Thanks to Random Rebecca, who complained that my old one didn’t work properly with IE. I’ve been *intending* to change it for a while now. Well, eight months: a long while.
Let me know if you see any problems. Especially if you know the solutions.
Oh no — I am out of cat food. What about my hungry hungry baby kitten? I just gave her two handfuls of cat treats, but now she won’t be fed until some time tomorrow. She’s so skinny already! Sorry starving baby. Here’s a third handful of cat treats instead.
My furniture pieces are finally all put together, though my hand now feels like it’s happy to curl up and fall off. And my floor — messy at the best of times — is littered with scraps of Ikea box and plastic. Luckily, recycling is Monday, garbage is Tuesday. I haven’t put anything on my art table yet, and my bookshelves are incompletely filled, but still: such a huge step! Maybe next I’ll actually hang up some pieces of art, or my bathroom mirror, or even go and buy drapes or perhaps recover my dining room chairs. Within, say, a year.
There’s a discussion going on at Ozarque’s about punitive silence, and a brief discussion of non-punitive silences. And, being a group of mostly geeky people, there’s the question of ignoring someone who talks to you (not just saying hello) when you’re reading: is it rude? are they rude?
What about if you’re watching TV? Does it change if it’s a commercial? What about if you have a DVR? What if you’re watching a movie? How about using the computer? What about doing a puzzle of some sort?
I tend to think that saying hi is ok, and more than that is obnoxious (barring things like emergencies). I think that people have the right to be doing something and not want to be interrupted, even in a public room. (This was my argument with my father, who said it was reasonable to not want to talk when I was reading, but not if I was in the living room.) It drives me nuts, for instance, when my mother and I are working on a crossword puzzle, and my sister comes in and starts (half of) a conversation. We’re doing something. I know you think it’s stupid and nerdy, but that’s not our problem. Except that you’re there, talking to us.
Of course, it’s also annoying when you’re concentrating on something and someone talks about you and (a) it distracts you or (b) it doesn’t distract you, you don’t hear them, and they get mad at you.
Congratulations to my friend (and occasional commenter here) Michelle on finishing up her MSc thesis!
I’ll complain about this again. If you promise shipping within 24 hours after your order is received (24 hours after your order is placed), then “shipping details have been electronically submitted” is not, actually, shipping within 24 hours. (Usually I get something the day after it is really shipped, hurray for the ON-QC corridor.) However, this time I am less irritated, because I received my copy of Magic for Beginners, even though it says it’s not yet available. Guess there’s no chance at getting The Ladies of Grace Adieu early, though. Yes, I have been into pre-ordering lately. (Harry Potter 7, I am looking at you. A release date even. Please!)
Just one bookcase left to put together. And the table. But the table goes into another room altogether and won’t have books on it, so it’s less pressing. One bookcase! Then I get to have all my books available.
I went and picked up two more bookcases today. I couldn’t be bothered to put them together, but I will do that tomorrow. Then I will finish placing my books (Magic for Beginners — paperback version — has shipped! I should have it tomorrow!) and figure out how to organise them. Probably broadly by theme — non-fiction, gen fiction, mystery, fantasy, poetry/art, nerd — then by author. Oooh, it will be so wonderful and pretty.
I also picked up a mirror for my bathroom — finally, a nice big one instead of the dinky (but pretty! to go in my bedroom now) one I was using (which is sitting where it will hang once I get around to it, but since I also have a lot of art that is getting around to being hung . . . and, crap, a light that needs a lightbulb). AND a table for art. Made out of wood, pine I guess, but I don’t know what the equivalent term is in English. Massive wood is wrong. Anyways, very plain, but also good for what I need.
I forgot that the Boucherville Ikea is right near the border, so USians from NH and VT and NY come up there. But I think I just missed the huge influx of students.
I went with my sister, who ate 3 hot dogs.
I definitely bought too few bookcases. I should have picked up 2 or 3 more. Bleh. Not sure if they’ll still have any left. Not really wanting to head out there *again*. And yet, is there a point if I am insufficiently bookcased? It will be a lovely corner full of books once I am done. I have probably moved about half of the books — well, maybe less — and two bookcases are full. And remember I need at least a shelf or two to save for library books. And I do buy books as well.
Crap. Ikea it is, then. Too bad I can’t go with Phantom.
To better serve you, we are reorganising. You may experience some delays in shipping.
Because when I think of convenience, I think of delays.
I have now put together the bookshelves and am ready to put actual books on them. I want to save a shelf or two for library books, which I guess I might as well start with, because that’s a plan, right? I’m thinking I should just put them in by size, because it’s not like any other organisational plan will manage to die out within a day or two. But then I doubt I will ever be able to find any of my books again, if I do it that way. Not that I have all that many, having managed to get rid of (or lose, in various moves) lots. I’ve got maybe a thousand? I don’t know. Plus, I can’t take the books out of the closet they’re in unless I shut the door to my bedroom, which just makes for irritation during the transfer.
Blogging about this: it’s procrastination but which sort of counts as being productive and doing crap, because I’m debating organisational possibilities. As well as wondering if maybe I shouldn’t've bought more bookcases, despite there not really being enough room in that corner for them.