Posting more!
May. 7th, 2011 04:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tarotgalI really need to post more. I keep thinking of things I want to say and then realizing I'd meant to post that weeks ago. Drat it.
Had a great day today. Volunteered at the library (FULL book drop this morning. Guess people are returning books so they have more interrupted time to spend with their moms tomorrow).
I headed over to the comic book store for Free Comic Book Day and got a bunch! I feel like such a freak fangirling the promo issues of Darkwing Duck (which, um, I'd actually already read a few pages of online) and Chip 'n Dale's Rescue Rangers and Inspector Gadget and the Dark Crystal. I picked up a dozen just for the hell of it. And I picked up some to send to my help_japan friend.
Have I mentioned the details of that? As I'm sure I mentioned before, I put my life as a fangirl with too many hobbies up for auction to Help Japan after the earthquakes and tsunami and the winner paid $605 for it (and by it, I mean me). Now I keep a journal I write in EVERY day as sort of an ongoing letter to her and I buy/collect/pick up things to send her for 4 packages a year. So far it's working out nicely, I just want to make sure she gets what she paid for... and gets a taste of my crazy interests and outings. Luckily, she's a Hufflepuff as well and works in the kids/teens section of a bookstore.
Anyhoo, I headed to the library because it's the last day of their book sale which means $5 bag sale! But the sale wasn't starting until 1:30. So I went to Walmart and found a parking spot in the very very back of the gardening section on the side (um, it was a bit busy). I bought myself a much-needed hat and a large clay pot for flowers. I'm going to make it into a gift basket (a very heavy, breakable, ugly gift basket) for my mom tomorrow.
Then I headed back to the library and filled up a bag of books. Got some pretty good ones with which I restocked my mother's shelf in my bookcases (when she needs something to read, she helps herself to my stash of books, naturally, so I gave her my own shelf for taking out and returning books. I like to keep it full of things I think she'll enjoy).
Then I went on a quest for white carnations. I read in a book I bought at the book sale on Thursday that Mother's Day was begun with the wearing of a white carnation. And Miss Anna Jarvis, the founder of the holiday, sent 500 white carnations to a church in West Virginia for all the mothers there. Aww! My mother is allergic to pretty much every flower out there EXCEPT for carnations, so we always get her carnations (well, my dad usually does, but he's in Kenya right now). Anyway, I went on a hunt for them. Had to go to 3 different stores looking but finally found some. YAY! Then I came home to find out that because of shortages of white carnations, the flower industry made up meanings for various carnations. And wearing a white one means your mother is dead. OOPS!!!. But, heck, I'm not wearing it (she can, though, as her mother passed away several years ago, so maybe it's a way of remembering Grandma as well) so I think it's fine. I don't care much about meanings of flowers if that meaning is created by the floral industry to increase sales of carnations of other colors anyway.
I'm hoping it won't rain too much tomorrow. I want to take my mother to historic Green Springs to walk around and look at the flowers and plants.
What's next for me today? Well, I have to build a LEGO moc of Remus fucking an OMC in a broom closet. And then I must clean. Because I'm drowning in STUFF right now. Looking forward to Doctor Who tonight. Doctor Who and pirates. What more could one possibly desire? Squee! And then David & Catherine will be on Graham Norton afterward. That'll be a laugh :-)
*is so glad to have an excellent excuse to use my Ioan reads F4 comics icon*
Had a great day today. Volunteered at the library (FULL book drop this morning. Guess people are returning books so they have more interrupted time to spend with their moms tomorrow).
I headed over to the comic book store for Free Comic Book Day and got a bunch! I feel like such a freak fangirling the promo issues of Darkwing Duck (which, um, I'd actually already read a few pages of online) and Chip 'n Dale's Rescue Rangers and Inspector Gadget and the Dark Crystal. I picked up a dozen just for the hell of it. And I picked up some to send to my help_japan friend.
Have I mentioned the details of that? As I'm sure I mentioned before, I put my life as a fangirl with too many hobbies up for auction to Help Japan after the earthquakes and tsunami and the winner paid $605 for it (and by it, I mean me). Now I keep a journal I write in EVERY day as sort of an ongoing letter to her and I buy/collect/pick up things to send her for 4 packages a year. So far it's working out nicely, I just want to make sure she gets what she paid for... and gets a taste of my crazy interests and outings. Luckily, she's a Hufflepuff as well and works in the kids/teens section of a bookstore.
Anyhoo, I headed to the library because it's the last day of their book sale which means $5 bag sale! But the sale wasn't starting until 1:30. So I went to Walmart and found a parking spot in the very very back of the gardening section on the side (um, it was a bit busy). I bought myself a much-needed hat and a large clay pot for flowers. I'm going to make it into a gift basket (a very heavy, breakable, ugly gift basket) for my mom tomorrow.
Then I headed back to the library and filled up a bag of books. Got some pretty good ones with which I restocked my mother's shelf in my bookcases (when she needs something to read, she helps herself to my stash of books, naturally, so I gave her my own shelf for taking out and returning books. I like to keep it full of things I think she'll enjoy).
Then I went on a quest for white carnations. I read in a book I bought at the book sale on Thursday that Mother's Day was begun with the wearing of a white carnation. And Miss Anna Jarvis, the founder of the holiday, sent 500 white carnations to a church in West Virginia for all the mothers there. Aww! My mother is allergic to pretty much every flower out there EXCEPT for carnations, so we always get her carnations (well, my dad usually does, but he's in Kenya right now). Anyway, I went on a hunt for them. Had to go to 3 different stores looking but finally found some. YAY! Then I came home to find out that because of shortages of white carnations, the flower industry made up meanings for various carnations. And wearing a white one means your mother is dead. OOPS!!!. But, heck, I'm not wearing it (she can, though, as her mother passed away several years ago, so maybe it's a way of remembering Grandma as well) so I think it's fine. I don't care much about meanings of flowers if that meaning is created by the floral industry to increase sales of carnations of other colors anyway.
I'm hoping it won't rain too much tomorrow. I want to take my mother to historic Green Springs to walk around and look at the flowers and plants.
What's next for me today? Well, I have to build a LEGO moc of Remus fucking an OMC in a broom closet. And then I must clean. Because I'm drowning in STUFF right now. Looking forward to Doctor Who tonight. Doctor Who and pirates. What more could one possibly desire? Squee! And then David & Catherine will be on Graham Norton afterward. That'll be a laugh :-)
*is so glad to have an excellent excuse to use my Ioan reads F4 comics icon*
