Section 50 #1

Those of you who follow my Twitter may have noticed that a couple months ago, I tested a project I called Section 50 - where I played 50 random songs and wrote them all down. It was too big for Twitter, so I decided to postpone it until I had a viable method of doing it, and now here it is! This is project 3, and was technically supposed to be yesterday. I will post 50 random songs every week on here. Project 4 is over on my writing blog, and is simply that I will post a new musing every week on Sunday.

Without further ado, 'yesterday's' 50 random songs.

1. Stroke, Apocalyptica
2. The Device Has Been Modified, Victims of Science
3. Wake Up Dead Man, U2
4. All That Remains, Jesse Cook
5. Some Days Are Better Than Others, U2
6. Get On Your Boots, U2
7. Capital, Rockapella
8. Haunted, Evanescence
9. Hello, Evanescence
10. Kuin Henkäys Ikuisuutta, Tarja Turunen
11. Beautiful Day, U2
12. We Are The Champions, Queen
13. Preludio Corale, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
14. Die Nebensonnen, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
15. Fuji-nee's Theme, Kawai Kenji
16. The X-Files Theme, The Dust Brothers
17. Djami, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
18. Taking Over Me, Evanescence
19. Movement IV: Canto, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
20. Sweet Sacrifice, Evanescence
21. Livin' La Vida Loca (Spanish), Ricky Martin
22. Look Down, Claude-Michael Schönberg & Alain Boublil
23. Akogare no Yuutousei, Kawai Kenji
24. Do You Feel Loved, U2
25. Breathe, U2
26. Angel of Music, The Phantom of the Opera Original London Cast
27. Passeggiata veneziana, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
28. Einsemkeit, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
29. In The Mood, Glenn Miller Orchestra
30. Fall At Your Feet, Jesse Cook
31. The Fly, U2
32. Teotihuacan, Noel Gallagher
33. Fragile, Sting
34. Smug, Steve Taylor
35. Air, Jesse Cook
36. Eien no Toga, Eternal Sin
37. So Cruel, U2
38. Major Tom (Coming Home), Shiny Toy Guns
39. Mitsurugi Reiji - Great Revival, Noriyuki Iwadare
40. Gone, U2
41. Stay (Faraway, So Close!), U2
42. Love and Peace Or Else, U2
43. Follow Me, Breaking Benjamin
44. Boy and the Ghost, Tarja Turunen
45. A Moment Lost, Enya
46. Get Me to the Church on Time, Frank Sinatra
47. Your Star, Evanescence
48. Valjean Arrested/Valjean Forgiven, Claude-Michael Schönberg & Alain Boublil
49. The Lament of Desmond R. G. Underwood-Frederick IV, Steve Taylor
50. Juste un moment, Chic Gamine

Learning: patience, worries and children

Second project: post biweekly (or more often if I get around to it) about what I've learned in the past while.

What have I learned?

I have learned ...

• that water cannot be too hot when you put yeast in it, or it does not proof as well.
• that 1 cup of molasses is a lot of molasses. A lot more than you'd think.
• that whipping cream whips way faster on setting 6 and is still controllable. No butter!
• that it's way too easy to slip into big-sister paranoia.
• related: that I need to learn to hide the nervousness from the little ones.
• that I need to cultivate patience with young children.
• that time not only flies when you're having fun, but when you're worried.
• that iron cures some headaches.
• that I really hope that my children, whenever I get around to having them, will be extremely curious and willing to find/figure things out/step out of their comfort zones.
• related: rediscovered that the unwillingness to figure things out/step out of one's comfort zone is really, really frustrating for me.
• related: that I need to find a way to relax about that and find a way to coax without pushing, to teach without scolding, to share without being angry.
• that my father and I do not work on the same wavelength, nor in the same fashion.
• related: that this is frustrating and that I need to find a way around that.
• that I will need to find a way to spend some time alone when I am a mother, or else I will go insane.

(side note: how do I end this list? hm.)

• that this is going to be both easier and harder than I thought.

Cleaning, month 1

Over the next few days/weeks, I will be starting a handful of blogging projects - this is number one.

The last few years, I've given my room a once-over every six months, and tried to keep it tidy otherwise. It's just been too crazy in my life to clean it once a month or even once every two weeks.

That is to be no more! My boyfriend made the sly comment that I couldn't keep the place clean, and so of course it's now on. I am going to keep this room clean until I leave for university - or, well, 12 months. Then it'll be a mess of packing, I'm sure. So 12 months it is.

So this is my room pre-clean:

http://twitpic.com/8mxpg

All that stuff eventually found its way into its own place, and my room is considerably tidier:

http://twitpic.com/9tpne

http://twitpic.com/9tpqs

http://twitpic.com/9tpru

I will post every month about my exploits in keeping this room clean, and, by golly, after 12 months it'll still be clean!

Take that, 4+x. :P You just watch me keep this place clean. :D