OW, sara.

I guess I shouldn't be that surprised by how little work email I have gotten while I've been gone, but I am relieved! I am also relieved that the office closed at 2 on NYE, like I assured my minion it would. We don't have a formal policy about closing early, so you can never be 100% sure.

I'm not at work (since Fridays are the "off" days due to the 4 10-hour day schedule), but I have an ambitious list of Stuff To Do today. Honestly, I like to start the year by weeding out my closet and dresser and trunk o' shirts. Paring down feels like a good way to start the year. (And makes more room for the clothes I just bought.)

Of course, I'm still on the couch with coffee, but soon I will:

• sweep floors (with broom, followed by dustbuster to suck up the piles of pet hair; this is a new tactic that may fail miserably);
  
• wash stinky dog bed covers and put dog beds outside to air out;
  
• clean bathroom (including mop the floor);
  
• go to gym;
  
• aforementioned purging of closet/dresser/trunk;
  
• take sweaters out of underbed boxes and swap them for the purses sitting on the closet shelf, so I can get to sweaters more easily (adding a second closet shelf is on the intermediate-term to-do list);
  
• conquer known world.

I'm going to start with the last one first.

I'm going to start with the last one first.

Good plan - if you succeed, you can probably summon minions to do itemss 1-6 for you!

Teppy's list made me tired.

I have to sweep the floors, too. And figure out lunch. The gym is a great idea, too.

Hec, insent.

I'm working today, but I have the first three days of next week off due to an aborted trip to Vegas that fell through. Still, days off are always good. Plus it will be the first days after the holidays, when everyone who's been putting off stuff will call in to fix everything. Good timing, Constance!

I'm at the office. My cohort here is convinced we are all going to die because Yellowstone is going to blow. [link] Now granted, she does tend to read alarmist blogs, but it is a shaking.

I'm at the office. My cohort here is convinced we are all going to die because Yellowstone is going to blow.

Well, if that were to happen, more stuff would happen first to warn us. Like, the lava dome would swell up and there'd be venting of gasses and such. This would go on for a few days before everything within 1000 miles of Yellowstone gets destroyed....

I'm going to start with the last one first.

Good plan - if you succeed, you can probably summon minions to do itemss 1-6 for you!

This is my plan. I expect it to succeed any time now. Yup, any time...

Teppy's list made me tired.

Why do you think I'm still on the couch? I'm contemplating a sandwich, since it's noon-y here. I have turkey breast, sliced asiago, romaine lettuce, and (maybe) tomatoes. That should make an enviable sandwich. Then I can get on with the business of world domination.

I just had a hilarious memory, while watching an ad for Tempurpedic beds -- they said your bed should make you feel "enveloped." When I was in college, some feminist-type coversation I was in ended up deciding that the problem was talking about sex as "penetration" because that (like everything else!) put the power on the man, and we should really call it "envelopment" to keep the power on the female side.

This doesn't seem that funny typed out (because I'm sure it's a serious argument, but it was a ridiculous conversation), but oh well.

But you did remind me to throw the wash I did last night into the dryer. I think that means it's now nap time.