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spacealien_vamp) wrote2020-11-28 07:26 am
spacealien_vamp) wrote2020-11-28 07:26 am
Cleen sweep
I managed to schedule the last of my use-or-lose hours this month, so at least they didn't all go to waste. Not that I could go anywhere with my two weeks off. I ended up staying at home the entire time, continuing my efforts to tidy and organize all my belongings, most of which have been in boxes in the closets for years.
I started by thinning out my English books. That gave me room to haul my Japanese novels out of storage and sort through them, putting the survivors on the freshly emptied shelves. Then I went through my filing cabinet and old papers saved from as far back as high school. I had crazy old useless stuff, like a file folder containing credit card statements from 1998, or my old Sprint telephone statements (which I switched to paperless in 2010 and then switched to Verizon in 2018). Membership information for the Northwest Airlines mileage club (Northwest merged into Delta in 2008). A pages-long memo from 1986 detailing how domain names are determined on DARPAnet...which, to be honest, was probably one of my brother's printouts from college that got mixed in with my stuff. That's not even getting into the binders full of fanfic printouts from FK/HL/DS/KF:TLC fandom years.
In any case, I filled my recycling bin and had it emptied twice, and it's nearly full a third time. I gave a box of novels to a co-worker, and I still have about five more boxes awaiting disposal. I have a huge stack of papers with things like my social security number on them that need shredding. I was able to clear enough space in my closet to put the boxes of board games that I'm trying to cull from my collection in there, instead of them clogging up my bedroom floor. (I sold a handful at a Thanksgiving weekend game convention last year, and I was hoping to sell more at game conventions this summer...but of course those were all cancelled. So they stay in boxes.) I cleared off my computer desk, which had been buried under layers of junk mail and scrap paper going back three years.
The next big project is to clear out my linen closet, which is full to bursting. I'm kind of afraid to tackle that one, but it needs to be done.
Another thing I did recently was buy a new pillow. I'd been using the same memory foam pillow for ten years, and it was fine for falling asleep on my back, but as soon as I would roll over onto my side, my shoulders would scrunch up. The new one is a high-profile pillow specifically for side sleeping, and it is amazing. I sleep so much better now.
Things at work are...stressful. We still don't know what our schedule is going to be next year, as our chief has been on vacation for weeks and thus hasn't made any decisions. Still no word on when the canine training center will open for the new hires, but with virus surges all over the country, things aren't looking promising. Upper management has brought the hammer down on everyone about safety precautions; we are now no longer even allowed to talk to anyone outside our immediate work group (for me, that means canine handlers) unless absolutely necessary for work-related reasons.
(I guess I got that new pillow just in time. I'm going to need my sleep.)
Not much happening in the garden this time of year. I need to harvest the fall veggies; I have a selection of potatoes, cabbage, turnips, bell peppers, and Asian greens that are ready for picking. Once those are done, though, there won't be anything else but winter pruning until February.
I started by thinning out my English books. That gave me room to haul my Japanese novels out of storage and sort through them, putting the survivors on the freshly emptied shelves. Then I went through my filing cabinet and old papers saved from as far back as high school. I had crazy old useless stuff, like a file folder containing credit card statements from 1998, or my old Sprint telephone statements (which I switched to paperless in 2010 and then switched to Verizon in 2018). Membership information for the Northwest Airlines mileage club (Northwest merged into Delta in 2008). A pages-long memo from 1986 detailing how domain names are determined on DARPAnet...which, to be honest, was probably one of my brother's printouts from college that got mixed in with my stuff. That's not even getting into the binders full of fanfic printouts from FK/HL/DS/KF:TLC fandom years.
In any case, I filled my recycling bin and had it emptied twice, and it's nearly full a third time. I gave a box of novels to a co-worker, and I still have about five more boxes awaiting disposal. I have a huge stack of papers with things like my social security number on them that need shredding. I was able to clear enough space in my closet to put the boxes of board games that I'm trying to cull from my collection in there, instead of them clogging up my bedroom floor. (I sold a handful at a Thanksgiving weekend game convention last year, and I was hoping to sell more at game conventions this summer...but of course those were all cancelled. So they stay in boxes.) I cleared off my computer desk, which had been buried under layers of junk mail and scrap paper going back three years.
The next big project is to clear out my linen closet, which is full to bursting. I'm kind of afraid to tackle that one, but it needs to be done.
Another thing I did recently was buy a new pillow. I'd been using the same memory foam pillow for ten years, and it was fine for falling asleep on my back, but as soon as I would roll over onto my side, my shoulders would scrunch up. The new one is a high-profile pillow specifically for side sleeping, and it is amazing. I sleep so much better now.
Things at work are...stressful. We still don't know what our schedule is going to be next year, as our chief has been on vacation for weeks and thus hasn't made any decisions. Still no word on when the canine training center will open for the new hires, but with virus surges all over the country, things aren't looking promising. Upper management has brought the hammer down on everyone about safety precautions; we are now no longer even allowed to talk to anyone outside our immediate work group (for me, that means canine handlers) unless absolutely necessary for work-related reasons.
(I guess I got that new pillow just in time. I'm going to need my sleep.)
Not much happening in the garden this time of year. I need to harvest the fall veggies; I have a selection of potatoes, cabbage, turnips, bell peppers, and Asian greens that are ready for picking. Once those are done, though, there won't be anything else but winter pruning until February.
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I'm sorry to hear about everything at work being stressful, though I do know that feeling. I hope they get new hires in soon. Or reasonably not far out. Or something.