The Good: I finally finished a two-week project to clean up the landscaping in my front yard.
The Bad: My garden has reverted to being a wild jungle due to monsoon rains and lack of attention.
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The Good: I’ve been eating some really tasty, fresh foods.
The Bad: That business is expensive!
Chili with garden-fresh zucchini and cilantro.
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The Good: I now have two part-time jobs!
The Bad: I broke my toilet to the tune of $325-worth of repairs. By accidentally springing the toilet-paper holder down the drain just as the toilet was flushing. Don’t even ask how that happened. I still don’t understand my life.
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The Good: I’m getting to know my new room-man, and he’s a pretty cool (and incredibly quiet and tidy) dude.
The Bad: Pretty sure I creeped him out when he walked into a room just as I was calmly but angrily stating, “I will kill you when you least expect it.” It may have been directed toward a housefly I’d been chasing around all day…but out of context?
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The Good: I’m doing a lot of writing for work and for fun.
The Bad: I took a bit of an unintentional break from blogging to do so. I miss you guys!
I love notebooks.
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What’s balancing the good and bad in your life?
ForgottenBeast 
Congrats on the new jobs! And I laughed out loud when I read that bit about you threatening to kill the fly. That is totally something I would get caught doing.
I LOVE notebooks, too! Which explains why I have so many of them, all pristine and never written in of course. I found several more during my on-going clean out! The good news is I’m cleaning out in prep for getting out of Dodge! The bad part is that Ralph is giving me a hard time regarding said clean out. Can’t figure him out. He’s cute though, so I guess I have to keep him. Have a great day, Allie!
I’d be scared too… poor man-mate. LOL!
I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU
bahahahahahahaha
On a related note, there was a little fly in my office for at least week and I fucking hated him and then I finally killed him…but felt kind of monstrous for doing so. I kept looking at his little mushed up corpse and feeling like such a jerk.
yay for writing! I love notebooks, too, but I’m too OCD to use them (especially with a pen!) This means I have lots of notebooks that I’m too anal to actually use 😛
I have to quickly sweep up the poor dead bodies with a paper towel, or I start feeling guilty too, and forgetting the THREE days I spent grating my teeth in anger at his incessant buzzing and touching-of-my-food.
I’m that way with nice notebooks–So I stopped buying them, haha. I now just buy the cheap-o $0.97 spiral ones and just look dreamily at my empty moleskines and fancy-bound empty journals.
at least you are writing, doesn’t have to be blogging to be good. Love hearing that things are going your way -or at least up there. I mean the toilet things blows, sounds like my kind of bad luck.
I love notebooks too! I have so many of them it is not even funny! That chili looks good, love the zucchinis in it!
At least it’s not all bad. You’re still finding humor in things! And how about those toilet springs?
Bwa ha ha! I have two pesky flies right now. It’s impossible with kids going in and out to the pool. Will you come kill them?
Well welcome back Ms. Thang. It’s lovely to see you or hear from you anyway. Sorry about the toilet; that blows and imagine it took some real creativity to accomplish what you did, with the toilet and your writing.
I wanna know why your attitude towards food has gone back down the tube. Too many veggies? So much produce, so little time?
Glad your man-mate turned out to be so cool, and hopefully he’ll realize the same about you so long as you stop mumbling death threats under your breath. I, however, find them quite endearing.
Ahh, when it comes to klutzy disasters, I AM one creative genius! And oh, fresh veggies are the only thing keeping me sane, not sure why my brain has otherwise veered way off track, but I’m getting it back on, the past week has been MUCH better, fooditude-wise.
Alright that’s good news. If you ever veer off course again, come back here and I will set you right. It will involve mimosas and decadent desserts though.
You say “though” like it’s a bad thing. Decadent desserts, mimosas, and purple peppers…Ohio calls my name yet again.
Haha! Buying new notebooks (and well, ANY school supplies for that matter) was always my favorite thing to do at the end of the summer. I love journaling and even though sometimes I can get a frickin death grip on my pen which leads to some serious hand cramping, it’s far more therapeutic than typing…guess I’m a bit of a masochist? 😉
Omg, the fly comment…I’m dying! Lol
Um, how did I not know you got a job? Or TWO for that matter?!
Haha, I have a death grip too, defiitely working on that, although my hand-writing goes from barely legible to “is that English or Chinese?” when I loosen up.
One is just a freelance extension of my old job…and now you know about the other 😀 Pfft, interfering with BBQ plans…
I would not be afraid to be your roommate…even if you had directed that comment at ME and not a housefly. 🙂
Who has time to blog anymore? [Funny that when I DON’T have a job is when I’m suddenly too busy to do that.]
How does that work? I quit and suddenly can’t find a free second to read or comment to save my life! Which is a bummer–I miss blogging and all the lovely blogging ladies!