One of us is packing things in boxes...
Jul. 30th, 2005 03:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deathpixieI'm starting night shift tonight, which means two days of not a hell of a lot of anything useful besides work and sleep, so today I started the Grand Packing. Or rather, the unpacking of a couple of boxes I hadn't unpacked since I moved in, and the throwing out of useless crap (1), the shuffling of certain types of keepsakes into the Trunk of Travelling (2), and the repacking, such as it can be done without other items to fill out the awkward spaces in the boxes. The desk is next - I need to go through it and dump anything that I don't need, find various important papers, like my birth certificate (don't panic, Dad, I do know where it is, just need to sit down and go through the file - I'm a Howard, remember? We rarely lose stuff. ;) ) to add the Canada Folder, collect together the bits and pieces that will go towards the first box to be mailed (okay, there's some things that aren't critical that I still want, so I'm posting them surface mail), and give it a good wipe down before the dust bunnies evolve and stage a revolution.
I also did my ironing, finally, so I have work shirts to wear, and burned a couple of CDs for [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] (3) in return for the loan of AppleWorks. Which installed fine, btw. Oh Bounce-girl, I also have a book of fairy tales I unearthed in my travels today. After seeing your post, I thought you might be interested. It's called Fairy Tale From Many Lands and has some nifty non-standard ones in there, iirc. And the illustration style might interest you, too.
There was also some mental reorganising, and one of those epiphanies you have in the middle of mundane things. Like the ironing. I've realised I need to keep working on that whole mental habits thing. There may be a post later, one of those "thinking out loud" ones I do. There was a reminder that sometimes people aren't what you think they are. I hate it when thinking the best of people bites you in the arse.
Off to work soonish. Think I'll head down a little early, stop by the chemist on the way and get a script filled, remind myself of what fresh air is after a week of flu and couch malingering. The flu's much better, btw. Constitution like a horse, me - I had to remind Mum it's been... months, if not a year since the last time I got sick in a way that didn't involve beer and [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]. ;)
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(1) You know the sort of thing - you look at it and go "Why the hell did I ever keep this?" to yourself. Or remind yourself that as much as you love them, floral patterned vests will never be fashionable ever again. The Eighties are dead, kiddo.
(2) I have an old metal Army trunk that belonged to Dad in his early days of service. It's full of stuff from various trips - Japan, mostly, back when I was an exchange student for a year, but also my summer camp time in Iowa, a couple of bits and pieces from Vietnam (too broke then to indulge in true souvenier collecting) and the Walkabout diaries, which may one day turn into a written account. Or not. It also has some of my stories from back in high school, various bits of family crystal that I inherited, and other things I want to keep safe inside a large, dry metal box.
Edit: (3) Whose birthday it is apparently today. Gah. Sorry, mate. Although hey, looks like my subconscious remembered even if I didn't, considering I picked today to remember to do stuff re you. ;)
I also did my ironing, finally, so I have work shirts to wear, and burned a couple of CDs for [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] (3) in return for the loan of AppleWorks. Which installed fine, btw. Oh Bounce-girl, I also have a book of fairy tales I unearthed in my travels today. After seeing your post, I thought you might be interested. It's called Fairy Tale From Many Lands and has some nifty non-standard ones in there, iirc. And the illustration style might interest you, too.
There was also some mental reorganising, and one of those epiphanies you have in the middle of mundane things. Like the ironing. I've realised I need to keep working on that whole mental habits thing. There may be a post later, one of those "thinking out loud" ones I do. There was a reminder that sometimes people aren't what you think they are. I hate it when thinking the best of people bites you in the arse.
Off to work soonish. Think I'll head down a little early, stop by the chemist on the way and get a script filled, remind myself of what fresh air is after a week of flu and couch malingering. The flu's much better, btw. Constitution like a horse, me - I had to remind Mum it's been... months, if not a year since the last time I got sick in a way that didn't involve beer and [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]. ;)
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(1) You know the sort of thing - you look at it and go "Why the hell did I ever keep this?" to yourself. Or remind yourself that as much as you love them, floral patterned vests will never be fashionable ever again. The Eighties are dead, kiddo.
(2) I have an old metal Army trunk that belonged to Dad in his early days of service. It's full of stuff from various trips - Japan, mostly, back when I was an exchange student for a year, but also my summer camp time in Iowa, a couple of bits and pieces from Vietnam (too broke then to indulge in true souvenier collecting) and the Walkabout diaries, which may one day turn into a written account. Or not. It also has some of my stories from back in high school, various bits of family crystal that I inherited, and other things I want to keep safe inside a large, dry metal box.
Edit: (3) Whose birthday it is apparently today. Gah. Sorry, mate. Although hey, looks like my subconscious remembered even if I didn't, considering I picked today to remember to do stuff re you. ;)
