Upon reflection, even if I had known it was B2W day I probably would have driven, as I needed to cross the straits that evening. So not such a big loss. I'll just have to pick a day on my own to try biking to work.

Oh, that explains why DH made a point of wearing his Bike 2 Work shirt today.

At the store today, the woman ahead of me in line was buying a wedding present for a girlfriend getting married in June. The present: meat tenderizer and a nutcracker.

That sounds more like a bachelorette party.

My occasional lawn guys have stopped by to chop down my salsify and assorted weeds (some which are grasses, but it's not like I planted any of it or want a lawn as such). I'm surprised they are voluntarily working in this heat, but I guess it is cooler than yesterday.

And I managed to lose my phone in my car while moving it out of the driveway so it wouldn't be in the way of the lawn mower. I am pretty talented. I have found it again, but it took some doing.

I was pretty happy when I woke up and remembered that I liked my haircut. It's still pretty severe, but severe in a way I'm comfortable with.

So yeah, so I'm leaving on, like, Saturday. In my head I wasn't leaving until a week and a half from Saturday, which was the original plan before the SO got me comped in to see my favorite musician. Which is awesome. But I am so not getting done by tomorrow what I was going to have done by two weeks out.

I posted this on fb, but think people here would like it too: I procrastinated by reading this article about procrastination: [link] and then waited two days with this part II [link] open in a background tab, preferring to feel guilty rather than read an article (a cartoon, really) that might provide me with solutions.

So today has been an exercise in: okay, what actually needs to get done before you physically leave the house, and what do you just wish that you'd gotten done already but can totally do with all the mobile office stuff you're hauling this summer. And then there's: what is genuinely important to do that you have to do before you leave the house. Like, I need to prioritize plugging the broken rain barrel outlet over installing attic panels. It will be nice if I can get the latter done and get a lot of crap out of my office space. But it will be a disaster if rain comes pouring out of my gutter halfway up my wall all during monsoon.

So I should probably leave now before ACE closes. Goodbye, procrastination target peoples!

Yeah, part of my running around is that the SO hired some of my former guitar students to do weeding around the house while we're gone. Awesome. But then I needed to clear out all the stuff that was in the way of what they'd need to do. I also sort of wanted to preemptively weed, and I might still do that with the worst of things tomorrow, but really. We hired someone. They can do it.

At the store today, the woman ahead of me in line was buying a wedding present for a girlfriend getting married in June. The present: meat tenderizer and a nutcracker.

Biyi reduced Ryan to tears this morning through an injudicious usage of a nutcracker. (She sent a walnut hurtling across the table and knocked his milk onto the carpet. I have relabelled it the nutlauncher.)

Salsify! Shir and I just had a delightful salsify soup as the amuse at dinner. We had to look it up.

It is growing all over my yard. I think I need to be able to recognize it when it's still shoots to enjoy eating it, and that's beyond my abilities. Pretty, though.