Date: 2010-07-09 21:19:14 Created: 2010-07-09 16:50:42
I turned a year older in the beginning of this week. The only organized celebrations I have planned are tomorrow, with just the immediate family. Apart from that I brought a home made cake which I think turned out really well (everyone else, luckily, seemed to agree) to work and everything felt happy and relaxed.
Then the week drifted, as so many weeks do, and suddenly I found myself with only a Friday evening between me and Saturday, standing around with a vague feeling I had a bit too many things to fix (clean, mostly) before people arrive. To improve my mood further I had a lot of cakes with the afternoon coffee (and pizza for dinner the night before), so I managed to really put myself in one of those grumpy afternoon moods on my way home; feeling tired, out of energy and motivation as well as a bit unhealthy.
Also contributing was the fact that I missed one exercise time in my regular every other day scheme this week. Because of that, I also wanted to make sure that I would not miss running tonight. But combining that with the other things I felt a need to do did of course not make anything feel simpler.
I ended up vaccuuming and doing some dust wiping, then getting my running done. And, as usual, the running completely turned around and evened out my mood and energy levels.
So now the cake
the second of the week
has been baked, the floors have been wiped, I am clean and shaved and am feeling happy and relaxed about tomorrow. And
as so many times before
all it took was some rythmic sweating outdoors.
I promptly pushed IOS 4 onto my Iphone (a cranky oldsturdy non-S 3G) as soon as I could. The differences are undeniable - most obviously a great many activities feel slower and choppier than ever before. Enough so that I actually consider downgrading every now and then.
Despite this, I have been putting a few books and magazines into Ibooks and done some reading. It is definitely made for faster devices, and the way it feels on the Iphone's screen size makes you yearn for more space, but I still kind of like it.
(Could that be a conscious thing - putting Ibooks on the phones to make people realize how great it must be to read on an Ipad?)
Every previous time I have tried ebooks or something similar it has been a pretty brief if intensive phase. Perhaps it will blow over once I am through my current little crop of material as well. Perhaps then I will downgrade.
Or - extremely wishful thinking - perhaps a minor update to IOS 4 will come out and put just a little bit of snappiness back into things again.
One can always wish, right?
(In any case, I see myself ending up with a new Iphone
and/or an Ipad
in many visions of possible near futures. No more slowness then.)
I have tried a few times to log into Itunes connect to learn how to submit my Filmtips app to the App store. Currently, I get stuck in a ping pong game between a login page and accepting the "new" terms and conditions. It is at least an improvement from before, when all I got was a message about an internal server error.
Weather has been undeniably summer-like, if somewhat unstable. People are starting to slide off into holidays, and I am beginning to really look forward to mine as well.
Only ten days of work left now ...
To speed that time up even more, and make it feel more like a holiday in itself, it looks like I will be getting a whole group of Hospitality club visitors next week. Nothing breaks the feeling of everyday ... days ... like meeting some new people.