I'm also happy to go thrifting and vintage rummaging locally--I know all the SF spots, but if any broader-Bay-Area localistas want to hit me up with your favorite thrift/vintage/consignment/miscellaneous stuff places in the North, South and East Bays, and maybe plan an outing, let me know.
This poor place has a crapton of long-deferred maintenance, most of which isn't critical but a couple of items of which
are,
so we're gonna need to pour most of our extra funds into addressing those items, and any furnishings we can find at thrift store prices will help.
I know the Oakland Museum White Elephant Sale is legendary--and also happening in-person again in March, so I'm definitely doing that. What else? Where else?
JZ, you need to visit my friend's shop in the Midtown Bliss antique mall in Sacramento!!! This is her shop:
[link]
Thanks, lisah! I definitely definitely will.
ION, I spent the afternoon carting two teenagers around and eating all the dinners, and now I am so tired I feel about to drop. It's barely 7 PM on the second day of a 3-day weekend, but I am honestly not sure I can make it to 8. (Like, that stage of tired where I've been sitting here for 15 minutes thinking about how I should put my pajamas on, but since that would entail making the effort to stand up and take my current clothes
off,
I don't know if I can do it.)
I hope you are comfortably attired and asleep (or on your way to it) by now, JZ
I wish I had tomorrow off, but I did have a pretty good weekend. and every day the sunrise is earlier and the sunset is later, and around here that’s a thing to celebrate.
Preach.
Bought a hair product yesterday that I actually like! Dry texture finishing spray by Tresasemmé. It actually does give my straight, thin strands some oomph without being sticky, so everything doesn't just fall flat and forward like normal. Here ends the free advertising.
No day off today. Can't complain. We get a lot of holidays.
[singing...]
Stuck inside the bedroom with the Omicron blues again...
Jacqueline already purchased our first item for the Attic library. The all important Vintage Steamer Trunk, this one with a hotel sticker from Raffles in Singapore: [link]
We might just cosplay the entire house up at this rate.
I am so happy to have the day off. I sat and knit for most of yesterday (but did manage to wash dishes in the sink and get one load of clothes washed/hung up to dry). Have started out today the sitting and knitting watching Shang-Chi, but I am about to get up and get going:
- set roomba to work
- shower
- wash bed linens
- put away clothes in bedroom & pick out work outfits for the rest of week
- re-arranging basement into formation I have been thinking about for months - started
- lunch
- vacuum upstairs
- 3:25 Spider-man in a MOVIE THEATER (the first in over 2 years)
- cook some and/or bake some (banana bread/green chili chicken corn chowder/spaghetti squash)
- knit and watch Free Guy
- watch Flee and the short The Windshield Wiper because Free Guy is not on Disney yet
- bed early
If I get it all done will be a happy happy thing. Off I go.
