Everyone has power now
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cornerofmadnessThe parents got power around 1 pm. They couldn't have gotten to my brother's even if they had wanted to. The ice took the branches of two trees across the long drive. Dad went to get the chainsaw (because that on ice should be fun) but the tool shed was frozen solid so he had to use a little hacksaw.
As for me, it's been restful. I know that's weird (especially with the panic leading up to it) but knowing I can't go anywhere, that there's no one expecting anything of me (in spite of the fact this is pretty much my every weekend and I did have that zoom meeting and crap to grade) I feel peaceful and recharged. I'll take it.
In the meantime I have started the slow clean up of the living room and now I am more than a little disappointed in myself. I started small, two big padded envelopes that have been behind the couch next to the book case since well as it turns out six frakking years. They were both filled with Christmas cards. In theory St. Jude's used to recycle cards, letting the kids recreate and sell cards. I remember there being on the web site Hallmark and American Greeting were not cool with this and then they just stopped. Since then I've been a) looking for something artistic to do with cards but haven't found it b) just using them as gift tags, really BIG gift tags (i.e. hole punch it and ribbon it on)
These cards have been forgotten for years. I have been walking past those envelopes for six years. God. So I tore them all in half keeping the art for tags and the other envelope was filled with ones from Grandma's house (so probably been here for 7 years) because she kept them from the 80s (Hi, I apparently share half grandma's soul. she's a food hoarder too) I will say card art from the 80s was noticably uglier and the card stock barely heavier than paper BUT these might have been from those make-money-for-your-kids-group things. They were popular then.
Today's selected clean up was a bookbag full of paper. ALL of them, dozens, are printed out Buffy verse stories I had done about 2018 when I decided to put my BtVS/AtS stories up on AO3 and edited them a bit 20 years after the fact. Some I mined off defunct websites via the wayback machine as I lost A LOT via computer crashes (because those were written in the floppy disk/rewritable cd days). I stopped editing them when Prodigal Son ate my soul. I moved the bag to next to my bed so I can select one every so often to edit and resume this project. so progress. ANd look I can revive my declutter tag from 2016-2017 (probably the last time this place was really deep cleaned) I challenged myself to declutter one thing a day for a year. I'm going to try something like that now. even if it's only 15 minutes spent on it, if I do that every day, things will get done.
As for me, it's been restful. I know that's weird (especially with the panic leading up to it) but knowing I can't go anywhere, that there's no one expecting anything of me (in spite of the fact this is pretty much my every weekend and I did have that zoom meeting and crap to grade) I feel peaceful and recharged. I'll take it.
In the meantime I have started the slow clean up of the living room and now I am more than a little disappointed in myself. I started small, two big padded envelopes that have been behind the couch next to the book case since well as it turns out six frakking years. They were both filled with Christmas cards. In theory St. Jude's used to recycle cards, letting the kids recreate and sell cards. I remember there being on the web site Hallmark and American Greeting were not cool with this and then they just stopped. Since then I've been a) looking for something artistic to do with cards but haven't found it b) just using them as gift tags, really BIG gift tags (i.e. hole punch it and ribbon it on)
These cards have been forgotten for years. I have been walking past those envelopes for six years. God. So I tore them all in half keeping the art for tags and the other envelope was filled with ones from Grandma's house (so probably been here for 7 years) because she kept them from the 80s (Hi, I apparently share half grandma's soul. she's a food hoarder too) I will say card art from the 80s was noticably uglier and the card stock barely heavier than paper BUT these might have been from those make-money-for-your-kids-group things. They were popular then.
Today's selected clean up was a bookbag full of paper. ALL of them, dozens, are printed out Buffy verse stories I had done about 2018 when I decided to put my BtVS/AtS stories up on AO3 and edited them a bit 20 years after the fact. Some I mined off defunct websites via the wayback machine as I lost A LOT via computer crashes (because those were written in the floppy disk/rewritable cd days). I stopped editing them when Prodigal Son ate my soul. I moved the bag to next to my bed so I can select one every so often to edit and resume this project. so progress. ANd look I can revive my declutter tag from 2016-2017 (probably the last time this place was really deep cleaned) I challenged myself to declutter one thing a day for a year. I'm going to try something like that now. even if it's only 15 minutes spent on it, if I do that every day, things will get done.
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