I have the first four Thief books and have read the first. I need to read them all before I get the new one. Also I need to finish the Stiefvater Ring books.

I'm finally dragging myself away from fic and am re-attempting books.

I'm annoyed I tried on jeans and the pair in one size zipped up but were squishing me tight...

I think you're supposed to get that one, on the theory that they stretch out, right?

Was this by chance Old Navy jeans?

msbelle, it WAS old navy jeans!

Jesse, I didn't feel like they'd stretch enough to be comfy though? Like, if they'd been snug, maybe, but they were squeezing.

Meanwhile, I decided to reorganize my pantry....only to realize the main shelf was hanging by a thread!! Some of the anchors had come out of the wall, and one of the supports had come undone from the shelf, too. Yikes! And now I have to figure out how to reinstall in a slightly different spot....and go buy a bunch of anchors??

ON jeans are NOTORIOUSLY bad on sizing. You may have WIDELY different fits from the same size, same cut.

Yeah, I didn't feel like grabbing a whole bunch of pairs to try on, given Covid. But it was annoying.

Also annoying: trying to rehang that damn shelf. Don't really think I did it right, even after redoing it a couple times. Argh.

y'all I decorated the front of my house a little bit for Halloween and IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY!!

That is good! Part of what American Halloween has become is a festival of lights in order to stave off the encrouching darkness of autumn, I think. Or maybe that's what it was always intended to be.

Matt, every open house you go to is going to help you refine what you want in a house. I DID buy the first house I actually visited, but at least I had had a long discussion with my buyer-broker about what I wanted/liked/could live with/could expect at the prices we were looking at. I still did go and dutifully see a bunch of other places while waiting to see if our offer would be accepted, et cetera, and it actually did reinforce my confidence that I was going with a good deal.

Part of what American Halloween has become is a festival of lights in order to stave off the encrouching darkness of autumn, I think.

That's how I'm doing it, for sure.

I have a little display of small, fake, black and white pumpkins with some big silver sparkly and purple sparkly spiders crawling on them and into/out of an empty, small succulent pot... plus a little gnome-y guy sitting on the edge...of a small shelf outside of our apartment door. No lights, but it makes me happy. Even my DP said, "Yeah, actually, it's cute. I like it."

DP starts new job today; he's very excited about the place, and it's 100% remote, so yay on both counts. I can hear the voices of his first call. Woot!

I am returning to visit my former workplace today, which I left around March 25th or so 2019 fully expecting to return the next day when [insert long tale of medical woes that lasted through March 2020, with a super happy ending, though!]. Then I figured I'd go back once I had a week or two under my belt after my final surgery, and then the world started having a pandemic.

Well, now it's October, the place is closing down (physically - early lease term + a lot of people got laid off, very sadly), and I'm going to get my phone charger, web cam, and random shit one collects, all of which are, purportedly, still there. Plus lunch with a former colleague, which is my first in-person visit with another human outside of DP's mom and my sister since self-isolating started.

Big day at my ranch! Hope everyone else's Mondays go well.