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Played legos with Tiger

Plus, Seder @ M's. Turns out my earrings were thematically appropriate.


Today's earrings: frogs, dragonflies

Bedtiem reading: Passage, Connie Willis

Finished excavating the top drawers

Found a bunch of stuff I forgot I had. Not sure what to do with a lot of it. Like, what does one do with a large quantity of tiny ziplocks, besides take them to a street fair and return them to the earring vendors? What about the old (cheap) watches? I hate pitching out finished goods, but they're not worth the trouble of replacing their batteries, and no one else is going to want them.

What to do, what to do?


Today's earrings: frogs, lily pads

Bedtime reading: School Days, Robert B. Parker

Made copies, stuffed & stamped envelopes

Ready to mail.


Today's earrings: frogs, lily pads

Bedtime reading: The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan

For Lent

My current plan is to clean, tidy, find a permanent place for, get, replace, or otherwise deal with one task a day. The to-do list includes getting a lamp shade and a mouse pad, doing my taxes, getting the rugs cleaned, picking a shelf on which to stow the fry pans and stowing them, clearing out the excess wire hangers, shifting the tchotchkes off the windowsill... If I run out of ideas, I'll start re-cataloging the library.

Today's earrings: frogs, trees

Bedtime reading: The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett

Tonight on Survivor

Week before last, JT found an immunity idol. Last week, JT and the other guys on Team Heroes conspired to pass that immunity idol to Russell, a total stranger who happened to be the last male player on Team Villains. Their rationale for this was that "obviously" the women on the Villain team were in an alliance, and Russell needed to be saved from the Evil Women.

This week, the teams merged. Villain Sandra stole a moment alone with Hero Rupert and told him the real scoop: the internal divisions of the Villains had never been along gender lines, and Sandra was the real odd one out on that team. Since Rupert and Sandra had been allies in a previous season, Rupert believed her. Since JT was very much invested in his fantasy of Evil Women, JT did not believe her. JT's conviction was bolstered by a series of not-terribly-plausible lies from Russell.

Danielle (a Villain) wins the immunity challenge. Considerable maneuvering ensues. The ex-Heroes, what with one thing and another, decide not to vote for their primary target Parvati, but for Jerri (a Villanous red shirt). The ex-Villains decide to vote for JT. After the voting, Parvati produced two immunity idols - the one JT gave Russell, which Russell gave her, plus one she'd found herself - and handed them to Sandra and Jerri. Sandra and Jerri thank Parvati and play the idols. JT voted out.

JT congratulated Russell, but not Parvati, before he left. In his final words, he said that the lesson he'd learned (from Russell lying to him) was "never trust a woman."


Today's earrings: frogs, lily pads

Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R.A. Lafferty

March Madness

has pre-empted my Thursday night appointment tv.

*sigh*


Today's earrings: frogs, lily pads

Bedtime reading: The Danger, Dick Francis

Happy St Scholastica's Day

Scholastica is invoked against storms, because this one time, when she was visiting with her brother (St. Benedict), she asked him to stay over and and talk to her all night but he said no, so she prayed and God sent a thunderstorm so severe that her brother had to stay.

God does the silliest stuff for saints.


Today's earrings: frogs, lily pads

Bedtime reading: Under the Dome, Steven King

Silver lining

The system was so slow today I had time to watch this while waiting for something to save. And then this. And so on.


Today's earrings: frogs, trees

Bedtime reading: Unseen Academicals, Terry Pratchett

So you know.

Friday's post was my 666th.

Spooky.


Today's earrings: frogs, crows

Bedtime reading: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

How I spent my afternoon

Note: "brides chaussure" is not labeled on this diagram. We decided to go with "pull tab," though "bootstrap" was a strong contender.

Today's earrings: frogs, rocks

Bedtime reading: Swan for the Money, Donna Andrews

I did not watch Survivor tonight

Most of it, anyway. b2 called just as it was ending and told me to tune in. I did, just in time to see the chief gargoyle do the walk of shame. That was a nice thing to see. Sadly, the bad man is still there. He's incompetent as well as obnoxious, so the other players took an opportunity to eject his equally unpleasant but infinitely more capable schememate. Don't know if I'll watch next week.

Today's earrings: frogs, flowers

Bedtime reading: The Black Doll, Edward Gorey

At the market

I wanted some Golden Delicious, but an old guy had his cart parked in front of them. I went and found myself a nice pepper. Came back to find him still standing there. I started looking over apples while edging his cart out of my way all subtle-like, and he pulled his cart back a few inches. About then I realized that he was still standing there because he was pulling bunches of plastic bags off the spinner and squirreling them away.

He said something about the price of apples being too high. I was in a good mood, so I said something about the Apple Pickers' Union doing well for themselves. "Too well," he snarled back. Uh-huh. I chose a pair of apples while he muttered about prices being too high, and as I walked away I heard him say something about how I don't know what a Depression is like.

I was all the way around to the cheese aisle (still humming Woody Guthrie) when it occurred to me that he probably didn't know what a Depression was like, either. That man didn't look a day over 70.


Today's earrings: frogs, coins

Bedtime reading: Lafferty in Orbit, R.A. Lafferty

Swiss Cheese

Today's earrings: frogs, shells

Bedtime reading: The Girls of Slender Means, Muriel Spark

hover hop flutter

Now that the election's over you'd think I'd be able to concentrate at work. But no. Maybe I just picked the wrong earrings today...


Today's earrings: frogs, hummingbirds

Bedtime reading: A Taste for Death, Peter O'Donnell

Bounders

Heard from TL today - they're well, but have to fix their front staircase, and he may be doing some consulting in Europe this fall in addition to their usual peregrinations.


Today's earrings: frogs, rabbits

Bedtime reading: To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis

Limerick

Little Zooks, of whom no one was fond
They shot toward the roof and beyond
The infant's trajectory
Took it over the rectory
And into a lily-choked pond
- - Edward Gorey

Today's earrings: frogs, lily pads

Bedtime reading: The Franchise Affair, Josephine Tey

This morning on the bus

I saw the new exterior of the Owl Tree. It's a black and white mosaic of snowy owl face in extreme close up. Pretty cool, I thought.

I should visit.


Today's earrings: frogs, men

Bedtime reading: The Lyre of Orpheus, Robertson Davies

Plentitude

I just now discovered that "plentitude" means "a full supply," while "plenitude" means "the quality or state of being full." And "plenitude" is a word. Who knew?


Today's earrings: frogs, coins

Bedtime reading: The Daffodil Affair, Michael Innes

Good news/bad news

CC was right. It turned into a cold. I've been swilling chicken soup all day.
I blame the Cricket.

In happier news, Ozzy was voted out of Survivor, and he didn't see it coming at all. I laughed and laughed...
This may turn out to be the season I've been hoping for.


Today's earrings: frogs, alligators

Bedtime reading: L. Frank Baum, Katharine M. Rogers