billytea - lovely to hear Ryan sing. Thank you.

Also, I'm in! How's it going, Windsparrow? Scrub the shower while you're in there, Teppy! What's on your list, Zen?

I have: put the laundry in and spent a half hour looking for my lost arrow. It was a pre-storm task, I sweaar!

The rest of today I need to: clean the dog's kennel and yard, brush the dog, sort the recyclables, take the recyclables, buy eggs and peanut butter, and weed. Err, I need to weed, not buy weed. Despite my Astrid task's instruction to the contrary.

Once the SO gets home I need to charge the charger in case we lose power. And find where the snow shovel and ice scrapers are. I found the jar of ice melt.

The dog already doesn't want to go out because it's so windy, but I explained to him how he's about to refuse to go for three days and he had better enjoy it now.

Ok, tackle the kennel next, I think.

I have indoor office tasks, but I figure I might as well save those for when I'm snowed in.

Op, no, laundry just finished. I'll try hanging that out first. Then kennel.

(Wait, how do we play the game? Go be productive and report back?)

A lot of times it's been taken it to email, but I don't know how necessary that is.

Here are my goals for the day: To declutter my desk and straighten up the area around it; to work on any of the three stories I've started writing on; sweep kitchen floor; clean the bathroom, including the floor; to do a load of laundry.

Daniel and I have already worked out in the yard for 45 min. but there is still plenty to do out there - we'll have to figure out exactly what we're going to accomplish after we have some lunch.

Go, all you productive people!

I'm happy to report the Meyer Lemon Pudding Cake is a huge success. I'm eating some right now AIFG,

Wish I had some!

I am so in need of productivity. Rain makes me sleepy.

Well, I weeded the front yard earlier, then we had to deal with a dude who was inspecting our roof for storm damage, and then I made a turkey burger with gouda and avocado.

Now that I am full of food, I am going to tackle the bathroom. Here I go!

(My reward may be carryout Indian for dinner. We'll see. Tim is at his dad's house and is probably eating dinner there. So.)

I stopped using Freecycle and Craigslist mostly due to not wanting to deal with flakes. I now donate EVERYTHING and definitely keep those receipts for taxes. I need the write-offs and when it comes to 50 things, I can't deal with the admin time around listing the items and dealing with people. This decision has saved my sanity.

java, thanks for the validation! I have "but I paid money for that!" syndrome and it's hard to convince myself that it's okay to just let it go without wringing every dime I could get out of it. My time and my sanity are valuable, too, right?

I'm happy to report the Meyer Lemon Pudding Cake is a huge success.

mmmm. Dammit. No cake for me. Not for a while, anyway.

So, I went back on a low-carb diet, because, really, WTF, just do it, Self. It's 3 days in and Mr. Scale rewarded me with a report of nearly 5 pounds lost. Now of course it won't continue at that pace, but that sure is motivating.

Okay! So far, I've Swiffered the stairs and gone to the grocery store. Must: do dishes, put away clean laundry, launder the bedclothes, clean the upstairs carpet, clean the litterboxes, and clear away some of this incoming-mail junk.

Ha - the Illinois is having SoCal weather and SoCal is having our weather.