OK, tree is here and lying trussed on the floor.
Check. ✔
I have a couple of errands to run and then will pick up and clean the house.
Check. ✘
ETA: Clean up three indoor poops and then take dog to vet. They gave him subcutaneous fluids and he looks like a water balloon now.
Check. ✔This evening I will set up the tree and put lights on it ( Read more... )

I am somewhat of a history buff when it comes to my adopted home town. (I grew up in Chicago, but I've lived here a lot longer than I did there.) This is a small city, easy to navigate and small enough to really get to know, and I've enjoyed finding out about neighborhoods and their histories. When calsabon was little and had a doctor's appointment, I'd ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I absent myself from hearth and home and husband to deprive halfdreams of the free use of most of her day off. Hopefully she won't mind very much, and perhaps I can bribe her and linaeloisetook into pretending to be glad to see me by taking them out for dinner ( Read more... )

It's 12:19. ETA for in-laws is 3:00. To do:

1. Launder sheets in guest suite and make bed.
2. Clean bathroom in guest suite.
3. Clean bedroom in guest suite; dust and Swiffer the floor and the stairs up to the room.
4. Clean bird cages.
5. Wash floor in bird room.
6. Wash towels and duvet cover for guest suite.
7. Make reservations for " ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago, Paul mentioned that he'd like to try to mount a little videocamera on the front of his kayak so that he could analyze his racing paddle stroke. So, being a good wife, I filed away that little bit of information, and then started researching, finally settling on a Flip Ultra camera. I found a waterproof cover for it and a ( Read more... )

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You know how fun it is to give toddlers things to say? They're just learning how to talk, and often will obligingly repeat anything you ask them to repeat. I guess they're so used to hearing "Tell Uncle Jack 'thank you' for the present" that they just go ahead and do it, whatever. (That kind of trust is kind of touching, isn't it?) Anyway, I ( Read more... )

In the summer of 2004 I had some old 16-mm movies transferred to DVD. They came out very well. I was amazed; there was my Dad, at about 2 years old, I'd estimate, and his siblings, both of whom I knew. I recognized the 1925 version of my grandmother and finally laid eyes on my scary, crazy great-grandmother, who looked OK in the film, but who, I ( Read more... )

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You know what's nice? When you're making dinner, and listening to Delbert McClinton sing "She's like rolling a seven, every time I roll the dice" and you think "That's how my husband thinks about me."

That's a good feeling.