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.

Liese, are you going to be in KC during your big Midwestern trip?

I bought a candle when I went to Target. But my allergies are so bad, I can't smell it. Sadface.

-t, WRT the pool. My app only has the In-Shape on Dover listed. Sorry I couldn't be of more help (is the pool new?)

It's maybe 2 years old? Over a year, I joined last January and it had been open for a few months at that point. I'm pretty sure I can find a way to measure it. Thanks for looking!

My pool is listed there as 25 m, but I know it is 25yds. (I know this because other Ys here are competition sites officially rated at 25 yds and my times are the same there.)

I'm ending my week with my annual review discussion. I used to face these with dread, but after this week from hell and some conversations I've had with my functional subcontract supervisor, I'm feeling like we're all on the same page and it'll be candid ( functional!= official subcontract supervisor, more hate for the subcontract because I adore both and it just makes more work for them.) So it'll be fine.

Just remembered to pick up everything off the basement floor, including mats that aren't protecting the workbench, in case I get lotsa water again. I even created 'channels' with spare wood. Won't do anything about what comes from below, but might localize the puddles.