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the_siobhan
July 18
18 – World Listening Day: Rather than simply listening to other people talk, World Listening Day was created to draw attention to the way humans need to be listening to the world around us, including environmental awareness, soundscapes and acoustic ecology. What does the world around you sound like right now?
19 – Daiquiri Day: Do you drink daiquiris, or any other cocktails? Do you make your own at home or are they something you reserve for an evening out at a restaurant or other social event?
20 – International Chess Day: Do you play, or have you ever played, chess?
21 – Junk Food Day: What is your favourite junk food? Is this something you eat regularly, or is it something you turn to when you're stressed, or that you reserve as a special treat or reward for yourself?
22 – Day Of the Cowboy: Do you like Westerns (either books, movies, or TV shows)? What about country and western music?
23 – Peanut Butter and Chocolate Day: Match made in heaven or something to be avoided at all costs?
24 – Everybody Deserves a Massage Week: The third week of July is Everybody Deserves a Massage Week. Do you go for regular (or occasional) massages? Have you tried different types of massage: Swedish, Shiatsu, deep tissue, etc.? Do you have a favourite?
25 – Hot Fudge Sundae Day OR Wine and Cheese Day: Which would you go for?
26 – All or Nothing Day: If it was your last day on Earth, what would you do?
27 – Refreshment Day: What is your go-to refreshment on hot summer days? Is this something you enjoy year-round, or that you mainly drink in the summer?
28 – Talk in an Elevator Day: If you're with another person (or a group of people) and you get into an elevator, do you continue any conversation you were engaged in, or do you wait until you step out of the elevator? Does it unnerve or annoy you if someone starts talking to you in an elevator?
29 – Rain Day: Do you like rainy days? Does it rain a lot where you live? Have you ever been caught in a torrential downpour?
30 – Whistleblower Day: Part of living in a country with a fair rule of law is making sure that corruption and misconduct do not go unnoticed. A whistleblower is an individual who reports suspicious activity, such as violations, exploitation, misrepresentations, or other infractions. The activity may be within an organization, either public or private. If you witnessed, or were aware of, corruption and misconduct in your workplace, would you speak up about it, even if it meant potentially losing your job?
18-Right now, lots of banging and the sounds of daytime talk radio. I do live on a residential street with lots of trees though, so in between I can hear cicadas and my neighbours gossiping. 19-I have occasionally had them but they aren't something I would normally seek out. Mostly they remind me of showing up at my mother's house for dinner one summer day and her shoving a blender and a bottle of tequila at me the second I walked in teh door and announcing that I was in charge of daiquiris for everybody. (I made them. They were tasty.) 20-I was taught to play chess when I was a kid for some reason I never stuck with it. 21-Potato chips ae my go-to stress food. I get a craving for KFC about once every six months and then I eat it and feel gross afterwards. 22-They can be fun. 23-Definitely in favour. 24-I get massages when I can afford them, I tend to develop nasty knots in my neck and shoulders that lead to headaches so massages help. I used to go to the school because cheap, but I'm not longer comfortable doing that because everybody would be in a big room together and plague. 25-Wine and cheese, every time. 26-Say goodbye to everybody before getting in the space ship. 27-Ice tea. Homemade because I find the store-bought mixes are head-puckeringly sweet. 28-I usually keep going. People talking to me in elevators are the same as talking to me on the bus, it depends on the person. 29-It rains a lot in the humid months, which is basically April to October now. 30-I like to think so.
31 – Picnic Month: July is national Picnic Month. Have you ever been on a picnic? Do you enjoy eating outdoors? If you were organizing a picnic, what foods would you bring?
I've been trying to organize a picnic for the Old Man for the last couple of weeks, but everybody has conflicting work schedules and whenever I find a date that works for everybody it rains.
My plan - if I can ever actually pull it off - is to the grocery store by his house and pick up some sandwich fixings and fruit trays and bring some wine in a cooler to the nearby park.
***
The last three days have been very productive. No murders have occurred.
The housemate got home late Monday night, after I went to bed. We spent Tuesday moving furniture. (And cleaning up the massive amounts of dust and dried cat puke.) Wednesday and yesterday we booked a van and went to the storage building. With two trips we managed to completely empty the smaller of the two units.
There is now a wall of boxes across the centre of the ground floor and another one at the foot of my bed. Two more boxes are on the front porch waiting to go to the charity shop. A metal filing cabinet with a broken drawer has been emptied and went out on the street, the metal pickers have already taken it away.
There was also a small mountain of boxes lined up next to the stairs so that housemate can take them down to the gf's place when they next visit. I say "was" because we got a call from the builders this morning that we would be getting a delivery of drywall this morning and it was all long pieces that would need to be walked through the ground floor of the house. OK then. Frantic reshuffling happened and now they are just kind of shoved aside and very much in the way of getting at anything, but the workers will be able to get through for today and then they can go back.
Timing, am I right?
Then because housemate was rushed out of bed before coffee or meds to help me clear boxes, they spent twenty minutes in the basement talking to one of the workers before my shouting down the stairwell woke them up enough to realize that they were in an enclosed space with somebody and neither of them were masked. *headdesk* So now I have to mask on the ground floor until housemate passes the incubation period. I don't even know what that is for the latest variant. At least it's still warm enough to have all my windows open upstairs.
