A Letter

Dear Curly,

I hear that tonight is scheduled to be your first night in a big girl bed. Poor thing, you're probably in for a rough few nights. I know how cozy your crib is and that it will be hard to leave it behind. But, take it from someone older and wiser--once you get used to the new arrangement, I promise you will love it. There's nothing in this world to beat dropping into your comfortable, familiar, friend-of-a-bed at the end of a long hard day. Or waking up on a Saturday and then snuggling back into the comfy mattress, the covers twisted around your legs and your toes feeling the breeze, knowing that you can go back to sleep if you want.

So, dear little one, I'll be thinking of you during your transition. It will be difficult, but you'll be in a happier place when all is said and done.

Lovingly,

Auntie K

Cool

I'm not as good as finding cool fun stuff on the Web as Starr is, but this idea for a piece of home exercise equipment is pretty neat. What is even neater is the creator's idea of exercising for slightly less than the smallest amount of "schedulistically significant time," defined as 15 minutes. Scheduling calendars usually don't work at a level smaller than 15 minutes. So to exercise for 14 minutes, you're not even using real time out of your calendar. Pretty fab!

If you have more time to browse after reading about Shovelglove, check out Shovelglove's host site, Everyday Systems.

Happy Surfing!

A Bright Spot

Guess who has an interview for a part-time librarian position at a city library next week?

Oh dear - I'm much too fat to wear any of the interview-worthy clothes I own. What am I going to do? Shopping for clothes is not much fun when you are so round. Does anyone who knows my [current] body shape and [lack of] height have a suggestion about where I can go to find a hopefully flattering interview outfit?

Happy Birthday, L.!

Believing hear, what you deserve to hear:

Your birthday as my own to me is dear . . .

But yours gives most; for mine did only lend

Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.

Martial, Epigrams, Bk. ix, epig. 52.

in Burton Stevenson, Home Book of Quotations, Classical and Modern, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1934, p. 165.

Severe Crisis

It's 1 am and I really have to get home from work and to bed, so I can return in less than 9 hours. However, I was just thrown into an absolute catastrophe, so I had to stop and tell you.

While I wasn't looking, THREE of my audiobook holds at the library came in, and all three are waiting to be picked up. How on earth am I supposed to listen to four audio books in the space of three weeks? (I'm already on Disc Two of Anne of Green Gables.)

On top of that, one of the books is a sequel to Night Work, and if you've been paying attention to the sidebar, I've been sitting in the middle of that for weeks.

5 minutes later:

Oh, cancel that. I looked more closely at my account before I finished this post, and only one of the three is an audio. The other two are print versions of The Fourth Bear and Break No Bones. That's much better. I didn't really plan on reading those two anyway, because I'm on the list to get both audios. But I'll pick them up anyway, and we'll see what happens.

It's obvious that 1) I need some sleep and 2) work is starting to interfere with my "real" life.