Quality Time
Aug. 30th, 2019 02:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
singedsunMy sister came over on Tuesday, we Postmated some brunch for ourselves and then while we waited for it to arrive she helped me go through all the clothes we have for the boys. I was able to send her home with one thing for the baby out of the bunch, which I'd hoped would be more -- although I think when I go through the second room I'll find more small clothes she'll be able to have.
We took a break for lunch to talk and chat for awhile and then we went through both spare closets so she could look at the leftover LulaRoe clothes I have from when my best friend and I briefly sold it. It's just been sitting there forever and for awhile I had the patience to sell it on clearance sites, but I just got tired of the upkeep. So it's been taking up the spare closets for a year. I'm planning to send some of it to ThredUp, which I think I've mentioned, I'm hoping that since they all still have tags on them they'll accept everything I send in. We picked out a bunch of slightly larger stuff that'll work for her as her pregnancy shows. I know she and her husband don't have a lot of money right now and so a lot of it will go towards getting baby stuff. So she seemed really happy to be taking home a bunch of clothes for herself.
My best friend was supposed to keep my company on Wednesday, but couldn't make it because she was getting over a cold. A good choice since she wouldn't have been up to her best and I don't need the potential of taking on a cold in addition to my recovery. It was too bad because Wednesday was probably the best I've felt in awhile, because I finally decided I felt okay enough in bed to sleep there. I got a good amount of sleep and didn't wake up in extreme pain. I spent the day picking up a few small projects and then watching Gentleman Jack on HBO. THAT SHOW.
I could probably write a whole separate thing on how much I really fell in love with that show. I don't know if they're planning to do a second season of it, but I really hope so. I'd love to seen Anne and Ann together and happy at Shibden. I did a little reading up on Anne Lister after finishing the series today, because I knew a little about her but wanted to read up on what happens to them after. I was sad to learn how few years they got together after they were finally together. Anyway. It's so very good and I'm sorry it took me this long to get to it.
Matt took me out for a nice dinner Wednesday night for my birthday. It's the first time I've had red meat in... a long ass time. We've been pretty good keeping to our vegetarian meals during the week and I've only occasionally been eating turkey or pork on the weekends. I've been off chicken for years. The steak I got was a fantastic cut of prime rib and I ate about a third of it, happy to take home the rest to eat this weekend. Dinner was really nice treat but I'll tell you the real reason we went to this steakhouse for my birthday was the dessert. They have the best key lime cheesecake I've ever had in my life and cheesecake is like my favorite type of dessert. It comes with this amazing blackberry sauce, these lime drops, candied coconut on top of fresh berries and a side of pina colada sorbet. It's *chef kiss* -- so amazing. They only carry it in the summer months, so lucky for me that my birthday is in the summer. Even if I hadn't felt well enough to go there and sit for an hour or two for dinner, I was going to make Matt go get me the dessert from there for my birthday, it's all I wanted. And I enjoyed every indulgent bite.
Thank you for those of you that sent well wishes for my birthday, they were much appreciated!!
I went to bed last night, pretty early after we got back from dinner and managed to sleep something like twelve hours; making up a little I think for all the nights I've been up late in the past week and a half. It backfired a little because I woke up stiff and still tired and a bit foggy over all. I ended up finishing off the last two episodes of Gentleman Jack, having a late lunch and going back to sleep for several hours until Matt came home. Thankfully I was up long enough to feel alert to watch the wedding oneshot of Critical Role tonight, which is why I'm still up late tonight. I did a little writing on my commission story during the livestream, and might do a little more here before bed. It's due at the end of the week but I've got a fourth of it written now, and really clear direction on where to take it, so it should go quickly.
We took a break for lunch to talk and chat for awhile and then we went through both spare closets so she could look at the leftover LulaRoe clothes I have from when my best friend and I briefly sold it. It's just been sitting there forever and for awhile I had the patience to sell it on clearance sites, but I just got tired of the upkeep. So it's been taking up the spare closets for a year. I'm planning to send some of it to ThredUp, which I think I've mentioned, I'm hoping that since they all still have tags on them they'll accept everything I send in. We picked out a bunch of slightly larger stuff that'll work for her as her pregnancy shows. I know she and her husband don't have a lot of money right now and so a lot of it will go towards getting baby stuff. So she seemed really happy to be taking home a bunch of clothes for herself.
My best friend was supposed to keep my company on Wednesday, but couldn't make it because she was getting over a cold. A good choice since she wouldn't have been up to her best and I don't need the potential of taking on a cold in addition to my recovery. It was too bad because Wednesday was probably the best I've felt in awhile, because I finally decided I felt okay enough in bed to sleep there. I got a good amount of sleep and didn't wake up in extreme pain. I spent the day picking up a few small projects and then watching Gentleman Jack on HBO. THAT SHOW.
I could probably write a whole separate thing on how much I really fell in love with that show. I don't know if they're planning to do a second season of it, but I really hope so. I'd love to seen Anne and Ann together and happy at Shibden. I did a little reading up on Anne Lister after finishing the series today, because I knew a little about her but wanted to read up on what happens to them after. I was sad to learn how few years they got together after they were finally together. Anyway. It's so very good and I'm sorry it took me this long to get to it.
Matt took me out for a nice dinner Wednesday night for my birthday. It's the first time I've had red meat in... a long ass time. We've been pretty good keeping to our vegetarian meals during the week and I've only occasionally been eating turkey or pork on the weekends. I've been off chicken for years. The steak I got was a fantastic cut of prime rib and I ate about a third of it, happy to take home the rest to eat this weekend. Dinner was really nice treat but I'll tell you the real reason we went to this steakhouse for my birthday was the dessert. They have the best key lime cheesecake I've ever had in my life and cheesecake is like my favorite type of dessert. It comes with this amazing blackberry sauce, these lime drops, candied coconut on top of fresh berries and a side of pina colada sorbet. It's *chef kiss* -- so amazing. They only carry it in the summer months, so lucky for me that my birthday is in the summer. Even if I hadn't felt well enough to go there and sit for an hour or two for dinner, I was going to make Matt go get me the dessert from there for my birthday, it's all I wanted. And I enjoyed every indulgent bite.
Thank you for those of you that sent well wishes for my birthday, they were much appreciated!!
I went to bed last night, pretty early after we got back from dinner and managed to sleep something like twelve hours; making up a little I think for all the nights I've been up late in the past week and a half. It backfired a little because I woke up stiff and still tired and a bit foggy over all. I ended up finishing off the last two episodes of Gentleman Jack, having a late lunch and going back to sleep for several hours until Matt came home. Thankfully I was up long enough to feel alert to watch the wedding oneshot of Critical Role tonight, which is why I'm still up late tonight. I did a little writing on my commission story during the livestream, and might do a little more here before bed. It's due at the end of the week but I've got a fourth of it written now, and really clear direction on where to take it, so it should go quickly.
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Date: 2019-08-31 12:48 pm (UTC)Hopefully you'll have better luck with Thred Up than I did. I sent them tons of new designer stuff (most didn't have tags though) and only got like a $10 credit. I would have gotten a better deal just taking it to a local consignment shop.