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Aug. 24th, 2020 11:18 amUnglued-from-computer, day 1: pet store for kitty litter, home, Trader Joe's for groceries. Spent more than I really meant to on groceries, but hadn't been for a week and a half.
Also canceled haircut appointment in September because hairdresser has moved next door; next step, make appointment at place hairdresser went to (Brookline Arcade? Didn't know there was a hair salon in there. Apparently there are three of them.).
Got things done today so I can do only and precisely what I want to do tomorrow. Gotta buy cat crunchies on Wednesday, and if the weather cooperates, going whale watching on Thursday.
Day 2: Decided to get it over with and went and bought cat crunchies, and went to the bookstore and dropped $60 on books I had already read and donated, but felt like owning again (in paperback, because paperbacks take up less space). Bookstore atmosphere is still weird; one-way aisles and no browsing to speak of if you want to spend less than 15 minutes indoors.
Useful note: smoked salmon will practically raise both cats from the dead. They shouldn’t eat fish on account of the phosphorus and the elderly kidneys, and they got fish last month when I gave Snip a happy pill, but they didn’t get very much smoked salmon (despite their best efforts).
Day 3: Did only and precisely what I wanted, including embroidery (now I remember why I stopped where I did; there’s a mistake in there somewhere and I hadn’t found it) and watching movies on TV. I should have watched DVDs instead, because the usual trick of “watch one thing until a drug commercial comes on and then switch to something else” just leads to watching a drug commercial on the other channel.
Work intruded upon me to the extent of a text from the Drama Llama, who got stuck dealing with the faculty member who was giving me a hard time last week. No, I hadn’t gotten as far as ordering any supplies yet; I only got as far as who’s going to pay for them.
Talked myself out of whale watching on account of probable lack of social distance on the boat. Sigh.
Day 4: Spent lots of the day tearing out embroidery, because I was tired of faking it around the error. Tearing out takes longer than embroidering.
Accompanied the tearing out with Season 1 of Vikings, because I own the first three seasons and didn’t really get into it when it was on TV until partway through the first season. Still enjoyable, although the end of the season consists of “let’s kill off all the female characters we don’t know what to do with.” And Travis Fimmel and Clive Standen are perfectly acceptable eye candy.
Day 5: Another work intrusion; had to log onto a Zoom meeting and change the host so they could present slides.
Spent more of the day on the computer, in general, than I really wanted, but it got humid enough to notice when I tried to embroider. Pried myself loose for the purposes of reading an actual book for a while.
I haven’t bought new music in a dog’s age. I think the regiment is going to invest in some Wardruna.
Also canceled haircut appointment in September because hairdresser has moved next door; next step, make appointment at place hairdresser went to (Brookline Arcade? Didn't know there was a hair salon in there. Apparently there are three of them.).
Got things done today so I can do only and precisely what I want to do tomorrow. Gotta buy cat crunchies on Wednesday, and if the weather cooperates, going whale watching on Thursday.
Day 2: Decided to get it over with and went and bought cat crunchies, and went to the bookstore and dropped $60 on books I had already read and donated, but felt like owning again (in paperback, because paperbacks take up less space). Bookstore atmosphere is still weird; one-way aisles and no browsing to speak of if you want to spend less than 15 minutes indoors.
Useful note: smoked salmon will practically raise both cats from the dead. They shouldn’t eat fish on account of the phosphorus and the elderly kidneys, and they got fish last month when I gave Snip a happy pill, but they didn’t get very much smoked salmon (despite their best efforts).
Day 3: Did only and precisely what I wanted, including embroidery (now I remember why I stopped where I did; there’s a mistake in there somewhere and I hadn’t found it) and watching movies on TV. I should have watched DVDs instead, because the usual trick of “watch one thing until a drug commercial comes on and then switch to something else” just leads to watching a drug commercial on the other channel.
Work intruded upon me to the extent of a text from the Drama Llama, who got stuck dealing with the faculty member who was giving me a hard time last week. No, I hadn’t gotten as far as ordering any supplies yet; I only got as far as who’s going to pay for them.
Talked myself out of whale watching on account of probable lack of social distance on the boat. Sigh.
Day 4: Spent lots of the day tearing out embroidery, because I was tired of faking it around the error. Tearing out takes longer than embroidering.
Accompanied the tearing out with Season 1 of Vikings, because I own the first three seasons and didn’t really get into it when it was on TV until partway through the first season. Still enjoyable, although the end of the season consists of “let’s kill off all the female characters we don’t know what to do with.” And Travis Fimmel and Clive Standen are perfectly acceptable eye candy.
Day 5: Another work intrusion; had to log onto a Zoom meeting and change the host so they could present slides.
Spent more of the day on the computer, in general, than I really wanted, but it got humid enough to notice when I tried to embroider. Pried myself loose for the purposes of reading an actual book for a while.
I haven’t bought new music in a dog’s age. I think the regiment is going to invest in some Wardruna.
