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edenfalling) wrote2024-06-27 11:41 pm
edenfalling) wrote2024-06-27 11:41 pm
Entry tags:
work grumbles, mail order clothes, some stuff I've been reading
1. We are well into summer move-outs and turnovers, though so far we've only had a couple new tenants move in. That should pick up speed over the next week.
I also need to get more on top of apartment staging and photos/videos, but it's been like pulling teeth to get certain important apartments into shape during June. The maintenance department marks them as done, I go to perform a final inspection, I find some things that still need fixing, I note the problems in our shared FileMaker page... and then nothing happens. It is extremely frustrating.
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2. I bought a bunch of mail order pants in May with the intent of wearing some while on my vacation. I wildly misjudged some sizing charts, though, and had to return most of them. I did keep four pairs even though they were also too larger, because they had drawstrings to supplement the elastic waistbands and were therefore functional albeit much less than ideal.
Anyway, last week I ordered another batch of that particular style of pants, in two smaller sizes. Turns out one of those is just right, but the other needs to get returned. I should probably take care of that tomorrow or Saturday.
I am unsure what to do with the too-large pants. One pair I'll just donate since I got a replacement set in the smaller size, but the other three are in colors that I couldn't match in the smaller size, so... I guess I'll keep them around for now? They're fine for mucking around the house, if nothing else.
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3. Twenty years late to the party, I have been reading Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel series. I enjoyed Phedre's trilogy very much! Imriel's trilogy is a little slower but still good -- I have temporarily stalled out in book three because I hit a point where all signs point to something Bad about to happen and I was abruptly not in the mood to watch the characters suffer.
So naturally I picked up the first Brother Cadfael mystery instead (A Morbid Taste for Bones), because what is a little bit of religious turmoil and murder along the Wales/England border in the early 12th century if not light entertainment? *wry*
I am not really a mystery genre fan, but I have noticed that the mysteries that do grab me tend to also lean heavily on a second genre, such as historical fiction or sci-fi/fantasy. And also some cozies, which I think also count as leaning on a second genre (the quirky small community full of friends) and which I can rely on not to drop me into excessively dark waters when I just want something fun.
I also need to get more on top of apartment staging and photos/videos, but it's been like pulling teeth to get certain important apartments into shape during June. The maintenance department marks them as done, I go to perform a final inspection, I find some things that still need fixing, I note the problems in our shared FileMaker page... and then nothing happens. It is extremely frustrating.
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2. I bought a bunch of mail order pants in May with the intent of wearing some while on my vacation. I wildly misjudged some sizing charts, though, and had to return most of them. I did keep four pairs even though they were also too larger, because they had drawstrings to supplement the elastic waistbands and were therefore functional albeit much less than ideal.
Anyway, last week I ordered another batch of that particular style of pants, in two smaller sizes. Turns out one of those is just right, but the other needs to get returned. I should probably take care of that tomorrow or Saturday.
I am unsure what to do with the too-large pants. One pair I'll just donate since I got a replacement set in the smaller size, but the other three are in colors that I couldn't match in the smaller size, so... I guess I'll keep them around for now? They're fine for mucking around the house, if nothing else.
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3. Twenty years late to the party, I have been reading Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel series. I enjoyed Phedre's trilogy very much! Imriel's trilogy is a little slower but still good -- I have temporarily stalled out in book three because I hit a point where all signs point to something Bad about to happen and I was abruptly not in the mood to watch the characters suffer.
So naturally I picked up the first Brother Cadfael mystery instead (A Morbid Taste for Bones), because what is a little bit of religious turmoil and murder along the Wales/England border in the early 12th century if not light entertainment? *wry*
I am not really a mystery genre fan, but I have noticed that the mysteries that do grab me tend to also lean heavily on a second genre, such as historical fiction or sci-fi/fantasy. And also some cozies, which I think also count as leaning on a second genre (the quirky small community full of friends) and which I can rely on not to drop me into excessively dark waters when I just want something fun.