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electriclandGood morning afternoon.
I had a terrible time getting up this morning. I always want to stay in bed when it's cold and overcast and wet and miserable out, but apparently I now want to stay in bed when it's lovely and sunny and I'm warm and comfortable. Basically I just like my bed.
Weekend was good -- not as productive as I'd have liked, but a nice balance.
R&R: bath in Jen's extra-deep, insulated tub Friday night, with a Big Blue Bath Ballistic (one of my favourites) from Lush. Reread The Big Dig by Linda Barnes (didn't realize I'd read it before until partway through, but it was still good). At various points during the weekend, read Old Man's War and The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi (which I've been meaning to do for ages -- they are both excellent) and started The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson, which was sitting quietly in one of the twirlies at the City Hall library, waiting for me. I love the City Hall library but I think it's time they updated their spotlight section at the front, which has contained the works of Dennis Lee and Pier Giorgio di Cicco (sp?) for a year and a half now, judging by the date on the printout about Poetry Week. I do think they could expand their notions a little. How about some City of Toronto Book Awards finalists, or just a more varied selection of local authors? We have a few.
It would be nice if they'd let you actually take some of the books in the spotlight section out, too.
Also, tapas dinner & pub scooch to celebrate![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
monkeycommando's birthday. Much fun, and the babies were very well behaved. Also, dinner with parents last night.
Productive: Bought kitchen scissors (I have no idea where mine have gone, and it was driving me nuts not to have any). Did laundry. My parents came by the House on Saturday and we discussed what to do next. My dad has volunteered for various projects. My mum and I tidied up my living room and set up one (1) bookcase. Quite satisfying. Went to Ikea. Bought this and that, including a drying rack for laundry that is precisely one (1) inch too big to fit into my laundry closet; I think my best options are either to 1. Hang it on the door and take the ironing board and iron downstairs to the 2nd floor so I can (hypothetically) watch TV while I (hypothetically) iron or 2. Donate it to Jen and find another slightly shorter one. Sigh. [Update: she says she'll take it. Good! I'll try Canadian Tire.] Probably the most exciting things I bought are a third wire pull-out basket for the kitchen (I can now store ALL my pots and pans AT THE SAME TIME -- most exciting!) and the beginnings of a closet for the living room, including a pull-out clothes rail that's exactly what I need (closet will be very shallow).
Yep, I'm still boring. How are you all?
I had a terrible time getting up this morning. I always want to stay in bed when it's cold and overcast and wet and miserable out, but apparently I now want to stay in bed when it's lovely and sunny and I'm warm and comfortable. Basically I just like my bed.
Weekend was good -- not as productive as I'd have liked, but a nice balance.
R&R: bath in Jen's extra-deep, insulated tub Friday night, with a Big Blue Bath Ballistic (one of my favourites) from Lush. Reread The Big Dig by Linda Barnes (didn't realize I'd read it before until partway through, but it was still good). At various points during the weekend, read Old Man's War and The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi (which I've been meaning to do for ages -- they are both excellent) and started The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson, which was sitting quietly in one of the twirlies at the City Hall library, waiting for me. I love the City Hall library but I think it's time they updated their spotlight section at the front, which has contained the works of Dennis Lee and Pier Giorgio di Cicco (sp?) for a year and a half now, judging by the date on the printout about Poetry Week. I do think they could expand their notions a little. How about some City of Toronto Book Awards finalists, or just a more varied selection of local authors? We have a few.
It would be nice if they'd let you actually take some of the books in the spotlight section out, too.
Also, tapas dinner & pub scooch to celebrate
monkeycommando's birthday. Much fun, and the babies were very well behaved. Also, dinner with parents last night.Productive: Bought kitchen scissors (I have no idea where mine have gone, and it was driving me nuts not to have any). Did laundry. My parents came by the House on Saturday and we discussed what to do next. My dad has volunteered for various projects. My mum and I tidied up my living room and set up one (1) bookcase. Quite satisfying. Went to Ikea. Bought this and that, including a drying rack for laundry that is precisely one (1) inch too big to fit into my laundry closet; I think my best options are either to 1. Hang it on the door and take the ironing board and iron downstairs to the 2nd floor so I can (hypothetically) watch TV while I (hypothetically) iron or 2. Donate it to Jen and find another slightly shorter one. Sigh. [Update: she says she'll take it. Good! I'll try Canadian Tire.] Probably the most exciting things I bought are a third wire pull-out basket for the kitchen (I can now store ALL my pots and pans AT THE SAME TIME -- most exciting!) and the beginnings of a closet for the living room, including a pull-out clothes rail that's exactly what I need (closet will be very shallow).
Yep, I'm still boring. How are you all?
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Date: 2006-10-23 07:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-23 07:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-23 08:29 pm (UTC)a variety of scissors that work and present in the right place and time is a good thing. i speak from the experience of growing up when they were just *never* there to be found.
ps. you're not boring.
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Date: 2006-10-23 08:32 pm (UTC)I was giggling and commending the US Postal Service for honesty in customer communication even as I gnashed my teeth this morning, for this:
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Date: 2006-10-23 08:56 pm (UTC)as for the postal service message....it sounds scarily like an internet page or email page error notice. hee!
{{{more smochy hugs}}}}
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Date: 2006-10-24 08:24 am (UTC)How do you read so much??? I managed 1.5 books this weekend - not nearly enough to even get near the bottom of the to-read pile...
That reminds me, I'd better ask for winter reading recs in the next post or so. The pile must be stacked high for the dreary months.
*hugs ya* I'm so chuffed your house story has had a happy ending. Go forth and shop! With a tape measure. ;P
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Date: 2006-10-24 01:30 pm (UTC)and thank you! Shopping proceeds. It is rather satisfying to Get Things Done the way I want them done...