Sorting everything required at least a cursory glance through each box. We had apparently packed away a lot of food thinking we would only be kitchenless for a few months. I repacked all the ingredients that will require more than our current hotplate-and-microwave setup, (and threw out some dry goods that were past their expiry date) but some of the things like pasta sauce we can use now, so I now have a new stack of old tins next to the toaster.
Today I am mostly going through the stacks of boxes in my room and figuring out if there is stuff I can throw away or use up. (I knew I had a box labelled "Siobhan has too many black tshirts". I had no idea that in fact I have two boxes labelled "Siobhan has too many black tshirts".) Housemate's clothes are taking up half my wardrobe because their furniture is still in storage, so most of my clothes boxes will just have to stay put, along with all the things like winter blankets and extra pillows. I do have a couple of boxes of things that came out of my desk at work that just got shoved into storage to "deal with later", so I guess today is as good a later as any.
Pretty sure I can throw out all these old tax receipts from 2008 as well.
18 – World Listening Day: Rather than simply listening to other people talk, World Listening Day was created to draw attention to the way humans need to be listening to the world around us, including environmental awareness, soundscapes and acoustic ecology. What does the world around you sound like right now?
19 – Daiquiri Day: Do you drink daiquiris, or any other cocktails? Do you make your own at home or are they something you reserve for an evening out at a restaurant or other social event?
20 – International Chess Day: Do you play, or have you ever played, chess?
21 – Junk Food Day: What is your favourite junk food? Is this something you eat regularly, or is it something you turn to when you're stressed, or that you reserve as a special treat or reward for yourself?
22 – Day Of the Cowboy: Do you like Westerns (either books, movies, or TV shows)? What about country and western music?
23 – Peanut Butter and Chocolate Day: Match made in heaven or something to be avoided at all costs?
24 – Everybody Deserves a Massage Week: The third week of July is Everybody Deserves a Massage Week. Do you go for regular (or occasional) massages? Have you tried different types of massage: Swedish, Shiatsu, deep tissue, etc.? Do you have a favourite?
25 – Hot Fudge Sundae Day OR Wine and Cheese Day: Which would you go for?
26 – All or Nothing Day: If it was your last day on Earth, what would you do?
27 – Refreshment Day: What is your go-to refreshment on hot summer days? Is this something you enjoy year-round, or that you mainly drink in the summer?
28 – Talk in an Elevator Day: If you're with another person (or a group of people) and you get into an elevator, do you continue any conversation you were engaged in, or do you wait until you step out of the elevator? Does it unnerve or annoy you if someone starts talking to you in an elevator?
29 – Rain Day: Do you like rainy days? Does it rain a lot where you live? Have you ever been caught in a torrential downpour?
30 – Whistleblower Day: Part of living in a country with a fair rule of law is making sure that corruption and misconduct do not go unnoticed. A whistleblower is an individual who reports suspicious activity, such as violations, exploitation, misrepresentations, or other infractions. The activity may be within an organization, either public or private. If you witnessed, or were aware of, corruption and misconduct in your workplace, would you speak up about it, even if it meant potentially losing your job?
18-Right now, lots of banging and the sounds of daytime talk radio. I do live on a residential street with lots of trees though, so in between I can hear cicadas and my neighbours gossiping. 19-I have occasionally had them but they aren't something I would normally seek out. Mostly they remind me of showing up at my mother's house for dinner one summer day and her shoving a blender and a bottle of tequila at me the second I walked in teh door and announcing that I was in charge of daiquiris for everybody. (I made them. They were tasty.) 20-I was taught to play chess when I was a kid for some reason I never stuck with it. 21-Potato chips ae my go-to stress food. I get a craving for KFC about once every six months and then I eat it and feel gross afterwards. 22-They can be fun. 23-Definitely in favour. 24-I get massages when I can afford them, I tend to develop nasty knots in my neck and shoulders that lead to headaches so massages help. I used to go to the school because cheap, but I'm not longer comfortable doing that because everybody would be in a big room together and plague. 25-Wine and cheese, every time. 26-Say goodbye to everybody before getting in the space ship. 27-Ice tea. Homemade because I find the store-bought mixes are head-puckeringly sweet. 28-I usually keep going. People talking to me in elevators are the same as talking to me on the bus, it depends on the person. 29-It rains a lot in the humid months, which is basically April to October now. 30-I like to think so.
31 – Picnic Month: July is national Picnic Month. Have you ever been on a picnic? Do you enjoy eating outdoors? If you were organizing a picnic, what foods would you bring?
I've been trying to organize a picnic for the Old Man for the last couple of weeks, but everybody has conflicting work schedules and whenever I find a date that works for everybody it rains.
My plan - if I can ever actually pull it off - is to the grocery store by his house and pick up some sandwich fixings and fruit trays and bring some wine in a cooler to the nearby park.
***
The last three days have been very productive. No murders have occurred.
