So far on Sunday....
Dec. 13th, 2009 02:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vanillafluffyAfter days of cold, clamminess and rain, today is warm and sunny. I could do without the warm part, but as long as there's sunshine, I'm willing to overlook it.
I was disappointed that CapeGypsy wasn't at church today, but I emailed her a 'thank you' last night and I'll hug her when I see her. StormValkyrie also got major hugs this morning: I got to church early-ish and she presented me with my Yule gifts today. There's a very pretty silky caftan* printed with elephant-ear plants and cheetahs. There's also a glorious agate disk---it's a pendant on a gold ribbon---with a dragonfly on it. The wings are silver and the tail is bronze. I may lengthen the chain an inch or two and change the clasp, but that won't show.
One final triumph---I stopped off at WinnDixie on the way home, and spent a while combing their cleaning products aisle, where I found something I've been hunting for for a while. I don't like sponges for dishwashing, because they get mildewed and stinky so fast. For years, I've been using knitted plastic mesh scrubbers---they don't scratch, don't get as nasty, and if you want to get egg off the tines of a fork (for instance), you can stab the fork into the scrubber and shazam! Your tines are clean.
The scrubber to the side of my sink has been there for...a long time. They're darn near indestructible unless you try to clean a hot burner with them or something like that. But it's starting to come apart in the middle---no doubt staabbed by one fork too many---so it was time for a new one. Except, I couldn't find them at WalMart or Publix---and had some difficulty finding it at WD, since they were over with the mops and such instead of with the other dishwashing supplies.
They had three packages of two left, and I snagged all three. That ought to last me til 2012 at least.
And now to pick up the office so I can bring The Tree in....
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* I must make a resolution to wear caftans more often, as I have a half-dozen that see action only a few times a year.
I was disappointed that CapeGypsy wasn't at church today, but I emailed her a 'thank you' last night and I'll hug her when I see her. StormValkyrie also got major hugs this morning: I got to church early-ish and she presented me with my Yule gifts today. There's a very pretty silky caftan* printed with elephant-ear plants and cheetahs. There's also a glorious agate disk---it's a pendant on a gold ribbon---with a dragonfly on it. The wings are silver and the tail is bronze. I may lengthen the chain an inch or two and change the clasp, but that won't show.
One final triumph---I stopped off at WinnDixie on the way home, and spent a while combing their cleaning products aisle, where I found something I've been hunting for for a while. I don't like sponges for dishwashing, because they get mildewed and stinky so fast. For years, I've been using knitted plastic mesh scrubbers---they don't scratch, don't get as nasty, and if you want to get egg off the tines of a fork (for instance), you can stab the fork into the scrubber and shazam! Your tines are clean.
The scrubber to the side of my sink has been there for...a long time. They're darn near indestructible unless you try to clean a hot burner with them or something like that. But it's starting to come apart in the middle---no doubt staabbed by one fork too many---so it was time for a new one. Except, I couldn't find them at WalMart or Publix---and had some difficulty finding it at WD, since they were over with the mops and such instead of with the other dishwashing supplies.
They had three packages of two left, and I snagged all three. That ought to last me til 2012 at least.
And now to pick up the office so I can bring The Tree in....
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* I must make a resolution to wear caftans more often, as I have a half-dozen that see action only a few times a year.