Another Work Holiday!
Jan. 2nd, 2008 09:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebSorry, nothing too exciting to write about here. The most exciting thing that happened was probably that when I went to sell 15 items to Half-Price books, for which I expected to receive maybe eighty cents in addition the the extra free space at home, I actually got four dollars. I asked which was the most valuable to them and which the least. They liked the two new-looking trade paperbacks best, even though they were crappy, and didn't like the old-looking regular paperbacks much at all, even though some of them were rather good. Now you know.
I then spent $8 for a book. But it's The New Central Texas Gardener, which is a very good all-around general basic gardening book. Unlike other general gardening books, they tell you things like that you should plant trees in the fall, as it is getting colder. Blasphemy! Except that here, this really is the polite thing to do to trees because winter really isn't that bad and summer really is rather tough, even for native plants. I really like that book, but it's hard to find used.
I also got to go to a body flow class and walk on a treadmill for a bit with Indigo Rose and I got to go on a little walk around the neighborhood with Robin. (I still have only 9,000 steps, though, Indigo Rose!)
I switched the lighbulbs in the office from incandescent to fluorescent, mostly in case that helps keep the room from warming up.
I also got my car inspected, which is a nice thing to be done with, especially since it was due last month. My car passed inspection, so I guess that's pretty exciting, too, since it is now 17 years old.
And I decided to wash the cotton rug we have been using for a door mat at the back door and use it temporarily as a bath mat (instead of a towel) until I make a new one, thanks to Pamwheatfree's comments. (This rug has too many shades of green for our bathroom, which already has too many shades of green as it is, for it to have a permanent home there.)
And I moved a picture we both really like out from behind the bathroom door to next to the toilet, where we get to look at it more, replacing a wall hanging that only I really like. And that's in response to some similar pictures we admired at the first New Year's Eve party we attended.
Oh, I know something cool: I peered into the house next to the house next door, which is now for sale and vacant. And I saw several ideas I might like to steal for my house. The floorplan is almost exactly like mine. But there is a laundry room instead of an exterior door next to the pantry, and there's an exterior door between the kitchen and dining room. I'm not sure there's much room for a table in there, but it's an interesting idea. There is a small bathroom off the "master" bedroom instead of half the closet, only it's deeper than the closet, so I'm not sure where the extra space comes from. And there is a real garage with the fence set up differently than at my house in a way that makes more sense. I don't know how many of these differences are original and how many are the result of a remodel. I'm tempted to go back and take notes. And measurements.
I then spent $8 for a book. But it's The New Central Texas Gardener, which is a very good all-around general basic gardening book. Unlike other general gardening books, they tell you things like that you should plant trees in the fall, as it is getting colder. Blasphemy! Except that here, this really is the polite thing to do to trees because winter really isn't that bad and summer really is rather tough, even for native plants. I really like that book, but it's hard to find used.
I also got to go to a body flow class and walk on a treadmill for a bit with Indigo Rose and I got to go on a little walk around the neighborhood with Robin. (I still have only 9,000 steps, though, Indigo Rose!)
I switched the lighbulbs in the office from incandescent to fluorescent, mostly in case that helps keep the room from warming up.
I also got my car inspected, which is a nice thing to be done with, especially since it was due last month. My car passed inspection, so I guess that's pretty exciting, too, since it is now 17 years old.
And I decided to wash the cotton rug we have been using for a door mat at the back door and use it temporarily as a bath mat (instead of a towel) until I make a new one, thanks to Pamwheatfree's comments. (This rug has too many shades of green for our bathroom, which already has too many shades of green as it is, for it to have a permanent home there.)
And I moved a picture we both really like out from behind the bathroom door to next to the toilet, where we get to look at it more, replacing a wall hanging that only I really like. And that's in response to some similar pictures we admired at the first New Year's Eve party we attended.
Oh, I know something cool: I peered into the house next to the house next door, which is now for sale and vacant. And I saw several ideas I might like to steal for my house. The floorplan is almost exactly like mine. But there is a laundry room instead of an exterior door next to the pantry, and there's an exterior door between the kitchen and dining room. I'm not sure there's much room for a table in there, but it's an interesting idea. There is a small bathroom off the "master" bedroom instead of half the closet, only it's deeper than the closet, so I'm not sure where the extra space comes from. And there is a real garage with the fence set up differently than at my house in a way that makes more sense. I don't know how many of these differences are original and how many are the result of a remodel. I'm tempted to go back and take notes. And measurements.