Gold stars never thrilled me. I think I may pre-date getting gold stars in school for doing things I was supposed to. And I had to go to school uphill both ways (which is true in elementary school, because I lived on the other side of a small hill from the school a quarter-mile away. And sometimes it snowed, and I wore snow pants and walked it anyway, so there.)

Have ENT appointment! ...at 745AM on next Friday. Oy.

Oh, yeah. Today just took another nose dive. If this happens again (vet sent something, roommate now weeping), I'm committing obstruction of correspondence.

Happy birthday, shrift!

I am another person who wants gold stars for doing annoying chores that I have to do anyway. But hey! In the spirit of unofficial onerous task day: cleared out the fridge, did dishes, and took down the Christmas tree. Tomorrow will be about emailing people at the vendor agency.

I ate party leftovers (smoked salmon, Jarlsburg, baguette) and watched 4 episodes of Arrested Development. It's been literally years since I was this lazy. It's weird. Does anyone else have to force themselves into laze?

Spaniels: bred to flush upland game. Unless they are water spaniels - in which case you expect them to retrieve water fowl.

Even Cockers were originally bred to hunt (and some still do.)

I paid my bills for the coming week and took the cat to the vet and was totally planning on joining y'all's productivity after lunch, but I fell asleep instead. I'm pleased the productivity continued while I slept, I think.

Eta: Ugh, shrift. I wish today was treating you better.

My onerousish tasks done today were: checked and responded to work email all day even though we were off, wrote thank you cards (although I am Very grateful to have thank you cards to write!), put laundry away, and went to yoga class of teacher I am afraid of. She's a good teacher but very hard!

Then I came home and ate some corn chowder made by Bob! That was not onerous at all.

Does anyone else have to force themselves into laze?

The words LOOK like English...

Jilli! Do you know Martha Rotten's jewelry? There's a small sample of stuff up here: [link] She's a FoaF, and I've seen her work in person - it's pretty awesome. She incorporates lots of bird and human skull shapes into her work.

Welll, poop, I've hit a snag on 2) Read and summarize some stuff for work, then forward it on - my computer doesn't seem to want to open pdfs. Hrmph. I guess I'll move on to flex stuff.

Go, smonster!

I've unboxed the biggest part of Matilda's bed, brushed off all the styrofoam bits, put it into neat piles, and vacuumed up the bits. And took all the boxing down to recycling.

And the pie's done.

It sort of bubbled over a bit.