Happy Birthday to kilah_hurtz today and baronlaw tomorrow.

I have seen birthday wishes on LJ for others that I don’t recognize. Gee wiz kids, Dec is getting almost as full as Nov. You will have to start your own Pit. But a Sagittarius Pit just doesn’t sound right.

I am not a big fan of Dec 25th. It has grown into a too big of a deal for me to be comfortable with it. It seems like the entire world closes down and everyone I know is busy doing something with family or friends. I usually try to fast forward through the day.

I am wondering what others that are not doing the “typical” holiday gathering thing have as ideas.

I have had a bed issue for the last couple of weeks. I discovered that my bed has sprung a leak and I didn’t know about it. I had mold growing all over. I took it apart and was going to clean the waterbed frame but decided that I need to move on. I can’t sleep on a waterbed anymore (great sadness) because of my back and what I had put together was working but resulted in a wet disaster. So I decided to get pass the frame and get a real bed.

It took almost a week to give the frame away on Craigslist. A whole lot of someone saying they wanted it and then needing to find a way to transport it. Every day, a different waste of time. I also found out that Berkeley does one bulk pick up per residence. Unless you have over four units on the property then you get bubkus. On Saturday, with the support and assistance of Jennifer, I moved the frame outside to the sidewalk across the street and posted a come and get it ad on Craigslist. Then we took the moldy mattress to the Berkeley transfer station where they were sweet enough to let me drop it off for free when they heard my sad sob story (I am a good story teller).

After that, Jennifer and I went to the Benicia Foundry (in Benicia of course) and I found a bed frame I have fallen in love with. It is made of iron fencing and is a four poster canopy bed. The sort of thing I have wanted for the last 15 years. There is an extremely Gothic one that I would love to put some sort of faux stain glass behind because it looks like gothic stain glass windows. But I realize that I would get tired of it relatively soon. There is another that is not quite so grandiose but still is wonderful. I think that is the one I am going to get.

I have an idea for a bed topper that might simulate what I like about waterbeds. It is like a Lovesac (heard about from the offices at Google). I have ordered a Bag the Bed. It is a shredded foam bean bag like thing but the insert is in the shape of a mattress. I figure I will put this on top of a regular mattress (so I have the firmness my back needs) and take some of the stuffing out to get the deflated waterbed feel I like so much. And if it doesn’t work, it becomes a bean bag chair in my living room, one that fits unlike Blob (aka the black skin of evil, my 5ft actual bean bag living with a friend).

So, it looks like I am closing in on a frame and a bed topper. Now I just need to figure out the mattress. In some ways I like this process in other ways I hate this process.

My life is so torn up and scattered at this point. I have been sleeping on my couch for the last three weeks (minus the time I had at con). There is so much to clean up and straighten out. But I am able to do some of it. There is a light somewhere down the tunnel. It could be just a turn or a light bulb but at least it isn’t as dark as it was before.

We are coming into the Xmas season and I want to do my part to help my friends keep their sanity. Over the last couple of years I have passed on information on some good Gothic/Darkwave Christmas music to fill you head and drive out the timeless stuff that everyone else pumps at you endlessly during December.

This year, I figured it was time again to point people towards a favorite of mine, Projekt’s Excelsis Box Set.

For those that are into dark cabaret, ethereal, gothic, darkwave, neo-folk, ambient, or electronic music or know someone that is, I recommend Projekt. I have appreciated their approach to things.