I Had a Weekend
Feb. 17th, 2003 03:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aAs silly as it might sound, I had a weekend this weekend, a luxury that I rarely allow myself. Usually, there's gamers over here most of the day on Saturday, and then by Sunday I've worked up a list of things to get done, and then, *poof* the whole weekend's gone.
But, this Saturday and Sunday there was a gaming convention that took my friends away. And Kimberly & I kicked things off by having a nice dinner at one of my favorite Mediterrannean restaurants on Friday, and so I mostly got to relax and take things easy ...
Of course I did do lots of stuff, by some various definitions. My weekend doings included:
Dinners Out: Friday was Valentine's at La Med and Sunday was a comfort-food-needed dinner at Mel's. I love eating out, and used to do so just about every night when budgets were better. Two times in a weekend wasn't bad.
Angel-a-thon: Friday we finished watching the last three episodes of Buffy Season III, all of which I'd seen before as I've been a Buffy fan since the beginning. (Though, to be honest, my watching of the latter half of season III was very spotty the first time through because of a neat girl I'd met named Kimberly.)
Then, on Saturday we started watching Angel Season I. We made it through 10 episodes over the span of the weekend. (Whew.) K. & I started watching Angel during season III, so 9 or those 10 episodes were new to me, and I haven't seen the rest of season at all. It's very exciting to see how it all began, even if the storytelling is more episodic (anthology-style) during this first season. I'll probably write more about Angel when we're done watching Season I.
House Cleaning: I'm still, piece-by-piece, setting up the new office that I started putting together for myself around Christmas. My task this weekend was to get my file cabinents up into the sunroom adjoining my office, one from my old office and one from the dining room.
This required a whole sequence of moves, rather like the Towers of Hanoi. In short:
Here's what our sun room looked like after that work:
And just for reference, here's what the previous owners did with this room. This is taken from the opposite direction as the other pic:
But, this Saturday and Sunday there was a gaming convention that took my friends away. And Kimberly & I kicked things off by having a nice dinner at one of my favorite Mediterrannean restaurants on Friday, and so I mostly got to relax and take things easy ...
Of course I did do lots of stuff, by some various definitions. My weekend doings included:
Dinners Out: Friday was Valentine's at La Med and Sunday was a comfort-food-needed dinner at Mel's. I love eating out, and used to do so just about every night when budgets were better. Two times in a weekend wasn't bad.
Angel-a-thon: Friday we finished watching the last three episodes of Buffy Season III, all of which I'd seen before as I've been a Buffy fan since the beginning. (Though, to be honest, my watching of the latter half of season III was very spotty the first time through because of a neat girl I'd met named Kimberly.)
Then, on Saturday we started watching Angel Season I. We made it through 10 episodes over the span of the weekend. (Whew.) K. & I started watching Angel during season III, so 9 or those 10 episodes were new to me, and I haven't seen the rest of season at all. It's very exciting to see how it all began, even if the storytelling is more episodic (anthology-style) during this first season. I'll probably write more about Angel when we're done watching Season I.
House Cleaning: I'm still, piece-by-piece, setting up the new office that I started putting together for myself around Christmas. My task this weekend was to get my file cabinents up into the sunroom adjoining my office, one from my old office and one from the dining room.
This required a whole sequence of moves, rather like the Towers of Hanoi. In short:
- Cleaning Wedding Closet. We have a nice-sized closet under the stairs which we have been using, since August 12, 2000, to store presents from our wedding. We finally cleaned it out!
- Moving Bike. Kimberly's bike, which had been hanging out in our dining room for long enough to get flat tires, then went into the closet.
- Moving Cedar Chest. Which freed up enough space in the dining room for me to move a big cedar chest there, from the sun room.
- Moving File Cabinets. Which freed up enough space in the sun room for me to skoot in both of my file cabinets. Whew.
- Hanging Mirrors. While cleaning up stuff that had been hibernating in the sun room, I also found a trio of mirrors that we'd gotten for Christmas in 2000 which we'd been meaning to hanging in the kitchen. We did.
- Hanging Cloaks. Cleaning up the closet-formerly-known-as-wedding also made it usable, which allowed us to put up a hook to hang Kimberly's new cloak.
- Hanging Jackets & Backpacks. And I also discovered that there's now a little more room in the sun room, and that I could thus hang up a nice wood set of hooks for jackets and backpacks (which I prefer to have up here in my office, rather than cluttering up the living room.)
- Slipping Covers. And finally, with the sun room looking very nice, I put the slip cover back on the sun room love seat, which hadn't been covering the love seat we moved in, in 2000. (And then this morning I put it on again, since I'd done it backward the first time.) The cats seem to like the new, soft cover. K. doesn't like how the purple cover clashes with the green blanket sitting nearby.
