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Weekend Stuff
May. 27th, 2014 09:02 amLong weekend with Memorial Day. Did very little reading, but lots of house work.
-- Bought tomato plants and a mandevilla for mother's yard. (I won't be doing much with mine this year as I'm spending a lot of time with her and, still, for the time being, living with her.)
-- We did lay most of the flooring in the guest bedroom. I want to repaint too. I think the more different it looks the easier it will be (it is the room where Dad fell and died. God, it still hurts terribly to write that).
-- I was also reworking the closet in there since that's the room where I'm staying at moms, so I built a shelving unit for it, raised the rods, and built a trouser rack much like the one I have at my home. I was having to use Dad's power tools. It's weird. It both makes me feel close to him and hurts more because construction was Dad's *thing*. He wasn't a golfer or a reader. He built things (and watched football). He was a craftsman. He built mom's sun porch. He built my bed (and my nephews' crib and their beds when growing up {all solid mohogany}. My sister still has those too. They are forever keepsakes.), my bookcases, a desk I have in storage, my swing, and even my tv stand at my home. So it's a rather bittersweet pain going through his tools.
-- Puppy gets a haircut this week, and BOY does she need it. We've definitely switched into full summer mode and it's been in the 90s the last few days. Poor baby has a ton of hair at the moment and needs to be shorn for summer.
-- Watched the Mad Men "finale" (weird with the super short 'season' that's really one season split in two). Then I get all flabberghasted at the unconcious yet overt sexism that's always on display in the TWOP thread. Anyway, I actually liked the Mad Men episode.
-- Audible just delivered the new Dresden Files book. (I had it on pre-order) So it must have been released today!
-- Bought tomato plants and a mandevilla for mother's yard. (I won't be doing much with mine this year as I'm spending a lot of time with her and, still, for the time being, living with her.)
-- We did lay most of the flooring in the guest bedroom. I want to repaint too. I think the more different it looks the easier it will be (it is the room where Dad fell and died. God, it still hurts terribly to write that).
-- I was also reworking the closet in there since that's the room where I'm staying at moms, so I built a shelving unit for it, raised the rods, and built a trouser rack much like the one I have at my home. I was having to use Dad's power tools. It's weird. It both makes me feel close to him and hurts more because construction was Dad's *thing*. He wasn't a golfer or a reader. He built things (and watched football). He was a craftsman. He built mom's sun porch. He built my bed (and my nephews' crib and their beds when growing up {all solid mohogany}. My sister still has those too. They are forever keepsakes.), my bookcases, a desk I have in storage, my swing, and even my tv stand at my home. So it's a rather bittersweet pain going through his tools.
-- Puppy gets a haircut this week, and BOY does she need it. We've definitely switched into full summer mode and it's been in the 90s the last few days. Poor baby has a ton of hair at the moment and needs to be shorn for summer.
-- Watched the Mad Men "finale" (weird with the super short 'season' that's really one season split in two). Then I get all flabberghasted at the unconcious yet overt sexism that's always on display in the TWOP thread. Anyway, I actually liked the Mad Men episode.
-- Audible just delivered the new Dresden Files book. (I had it on pre-order) So it must have been released today!
