What a Week.....

And it's only Wednesday! I cannot seem to get everything DONE until around 3am, and therefore cannot seem to get up until afternoon, thus causing the same problem the next day, and on and on. Why is it that there is less time when you have finally retired? And time picks up so fast as one grows older? And you put off the things that you should be doing and start reading all the interesting things you find when googling for info, moving from one to the next, to the next and all of a sudden it is 3am, and you have lost the thought... and have not done any of the should haves?

Oh, well, tonight I will go to bed on time (repeat that 10 times and tell Sylvia to remind you). She just came shooting in, jumped up behind me and settled in to wash herself for the 10th time today (obviously she is psychic). Now my chair will shake with the washing and tail swishing constantly.

I have been cleaning out my mailboxes and had to read the 'what's going on in SF this week note.' Interesting. We have a hip-hop version of Dante's Inferno; a play about origami; the eternal 'Beach Blanket Babylon;' a story about a first grade teacher rescuing her physical therapist from harm (their description is five times longer); a gourmet dinner and show at NYC prices; a Valentine's day cruise; tennis in San Jose; back to the beginning?--Antigone, Phaedra and Oedipus, none in the original however; more cruises--many cruises; comedy, comedy, comedy and so much more, including a whole day of winetasting (they say nothing of how they sober you up to go home). Golly, we sure have lots to do.

I won't be doing any of it... I shall be putting strange old books on my Kindle; thinking about finally hooking up my new TV which has been sitting at the end of my desk, holding up the dragons, which also must be put up on the wall; cooking a bunch of meals from the things that are falling out of my over-filled freezer; listening to a bunch of new CDs; and looking up songs to put on my new purple ipod (all these things from Whitney's huge Amazon credit card she sent me for my birthday -- bless her heart!). So I may never go out again with all the googling and learning how to use all the new stuff.

I adore the Kindle -- I can download all the books from the Gutenberg Website for free (of course, I volunteer at their website, one of the 'jobs' I have chosen to do the 'giving back' that Jessie taught us to do. I am 'proofing' the old books, something I always managed to push off on someone else when I was in advertising... but here it is fun, and you get to read some really interesting old books. Also, new books are a tremendous price for the Kindle -- often books that would cost you $30 to buy are $9.99, as are most from Amazon... or less, and often free. (I fear ABEbooks will miss me... books for the Kindle often are less than from them. I do love ABEbks though, and hate to say it, but just ordered something from them.)

And then there are the two new applications I just got for my Mac... a drawing one that I MUST get to, as I haven't done any drawing in ages, except doing some heads from Charlie Rose programs awhile back -- but in pencil. A couple of them were pretty good, so I want to do some more. Ah, that takes us back in a circle to WHEN do I find time to do...............? What a week, what a month, what a year -- OMG, it is no longer 2009, it is 2010 -- when did that happen?