This week has just been weird.

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Laurel's potty schedule and mine coincided yesterday and she giggled when I told her "You go to your bathroom, I'll go to mine, then I'll come back and help you finish." Good: she's finally peeing on the potty, although it's only about twice a day so far. Less good: she keeps saying it's too hard to flush the toilet and I'm not sure what to do ( Read more... )

I made progress that finally showed results in the nerdsprout's room yesterday. I filled two large garbage bags with old magazines and junk, two small kitchen garbage bags with clothing to clean and pack, and sorted out about a medium box in volume of books, photos, personal papers and other belongings of the nerdsprout's; in total, enough to ( Read more... )

Two of the nerdsprout's friends stopped by yesterday to pick up a few things she'd asked for. What they actually took was a bit more, but the important thing is that they let themselves in before I could get to the door, so we're going to start locking the door during the day and I'll have a housekey ( Read more... )

Friday kept me on my feet: ( between party preparation and Laurel being squirrelly... )

Another thing I love about being here is doing laundry. I know that sounds goofy, but using a Maytag Neptune to do laundry is actually pleasurable.

Earlier this week, vogonpoet's nerdsprout put her sneakers in the washer. After hearing a couple rounds of thump-thump, thump-thump, he said "What does she have in there? Monkeys?!" and was moderately peeved to ( Read more... )