So it's 100 degrees here, and I decided today was the day I rip the home office/guest room apart and deep clean, move stuff around and reorganize EVERYTHING in it: cabinets, drawers, wires, all of it.
I have been working on it for 4 hours, and I am DISGUSTING with sitcky sweat, with dirt and cat hair sticking to me. I want a shower soooo bad, but I still have about two hours worth of work left, and I will just need another shower when I am done.
However, I already have so much more room. I have repurposed my grandmother's cabinet sewing machine as a writing desk, with an old flat narrow drawer fitting neatly over the hole where the sewing machine would flip out of.
I also lined the old, catclawed raffia bulletin board on the bunk bed, where there is a pull out shelf I use for my laptop, with rather nice cream handmade paper that I found in the ex's crap, and now it is all neat and cute.
Hung the white board, velcroed the long extension cord all my computer stuff is plugged into over the closet and along the kickboard, instead of having it all strung out across the floor.
Now, for some major tweaks in all the organizing of the drawers and desktop stuff, and a final sweep and I am done. I wish I'd taken before pictures, because the after is going to be so, SO much better.
I just managed to give myself a nose bleed.
Okay, Erin, I need to be you for today! I seriously seriously need to do that to my office. And the time is now, before school starts back up. Plus I have all this back work from the summer travel, and I want to do that, but if I just sit on top of the heap of junk that is my office and do it, then I'll never get anywhere. I will be much better off and happier if I just do the huge clean all the things reorg now.
ION! I have tadpoles in my tiny garden pond! TADPOLES, people! I live in Arizona! But this has been a serious monsoon and there are a ton of little swimmys in the pond. I don't think they'll survive, so I've been desperately reading tadpole rearing info. Looks like some of our romaine will be getting frozen into ice cube trays and used as tadpole food!
mac had a new friend to play with almost all day and I sat and worked on the computer, went to family counseling, and bought groceries. All I want to do now is get some things ready for errands tomorrow (mail off things to do with selling co-op) and chill. He wants to play with me or watch his tv non-stop. so better than fighting, but sigh.
Thank you for the congratulations, all, and congratulations in turn for all the other anniversary couples.
For our anniversary, Aims will pop a percocet and pass out trying to get over this sinus/ear thing.
Kat, that was a very Lake Woebegone response from your dad.
Liese, you might be surprised. During monsoon in LC, we'd get toad tadpoles in every single body of water. They've got a really fast life cycles. Plus, I think some burrow really deep during the season, in dry spells between storms. They have to, since every storm would bring this incredible cacophony of toads looking to get it on.
Regarding the TiVo(and it is a TiVo, not a Comcast DVR), there has been a recurring problem where it records the wrong channel. We thought we had fixed it by putting a doodad on the input cable that had been forgotten when we reconfigured things after the digital converter box got set up. Apparantly, that wasn't it. I have set it to record a repeat of the ep later this week, but it's very annoying.
So cool to spot tadpoles!
Even though my parents' backyard is kind of a typical suburban lawnscape devoid of much biodiversity, I saw a praying mantis this morning and it was so cool!
