All the hullabaloo about the census is getting ridiculous. I can’t believe there is anyone who doesn’t want to fill out the form, because “OMG! I don’t want the government to know anything about me!” Last time there was a census, we got the long form. It does ask a bunch of weird questions, but I certainly don’t care if someone finds out how many bathrooms I have. This time, the form is super short, and the simple fact is there was only one piece of data they asked for that the government doesn’t already have, not to mention the world, seeing as it is all information available in public documents.

The government knows our names. They know our ages and the date of our births. They know what races we are. They know we are married. They even know where we live. In fact, the government already knows a ton more data about us than what that short little form asks for. Our income tax forms provide them with more data on a yearly basis than the census form does every ten years. Resisting answering these simple questions just seems a little ridiculous.

So send in your forms. Or don’t. Quite frankly, it won’t bother me at all if silly people have less representation in the government and fewer government services. More for people in my neighborhood who could really use it.

It’s bizarre that even normally rational people get overly sensitive about completely nonsensitive data at census time.

It doesn’t really seem like we’re going to get actual rain today. Maybe a little drizzle, but not RAIN. On the one hand … wah, because I was wanting a little rain for the garden. On the other hand … cool, because that means I can get out into the garden and get some more work done. Provided I can get my body in on that plan. My arms and hands are SO tired. They are lead weights dangling off my body.

Though I probably should spend the day cleaning the house, which has gone almost completely ignored while I have been puttering around outside this week. A cat fur dust bunny wafted out from under the kitchen table, and it was large enough to make me think it was a living creature … and, as always, there’s a sink (and counter) full of dishes needing to be washed.

I also have to go to the store for Dr Pepper and pizza cheeses. Ugh. Knew I would forget something, and why did I only buy one liter of Dr Pepper?! Even if nothing else gets done today –a possibility, considering I am TIRED all over– I do have to get to the store for those two things.

Oh, and I need to bake bread and make cookies too. Double ugh.

I have too much to do today and no desire at all to do them. Well, except working in the garden. My garden addiction has been rebooted now that it doesn’t look like total hell out there anymore, and I do like to hover after I have planted seeds in anticipation of them sprouting. I wouldn’t want to miss the first signs of something coming up and the chance to get right on top of it with my macro-lens for those up close and personal close-up shots!

No idea how I am going to motivate myself to get so many things done today when energy levels are so terribly low. What I really need is a day off, but there is no real chance of that until Monday. I’ve got this insane list for today, tomorrow we have a party to go to, and Sunday is Easter, which obviously means travel and family obligations. As fun as most of these activities will be, I find myself looking forward to Monday and the chance to kick back and do nothing (except maybe work in the garden some more).

Well, I guess I will start by getting dressed and going to the store. At least if nothing else does get done today, there will be cheese on tonight’s pizza. One has to have one’s priorities straight, right?

I’m trying to think of something good to say. Anything. Maybe even something just neutral. But alas, all I can think of to say is whining about how crappy this day has been. Sorry.

My troubles began late last night when I realized I needed to charge my cell phone. That lead to me realizing I had left the charger in the bedroom, where Myu had, of course, chewed the wire into tiny little bits. It’s my own fault for not putting the thing back on the highest cat-impervious shelf in the house, but I don’t think I am really asking too much for Myu to not chew every single cell phone charger in the house to little bits. There are no other wires she chews, and there’s nothing else she destroys. Just cell phone chargers.

So now I have a huge stack of chargers from which I will once again attempt to make one functioning unit. I grow weary of repairing cell phone chargers. In the meantime, I a stuck charging my phone with its USB cable, which sucks. Why does it suck? Well, it’s slow as hell and for some reason will only charge the battery to the halfway mark. Unacceptable, but it will have to do until I feel like repairing hair-thin wires.

In other complaining Just Orb news, I haven’t gotten much of anything I needed to get done today done. Not that this is anything new, but just once I would like my Friday to go as planned. Now it’s late afternoon, and all I am going to work on getting done is cleaning the kitchen and making tonight’s pizza. Anything else that wants attention can pretty much go to hell until tomorrow at the earliest. I am wiped out and done for the day.

Also I forgot to buy toilet paper when I went to the grocery store. I knew we needed it. I had it in my mind. I did not write it on the list, and it’s one of those days where if something isn’t on a list, it isn’t going to be remembered. Without a doubt I –or the other human who lives here– will have to go get toilet paper this weekend. Oh, the joy.

And so ends this post of general complaints about my day. I have to get moving on cleaning the kitchen, because before I know it, Lin will be home, we’ll be hungry, and then I want to sit on the couch and be a vegetable.

Well it’s a little chilly this morning. What the hell? I thought we’d all decided that spring has arrived! Teach me to just toddle off out the door without checking to see if it’s cold or not out there. Brrr!

No real plan for the day. I’ll probably do some sewing, as soon as I commit to which fabric I am going to use to make myself a cute little skirt. It’s a tough decision to make, as I have a lot of cute cuts of fabric. If I can get motivated enough to cut out the pieces, it’s only going to take an hour to make the thing, so that’s hardly going to fill my day. Guess I’ll just have to do some housework and then be my usual somewhat lazy self.

Mostly, I’ll just be biding my time waiting for payday tomorrow, since the things I really need to do require money, of which we have only a small amount until tomorrow. So tomorrow will be a busy, busy day. I’m also just biding my time until the weekend, because I need to get plants and get the garden started (which also requires money), so there’s a busy weekend ahead too.

Now if only it would stop getting cold after being hot and making me think spring is here! Get warm and stay warm! Please?

I think I’m going to lose friends, all because of health care reform. It’s a completely stupid thing to lose friends over, but I have standards for people I call “friend” (not terribly high standards either), and some people have crossed some lines. There are a lot of things I am forgiving of, but there are a few things I just don’t tolerate in my life. It’s always sad to lose friends, especially since I don’t really have all that many to begin with, but I don’t need people in my life capable of carrying around blind, stupid hate in their hearts and minds and letting passed their lips.

Other than that, today has just sucked. The weather has been gray and wet all day, my allergies and hormones are kicking my butt, and I just didn’t get much of anything done today. Well, I sort of knew today was going to be a “day off” when I woke up this morning, so it’s not like I made a list and expected to get anything done. Mostly all I did was rustle around in the arts and crafts closet (which the cats have gotten into again), and get out my fabric collection to start planning some projects. I want some new summer clothes, and I need to use up some of my fabric stash … so I can go buy more!

The only thing on the agenda for the rest of the day is continuing to fondle my piles of material, making dinner, and then getting some good sleep. Tomorrow will hopefully be a better day. The weather is supposed to be nice, so I’ll probably end up puttering in the garden, provided it isn’t a mud pit. Planting has to happen this weekend!

Now to have some late afternoon coffee, another banana, and play some silly games!