Things got done today! Hurray, hurrah, hurree(?)!
In order of how much I have to say on the subject:
1. I got my little Christmas tree plugged in! It was already strung with lights and decorated since a few days ago, but I had no extension cord. I asked my brother today, and he had one! and wasn't using it! So now my tree is lit. Except the lights on the top and some of one side don't work (probably a loose bulb somewhere; I remember one strand being touchy last year) so it's not perfect. Good enough.
2. I have (some) storm windows in, and baseboards in the kitchen!! And a new battery in the downstairs smoke alarm! It only took two years (since I moved in) for those things to happen-the result of a forgetful, if sweet, landlady and an unmotivated tenant (me, I mean). But my landlady stopped by today, and I remembered to mention those things, and she talked to her son-in-law (Finny's former owner; they moved back to MI at some point) and he and his friend stopped over this very day! and put a baseboard in under the cupboards (and another board between my dishwasherawesome dish drying rack and the wall), where there had been a gaping gap ever since I moved in, which mice could sneak in and out through, and which Jo batted at least one toy mouse under, and which also almost ate one of my paring knives until the guys who came by today found it for me. I feel like I'm living in a real fancy place now. And the windows, there were some I thought were stuck closed but it turned out they just had an old-fashioned locking pin that you had to pull out while pushing up on the window. So my sweet landlady did that for me too, and now I can look forward to having open windows next summer! There are still a couple windows with no storm windows though. But progress!
2.5: I got some more house-tidying done in anticipation of landlady stopping by. A good thing, since I have friends coming over tomorrow. Still need to do more though.
3. Most of the day was spent on work... and it was good to be reminded that spending the entire day on work is not so bad when I love and adore the project I'm working on. And now it's almost done too, except for a more pages I need to clean and some special text formatting stuff. Chat log screenshots! (can you guess the series? :D if you need a hint, see my tags.) With the text at all these crazy perspectives, which means I'll probably need to paste it into Photoshop. But that also means the text is harder for the editor to edit, and there are a couple consistency-related issues about these particular lines, so I want to talk it over with her tomorrow. I've been using the new secret art text-masking technique in InDesign for, like, everything I'm working on, all the time, ever since learning it back whenever that was *looks* a month ago. It's immensely satisfying.
Uh oh. I thought I had the most to say on this subject, but it looks like baseboards and windows are winning. Whatever. A kitten just curled up in my lap and broke out into loud purrs. I have no complaints.
1. I got my little Christmas tree plugged in! It was already strung with lights and decorated since a few days ago, but I had no extension cord. I asked my brother today, and he had one! and wasn't using it! So now my tree is lit. Except the lights on the top and some of one side don't work (probably a loose bulb somewhere; I remember one strand being touchy last year) so it's not perfect. Good enough.
2. I have (some) storm windows in, and baseboards in the kitchen!! And a new battery in the downstairs smoke alarm! It only took two years (since I moved in) for those things to happen-the result of a forgetful, if sweet, landlady and an unmotivated tenant (me, I mean). But my landlady stopped by today, and I remembered to mention those things, and she talked to her son-in-law (Finny's former owner; they moved back to MI at some point) and he and his friend stopped over this very day! and put a baseboard in under the cupboards (and another board between my dishwasherawesome dish drying rack and the wall), where there had been a gaping gap ever since I moved in, which mice could sneak in and out through, and which Jo batted at least one toy mouse under, and which also almost ate one of my paring knives until the guys who came by today found it for me. I feel like I'm living in a real fancy place now. And the windows, there were some I thought were stuck closed but it turned out they just had an old-fashioned locking pin that you had to pull out while pushing up on the window. So my sweet landlady did that for me too, and now I can look forward to having open windows next summer! There are still a couple windows with no storm windows though. But progress!
2.5: I got some more house-tidying done in anticipation of landlady stopping by. A good thing, since I have friends coming over tomorrow. Still need to do more though.
3. Most of the day was spent on work... and it was good to be reminded that spending the entire day on work is not so bad when I love and adore the project I'm working on. And now it's almost done too, except for a more pages I need to clean and some special text formatting stuff. Chat log screenshots! (can you guess the series? :D if you need a hint, see my tags.) With the text at all these crazy perspectives, which means I'll probably need to paste it into Photoshop. But that also means the text is harder for the editor to edit, and there are a couple consistency-related issues about these particular lines, so I want to talk it over with her tomorrow. I've been using the new secret art text-masking technique in InDesign for, like, everything I'm working on, all the time, ever since learning it back whenever that was *looks* a month ago. It's immensely satisfying.
Uh oh. I thought I had the most to say on this subject, but it looks like baseboards and windows are winning. Whatever. A kitten just curled up in my lap and broke out into loud purrs. I have no complaints.