Friday Five!

Nan, I have one book.      Needing 4 bookcases boggles my mind!

Ha. 

The poor movers in Scotland, too!

I actually got rid of 2/3rds of my books before we moved over to Glasgow. The Daughter has added to the remainer with her own stash now. Ah, such is the life of an academic - we accumulate books and it's like a cardinal sin to part with them again, ever. (I was a wannabe academic at one point, and it took me a decade to finally give all those textbooks and readings and journals away!)

Nan, I have one book.      Needing 4 bookcases boggles my mind!

 

We have 5 bookcases and need more! Can’t ever have too many books!

Nan, I have one book.      Needing 4 bookcases boggles my mind!

OK, everyone has to guess the title of KFdancer's book!

I'm first

We have 5 bookcases and need more! Can’t ever have too many books!

I’ve always been a library girl.  The only book I held onto when I moved to the UK is a book a very influential person in my life gave to me.  He wrote the most epic poem about me in the front of the book (God that sounds narcissistic).  But he’s no longer alive and I absolutely treasure that book with the poem. 

I’ve always been a library girl.  The only book I held onto when I moved to the UK is a book a very influential person in my life gave to me.  He wrote the most epic poem about me in the front of the book (God that sounds narcissistic).  But he’s no longer alive and I absolutely treasure that book with the poem.

Very cool, but.....now you have to share!

I’ve always been a library girl.  The only book I held onto when I moved to the UK is a book a very influential person in my life gave to me.  He wrote the most epic poem about me in the front of the book (God that sounds narcissistic).  But he’s no longer alive and I absolutely treasure that book with the poem.

Yeah, I was a library rat when I was a teen, too. The problem was that the nearest good library was 145 miles north of us. Kind of a schlep.  So I began collecting them.

I’ve always been a library girl.  The only book I held onto when I moved to the UK is a book a very influential person in my life gave to me.  He wrote the most epic poem about me in the front of the book (God that sounds narcissistic).  But he’s no longer alive and I absolutely treasure that book with the poem.

That's lovely!!!

My Mom is a librarian (though, I wish she'd retire, she's well old enough too and I worry about her with Covid), so endless books too in my life that could be returned, swapped, etc., all for nothing!      

I've got a whole bookcase of cookbooks and beer brewing books alone. LOL. We've got engineering and science books, music books, gardening, other hobby books, and architecture and train books.  I also use my kindle all the time.

Happy Friday!!

1.)  All of China has been on holidays the past week and half so I've had a very quiet time this week at work. It's been catch up week! 

2.)  Have to go onsite next week for 4 days as we're being audited. Will be so strange to be in an office. 

3.)  The sun! Where have you been? Nice to see you! 

4.) Need to get a new ink cartridge so I can print my ballot off and send that back. (Can be emailed back). Lets vote and get rid of losers   

5.) Need to plant garlic this weekend.   

Friday!

1.  I’m still irritable! 

2.  Spoke with an executive career coach today.  I think I’m going to do it.  But the cost.    I should become a career coach!

3.  I’ve found some good Christmas activities in December.  Bring on December!   

4.  I have a call with the quacks next week.  My sleeping has always sucked but it’s been sooooooooo bad the last 7 months.  I’m over it.  See point 1!

5.  Booked Olly Murs for next summer.  The whole family!  I can’t wait for that either!

1. I forgot how many comedy show tickets I had booked over the year. I keep being surprised with the reschedule emails for next year. But we have The Horne Section, Ivo Graham, Jon Richardson and Rachel Parris to look forward to in 2021.

2. I am just barely hanging on atm without a valid visa. But, steadily trying to get my head on straight. Keep swimming, it's pretty much all you can do right now. But the government here is cruel and I will be ecstatic when I am no longer subject to immigration control.

3. I've been crocheting a lot. Hoping to be able to sell some large wall hangings soon. I underestimated how much work they are, but I really love making them and deciding on which yarn to use. The wooden rings need finishing though and that's tough with my hands, so I'll probably switch to metal rings after this batch if they do sell. Have to switch to making poppies for the local appeal this weekend after I finish them.

4. I lost the battle of ripe tomatoes with the magpies this year, but if we are still in this flat next year I will make a net cage around them.

5. Hoping to have a new volunteer role soon. Exciting times in the medical cannabis sector, and happy to have the opportunity to help amplify the patient voice (with the end goal having it available to NHS patients and at a reasonable cost).

I know what day it is! I know what day it is! (that's a rarity) 

1) We got almost all of the daughter's yarn sorted and into bins to go into storage. We had used it as cushioning in the moving boxes - can't fill up a box completely with books, as that makes the box too heavy. So books and yarn. Glassware and yarn. Dishes and yarn. She has a lot of yarn. Went to Target yesterday and got five big plastic boxes/bins to put it in. Filled those. Have four to five book boxes also stuffed full with yarn. Now to get her to tackle all her clothes. She has a LOT of clothing. And then there's her sewing fabric....

