What a GREAT weekend!

[cjsmith]

Saturday I found an exercise machine I think I can use. The rest of the day I sat in the family room with Rob, a measuring tape, and masking tape, and planned where things might go. There's still masking tape all over the carpet in there.

Sunday morning I saw my first Iridium flare. Then I:
- moved a LOT of boxes and cruft out of the front bedroom into the hallway temporarily
- cleaned the floor of that room - boy did it need it
- moved two overstuffed bookcases, with a lot of help from Rob, out of the family room into the front bedroom (one end of the house to the other)
- moved two very full four-drawer file cabinets about ten feet
Boy was I aching by the end of the day. The family room is now ready for a water rower and Rob's e-freaking-normous weight machine. Woohoo! Of course, the hallway was full of boxes...

That night there was another Iridium flare, so Rob and I went out to see that. It lasted much longer than the one I saw Sunday morning -- well, it was a clear sky!

Monday I bought the exercise machine and Rob bought his weight machine. KA-CHING! Yay for long-weekend sales. They'll get delivered some time in the next couple of weeks.

Then I sat in two different rooms and THREW AWAY CRAP. I spent hours and hours on this. It is incredible the stuff I had sitting around. Anyone want the OSF/Motif Style Guide for Motif 1.2? A model airplane that still needs to be covered? A 1995 ARRL repeater directory? Didn't think so. Neither room looks much emptier, particularly since the boxes in the hallway went back into that front bedroom, but they're both greatly improved. The state of the front bedroom, in particular, has been bugging me for a really long time. While it's nowhere near "done" I feel a whole lot better about it today than I did on Friday. Another day or two like Monday and I'd actually be happy about what's in there and how it's organized.

Finally, last night Rob and I watched "When Harry Met Sally" again. Every time I see this movie I appreciate different parts of it. Part way through the movie we went outside for yet a third Iridium flare (long-lasting and bright, -6).

MAN what a weekend! I want a job where I can have three-day weekends every week. Whaddya think?

Comments

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

I've always loved "When Harry Met Sally". I don't agree with Harry's philosophy of the near-impossibility of opposite sex friends, as I seem to be a complete counter-example. But the film is entertaining and fun and one of a handful I can rewatch year after year.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I don't agree with a lot of the things either one of 'em says, but the movie portrays the two very well. I love how they're both awful at the beginning, then they mellow and get a bit of polish... it's very well done.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

plus it has some really beautifully written dialogue and pacing.

[layer.livejournal.com]

i also want a job where i can have three-day weekends every week. :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Amen. I know people who deliberately work 10-hour days 4 days a week. I wouldn't mind that deal at all, as I work well over ten hours most days anyway.

[wooddragon.livejournal.com]

I purposefully negotiated a job where I can have 3 day weekends (every other week, to be sure, but still...). And it's wonderful and I love it, and I highly recommend it.

Yay for wonderful 3-day weekends!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

It sounds wonderful. I'll have to get out of startup-land first, of course, but I think at a big company or doing something less critical I might be able to work a deal like that.

What happens with actual 3-day weekends, for you? Do you get an extra day off?

[wooddragon.livejournal.com]

The days off are sort of irrespective of any 3-day weekends. I'm hourly, and I work 9 hour days, and take every other Friday off. Which means I have two Fridays off a month wherever I want to stick them, and I usually arrange them around square dance weekends. I have even run the two days together.

I can also work 8 extra hours and take a day off, though it's preferred I do that within a week or two, so they don't have to pay overtime (this isn't CA, so there's overtime for more than 40 hours, but not for more than 8 hours).

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Ah, you can move them around. Perfect!

[nosrednayduj]

Yay you! But who needs weight machines when you have boxes you can just carry from one room to another? :-) Yay for throwing stuff out! (I hope you actually recycled the paper, though...)

[rfrench.livejournal.com]

Carrying stuff involves walking on feet. That's bad.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I adore the feeling of decluttering. It's as if all that crap were represented in a pack I carry everywhere, and POOF my load is lightened.

Yeah, paper's getting recycled, in a roundabout way. The one major class of recyclable material our community does not collect curbside is paper. HOWEVER, they HAND SORT all garbage (!!) for recyclables. So we put all our paper in separate bags so that it's still clean enough to qualify when it gets to the sorter.

[lizzie-omalley.livejournal.com]

I am soooooo coveting a rowing machine or a row boat (or both *is greedy*). I love rowing. Hate running, but rowing has a lot of the same rhythmic feel to it (or so I imagine), you get into a grove and just pull, and it is awesome exercise. I really hope you enjoy this machine.