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It's Saturday...
May. 22nd, 2010 11:02 am...and I have three big boxes of books in my new bedroom to cull through; some I'll stow in the bookcases that are there or set aside for the one that still needs to be built, others I intend to give to either a library, GoodWill, or the dumpster. Our home is overwhelmed with books - and not all of them fiction. My folks bought Time/Life books up the wazzoo - the Science Library, the Nature Library, the American Wilderness set, another natural beauties set... *sigh* Growing up as a kid, they were great. Before the Internet with my own kids, they were great. Now...
AND... I have a new carpet in that bedroom and the hallway. Went and selected it one day, and it was installed the very next. It's amazing how cushy and thick and comfy and WARM a new carpet is - and even more amazing how flat and squashed and kaput and just plain yucky all the old carpet looks compared to it. I think... not entirely certain... but after my daughter Súl gets all her flooring done (which is this next week) I might think about just getting the living room and dining room refloored as well. That carpet is only forty-some odd years old and threadbare to the floorboards in places - and it's also squashed flat, the padding's shot, and desperately needs replacing.
I need to do music arranging today - I'm the accompanist/music arranger for a community program to be put on in August and need to get my round-TUIT on the ball. I need to give myself a piano accompaniment part - and three-part choral chorus - to We All Are Welcome Here. Such fun!
But before anything else, I gotta do my posting and then head over and let Súl do my nails again. I'll be SO glad when she gives me back the Gel overlay. I mean, I understand that the new "Shelac" product that she's trying out will be nice for ladies whose nails only need a durable polish job - for them, it will be fantastic. I, on the other hand, have nails as thin as tissue paper, and need the stability of the full gel overlay.
Am I spoiled? You betcha!! However, the price of getting nice nails for the best price is that I get to play guineapig when Súl wants to try out new product and/or technique. Most of the time, I come out ahead. This time, not so much.
AND... I have a new carpet in that bedroom and the hallway. Went and selected it one day, and it was installed the very next. It's amazing how cushy and thick and comfy and WARM a new carpet is - and even more amazing how flat and squashed and kaput and just plain yucky all the old carpet looks compared to it. I think... not entirely certain... but after my daughter Súl gets all her flooring done (which is this next week) I might think about just getting the living room and dining room refloored as well. That carpet is only forty-some odd years old and threadbare to the floorboards in places - and it's also squashed flat, the padding's shot, and desperately needs replacing.
I need to do music arranging today - I'm the accompanist/music arranger for a community program to be put on in August and need to get my round-TUIT on the ball. I need to give myself a piano accompaniment part - and three-part choral chorus - to We All Are Welcome Here. Such fun!
But before anything else, I gotta do my posting and then head over and let Súl do my nails again. I'll be SO glad when she gives me back the Gel overlay. I mean, I understand that the new "Shelac" product that she's trying out will be nice for ladies whose nails only need a durable polish job - for them, it will be fantastic. I, on the other hand, have nails as thin as tissue paper, and need the stability of the full gel overlay.
Am I spoiled? You betcha!! However, the price of getting nice nails for the best price is that I get to play guineapig when Súl wants to try out new product and/or technique. Most of the time, I come out ahead. This time, not so much.
