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the_rckCordelia and I ate leftover pizza last night, so I escaped having to do any food preparation. We'll have salad tonight when Scott's available to cut up the chicken. Scott picked frosties on his way home, so we had a nice treat after dinner. I should probably see if I can make jello today so that we have something for dessert tonight. Cordelia's not as insistent about dessert every night as she used to be, but it's nice for all of us to have something of the sort.
I poked around on the![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
metanews Tumblr yesterday. I think the reading list there may be too big for any one volunteer. I spent over an hour to go back about 24 hours, and anyone doing Tumblr for us would have to go back a week at a time. That's an awful lot of time for one person, especially given that there's a lot of stuff that we haven't yet found that we ought to be following. The current reading list is mostly Sherlock (with very little meta) and A Song of Ice and Fire. A couple of weeks ago, I added some Buffy stuff, but Tumblr is a fire hose, and I'm not at all sure we can sip from it.
Our cleaning lady is regularly working more than two hours (usually about two and a half), but she won't let me pay her for the extra time. She says it's her choice to do it. And it is, but... Her time is worth money. At least, if I do ask her for extra time to work on the basement (once I can actually go down there again), she'll let me pay her for that.
I think I forgot to water the plants last week. They seem to have survived, but they were very, very dry when I watered them yesterday. I always feel torn about the plants. I don't actually want either of them. Well, the Christmas cactus isn't so bad. It's got a nice, convenient spot, right by a window. The other plant is something annoying that Cordelia brought home from camp two or three years ago. It grows constantly with a singly runner that seems to want to extend infinitely. I've wrapped that around the pot as well as I can. I tried cutting it to stop the growth, but it just sprouted a runner from another point. None of us like the dratted thing, but I can't bring myself to kill it. (I once had a poinsetta that I kept for years. It was green the whole time. I just couldn't bring myself to kill it or abandon it.)
I finished reading both of the books I was reading and have started a new one. The new one is a biography of someone who lived about a century BC, and the author admits that she's speculating a lot because the sources are so thin. This one is an interlibrary loan book, so I'm giving it priority for now. I do, however, need to read the graphic novel that I've already renewed once that's due a week from Sunday.
I canceled my hold on one book that would have had to be picked up Saturday at the latest. I didn't want to make Scott make an extra trip downtown. I put a new hold on it, but I won't get it for many, many months as there are 22 copies and about 200 holds. Oh, well. There are many other books I want to read. I can wait.
Scott is listening to Whales on Stilts on CD. He says it's basically a Phineas and Ferb episode but longer and darker. I think that's fairly accurate. He hasn't decided yet if he likes it. He will probably finish it before the end of next week, and I haven't put a hold on anything to replace it. He says that's okay because he's got an audiobook on his iPod that he wants to listen to.
I've been having a lot of trouble with my mouth being dry. It's been going on for weeks now. I'm a little concerned that this may mean something's screwy with my blood sugar. I don't seem to have other symptoms of type 2 diabetes, but I can't help worrying. That's something I definitely don't need. Ah, well, I'll get my fasting blood sugar done in early May. That will tell me.
I poked around on the
metanews Tumblr yesterday. I think the reading list there may be too big for any one volunteer. I spent over an hour to go back about 24 hours, and anyone doing Tumblr for us would have to go back a week at a time. That's an awful lot of time for one person, especially given that there's a lot of stuff that we haven't yet found that we ought to be following. The current reading list is mostly Sherlock (with very little meta) and A Song of Ice and Fire. A couple of weeks ago, I added some Buffy stuff, but Tumblr is a fire hose, and I'm not at all sure we can sip from it.Our cleaning lady is regularly working more than two hours (usually about two and a half), but she won't let me pay her for the extra time. She says it's her choice to do it. And it is, but... Her time is worth money. At least, if I do ask her for extra time to work on the basement (once I can actually go down there again), she'll let me pay her for that.
I think I forgot to water the plants last week. They seem to have survived, but they were very, very dry when I watered them yesterday. I always feel torn about the plants. I don't actually want either of them. Well, the Christmas cactus isn't so bad. It's got a nice, convenient spot, right by a window. The other plant is something annoying that Cordelia brought home from camp two or three years ago. It grows constantly with a singly runner that seems to want to extend infinitely. I've wrapped that around the pot as well as I can. I tried cutting it to stop the growth, but it just sprouted a runner from another point. None of us like the dratted thing, but I can't bring myself to kill it. (I once had a poinsetta that I kept for years. It was green the whole time. I just couldn't bring myself to kill it or abandon it.)
I finished reading both of the books I was reading and have started a new one. The new one is a biography of someone who lived about a century BC, and the author admits that she's speculating a lot because the sources are so thin. This one is an interlibrary loan book, so I'm giving it priority for now. I do, however, need to read the graphic novel that I've already renewed once that's due a week from Sunday.
I canceled my hold on one book that would have had to be picked up Saturday at the latest. I didn't want to make Scott make an extra trip downtown. I put a new hold on it, but I won't get it for many, many months as there are 22 copies and about 200 holds. Oh, well. There are many other books I want to read. I can wait.
Scott is listening to Whales on Stilts on CD. He says it's basically a Phineas and Ferb episode but longer and darker. I think that's fairly accurate. He hasn't decided yet if he likes it. He will probably finish it before the end of next week, and I haven't put a hold on anything to replace it. He says that's okay because he's got an audiobook on his iPod that he wants to listen to.
I've been having a lot of trouble with my mouth being dry. It's been going on for weeks now. I'm a little concerned that this may mean something's screwy with my blood sugar. I don't seem to have other symptoms of type 2 diabetes, but I can't help worrying. That's something I definitely don't need. Ah, well, I'll get my fasting blood sugar done in early May. That will tell me.
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Date: 2015-04-24 09:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-04-27 02:32 am (UTC)The other plant, though, I'd be more than pleased to give you.
Thank you!
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Date: 2015-04-27 01:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-04-28 04:59 pm (UTC)I usually get up some time between 8:00 and 9:00, depending on whether or not I drowse much after Cordelia leaves (she doesn't want me to get up while she's still at home, but she comes in to hug me before she goes every morning. It's sweet).
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Date: 2015-04-25 02:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-04-25 12:58 pm (UTC)The dry mouth started well before I broke my foot, so I don't think that's had an effect.