What a marvelous day
Mar. 11th, 2005 08:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
celticdragonflyIt's been a good day, a very good day. It's been sunny for days, things are going well, and I got to have an Afternoon Out.
After a slow start,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
selenite got the lawn mowed. We're trying to cut costs and not have it done by a service this year, and we were able to get a mower free from Freecycle - turned out we had a friend moving from a house into an apartment. selenite says it's less annoying to mow a lawn when it's yours. The kids were fascinatedly watching him from our bedroom windows, I had to peel them away to give them their baths.
In the afternoon,selenite sent me off to do some stuff I wanted to do solo. First I went and dropped off a couple of library books to the Watauga library. (They've given me a nonresident courtesy card, works for local items only. Bless them, it's better than the Saginaw library.)
Then I went to the consignment place where we'd found the table I'm now using for my computer. There was all sorts of fascinating stuff there I wanted the freedom to look through without desperately hanging onto a curious toddler. I had a great time poking around and looking at things.
bkseiver, you would have found one thing interesting - I found a pair of connected French doors or something similar, in stained glass, absolutely gorgeous. The tag said they were from a late 1800s or early 1900s estate in the Baton Rouge area!
I got to see about half the place, and then realized I was getting to the "brain full" stage, starting to overload and it wasn't going to be fun soon. So I stopped while I was still enjoying it. I hopeselenite can spare me to go back another time soon and see the rest.
Then I went downtown to the Central Fort Worth library. I poked about and found a pile of books. It got a bit confusing on how using the TexShare card to get access worked. Things like when I asked before searching, I was told limits were on video and audio, not books, just a 50 item limit, and then at first when I was checking out they were telling me 5, but then no, they had my record from when we lived in the hotel so 7 was just fine.
But the best part - the really COOL part - is that it does NOT work, as I'd thought, that I just use my Texshare card as a library card. No. I use my Texshare card as permission to get a REAL Fort Worth library card from them. That's right, I get my very own Fort Worth card, WITH a barcode and number and everything. No longer do I have to face the thought of running from branch to branch to find what I want, or hoping I'm there when it's checked in. No, I can sit here like the spider in the middle of the (world wide) web, and call the books to me, place holds on them and ask they all be sent to one library for me. The Fort Worth library system is now my oyster! Soon the world will be MINE!! BWAAAhahahahah!!!
Yeah, I'm pretty jazzed about this, can you tell? In the car on the way out I was doing little wiggle-my-hips bounce-my-butt happy dances in the driver's seat. Woo! Like I told the nice librarian on the way out, a library is like a big candy store to me.
I checked in withselenite, who was still being great about taking care of the kids AND getting some household stuff done, and then went to get something to eat. I went and got salad bar at Central Market, yum. I actually went ahead and ate outside, which is very rare for me. The sun was behind the hill already, but it was enojoyable anyway, even if I did get chilled after a while. I read one of the library books while eating. Then I walked over to the shopping center across from Central Market and went to the New Orleans cafe place and had beignets and tea, yum. I felt all wonderfully stuffed full of fresh food, yay. Then I drove home, playing the radio loud and bopping along with it. I even stopped and got a lotto ticket, which I don't normally do and selenite will give me a really hard time when he finds out, but it was just feeling like that kinda day. I'll quote that song by that singer he likes - ah, bother, can't think of her name. Oh well, he'll remember.
And now I'm home. Jamie was all sorts of upset, wanted to nurse like there was no tomorrow. His nursing demands have gone WAY up this week. But he's happier now.
After a slow start,
selenite got the lawn mowed. We're trying to cut costs and not have it done by a service this year, and we were able to get a mower free from Freecycle - turned out we had a friend moving from a house into an apartment. selenite says it's less annoying to mow a lawn when it's yours. The kids were fascinatedly watching him from our bedroom windows, I had to peel them away to give them their baths. In the afternoon,
selenite sent me off to do some stuff I wanted to do solo. First I went and dropped off a couple of library books to the Watauga library. (They've given me a nonresident courtesy card, works for local items only. Bless them, it's better than the Saginaw library.)Then I went to the consignment place where we'd found the table I'm now using for my computer. There was all sorts of fascinating stuff there I wanted the freedom to look through without desperately hanging onto a curious toddler. I had a great time poking around and looking at things.
bkseiver, you would have found one thing interesting - I found a pair of connected French doors or something similar, in stained glass, absolutely gorgeous. The tag said they were from a late 1800s or early 1900s estate in the Baton Rouge area!I got to see about half the place, and then realized I was getting to the "brain full" stage, starting to overload and it wasn't going to be fun soon. So I stopped while I was still enjoying it. I hope
selenite can spare me to go back another time soon and see the rest. Then I went downtown to the Central Fort Worth library. I poked about and found a pile of books. It got a bit confusing on how using the TexShare card to get access worked. Things like when I asked before searching, I was told limits were on video and audio, not books, just a 50 item limit, and then at first when I was checking out they were telling me 5, but then no, they had my record from when we lived in the hotel so 7 was just fine.
But the best part - the really COOL part - is that it does NOT work, as I'd thought, that I just use my Texshare card as a library card. No. I use my Texshare card as permission to get a REAL Fort Worth library card from them. That's right, I get my very own Fort Worth card, WITH a barcode and number and everything. No longer do I have to face the thought of running from branch to branch to find what I want, or hoping I'm there when it's checked in. No, I can sit here like the spider in the middle of the (world wide) web, and call the books to me, place holds on them and ask they all be sent to one library for me. The Fort Worth library system is now my oyster! Soon the world will be MINE!! BWAAAhahahahah!!!
Yeah, I'm pretty jazzed about this, can you tell? In the car on the way out I was doing little wiggle-my-hips bounce-my-butt happy dances in the driver's seat. Woo! Like I told the nice librarian on the way out, a library is like a big candy store to me.
I checked in with
selenite, who was still being great about taking care of the kids AND getting some household stuff done, and then went to get something to eat. I went and got salad bar at Central Market, yum. I actually went ahead and ate outside, which is very rare for me. The sun was behind the hill already, but it was enojoyable anyway, even if I did get chilled after a while. I read one of the library books while eating. Then I walked over to the shopping center across from Central Market and went to the New Orleans cafe place and had beignets and tea, yum. I felt all wonderfully stuffed full of fresh food, yay. Then I drove home, playing the radio loud and bopping along with it. I even stopped and got a lotto ticket, which I don't normally do and selenite will give me a really hard time when he finds out, but it was just feeling like that kinda day. I'll quote that song by that singer he likes - ah, bother, can't think of her name. Oh well, he'll remember. And now I'm home. Jamie was all sorts of upset, wanted to nurse like there was no tomorrow. His nursing demands have gone WAY up this week. But he's happier now.
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Date: 2005-03-12 05:10 am (UTC)Sounds like a GREAT day!
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Date: 2005-03-12 05:17 am (UTC)It was a great day.
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Date: 2005-03-12 06:15 am (UTC)