Thursday of my not-so-restful vacation week. One of the things I'd wanted to do at home was find the upstairs hallway. My mom is a borderline hoarder who loves to buy things regardless of if we have room for them or not. Many years ago, our guest bedroom was turned into the doll room. The dolls seeped their way throughout the house over the years ( Read more... )

I had a productive day, way more so than usual. That was because I got the house to myself for much of the afternoon and evening, and without anyone being nosy, I was able to get stuff done ( Read more... )

I have a four-day weekend, hooray. I stayed in bed until almost 9 AM. This never happens--on Saturdays, I have to go shopping, and on Sundays, I have to do laundry. A Thursday where I don't have to go to work? Screw it. Also, even though work wasn't exceptionally taxing this week (planned purposely...back at it next week), it was still stressful ( Read more... )

The last two weeks were pretty rough on me. When work is hectic and stressful and physical, it really takes a toll. I woke up Thursday morning thinking, this is going to be a sitting day, and then the way the day unfolded, I didn't get a chance to sit until about 2:30 PM, and only because my left leg was protesting heavily. I don't even know how to ( Read more... )

I think this week has emotionally drained me. Too much drama at work to let me want to do much of anything of use today. That's not to say I did nothing, but a chunk of time that could have been spent doing useful things, or walking around outside during one of our last nice fall days while the trees still have leaves, instead got spent futzing ( Read more... )

This has been such a nice weekend. If I did anything, it's because I wanted to, not because I *had* to. And a lot of what I wanted to do was just spend time outside with my paper relaxing. Sitting in the sun, listening to whatever was happening outside, that puts me in a happy place ( Read more... )

I got surprised with a four-day weekend for this holiday. The nature of the business I work for is that normally we should have been open yesterday. However, my boss' family has a cabin in Michigan and out-of-town relatives wanted to spend a long weekend with the people employed at my business--currently three family members and Puffy, who at this ( Read more... )

Today's the day the city comes to install a new water meter. My father has been feverishly cleaning the basement and rearranging things to better suit his hobbies, i.e., he's taken our old kitchen table and turned it into a big desk for his computers and monitors. Last night he asked me to go downstairs to see if it passed the sniff test; I have ( Read more... )

If it's February, it means I'm getting into contest season, and I have 2 definite and 1 possible contests to do in the next few weeks, starting next Saturday. I realized I had chores I needed to get done, so no time like the present! It helps that I basically shut down on Friday night, because that meant on Saturday I was restored and had a fair ( Read more... )

How did I do with the last week of the Cure?

Day 16: Set up a landing strip - No. We don't have a place close to the front door in order to do this, but we also already have places where we put things, so it wasn't necessary.
Day 17: Clean the bathroom - Sadly, no--my bathroom really needs it, too. Maybe next weekend; this one is too off-kilter at ( Read more... )