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Jan. 17th, 2012 11:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisy1. The stray cat was caught in the cage last night. I called my mother and she arrived before I went to work; she's going to call the rangers as soon as they open for the day. It's hot, hot, hot today, so I put the cage in the bathroom, where it's cool and dark, and gave the cat some fresh mince and water. With any luck, the rangers will pick it up early, so it won't have to spend too long in the cage. I feel bad about this, particularly listening to it mewing this morning, but I think it's for the best.
2. No camels again this morning during my walk on the beach, but there was a surfing school. About twenty teenage girls in wetsuits with surfboards on the sand, learning how to jump up and not fall off.
3. As soon as the new year started, back to school signs started appearing in shops. It gives them something to fill the gap between Christmas and Easter. Yesterday I passed Dick Smith's, an electronics chain, which had a big back to school poster: DICK'S BACKPACK PICKS. Try saying that ten times quickly.
4. In the supermarket's express lane, the young man a few places ahead of me must have smelled terrible, because when he stepped forward to the checkout, the woman behind it and the girl behind the checkout next to it and her customer all stepped back. When he left, the woman who served him reached under the desk and got out a spray can of smelly stuff. I was her next customer and she told me how she had a bath every morning and then she had to have another every night too to get rid of the smell of customers. I think that's a scandalous waste of water, but I just nodded sympathetically. I was paranoid then that she would get out her can of smelly stuff after I left too, but she just called the next customer.
5. I have been feeling good about my plans to tie up loose ends this year. No new books until I finish the ones I have; same with craft projects. I mean, it's only mid-January, so it hasn't been a great hardship. If I am tempted to buy a book, I've set up a note in Evernote where I write down the titles. My thinking is: either they'll still be available to read in 2013, or my fancy will have moved on. Anyway, this has been going well, until yesterday, on my way out of the supermarket, I passed Book City, which is holding a closing down sale with progressive reductions on all stock. Oh. Fortunately, I had my hands full with bags of groceries, so I passed by. But I think I might not walk down that part of the street for the next week or so, just to avoid temptation.
2. No camels again this morning during my walk on the beach, but there was a surfing school. About twenty teenage girls in wetsuits with surfboards on the sand, learning how to jump up and not fall off.
3. As soon as the new year started, back to school signs started appearing in shops. It gives them something to fill the gap between Christmas and Easter. Yesterday I passed Dick Smith's, an electronics chain, which had a big back to school poster: DICK'S BACKPACK PICKS. Try saying that ten times quickly.
4. In the supermarket's express lane, the young man a few places ahead of me must have smelled terrible, because when he stepped forward to the checkout, the woman behind it and the girl behind the checkout next to it and her customer all stepped back. When he left, the woman who served him reached under the desk and got out a spray can of smelly stuff. I was her next customer and she told me how she had a bath every morning and then she had to have another every night too to get rid of the smell of customers. I think that's a scandalous waste of water, but I just nodded sympathetically. I was paranoid then that she would get out her can of smelly stuff after I left too, but she just called the next customer.
5. I have been feeling good about my plans to tie up loose ends this year. No new books until I finish the ones I have; same with craft projects. I mean, it's only mid-January, so it hasn't been a great hardship. If I am tempted to buy a book, I've set up a note in Evernote where I write down the titles. My thinking is: either they'll still be available to read in 2013, or my fancy will have moved on. Anyway, this has been going well, until yesterday, on my way out of the supermarket, I passed Book City, which is holding a closing down sale with progressive reductions on all stock. Oh. Fortunately, I had my hands full with bags of groceries, so I passed by. But I think I might not walk down that part of the street for the next week or so, just to avoid temptation.