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Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:08:02 GMT

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.

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.

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.

Speaking of work, it's time to go get ready. Enjoy the time off, regular worker bees!

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Sun, 31 Aug 2025 23:10:20 GMT

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.

This week:
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.)
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.
3. The magazines in the office (and basement, tbh) need to be bagged and priced.
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.

Ok maybe that will take 2 weeks to complete.

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.

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