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Aug. 3rd, 2021 03:30 amNote: if you are a fan of glowy blue/aqua polishes and you come across Hitchhiking Ghosts by Polished For Days? Snag that sucker. I've gotten so many compliments and it's the first polish in a very, very long time that I've worn for a full week and went for a full hand instead of swapping in a new color when a nail would chip on ye olde right hand of all the work. It glows and is beautiful. ♥ ♥
I'd like to say I've been productive on my days off but that would be an exaggeration. I did manage to vacuum and gather up some of the laundry downstairs I've been trying to get the nephew to do (and just realized I missed a few pieces, dammit) but my big To Do was tackling one of the two bookcases in the hall upstairs.
After realizing that I did not have my Pike/Stine/90's horror on LibraryThing, I knew this needed to be rectified. The problem is that with the way this place is set up, there's no AC in the upstairs hall and the ceilings are insaaaaaaaaaanely high. We've also been in the midst of a fantastic heatwave so uh, yeah. Still, I woke up relatively early and the upstairs was pretty cool so I got to work and only really regretted it after I realized I should probably clean the top of the bookcase before moving on to shelf 2.
I think, all in all, I wound up scanning in about 200 books. I skipped a few because they're a PITA to switch from scanning to punching in and I'm pretty sure half the bottom shelf is either Cass's stuff or stuff I'd already scanned in at some point. Later confirmed the second part to be true, btw. I do need to go back and double check a couple of books for proper covers as I like to make sure I have the correct covers shown on LT for certain lines/authors. By shelf three I was sweating terribly, and I must confess that shelf 2 turned out to be mostly Betty & Veronica digests with a handful of other books in front of them so it got hot very fast.
Bookcase 2 will probably be easier in terms of scanning and things as I think I'll have less of the Scholastic order form/Book Fair ones that don't have anything to scan and also it's only three shelves to begin with. But it's also got more things to actually clean so it's not getting touched for at least a week. :P
Speaking of books, I had four books requested from me on PBS. Somehow though two of them were not in my box so I don't know what happened to them. I sent the other two Saturday and then when I got today's mail the damn envelope was there with a postage due sticker on it. Technically Mom sent it because she has better luck with the machine usually but I guess she put the postage on the back and now it's like "you owe $4." The fuck I do, USPS. Grr. I'd be less annoyed if the book I'd ordered hadn't come in and seemed okay until five seconds after hitting "yay, I got it and it's problem free!" button... Yeah. The cover was ripped in such a way that it wasn't until you went to actually flip through the book to read it that you noticed that it's got MAYBE one good read left in it before coming apart completely. :/
Lesse. I kind of want to ramble about work but I don't want to jinx things so I'll settle for saying I do not understand the scheduling going on right now.
In AG world, I guess the Wellies are getting their revamp very soon and um, it's ugly as fuck. I cannot believe they're getting rid of their normal outfits and giving them basically costumes (Camille's is definitely a costume) AND charging $5 more. Lemme see if I can find a picture that isn't clearly a screen grab someone will claim as their own.
Okay, because I love you all and I need other people to experience this pain with me:
Old on the bottom for comparison. I will say the dolls for the most part look cuter (sorry, Emerson. You are the exception to this rule.) but the outfits. WHY. WHY. I could understand if the Wellies tended to be rolling in everyday outfits but uh, no. No they are not. Had I known this was coming, I might've ponied up the money and snagged either Kendall or Camille with my AG rewards that died in July. But I didn't so maybe Emerson will live her life as a single Wellie forever more. Before I did the comparison, I thought maybe Ashlyn wasn't so bad but no. She's a serious downgrade as well. Camille should sue. I don't understand why they switched to costumes and what the hell is going on in general. o_O
Enough old lady yelling at kids to get off her lawn. Time to dose myself and wait for the cramps to go away.
I'd like to say I've been productive on my days off but that would be an exaggeration. I did manage to vacuum and gather up some of the laundry downstairs I've been trying to get the nephew to do (and just realized I missed a few pieces, dammit) but my big To Do was tackling one of the two bookcases in the hall upstairs.
After realizing that I did not have my Pike/Stine/90's horror on LibraryThing, I knew this needed to be rectified. The problem is that with the way this place is set up, there's no AC in the upstairs hall and the ceilings are insaaaaaaaaaanely high. We've also been in the midst of a fantastic heatwave so uh, yeah. Still, I woke up relatively early and the upstairs was pretty cool so I got to work and only really regretted it after I realized I should probably clean the top of the bookcase before moving on to shelf 2.
I think, all in all, I wound up scanning in about 200 books. I skipped a few because they're a PITA to switch from scanning to punching in and I'm pretty sure half the bottom shelf is either Cass's stuff or stuff I'd already scanned in at some point. Later confirmed the second part to be true, btw. I do need to go back and double check a couple of books for proper covers as I like to make sure I have the correct covers shown on LT for certain lines/authors. By shelf three I was sweating terribly, and I must confess that shelf 2 turned out to be mostly Betty & Veronica digests with a handful of other books in front of them so it got hot very fast.
Bookcase 2 will probably be easier in terms of scanning and things as I think I'll have less of the Scholastic order form/Book Fair ones that don't have anything to scan and also it's only three shelves to begin with. But it's also got more things to actually clean so it's not getting touched for at least a week. :P
Speaking of books, I had four books requested from me on PBS. Somehow though two of them were not in my box so I don't know what happened to them. I sent the other two Saturday and then when I got today's mail the damn envelope was there with a postage due sticker on it. Technically Mom sent it because she has better luck with the machine usually but I guess she put the postage on the back and now it's like "you owe $4." The fuck I do, USPS. Grr. I'd be less annoyed if the book I'd ordered hadn't come in and seemed okay until five seconds after hitting "yay, I got it and it's problem free!" button... Yeah. The cover was ripped in such a way that it wasn't until you went to actually flip through the book to read it that you noticed that it's got MAYBE one good read left in it before coming apart completely. :/
Lesse. I kind of want to ramble about work but I don't want to jinx things so I'll settle for saying I do not understand the scheduling going on right now.
In AG world, I guess the Wellies are getting their revamp very soon and um, it's ugly as fuck. I cannot believe they're getting rid of their normal outfits and giving them basically costumes (Camille's is definitely a costume) AND charging $5 more. Lemme see if I can find a picture that isn't clearly a screen grab someone will claim as their own.
Okay, because I love you all and I need other people to experience this pain with me:
Old on the bottom for comparison. I will say the dolls for the most part look cuter (sorry, Emerson. You are the exception to this rule.) but the outfits. WHY. WHY. I could understand if the Wellies tended to be rolling in everyday outfits but uh, no. No they are not. Had I known this was coming, I might've ponied up the money and snagged either Kendall or Camille with my AG rewards that died in July. But I didn't so maybe Emerson will live her life as a single Wellie forever more. Before I did the comparison, I thought maybe Ashlyn wasn't so bad but no. She's a serious downgrade as well. Camille should sue. I don't understand why they switched to costumes and what the hell is going on in general. o_O
Enough old lady yelling at kids to get off her lawn. Time to dose myself and wait for the cramps to go away.