On Saturday, the first order of business on the Busy Weekend Agenda was to load up the trailer with dead appliances and reams of cardbaord, and head for the town dump (or rather, "Waste Innovation Centre"- sigh) because my boy, he knows how to show me a good time.
( However, that's not exactly what happened... )

Rob's home sick today. Still working, though. And he will until he has to stagger up to bed, because that's the way he is and there's nothing I can do about it, except make sure he's well supplied with juice and broths ( Read more... )

Didn't even leave the house today. Glorious ( Read more... )

This afternoon I finally managed to get geometry and physics to line up sweetly enough to let me get my drawing board into its new alcove. Stuck halfway across the room, it had been, wedged into a spot just about an inch smaller than I needed it to be. I figured it out ( Read more... )

What a virtuous soul I am, getting up nice and early to go to an exercise class. Those of you reading this who are regular pre-dawn gym bunnies, feel free to snicker, but hey- everything starts in small amounts ( Read more... )

So, my evil, evil dealer very kind friend much_ado has come through with season 2 of Buffy. This will require a far more rigourous viewing schedule, as it's 22 eps as opposed to the mere 12 of the inaugural season. Also, Spike will be introduced. Quite looking forward to that.

A thought occured to me while visiting much_ado last night- actually, more like a ( Read more... )

I have to find the instruction manual for the new oven. I was cooking dinner tonight- roast turkey thighs, which requires two sets of commands for the "convect roast"- and slightly before the allotted time had expired, the control panel beeped once, and then started blinking at me: Food.Um, yeah, you've got food in there... so what do you want from ( Read more... )

It took two tries to find the lab this morning. I'd foolishly *believed* MapQuest's depiction of where the place was, and set off uncaffeinated at 8am to find it not. Home again, back online, call customer service, and discover that it's not at the corner as clearly shown, but more than a kilometer away. Great ( Read more... )

Wednesday: errands, all day, car-enabled and Toronto-based. Doctor appointment, pharmacy after, and then over an hour at some boring garage getting the car lots of liquid love: oil change, transmission and rad flush. Also they insisted that the fuel pump was the original one that came with the car and absolutely had to be replaced. I was pretty ( Read more... )