Apparently I'm rusty in the art of walking down steps:

I missed the last step while talking to a co-worker on the way out of work and fell hard on the asphalt walkway. Besides the knees, I also have some swelling on my right foot and ankle and some sore spots on my right leg and thigh. Also, I wrenched my neck and back a little.

Thankfully, nothing seems to be broken, but my right knee will be painful for a few days, at least. I guess I won't be doing housework for a while. **wink**

Oh, yes, those are some fugly knees. I think I see the image of a bulldog in the left cap.

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• '90s General Memorabilia
• '90s and '00s Work Memorabilia
• Cartoons and Humor binders
• Recipes Binders

This morning is dedicated to coffee and my email account. It's been a long time since I've been an early bird on a Saturday morning. You know, before the neighbors are roused and make their existence known. It's quiet and peaceful and I feel relatively fine.

Yesterday I was home sick with something... a sore throat, the beginnings of a cold perhaps, and the need for sleep. After calling in sick and feeding the cat I went back to bed, got up and showered at 2 PM, and then went back to bed until a little after 6 PM. I was still able to get 7 hours of sleep last night, so I must have needed all that sleep.

So, this morning I'm going to allow myself to take it easy and clean out my emails. As you can guess, the image in this entry is from an e-mail of 'women postcards'. I discovered that XP has incorporated a feature that will open my Photobucket Uploader if I right-click on the photo and then select that option. My Blogline account has an easy-access to my Photobucket also. I may have been neglecting my blog, but I'm happy to see that Microsoft and Bloglines have been hard at work.

Well, this is just rambling. Once I pare down my emails I'm hoping to finish scanning my memorabilia from the 1960s and burn them to disks. After that I think I'll just have my 1990s and 2000s to do.

Have a good day.

*sips coffee peacefully*

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I've had two, count 'em, TWO good weekends where I've had the energy and focus to be productive around the apartment and with my Memorabilia project.

I'm part of the way through the transition to fall/winter. One A/C has been stored for the winter and the living room cleaned with the deep cleaning that only happens when all the furnishings have to move to their new configurations. Next weekend I need to put the bedroom A/C away and do the always-dreaded clothing changeout.

It has been getting cold at night and our landlord turned the heat on for the season a little early. It won't come on much, just 'spot warming', until the end of October. It's nice to have it on for those short-term needs. I'm a person who has a very narrow tolerance for temperature variations.

Honey went wild playing with her toy mouse last night, about 2 AM. This is another seasonal first. I also saw my first Monk Parrots flying overhead scouting out future feeding locations.

Some burgandy cordoroy fabric that I'd stashed away to make a winter jumper for apartment-ware was located, so I need to do a bit of sewing one of these weekends. I miss having a nice loose and warm jumper for winter.

Well, lunchtime is over. Back to work.

As you can see, my Scan Paper Memorabilia Project is well underway!

I'm into Week 5 of my Memorabilia Project and although I feel like this photo, things are going very well. I've scanned 2 of 6 boxes and although it is a huge amount of work, I'm feeling satisfaction and inspiration to accomplish even more. It is like losing excess weight, but it is my apartment that is trimming down. Nevertheless, it makes ME feel better.

Now that I've seen the possibilities and how easy it is to organize and then use the resulting PDF computer files, I'm daydreaming about what could be achieved if I expand the project further. What if I did a Household Papers Project to convert papers in my filing cabinets and binders to PDF? What would that be like?

Recipies, insurance papers, financial statements, product info, etc. Why not have these things 'at hand' on my computer too? My mind boggles a bit because suddenly I have a new vision about how things could be. Yes, it's just changes to my living space, but it could revolutionize how I live in that space.

Once I go 'paperless' (at least to a large degree) I can easily maintain this by scanning in new papers and memorabilia. I foresee that by de-cluttering and ridding myself of the mountains of paper, I can achieve other goals for my space. I can see how I can go from de-cluttering paper to other organization and utilization projects around the apartment. I even picture getting new furnishings.

Therefore, I am being inspired by this project despite it's tediousness. I have a vision that I want to see come into being. I want to experience the lifestyle change and for its accomplishment to unlock further creative ideas.

Improvements in the Project Technique

Part of my enthusiasm has been caused by a sudden idea as to how to save time doing the work involved. When I started this scan to PDF project it gave me ideas how I could use this on my work files. That in turn generated this recent idea which will help my project too. Creative juices are flowing!

I've been doing my scanning on my home scanner, page by page ... lift the glass, put down the page, close the glass, press the Scan button. wait for the scan, lift the glass, take off the paper, ........etc. This is very tedious and time consuming.

Then yesterday the lightbulb in my brain clicked ON! Our office copier has a Scan To E-mail function. Put a batch of papers in the document feeder, enter my e-mail address, press Start, open the e-mail, save the file to my computer, do a little file manipulation and rename it. Done! Hours saved!

I'll still need to do certain types of scanning at home the slow way, but I can also be bringing in a batch of paper each day for a few quick scan-to-email time-saving jobs.

I'm amazed. This is the kind of time-saving I-could-have-done-it-this-way idea I get right at the end of my projects!

I've recently put my little dumpling's web cam (link in the sidebar) back online and today I tuned in from work for this little sequence:

"What's that?!"

"THUNDER!!"

*crickets*

To Honey's credit, she tried to ride out the thunder right in her bed. She's slowly getting a little better about thunder, but has a long way to go. She is probably under my bed or in another dark, secluded place among some boxes of books. Poor girl!

(The photos are dark and grainy because the room lighting is very low due to overcast skies. I still had to share this!)

I'm just punching my timesheet so people can tell I'm still on the planet.

My Momento Scan Project is in full swing and that keeps me from almost everything else. It's very boring and slow work. I began with 6 boxes of papers and have now finished two of them in about a month of very dedicated work. This pace is bound to slow down because, did I mention, it's so frickin' boring?

Yet, I'm glad I'm doing this. It's a walk down memory lane, it frees up apartment space, and it organizes my so-called life.

Because I like to put photos in my blog posts, I'll share this one from my recent archives:

It's hard to see in the photo, but this gun is three dimensional, created with paper, crayons, tissues and staples. My sister has/had a companion pistol. We used them on our dear parents back in the 80s to force them on the spur of the moment to go with us to see Raiders of the Lost Ark. They loved the movie and it built up some movie cred for us, which we immediately lost when we took them to see the gawd-awful Neighbors. The guns spent the next 2 decades on display in my parent's momento cabinet.

This is what momentos brings back; some of the thoughts and memories are really good and some, initially good or bad, are re-evaluated based on a life of experience.

This holiday weekend I scanned my brains out and used the lack of TV shows to delve into my DVD collection; scanning and movies are compatible:

Donnie Darko - after a 2nd viewing of both the movie and director's commentary I finally get this interesting movie.

Diva - one of my very favorites. It is also from the 80s so it fit right in with the 80s scans. It is a French movie which I prefer to watch in French with English subtitles. Somehow it adds to the movie. It is a murder, cop, and romance drama with very interesting characters. I highly recommend it for everyone.

Poquanisaki - spelled wrong....I'll correct it later. Visually stunning, the movie is an image and music exploration of work and society in third world cultures vs modern cultures. Although the message is rather socialistic and flawed, the imagery is well worth viewing.

Vanya on 42nd Street - Chekov's Uncle Vanya performed in a modern context which points out how timeless and 'modern' are it's themes. The acting is first rate and the ending always makes me cry.