she ran across scented socks. They smelled like lavender.
I'm not sure why someone needs socks that smell like lavender though. It was a new experience. And normally when you're shopping for socks, you don't smell them first.
But in this case, we did. I bet we looked pretty warped to the other shoppers too.
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the_infernal_optimist said on Nov 02, 2007....
Scented socks?? That's a new one on me, and it totally cracked me up (think of all the marketing people with stinky feet missed out on there!).
I gave up soda in an effort to get my weight loss going again (I gained a lot with my second pregnancy, and with the baby being five months old, it feels bad to still have half of the extra flab hanging around, you know?). :) Also, I'd just like to be healthier. We'll see how long that lasts. My obsession with Mountain Dew should've qualified for a world record of some kind.
I write a lot of long, rambly posts about not much of importance, so you haven't missed a ton. And most of what matters comes up over and over again. :)
~Infernal
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Mr_Box said on Nov 02, 2007....
The scented socks threw me too. I like it when my wife smells good, but I have to say I don't usually sniff her feet. I don't have that particular fetish. But maybe for those that do, this is an amazing invention?
Couldn't you just switch to Diet Dew. At least it wouldn't feel like you were depriving yourself so much. Maybe you don't like diet drinks? I don't either.
But everyone tells me you get used to the taste. So far, I haven't been able to tolerate it long enough to test that theory.
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the_infernal_optimist said on Nov 02, 2007....
I suppose some people notice foot smells one way or the other - I'd rather not be struck by that at all. :-D
That reminded me of something else. I might have to make a post on just socks. You're inspiring people on SC all over the place, aren't you?
Yeah, I'm a diet soda hater. It all has such a nasty aftertaste to me that it's not worth it. I'm ok with water, though. It may be that I end up with special soda rules, like I can have it one day a week or something. If the pounds go down, it'll be more than worth it.
~Infernal
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Mr_Box said on Nov 02, 2007....
I've inspired you to write about socks? I think that's a first. How many people can say they've inspired someone to write about socks? That rocks.
Hey, that rhymes!
I think that you are the first person I've ever met who hates diet soda. It's such a relief that there is someone else in the world who thinks it's nasty.
Everyone else tells me I'm not giving it a fair shake. But it sucks.
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Twylarants said on Nov 02, 2007....
Hi Infernal- I just had a "sleeve" moment with "blog" after typing it 3 times. So I changed it to "glob" and felt better. -
lfbno7 said on Nov 02, 2007....
Well sign me up as a diet soda hater too. That nasty aftertaste does me in. Plus the articles about artificial sweeteners. Some claim that they are a dangerous hoax, that they haven't contributed to anyone's weight loss since their invention, that the sweeteners cause seizures in epileptics, that the only reason they were approved by the FDA is flat out corruption in the FDA, bribery. I'm never one to dismiss those kinds of charges out of hand. I'm a firm believer in the vulnerability of human beings to being corrupted. Then there are those who would just dismiss the issue as another whacky conspiracy theory, and we are left with them saying to me "How do you know it's corruption" and me saying "How do you know it's not". Who knows. Someone thought it was. Someone heard it was. Maybe it was. I get this stuff third hand. -
silverwhisper said on Nov 03, 2007....
i actually drink diet soda as part of a conscious effort to eliminate added sugar from my diet. it's to the point where if i have a regular coke for example, it tastes weird and too sweet.
and hey, you haven't posted a blog about your friend visiting in the early part of this week!
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the_infernal_optimist said on Nov 03, 2007....
Mr_Box: What can I say? You're special that way! :-D I guess we'll just be weird in good company on the diet soda thing. Blech.
Twyla: I saw, and it cracked me up that you do that too!
l7: More company on the diet-is-gross train, yay! I've also heard that artificial sweeteners are bad for you...it's really just the taste that keeps me away though, to be perfectly honest.
ed: My DH drinks Diet Coke and says the same thing about regular now - if our drinks got mixed up at a restaurant, he'd make almost as awful a face at regular as I would have if I'd found my drink to be diet. I guess that won't be an issue now! ;-)
Ah...I'll try to remedy that later tonight. There's so much to say, and so many thoughts that haven't really made their way into words.
~Infernal
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Mr_Box said on Nov 03, 2007....
Here are some socks like the ones I was telling you about. I couldn't resist posting the link since I am the sock post inspirer.
You can call me Mr_Sox instead of Mr_Box.
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