My Musings & Lists

Tuesday, August 11, 2026

What’s distracting me from work today?

Baking bread
Choosing seats for LA flight
Buying tix, coordinating with friends for Nick Shoulders
Planning Japanese shopping day with daughter
Planning move back to Tampa for fall semester
Upcoming board game con that I’m in charge of soc media
Stupid game app

Sunday, August 9, 2026

New project: tights

New project:

Inventory tights:

*Dark purple
*Black
*Black fishnet
*Blank lace
*Christmasy green and red wavy stripes

Want:

Halloween
Something nerdy

But… I realize I don’t wear the tights I have. What am I buying more.

End project

Saturday, August 8, 2026

REPORT

Reading: The Last American Road Trip and Dungeon Crawler Carl 5

Eating: too much! Ginger cookies esp

Playing l: dump phone app game

Obsessing Over: getting fall travel arrangements finalized

Researching: body oil, rolling laundry carts, violin teachers

Treating myself: sleep!

Friday, August 7, 2026

From baking bread … to getting my hair colored and cut … to shopping at a used book store for Lord of the Rings trio of books … to accompanying my mother-in-law to buy a family cemetery plot … to eating ice cream… to admiring my son in law’s collection of sardines. Just a regular day, right?

I’m exhausted. Who has time to work!

I’m laying down to rest before hubby and I go to a painting class for nerds.

I didn’t take photos of the cemetery plot. But it had a lovely tree.

(Answer to a friend about busy day:)

it started out a not busy day with two things planned — hair and art (see new photo). But the mother in law visit and other things came up. It was never rushed but it just struck me what a lot of amusing and fun and incongruous things in one day.

Thursday, August 6, 2026

Curtain decisions

Hi Erin. I have always loved your sense of style, your house in Dillman Farms and your current house were/are both lovely. And you always seem to be able to pick the right colors for things. Don’t know if this will work with photos but we will see! I can always just use a little guidance. Or maybe just reassurance.

So my office is white with one bright blue wall. Bright blue wall has white shelves. See photo.

Opposite the bright blue wall is my closet which will have craft supplies and junk in it, and instead of closet doors I’m gonna put up a curtain. In between the two is an actual window that also could use a curtain.

Next to my desk, and next to the window will eventually be a single bed. It may have that blue quilt on it, that you can see on a chair. That chair will be moving out of the room this week so it is irrelevant. A smaller bright green chair may move in here though.

Other furniture in room is small reddish-brown wooden desk and small white shelves, so good neutrals.

So I figured using the same cloth for the closet curtain and the window curtain would be smart. Of course the closet opening is so large that the curtain will be most of that wall. It obviously ought to coordinate with the bright blue, and I do like blues and greens. But I’m thinking something as bright as the wall would overwhelm the room. So my instincts are something a little softer.

So I went to fabric store today and oh my God it was a fantastic local store with so many choices, a quilters paradise. I took photos of a few things that sorta called out to me, but then I’m worried they’re gonna be too busy or something. Anyway, here’s a bunch of Photos. Let me know your thoughts.

I hate the brackets on these shelves. I'll eventually re-do them and make less industrial/obnoxious. Those shelves will eventually be full of tchotchkes and souvenirs and tons of things I’ve kept in boxes for years!