Hello, villagers ~
Checking in with abbreviated update since Saturday.
I did make it to the sale at the neighboring TinyTown's fabric store, but I resisted the urge to buy fabric. Pretty colors and prints, but no bolts jumped into my hands. However, I was very happy to find purse organizers at half price because the one I have is so old that I've mended it several times. I'm talking about an insert with several pockets, made from very thin nylon fabric. It helps prevent everything in my handbag from snarling into a jumbled mess. I'm very happy that I could support a local store by buying something that I really did need.
The pot luck at work yesterday was as awkward as I was afraid it would be, but there wasn't anything I could do to make it less so. A coworker asked for my soup recipe, which happened to come from a library book so it was right there for her to copy.
Work yesterday afternoon and evening was wild. Patrons ran in to stock up for the long holiday weekend since the library will be closed Thurs-Fri-Sat-Sun.
Today we had staff meeting (ugh). We all need a break from each other.
One good thing came out of it, though. In the past we've all exchanged Christmas gifts and I have made something for each of them. This year someone suggested that we do a name exchange so we would each only have to come up with 1 gift with a $20 limit. A library board member was there and she assigned the names. I would have preferred a randrom drawing, but oh well. I was assigned the boss. I already had pretty much decided what I was going to make for her anyway and now I won't have the time pressure of making things for everyone else, too. I might not even have to buy additional fabric if I can find in my inventory a large enough piece of her favorite color. Anything handmade will be worth over the $ limit but I'm not going to worry about that.
After staff meeting, we pulled the library's Christmas trees out of the storage room and set them in place so a group of volunteers can decorate them next week. Last year a patron donated several buildings from a Charles Dickens Christmas Village set, so we pulled those out of storage as well. They need to be dusted, rearranged, plugged in, and probably some will be put back into storage due to lack of display room, but we ran out of time to finish that job today. We only have a few volunteers who help with the decorating so it will take a good 2 weeks to do the whole building when we are so busy with our regular work.
Thanksgiving holiday preparation:
I am grateful that tomorrow I am able to work at home all day.
* Onlline orders need attention first thing in the morning to grab sale prices.
* Clean the refrigerator before I start cooking.
* Wash the trousers I want to wear Thursday.
* Sew a quick alteration to a jacket that I'd like to wear Thursday.
* Precook as much as possible for the spicy cheese dip that DSis's family likes so much.
* Prepare the no-bake chocolate peanut butter dessert.
* Make sure that the crock pot is extremely clean.
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Any cleaning
whatsoever in
any room
wherever will be helpful.
I cleaned out my car today which makes me feel good.
If I can stay on schedule tomorrow and not get too sidetracked by fun videos online, all will be well.
That's a pretty big IF.