Weekend roundup

Having predicted that I'd get distracted from my productive goals, I succeeded in faking myself out and accomplished much. Let's see: I did excavate the dining room table (including doing the monthly accounts and filing). I did take four boxes of books to Moe's for trade-in (this is the picked-over remnants of my massive book purge of a couple years ago). Of which they were interested in one box. So the remainder I have gritted my teeth and tossed in recycling. (Mostly very old paperbacks of questionable physical integrity. But still ... they're books!) Having also taken a few accumulated items to the thrift store, my stair landing is now completely clear. (Which was a pre-requisite for being able to move the computer desk upstairs.) I've made a large batch of pea soup and another of cauliflower soup, which has fortified me for the gloriously gray autumn day. And now I'm going to be a Good Girl and spend the remainder of the evening doing housecleaning (rather than getting started on the desk move, which had no hope of being finished today).

The next target for "items identified for removal that have been sitting in a box too long" is the result of purging my kitchen equipment of stuff I never use. I keep meaning to have some sort of cooking party to entice people over to pick things over, but have no idea where I could fit it in to the calendar. Another target is removing the two remaining obsoleted bookcases, one of which is promised to the youngest brother (to match the other three he already took). The remaining one is available: 2 ft wide, 6 ft tall, particleboard painted pale seafoam green.