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The move looms closer
Sep. 10th, 2016 05:33 pmA rather splendid day, for the most part! Today was my last day at my current Starbucks (I'm starting at the new store...next Friday, eek! Remind me to post the photo of the lounges), so I made a plate of chocolate chip cookies as a goodbye present for everyone. Very well-received! If you want compliments on your cookies, nothing does it like butter.
And! It turned out that my boss had sprung for a pizza party for those of us on staff at time, which was awfully nice of her. I particularly enjoyed these mozzarella cheese puff things - I can't figure out what they would be on the Pizza Hut menu - but they were scrumptious.
And later on I went to the library to pick up a movie to watch with Becky (she's coming tomorrow to take down the first load of Apartment Stuff, which I have carted up to the living room for easy loading. I may have brought up a rather optimistic amount...), only to discover that lo! This is the first day of their fall library sale!
So I also found a book to give to Becky as a thank-you gift (Zilpha Keatley Snyder's The Headless Cupid; Becky shares my love of children's literatuer) and - and - AND! A copy of the complete collected Raffles stories by E. W. Hornung! Which I bought on the spot, naturally, never mind I already don't have enough space on my shelves.
In between I cried for about on an hour in a bout of bitter hypochondria. I was rather hoping I would be all over this before the move, but I think probably that was an unrealistic expectation, and it is progress, surely, that it sucked up only an hour rather than dragging the rest of my day down the drain with it?
I think I'm getting a bit better at coping with it at least. I've discovered that it really doesn't work for me to try to watch TV, even a TV show I like, to try to distract myself: it leaves too much of my mind free to keep worrying. It's better to haul around box or sort papers or read or do anything else that will force me to focus my attention.
And! It turned out that my boss had sprung for a pizza party for those of us on staff at time, which was awfully nice of her. I particularly enjoyed these mozzarella cheese puff things - I can't figure out what they would be on the Pizza Hut menu - but they were scrumptious.
And later on I went to the library to pick up a movie to watch with Becky (she's coming tomorrow to take down the first load of Apartment Stuff, which I have carted up to the living room for easy loading. I may have brought up a rather optimistic amount...), only to discover that lo! This is the first day of their fall library sale!
So I also found a book to give to Becky as a thank-you gift (Zilpha Keatley Snyder's The Headless Cupid; Becky shares my love of children's literatuer) and - and - AND! A copy of the complete collected Raffles stories by E. W. Hornung! Which I bought on the spot, naturally, never mind I already don't have enough space on my shelves.
In between I cried for about on an hour in a bout of bitter hypochondria. I was rather hoping I would be all over this before the move, but I think probably that was an unrealistic expectation, and it is progress, surely, that it sucked up only an hour rather than dragging the rest of my day down the drain with it?
I think I'm getting a bit better at coping with it at least. I've discovered that it really doesn't work for me to try to watch TV, even a TV show I like, to try to distract myself: it leaves too much of my mind free to keep worrying. It's better to haul around box or sort papers or read or do anything else that will force me to focus my attention.
