Mar. 30th, 2019 04:48 pm
March 30, 2019
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murielle Sabbath. At home. Resting. A bit bored.
I've started purging my email once a week. Gone are the days when I get notices from my ISP saying, you've exceeded your limit. No more 15000 emails piling up in my inbox. If I can't go through them in a week, probably don't need to see 'em at all. Also, I really need to stop subscribing to retailers, etc. I'm never going to buy anything from them. I think this goes back to my childhood, where a couple of times a year we received the big Sears catalog and would pour through it, devouring all the pretty pictures of things we would never own.
There's a big old tree just outside my yard. Definite signs of leafage. Spring! Except it's going to snow tomorrow. (Sigh)
I watched a couple of documentaries today: Iceman, about a hitman. Kept asking myself why I was watching it. And Cousin Once Removed about an honored poet documenting his decent into Alzheimer's. That was deeply moving, troubling even. I think I've watched it before, on PBS. It brought back a lot of memories of Mom's last year. Such a terrible disease.
Finished a wash cloth today and started another. I like stocking them. They make nice hostess gifts, personal and useful. I choose pretty variegated cotton yarns, these ones are pale water pallet, soothing, fresh, and I'm doing them in double moss stitch. Pretty. Well, I think they're pretty.
After sunset I have to get back to prepping for the great stove exchange. I managed to do a bit before sunset yesterday. It didn't take long. I'm thinking I might cut down on the actual sorting and storing and just move stuff out of the way. I need to be able to call the office sometime tomorrow and tell them to come on Monday, or asap, so the simpler the job the faster it will go. Besides, trying to do things like this when I'm crashing is asking for trouble.
I think that's all for today...Toodles!
I've started purging my email once a week. Gone are the days when I get notices from my ISP saying, you've exceeded your limit. No more 15000 emails piling up in my inbox. If I can't go through them in a week, probably don't need to see 'em at all. Also, I really need to stop subscribing to retailers, etc. I'm never going to buy anything from them. I think this goes back to my childhood, where a couple of times a year we received the big Sears catalog and would pour through it, devouring all the pretty pictures of things we would never own.
There's a big old tree just outside my yard. Definite signs of leafage. Spring! Except it's going to snow tomorrow. (Sigh)
I watched a couple of documentaries today: Iceman, about a hitman. Kept asking myself why I was watching it. And Cousin Once Removed about an honored poet documenting his decent into Alzheimer's. That was deeply moving, troubling even. I think I've watched it before, on PBS. It brought back a lot of memories of Mom's last year. Such a terrible disease.
Finished a wash cloth today and started another. I like stocking them. They make nice hostess gifts, personal and useful. I choose pretty variegated cotton yarns, these ones are pale water pallet, soothing, fresh, and I'm doing them in double moss stitch. Pretty. Well, I think they're pretty.
After sunset I have to get back to prepping for the great stove exchange. I managed to do a bit before sunset yesterday. It didn't take long. I'm thinking I might cut down on the actual sorting and storing and just move stuff out of the way. I need to be able to call the office sometime tomorrow and tell them to come on Monday, or asap, so the simpler the job the faster it will go. Besides, trying to do things like this when I'm crashing is asking for trouble.
I think that's all for today...Toodles!
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We've been enjoying an absolutely glorious day of warm sunshine out of doors! And yep, rain predicted to return in bucketloads tomorrow. A long spring, for sure.
Where are all the uplifting documentaries? Someone should specialize in that. We did enjoy The Dawn Wall.
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The sun came out a few minutes ago and I got all excited, but it's hiding behind the clouds again.
*Hugs*
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I also remember those big 'ole Sears catalogs.
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We used to get Sears and Eatons catalogs. Sad to think both stores are gone now. I don't know if Sears continues in the States, but it died here in the last decade. Eatons went within the last two decades. I mean, we do have countless retail (and wholesale) websites we can peruse for hours and hours and hours, but it's just not the same, is it?
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I think moving things out of the way sounds like a good choice for now, given your energy issues. I hate to ask what happened with the books-under-tarp situation. :O
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Moved that stuff--piled the boxes on top of one another and stuck the table they were under on its side against them, so they're out of the way. Now I just have two cupboards to move, clear the items from the stove, and that should be it. I'm so ready for this to be behind me.
Tarp city needs to wait a week or two and then I can get at it again. If I pace myself I should be okay. I'm confident I can get through it by the end of May--maybe sooner if I start to feel better.
I've been watching a YouTube series...The Potter's House...about an antique dealer who buys a hoarder's home "as is" and has to sort through everything, etc. It has inspired me.
To better days! :-)
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When we made our yearly trips to Oregon with the kids for so many years, I would come home from my parents' house (their 8th-plus house since I was born, where they've moved virtually everything time and again) and my younger sister's house (garage too full of junk to park cars), and instantly want to purge possessions. :O