Football's so weird at this time of year. The Packers are playing the Cardinals in Arizona right now. Next week, playoffs start and the Packers will be playing...the Cardinals in Arizona.

I have vinyl shower curtain liners that have been washed many times with detergent and bleach using warm water and the gentle/permanent press cycle.

I also have some jeans somewhere that I at one time thought I would make a rug out of. Perhaps they should be transferred to another person's good intentions. I knew a guy who had a huge living room rug and hall runners that he had had woven with jeans strips and a red warp.

I've got soup in the crockpot (collard greens, celery, tomatoes,green pepper and onion in commercial chicken broth to which I will later add canned black peans, brown rice [during last hour and a half), and shrimp at the last ten minutes. I've done one load of laundery, and have a load of shirts I'm considering not putting in because I'm not sure I'll have the energy to hang them. This damn cold is holding on forever and seems to be kick my ass in terms of energy.

I'm all the way unpacked from my Christmas trip! Suitcase is away and everything.

My living room now looks a lot better, and it should work more effectively for the Friday night fangirl gatherings. I feel all acomplish-ee.

I'm having a grilled cheese sandwich with brie, grilled chicken and bacon.

Oh my cheese.

In a miracle, mac has done all his homework due over the break.

Yay for mac! I am also doing last minute break stuff. Mostly housecleaning, because I really wanted to start the new year with a clean house. It's not going to get all the way there, but pretty close. And if I can spend this evening shaking down this office, I will be a happy person. Of course I also have work work I want to do before break is over.

It's possible I don't quite understand this whole break concept.

If any of you have either jeans you don't want or other jean weight fabric and you want to send it to me, I'll pay for postage because I need more.

Will black work? I'm pretty sure the SO has some torn to the point of unusable black jeans.

Also I bought a whole whack of stuff from Lehmans with my Christmas money and am a happy duck. I may be the only person in the world who gets excited over an ash shovel, but all the stuff I bought is really going to simplify my life. I am a hearth geek!

See, this is what happens with cleaning. I get tired of cleaning, and then I end up poking stupid people on the internet until cleaning begins to look like the better option.

I am exhausted. I swam (may or may not have been a good idea) and now have vacuumed and mopped the whole damned house. More to tidy up, but I need to make a TJ's run. Did I mention I am exhausted? And all sorts of weird shit hurts. I think the cleaning gave me tennis elbow or something.

Hee. That's an effective mechanism. 'Cause it's not like there's a dearth of stupid people on the internet. Or stuff to clean.