I can't believe how stormy it was earlier
Jun. 23rd, 2012 10:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotYesterday and Thursday I worked on cataloguing the ~*~dresses~*~! It's brilliant. I think my catalogue entries are better-written than the old ones (clothing being the one thing that was actually already in the computer) and I've adjusted the dates on nearly everything so far. About 80% of everything I come across, I know instantly when it's from and usually have to think a second about what it is that I'm picking up on that's doing it, but that other 1/5 I have to actually concentrate on it, and it's sad but it makes me crazy and self-critical about how stupid I am. *sigh*
Mended two things today, my khaki capris and my summer pajama pants. Part of me thinks that making that a habit will help me save money in the long run, but when I think about it I tend to only get rid of clothes when I hate them (often because they're cheap ...) or when they're disintegrating. Anyway, I did a great job, really put my expensive education to good use. The pajama pants have needed to be fixed since I put them away last year.
Cataloguing is a really good setting for me to listen to OSTs that I haven't been able to get into, apparently. I think it's because when I sit down and go OKAY NOW I'M LISTENING TO THIS I get fidgety and bored if I'm not doing much of anything, or I get annoyed if I'm doing something that needs a lot of concentration. Either way I skip a lot and only learn to like a couple of songs. But cataloguing requires the perfect amount of attention and has the perfect amount of getting up and walking away that I can listen to the music without getting impatient if something doesn't 100% thrill me in the first bar. I started with Jane Eyre, because I've always felt a bit bad for not liking it much, and was surprised at how much I actually did like it (except the song where she's shut up in the room where her uncle died - I think it should have been sung by child!Jane, since it's a bit, you know, childish). Then I thought to try (the Off-Broadway) Grey Gardens, because I love a couple of the songs and never listen to the others. HOMG. I've got the Broadway version as well and I see why they made the changes they did, I guess, but the original is the best to me.
Mended two things today, my khaki capris and my summer pajama pants. Part of me thinks that making that a habit will help me save money in the long run, but when I think about it I tend to only get rid of clothes when I hate them (often because they're cheap ...) or when they're disintegrating. Anyway, I did a great job, really put my expensive education to good use. The pajama pants have needed to be fixed since I put them away last year.
Cataloguing is a really good setting for me to listen to OSTs that I haven't been able to get into, apparently. I think it's because when I sit down and go OKAY NOW I'M LISTENING TO THIS I get fidgety and bored if I'm not doing much of anything, or I get annoyed if I'm doing something that needs a lot of concentration. Either way I skip a lot and only learn to like a couple of songs. But cataloguing requires the perfect amount of attention and has the perfect amount of getting up and walking away that I can listen to the music without getting impatient if something doesn't 100% thrill me in the first bar. I started with Jane Eyre, because I've always felt a bit bad for not liking it much, and was surprised at how much I actually did like it (except the song where she's shut up in the room where her uncle died - I think it should have been sung by child!Jane, since it's a bit, you know, childish). Then I thought to try (the Off-Broadway) Grey Gardens, because I love a couple of the songs and never listen to the others. HOMG. I've got the Broadway version as well and I see why they made the changes they did, I guess, but the original is the best to me.
