I guess this counts as excitement these days.
The big news of yesterday is that I am very glad I learned how to salt a whole chicken before broiling it sometime before this happened. Did that last night for the huge bird I got at Stater Bros on Monday. Also, we talked to Megan, Kelli, and Beth on google hangouts during dinner and then got to see Cai and Amy for a while on Skype after that.
Also, I finished giving video feedback for the memoir voicethreads my students submitted last Friday.
Today, I was going to make sure that I had lot of time to get my video for Monday done, but after a couple of leisurely hours of reading The Force Awakens novelization and taking an embarrassing amount of notes on my kindle, we discovered that the one of the screws that holds the hook for the bar in my side of our closet had ripped loose, and the bar was bending in such a way that it was going to rip all of the other screws out, too, if we didn't take care of it soon. This was NOT how I planned to spend my day, and I didn't react super well to it, but we took all of our clothes out of the whole closet, and Rae moved the hook and drilled another hole (the old hole was no longer usable).
I ended up having to go through all of my clothes, and got rid of a quite a few of them that weren't me any more. I got rid of a dress I've had since high school that looks like something I probably went to church in it. It's years out of fashion, but I always held on to it "just in case." I got rid of pants that were too small and tops that were too girly (and tops that were too girly AND too small). Going through my closet always makes me think about gender and presentation. I've got much more grey and green and brown and black these days (and always, ALWAYS blue), and less purple and pink and pale, feminine colors, unless they're in button down shirts in Easter Egg colors for teaching in the spring. I vaguely remember being the kind of person who would wear the things I gave away, but when I try to imagine myself putting them on NOW, it feels weird. I'm much more likely to want to go for the classy lady in a suit look than the "bohemian but heavy on the florals" look.
I went through my bags, too, and threw out a bunch of old con swag bags that were ripped or otherwise unusable, as well as a duffel bag I've had since high school, with the tag from when I went to Austria still on the handle. The inside was beginning to degrade. It's hard to let go of things that I've had for such a long time, but I'm tired of just looking at them every once in a while when we move or organize and then never using them, and just having them be in the way of things I actually use on a regular basis.
It wasn't the day I thought I was going to have. We ended up ordering Chinese food (first order of non-home-cooked food since the CA lockdown started...), and all in all it wasn't terrible. I can always get my video done for Monday tomorrow.
Also, I finished giving video feedback for the memoir voicethreads my students submitted last Friday.
Today, I was going to make sure that I had lot of time to get my video for Monday done, but after a couple of leisurely hours of reading The Force Awakens novelization and taking an embarrassing amount of notes on my kindle, we discovered that the one of the screws that holds the hook for the bar in my side of our closet had ripped loose, and the bar was bending in such a way that it was going to rip all of the other screws out, too, if we didn't take care of it soon. This was NOT how I planned to spend my day, and I didn't react super well to it, but we took all of our clothes out of the whole closet, and Rae moved the hook and drilled another hole (the old hole was no longer usable).
I ended up having to go through all of my clothes, and got rid of a quite a few of them that weren't me any more. I got rid of a dress I've had since high school that looks like something I probably went to church in it. It's years out of fashion, but I always held on to it "just in case." I got rid of pants that were too small and tops that were too girly (and tops that were too girly AND too small). Going through my closet always makes me think about gender and presentation. I've got much more grey and green and brown and black these days (and always, ALWAYS blue), and less purple and pink and pale, feminine colors, unless they're in button down shirts in Easter Egg colors for teaching in the spring. I vaguely remember being the kind of person who would wear the things I gave away, but when I try to imagine myself putting them on NOW, it feels weird. I'm much more likely to want to go for the classy lady in a suit look than the "bohemian but heavy on the florals" look.
I went through my bags, too, and threw out a bunch of old con swag bags that were ripped or otherwise unusable, as well as a duffel bag I've had since high school, with the tag from when I went to Austria still on the handle. The inside was beginning to degrade. It's hard to let go of things that I've had for such a long time, but I'm tired of just looking at them every once in a while when we move or organize and then never using them, and just having them be in the way of things I actually use on a regular basis.
It wasn't the day I thought I was going to have. We ended up ordering Chinese food (first order of non-home-cooked food since the CA lockdown started...), and all in all it wasn't terrible. I can always get my video done for Monday tomorrow.