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Puzzle and Book Storage

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If you stopped by yesterday, this is what you would have seen me doing.

All day long.

This is a difficult one, with lots of detail, but it’s such fun! So many Shakespearean characters pop up throughout the puzzle. The Globe, the Tower of London, Queen Elizabeth I, bear baiting (can’t believe that was ever considered sport!) the Thames. It is the perfect puzzle for yours truly.

But 1000 tiny pieces with all sorts of bits of building facades and people’s faces, so there’s that.

I figured I’d start with the Thames and go from there.

Don is out running a few errands as we might get some light snow this afternoon that will turn icy overnight. He figured he’d get things done this morning and then we can stay safely inside.

I have decided I am going to temporarily dismantle the modern dollhouse. I haven’t done anything with it and it takes up a lot of space on the bedroom bookshelves. It’s easily taken apart and put together again – it was designed that way. Then I’m going to move the stacks of books that live on the den floor up to the top of the bookcase. These are all books that are To Be Read and I can stack them on their sides where the titles will be visible. Rather than have them take up floor space downstairs, they can live in the bedroom, where I will see them every evening. And the den will look less crowded. So that’s on the docket for today.

I’ll store the modern dollhouse under the work table in the office. I think (fingers crossed) that will work.

Okay. Have to get going.

Stay safe.

Happy Monday.

Sunday

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Every time I think I should go here or there, I end up staying home. I am so, so tired and I have to listen to my body and rest. I often fall asleep sitting up on the sofa. Last night I went to bed early and slept 8 hours. I imagine it will be much the same when I go back home – several days to recover.

Anyway, I stayed home yesterday. I worked on the puzzle that I started when I first moved here and that I’ve barely had time to touch since. And I finished it!

It’s called “At the Strand” as in The Strand bookstore, a beloved shop in NYC, just south of Union Square. It’s the one bookstore I haven’t made it to this trip. Jigsaw puzzles are very zen-like for me and having the luxury of time to work on it this weekend is just what the doctor ordered. Today, I may pop over to a toy store I visited a couple of weeks ago – they have New Yorker puzzles in stock.

So far this weekend, I’ve watched movies that make me happy. I’ve watched Charade  twice, How to Steal a Million (with Audrey Hepburn and Peter O’Toole), and Casablanca. Today might be You’ve Got Mail  and tonight on TCM?  One of my all-time favorites – Pillow Talk, with Doris Day and Rock Hudson.

Seen on a walk past a restaurant on the corner:

What the heck happened here? Sad.

You know that I brought a stack of books with me, and have purchased even more since I’ve been here. I have yet to finish one. All my visions of reading time have gone up in smoke. When I do have time, I’m just too tired to concentrate. This experience has been exhilarating, inspiring, fun and grueling. Right now, all I can remember is the ‘grueling’ part of it, but soon those memories will fade away and I will remember only the good things – and there are many, many good things.

I have to drop my laundry off today and run an errand or two here in the neighborhood. Mostly, I’m going to take it easy as I have to be on the set by 6:30 am tomorrow and it’s way up on the Upper West Side.

And so it begins again!

Stay safe.

Happy Sunday.

Congestion-Head

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The puzzle I’m taking with me to Brooklyn. Perfect, I think, as The Strand is one of my favorite bookstores. I was heartened to see that the New York Puzzle Company has some new New Yorker puzzles for this year. I was worried that I had already completed all of the puzzles I found interesting and they are my favorites to work on.

Good news for the coming winter!

I’m under the weather today. Whether it’s allergies or sinus, I’m not sure, but the sneezing continued for most of the day yesterday and I’m constantly blowing my nose. I slept about 8 hours last night – something that is a rarity these days – so that helps. I ended up taking yesterday off and I’ll do the same today so that I can get this thing out of my system sooner rather than later. Better now than when I have to be on the set!

I finished The Lantern Men  yesterday, mostly because I felt like crap and stayed in my chair reading. I have the latest Elly Griffiths arriving today. It’s in hardback, but the hardback (I admit it, I got it through Amazon) is priced the same as a paperback. And all of you fans know that she has a new one coming out next year, right? Good news!

Don is running errands this morning – I need some soft Puffs because my skin is very sensitive and blowing my nose continuously makes my nose and face red, some cough drops, some Benadryl, that kind of thing. And some sugar-free chocolates, my one and only food indulgence these days.

Okay. I’m going to rest.

Stay safe.

Happy Wednesday.

 

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