Darkoshi

It is 25° this morning. There is ice on everything because of yesterday's sleet/freezing rain. It's supposed to get up to 32° and be cloudy and dry today, which will be nice...nicer, anyway, than yesterday.

When I went out in the morning, it was dry, but the sky was...leaden, to borrow a novel term. (Nobody ever calls the sky "leaden" in real life.) After I got my purchases stashed away, I came back to my desk for a while. I had an email from Book Outlet that they were having a sale, and one of the books on sale was one that I had been planning to pick up for months at B&N (which we still haven't made it to, and probably, at this point, won't). Let's see, $8.00 online or $20.00 in the store...which is the better deal.... Yeah, so I spent forty-five minutes or so putting together a book order and bought as many books as I would have on a trip to B&N, but for half the price, so yay. And it means I'll have a package in the mail in a few days.

Then I hopped onto the Kohl's site because I had Kohl's Cash. I filled a cart with clearance items, including a birthday present for Dad (whose birthday is about a month off) and a clear plastic tube for storing wrapping paper. I added pumpkins that I had been eyeing at Halloween, and Christmas decorations, and candle holders, and chocolates (only to find that they don't ship the chocolates). And then I emptied the cart out because I only had $20 in Kohl's Cash and didn't really need all of that stuff. In the end, I bought the gift for Dad and the wrapping paper tube, which together came to $19.49, so all I had to pay for them was the shipping, and I still have 51 cents in Kohl's Cash. Which amuses me greatly.

And then...it was naptime. Were there cats involved? Yes.

I was contemplating going to the new bookstore, yesterday, but then the weather started, and when I saw the ice glazing the windows, I decided that my couch was a nice place to be. I spent the rest of the day (except when making meals and cleaning up after) under a blankie and one or more cats reading. I have made serious headway into the fourth Malloreon book (Sorceress of Darshiva). If I did nothing else for the rest of my vacation, I would finish the series. Unfortunately, I do need to do some things. My house is a pit, and it definitely needs some cleaning and organizing. Deciding where to start is going to be a problem, though. Maybe I'll start with the back room. That really just needs a bit of tidying and to have the boxes that I saved for possible shipping to Auntie and Nuncle collapsed and moved to the recycling bin. Though...not until the ice in the driveway melts.

I am very glad I went out yesterday for groceries so that I don't have to do it this morning.

I have email from Mom this morning saying that they found another gift for me under the tree and that they will either deliver it or I can come get it. Probably I should go get it, but they also go right past my street when they go to the shop, so....

Today, I am going to start with a list of everything I hope to accomplish during my vacation. Some of it is simple enough, like reorganizing my DVD storage binders to include the disks that I have bought since the last time I did that (which was probably last December, now that I think on it). I am debating separating movies out into categories, instead of organizing alphabetically by title, but I still think alphabetical is the way to go, even though it means massively reorganizing sometimes. I did separate out the superhero movies, though; they have their own binder now.

Some of my projects are a little larger, like clean out the separate room in the basement where all of the To Keep stuff got piled, and where the workbench is, because I still want to teach myself book binding and the workbench is a better option than the dining room table or my crafting desk upstairs in Spare Oom. Which is also a project, because Spare Oom and my papercrafting supplies is a separate disaster, and could possibly take me all week on its own to fix.

My office, too, needs work. It's terribly cluttered in here.

The library is another days-long project, because I still have boxes of Grama's paperwork piled in there, almost four years after her death, and that closet also needs major cleaning.

So, yeah. Now that I've had a day off, it's time to get busy. Unfortunately.

I would really prefer to just spend my vacation reading and writing and crafting.