Furniture-polished the teak coasters

Now I know why they don't recommend applying polish with cotton balls.

Printed out tax forms

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Finished excavating the top drawers

Found a bunch of stuff I forgot I had. Not sure what to do with a lot of it. Like, what does one do with a large quantity of tiny ziplocks, besides take them to a street fair and return them to the earring vendors? What about the old (cheap) watches? I hate pitching out finished goods, but they're not worth the trouble of replacing their batteries, and no one else is going to want them.

What to do, what to do?


Today's earrings: frogs, lily pads

Bedtime reading: School Days, Robert B. Parker

Made copies, stuffed & stamped envelopes

Ready to mail.


Today's earrings: frogs, lily pads

Bedtime reading: The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan

Tonight on Survivor

Week before last, JT found an immunity idol. Last week, JT and the other guys on Team Heroes conspired to pass that immunity idol to Russell, a total stranger who happened to be the last male player on Team Villains. Their rationale for this was that "obviously" the women on the Villain team were in an alliance, and Russell needed to be saved from the Evil Women.

This week, the teams merged. Villain Sandra stole a moment alone with Hero Rupert and told him the real scoop: the internal divisions of the Villains had never been along gender lines, and Sandra was the real odd one out on that team. Since Rupert and Sandra had been allies in a previous season, Rupert believed her. Since JT was very much invested in his fantasy of Evil Women, JT did not believe her. JT's conviction was bolstered by a series of not-terribly-plausible lies from Russell.

Danielle (a Villain) wins the immunity challenge. Considerable maneuvering ensues. The ex-Heroes, what with one thing and another, decide not to vote for their primary target Parvati, but for Jerri (a Villanous red shirt). The ex-Villains decide to vote for JT. After the voting, Parvati produced two immunity idols - the one JT gave Russell, which Russell gave her, plus one she'd found herself - and handed them to Sandra and Jerri. Sandra and Jerri thank Parvati and play the idols. JT voted out.

JT congratulated Russell, but not Parvati, before he left. In his final words, he said that the lesson he'd learned (from Russell lying to him) was "never trust a woman."


Today's earrings: frogs, lily pads

Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R.A. Lafferty

March Madness

has pre-empted my Thursday night appointment tv.

*sigh*


Today's earrings: frogs, lily pads

Bedtime reading: The Danger, Dick Francis

Happy St Scholastica's Day

Scholastica is invoked against storms, because this one time, when she was visiting with her brother (St. Benedict), she asked him to stay over and and talk to her all night but he said no, so she prayed and God sent a thunderstorm so severe that her brother had to stay.

God does the silliest stuff for saints.


Today's earrings: frogs, lily pads

Bedtime reading: Under the Dome, Steven King

Limerick

Little Zooks, of whom no one was fond
They shot toward the roof and beyond
The infant's trajectory
Took it over the rectory
And into a lily-choked pond
- - Edward Gorey

Today's earrings: frogs, lily pads

Bedtime reading: The Franchise Affair, Josephine Tey