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A weekend that is, I grant, coming closer to being over than I like, but such is life.
My parents stopped by today - it was good to see them; I should see about visiting sometime soon. Only with enough prep time to take the prednisone since I don't think my allergies are appreciably better. They've recently installed a heat pump and it sounds like they are very pleased with it and with the contractor - so that was good news. For bonus good news, they gave us their old portable air conditioner, which we can use to cool off the downstairs next summer. (We haven't needed that as much, but there will be times when it will be nice.)
Also boxes and boxes of books. Eep. Must go through those at some point.
Yesterday, I got rid of a bunch of clothing I didn'twant any more, which let me find several things I hadn't seen in a while in my closet. (They were there, just squished. Go figure.) I also went to Powells, Powells, and Powells. Laugh all you want: I am a junkie. I drove to Powells Beaverton looking for three books they had that I wanted. Alas, they had them when I checked the web site, but that was a week or two ago and they had only one when I got there. Sigh. I got that one, then went on to the Japanese Gardens (which were still summer gardens, and fairly boring as the summer gardens are once the irises have passed). Then from there, down into Portland and Powell's downtown and then the Powell's Technical bookstore a couple blocks away.
That went swimmingly, except for the part where I thought I'd done a fairly quick browse with a couple pauses to look through things, and got back to the car three hours later. *grins* Fortunately, Smart Parks are cheap until you spend over four hours in them, so that was fine, just startling.
( Wherein I whine about navigating downtown Portland when I forget things and a street is closed off into the bargain )
My parents stopped by today - it was good to see them; I should see about visiting sometime soon. Only with enough prep time to take the prednisone since I don't think my allergies are appreciably better. They've recently installed a heat pump and it sounds like they are very pleased with it and with the contractor - so that was good news. For bonus good news, they gave us their old portable air conditioner, which we can use to cool off the downstairs next summer. (We haven't needed that as much, but there will be times when it will be nice.)
Also boxes and boxes of books. Eep. Must go through those at some point.
Yesterday, I got rid of a bunch of clothing I didn'twant any more, which let me find several things I hadn't seen in a while in my closet. (They were there, just squished. Go figure.) I also went to Powells, Powells, and Powells. Laugh all you want: I am a junkie. I drove to Powells Beaverton looking for three books they had that I wanted. Alas, they had them when I checked the web site, but that was a week or two ago and they had only one when I got there. Sigh. I got that one, then went on to the Japanese Gardens (which were still summer gardens, and fairly boring as the summer gardens are once the irises have passed). Then from there, down into Portland and Powell's downtown and then the Powell's Technical bookstore a couple blocks away.
That went swimmingly, except for the part where I thought I'd done a fairly quick browse with a couple pauses to look through things, and got back to the car three hours later. *grins* Fortunately, Smart Parks are cheap until you spend over four hours in them, so that was fine, just startling.
( Wherein I whine about navigating downtown Portland when I forget things and a street is closed off into the bargain )
