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Jun. 17th, 2013 08:07 am( Gaeilge )
That was not the early bedtime I was aiming for. Goddammit. And now I'm exhausted and I woke up wheezing again.
So, short Irish lesson today, though I did get a few more minutes done on Person of Interest. And a few exercises, and I'm starting out with poached egg eyes already, yum. At least this weekend was productive? I got things cleaned up quite a bit in the house, only to have things now full of weird stuff on every available surface because Aunt and Elf Lord brought things back from DC. Including some more of grandma's jewelry which I swear must have gotten mended at some point. I think. Also a bunch of old little knickknacks I loved, Grandpa's old Russian leader matryoshka dolls, which must have been duty free kitsch at the time but which I loved as a kid. And Grandpa's black fur Russian style hat. I absolutely adored that hat as a kid. The boy thinks Mom must have remembered me always wanting to wear it and play with it and put it in the box; maybe so. It's one of those things that's both poignant and delightful all at once. Helped, though, by the fact that this isn't disbursing things after a death, this is disbursing things after Grandpa decided screw material goods going off to live simply in a smaller apartment.
I also seem to have inherited grandma's linens, and great grandma's. Somehow I'd forgotten that along with all our eccentricities, that we're the type of family who has linens. I suppose I'd better get a suitable table for it now.
So, that happened. I'm not even going to try to start cleaning that stuff OFF all available surfaces till next weekend. Thursday I'll take pictures so people can see. Till then it's just surviving through another installment of Gods and Monsters and another blog entry that I completely forgot was mine to do this week, so ended up not doing it on the weekend like I should have. Oops.
I also did manage to go clothes shopping and escape with my self esteem intact. Amazingly. And four new pair of pants! At least two of which need to be hemmed, so I started that last night and depending on how soon I finish the blog entry, may finish that Wed or Thursday night. We shall see. I cleaned the house over the weekend, the boy mowed the back lawn, I didn't get weeding done but I didn't kill any plants and the second amaryllis is about to bloom, yay. I feel sure I did something else, but too tired to think of what that might be. Off to drag myself through work again, today, then. Woo.
ETA: Among the other things found in Grandpa's apartment are apparently land grants signed by Ulysses S Grant from the 1800s. My family, ladies and gentlemen.
That was not the early bedtime I was aiming for. Goddammit. And now I'm exhausted and I woke up wheezing again.
So, short Irish lesson today, though I did get a few more minutes done on Person of Interest. And a few exercises, and I'm starting out with poached egg eyes already, yum. At least this weekend was productive? I got things cleaned up quite a bit in the house, only to have things now full of weird stuff on every available surface because Aunt and Elf Lord brought things back from DC. Including some more of grandma's jewelry which I swear must have gotten mended at some point. I think. Also a bunch of old little knickknacks I loved, Grandpa's old Russian leader matryoshka dolls, which must have been duty free kitsch at the time but which I loved as a kid. And Grandpa's black fur Russian style hat. I absolutely adored that hat as a kid. The boy thinks Mom must have remembered me always wanting to wear it and play with it and put it in the box; maybe so. It's one of those things that's both poignant and delightful all at once. Helped, though, by the fact that this isn't disbursing things after a death, this is disbursing things after Grandpa decided screw material goods going off to live simply in a smaller apartment.
I also seem to have inherited grandma's linens, and great grandma's. Somehow I'd forgotten that along with all our eccentricities, that we're the type of family who has linens. I suppose I'd better get a suitable table for it now.
So, that happened. I'm not even going to try to start cleaning that stuff OFF all available surfaces till next weekend. Thursday I'll take pictures so people can see. Till then it's just surviving through another installment of Gods and Monsters and another blog entry that I completely forgot was mine to do this week, so ended up not doing it on the weekend like I should have. Oops.
I also did manage to go clothes shopping and escape with my self esteem intact. Amazingly. And four new pair of pants! At least two of which need to be hemmed, so I started that last night and depending on how soon I finish the blog entry, may finish that Wed or Thursday night. We shall see. I cleaned the house over the weekend, the boy mowed the back lawn, I didn't get weeding done but I didn't kill any plants and the second amaryllis is about to bloom, yay. I feel sure I did something else, but too tired to think of what that might be. Off to drag myself through work again, today, then. Woo.
ETA: Among the other things found in Grandpa's apartment are apparently land grants signed by Ulysses S Grant from the 1800s. My family, ladies and gentlemen.