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Current Mood : Very lazy !
Current Image Notes : We're almost there ! Still needs some hair touch-ups and a new wardrobe, and there's some sort of purple mark over her left eyelid, but this is soooo close to what I wanted ! That huge brown tribble in her lap is the hair I cut off !
Today was another one of ‘those days'. When you wake up knowing you're not gonna get much done, and wonder why you bothered to get out of bed in the first place. As I staggered into my ‘bleh' day, coughing a bit, my foot hit one of several stacks of doll magazines, doll books, and other reading materials piled around ‘my side' of the bed. Beloved Hubby's side is much the same, but his are paperbacks and a few Tiger Direct and Grizzly Tools catalogs. As I started to slide a bit - doll magazines tend to be slick on old carpet - the thought occurred to me that I really should do something about all these books, and maybe get a handle on all these magazines.
Y'see, about two or three months ago, I bought several lots of National Doll World and other doll-based magazines. I knew some repeated what I already had, but they were so cheap, and it'd be a pleasant diversion while my breathing got back under control. What got delivered was eight pounds of magazines. Wow. That's...quite a lot.
So I immediately pulled the ones I knew I already had, and put them aside. That lessened the load by about a third, leaving me with about five pounds of reading fun. I'd grab one from the box, leaf through it, read the articles, note new patterns and columns, and eventually fall asleep on it. It'd hit the floor, and the next time I had a bit of a lie down, nap, or bedtime, I'd grab another from the box...
That lead to the mess I had today. And by now, the ones I knew were duplicates had mixed in with the rest...so I had one huge pile by the bed, a stack in the bookshelf, and a boxload in the trunk of the car, for downtimes and later distribution to a thrift store or someplace. Yikes. To make matters worse, many of the ones on the bookshelf were torn or damaged, but the duplicates were in fine shape. (sigh)
So I spent most of today going through it all. Scooped up the bedside ones first, and arranged them by issue date, and slung ‘em back in the box they arrived in. Retrieved the ones on the bookshelf, and did much the same to them. The ones in the car had gotten wet from a small hole in a gallon bottle of water I keep back there, so many were destroyed, but some were salvageable. There's still about a dozen drying in the laundry room. Several I wanted to keep were damaged with no duplicate replacements, so I got them taped up. Those old 1979 covers are so fragile ! But heck, for a 30-year-old magazine, they're all looking darn good.
It ended up taking four hours to get it all done. But I now have the best of the lot on the bookshelf, and a boxload ready for the thrift or maybe eBay. It's about seven pounds' worth ! And there's a short pile next to the printer that need to be scanned. The books got put away, and the rest of the odd clutter marshaled. I no longer have to kick a path to my bedside, or risk an unexpected skating trip in the night.
So it wasn't a totally useless, wasted day. While it was fun, though, it's kind of hard to explain that you spent most of your day with your old doll magazines !