Here's what our sun room looked like after that work:
And just for reference, here's what the previous owners did with this room. This is taken from the opposite direction as the other pic:
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As silly as it might sound, I had a weekend this weekend, a luxury that I rarely allow myself. Usually, there's gamers over here most of the day on Saturday, and then by Sunday I've worked up a list of things to get done, and then, *poof* the whole weekend's gone.
But, this Saturday and Sunday there was a gaming convention that took my friends away. And Kimberly & I kicked things off by having a nice dinner at one of my favorite Mediterrannean restaurants on Friday, and so I mostly got to relax and take things easy ...
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Of course I did do lots of stuff, by some various definitions. My weekend doings included:
<b>Dinners Out:</b> Friday was Valentine's at La Med and Sunday was a comfort-food-needed dinner at Mel's. I love eating out, and used to do so just about every night when budgets were better. Two times in a weekend wasn't bad.
<b>Angel-a-thon:</b> Friday we finished watching the last three episodes of Buffy Season III, all of which I'd seen before as I've been a Buffy fan since the beginning. (Though, to be honest, my watching of the latter half of season III was very spotty the first time through because of a neat girl I'd met named Kimberly.)
Then, on Saturday we started watching Angel Season I. We made it through 10 episodes over the span of the weekend. (Whew.) K. & I started watching Angel during season III, so 9 or those 10 episodes were new to me, and I haven't seen the rest of season at all. It's very exciting to see how it all began, even if the storytelling is more episodic (anthology-style) during this first season. I'll probably write more about Angel when we're done watching Season I.
<b>House Cleaning:</b> I'm still, piece-by-piece, setting up the new office that I started putting together for myself around Christmas. My task this weekend was to get my file cabinents up into the sunroom adjoining my office, one from my old office and one from the dining room.
This required a whole sequence of moves, rather like the Towers of Hanoi. In short:
<ol>
<li><b>Cleaning Wedding Closet.</b> We have a nice-sized closet under the stairs which we have been using, since August 12, 2000, to store presents from our wedding. We finally cleaned it out!
<li><b>Moving Bike.</b> Kimberly's bike, which had been hanging out in our dining room for long enough to get flat tires, then went into the closet.
<li><b>Moving Cedar Chest.</b> Which freed up enough space in the dining room for me to move a big cedar chest there, from the sun room.
<li><b>Moving File Cabinets.</b> Which freed up enough space in the sun room for me to skoot in both of my file cabinets. Whew.
<li><b>Hanging Mirrors.</b> While cleaning up stuff that had been hibernating in the sun room, I also found a trio of mirrors that we'd gotten for Christmas in 2000 which we'd been meaning to hanging in the kitchen. We did.
<li><b>Hanging Cloaks.</b> Cleaning up the closet-formerly-known-as-wedding also made it usable, which allowed us to put up a hook to hang Kimberly's new cloak.
<li><b>Hanging Jackets & Backpacks.</b> And I also discovered that there's now a little more room in the sun room, and that I could thus hang up a nice wood set of hooks for jackets and backpacks (which I prefer to have up here in my office, rather than cluttering up the living room.)
<li><b>Slipping Covers.</b> And finally, with the sun room looking very nice, I put the slip cover back on the sun room love seat, which hadn't been covering the love seat we moved in, in 2000. (And then this morning I put it on again, since I'd done it backward the first time.) The cats seem to like the new, soft cover. K. doesn't like how the purple cover clashes with the green blanket sitting nearby.
</ol>
Here's what our sun room looked like after that work:
<img align="center" src="http://www.erzo.org/~shannon/images-lj/sunroom1.jpg" width=400 height=300>
And just for reference, here's what the previous owners did with this room. This is taken from the opposite direction as the other pic:
<img align="center" src="http://www.erzo.org/house/shannonsstudy.jpg"">
<b>Game-a-thon:</b> I played 30 or 50 games of "T.O.M.E." with the "Lost Soul" feature over the span of the weekend. It's a fun rogue-like game set in Middle Earth, that I'll probably talk more about sometime.
<b>Bits of Reading:</b> I read a couple of chapters of <i>Soldier of the Mist</i> by Gene Wolfe (which I finished up today, and should also write an entry concerning).
<b>Bits of Coding:</b> And finally, I touched upon a tiny bit of coding for RPGnet. I wrote a new reviews search page, and that was about it. Enough so I wouldn't feel guilty.
And, <i>that</i> was an real honest-to-god weekend.
