Did you blackout and come to in a clean apartment?

Going back a ways, I had a year in Shelton Hall, too. I forget whether it was the fourth or fifth floor, lisa -- was your floor the one with the Eugene O'Neill suite?

Yes! 4th floor! That's funny. When were you there??

Riding turned out to be just fine. Well, hard but not because of the rain. A little scarier than normal but it was a route I know well. It was drizzly, though, not pouring. Fun!

I haven't looked in my middle room, where the leak is, yet though. Hope I still have some ceiling in there.

I think I'll take a little nap now! I've resigned myself to getting nothing much done today!

Looks like date 2 will be lunch next week.

I missed date 1 but yippee!

Yay for date #2, msbelle!!

Yay for clean apartment, shrift!!

I've had a remarkably productive day myself. After I got off work at B&N, I headed over to Sports Authority and picked up some swim goggles and nose plug, then went and got my hair cut so I can see while I swim, then I went to the pool and signed up for the year ($69 annual fee--not bad!) where I was recognized by the girl signing me up. She remembered me from when I worked out at the fitness center there over a year ago.

Now, all I have to do this evening is my dishes, my laundry, and then shave my legs so I can go swimming tomorrow morning--yay, swimming!

Yay swimming indeed, Kathy!

I did a bunch of shopping, and then came home and planted most of the seeds in my side garden and put up a new set of curtains. It's raining now, and we're expecting major storms this evening. As long as they don't result in death and major destruction, I quite like storms, so I'm pretty happy with the day.

This is why I love drop-off playdates at our house:

I have:

washed the dishes
sewn a button on a knitting project to finish it
hung up and put away all my clothes
organized three dresser drawers
sewn patches on two of mac's school pants
caught up on the internets
hung up mac artwork in my room (he tears it down anytime he gets really mad at me)

and the playdate is still here.

laundry is ready to go in, but I am going to wait in his mom getting here, I don't want to be down in the laundry room in case she buzzes then.

I think I might bake some cookies.

Did you blackout and come to in a clean apartment?

No, but at one point, I was in the bathroom standing atop a wobbly ladder yanking open a stubborn light fixture to replace a bulb. I'm shocked that it didn't end in a spectacular pratfall and a trip to the ER.

lisa -- would have been '89 or '90, I think. Waaaaay back then.

I'm scanning the neighborhood listserv and copying down all recommended anythings. Reading about other people's housing adventures is nervousmaking!

A million years ago I posted a link to a Jamaican article about a man having sex with a goat that had a cartoon accompanying it, goat and all. There is a certain lack of shame or modesty in our sexual reporting, even though I'd categorise our national community as somewhat prudish. As a nation, there's a large streak of conservatism, and then there's dancehall, for instance. Which is the genesis of this article: Rise in Broken Willy. Which is...just what it sounds like. I just wish I could find a video of the dance referred to therein. All the youtubes I've seen so far are slideshows.

eta: Safe for work. More medical than anything else.

Speaking of medical, I have no mouth and I must scream voice. Matilda had a cold this week, spent many nights coughing on my head and now that she's better I'm infected.

Then we had the opening ceremony for Little League, parade, pictures and a 12:30 game that was looooooong. Didn't finish until after 3:00pm. Somewhere around the second inning (after herding the boys all day from parade to pictures to warmup) I lost my voice.

Then, of course, it was an incredible see-saw game where we ultimately won. Emmett hit a two-run home run. Our pitchers were awesome, we got just enough hits and our defense was much much better than the first game where we got slaughtered.

So, we're now 1-1 and we've got another game on Monday. Tomorrow's going to be a long baseball day too. Emmett has tournament team practice from 8-10am, umpire a game from 10-Noon, then regular team practice from 5:30 to 7:00. Crazy. Then a Monday game.

I will be doing all my coaching with sign language and dance moves.

ION, Yay date #2!