Friday: last day of school before February break

It’s Blue and Gold day at the junior high and A. is wearing her new (from December) blue and gold disney 50th dress with gold Amazon leggings. It’s … adorable. And utterly perfect as an outfit choice in general and specifically today. I am kind of in awe of my daughter’s craft with outfits. She thinks of herself as an actor, and these are her costumes, but not in a _bad_ way. I love it.

I was up until after midnight last night NOT reading a book, but puttering with my library. This is a thing I used to do all the time, back when my library had physicality, and since I’ve almost entirely stopped buying paper books and gotten rid of most of my paper books, puttering and rearranging my library has felt like a thing of the past. Years ago, I tried to sort my kindle e-books into “collections” but gave it up, because it was painfully Not the Same. But recently I realized that there is a form of puttering with my kindle library that feels exactly the same as puttering with physical books once did, right down to the Keep Doing It Even Tho I’m Tired and Should Take a Break aspect of it. Basically, I’ve been going through, removing things read from my kindle, and identifying books bought in the past that I have NOT read, but have some interest in reading, and putting them onto my kindle. I have an oasis (from 2019 — it’s still fine, and I’m kind hoping a color kindle happens soonish), so there’s tons of space on there for books. Obviously, I can download books wherever I am. The issue is remembering that I own a book and downloading it when I’m in the mood to read it often takes long enough that it eats into the time to read. But if I had a bunch of books just sitting there, I can open the kindle, open the current one and carry on. This all seems very obvious, and probably everyone else is quite good about this, except I know from legendary stories of endless TBRs that there are a lot of people like me out there, too. Recently, one of the organized people posted their next stack of books to read on FB, and I didn’t want to read any of those books, but it did get me thinking. And I’m glad it did. That was hugely fun and I should do it vigorously and more frequently.

In which we fly to Orlando

This went well! The kids went to school for a few hours, and A. at least had an assembly in the afternoon, so they didn’t miss much. We were picked up at 11:45, arrived at Logan around 12:20, no need to bag drop because carryon only. We went out to the gate in C, stopped at Wahlburger’s and had lunch. Then off to the gate and an _on time departure_! Woot!

I totally forgot to tell people what was going on with Friday zoom. Oops.

We stopped at Cask and Larger in Palm Court and had dinner. Tasty! The Jason’s Mom’s tacos are like candy.

We attempted to get the shuttle over to the car rental, however, it was a 25 minute wait, so we wound up walking. Because we had so lightened luggage, this was not bad, altho the Aerolite bag has terrible wheels. I’ll be revisiting this, I think. R. and T. were very happy with their hand-me-down GRo bags.

We got a minivan, got the plate added to the SunPass account (big hiccup there because cell phone coverage is non-existent in the garage and R. keeps forgetting where to enter a new plate in the app. Should probably share my login credentials with him AND figure out how to verbally prompt him on where to find the plate screen in the app).

We dropped T. off at MIL’s and then checked into the Comfort Suites nearby. I set up the zoom and hung out with Priestess, B. and later P. I forgot to text H. back that we had arrived. Ooops. Did that right before bed.