Don't believe me? This was my big excitement for the weekend. Look closely and see if you can figure it out.
Need a hint? OK, here's a before picture:
Notice what's missing?
Yep, that giant box of junk is no longer in my snake/craft/computer room! Oh, I've still got a few smaller boxes around the edges of the room, but they're no big deal.
I can get them sorted, but the biggest eyesore is taken care of! BTW, say hi to Snow up there.
Don't envy me my exciting life.
Oh, here's something nifty. I got a new little shelf to put some of my outside plants on.
I was able to get my Christmas cacti up off the ground. They were being overshadowed by the mint my neighbor gave me last year. I need to pick some of that mint and make tea or something out of it. I used to last summer, but I haven't this year.
All this week on Facebook, I've been watching my friends receive their Prime Day deals. I was pouting because mine wasn't supposed to get here until Wednesday. But Saturday, I got a message saying it had shipped and would get here today! Yippee!
I left work early -- that is, at the end of my shift -- and rushed home to see if it was here yet, and it was! What was said Prime Day deal? A new Kindle Fire 8!
It's like my old Fire, but with more memory, and Alexa. It's probably got other, better stuff, too, but I haven't had time to play with it much. I had to mow, you know. The most amazing thing is, it cost 1/3 of the price of my original Kindle, and that was just an e-reader. I paid $80 for this one, and nearly $300 for my first Kindle. You have capitalism and the free market to thank for that.
I was smart this time, and ordered a case, too.
New Kindle is also significantly bigger than my old Kindle.
My old eyes can see it a whole lot better.
I was a bit bummed, not by the Kindle, but by something else. I had a big box of old Disney VHS and other miscellaneous tapes out in my shed. Yesterday, I discovered that they plastic bin I'd had them stored in was not nearly as watertight as I'd thought it was. They were soaked. I was going to try to sell them, but I guess now I'll just trash them.
I googled what to do if a tape gets wet and got a wide variety of answers ranging from "just let them dry and they'll be OK" to "It's a disaster of apocalyptic proportions!!!!" I've got them inside now and am letting them dry to see if they can be salvaged.
The only one that I really cared about was a tape my aunt made of Christmas of 1992, and she sent it to me when I was in Italy. What touched me about it was that several of my shipmates wanted to watch it. They all sat with me and watched a bunch of people they didn't even know celebrate Christmas.
It was that little touch of home we all craved so much.
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