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A second in a day. I didn’t get a ton done today per se but I did get caught up on bills that were due and started sorting through some of the massive pile on my desk.
I have a few different things that need to go to various places and will maybe try and make that happen this week.
The son is off school tomorrow and starts back Tuesday so my days are still so backwards.
I need to get this package sent off tomorrow to my sister for her birthday. Then need to make it a point to look around for the rest of the gift for my niece for her upcoming birthday. But isn’t until the start of February so I have some time yet.
I saw a fellow diarist talking about using chat gbt to summarize books and I might see about doing that for one of the ones further down in the pile and see how it goes. I think for nonfiction it’s an interesting idea. I was telling my son yesterday about how even if I could read a book every other day I wouldn’t be able to get through my pile in a year. I tell him this as we’re riding back from the book store and I have 3 new books and a book from the library in the back. I have issues, I know.
I fell off the reading track for many months now nothing was keeping my interest and I was dealing with 100 other things. Reading has taken a backseat to other things and I’d like to get back to it again. I don’t want it to be a chore to check off a list but I also don’t want the piles and piles of books to rule over me. Ideally I should go the whole year without buying a single book. realistically I know that won’t happen. But I need to get back to the original deal I made with myself that I have to read at least 2-3 books from my pile before I can buy one new book.
I had 4 books I wanted at the library but they were all new releases and I knew I wouldn’t read them all in 2 weeks. I wound up only getting one but I probably won’t even crack that one open either.
It is what it is. I can’t go cold turkey without buying them but I do realize I don’t have unlimited space to store them all.
I came into a small amount of money from a relative who passed away back in 2024 I believe. We weren’t in any kind of will of hers because she was my father’s aunt. but she had a trust of some sort that was to go to her son who passed away before her or her sister (my grandma) who also passed away before her. If both of them were gone it went to next in line family which was my father who passed away before her and my aunt (father’s sister) who passed away before her as well. So now it’s the 4 children myself, sister and my two cousins. It was this huge ordeal that my sister stepped up and worked on then had attorneys working on for months and months. The checks were finally cut and mailed, I got it a few days ago and have yet to deposit it. I’m not quite sure how taxes will go this year because we don’t file any but anyways…I say all this to mention that we kids always knew the Aunt we called her Aunt J as well and she was around for all the family stuff so it’s not like we didn’t know her. She would get us gifts etc. Anyways I’m kind of trying to figure out what to do with the money. I should pay off what debts we have and then save it. I want to kind of at least honor her money and not waste it on dumb stuff. So something that would help out the house possibly or go towards something for my health and well-being. Not like consumer goods but like health procedures or something I don’t know. I would like to finally get us a nice bed frame and we need a new mattress. Lots to consider …like I said it isn’t a huge amount but enough that I could do something good with it.
Anywho. I should probably get off of this dang site and at least get one more task done before I shower and log off for the evening.