Decemberist
Dec. 28th, 2009 01:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
llcoolvadNearing the end of the year, should try to be a little better about updating. So! Christmas was fun. Opened presents with the Boy in the morning. Went over to visit with Mom in the afternoon, gave her presents, got lottery scratch tickets, won $10 -- which is par for the course, and represents over $100 of tickets. PLEASE just give me the money, seriously. I never win! Picked up Chinese food, brought some to mom, brought rest home for me and the Boy. After dinner, Patrick came by, exchanged presents. He was way too generous, as usual, and I was delighted with all of my gifts.
Spent Saturday doing little other than renewing Costco membership, wandering around snagging free snacks there, and not finding the little laptop cart I so desire. Came home, relaxed, Boy went off to work, I watched TV and snoozed.
Slept in on Sunday, which was a rare treat. I never seem to sleep in, anymore. Woke up, ate some yummy Costco muffins (laced with crack, I swear), read the paper. Decided to look at the disaster that is the office. I have too many projects going on right now, and no forward momentum in any of them. Since part of my Xmas list from the Boy was to hook up the extra tv in the office, I could now watch stuff while I was being productive, so that was the rest of today. Organized many things, and actually almost finished a project: Got through the initial removal of CDs. My current tally: 324 CDs ready to be removed from my life. Just need to bring them to a used CD store, now. Listed, boxed, etc. Yay! About 200 of them are real junk, promo stuff I got back in my store management days, so I won't miss any of that. But it will be nice to lose some overall volume. Once I get this stuff gone I will make the second pass, really be brutal with my culling. Too many CDs in my life. They're mostly ripped to MP3 anyway, and my CD rack is too small to hold them. I still have more than 800 after this pass.
Other December stuff: Illustrator class ended, and now Patrick and I want to take something else together. We just have to figure out what.
Sam died on December 11. He did really well until the last 12 hours or so, so I have no regrets about his surgery and treatment. He was a great cat, and I miss him terribly. The Boy's cats are doing their best to fill the void, with Ria taking Sam's spot on the bed most nights, and Cricket causing random trouble from time to time. They're comforting. I think I'm going to hold off getting another cat for a while. Losing all three in the last four years has been pretty draining.
I've been tearing through books lately; read the entire Elizabeth Moon "Vatta's War" series in the last two weeks, all because Amazon gave me the first one for free on my Kindle. Well, on the Kindle App on my iPhone. Because I always have my phone handy. Anyway, I need to think about getting caught up on my greenstreetbks reviews. HA! At least I could get over there and update totals. Another thing for the To-Do list...I've made myself a giant list of To-Dos for the rest of the vacation week. I don't have to go back to work until January 5, so I still have over a week to get stuff done. Hopefully I can have a few days as productive as I did today. I have to be on call for four of the days this week; let's hope everyone at the office is interested in leisure instead of work.
Or I might just bag the whole list and sleep for the rest of the week.
Spent Saturday doing little other than renewing Costco membership, wandering around snagging free snacks there, and not finding the little laptop cart I so desire. Came home, relaxed, Boy went off to work, I watched TV and snoozed.
Slept in on Sunday, which was a rare treat. I never seem to sleep in, anymore. Woke up, ate some yummy Costco muffins (laced with crack, I swear), read the paper. Decided to look at the disaster that is the office. I have too many projects going on right now, and no forward momentum in any of them. Since part of my Xmas list from the Boy was to hook up the extra tv in the office, I could now watch stuff while I was being productive, so that was the rest of today. Organized many things, and actually almost finished a project: Got through the initial removal of CDs. My current tally: 324 CDs ready to be removed from my life. Just need to bring them to a used CD store, now. Listed, boxed, etc. Yay! About 200 of them are real junk, promo stuff I got back in my store management days, so I won't miss any of that. But it will be nice to lose some overall volume. Once I get this stuff gone I will make the second pass, really be brutal with my culling. Too many CDs in my life. They're mostly ripped to MP3 anyway, and my CD rack is too small to hold them. I still have more than 800 after this pass.
Other December stuff: Illustrator class ended, and now Patrick and I want to take something else together. We just have to figure out what.
Sam died on December 11. He did really well until the last 12 hours or so, so I have no regrets about his surgery and treatment. He was a great cat, and I miss him terribly. The Boy's cats are doing their best to fill the void, with Ria taking Sam's spot on the bed most nights, and Cricket causing random trouble from time to time. They're comforting. I think I'm going to hold off getting another cat for a while. Losing all three in the last four years has been pretty draining.
I've been tearing through books lately; read the entire Elizabeth Moon "Vatta's War" series in the last two weeks, all because Amazon gave me the first one for free on my Kindle. Well, on the Kindle App on my iPhone. Because I always have my phone handy. Anyway, I need to think about getting caught up on my greenstreetbks reviews. HA! At least I could get over there and update totals. Another thing for the To-Do list...I've made myself a giant list of To-Dos for the rest of the vacation week. I don't have to go back to work until January 5, so I still have over a week to get stuff done. Hopefully I can have a few days as productive as I did today. I have to be on call for four of the days this week; let's hope everyone at the office is interested in leisure instead of work.
Or I might just bag the whole list and sleep for the rest of the week.
