I haven't done this year's taxes but I did go to Staples for filing supplies and have successfully purged and organized the File Cabinet Of Doom. Nearly 15 years of random ass crap have now been either properly filed or thrown into what DH and I are calling the Giant Bag O' Identity Theft, which will be shredded and then recycled.

It turns out we had a lot of really important papers in there! And now I know where they are!

There were also an embarrassing number of printer test pages and empty envelopes.

I was all proud of myself for doing a load of laundry on the first day of a three-day weekend, but it turned out the dryer is broken. I had already put the detergent on my stuff (I have decided it is a waste to lug the jug up and down the stairs), so I just did it anyway. So now my house is adorned with lots of air-drying socks and underwear. But at least they are clean?

Ha Jessica, I need to do that too. Why do we keep the printer test pages? What wisdom do we hope to glean from them decades in the future?

Do I get points if I throw printer test pages out immediately?

Jesse, I always wanted those drying racks you pull down from the ceiling, like in Victorian kitchens. Not that our current ceiling is anywhere near high enough, but still.

Went to Sara's indoor soccer game, and man, she's so funny. Apparently she's not really supposed to be on the team because it's for nine- and ten-year-olds, and she just turned *eight* at the end of November, but she certainly makes up for it with enthusiasm. We were all cheering her getting the ball and dribbling it away toward the goal, and she must have heard us because she threw a smile and waved like the frigging queen while she was running. Two of the other moms cracked up.

Jesse, I always wanted those drying racks you pull down from the ceiling, like in Victorian kitchens.

Ooh, that would be good.

Adorable Sara.

No laundry done here, but I just reorganized 3 kitchen cabinets. Why do I have 4 strainers? I'm putting 3 in the garage and if I haven't used them in a couple of months, out they go.

In the process of messing with the cabinets, I really need to wash down ALL my cabinet drawers. I thought I was doing a good job, but looking at them from the floor, not so much.

I have done All The Dishes, changed lightbulbs, emptied a moving box (nope, not unpacked yet) and put a bunch of boxes in my over-closet storage cabinets, paid bills, updated my budget, put away some clothes, and took a nap. I did *not* take advantage of the parade-less day to run errands, alas.

Here's a pull-down-from-the-wall drying rack that I'm wanting: [link] I like the original from Ballard, but the user-created knock-off looks just as useful.

Ooo, that's pretty awesome, Zen.

Man, so much geekery in one photoshopped image. And a weasel. [link]

No one told me we were having Productivity Three Day Weekend!

I went to town to get the mail, then back to the next town over to deposit the checks found therein, to the post office to mail stuff (yay!), to the gas station, to the grocery to inquire about marrow bones for the demi-glace, to the other bank for personal deposit, back past the original post office, to the mail store to drop off packaging materials recycling, then to two different bookstores to try to sell used books.

No one buys used books. Well, they do, but only for store credit. Which would be great normally, but I wanted vacation money. Where do you guys sell used books, if at all?

And then back home. And then I took the dog on a ride to the little store because I wanted mint tea.