I wash my car only when it's dirty, which is more often now that I have bookshelves in my garage and no room for my car. My neighbor has a citrus tree that drops stuff on my car, and in the spring it gets all sticky. (Tree semen! Ew!)

I have made myself a margarita and eaten a tamale. I did have vegetables for lunch, though.

People go through car washes in their cars? What's that all about?

It's fun! Watch all the swirly water and soap and stuff through the windows.

How do they clean the insides, then?

The one near my parents, after you go through the wash part, you get out of the car to pay and some guys vacuum the inside of the car. The one near me just washes the outside of the car.

My house has no driveway, just street parking, and when the salt spreader comes by, pretty much the entire driver's side of my car gets crusted with salt. Yesterday, it was so bad that I couldn't really see through the window, and the mirror was useless.

People do NOT wash their cars once a week. That's just crazy talk.

I miss you people. My onerous task today was just going to work.

I volunteered at the hospital yesterday by hosting a pizza night for the pediatrics floor/PICU. It's nice to be able to do some VERY SMALL thing to cheer up families of little ones. Plus a two-year-old toddled in, with her dad towing her IV pole, and her little eyes over the mask. She was very excited about pizza. And she patiently waited for me to open all the boxes until the pepperoni one appeared.

That qualifies as not onerous. Love kids. E came over tonight to borrow baking supplies (which is ironic) and totally spoiled my cats and I reiterated that she can send the kids (esp Gwyn, who loves cats) over anytime. I think she still doesn't believe I'm serious. I've emergency sat for them and I'm their goto for that now, so it isn't as if she doesn't trust me. But I gave her cookies she didn't have to share, so maybe she'll believe me now...

My mother says that most people get their cars washed once a week. I have no idea -- I've been getting mine washed usually twice a week lately, because the salt and sand from the roads builds up on the windows so much that I can barely see through them if I let it go any longer than that, but during the summer and fall, I'd get it washed maybe once or twice a month.

BWAHAHAHAHA! Once a week? I'm sure your mom is wonderful, but that is crazy talk.

I wash mine maybe twice a year? In the spring and then sometime in the summer. I shovel out the inside maybe 4-5 times a year.

I resent the time I spend gassing it up and getting the oil changed, much less cleaning it. I focus on cleaning the kitchen and doing laundry, and that takes up enough time.

God, I am beat. I fell asleep at about 11:30 and woke up at about 3 am with horrible stomach pain and some GI distress, to put it politely. I never wake up to pee or whatever once I am asleep. I couldn't fall back asleep til 4:30 or so, and then DH's alarm goes off at 5, so it was all patchy "God, let me just get 5 more minutes" nappage until 5:45.

Volunteering was yesterday! Onerosity was just work today...

Did DCistas all get home safely? I am currently in Silver Spring, after a three-hour stint in traffic. Luckily a friend of a friend lived nearby and offered to put me up.

Maria's posting on Facebook that she's been stuck for seven hours.

8" on my deck. And that's AFTER 2-3" compressed under sleet and rain. Oooohkay.