TO DO, or not to do?

FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES DEPARTMENT:  Yeah, well, listen, Reds and Readers. As my sister Reds will attest, there was a brief but stunning meltdown around here last night, created by software which went rogue and then apocalyptic, and prevented me from uploading photos.  When Julia and Jenn  and Debs tried to help, it went crazy on them, too.

Basically, the photo uploading is not working.  And it's a bigger deal than any mortal Red can fix.

I will, therefore, describe the photos you would have seen if equilibrium had prevailed.

And let us all hope the software recovers. Tomorrow will be a surprise.

But for now:

HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN: So I just made the huge decision to throw away the rest of the leftover turkey. And I realized that this is what I do every year. I hate to throw away food, even if I don’t think anyone is going to eat it, so I just put it in the refrigerator and leave it. I leave it until it is so grotesquely and dangerously poisonously old that it is a pleasure to throw it out.

Then I think: Wow. I should clean out this whole refrigerator. I should throw everything away. I should collect all of the sticky and virtually empty jars of duck sauce and mustard and horseradish and garlic chips and all the condiments that have been in there for 27 years and dump them. And wouldn’t that be fun?

PHOTO: We see unidentifiable glass jars (of various sizes) with multi-colored lids stored close together on the top shelf of a white refrigerator. The shelf is crowded, and nothing is quite recognizable. 

So that’s definitely on my to do list. Very soon. (But I am waiting for my edit letter for STILL NO TITLE and I need to focus on that.)

Another thing I will do, certainly, very soon, is alphabetize all the books in my bookshelves in the exercise room. Look at this one, how nice it is!  

PHOTO: We see two shelves of an obviously larger wooden bookcase. The authors of the hardcovers are nicely alphabetized: Atkinson, Atkinson, Bayard, Belle, Bowen, Bowen, Bowen, Brown.  And then the photo is cut off. In the shelf below: Finder, Goldman, Glass, Gruley, Hall, Hallinan, Hamilton, Hannah, Hannah, Hannah, Harding, Harris. And then the photo is cut off. 

 I could easily find anything on that shelf. It would be so much fun if I were actually looking for any of those books! But hey, it’s the principle.

Now look at this shelf. Not so great. 

Photo: We see one shelf from an obviously larger wooden bookcase. The titles of the hardcovers are random: Winspear, Winspear, Goodwin, Tappley, Finder, Benioff, Connelly, Gross, Eskens, Child.

Hmm. I should do all of our bookshelves. I will definitely put that on my to do list. I had planned on doing it at the beginning of the pandemic, but I guess there wasn’t exactly the right time. But yes, that’s on my list.

And another thing. Look. 

Photo: We see the edge of a pristinely white terrycloth Fieldcrest towel. The edge is fraying, so we see the individual threads hanging loose.

I am beginning to see that some of my towels have these little frayed sides. I know this is not how they should be, and it’s beginning to annoy me. Should I just cut off these little frayed ends? Or will they just fray again?

But you know, if they do, hey, I could just cut up the towels and use them for dust cloths and things like that. Whatever things like that are. But I would probably have to get some new scissors to cut them properly. And then, would I have to hem them? I need to think about that, and yes, this is definitely on my to do list.

 
What do you think, Reds and Readers? What’s on your definitely-going-to-do-this-absolutely-someday-soon list?