I woke up in the middle of the night shivering and feverish again, and again around 6:45 am with a bone-deep conviction that I should not commute to the office today, so I worked from home. I don't know what it is, but it's happened to me before and it's not the usual morning grumbling - in the Before Times, I called in sick more than once due to such convictions, though not often enough to get in trouble for it - and the times I've ignored that feeling, I've regretted it. And usually, the next day I'm fine again. Idk.

I ordered some plastic bins to store my ever-growing collection of glitter and oil and lip balm containers, so I'll be working on organizing all of that in some way that can hopefully fit on the shelf in the closet, which also needs to be weeded through since there's some old clothes/coats hanging in there that I packed up when I moved and haven't worn since. I'm taking two days off in a couple of weeks to have a long weekend, so maybe I will sort through all that then.

I also made the appointment to have a professional come and measure my windows. Lowe's said they didn't have the service in my area once I put in my zip code, and Blinds to Go said the same, but Home Depot was able to schedule me for a week from Saturday (and then they called asking if I were available tomorrow, but 1. I'm working and 2. I have to shift a few things away from the windows before they come, so I said no). I hope the process is this: they come and measure, then tell me what I can buy from them blinds that can be custom cut (because I have a feeling my windows are not a normal size), and then they come back when the blinds are ready to be installed, which they do after they remove the current ones. If they can't, if they only provide the measurements, then I'll order blinds and a guy from Handy to come and hang them and remove the old ones, I guess.

Anyway, it's a beautifully sunny Wednesday and I finished rereading The Hobbit in time for Wednesday reading. I haven't reread it as often as I used to reread LOTR (which was once a year every year until my early twenties), and I always forget how different it is narratively, and how delightfully charming. I also forgot what a dick Thorin was to Bilbo, and how so few of the dwarves really get any personality. Overall, a highly entertaining read, and I'm glad I only saw the first movie - I think? Maybe I saw the second one? *checks DW* I did watch it while I was sick back in 2014, but I have no memory of it. Mostly what I remember is a coworker gave me an illicit copy of it to watch. *hands* I know I didn't see the third. So nothing from those films has overwritten the book in my head.

I don't know what I'm reading next. I guess we'll see!

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