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Jul. 15th, 2016 08:24 amIt has been brutally hot this whole past week, except when it is torrentially raining. My brilliant plan to bike ride a few times a week for exercise and local area exploration has been tabled until the weather calms down a little.
I am doing a bit of exploration by car, though. I went to my new local library the other day to get a card and discovered that both my old library and my new one are part of a library consortium with a shared card catalog. So I don't actually need a new card, my old one will work at least until it expires, and I can return books borrowed from either library at either library. This is kind of amazing. Apparently it will also work in the library in the town I work, where I have for years stopped in a few times a week on my lunch break to read without ever checking books out. Yay libraries!
And tomorrow I'll be having Shabbos lunch guests, my first guests in the new apartment! It turns out the sister of one of my college friends now lives two blocks away from me, and my college friend is visiting her sister and her sister's husband for Shabbos, so I'm having them over. This is a friend who hosted me a number of times for Shabbos lunch when we were in school, so it feels really good to return the favor.
I cleaned and reorganized furniture last night in anticipation. My living room is still not totally furnished, I still need to acquire a couch, but set up for Shabbos lunch is easy- I moved my kitchen table to the living room and unfolded the side tabs and put a tablecloth on and it's just the right size. And then I moved all the leftover cardboard from moving into the closet. I was happily moving around the apartment all night afterward enjoying the setup. It's the first time the apartment has been set up for the convenience of anyone but me and it felt nice and balabatishe.
I am doing a bit of exploration by car, though. I went to my new local library the other day to get a card and discovered that both my old library and my new one are part of a library consortium with a shared card catalog. So I don't actually need a new card, my old one will work at least until it expires, and I can return books borrowed from either library at either library. This is kind of amazing. Apparently it will also work in the library in the town I work, where I have for years stopped in a few times a week on my lunch break to read without ever checking books out. Yay libraries!
And tomorrow I'll be having Shabbos lunch guests, my first guests in the new apartment! It turns out the sister of one of my college friends now lives two blocks away from me, and my college friend is visiting her sister and her sister's husband for Shabbos, so I'm having them over. This is a friend who hosted me a number of times for Shabbos lunch when we were in school, so it feels really good to return the favor.
I cleaned and reorganized furniture last night in anticipation. My living room is still not totally furnished, I still need to acquire a couch, but set up for Shabbos lunch is easy- I moved my kitchen table to the living room and unfolded the side tabs and put a tablecloth on and it's just the right size. And then I moved all the leftover cardboard from moving into the closet. I was happily moving around the apartment all night afterward enjoying the setup. It's the first time the apartment has been set up for the convenience of anyone but me and it felt nice and balabatishe.