Done.

Done today:

• Walked outside to go to work, realized it was trash day, ran back inside, and rounded up trash double-quick. Put trash out. Drove to work.
• Worked till noon. Busy morning. Worked ver’ hard.
• Bought sandwich for lunch. Got home expecting to eat sandwich while watching last night’s Veronica Mars.
• Discovered that VM didn’t download overnight and is in fact not yet available online.
• Cursed BitTorrent, my computer, and fate in general.
• Found book to go with sandwich instead.
• Started dishwasher and load of laundry.
• Cleaned clutter in dining room.
• Ditto living room.
• Ditto study.
• Vacuumed whole house. (All at once! House go whoosh! … not really; I’m just tired.)
• Swiffer’d floors.
• Dusted some very, very dusty things.
• Laundry, round 2.
• Scrubbed bathroom.
• Located clock and extra blanket for guest bedroom.
• Laundry, round 3.
• Moved useless items from guest bedroom to my closet.
• Moved stack of empty boxes from living room to garage (where they will remain useless, but out of my way).
• Washed dishes requiring hand washing.
• Helped newly arrived mother-in-law unpack the many foodstuffs she brought.
• Ate a purple sweet potato cookie with a label I can’t read. (They’re quite tasty.)
• Accompanied husband and mother-in-law to Target and grocery store.
• Became poor.
• Debated the state of the turkey’s thawing and possible methods for accelerating the process.
• Ate dinner while determining how much of tomorrow’s cooking could be done tonight.
• Unloaded dishwasher.
• Washed new enormous roasting pan and new itty bitty coffee pot.
• Learned from mother-in-law how much water to use with rice in rice cooker. (Michael’s answer to this question invariably ends in hand-waving.)
• Made pumpkin cheesecake.
• Made cranberry sauce.
• Made stuffing.
• Trimmed green beans. (For this.)
• Learned many gory details of mother-in-law’s divorce from father-in-law while mother-in-law wielded potato peeler. Stayed on other side of kitchen.
• Shredded cheese. (For this.)
• Rearranged contents of refrigerator to accommodate all that crap.
• Washed dishes.
• Overheard mother-in-law, upon seeing her son play WoW for the first time, say “This is not real! Why you play so hard?!”
• Laughed self silly.

Tired now. Fall down time. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Happy holidays.