It’s early Sunday afternoon and I’ve already been out and back home. Got a haircut! It was time for it, for sure. She curled my hair after it was cut and dried. Since she used a wand, I’ll probably not be able to duplicate the look as I don’t have the same kind of tool.
This past week was actually lovely in terms of weather– cloudy, cool, even a bit of rain a couple of days. I definitely savored it because I know that the temperatures are going to warm up in the coming days. Must enjoy the cool spring days! I say that as it’s 85F outside. Thank goodness for air conditioning!
Even though it was a four day work week, it felt like a full week. Someone commented to me that it’s probably because we cram in a full week’s worth of work in fewer days. There might be something to that perspective, eh?
Friday was the last full day of school. This coming week is finals and graduations. I’m so glad it’ll be short days for the students because that means that it’ll be calm when it’s time to leave work. Well, we can hope. 😉
We did more unpacking this weekend. How can we have so much stuff?! When we started renting, we packed away a lot of stuff and didn’t bring them out because our first rental was smaller than the house we owned. Our next rental was even smaller and we put stuff away in storage. When we were in our long term rental, the house was too small for us to empty our storage, so we just lived out of what we had before. We accumulated a lot in those years. Now that we’re in our own house again, it’s time for everything to get unpacked and into their proper places. I foresee some letting go of things. Hopefully.
I found my movie theatre buttons! My first job was Festival Cinemas in Hayward and we would have to/get to wear buttons promoting the latest movies. I kept a lot of mine, of course, and I do so treasure them. I love that I have these because they harken back to days past. I need to figure out a way to display them because it’s a shame they’re squirreled away in a heart shaped tin.
My yearbooks were unboxed yesterday and I couldn’t help going through them for a bit. I have five because back in the day someone thought it was a good idea to have high school be 5 years (8th grade to 12th grade). Crazy, right? At the time, I didn’t see the big deal but now, I can’t help thinking, “WHO THE HELL THOUGHT THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA?!” It didn’t last too long, thank goodness. I do remember one of my uncles disapproving of the notion, remarking on how it was inappropriate for 13 year olds to be around 18 year olds in school.
It’s fun going through the yearbooks and seeing who wrote in them and what they said to me. I wonder if I was as thoughtful in my inscriptions to my friends in their yearbooks. I hope I was. And lo, the senior ads! I just went through some and found the ones from my family and friends. Ah, the hit of nostalgia.
Random things:
- I subscribed to Book of the Month. I got suckered in by the cute little book tote. Like I need more stuff?! I’m committed to three months. We’ll see how I feel after that. Maybe I’ll keep it enough to fill one book shelf. We shall see.
- I should look into getting a new desk. This one I’m using is fine for now but not for the long run. Maybe I’ll put this in the room downstairs. Maybe even with this chair. I wouldn’t mind a new chair too.
- I keep finding Oakland Athletics memorabilia I’ve bought over the years. Bobblehead, coasters, figurines. I just opened a box that I thought was a Barry Zito bobblehead but no, it’s a figurine! Where am I going to put all of this stuff? My baseball corner is going to turn into floating shelves or something. I just want it to be tasteful, you know?
- We ordered more bookshelves. It would be nice if we didn’t need them but we definitely need them.
- A parent brought pastries to the office as a sort of apology/thank you for the back and forth regarding a request. It’s nice when people are nice. So be nice, people!
One of these days, I’m going to find the Employee of the Year plaque that has my name on it, along with my fellow Festival Cinemas co-workers. It’s around here somewhere! Or in storage. That’ll be a fun find. 😉
And that’s the end of May! Summer will be here before you know it…