4 down, 28 black to go
Sep. 23rd, 2007 07:15 pmThis weekend we got through most of the spring-cleaning of the kitchen. This involved, among other things, defrosting the freezer, cleaning out the laundry sink which we'd not touched since we moved in, and scrubbing the floor - including under the stove and the fridge. All this has left us with a sense of satisfactory weariness. We have now sorted through our cookbooks and reshelved those.
I have also done more on the wedding present, updated my book catalogue, done a small cull and reshelved. Everything fits on the shelves - just. I have no space for expansion whatsoever in the bookcases and my next move will be to use bookends and the tops of my bookcases. I have some on loan, some of which I can remember and some I can't be bothered checking, so I don't know how well it will fit when I get the last of those back.
My catalogue tells me that I have 700 fiction books and 150 non-fiction (plus the three non-fiction I've yet to catalogue). I didn't realise I had quite that many books. And that's with a cull of about 30 (some of which were duplicates that I picked up at the bookfair). Oh, if anyone sees volumes V, VI, VII, VIII, XII, XX and XXI of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress, could you let me know? That's all I'm missing.
I also consolidated my music library. I need to make sure it's all on itunes in the right place, but all the files are now in the one place, I think.
All in all, it's been a rather productive weekend.
I was given tickets to the NZSO for last Friday by some friends who won them but had a prior engagement. There was a guest composer and trumpeter soloist, both of whom I've never heard of - but then, I know very little about big names in the classical music world. Regardless, it was lovely. There was Mozart and Haydn. Not sure what the other pieces were specifically, but they were lovely also. Then we went to Floriditas for dinner and I caught the last bus home.
I am still reading Heyer but also appear to be on a Jenny Crusie kick at the moment as well. The contrast is rather startling.
I have also done more on the wedding present, updated my book catalogue, done a small cull and reshelved. Everything fits on the shelves - just. I have no space for expansion whatsoever in the bookcases and my next move will be to use bookends and the tops of my bookcases. I have some on loan, some of which I can remember and some I can't be bothered checking, so I don't know how well it will fit when I get the last of those back.
My catalogue tells me that I have 700 fiction books and 150 non-fiction (plus the three non-fiction I've yet to catalogue). I didn't realise I had quite that many books. And that's with a cull of about 30 (some of which were duplicates that I picked up at the bookfair). Oh, if anyone sees volumes V, VI, VII, VIII, XII, XX and XXI of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress, could you let me know? That's all I'm missing.
I also consolidated my music library. I need to make sure it's all on itunes in the right place, but all the files are now in the one place, I think.
All in all, it's been a rather productive weekend.
I was given tickets to the NZSO for last Friday by some friends who won them but had a prior engagement. There was a guest composer and trumpeter soloist, both of whom I've never heard of - but then, I know very little about big names in the classical music world. Regardless, it was lovely. There was Mozart and Haydn. Not sure what the other pieces were specifically, but they were lovely also. Then we went to Floriditas for dinner and I caught the last bus home.
I am still reading Heyer but also appear to be on a Jenny Crusie kick at the moment as well. The contrast is rather startling.