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It's sleeting out there.

Has been off and on, since late yesterday.

The ground is covered in what looks like snow but is actually thick ice.

I live in Atlanta why, again?

EDIT: Still sleeting. Parts of the interstate are closed. Sheet of ice on our driveway. Not going anywhere. Official ice storm.

Y'know, I wasn't entirely surprised to be snowed in in Boston. But Atlanta?

Girl Scout cookies

226 boxes sold so far; a little less than half of last year's 504.

Why? Because I'm tired. :) Last year, the year before (400 boxes), I've been a tireless cheerleader, pushing and pushing and selling and selling!

This year, I simply sent out the single e-mail to my office and left the order form on my desk... I didn't push many people as they walked by.

This year, I only mentioned it a few times on LJ. I honestly didn't even keep track of how many boxes she was selling, wheras in past years, I've been rabid about that!

I don't have the energy for this. *rueful grin*

She's surprised that she hasn't sold as many as last year, but I pointed out to her that she has not been selling them; I've been too tired to relentlessly push, but y'know what? It really isn't my job. So she's seeing how she has to go out and do this.

How many of the 226 did she sell? 30. Heh.

I was going to take her door-to-door today, but it's below freezing, and I so am not doing that. :) Next year. Next year I also won't have wiped myself out at Arisia at the start of cookie sale week!

So this'll be her first year of not being top seller - so this should encourage her to get out and sell next year, y'know?

I do think she has a chance of hitting 300; we haven't heard back from my birthfamily or Adam's mom yet, and there are several of you on LJ who said you were going to order and haven't gotten around to it yet. E-mail me today or tomorrow if you want to order!

Heh. I'm tired. Learning curve. Not the mom I used to be.

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Dear 'song,

Do not mistake "having a decent week, medically" with "all better now".

Remember that even if one is "all better now", lugging around all of the comic boxes for the big weeding and integration project is not an inconsiderable amount of physical labor.

Love,

'song.
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Yes, all of them. And all of the random stacks of comics, too. Because the lack of organization is driving me batshit crazy.

Everything is getting yanked out of wherever it is. Things that were never alphabetized will be alphabetized.

And there will be weeding. Oh, yes. There will be weeding.

If we have something in trade paperback, we do not need the original issues. (Unless they're autographed.)

If something sucked, we do not need it. (Full run of The Dreaming, anyone?)

So! We get organized, we maybe make some money selling doubles and stuff we don't need, and we regain a little extra space. Which will be taken by incoming comics, sure, but these days we're trying to wait for the trade on anything we're sure will have a trade. Because we know ourselves - we know we'll buy the trade anyway. And the trade is cheaper. And easier to re-read.

But this is a huge insane project, y0.

The ice storm prevented us from going to a comic shop to buy more boxes, but we've ordered some, so I should be able to get on with alphabetization and integration later this week. I figure two shortboxes a day is a decent goal. I can't do any weeding without Adam. Well, except for the "we have this in trade" stuff and the "all manga rox - oh, wait, that sucked" stuff.

But. Today's setup = a little much. The backs of my legs are all trembly, even.