Just as a few days ago I had a successful day of shredding and tossing, today consisted of demolition. It was fun to wield a crowbar and strip off redwood 2x4's from an arbor that inconveniently is where my new shed needs to go.
What with more book sorting in the morning, more strawberries for lunch, this time with chocolate, and finding tools to do the demolition, including the ladder, I didn't get to the demolition until late in the afternoon. So, I only got the top boards off.
I also got a call from the founder of the charity that created the memorial fund, Marilyn Westbrook Garment Fund, for my wife. I have a couple of assignments to prepare for the conference where I will be staffing a booth for her fund. The expected dress is jacket and tie. After losing weight and wearing business casual for years for work, my selection of jackets and ties are, well, limited. Good thing I was going to go shopping and altering for my son's wedding coming up two weeks after the conference.
I still have books all over my bedroom floor. I still have the big boards to demo on the arbor. I still have a dirty truck with a bed full of shed. But, I had strawberries and chocolate. Great desserts give meaning to Life after Layoff.
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Friday, July 18, 2008
Day Seventeen: Sheds, shirts, and strawberries
Today was an "s" shopping day. In addition to the list in the title, I also bought salad and shorts, the kind that come in a package of six.
As reported yesterday, I shopped online for sheds and found two that were roughly comparable in price at two stores I could easily get to. So, this morning I hopped into my now starting truck and drove first to Costco. Costco had a different shed at the store with just a slightly reduced price so I got it. I also got a couple dark micro-weave T-shirts, and four pounds of organic strawberries.
Now that I've had two meals with strawberries and haven't made any noticeable dent in the remaining amount, I realize that I wasn't thinking. I guess that combined with them being organic, my wife loving strawberries, and a brain burp, I loaded up on the things. Perhaps it was the memories of the very non-vegan strawberry shortcake my wife used to make. I am searching for a substitute in my Veganomicon, which is supposed to be the Joy of Cooking for vegans.
Now, it took three of us to load each of the three shed boxes into the back of my truck. So, there they have sat since I got home. I guess figuring out how to do things by myself is just part of my Life after Layoff.
The big accomplishment today was not the shopping but rather starting on the boxes of books in my bedroom. So far I have books in stacks by author over a good portion of my floor; books in drawers; books in five boxes to give away/sell; and books in boxes destined for my new shed.
As reported yesterday, I shopped online for sheds and found two that were roughly comparable in price at two stores I could easily get to. So, this morning I hopped into my now starting truck and drove first to Costco. Costco had a different shed at the store with just a slightly reduced price so I got it. I also got a couple dark micro-weave T-shirts, and four pounds of organic strawberries.
Now that I've had two meals with strawberries and haven't made any noticeable dent in the remaining amount, I realize that I wasn't thinking. I guess that combined with them being organic, my wife loving strawberries, and a brain burp, I loaded up on the things. Perhaps it was the memories of the very non-vegan strawberry shortcake my wife used to make. I am searching for a substitute in my Veganomicon, which is supposed to be the Joy of Cooking for vegans.
Now, it took three of us to load each of the three shed boxes into the back of my truck. So, there they have sat since I got home. I guess figuring out how to do things by myself is just part of my Life after Layoff.
The big accomplishment today was not the shopping but rather starting on the boxes of books in my bedroom. So far I have books in stacks by author over a good portion of my floor; books in drawers; books in five boxes to give away/sell; and books in boxes destined for my new shed.
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