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Assd musings at the end of the week
Jun. 2nd, 2013 09:05 amI went to restock the Little Free Library this morning and it was full to the brim of returned and new books! I've had more books returning this week than I have in the entire life of LFL 2778 so far. They're all that sort of "NYTimes Bestselling Literature" type - Tales of the City, Elegance of the Hedgehog, Bridges of Madison County, etc.
Presumably it was someone else who took Investing for Dummies. (For Dummies books are very popular, and on some really bizarre topics too. Weddings for Dummies didn't budge, but Tropical Fish for Dummies and Training for Dummies (not weight training, teaching training) both got snapped up.) Hunger Games and Catching Fire also went - I'm to the point where I just knee-jerk get extra copies of those if I can.
While downloading a couple of Trek books to my ipad, I noticed the 52 uncluttering and weight loss apps, both of which having been ignored for ages. On the other hand, in the last two weekends alone, I have: painted the bathroom, sanded and painted the bathroom vanity, gone through the vanity drawers and tried to reorganize them (the organizers did not fit; I'm using baggies until I can get lower dividers), retrofitted the area under the vanity to be another sheet-linoleum-lined litter area, scrubbed off the old glue-based bathroom window cling, put up decorative window cling (including cutting around the edges for a higher window to let more light in), paid all the bills, reorganized the cookbooks, replaced a few Trek books in ebook and set the rest aside to give to someone else, sanded and painted the top of my aunt's cedar hope chest and put it up in the living room to hold bedding for people who come to visit, rearranged the living room, took down the barrister shelves before the cats ruined them, cleaned and brought up new shelves, bought and set up more living room shelves (I can now answer the phone without standing up and craning, huzzah!), and bought and set up a console table to act as a "landing strip" as the old one was now covered in cookbooks.
Oh, and Cleaned All The Things. And delivered a 5000-word essay and started on a 2000-word essay. And started a nightly 7 items to declutter my bedroom.
Pretty damned proud of myself, actually.Especially that I only wondered what was available this week at the Book Thing less than a dozen times
Today I need to start putting together the raffle prize baskets for Scintillation of Scions next weekend. I'm also on what was supposed to be the last of the spring Kitchen Guild things, making jam over an open fire at Riversdale. But the summer heat has moved in early; yesterday was beastly and today's not much better - humid and close to body temperature. This is precisely the kind of weather I told them I couldn't cope with, and I fear I will have to come home early.
This also means I can't stand any more clinic shifts until the weather breaks again, so I'm feeling guilty for one or two of those Thing runs when I could have been in the parking lot.
Presumably it was someone else who took Investing for Dummies. (For Dummies books are very popular, and on some really bizarre topics too. Weddings for Dummies didn't budge, but Tropical Fish for Dummies and Training for Dummies (not weight training, teaching training) both got snapped up.) Hunger Games and Catching Fire also went - I'm to the point where I just knee-jerk get extra copies of those if I can.
While downloading a couple of Trek books to my ipad, I noticed the 52 uncluttering and weight loss apps, both of which having been ignored for ages. On the other hand, in the last two weekends alone, I have: painted the bathroom, sanded and painted the bathroom vanity, gone through the vanity drawers and tried to reorganize them (the organizers did not fit; I'm using baggies until I can get lower dividers), retrofitted the area under the vanity to be another sheet-linoleum-lined litter area, scrubbed off the old glue-based bathroom window cling, put up decorative window cling (including cutting around the edges for a higher window to let more light in), paid all the bills, reorganized the cookbooks, replaced a few Trek books in ebook and set the rest aside to give to someone else, sanded and painted the top of my aunt's cedar hope chest and put it up in the living room to hold bedding for people who come to visit, rearranged the living room, took down the barrister shelves before the cats ruined them, cleaned and brought up new shelves, bought and set up more living room shelves (I can now answer the phone without standing up and craning, huzzah!), and bought and set up a console table to act as a "landing strip" as the old one was now covered in cookbooks.
Oh, and Cleaned All The Things. And delivered a 5000-word essay and started on a 2000-word essay. And started a nightly 7 items to declutter my bedroom.
Pretty damned proud of myself, actually.
Today I need to start putting together the raffle prize baskets for Scintillation of Scions next weekend. I'm also on what was supposed to be the last of the spring Kitchen Guild things, making jam over an open fire at Riversdale. But the summer heat has moved in early; yesterday was beastly and today's not much better - humid and close to body temperature. This is precisely the kind of weather I told them I couldn't cope with, and I fear I will have to come home early.
This also means I can't stand any more clinic shifts until the weather breaks again, so I'm feeling guilty for one or two of those Thing runs when I could have been in the parking lot.