2) Have identified a self-storage place only a few miles away. Reasonable rates and climate controlled. The yarn, the clothes,  misc plant pots and other stuff, and some of the flatpack we're not going to set up here in the apartment are going to go into that storeroom. I am so sick of looking at packing boxes and stuff strewn around (and almost all of it not mine!). Renting a car next week, taking it all over there. Then we are going to go sight-seeing while the leaves are at their prettiest. Plus going to the food co-op and buying all the remaining staple food we will be needing (lentils, whole wheat flour, cornmeal, etc.). They sell it in bulk bins there, so I can get what our containers will hold. They are doing a good job with Covid here, but I would imagine there will be a surge soon and want to be prepared so that neither of us has to leave the house unless absolutely necessary.

3) Depending on the size of the SUV we actually get when we pick the car up on Tuesday, if it's large enough we may drive down to Ikea in NJ to pick up some shelving and that other bookcase I want. I had everything ordered online this morning and was so happy, but something went wrong with the credit card and they cancelled the order. Now two $10 shelf-sides are not available, so we couldn't complete the assembly of the wall-o-shelves if I reordered. Everything but the bookcase will for sure fit in whatever SUV we get, but those bookcases are tall and I need to be able to measure the cargo area of the vehicle before buying one. (It's a toss-up as to it being cheaper to drive down or to pay their $200 shipping fee, since I have to rent a car to do it. Plus the gas and the tolls. And the schlepping all that stuff up the stairs into the apartment. Sometimes it's worth it to pay someone else!)

4) We had chicken tamales from Trader Joe's for lunch. OMG, I forgot how good those are!

5) They've cut down and hauled off the tree that fell over in the recent storm. Just a sad, empty stump left now.

Happy Friday!!!

1.) Off the buy a ukulele this weekend. Just because! 

2.) Found a Czech brewed 'American IPA' in the shop in the next village. Will be interesting to try and see what like. 

3.) Weather is pish. 

4.) I've been sleeping soooooooooo crap lately. 

5.) Printed off my ballot. Gonna fill out and VOTE! 

FRIYAY!

1.  We have a wild weekend of carpet cleaning planned!  Oooooo, ahhhhhh

2.  Been finding events to book recently - I just hope they happen!!

3.  I like my SAD light.  I really think it makes a big difference, just helps keep the gloomy clouds away. 

4.  We were planning to go away in the UK over Christmas....  I haven't booked anything and don't think I will.  Things are changing too quick and the rules are hard to keep up with.  So, guess we'll be at home!

5.  I'd like to go back to Norfolk if we go somewhere, but if that's not Christmas, maybe Easter or the summer.  I, along with everyone else on the planet, am ready for this to be done!   

Happy Friday!!!

1.) Off the buy a ukulele this weekend. Just because! 

Love this!  I am up to my s-style electric, an acoustic guitar, and a lap steel, now.  Oh, and a harmonica in G (I need one in C!).  And we already had a keyboard in the house.  We have a melodeon somewhere, too, and I *can* play simple tunes on it, but it's not 'natural' for me.  I took to my diatonic harmonica rather quickly, but the melodeon, which has a similar diatonic system, is hard... I can't explain that.

1) Most of the extraneous stuff is now in the store room. My back hurts so bad now that Naproxen is barely touching it. Wish I could drink, I'd love a shot of whiskey! It'll be better in a few days, but dang!

2) It was a lovely misty day today. We took our rental car* back to the airport, taking the back way through the country on winding roads with trees that have turned the most amazing colors all on both sides. Reminded me of home... (Scotland). Wahhhhh.   

3) We got some of the "plan B" kitchen shelves up and got the bulk-bought flour, etc., from the co-op into the jars which are now neatly arranged on said shelves. It's proving there is hope this place will eventually not look like a moving truck exploded in here! We did end up with a 20lb bag of bread flour that still needs a really big container, though. I had three of the appropriate size at one time, but am now down to one. So it'll stay in the ice chest/cooler until I sort that out.

4) I have to go to the DMV (two buses there, two buses back) next Thursday and hope they'll take my old (but technically still valid) California DL and exchange it for a NY one. Otherwise I have to go to driving school. Again. (Oh, noooooo!)

5) it's been a very long week. I feel like goofing off for a few days. I think I shall!


* Said rental car was a Ford Explorer. Jeezus that was a boat. And had waaaay too much technology in it. You could tell it to parallel park itself and it would do so. (No, I didn't - it was in the instruction manual.) It had all-around cameras. It could be a wi-fi hotspot. It had power everything. (On the good side, it had the most amazing lumbar support in the seats, with a heater. Which my poor aching back really appreciated! I cannot imaging buying a vehicle like that for everyday driving!