(Sub)urban renewal

Got the first refund from my FSA in today's mail...I have more paperwork to fax in--two of which I excavated while picking up. (Go, me!) Receipts for 'scrips' I got when I had that chest thing and a tooth extracted...totaling close to $60, so it's *not* a minor matter. That plus the remainder of what I paid for my glasses...I may not get *all* of it back untaxed, but I'll get most of it!

This evening, though I'm drooping a bit (I slept badly last night--really didn't want it to be Monday!), I challenged myself to fill one of the big trash bags in my living room: in 15 minutes or less. The scary thing is, I *did*. Some of it was prebagged--little grocery baggies--a full trash basket--or easy stuff like 2-liter bottles, out-of-date coupons and sales fliers heaped on the chair by the front door. (For the future, I'm putting a bag in one of the big blue bins and stashing it right by the door so all the doomed mail can go there.)

I discovered an ironic phenomenon while cleaning; in both the office and my room, I kept coming across empty trash bags that I'd taken in there, set down and forgotten. Not just one or two--try about ten of them between both rooms. I've stashed them in a grocery bag and I'm using them first. I'll have a real sense of accomplishment once I've worked my way through those.

Oh, and I finally got my hair done--and it inspired me to create a cousin for Draco Malfoy: an opera singer named Sirocco. (Let's just say I haven't been this blonde naturally since about 1977....)

(Sub)urban renewal

Got the first refund from my FSA in today's mail...I have more paperwork to fax in--two of which I excavated while picking up. (Go, me!) Receipts for 'scrips' I got when I had that chest thing and a tooth extracted...totaling close to $60, so it's *not* a minor matter. That plus the remainder of what I paid for my glasses...I may not get *all* of it back untaxed, but I'll get most of it!

This evening, though I'm drooping a bit (I slept badly last night--really didn't want it to be Monday!), I challenged myself to fill one of the big trash bags in my living room: in 15 minutes or less. The scary thing is, I *did*. Some of it was prebagged--little grocery baggies--a full trash basket--or easy stuff like 2-liter bottles, out-of-date coupons and sales fliers heaped on the chair by the front door. (For the future, I'm putting a bag in one of the big blue bins and stashing it right by the door so all the doomed mail can go there.)

I discovered an ironic phenomenon while cleaning; in both the office and my room, I kept coming across empty trash bags that I'd taken in there, set down and forgotten. Not just one or two--try about ten of them between both rooms. I've stashed them in a grocery bag and I'm using them first. I'll have a real sense of accomplishment once I've worked my way through those.

Oh, and I finally got my hair done--and it inspired me to create a cousin for Draco Malfoy: an opera singer named Sirocco. (Let's just say I haven't been this blonde naturally since about 1977....)