tag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-01:2691256 k2daisy k2daisy 2025-12-26T13:08:02Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-01:2691256:600775 2025-12-26T13:08:02Z 2025-12-26T13:08:02Z public 10 &nbsp;Christmas was harder and sadder than I was expecting. I watched a string of old Christmas movies, and Pluribus, and in the middle of one of them -- maybe Home Alone? -- just completely broke down in hard, racking sobs. Fucking grief always manages to kick me in new ways.<br /><br />But my husband bought a pile of thoughtful gifts, and filled my stocking with scratchies, and made us kielbasa and kapusta and yummy little pierogis. My only task was to wash the dishes afterward. I needed the break.&nbsp;<br /><br />And now it's over and I am off to work today. Work will consume most of my free time and thinking time for the next week, as I work a bunch of extra shifts to cover for an injured co-worker, and have to take down my Christmas booth in between all of that. This will be good for me, I need my mind on something else than my sadness.<br /><br />Speaking of work, it's time to go get ready. Enjoy the time off, regular worker bees!<br /><br /><br type="_moz" /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=k2daisy&ditemid=600775" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-01:2691256:592151 2025-08-31T23:10:20Z 2025-08-31T23:10:20Z public 4 My nephew bailed on tomorrow's cookout (thinks he has COVID from the Oasis concert) and honestly, I am relieved. I was going to have to do a bunch of housework to get ready and now I don't have to! Plus I am really trying to spend as much time as I can pricing and moving out the excess layer of stuff in the house, and it all takes time to do. <br /><br />This week: <br />1. Mom's copper pots and molds in the porch. All need some heavy-duty cleaning with a specialty cleaner, and then pricing. (The molds are from a friend, but the pots from Mom will be hard. She rarely used them but I was looking at pictures for the memorial, and realized they hung in every kitchen they ever had. But I can't keep everything, I can't keep everything, I can't keep everything.)<br />2. The door knobs and other door hardware in two boxes in the office. Bought them from a friend for $7. People pay good money for those crystal knobs! That mostly needs sorting and pricing.<br />3. The magazines in the office (and basement, tbh) need to be bagged and priced.<br />4. The big acrylic magazine rack in the garage needs a huge cleaning. I bought it from some dealers who retired, and it is covered in leftover tape pieces from the years and years and years it sat in their ephemera booth.<br /><br />Ok maybe that will take 2 weeks to complete.<br /><br />In other news, Ann, I finally sold that Duran Duran game today! Took a big sale cut for the customer but she was so thrilled to buy it. That always makes my day.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=k2daisy&ditemid=592151" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments