Feeling guilty about being lazy

I’ve been living in the south for about two months now and, just recently, have come across one thing I really miss - cloudy skies. I know I always bitched about how dreary it always was up in Pittsburgh, but in Memphis, every day is sunny. I don’t think there has been one dark, dreary day yet since I’ve been here. That’s good and all - it’s definitely better than having the sunny days being a rarity - but now I don’t really have an excuse to lay around all day, watching TV, surfing the web or playing video games. The north was good for that. I never felt bad about getting out of bed at noon only to sit around all day in my room in my pajamas. When it’s sunny, though, I somehow feel bad about being lazy. I feel guilty when I don’t get out at least once during the day. I’ve noticed, too, that I get up a lot earlier when I’m down here and generally am not as tired throughout the day even though I still go to bed around midnight or later.

I kind of miss the sound of rain, too. It rains here maybe once a week and only for a short period of time in the evening. Up north, it was a completely different story. It usually rained all but one day a week and it always rained during the day, all day. I don’t know why, but I’ve always loved the sound of rain and thunder while sitting at my computer playing Tomb Raider or dabbling around in Illustrator.

I definitely wouldn’t change what I have now for what I used to have, though. I think the dreary weather up north had a lot to do with how lonely and depressed I felt some days. Down here, it’s kind of hard to feel like that when it’s so beautiful. I guess it just feels like vacation to me still. It’s only slowly been sinking in that I live here now, but it hasn’t completely sunken in yet. Don’t get me wrong - I love it here. I just want one cloudy day that I can use for an excuse to not get out of bed! I can’t help it I’m lazy!

On a completely different note, I need to decide within the next two months if I’m keeping this site or not. I got a notice in my e-mail the other day saying that the domain will expire in 60 days. I know I don’t update often, but it would still feel weird to have no site at all. I’ve been keeping a website for 10 years now so it would definitely be strange to go back to having no little home on the web. What I’ll probably do is just renew it and continue updating whenever I feel like it, whether that be once a week (what I wish I could do), once a month (what I have been doing) or whatever. It really isn’t expensive to maintain this so what the hell, I guess I’ll renew.

Yeah, so back to the original topic of this post… Even though it’s pretty sunny right now, I think it’s time to continue being lazy in my bed for a few more hours. I can’t believe I was up at 6:30. Oh, wait, I can - I’m up that early all the time.

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Posted on 10.06.2008 at 07:14
Category: Daily Ramblings
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