Dark Thoughts

I got a very pleasant email in my inbox this afternoon from Garage Band informing me that Signum is to be the Ambient track of the day on the 8th of September, which I'm seriously stoked about. I've had 6 reviews in so far and the song is slowly moving up the charts. All of the reviews have been positive, though the concensus is that the ending just doesn't quite work properly, which I tend to agree with. Most reviewers have wanted it to go on longer, so I think that's what I'm going to do. I enjoy the next 2 tracks off the album far more than I enjoy this track, so if these reviews are anything to go by the rest of the songs should be well received.

Anyway, click on the logo below if you want to have a listen to the track.



A bit of an update with the whole weight thing. I weighed myself using the gym scales the other day and came in at about 99kg, though this is fully clothed, so I'm happy that things are heading in the right direction. Jodie went and saw a dietician the other day and we were encouraged that we are generally going well with our overall diet (ie we are eating well), but there's a few things that we have learnt and will take on board to try to become even healthier.

My housemate and Jode are kind of butting heads at the moment, which is very frustrating for me. I'm trying to be both a good friend and a good boyfriend, but there are a few issues that are causing drama's. The biggest is the cat's and their hygeine habits. Frankly it is disgusting, and two of my housemate's cat's aren't being cared for particularly well, though there are a few other issues, such as my housemate's overall contributions to the household, but I'm not going to go into details about that, suffice to say that generally I can see Jodie's point. My housemate is feeling frustrated because... well I'm not sure why, but I'm thinking it's because Jodie and I have kind of taken over the house pretty much entirely and relegated him to his bedroom and his portion of the office. This came to a bit of a crisis point this morning.

I took it upon myself to clean up the office on the weekend, and part of the clean up was to find a home for a lot of stationary and clear away boxes of files from the floor. In order to keep the place clean and in order, I emptied one set of drawers of my housemate's into a box and put stationery into them. It made sense to me because the drawers are part of the desk that Jodie and I work from, and it was our stationery. There is another set of drawers in the office, which I though my housemate also had a bunch of stuff in, but as he pointed out, he really didn't have anything in those drawers, and it was, in fact our stuff in the drawers.

My housemate was understandably upset, and I talked to him and apologised for booting him out completely, and offered a more sensible approach where he can use the other set of drawers, and immediately proceeded to empty them.

I seriously think that we all need to sit down and sort stuff out, and clear the air. Jodie and I are leaving the house at the end of the year anyway. Most likely to China, but if not, to one of my other houses, where there is a lot more room for us, until my work has made a decision about where they want me to work. The cats really are getting to Jodie and there's a few things that are frustrating me as well.

I think that the living situation has gone on for too long and we need some space between us, before we end up stifling and suffocating each other.

We really need to get the house finished off completely before that happens to make it a viable prospect to rent out. As it is at the moment would create problems with renting, so I am puting a lot of effort into acheiving that, and hopefully I can have it finished inside the next month or so, but, to date, it's been pretty much a solo effort on my part, which is part of what is annoying me.

Anyway, I sound like I'm whinging a lot here, but it's something I need to get off my chest. The friction between Jodie and my housemate is getting to me. I'm doing my best to span the divide but I feel stretched and somehow irrelevant and ignored in the whole conflict.

Anyway, that's about it for me today. I'm off to China again next week for a conference, but I'll try to keep on bloggin...