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Finished reading a Diane Duane book (I never got around to reading them when I was younger; I think I'd have enjoyed this more then, but it was still fun); also saw a tax preparer to sort out the taxes what with the addition of the house. Probably overkill, but hey. Not a bad refund coming back, either. (Putting the difference into the next mortgage payment.)
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lanir who asked if I could go to the Japanese Gardens (in reference my recent stress). I did, and it was lovely. Still too early in the year for much, and on a Friday - not quite, in that I always seemed to turn up where the Couple With the Four-Year-Old was. The four-year-old liked to whistle. And had an umbrella taller than she was, folded, which she was gleefully using as a walking stick. Most of the paths are stone; the umbrella was metal-tipped. It was not peaceful.
But it was pretty. It had been raining lightly all morning (a mist so fine I didn't open my umbrella; I did bring it, though, since off and on the mist had become a steady rain - but it didn't do so while I was walking in the gardens). There were still-bare trees cradling trapped raindrops in their branches, glittering in the early sun. There were a few bushes in bloom, and some trees all over flowers (or more likely leaf buds that looked like flowers from where I was, since there were no leaves yet), the pink-white touched with the water and the sunlight, something ethereal and not-quite-there.
Very beautiful.
Went from there to the consignment clothes shop I like, as I'd managed to wear out my blue pants and wanted a new pair. No such luck; none that fit in blue; but I did find another pair of black pants that fit. I swear, it's a conspiracy, the black pairs are drawn to me. They were on the $1 sale with no damage and easy to wash, too. Color me thrilled. Also discovered I still had a balance from the last time I'd consigned clothing there - not much of one, but hey, it meant they paid me a few bucks, which is something.
Meandered back, stopping to wash my car in Newberg (where I can pay less to do it myself than I'd pay at a mechanical car wash, and not have the soap run down my driveway). The car isn't precisely clean, but the worst of the grime is off it. I can be indifferent up to a certain point, but it was getting pretty grim. Now it's just smudged.
Stopped at the grocery store on the way home (the one I won't buy perishable goods at, because they don't have a backup generator and after a power outage were selling at least some moldy goods, having not culled them thoroughly enough) to grab some canned stuff and other prepackaged whatnot (the only things I'll buy there now - but they are awfully much cheaper than the other stores, tho' I think I can see why...).
Debated Costco, but we're only out of snack-things and I don't really feel like braving Costco for snack-tihngs. We have lots of other snacky type objects in the same category, which will do just fine.
Laundry's running now. It feels good to be getting it out of the way. The pieces of the last bookshelf are in the library, waiting to be put together. The library's closed, or I'd be over there - the book I had on interlibrary loan came in, as did my last remaining hold (I promptly placed a couple more, as I've finished the last of the books I already got).
Somehow, while I was in Tigard, I got too busy for libraries. It was a pain to haul myself to the library and search for books, and maybe find the time wasted. Being able to go look them up and place holds on the web is ever so much cooler. Then I just stop by and collect a stack, while returning another stack. Mmm, books.
Yep, I'm on a reading kick. I imagine anyone who reads me regularly has already picked that up, however. :)
Trying to decide what gets done tonight besides laundry. I really want to read, but I don't have the book I want to read (it's waiting for me, down at that nice, closed library...). I think I'll work on my characters for the Tuesday night and Saturday night games (Saturday night game is online; Tuesday night will be RL every other Tuesday, once it starts). Not much left to do for the Saturday one, got a fair bit of writeup for the Tuesday, and then to see if the GM accepts her...I think he will.
Many thanks to
lanir who asked if I could go to the Japanese Gardens (in reference my recent stress). I did, and it was lovely. Still too early in the year for much, and on a Friday - not quite, in that I always seemed to turn up where the Couple With the Four-Year-Old was. The four-year-old liked to whistle. And had an umbrella taller than she was, folded, which she was gleefully using as a walking stick. Most of the paths are stone; the umbrella was metal-tipped. It was not peaceful.But it was pretty. It had been raining lightly all morning (a mist so fine I didn't open my umbrella; I did bring it, though, since off and on the mist had become a steady rain - but it didn't do so while I was walking in the gardens). There were still-bare trees cradling trapped raindrops in their branches, glittering in the early sun. There were a few bushes in bloom, and some trees all over flowers (or more likely leaf buds that looked like flowers from where I was, since there were no leaves yet), the pink-white touched with the water and the sunlight, something ethereal and not-quite-there.
Very beautiful.
Went from there to the consignment clothes shop I like, as I'd managed to wear out my blue pants and wanted a new pair. No such luck; none that fit in blue; but I did find another pair of black pants that fit. I swear, it's a conspiracy, the black pairs are drawn to me. They were on the $1 sale with no damage and easy to wash, too. Color me thrilled. Also discovered I still had a balance from the last time I'd consigned clothing there - not much of one, but hey, it meant they paid me a few bucks, which is something.
Meandered back, stopping to wash my car in Newberg (where I can pay less to do it myself than I'd pay at a mechanical car wash, and not have the soap run down my driveway). The car isn't precisely clean, but the worst of the grime is off it. I can be indifferent up to a certain point, but it was getting pretty grim. Now it's just smudged.
Stopped at the grocery store on the way home (the one I won't buy perishable goods at, because they don't have a backup generator and after a power outage were selling at least some moldy goods, having not culled them thoroughly enough) to grab some canned stuff and other prepackaged whatnot (the only things I'll buy there now - but they are awfully much cheaper than the other stores, tho' I think I can see why...).
Debated Costco, but we're only out of snack-things and I don't really feel like braving Costco for snack-tihngs. We have lots of other snacky type objects in the same category, which will do just fine.
Laundry's running now. It feels good to be getting it out of the way. The pieces of the last bookshelf are in the library, waiting to be put together. The library's closed, or I'd be over there - the book I had on interlibrary loan came in, as did my last remaining hold (I promptly placed a couple more, as I've finished the last of the books I already got).
Somehow, while I was in Tigard, I got too busy for libraries. It was a pain to haul myself to the library and search for books, and maybe find the time wasted. Being able to go look them up and place holds on the web is ever so much cooler. Then I just stop by and collect a stack, while returning another stack. Mmm, books.
Yep, I'm on a reading kick. I imagine anyone who reads me regularly has already picked that up, however. :)
Trying to decide what gets done tonight besides laundry. I really want to read, but I don't have the book I want to read (it's waiting for me, down at that nice, closed library...). I think I'll work on my characters for the Tuesday night and Saturday night games (Saturday night game is online; Tuesday night will be RL every other Tuesday, once it starts). Not much left to do for the Saturday one, got a fair bit of writeup for the Tuesday, and then to see if the GM accepts her...I think he will.
