January 22, 2017

 Today I wrote things down so I would remember what to write at the end of the day. A habit I should get into more often.

I slept in a little bit this morning, then I got up, got ready, and went to pick my sister up so we could go to the grocery store. I was armed with the list I made last night and we slowly worked our way through the store, starting in produce. When I was making my list I didn't really separate things out by recipe, or even make a note of what recipes I was pulling from. So hopefully I got everything for at least a recipe or two. It was all a bit overwhelming so I am glad my sister was there to point things out and kind of explain the ins and outs of grocery shopping like an adult. It did feel very grown up and I am looking forward to actually cooking something from a recipe. Also, while in the produce section I ran into one of my fellow librarians.

When I got home I unpacked all my stuff, making my kitchen look more like a kitchen, and then I ate lunch and watched YouTube videos before going to work.

At work I got a lot of stuff done. I started by counting money and thankfully it wasn't one of the confusing money days. We recently added a larger beginning balance and maybe that has made it easier. Or I just got lucky two days in a row.

I refilled the tax instruction books because those are moving like hot cakes. People are still interested in the 1040 instruction books but they're in the mail. I would imagine they'll be in sometime this week. Hopefully.

I finally cleaned out and organized my big drawer. I tried to have sections but it was really just random piles of papers that eventually started to overlap and turn into one big pile. So, I pulled everything out, went through it, threw out stuff I didn't need, and divided everything else among several labeled folders which were then put into a holder. There is so much room for activities now. We'll see how long it lasts.

I updated all my homebound spreadsheets with the comments I got on the last round of bookmarks. That is usually done when we get back or the day after but I apparently got distracted. Or maybe forgot until I started cleaning out my drawer.

I formatted the new ILL book kit spreadsheet and posted it on the website. It's nothing spectacular but it does look better than the previous version. I also wrote and posted my incident report from yesterday. And I updated the Facebook class webpage. And updated class attendance records and collected feedback. Lots of updating and posting.

I caught up with chat statistics, which I haven't done since the beginning of the month. I still need to watch the website usability videos for the month but I should be able to get that done this week sometime.

The church group that overstayed their welcome the last Sunday I worked actually left early today, which was considerate because I spent at least a couple hours trying to work up the nerve to confront them at the end of the day again. I'm not a fan of confrontation. But I'm also not a fan of people are inconsiderate of other people's time.