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Feb. 24th, 2020 09:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesIt could be spring if it wasn't still February. It's been sunny since last Wednesday, which is pretty much unheard of this winter, and it's been 40ish all weekend. Makes me happy.
What makes me slightly less happy is that on Saturday while I was putting away the laundry, the bottom of my bottom bureau drawer fell out. Based on the splintering noise it made, it's not repairable, and anyway this is the bureau Dad got off the street five years before I was even thought of. I don't think it would be worth repairing anyway. So I am now shopping for a new bureau. I wish I'd taken today as a mental health and furniture shopping day. Dad said he'd pay for it in lieu of bookshelves, so as long as I keep it around $700, it's all good.
In other better news, I satisfied my completely inexplicable craving for a banana split by splitting one on Saturday. It was a nice day to walk to Coolidge Corner, and it was a nice social occasion, and I don't need another banana split for probably another ten years or so. And I got marshmallow sauce on my coat sleeve, so washed the coat on Sunday, so I can cross that off the spring cleaning list. (Not that I have a spring cleaning list yet, because it's February, but that would have been on it if I had one.)
I finished The Dragon Republic on Saturday morning, and will probably buy the third book when it comes out in November, just to finish it off. There was enough character development in the second book to interest me in the third one. The heroine is either going to die or end up in government, and I'm not sure which. If she ends up as a figurehead, I'll be annoyed because she wouldn't agree to that, and if she ends up actually running the empire, I'll be massively annoyed because the first two books have consisted of reasons why that would be a terrible idea. But since the third book isn't out yet, I won't find out until November. Patience is a virtue, I suppose.
What makes me slightly less happy is that on Saturday while I was putting away the laundry, the bottom of my bottom bureau drawer fell out. Based on the splintering noise it made, it's not repairable, and anyway this is the bureau Dad got off the street five years before I was even thought of. I don't think it would be worth repairing anyway. So I am now shopping for a new bureau. I wish I'd taken today as a mental health and furniture shopping day. Dad said he'd pay for it in lieu of bookshelves, so as long as I keep it around $700, it's all good.
In other better news, I satisfied my completely inexplicable craving for a banana split by splitting one on Saturday. It was a nice day to walk to Coolidge Corner, and it was a nice social occasion, and I don't need another banana split for probably another ten years or so. And I got marshmallow sauce on my coat sleeve, so washed the coat on Sunday, so I can cross that off the spring cleaning list. (Not that I have a spring cleaning list yet, because it's February, but that would have been on it if I had one.)
I finished The Dragon Republic on Saturday morning, and will probably buy the third book when it comes out in November, just to finish it off. There was enough character development in the second book to interest me in the third one. The heroine is either going to die or end up in government, and I'm not sure which. If she ends up as a figurehead, I'll be annoyed because she wouldn't agree to that, and if she ends up actually running the empire, I'll be massively annoyed because the first two books have consisted of reasons why that would be a terrible idea. But since the third book isn't out yet, I won't find out until November. Patience is a virtue, I suppose.
