Meanwhile back at the ranch....

[daidoji_gisei]

I wonder: Why do my Februarys get so busy?

If you happen to be one of the oh, three people on earth who has been wondering why I haven't been updating, first I was writingwritingwriting. And then I was recovering from writingwritingwriting--I seem to have a limit of how much I can write in a given period of time, and if I go beyond that I quickly become exhausted. (I wonder, is this set for all time, or can I train to increase this amount?) Now I am trying to clear off the backlog of things that piled up while I was writing and then recovering.

The top of that list is "Finish Unpacking From Move". This is because A) I'm tired of tripping over boxes of books and B) Karin and Ami are coming in to town this week, and I'd like to be able to entertain them in a clean apartment. I hope I get the chance to cook a few meals for them; they always cook such wonderful stuff for me when I visit. Over the years they've gifted me with a number of really nice cookbooks, and when I get the chance I like to fix recipes from those books for our meals together. Nothing says "thank you for this cookbook" like that!

Yesterday I had originally planned to unpack/clean but instead I was able to borrow a car and run some of the errands that had piled up. In the course of that I hit several thrift stores looking for house-linens. I think thrift stores are perfect for things like that because while I have a need for curtains and such I can't make myself care enough about them to get expensive ones. As it was, I found a nice set of loose-woven blue-and-white curtains that were perfect for what I needed. For $1. SCORE! Intoxicated by my success, I decided to drop 75 cents on a bed skirt--I'd never had a bed skirt before and the concept was intriguing. I put it on the bed last night when I was changing the sheets and it did look kind of cute. Maybe I should consider getting a bedspread next.

Comments

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

...now you make me curious as to what a bedspread is! Even if we still sleep on a futon on the floor. *g*

[daidoji-gisei.livejournal.com]

You know what they are, they are just so common you've never had to put a name on it. Sample Bedspeads (http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Bedspreads/7242/subcat.html)

The price tags on those things give me heart failure. If I can't find one I like in a thrift store I'll go through my fabric stash and figure out a way to sew one. Or maybe I should skip shopping and go straight to sewing--I could do up a quilt-like object.

[dominamundi.livejournal.com]

I say go for the sewing!

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah. I guess where I'm confused is, what's the difference between a bedspread and a blanket?

[daidoji-gisei.livejournal.com]

Well might you ask, as I have been happy for years with blankets and no bedspread. I would say that they are a special subclass of blanket designed for their looks. They are supposed to make your bed pretty, and if you are serious about such things you can have bedspreads that have curtains and tablecloths made to coordinate with them.

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

Ahhhhhh, that makes sense now. I have never been that hardcore...among other things, we don't use tablecloths. It's easier just to wipe down the table. And, uh, I tend to use the kitchen table as a surface to do art on, so would rather just lay down newspapers on the wooden surface. :-D

[cassandra-e.livejournal.com]

I have to disagree here. While bedspreads and tablecloths do function in a decorative capacity, I view them as protective covers. A bedspread keeps things out of my sheets, such as dirt from children's shoes, grass or leaves from the clothes my husband wears to mow the lawn and then tosses on the bed, dog hair which is nearly ubiquitous here, and so on. For tablecloths, I usually use either plastic, or genuine cloths with a plastic-and-foam pad underneath. That protects my relatively nice wooden table from spills and other accidents.