todayiamadaisy | Weather or not

I don't know why I thought it would be a good idea, lo, so many years ago, to put my box of cards and wrapping paper (for emergency gift-giving) at the back of the pantry shelf that also houses jars of pasta and rice. Probably because they fitted and I couldn't think of anywhere better, I imagine. For some time now, though, the wrapping paper - half used rolls of Christmas wrap and leftovers from sheets of birthday paper - has been threatening to overtake the whole shelf like a multicoloured octopus. So I last night I tidied it up; threw out the bits too small to ever wrap anything and bits that had become crinkled, put all the cards and tags and curly ribbon in a box, and found them all a new home on a shelf of their own. I'm so pleased with it. It makes me look that much less like the sort of crazy person who hoards wrapping paper, and in the process I even found an unopened packet of arborio rice lost at the back of the shelf. Bonus!

When I first got this LJ, I tried to put a weather pixie in my user info, only to discover that the City by the Sea wasn't an option, not even under its real name. I'd forgotten all about that, until I installed the weather widget from Yahoo! Widgets on my computer at work and discovered that the City by the Sea isn't an option there either. Apparently we have no weather. Aren't we special?