Vacation Plans, Part III
Dec. 28th, 2005 07:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebToday I didn't clean anything or do any gardening. I went shopping all day.
I don't normally like shopping, but I keep hearing about sales and I was fantasizing about the lack of crowds.
My fantasy came true: there were no crowds. At first it was because I went to places that were not yet opened, but then even after I found places that had opened, there was still plenty of parking and plenty of room in the aisles.
Besides my fantasy, I also got:
* pansies (they grow great in the winter here) ($1.60 for a six-pack, Lowe's)
* a plaid jacket (that goes with things I already own) ($2.17, ThriftLand, half-off price tag color)
* a magnet sheet with adhesive on the back (which I use to turn stickers into fridge magnets) ($2.99, Hobby Lobby)
* a roll of adhesive magent (which I use to turn Scrabble letters into fridge magnets) (2.47, Hobby Lobby)
* little fake berries on wires (which I will wrap around branches of my new fake Christmas tree) ($0.99, Hobby Lobby half-off sale)
* a bag of hot fries (for a friend) ($0.99, the bread outlet store)
* a second brand of hot fries (why couldn't I find these before Christmas?) ($0.99, CVS)
* a sandwich (I had a craving) ($3.48, Arby's, my only non-bargain)
See, even when I shop all day, I'm not helping the economy much. Well, just my own economy.
Another great thing I did was drop off my bag of clothes at GoodWill and a bag of books at my library.
When I got home I turned several stickers into magnets but I have not yet planted any pansies. Also, my new JavaScript book had come in the mail, so I wrote in my notes I've been taking (on post-it notes) on the library's copy.
So I completely failed at my plan of one hour of organizing and one hour of gardening, but I did get in enough shopping to keep me satisfied for the next few months.
Journal Entries of the Day - Today's theme is organizing. Check out "weeklong" by jenfoo for some humor on the subject. "... and then there are the leftover big boxes, in which I dumped everything else and called it a day, shoving it behind the clothes and pretending that stuffed in a box is the new organized."
Or check out llcoolvad's "Cleaning? Pointless pixel-nudging? You decide." for actual pointers on organizing your e-mail. "Now, what I love about my system is that I can find anything I need in seconds, and I can also read correspondence by threads. I can ignore lists for months and not have them clutter up my inbox, but then when I'm re-interested in the topic I can dive in and read away for hours if I want."
I don't normally like shopping, but I keep hearing about sales and I was fantasizing about the lack of crowds.
My fantasy came true: there were no crowds. At first it was because I went to places that were not yet opened, but then even after I found places that had opened, there was still plenty of parking and plenty of room in the aisles.
Besides my fantasy, I also got:
* pansies (they grow great in the winter here) ($1.60 for a six-pack, Lowe's)
* a plaid jacket (that goes with things I already own) ($2.17, ThriftLand, half-off price tag color)
* a magnet sheet with adhesive on the back (which I use to turn stickers into fridge magnets) ($2.99, Hobby Lobby)
* a roll of adhesive magent (which I use to turn Scrabble letters into fridge magnets) (2.47, Hobby Lobby)
* little fake berries on wires (which I will wrap around branches of my new fake Christmas tree) ($0.99, Hobby Lobby half-off sale)
* a bag of hot fries (for a friend) ($0.99, the bread outlet store)
* a second brand of hot fries (why couldn't I find these before Christmas?) ($0.99, CVS)
* a sandwich (I had a craving) ($3.48, Arby's, my only non-bargain)
See, even when I shop all day, I'm not helping the economy much. Well, just my own economy.
Another great thing I did was drop off my bag of clothes at GoodWill and a bag of books at my library.
When I got home I turned several stickers into magnets but I have not yet planted any pansies. Also, my new JavaScript book had come in the mail, so I wrote in my notes I've been taking (on post-it notes) on the library's copy.
So I completely failed at my plan of one hour of organizing and one hour of gardening, but I did get in enough shopping to keep me satisfied for the next few months.
Journal Entries of the Day - Today's theme is organizing. Check out "weeklong" by jenfoo for some humor on the subject. "... and then there are the leftover big boxes, in which I dumped everything else and called it a day, shoving it behind the clothes and pretending that stuffed in a box is the new organized."
Or check out llcoolvad's "Cleaning? Pointless pixel-nudging? You decide." for actual pointers on organizing your e-mail. "Now, what I love about my system is that I can find anything I need in seconds, and I can also read correspondence by threads. I can ignore lists for months and not have them clutter up my inbox, but then when I'm re-interested in the topic I can dive in and read away for hours if I want."