I've still got to fold the laundry I washed yesterday.

However, today I went out to Clarendon where I went to Williams Sonoma (pastry bag, grapefruit knife), The Container Store (hamper, old lady cart, toilet brush, a laptop bag for my mom, and a few random odds and ends), and the Apple store (drooling over stuff I can't afford, mostly, and pondering buying a nano.) Then I got some weird looks when I assembled the old lady cart at the front of The Container Store and put all the other stuff I bought into it to cart it home. (I thought it was a pretty good idea. That cart was impossible to carry when unassembled, and it took about two minutes to assemble it.)

We did the garden tour. a lot of mellow fun. The garden owners we a kick. some very sweet people , and there were some that were almost beating their chest's with pride. It was rather cute. Everybody has a water feature now. Most importantly my sister and I got lots of compliments on our hats.

I should throw a load of laundry in...

Sounds smart to me ,Hil.

and I have last week's laundry to put away - and yesterday's to fold....

I am trying to convince my self that it is a good thing to deal with laundry.

8 loads of laundry still lie piled on my bed. I will have to put it away tonight, unless I care to sleep on my couch.

I believe I'm calling out sick tomorrow.

Dinner: turkey and mashed potatoes. Yum. Thank goodness for Boston Market on the corner. Otherwise I'd be living on cheese and crackers.

Everybody has a water feature now.

I laugh at myself for actually using the term "water feature," even in my head. But I do.

I need to either roast a chicken or beef tonight in preparation for Mallory's lunches all week. It's just so hard to cook when I don't have anyone to serve the food to.

I'm (half) watching a thing on the History channel about the history of punishment, and they just said that somebody (the Romans, I think) used to execute condemned criminals by throwing them in a river tied in a sack. With an ape, a dog, and a snake in the sack, too, so that the animals' panciked attempts to escape imminent drowning also sped the condemned to their doom.

WTF?????????????

I'm (half) watching a thing on the History channel about the history of punishment, and they just said that somebody (the Romans, I think) used to execute condemned criminals by throwing them in a river tied in a sack. With an ape, a dog, and a snake in the sack, too, so that the animals' panciked attempts to escape imminent drowning also sped the condemned to their doom.

Yeah, I'd read something about being tied in a sack with a tiger and thrown into the Tiber. The Romans were ruthless--but effecient.

The Romans were ruthless--but effecient.

Throwing criminals and animals tied into sacks in the river as a form of execution strikes me as inefficient in a world where you can just run them through with a sword.

Creative as all getout, but inefficient.

Hello from Dallas. I arrived here at 9:30 this morning. I slept the whole plane trip. Hopefully I didn't snore! Worked a whole bunch now I am ready to take a dip in the pool or a shower to wake up.

The arrangements that need to be made to travel away from 2 kids and 3 pets is just too much. It was fine when I could get a relative to stay with them, but it didn't work out this time. Too much effort.

"You shove a living snake up his ass!"

"Ooo, creative."