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alexseanchai) wrote2015-04-19 10:48 pm
alexseanchai) wrote2015-04-19 10:48 pm
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oooof. epic tired.
which made no sense when I first noticed it, because I danced one tip today, one, and dusted some furniture, and spent the whole rest of the day sitting either in the car or at the square dance or at dinner. but I actually did epic socializing at the dance. (read: I updated family friends on my work situation—to the tune of yay promotion, boo paint fumes, no I can't work from home because assigning me a laptop that can access our systems is a potentially sensible move and therefore it hasn't happened and isn't likely to—and complained some about not having written much lately.) also at dinner, though I barely talked at dinner. and I did this on zero caffeine like seriously I had a cup of tea just now and that was my first caffeine since yesterday afternoon.
so epic tired is not actually surprising! I may go crash now, even though it is only eleven and I just had tea.
I did make progress on my-sister-and-her-fiancé's wedding present, though. one granny square, for a running total of not quite nine (because I started a ball of purple instead of a ball of white when I ran out of white midway through the last round on white square #7). I need at least a hundred, and that only if 40"x40" is a reasonable size for the damn afghan. spoiler alert: not really! it's an okay size for a lapghan, but not for something that's meant to go on a queen-sized bed! for a queen-sized bed I need more like 100"x100"... the wedding is in August and I am doomed. (they do not have a wedding registry, and as far as I can tell have no plans to make one. which means I have no idea what they need or want. so a plan-B wedding present is basically gonna be darts in the dark. I suppose I could buy queen-sized bedding...)
which made no sense when I first noticed it, because I danced one tip today, one, and dusted some furniture, and spent the whole rest of the day sitting either in the car or at the square dance or at dinner. but I actually did epic socializing at the dance. (read: I updated family friends on my work situation—to the tune of yay promotion, boo paint fumes, no I can't work from home because assigning me a laptop that can access our systems is a potentially sensible move and therefore it hasn't happened and isn't likely to—and complained some about not having written much lately.) also at dinner, though I barely talked at dinner. and I did this on zero caffeine like seriously I had a cup of tea just now and that was my first caffeine since yesterday afternoon.
so epic tired is not actually surprising! I may go crash now, even though it is only eleven and I just had tea.
I did make progress on my-sister-and-her-fiancé's wedding present, though. one granny square, for a running total of not quite nine (because I started a ball of purple instead of a ball of white when I ran out of white midway through the last round on white square #7). I need at least a hundred, and that only if 40"x40" is a reasonable size for the damn afghan. spoiler alert: not really! it's an okay size for a lapghan, but not for something that's meant to go on a queen-sized bed! for a queen-sized bed I need more like 100"x100"... the wedding is in August and I am doomed. (they do not have a wedding registry, and as far as I can tell have no plans to make one. which means I have no idea what they need or want. so a plan-B wedding present is basically gonna be darts in the dark. I suppose I could buy queen-sized bedding...)
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Registries are important.
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The funny thing, for given values of funny, is I posted this and two minutes later saw on Facebook a viral thing somebody posted where the parents of someone approaching their first birthday sent a letter to the tune of "we need XYZ for baby, please somebody get those as presents, we have plenty of ABC, please nobody get those as presents, if you aren't planning to get XYZ please tell us so we can get them ourselves, if you get ABC please include the gift receipt so we can exchange it for money to buy formula, formal invitations to baby's birthday party will follow." The near-universal reaction seems to be that these are horrible parents for so horribly violating the unwritten rules of gift exchanges.
And I'm just like ...buh? If that was a party I was planning to attend, I would be delighted to have that much guidance on what to buy baby!
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Fortunately, in my husband's family, sharing information like that is traditional, so no one objects when we do it. I can say that my daughter has far too many shirts but needs pants or desperately wants slippers but is prone to losing them rather than wearing them, and everybody's pleased to have the information.
My side of the family doesn't generally give gifts, so telling them anything at all is pretty useless.