A case of the Mondays

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v90q0ydxMI


Today's earrings: racing camels, kangaroos

Bedtime reading: Wintersmith, Terry Pratchett

The song in my head today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu7sRdRrm_w


Today's earrings: bees, kangaroos

Bedtime reading: Ringing Changes, R.A. Lafferty

Thinking of the children

Last week, I contemplated the overflowing shelves in my closet, and asked myself, "Self, why on earth do I have so many sheets?" Myself obligingly began to explain at length the roots of my packrat behavior.
"Enough!" I cried. "Can't you recognize a rhetorical question? Don't answer that. These sheets must go!"

Friday, I had lunch with Cricket, and I told her of my determination to rid myself of redundant linen. She replied that one of her first tasks in the coming school year will be to set her minions making little sacks for pinto beans, and if the sacks were made of castoff bedlinen, all the better for the budget. (If someone were to provide 100 pounds of pinto beans, she would have nothing left to wish for.)

Today, I presented Cricket with two sacks of the aforementioned bedlinen. It was frabjous.

Now I have to figure out what to do with all the extra pillows. Ah, well... next summer will be soon enough.


Today's earrings: owls, kangaroos (w/joeys)

Bedtime reading: Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

Constructive

I did nothing all day while the contractors loaded in the new kitchen cabinets. Early afternoon, the Lead Contractor Dude came and said, "I got a question."
"Um, OK," I said, "I don't know how much help I'll be."
"I thought she said her sister designed this."
"She did. There are four of us."
"Oh. Well, we seem to be short one 24" cabinet and have two extra 30" cabinets."
We stared at the plans. We re-counted the cabinets. We stared at the plans. We stared at the cabinets. We put in a call to K, who was in a meeting and would call back.
Finally I said, "Would any of the cabinets already attached to the wall fit the description of the cabinet we're missing?"
A lightbulb went on over his head. The specs for the cabinet over the sink had changed, and been penciled in, but they'd followed the old specs instead of the new. A feeling of general enlightenment and relief filled the kitchen. K called back and had a productive conversation with the Lead Contractor Dude, incidentally solving the mystery of the two extra 30" cabinets.
I went back to doing nothing.

At eventide, everyone came home and S hung doors while K placed shelves and Tiger and I got in the way. I took pictures. Then we all went out to dinner.


Today's earrings: squirrels, kangaroos

Bedtime reading: _L. Frank Baum_, Katharine M. Rogers

Happy Leap Day

So today one of my coworkers said, quite seriously, that she thought there were 30 days in February. If she's playing dumb, she's doing it really convincingly...


Today's earrings: frogs, kangaroos

Bedtime reading: Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon, Donna Andrews

Hops

It totally felt like Friday today. And it felt like Friday yesterday, too. But it's not Friday.

I need a bunny.

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Today's earrings: Frogs, kangaroos

Bedtime reading: Longshot, Dick Francis