SOMEONE SWAT ME

I've been fluxuating between anxiousness and irritation for the last two days after a relatively nice start to the 4-day holiday weekend. Since my family already had our Thanksgiving during our mid-month convergence in Arizona, the past four days have been 'free time' for me.

Tasks accomplished :  two loads of laundry, clean the apartment, winterize four windows (rope caulk and plastic heat-shrink seals), change bedroom ceiling light bulb (ladder required), further consolidate/organize to make room for a kitty, mix more birdseed 'special blend'.

Projects and Interests persued: Updated my spending database by coding and entering records from early April to date; set up and listened to two personalized radio stations on Rhapsody and reviewed some music of interest; ordered the Extended Editions of the first two LOTR DVDs; printed out 81 family photos for the next leg of my daily photo-letters to my Dad (just beginning my second year doing this); semi-watched a good football game (New England Patriots vs. Indianapolis Colts) while working on a backlog of old magazines, watched the animated movie, Waking Life and then again with commentary; finally I watched the 4-part 1966 Russian film, War and Peace. I saw the movie on it's 1968 initial release in the US and thought it was powerful and it still is. The DVD had a dubbed version available, but I prefer to view foreign films in their original language with English subtitles.

So, it was a good weekend. Where did the anxiousness and irritation come from? My guesses: anxiety generated by the War and Peace strife; irriration: Monday again, 'nuff said. Also, I'm struggling with either allergies and/or coming down with something.