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So, I'm having a lot of work done at the house, partially because it really needs it, partially because I need something to keep my brain engaged at all hours of the day and night, and partially because even with all of that, I'm not sure I can go back to live there. I for sure can't see being there now without some significant changes, so it's worth trying because I really have loved that house for a lot of years, but it's all tangled up with D and it's a lot.

Anyway.

So, since I don't have that second full-time job of managing health and medical issues, I'm paying attention to what it is that I like and want. My sister-in-law (who is really good at this sort of thing) is helping a lot, but she'll buy things just to put on shelves and I'm the sort who wants the stuff in the room to mean something. So, when I've been awake in the middle of the night, I've been cruising ebay and etsy and somewhere in there I discovered that all the museum exhibit catalogs that I could never afford to buy when I was younger are available at extremely reasonable prices at used bookstores. So I spent a very enjoyable week or so going through all the exhibits at various museums over the years and any of them that I remembered going to, I went off and searched for their catalogs.

A bunch of them have come in

and I don't know exactly what I'm going to do with them, but I'm having fun paging through them and remembering wandering through galleries and then having lunch at various cafes, back when that was the most elegant thing I could imagine which is not at all a bad thing.

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That looks like a fun project, both for buying them and figuring out what to do with them.

I have a couple of museum catalogs from when I was in St. Petersberg and Russia that are fun to flip through.

I'm glad you're finding things that you like, and I hope the house renovations help some.

Those sound like very nice things to focus on.

I hope you enjoy them and the business helps a little.