Today I took my mother shopping (which is quite an exercise in logistics) and talked her into a very fun outfit, got two pairs of pants for myself, got a haircut and brow wax, hit the city-wide White Elephant Sale, went for drinks with my sister, and now I'm going to make a pie crust. And load my Kindle up with Community episodes to watch while I'm in Spain.

Wooot.

See, this is what I am saying!

I am now almost unpacked (have about 5 boxes left, and some of that is desk stuff, which has to wait until I have a desk), and I went to Costco, and the hardware store, and put together two stools, and did some work, and played with the cats, and other stuff.

Tomorrow, more shopping and cleaning and then dinner with Sparky and finally meeting her daughter.

It's a German sci-fi miniseries from 1973, and it is wonderful.

You neglected to mention it was by Fassbinder! That's a selling point.

Man I knda can't believe it's Saturday. It feels like this week went by super quick, unusual for before a vacation. Hope next week goes slow.

I think I am going to leave for vacation with a reasonably clean house and car, something that may never have happened to me before. Depending on when I wake up, and what time the SO wants to leave, I may do another hour's worth of cleaning. But thanks to flylady, it really wasn't a disaster to start with.

And I might even be able to sleep tonight, with not running around today, and feeling like I have a handle on the prep. I even booked things ahead of time! Admittedly the knife skills class and the tiramisu class were bookable online. But I had to call and talk to someone at the baths! But he was Japanese, so that was ok.

Ok, I might not sleep. I had something to remember to do tomorrow morning that I was going to write down in evernote. Only I didn't write it down, I came here. And now I can't remember what.

Pork chop & eggs:

Oh, I remember now. It was call our friend's brother in law about what time to drop off the bass. Also I need to ask the SO if he made the deposit. Ok. Off to read James Herriott and sleep.

Vacation! Have fun!

I want a vacation, or at least to run away to Vegas.

Spoke too soon. Why do I do this to myself?

Dang Loki and the blinds. He started in at 6fucking30. I think I may go back to bed.

Dang Loki and the blinds.

Oh, argh. I sympathize! I'm replacing all my blinds with curtains. The cats drive me batshit clonking them around. Especially the fancy wide-slat wooden ones in the dining room. Clank clank bonk. And Percy chews string, so I can't let the pulls dangle down. PITA. I sleep better now that the blinds in my bedroom are gone and I have heavy curtains up. The cats can sit on the ledge and stare outside, and I can still have privacy and quiet.

Leo woke me at 7:30 patting at my hair and mewing piteously. Dang. I'm supposed to accomplish a lot today. Let's see if that happens.