The housemate got home late Monday night, after I went to bed. We spent Tuesday moving furniture. (And cleaning up the massive amounts of dust and dried cat puke.) Wednesday and yesterday we booked a van and went to the storage building. With two trips we managed to completely empty the smaller of the two units.
There is now a wall of boxes across the centre of the ground floor and another one at the foot of my bed. Two more boxes are on the front porch waiting to go to the charity shop. A metal filing cabinet with a broken drawer has been emptied and went out on the street, the metal pickers have already taken it away.
There was also a small mountain of boxes lined up next to the stairs so that housemate can take them down to the gf's place when they next visit. I say "was" because we got a call from the builders this morning that we would be getting a delivery of drywall this morning and it was all long pieces that would need to be walked through the ground floor of the house. OK then. Frantic reshuffling happened and now they are just kind of shoved aside and very much in the way of getting at anything, but the workers will be able to get through for today and then they can go back.
Timing, am I right?
Then because housemate was rushed out of bed before coffee or meds to help me clear boxes, they spent twenty minutes in the basement talking to one of the workers before my shouting down the stairwell woke them up enough to realize that they were in an enclosed space with somebody and neither of them were masked. *headdesk* So now I have to mask on the ground floor until housemate passes the incubation period. I don't even know what that is for the latest variant. At least it's still warm enough to have all my windows open upstairs.
Sorting everything required at least a cursory glance through each box. We had apparently packed away a lot of food thinking we would only be kitchenless for a few months. I repacked all the ingredients that will require more than our current hotplate-and-microwave setup, (and threw out some dry goods that were past their expiry date) but some of the things like pasta sauce we can use now, so I now have a new stack of old tins next to the toaster.
Today I am mostly going through the stacks of boxes in my room and figuring out if there is stuff I can throw away or use up. (I knew I had a box labelled "Siobhan has too many black tshirts". I had no idea that in fact I have two boxes labelled "Siobhan has too many black tshirts".) Housemate's clothes are taking up half my wardrobe because their furniture is still in storage, so most of my clothes boxes will just have to stay put, along with all the things like winter blankets and extra pillows. I do have a couple of boxes of things that came out of my desk at work that just got shoved into storage to "deal with later", so I guess today is as good a later as any.
Pretty sure I can throw out all these old tax receipts from 2008 as well.
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Date: 2023-09-22 06:01 pm (UTC)We're edging up on maximum capacity and also paying for a second storage unit (to be fair, it's full of stuff from my mother's house, including the clothes she's still wearing in seasonal shifts), so I'm feeling the itch to start donating stuff, tossing stuff, etc. I hope that we both arrive at that "AH! Freedom!" feeling at some point in the not-too-too-distant future. :-)
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Date: 2023-09-22 06:07 pm (UTC)Spouse has those boxes of black t-shirts. I offered to make a goth quilt, but he likes them better sealed in boxes in the furnace room. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Date: 2023-09-22 08:53 pm (UTC)I'm also running into the issue where I'm storing stuff belonging to my step-father - once we get rid of the unit we'll have to have a conversation about whether or not he realistically ever expects to use any of it again.
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Date: 2023-09-22 08:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-09-22 10:00 pm (UTC)This doesn't ring a bell, but I wouldn't put it past her!
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Date: 2023-09-23 12:21 pm (UTC)they were in an enclosed space with somebody and neither of them were masked.
I had a conference last week, my first with a large group of people for four years. I was the only masked person. I took it off to eat the lunch in the media room, and wondered out for a refill ... unmasked.
I don't even know what that is for the latest variant. At least it's still warm enough to have all my windows open upstairs.
Variants are always changing. 7-14 days seems fair regardless. I suspect, giving rates of infection and such, you can probably be confident you're okay pretty quickly, but obviously that depends on your local numbers (if they even update them and are accurate).
"Siobhan has too many black tshirts"
Do you? Do you really?
Or not enough?
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Date: 2023-09-23 12:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-09-23 04:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-09-23 05:05 pm (UTC)20 – once upon a time. I liked it.
21 – probably my own home-made chips (fries) They are so crispy outside and fluffy inside. And probably full of acrylamide.
23 – I love snickers but would not mix the two on a slice of toast.
24 – After I broke my arm I started going to Swedish massage once, but oddly, I just found out about shiatsu massage today and am desperate to try that.
25 – Wine. And. Cheese.
26 – Tell everyone I love that I love them. The other 23 1/2 hours, buy the most expensive sushi I can find, pet my cats a lot, and get really really drunk while watching Chen Qing Ling.
28 – I don't stop. And while I don't start conversations in elevators (unless there's a good reason like someone wearing the same con badge or fan bag) I don'f find it creepy if someone decides to talk to me. In Scotland, that would mean a lot of creeped-out-ness.
29 – It rains SO. MUCH. Love it while lying in bed listening to it. Apart from that, it's just a nuisance.
30 – Yes, I'd speak up. I couldn't look in the mirror otherwise.
How about you?
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Date: 2023-09-24 07:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-09-24 03:12 pm (UTC)So my shirts tend to rot out around the biceps and the small of the back. It's the weirdest thing.
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Date: 2023-09-25 08:09 am (UTC)