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Done.

November 23, 2006 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

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.

Life

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