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Jan. 16th, 2018 05:44 pmStuff done recently-ish:
1. Washed, ironed, and attempted to frame the pastel cross-stitch unicorn I made when I was eight or nine years old. The frame provided is dreadfully lacking in several ways -- starting with its lack of a back, yikes -- and I may just buy a cheap replacement from Michaels on Friday.)
2. Cleaned my bathtub.
3. Paid my bills and reconciled my credit card statements.
4. Cooked a batch of veggie sidedish.
5. Discovered what had become of a family heirloom book and notified my parents. See, they gave me and Vicky each a copy of the ghost story collection for Christmas, but it turns out that I'd acquired the slightly damaged original copy back in July 2015 -- it used to live at the cabin on Star Island, but there was some minor trouble with mildew and I wound up with both the ghost story collection and the illustrated fairy-tale collection. Mom and I have agreed that the nice new copy of the ghost story collection should go to the cabin, and I will keep the battered old copy.
6. Arranged a meeting with the DRE to talk about church youth group stuff on Thursday morning.
7. Downloaded and printed my 1099-G and 1099-DIV forms. (I love online accounts. They save so much time compared to waiting for paper documents in the mail.) I think all I need now is my W-2 from Not the IRS -- which, ironically, usually distributes those about as late as possible without being illegal.
8. Plonked away some more at the Enchanted Forest prompt ficlet. I think the tone is slightly off -- for some reason, all my rough drafts in that fandom tend to drift toward people being outright mean/nasty in their bickering, which is not at all the right mood -- but the structure is working much better now. :)
9. Finished reading The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America by Russell Shorto, which is one of the titles I gleaned from my trip into the city at Christmas -- from the Tenement Museum's gift shop rather than the NYPL's business branch, but still. I may or may not attempt to say more about it at the end of the month, but for now suffice it to say that this is a good book; I recommend it. (It suffers a tiny bit from being written in 2003-2004, since Shorto feels a need to make gestures toward contemporary relevance and thus to 9/11, but annoying attempts at topical relevance are such a common failing in history books that I almost feel bad mentioning it. *wry*)
1. Washed, ironed, and attempted to frame the pastel cross-stitch unicorn I made when I was eight or nine years old. The frame provided is dreadfully lacking in several ways -- starting with its lack of a back, yikes -- and I may just buy a cheap replacement from Michaels on Friday.)
2. Cleaned my bathtub.
3. Paid my bills and reconciled my credit card statements.
4. Cooked a batch of veggie sidedish.
5. Discovered what had become of a family heirloom book and notified my parents. See, they gave me and Vicky each a copy of the ghost story collection for Christmas, but it turns out that I'd acquired the slightly damaged original copy back in July 2015 -- it used to live at the cabin on Star Island, but there was some minor trouble with mildew and I wound up with both the ghost story collection and the illustrated fairy-tale collection. Mom and I have agreed that the nice new copy of the ghost story collection should go to the cabin, and I will keep the battered old copy.
6. Arranged a meeting with the DRE to talk about church youth group stuff on Thursday morning.
7. Downloaded and printed my 1099-G and 1099-DIV forms. (I love online accounts. They save so much time compared to waiting for paper documents in the mail.) I think all I need now is my W-2 from Not the IRS -- which, ironically, usually distributes those about as late as possible without being illegal.
8. Plonked away some more at the Enchanted Forest prompt ficlet. I think the tone is slightly off -- for some reason, all my rough drafts in that fandom tend to drift toward people being outright mean/nasty in their bickering, which is not at all the right mood -- but the structure is working much better now. :)
9. Finished reading The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America by Russell Shorto, which is one of the titles I gleaned from my trip into the city at Christmas -- from the Tenement Museum's gift shop rather than the NYPL's business branch, but still. I may or may not attempt to say more about it at the end of the month, but for now suffice it to say that this is a good book; I recommend it. (It suffers a tiny bit from being written in 2003-2004, since Shorto feels a need to make gestures toward contemporary relevance and thus to 9/11, but annoying attempts at topical relevance are such a common failing in history books that I almost feel bad mentioning it. *wry*)
