December 18, 2016

 Today started much better than yesterday. My car started up first try last night and first thing this morning. I got up earlier than I would have liked but I wanted to make sure my car was good to go in time to get a ride if it wasn't.

When I got to work there wasn't a lot going on. I went a little early to make up for yesterday and was able to count the register and get my homebound books put into bags by the time we opened. Then I went and pulled the books for my last patron, processed them, and got them bagged up. I stashed my bags in the break closet because I was up to ten bags this month and that is way too many to get onto my cart, especially with the weeded books I still have on there.

Speaking of, I went through all the cookbooks I still had on my cart. They were all marked as Withdrawn but I left them on my cart because I wanted to look at the recipes. I took pictures of the recipes I liked and finally put the books on the big cart of weeded books. I left a book about the history of cookbooks and the story behind Betty Crocker, because those I want to read.

I also did some other things today, like helped patrons and did some research for my tech classes. But all-in-all it was a very quiet day. We were a few minutes later getting out because of a bible group. They were still standing around and talking when I gave them the three minute warning (after they had ignored the thirty-minute, fifteen, and five-minute warnings. They slowly started to pick up their stuff but didn't make too much progress until I went and stood in the room after the final closing announcement. They were real apologetic about it but they had plenty of opportunities to avoid the building-wide inconvenience. Also, reservations don't go past thirty minutes before we close. So they were supposed to be done at 5:30PM. It's not the first time groups have done this though so I don't know how clear it is that reservations at the end of the day don't go all the way until we close. I'll have to see if we can make that more apparent somehow.

On my way home I stopped by my Mom's house because she made me Chinese candy and Chex-Mix. Not a bad excuse to make a pit stop. I also grabbed my hiking boots so that I will be prepared the next time I need to walk through the snow.

Tonight I watched YouTube videos and livestreams, and I rewatched some of the actions scenes in Magnificent Seven. I also sewed the arms on the crocheted bear I'm making. I'm really not a fan of the assembly. It is tedious, but my real problem is that I'm having to make permanent decisions on the placement of things. They're not really permanent, everything is fixable, but the pressure is still there. Tomorrow while I'm doing laundry I will hopefully get the ears, nose, and tail sewn on. And hopefully find some buttons already in my possession that are appropriate for the eyes. If not I can hit up Jo-Ann's on the way home. I also want to start making another bear for my sister. I don't think I'll be able to finish it by Christmas but maybe there will be a Christmas miracle.

Soon I'm going to go to bed so I can wake up at a decent time and head over to my Mom's to do laundry. It would be nice to get that done at a decent time, and that is hard if I don't get started at a decent time.