| Day 322: Which stations is your car radio tuned to? What kind of radio program do you enjoy most on |
[May. 16th, 2012|09:36 am] |
At the moment, none at all. For some reason it lost all the programmed stations a while back and I've never bothered re-programming them. I listen to the radio so rarely that it is no big deal to me.
Instead I am either randomly listening to music off my iPod or I'm listening to various podcasts off my phone.
The type of traffic I'm in has no relevance on what I want to here that I've noticed. |
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| Day 321: What was the last live performance you saw? |
[May. 15th, 2012|11:37 am] |
All of the live performances we saw at Memphis in May MusicFest a couple weeks ago. I'd have to look up what the schedule was to be able to tell you the name of the exact last one we watched there. All in all it was a fantastic experience with a lot of great performances. |
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| Day 320: What music do you like to listen to while making love? |
[May. 14th, 2012|11:34 am] |
None. I can't say that I've ever felt the need to have music to set a mood for sex. At a couple random times, I've had sex while music was playing in another room. But those were mere coincidence, not planned out or contrived at all.
I guess what it boils down to is that when I am making love I want to hear the soft sounds and words coming from my lover rather than words and sounds from somebody I don't know. |
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| Day 319: When is the last time you went on a clothes shopping spree? |
[May. 13th, 2012|11:30 am] |
"Beware of all enterprises which require new clothes." ~Thoreau
Eh, depends on your definition of shopping spree. The last time I went all out with buying a bunch of clothes was probably last year when Amber and I went down to the outlet stores in Tunica.
However, I did buy a few new shirts and such last month before the trip for my birthday. And back in February, I bought a couple new outfits for Valentine's Day. |
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| Day 318: What three things stress you out most on a daily basis? |
[May. 12th, 2012|11:25 am] |
In general, I try not to stress out about anything, particularly not on a daily basis. About the only thing I stress about regularly is time with my family, like when I have lunch with my mom during the week. Those are quite often a trial in one form or another. |
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| Day 317: Do you change the oil in your car, or do you have someone else do it? |
[May. 11th, 2012|11:23 am] |
It depends on how I'm feeling really. I can and have changed the oil in my car many times. But then sometimes I am just feeling lazy and will take it somewhere to get it changed. When I have a coupon or see a special deal its not all that much more to pay for a standard oil change instead of doing it yourself when you take into account buying the 4-5 quarts of oil and a fresh oil filter. |
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| Day 316: What kinds of handyman tasks can you do best? |
[May. 10th, 2012|11:39 am] |
What kinds of handyman tasks can you do best? If you have the time, do you prefer to fix things yourself?
I am best at anything and everything..... that I can find a good YouTube video on. :-)
I far prefer to try fixing things myself. I might get a little nervous about trying to do new things, but I push myself to try it all. That's where the YouTube videos come it. I may not have acquired concrete handyman knowledge/skills (my father is more the type to either pay somebody to fix something or just go out and buy a new one), but there's always somebody on YouTube showing me how to do anything and everything.
With YouTube's help, I've fixed dishwashers, my clothes dryer, electric outlets, light switches, a leaky water heater, toilets (including a full replacement and replacing just the tank), adding a dividing wall with door, replacing a garbage disposal, building my own raised beds, refinishing old furniture, fixing my bike multiple times, changing my own engine oil and replacing the filters, diagnosing and fixing my transmission (when it only required more transmission fluid to be added), and I'm sure plenty of other things that I'm not thinking of at the moment.
They hardest thing about doing handyman work is simply allowing yourself to try it. I think far too many people get intimidated by things they've never done before. It just seems so foreign to them that they can imagine that they would be able to do it themselves. I know I was that way before I change my oil for the first time on my own and it was down right simple to do once I looked into how it was done.
Another example was when I showed my girlfriend how to change a tire on her car. This is something I've had to do several times in the past and it is almost nothing to me. Typing this post was harder and took me a lot more time than it takes me to change a tire. But for her, it was something she had never done and thus scary or at the very least intimidating. Then I showed her how it was done. Her response was "That's it? That's so simple."
That is exactly what many handyman projects end up being too. |
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| Day 315: Do you like gardening? Did you ever grow anything in you garden that you actually ate? |
[May. 9th, 2012|03:59 pm] |
I love growing my own vegetables and herbs. The first year I did it, I had a fantastic crop of tomatoes and peppers along with an overabundance of herbs. Last year I didn't get nearly as many tomatoes, but I think that largely was due to me not giving the garden enough attention. I'm doing a much better job this year.
I am particularly successful with herbs. If anybody needs rosemary, oregano, parsley, or mint, I have enough for an army. I have some other herbs too such as basil and chives, but those are in more limited quantities because they are new plants rather than 2 and 3 year growths of previous herbs.
My zucchini plants are coming in quite nicely with roughly a gross of blooms that will turn into actual fruit (though the storms last weekend knocked several blooms off). My tomato plants are going strong with the starts of blooms just coming out. What else? Peppers plants are nice and healthy, but its still too early in the season for those to be doing much besides getting larger. This year I'm trying out growing rhubbarb and artichoke. So far they both have enormous, good looking leaves (though frankly I have no clue how to tell when they are ready to harvest). I'm sure I have some other stuff growing, but I can't think of it right now.
Anyway, I definitely do love to garden and I really need to get around to building my second self-watering raised bed the first one is doing so fantastic a job. |
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| Day 314: Do you get headaches? How frequently? |
[May. 8th, 2012|02:56 pm] |
"America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one and dollar and use it up in two weeks." ~Fred Allen
Anybody that knows me, knows that I get massive migraines quite frequently. The blood pressure medicine my doctor has put me on helped reduce their frequency (though not the intensity), but I think my recent bout of excessive exercise has done a lot more to help. Since I've started with the c25k along with riding my bike more again, I have gotten far fewer headaches with less intensity to boot. It's great. :-) |
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| Day 313: If you could think up a new invention to use around the house, what would it do? |
[May. 7th, 2012|02:52 pm] |
Most everything I would want has already been invented. Some improvements to the world of robot vacuums/mops might be nice, particularly if it would mean bringing the price down on them. Some sort of robot to clean the toilet and shower would great, but I believe we are a long way from that.
I guess it would just have to do with something taking care of chores I don't want to have to do. |
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