Yay--I just scheduled my massage and pedicure for Friday afternoon. I'm soooo glad my company is giving us a four-day weekend!!

I've been very productive at home. All of my living room and dining room are picked up and dusted, and all of the books, dvds, and cds have been reorganized and went through a very minor purge in those two rooms. I'll be home by 5:00 tonight, when I will vacumn the entire apartment (moving all of my furniture to vacumn underneath), clean out my hallway closets and under the kitchen sink so that I can reorganize my tools (currently scattered in at least three different locations), hang up some stuff on the walls, and possibly get started on cleaning the bedroom. Tomorrow night, after my swim, will be spent finishing the bedroom, and then Thursday night will be making my bathroom immaculate, including scrubbing the tile walls in the shower. Goodwill donations will be dropped off on Friday, and then my apartment will be gorgeous!

I know I won't be cleaning on this scale again before fall, but at least it'll be done for the quarter.

Also on Friday, I'm going to go shopping for the dress for my brother's wedding. I was going to wait until August, but it looks like the stores are already filling up with fall clothes, so I'd better go now.

Morning. ::yawn::

I gotta put down the keyboard and clean today, as we are having overnight houseguests tomorrow. Strangely enough, they are people from OTHER PARTS OF THE INTERNET.

Guys, it's true: they exist. And some of them are nice and smart, even!

But I gotta clean the bathroom and dust and stuff...

What I really want to do? Go swimming and go to yoga.

Me too. Let's run away. The kids will be fine.

I am totally stressed out right now. Fortunately, all the people in my department are animal lovers, so they don't fault me for coming in late and leaving early, but I hate doing it because I'm the supervisor.

I need to move the crib out and we were going to give it to a friend, except now drop side cribs are verboten. So maybe not?

Most drop-side cribs can be configured to not drop. (We accepted a hand-me-down drop-side crib for Aeryn because the alternative was spending money we didn't have. So there's also that.)

Soylent Green is other people!!!!

And Jesse has met them.

I need a doppelganger.

What it was an Evil!Sparky who gave everybody a Needs Improvement on their review, grilled the candidate mercilessly, and tracks down and slaps everybody who called on the Sass phone with false leads and mean prank calls?

Kat, I'm so sorry it took me so long to give it to him. If it's any consolation, I think now was possibly the best time for him to receive it, she says sheepishly.

You know when you've got an important but very technical thing to communicate to a client, and your sales and marketing types are all "Help us understand this highly technical piece of information! And then make the information exciting! Make it sparkle!"

Yeah, I don't know how to make it SPARKLE, people. You keep telling me to make it shiny, but nobody's giving me any solid feedback on how to make boring and technical shit unicorns and rainbows!

Maybe these will help: [link]

Tom, at this point I totally would draw an interpretive ppt slide in glitter pen if I had any idea how to format and present this information.

Kat, I'm so sorry it took me so long to give it to him. If it's any consolation, I think now was possibly the best time for him to receive it, she says sheepishly.

Oh, ita, no apology necessary at all. I had forgotten about it (and when I think about it, I think about the one I made for my friend David who just died this spring which makes me sad) Why was this time a better time?

Sparky, I'm going swimming. Obligations be damned.