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The house across the street was playing Mexican music for a while. But then it stopped and a woman was yelling and it sounded like she was... maybe breaking glass, or banging metal... knives? against each other? A guy is yelling now too, but it is not as loud anymore.

I made brownies. And baked the frozen apple turnovers at the same time, since the oven was on anyway. I ironed the new curtains I had bought for the red room. Perhaps this week I will buy a nice curtain rod for them. I have vacation. And I ironed the shirts I had washed. I stir-fried some parsley.

This morning I was hearing a song in my dream. A man's voice was singing "I've been missing you forever and a day.. for-eeeverrrrr..." From what I've googled, there isn't any song with those lyrics, so my head must have made it up. It surprises me, my head doing that, not just the lyrics but the actual music along with them, because my head doesn't very often do that when its awake. Before that part of the dream, a song was playing on the car radio, with the words "Stop it, stop it, stop it"... a sort of dancy song.

I cut the rest of the grass that I didn't get to yesterday, because the 2 batteries I have for my electric trimmer only last so long before I have to recharge them. I've got 2 shirts for which I plan to sew the sides in tighter because I don't like how they look when they wallow out behind me.

A movie I finished watching yesterday, "Nobody Knows", was macabre near the end. I wasn't expecting that.

Now the yelling is over. Someone was just signal-whistling; a kid probably.

I feel listless. What is life for?

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I came across an amusing 5-year-long thread titled "So you want to grow a gardenia, huh? (also known as the infamous suicidal gardenia thread)". From the parts I read, it sounds like gardenias yearn to be ignored and left to their own devices, and that they grow best that way. Although it seems to help if you have them planted in the ground in the South, as opposed to in a pot in California.

Although there's also this post (edited for readability):
"... After 3000 hrs on the internet, gardening books and help from 300 professional growers and 4 gardening CDs, here is what I have learned. They like water but you have to keep them semi-dry. They love sun but you have to keep them in the shade. You feed them often. Described as somewhere between two days and two years only on Sundays with a blue moon rising. They love northern exposure if you have them on the southern. They love acid and iron unless you give it to them. They love to grow spider mites, which you can't see, and aphids. I have found that if you buy older plants, they take longer to die. ..."

Of course, that whole thread had absolutely nothing to do with the info I was originally searching on.

just what I've been wanting

Free online TV channels from all over the world!
http://wwitv.com/portal.htm

I was thinking of signing up for DishNet... now I'm not sure if its worth it, when there are all these free online channels to surf. It's definitely better than buying Dishnet's international packages, anyway.