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daidoji_gisei) wrote2011-01-31 05:49 pm
daidoji_gisei) wrote2011-01-31 05:49 pm
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weekend round up
I'm cranky this evening. A huge snowstorm (by which I mean, "is expected to affect 30 out of the 50 US states, plus parts of Canada") is beginning a slow roll through the Great Plains states tonight, which means when I get off work Tuesday and try to go deposit my check I will be hanging out on bus stops with snow, blowing snow, and high winds. Lovely, just lovely. Also, I am in that week out of the month in which my body cannot eat enough fat, salt, and sugar, and since I have a sinus headache that won't quit (thanks, I suspect, to the previously mentioned storm) I don't feel like hopping on my exercise bike and outracing my cravings. Crank, crank, crank.
On the bright side, I had a fairly pleasant weekend. On Saturday morning I made a visit to my favorite thrift store (St Theresa's, for you curious Lincoln folks) and found a lamp for my living room. In my slow, steady campaign to turn it into a space I can actually entertain company in I had determined that I really needed more light, and once I got my new purchase home and plugged it in I saw how right I was. The place is downright cheery at night now!
While I was there I also picked up a new coat, a new denim skirt (my old one is getting too big to wear: it's starting to slip down around my hips), Aristotle's Politics, and The Modern Family Cookbook, copyright date 1961. I love reading old cookbooks, and seeing what has and has not changed during the years. Aristotle will, like most light-weight paperbacks, probably go into the bathroom for reading in the bathtub.
The rest of Saturday was taken up in laundry and reading; I finished the Sayers book on Dante. I think I might try to read it again before I have to take it back--it had some insights into the structure of the poem I had previously missed. I'm also now interested in tracking down her translation both so as to see how she handles the text differently from Ciardi and also to read her footnotes.
Tonight I need to cook something or I won't have anything to pack for lunches this week. Also, I'd like to get a little more embroidery done; I did a little when I first came home and was waiting for the aspirin to kick in but I am wondering if I could finish the outlining of the bird tonight. He's about halfish done now, but I suspect the tail feathers are going to vex me.
On the bright side, I had a fairly pleasant weekend. On Saturday morning I made a visit to my favorite thrift store (St Theresa's, for you curious Lincoln folks) and found a lamp for my living room. In my slow, steady campaign to turn it into a space I can actually entertain company in I had determined that I really needed more light, and once I got my new purchase home and plugged it in I saw how right I was. The place is downright cheery at night now!
While I was there I also picked up a new coat, a new denim skirt (my old one is getting too big to wear: it's starting to slip down around my hips), Aristotle's Politics, and The Modern Family Cookbook, copyright date 1961. I love reading old cookbooks, and seeing what has and has not changed during the years. Aristotle will, like most light-weight paperbacks, probably go into the bathroom for reading in the bathtub.
The rest of Saturday was taken up in laundry and reading; I finished the Sayers book on Dante. I think I might try to read it again before I have to take it back--it had some insights into the structure of the poem I had previously missed. I'm also now interested in tracking down her translation both so as to see how she handles the text differently from Ciardi and also to read her footnotes.
Tonight I need to cook something or I won't have anything to pack for lunches this week. Also, I'd like to get a little more embroidery done; I did a little when I first came home and was waiting for the aspirin to kick in but I am wondering if I could finish the outlining of the bird tonight. He's about halfish done now, but I suspect the tail feathers are going to vex me.