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But, this Saturday and Sunday there was a gaming convention that took my friends away. And Kimberly & I kicked things off by having a nice dinner at one of my favorite Mediterrannean restaurants on Friday, and so I mostly got to relax and take things easy ...
<lj-cut text="What I Did">
Of course I did do lots of stuff, by some various definitions. My weekend doings included:
<b>Dinners Out:</b> Friday was Valentine's at La Med and Sunday was a comfort-food-needed dinner at Mel's. I love eating out, and used to do so just about every night when budgets were better. Two times in a weekend wasn't bad.
<b>Angel-a-thon:</b> Friday we finished watching the last three episodes of Buffy Season III, all of which I'd seen before as I've been a Buffy fan since the beginning. (Though, to be honest, my watching of the latter half of season III was very spotty the first time through because of a neat girl I'd met named Kimberly.)
Then, on Saturday we started watching Angel Season I. We made it through 10 episodes over the span of the weekend. (Whew.) K. & I started watching Angel during season III, so 9 or those 10 episodes were new to me, and I haven't seen the rest of season at all. It's very exciting to see how it all began, even if the storytelling is more episodic (anthology-style) during this first season. I'll probably write more about Angel when we're done watching Season I.
<b>House Cleaning:</b> I'm still, piece-by-piece, setting up the new office that I started putting together for myself around Christmas. My task this weekend was to get my file cabinents up into the sunroom adjoining my office, one from my old office and one from the dining room.
This required a whole sequence of moves, rather like the Towers of Hanoi. In short:
<ol>
<li><b>Cleaning Wedding Closet.</b> We have a nice-sized closet under the stairs which we have been using, since August 12, 2000, to store presents from our wedding. We finally cleaned it out!
<li><b>Moving Bike.</b> Kimberly's bike, which had been hanging out in our dining room for long enough to get flat tires, then went into the closet.
<li><b>Moving Cedar Chest.</b> Which freed up enough space in the dining room for me to move a big cedar chest there, from the sun room.
<li><b>Moving File Cabinets.</b> Which freed up enough space in the sun room for me to skoot in both of my file cabinets. Whew.
<li><b>Hanging Mirrors.</b> While cleaning up stuff that had been hibernating in the sun room, I also found a trio of mirrors that we'd gotten for Christmas in 2000 which we'd been meaning to hanging in the kitchen. We did.
<li><b>Hanging Cloaks.</b> Cleaning up the closet-formerly-known-as-wedding also made it usable, which allowed us to put up a hook to hang Kimberly's new cloak.
<li><b>Hanging Jackets & Backpacks.</b> And I also discovered that there's now a little more room in the sun room, and that I could thus hang up a nice wood set of hooks for jackets and backpacks (which I prefer to have up here in my office, rather than cluttering up the living room.)
<li><b>Slipping Covers.</b> And finally, with the sun room looking very nice, I put the slip cover back on the sun room love seat, which hadn't been covering the love seat we moved in, in 2000. (And then this morning I put it on again, since I'd done it backward the first time.) The cats seem to like the new, soft cover. K. doesn't like how the purple cover clashes with the green blanket sitting nearby.
</ol>
Here's what our sun room looked like after that work:
<img align="center" src="http://www.erzo.org/~shannon/images-lj/sunroom1.jpg" width=400 height=300>
And just for reference, here's what the previous owners did with this room. This is taken from the opposite direction as the other pic:
<img align="center" src="http://www.erzo.org/house/shannonsstudy.jpg"">
<b>Game-a-thon:</b> I played 30 or 50 games of "T.O.M.E." with the "Lost Soul" feature over the span of the weekend. It's a fun rogue-like game set in Middle Earth, that I'll probably talk more about sometime.
<b>Bits of Reading:</b> I read a couple of chapters of <i>Soldier of the Mist</i> by Gene Wolfe (which I finished up today, and should also write an entry concerning).
<b>Bits of Coding:</b> And finally, I touched upon a tiny bit of coding for RPGnet. I wrote a new reviews search page, and that was about it. Enough so I wouldn't feel guilty.
And, <i>that</i> was an real honest-to-god weekend.
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Date: 2003-02-17 06:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-02-18 03:12 am (UTC)My productivity, in contrast, of the weekend seems paltry!
That sunroom is the Bomb!
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Date: 2003-02-18 12:26 pm (UTC)sunroom looks great!
Date: 2003-02-18 09:04 am (UTC)Re: sunroom looks great!
Date: 2003-02-18 04:20 pm (UTC)Great Cthulhu has since moved, in both his purple and green incaranations, to right above the loveseat, because K. thought (correctly) that they'd help tie together the purple of the loveseat slipcover and the green of the blanket.
Arlyehian interior decorating, by Lovecraft, natch.