I scraped together enough coffee to make Lin one cup of good stuff. Meanwhile, I’m sitting here drinking the worst coffee in the world. These particular beans were nasty when they were fresh. Since then, they’ve been in the freezer for some months, and then they sat by the coffee makers for a few more months. None of this improved the flavor in the slightest. What’s really bad is being ancient didn’t make it any worse either, which makes one wonder what they did to the beans before they sold them. Coffee beans should not last forever while still tasting the same (either good or bad).

But bad coffee works as well as good coffee to get the engine running in the morning, I suppose. I just won’t enjoy my morning coffee as much, but I will get to have two cups, so there is that. Maybe even three, if I stretch it as far as possible and mix it with plenty of cream and other tasty flavors. I’ll probably stop after the first cup though, because it really is nasty harsh coffee.

I need to get out in the garden early this morning to do some weeding and spray my plants with Bt (for caterpillars). There are some all new caterpillars I have never experienced before chomping on my squash plants, and I want them dead. Bt will do the trick. I also need to spray things down with soapy water too in order to kill the plethora of aphids that seem to be invading. So far they are only on the marigolds, but there are a LOT of them. That’s why I have marigolds in my veggie garden anyway, to attract the aphids away from things I don’t want munched on. Seems to work.

Not much else planned for the day. Get a little garden work done, water the garden, and then maybe work on some sewing or a painting or something. I’m still feeling quite wretched, so it’s possible nothing at all will get done today aside from the dishes. We’ll just have to wait and see how it goes.

I didn’t sleep at all last night. Just as I was finally getting sleeping enough to try to get some sleep, a large black dog snarled, jumped at the kitchen window, freaked out the cats (and me), and then had to be dealt with … as in removed from my back yard. That was an adventure, and after all that, I had so much adrenalin pumping through my system, well, I may not sleep at all today either. Plus, I’m beyond aggravated too. Being in a poor mood doesn’t aid my ability to fall asleep.

The only big news this morning is the existence of a For Rent sign in the front yard of the owners of the fence-jumping dog. Pretty sure that wasn’t there yesterday afternoon when I was last outside, but it was certainly there is morning when I took the trash out. Are they renting out the house and moving away? If so, will we get good neighbors or insane ones? It’d be great if we could have normal people living on both sides of us and no obnoxious dogs jumping the fence. Yes, that would be nice. I’ll be keeping my fingers crossed.

I’m still feeling pretty crappy today, and now really tired on top of that. Today is not going to be a good day. All the same, I’ll probably work on some artwork for a little while and do some housework. Unless I finally get sleepy, in which case I will sleep for as long as I like. I need it. But first I want some coffee, because I have wanted some coffee since midnight. Had I known I was never going to get to sleep anyway, I’d have had a late-night cup of joe, but I did think I would eventually be going to sleep. Oh well, guess I can have as much coffee as I want now, can’t I? Maybe it’ll help me get the dishes done.

We got a bunch more rain last night. If there was any kind of severe weather, it missed us entirely, which is just as well. I could have done without more rain too. The lawn needs to be mowed, and the garden is a bit of a mud pit again. There’s a slight chance of more rain today, but I hope it passes us by. A few dry days in a row would be nice.

Last night when I was doing my yoga-like stretching exercises, whatever it was in my neck that wasn’t right corrected itself. “Pop” and the pain just vanished. Unfortunately, this happened at the end of the day right before bed, and the sheer relief of NOT feeling pain in my neck and back anymore meant I didn’t feel like going to sleep … so I didn’t. Well, I did, but two hours of sleep can hardly be called sleep, can it? In short, feeling no back pain today, but boy am I tired already. I don’t think coffee is going to fix this.

Other than the weather and the status of my back, I have nothing to talk about this morning. Oh, there are things I could talk about, but this being my public blog, I probably shouldn’t so I won’t. I’m just going to toddle off to the kitchen, make some more coffee, get out my art supplies and be quietly cranky on the floor of my kitchen. Or maybe I’ll just go crawl back into bed … the comfy, comfy cat-filled bed.

Last night was a movie night.

First up was the second Transformers movie. I liked it. Lots of awesome robot action, things blowing up, great digital effects and sound work. I found the girlfriend character annoying, because my impression of her at the end of the movie was that I only remembered her being pulled to and fro by various men. Lin did remind me she’d hot-wired a car and saved their lives earlier in the film, but still … then she seemed sort of useless. But then, I don’t watch Transformer movies for the deep character development or character intelligence. I like the bullets and action and things blowing up. It is a pretty and fun movie, which is why I will be watching it again before deleting it from the DVR.

When that one finished, we noticed The Hangover was coming on, so we watched that. Well, I should say Lin watched it. I was pretty meh about it early into the show, and I toddled off to the computer to play solitaire. I went back into the living room and watched the end. There were a few chuckles here and there, but all in all, I was surprisingly not impressed with The Hangover. I say surprisingly because just about everyone I know who goes to see movies said we needed to see it. I will likely never watch it again. Or maybe I will if it comes on when I am bored. I’m still just pretty meh about the movie.

We also watched the new episode of Dr. Who. I really love the stories this season. The writing is really good. The acting is really good too. It’s going to be a great season of Who. But … I’m having trouble bonding with the new Doctor. He annoys me. Too young-looking, too spastic, and did I mention he annoys me? I don’t think I’ll ever get used to him, and I don’t really feel like trying. Still, it’s going to be a great season of Who.

So that’s what we did with our Saturday night. We haven’t done much more with our Sunday so far either. Lin’s been watching TV, and I went to the grocery store, fed the household a couple of times, and beyond that just plain old goofed off. Too wet to work in the garden, and I’m too cranky to do much of anything else. My neck is still not right (though much better), it looks like I’ll be facing another week of not having my wheels, and I’m a mess of middle-aged hormones on top of all that, so yeah … cranky.

Guess I better get going on the laundry, call my mom, and contemplate dinner, so I can get back to being cranky and lazy. Hopefully, there will be something awesome on one of the movie channels tonight. Something with lots of bullets and explosions and very little plot.

It rained and rained and rained last night, therefore, our yard is massively muddy today. As good excuse as any not to work in the yard or garden. Not that me and my whacked out neck have any business working in the garden today anyway.

Since it’s cool and gray and dreary, that seems like as good excuse as any to basically not do anything at all today. I do like to have an excuse when planning on being lazy! My only goals for the day are to do yesterday’s massive pile of dishes, keep the man and cats fed, and goof off and snooze as much as possible.

And maybe leave the house and go to a craft store or something. I don’t really need to go anywhere (but the grocery store, which I am not doing today), but I’d really like to be away from my house for a little while. The non-transportation-availability situation is seriously beginning to get me down. In fact, it’s getting me so down, I can’t even express my feelings on the matter rationally anymore.^†

1. † I want my truck back now … please. [↩]