God, that means Tyler will be 7 too. HOW.

Loki's been on my lap since 8. I get up to do stuff, I come back and put him back on my lap. He's really gotten into being a lapcat this winter (I suspect the frigid temps helped.) He's a good lapcat.

I got in, but I can't tell if it let me vote.

up to 93 though!

YAY Bob!

Hey, Lisah!

Will you enable my laziness and send/post the links for the bike ride, for both you and Bob?

Will you enable my laziness and send/post the links for the bike ride, for both you and Bob?

But, of course!

I am:

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Bob is:

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I somehow wasn't able to vote for Grace but was able to pledge money? Which I did! I'll try to vote for her on my work computer tomorrow.

I have definitely been onerousing lately. Things I have accomplished in the past three days:

• Multiple phone calls to the three companies who hold my retirement accounts from my last three jobs, plus a bonus call to the company I am rolling everything over to; multiple forms filled out; two envelopes addressed and ready to go out in the mail tomorrow (need to make one more call before the last one is ready).
• Have basically finished Rose's birthday gift: a trunk full of dress-up clothes. Acquired the trunk via Craigslist; found some clothes at Goodwill; found more stuff in our closets; washed everything and put it all in the trunk.
• Four loads of laundry (including dress-up stuff, also couch cover and three chair cushions that have been sitting on the dryer for several months), all dried, folded, and put away.
• Two loads in the dishwasher (second ongoing), plus organized our mountain of Tupperware and tossed a bunch of stuff in the recycling bin.
• Took out trash & recycling, took a few boxes down to the basement, got glass recycling ready to go tomorrow (no curbside pickup; I'll take it to the recycling place on my way back from dropping off Rose at daycare).
• Vacuumed the whole house, except the kitchen (which I will do tomorrow, along with mopping).
• Cleaned both bathrooms.
• Replaced a couple of burnt-out bulbs.
• Returned some library books.
• Went grocery shopping.
• Spent a few hours on work stuff, reading book reviews and putting an order together.

On tomorrow's agenda: make the (hopefully!) final phone call re: retirement accounts, send out the envelopes, take out glass recycling, vacuum kitchen, mop, meet friend for lunch, plan lessons for the fourth-grade classes I'm taking over for the rest of the year. Maybe go for a walk?

Shit, I'm tired, but it feels great to be getting all this stuff done. I definitely need to put in more time on the actual work stuff tomorrow and Friday, though. Spring break, woo!

Trunk full of dress up clothes is an awesome gift!

Thanks! I'm super excited about it. Some of it won't fit her for a while, but I found several things at Goodwill today that she can wear now. She's gotten some random costumey things over the last couple of years from grandparents, too, and I spread the word to family that I was doing a dress-up trunk, and would welcome their contributions. I also tossed in a bunch of stuff I'd picked up on my travels that I have no use for now but that will be fun for her to play with, plus a few pieces of costume jewelry and the terrible wig I bought this past Halloween.

We had a trunk full of dress-up clothes when I was a kid, and I still remember some of the bizarre things it contained. My brother and I got YEARS of enjoyment out of that stuff.

That's a fantastic gift, Kate. And go you with the getting stuff done!

Thanks Lisa!

That is an awesome idea, Kate!

Such an awesome idea. We have some costumes we could send. My kids never really did dress up or imaginative play like that at home. They are more of a game with rules sort of bunch.