Glass of water, piece of chocolate, sit down.

[mrissa]

So I've been trying to catch up on stuff I didn't get done with vertigo, and that's been taking a fair amount of energy and time. I probably wouldn't be so tired if I wasn't waking up starving at 5:30 a.m. each morning -- I would swear I'm eating enough and late enough, but apparently I'm wrong. And also I probably wouldn't be so tired if the beastdog hadn't decided to interrogate me last night about 15-20 minutes after I went to bed and had fallen asleep. All of a sudden there was a cold nose in my face and a little voice saying, "Arr? Arroo? Arroorroo arr?" I have no idea what she needed to know, but it was definitely her question intonation, and it was a detailed thing she was asking. markgritter came in and hauled her out with him (he stays up later than I do), but oof.

I hit the ground running this morning -- got my back fixed, and then timprov's, took him to the hospital (to get copies of stuff from when he was there in February to take to one of the new specialists, so no need to freak out), and I managed to get a few more necessary errands done before I found myself getting kind of emotionally involved with the choice of trash can lids in Target, and that seemed like a sign that I should go home and have a glass of water and a piece of chocolate and a sit down. So I did, and it worked well. I recommend it.

I am now sufficiently refreshed that I could go out and harvest cherry tomatoes and basil and rosemary. I think we're going to be pretty pesto-endowed for awhile here. The basil has gone nuts and more or less killed the cilantro, and it looks like the rosemary was going to be its next victim (I cut basil disproportionately from the rosemary side of the plant so as to give the rosemary a bit more of a chance, because being able to make rosemary buns whenever I like is really convenient).

I'm trying to figure out what it would be reasonable for me to get done yet this month and this year, in terms of Sampo and the next book I write, whatever that is (yah, like we don't know what that is), and ideally at least two short stories soon. Sampo has always been a wild card. With everything else I can estimate time more or less reasonably, but I have no idea what this book is going to do to my brain at which points. Still seems worth thinking about, though. I'll let you know if I come up with anything.

Comments

[ellameena.livejournal.com]

Oh, my basil killed the cilantro, too. It had help from the tomatoes and the catnip in doing in the rosemary. The problem with basil is that I don't actually like pesto very much. Sure, a few fresh leaves are very nice in certain recipes, but I can't use it all. And that bugs me.

[magentamn.livejournal.com]

Did you know that you can transplant rosemary to a large pot and keep it indoors over the winter? I transplanted mine yesterday because of the frost warnings, along with the thyme. Basil dies no matter what you do, because it's an annual, but rosemary and thyme are perennials and can grow to be bushes in a warmer climate. I love having fresh herbs all winter.

[markgritter.livejournal.com]

I am thinking of giving that a try with the rosemary, but it never really took off all that well this year.

[markgritter.livejournal.com]

Wasn't that the dill that it crowded out?

[greykev.livejournal.com]

Perhaps with winter TLC it will flourish and beat the basil next year?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

We have neither cilantro nor dill alive in our garden, just some spindly yellowish thing under the edge of the basil, so I suppose it could well have been the dill.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you can transplant rosemary to a large pot and keep it indoors over the winter. We don't have a good place to do that, or motivation.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

And you certainly weren't motivated to keep the rosemary alive last time we had it in a big pot indoors over the winter.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Let me reiterate my skepticism that such TLC is available locally.

[columbina.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Critter wakes human up with what is clearly a question and a very detailed one, but is nonetheless unintelligble to the human. Other human comes in and hauls critter out. No, nothing sounds familiar about that at all.

[talimena.livejournal.com]

"I found myself getting kind of emotionally involved with the choice of trash can lids in Target, and that seemed like a sign that I should go home"

Heh. That's definitely my sign to go home, too. I usually just come home and sit down, but adding chocolate and water is a very good idea.

New Approach

[jymdyer.livejournal.com]

=v= What if I put some chocolate behind my ears? Will I catch a Norwegian girlfriend that way?

Re: New Approach

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I would recommend in your hands over behind your ears, actually. More readily accessible that way; probably also more storage room. Or you could carry it in a little bag or box. Little bags and boxes of chocolate are quite popular in our newfangled times, I hear.

Probably you should come to Minnesota or Norway where we have an abundance of Norwegian girls. Better sample size etc.

[greykev.livejournal.com]

Stick it in a pot in the hot tub room; the humidity will water it, and if it dies the leaves can be easily swept up. minimal tlc in the form of dumping some miracle grow on it now and then. Or a time-release fertilizer and forget about it until spring.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

In the past, sunlight has been a major issue for plants in our house. Mostly we have indirect sunlight, which is mostly good.

Re: New Approach

[jymdyer.livejournal.com]

=v= Here in the big coastal city, though, I have a better sample size of chocolates. It's a conundrum!

Re: New Approach

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Are you absolutely sure of that? Because, y'know, this little bitty town of Minneapolis has a few shops here and there.

Re: New Approach

[jymdyer.livejournal.com]

=v= Last time I was there (admittedly some years ago), the selection didn't suit my needs. :-) I am inordinately picky about the stuff: there are only two places in New York that carries the chocolate I require, and San Francisco has only started carrying an acceptable selection in the last year. And I must supplement that with goods from a particular shop on a particular little street in Paris -- God help my friends who go there and offer to pick up some chocolate for me!

God help any of my friends who go to Norway to pick up a girlfriend for me, too. I'm even fussier about that sort of thing.

Re: New Approach

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Maybe if you could cross-reference the women in Norway who were eligible (of legal age, no restrictive prior commitments, bi- or heterosexual, compatible attitudes towards movies based on books, etc.) with the women in Norway who regularly visit particular districts of Paris, that would help both problems?