On Vox: A really good Saturday!
Gods, what a lovely day! I know it's not at all exciting sounding, but I absolutely love a low-key non-work day at home.
Today we finally moved our antique desk downstairs and into the back room for Craig to use as radio central. That frees up a little space in our tiny bedroom *AND* gets his radio cabinet off of the diningroom table! ...I suppose I should get all of my crap off the table now. heh.
I also spent an hour or so cleaning off my desk which has been accumulating piles of "found this" and "file this" and "what's this???" In one of those piles I had about a ream's worth of scrap paper ...from my college years! I'd found it in a box of memorabilia. Yes, I keep *EVERYTHING*, even scrap paper. I flipped through it real quick and found a few invitations from parties I'd thrown, some amusing emails from my old sysadmin job, and college lab reports. I cracked myself up reading through the sysadmin emails and school labs because even though I once knew all that stuff, I have *NO* idea what any of it means now. Use it or lose it! It's true! It was almost like reading a foreign language. I've done a very good job of purging unnecessary knowledge to free up the brain cells. *L*
I spent the rest of the day playing librarian. Craig had a shelf full of books he no longer wanted, so I purged them from my LibraryThing.com account, listed some on half.com, some on BookMooch.com, and made a pile to donate. Then I inventoried the rest of his books, logging the new ones we forgot to put into the database, and purging the missing books he'd already gotten rid of. I *REALLY* LOVE LibraryThing!
For dinner, I cleaned out the fridge, slicing up and seasoning some leftover steak and chicken, and sauteeing it with peppers and onions. It was really just a simple "let's eat up what's there" dinner, and I accidentally made the best frakking fajitas I've ever had in my life!
And, we just got done watching "Vantage Point" on Netflix via instant download. It was a decent movie, "a little dodgie in the middle" (said Craig), but the action in the last part was pretty good.
So it was a completely unplanned day but we got a lot cleaned/organized, had a great dinner and a bit of entertainment. That's a really good day, IMO!
Tomorrow we need to run a few errands, but I'm hoping to get that done early and enjoy another day of just doing stuff around the house and taking it easy. I got just enough organized today that I'm really motivated to do more!
Originally posted on seph.vox.com