4-6-20 Day 8 of Stay at Home

EBay sales: mini American Girl doll, scrapbooking punch,

Number of eBay listings: 476

Eat from the panty adventure : meatloaf and gravy with egg noodles and green beans

Craft projects completed: 0

To do list items done:

  • Built new desk chair
  • Ordered boxes

So, I finally have the new password to my work time card which means I don’t have to call in and have someone at the call center put the time in for me. That is a step in the right direction. I have been productive in terms of eBay listings, but my writing has been…. quiet. I think I am going to work on the short story I was supposed to have ready last month today. I have a goal to finish something creative before I go back to the day to day grind.

The eating from the pantry/ freezer is going well. Of course we are mostly out of fresh veg except for some sprouts and cabbage, but we have canned and frozen. My hope is to clear out our small fridge and the outside freezer. Made my first poached eggs yesterday and they didn’t suck.

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4-5-20 Day 7 of Stay at Home

EBay sales: eye cream, 3 coloring books, American Doll outfit, Bryan Mawr desk piece, chocolate molds, geta, 1 pattern

Current number of eBay listings: 468

Eating from the pantry adventure: poached eggs, corned beef hash, and toast

Craft projects completed: 0

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Sunday Night Music: Come Along

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April 5, 2020 · 8:54 pm

4-4-20 Day 6 Stay at Home

Today’s cooking from the pantry and the freezer adventure: curry chicken with potatoes, carrots, corn, and jasmine rice.

EBay sales: 1 puzzle.

EBay listings: up to 465

Craft items completed: 1

Christmas Kitty Diamond Painting

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Books to Read March 2020

Dryad-Born – Jeff Wheeler

The Gospel of Loki – Joanne M Harris

The Five – Hallie Rubenhold

Latchkey – Nicole Kornher-Stace

Fire and Bone – Rachel A Marks

Tess of the Road – Rachel Hartman

Hidden City – Alan Baxter

European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman – Goss

Hollywood Dead – Richard Kadrey

Noir – Christopher Moore

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Read in March 2019

Non-Fiction

  • The Tao of Warren Buffett – Mary Buffett & David Clark
  • The Charisma Myth – Olivia Fox Cabane

Fiction

  • Carmilla – Sheridan La Fanu

Poetry

  • GMorning, GNight! – Lin-Manuel Miranda

Magazines

  • Rue Morgue March/April 2020
  • Enchanted Living – Winter 2020

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Sunday Night Music: Hoch die Kruge

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March 29, 2020 · 8:26 pm

Sunday Night Music: Evolution of Girl Groups

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March 22, 2020 · 8:18 pm

Books to Read While Self-Quarantining (Fiction Edition)

So, just a reminder, I am a sick and twisted individual and so your mileage may vary…

  • The Stand – Stephen King – You should read this before the new CBS Discovery version comes out. I have read the book and watched the mini-series. In fact, I had bronchitis when I watched it. That is quite the experience.
  • Oryx and Crake trilogy- Margaret Atwood – This is an interesting future world with an interesting cult. Read the series, but I suggest Book 2, Book3, then Book 1. To be perfectly honest, if I hadn’t read book 2 and 3 first, I never would have made it through Book 1.
  • The Plague – Albert Camus –  Nothing like a little existentialism with your literary pretensions. Honestly though, I tend to like Camus. And this is about a plague in French Algeria.
  • Hater – David Moody – I couldn’t put this book down when I started reading it in the bookshop. I realized I’d been standing in the aisle reading for twenty minutes, then gave in and bought the book. And the 2 follow-ups.
  • The Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkien –  Always recommended and always good, no matter how many times I’ve read it.

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St. Patrick’s Day Music: An Irish Pub Song

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March 17, 2020 · 7:58 pm