Snow begins next week. Hope my new staff arrives before then. Hope it works and doesn't inflame my tendinitised elbows.

S-i-l says the ROM's Viking show is not worth seeing. Maybe I'll try to get to the Dior exhibition instead. This 'never sure whether I can walk or not' thing is, quite literally, a pain ( Read more... )

Dishes, laundry, cooking- those chicken thighs on special that were best before today. Reminded of chicken in tarragon by someone's chance post (though her version had cherry tomatoes ugh) I did the classic Pierre Franey recipe with shallots, butter, tarragon, and white wine. To which I added mustard and it was yummy yummy. Used Franey's quantities ( Read more... )

Plague has thinned the daycare ranks to laughable numbers, so I only worked two days out of five. In spite of that, I have some sort of bleh, which might be psychological or physical or the effect of half a bottle of wine last night. Or maybe it's just one of those achey days, because yes indeed knees and elbows have been twinging something chronic ( Read more... )

My (still) laudably clean house gladdens my heart, but the vacuuming and mopping needed to keep it that way annoys my tendinitis no end. Have taken to vacuuming with two hands to spread the strain ( Read more... )

1. Next door has had flies as well. She: 'One or two.' He: 'I've killed at least six.' Yes, me too, and more. But seems the plague is not rat-caused, and I've seen no more today (fingers crossed) so shall unblock the vents again.

2. My hiking staff arrived. It looks like this and is indeed much more Gandalfy than the photo makes it appear. Am of ( Read more... )

1. Who says you never learn anything on FB? Someone posted a picture of the jerkface who shot a hibernating bear, and someone in the comments remarked 'Elender pisser.' So now I know the German for 'miserable prick/ asshole ( Read more... )

I thought last November was a bust but it's nothing like this one. Mind, last year was pure post-election funk, and this is... extreme tiredness, largely, from all the work I'm doing, and achiness from November and the perennial hurty in the lower back that nothing seems to cure. For a change, reading isn't my main activity, so I do very little ( Read more... )

1. Accomplishment for the day- 1 load of dishes, 2 loads of laundry, dust and vacuum and wash front hall and living room, finish boiling three sets of chicken bones for stock, and buy a hiking staff online. I'd prefer something thicker and more Gandalfy, but with luck this will get me through the snow more comfortably than a cane does ( Read more... )

Nothing is happening. I do not read. I do not clean. I'm not sure what I do, but I play addiction solitaire and read blogs and go t bed, sleep, and get up to work another day.

Even on the sickly weekend with its three hour afternoon naps I managed to Housekeep a little: cleaned side bedroom's fan, thick with the dust of many a year; poured furniture polish on a couple of dry wooden tables and let soak in; and swept up the 90% of the cherry tree leaves that fell on Friday and blew into the side walkway to a depth of five ( Read more... )