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Mar. 22nd, 2022 10:43 pmI had all kinds of fun over the weekend, but now it's Tuesday and I'm grumpy and irascible. Ungrateful me. Le sigh. I was feeling too grumpy to post, but thought I might as well go through my reading page anyway. This made me think I should make a good faith effort to be less grumpy, so I'm giving it a try. I just this minute had a good idea re: doing my laundry when I'm still fearful of picking up heavy things lest I disturb my eye, so it's already paid off. Here's the idea: drag the laundry bag to the scale, where I will weigh it. If it's under 25 pounds, then I can carry it downstairs! DUH. Of course, I already carried in all the groceries, because I keep forgetting. So I guess it's a moot point. Actually, my eyes are getting better. My left eye is still somewhat irritated, but we're definitely making progress, and the artificial tears help. I'm using Systane rather than plain saline.
On Sunday, we went to the library book sale for the first time in at least three years, maybe more like five. Before COVID, there was self-restraint due to having too many books already. But one of my friends kept talking about it . . . the serpent tempted me, and I did eat. It was a 10 dollars for a grocery bag type of sale, which is just an invitation to overdo it. We got 21 books into the bag, so it averaged out to about 50 cents each. But at 50 cents each, we wouldn't have been incentivized to keep piling in more of them. I dumped them in the family room . . . where there was already A Stack next to my place on the couch, and Another Stack atop the bookcase waiting to be read. Those were library books though--catch and release books as I call them. They will go away whether I read them or not.
Then we had breakfast at a middle eastern cafe. We had excellent coffee. I had a waffle (not very middle eastern, but very delicious, with stripes of fruit laid out meticulously) and the Sparrowhawk had Egg Sujok, which is scrambled eggs with Armenian sausage, also very delicious. We shared bites. Yesterday, I had a long phone call with Queenie. Then we rushed over to the garden store and got a birthday gift for Dr. Nurse and some seed starter pots and dirt. I wrote a little more about Dejah Thoris. Then I had a long Zoom with two of my favorite people.
Today: grocery shopping, another page of writing, another Zoom. And I made brunch for the Sparrowhawk and myself after shopping. More scrambled eggs with parsley, this time with mushrooms and cheese. I swear I'll do some spring cleaning some day, but this is not that day.
( A list of the books we bought for 10 bucks: )
On Sunday, we went to the library book sale for the first time in at least three years, maybe more like five. Before COVID, there was self-restraint due to having too many books already. But one of my friends kept talking about it . . . the serpent tempted me, and I did eat. It was a 10 dollars for a grocery bag type of sale, which is just an invitation to overdo it. We got 21 books into the bag, so it averaged out to about 50 cents each. But at 50 cents each, we wouldn't have been incentivized to keep piling in more of them. I dumped them in the family room . . . where there was already A Stack next to my place on the couch, and Another Stack atop the bookcase waiting to be read. Those were library books though--catch and release books as I call them. They will go away whether I read them or not.
Then we had breakfast at a middle eastern cafe. We had excellent coffee. I had a waffle (not very middle eastern, but very delicious, with stripes of fruit laid out meticulously) and the Sparrowhawk had Egg Sujok, which is scrambled eggs with Armenian sausage, also very delicious. We shared bites. Yesterday, I had a long phone call with Queenie. Then we rushed over to the garden store and got a birthday gift for Dr. Nurse and some seed starter pots and dirt. I wrote a little more about Dejah Thoris. Then I had a long Zoom with two of my favorite people.
Today: grocery shopping, another page of writing, another Zoom. And I made brunch for the Sparrowhawk and myself after shopping. More scrambled eggs with parsley, this time with mushrooms and cheese. I swear I'll do some spring cleaning some day, but this is not that day.
( A list of the books we bought for 10 bucks: )
