The State of the Nea

Pay it... in some direction or another
Ever hear the "for want of a nail the shoe was lost/for want of a shoe the horse was lost" progression? I'm vastly amused to be in a thanks-I-owe-you version.

stratfordbabe asked me to come help her mother move today. Because I was there, I had to ask Tina (not on LJ) to swing by my place to make sure the cats didn't get gassed when the crawlspace got bug-bombed. And since I'm nightblind and wanted to leave before dark, I left the moving before Smap did, so she asked me to swing by her place and take care of *her* pets on my way home.

On the good side, Strat's mother has donated several baskets for my use ("You can have them for free, but you have to get them ALL out of here") and Stratford herself let me pick through the books being donated to the library, so I've got quite a few more entries for BookCrossing.

Booksfree
Got my first shipment today. The books look to be in excellent condition. The only drawback is that you can't return them one at a time, like you can Netflix movies. You have to read them both and send them back at the same time.

Yes, I Need a Little Christmas, Right This Very Minute
Usually I have fifteen kinds of fit about Christmas stuff happening before Thanksgiving. But this year, when the soft rock radio station flipped to all-Christmas on Friday, I liked it.

Some of y'all might remember I didn't really get a Christmas last year. Not the way I like it, with carols and cookies and stupid seasonal romance novels and the place decorated as if Dickens threw up all over the house.

This year, I want to make up for lost time.