...A chick came walkin' through the door that I have never seen before, at least I never saw her...

Aug. 31st, 2009 10:17 pm
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Dorothy Bullard. Photos online:
Old storage, part 1: Sorting through treasures and trash (29-Aug-2009)
Old storage, part 2: Surplus fabric and projects (29-Aug-2009) et seq.
My elder older sister Dorothy has a big sledgehammer because that's what it takes to get one of the sliding latches to slide.

Grand plans and harsh reality ran smack into each other last weekend, as I met Dorothy to work on clearing out my parents' storage closets. We had a marvelous scheme to toss all of the saleable stuff into one pile, all of the trash in another, and making roundtrips between there and appropriate destinations until the place was empty.

The problem we ran into was that it wasn't just trash, stuff to donate somewhere, and easily-sold treasures in the units.

( We did find a bunch of fabric and craft supplies, and Maria gets first dibs... )

Bags of fabric and other things that look donateable. ( There's quite a lot of fabric and supplies... )


St. Paul's Episcopal Church. I dropped off a box of old choral sheet music. Bruckner, Beethovan, Haydn, Mozart, and so forth. ( And then there's the choral sheet music... )

The challenge in all of this is to be respectful of my mom's feelings without actually bringing it all back to her house. (And ideally without having her come out to the storage place, because that would just slow us down.) So my emphasis has been on giving things away in situations where there's a personal connection -- family, friends, the church we used to attend every Sunday (that's as old as I am -- it was built the year I was born, a year before we moved to California), et cetera.

My intention is to start bringing things to Coral Cafe in Burbank, about 10pm Thursday nights, that are free to a good home. I might alternate fabric and books. Stay tuned (and watch my Foob, if you've got me on your Facebook list).

Chaz Boston Baden at Costco, trying on eyeglasses. ( The other interesting recent development is I have a Costco card again, and spectacles have been ordered... )

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There you go and baby, here am I. Well, you left me here so I could sit and cry...

Feb. 10th, 2009 07:27 pm
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Did anyone leave some kind of crocheted baby dress (or something) in our car during [livejournal.com profile] animelosangeles? [livejournal.com profile] library_lynn and I can't figure out where it came from...

Tadao Tomomatsu. Photos now online:
Mom leaves the convalescent hospital (03-Feb-2007) New 10-Feb-2009
Our wedding quilt Dorothy made (14-Sep-2007) New 10-Feb-2009
Benches part 4: The Box Instructions (04-Oct-2007) New 10-Feb-2009
Cooler parts needed (12-Oct-2007) New 10-Feb-2009
Maria tries to sit in a chair (31-Oct-2007) New 10-Feb-2009
Jim stops by (04-Nov-2007) New 10-Feb-2009
LASFS/Aftermeetings part 303: Coral Cafe (27-Dec-2007) New 10-Feb-2009
Ribbon rosettes received (27-Dec-2007) New 10-Feb-2009
Candy and Soda portraits part 1 (28-Feb-2008) et seq. New 10-Feb-2009
Anime Los Angeles 5 meetings part 11: Newsletter Computer (08-Jun-2008) New 10-Feb-2009
Anime Los Angeles 5 meetings part 40: Picking up Lindsay (09-Jan-2009) New 10-Feb-2009
Christmas 2008 part 3: Dinner and Gifts at Dorothy and Bob's (24-Jan-2009) et seq. New 10-Feb-2009
Christmas 2008 part 10: Sunday Brunch (25-Jan-2009) et seq. New 10-Feb-2009
Dinner with Dan (29-Jan-2009) New 10-Feb-2009
Gallifrey 2009: Pre-convention Meeting (08-Feb-2009) New 10-Feb-2009

As you can see, I've been posting a lot of flotsam and miscellaneous short batches... The picture of [livejournal.com profile] friendlypinet is from the committee meeting last weekend for the [livejournal.com profile] doctorwho convention Gallifrey One next weekend.

Trying to catch up with November. We went to [livejournal.com profile] loscon. Here's part 1 of my Loscon 35 report. (Other sections: part 2, part 3.)

Scalzi - Bacon - Cats - YUM! You don't have to have been paying attention that much to know that "we" means myself, [livejournal.com profile] library_lynn and [livejournal.com profile] missmea. Not counting [livejournal.com profile] animelosangeles, Loscon is our "home convention." If we only go to one convention a year, it'll be Loscon. Some people can't go to Loscon because it's on a big family-holiday weekend and they've got family they need to be with; some people like going to Loscon because it lets them get away from the family they don't want to spend the whole weekend with; some people (like myself) bring their families; and for some people, the "family" they care about are their large circle of friends who also make Loscon their home convention.

While I've been to five Animé Los Angeles conventions, and nine or ten Worldcons, and an assortment of others, Loscon is the one I've been attending consistently the longest.

From the profound to the absurd I used to be a productive staff person at Loscon, a department head running something or other. Lately, I've just been coasting -- I'm an ordinary member, and some years I'll pull enough of my weight to get a pass-on to the next year. Of course, this year I had a ready excuse: I was representing Animé Los Angeles.

( The co-chairs (Cathy Beckstead and Joyce Hooper) and I had worked out an arrangement... )

To be continued. Next: More about badge ribbons.

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