Vacation Day 3; or, Laundry and Reviews

I also reorganized my flowers and stuff last night.

For all those who wanted one more hot day before fall really starts, you may thank me for taking my fans down to the basement. Yech. I decided to focus on reviews today but also doing laundry, since that was rather urgent. I read three more beginning chapter books last night, to add to the pile - Race the Wild, Petlandia, and Alien Invasion in my backyard and a big stack of picture books. Of course, that isn't ALL I did. I am a multi-tasker (otherwise known as having a short attention span).

Audiobook: Treasure Island (finished) Phantom Tollbooth
Relaxation Reading: Still reading Dell Shannon
Watching: Rocky and Bullwinkle marathon continues

• I made a new page organizing all my RA RA Read lists
• and then I started a Facebook group to go with it (yes, I'm procrastinating)
• and worked on adding my movie collection to LibraryThing. Still procrastinating.
• ok, if I've gotten desperate enough to do dishes it's time to stop procrastinating.
• 3 short reviews on Flying off my bookshelf
• also cleaning out my feed of all the stuff saved, mostly collection development
• 6 short reviews
• Reviewed Petlandia, Rain Forest Relay
• Reviewed 9 board books in 3 reviews, interspersed with laundry and cooking dinner. It's my bacon and I'll fry if I want to...

Vacation Day 2; or, I do ALL THE PAPERWORK

To review stack

This is the day of paperwork and catching up on all things online. 

Audiobook: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Currently reading: Dell Shannon's mysteries, having found them available on Kindle and regretting that I got rid of my collection years ago.

Watching: Continuing my Rocky and Bullwinkle marathon

• Cleaned out my email (if I haven't gotten back to you about a review request, you got deleted)
• Paid bills
• Finished writing a post on Chi's Sweet Home read-alikes
• Went through a Scholastic catalog for collection development
• Filled out more dentist forms. This is the third dentist in a year. Sigh.
• 1 brief movie post
• Took a break to do a little vacuuming and take the fans down to the basement. Thus ensuring the temperature will skyrocket over the next few days.
• 8 brief book posts (on Flying off my bookshelf)
• Writing letters and making up packages for the tea of the month club
• Packed up and froze the rest of the pot roast and goosh I cooked last week and made a pitcher of tea to put in the refrigerator.
• Transferring contacts to a spreadsheet b/c google decided to put them all into google+ which I can't stand and is completely useless.
• A short walk to get the kinks out before tackling the loan paperwork
• Loan paperwork

I'm calling it a day.

First day of vacation: Zooing!

I'm going to be on vacation! You want obsessive, detailed updates about my life, no? Well, you're getting them anyways. I wasn't technically at work on Friday the 25th - I spent all day at a workshop - but vacation officially started on Saturday, September 26th. I went zooing with my friend Sara.

We went to the zoo. I am wearing my new t-shirt, supporting the Heath family's adoption.

Incidentally, I don't really like the monkeys and apes, but I love walking through the trees in their sort of aerie. There were a crazy lot of people, so I didn't see as many chipmunks as usual, but I saw some! Yes, I go to the zoo to see chipmunks. 

We saw the baby giraffe. It came up to the fence (and peed copiously to the delight of all the children) a few minutes later, but this is a photo that proves We Saw the Baby Giraffe.

Then we went to World Market and OMG THEY HAD PAPER UMBRELLAS!! I have been wanting one for ages and they never had any. I bought two. I also bought some candy, cookies, and a set of measuring cups which I will use for bowls.

We went to Kopps and got custard, to Eclectica for beads, to Half-Price books (Sara needed to get a book), to Fava Tea, where I got the last of the Sweet Melon and some rock sugar, to Joanns where I bought fabric I absolutely do not need and a blue bottle to use as a vase, to Brennans for cheese and fruit, had dinner at Emperor's Kitchen, and stopped at Fresh Market on the way home where we bought fancy drinks (watermelon water! peach white tea!), cake, olives, and more cheese. I like cheese.

Purple hat

It's really a deep violet, I don't know why it looks gray here.

The Second Stage of Gladiolas

Poppy Bag

A new project...the mystery is revealed! I still have to get a white cord or ribbon to run through the top, but otherwise it's done. It's a bag to hold my small crochet projects.

Earrings

One can hardly call making these beading. Basically you just use your beading pliers to pop open the circle, hook it onto the medallion, and voila.