My wife is making a cake shaped like an Easter bunny. We had pasta shaped like animals too. Of course, the toddler decided to skip nap then fell asleep around 4:45, and explicitly refused to get up and eat about 15 minutes ago, so he will not get to enjoy the pasta or the cake. Well, actually, there will probably be leftover cake. But it won't look like a bunny.

I'm making the traditional lamb cake tonight so I can frost and decorate it tomorrow before taking it to my cousin's house. This year it's a devil's food cake, frosted white. It's the black sheep of the family.

My hot cross buns are in the oven, and look beautiful. Except I don't have any confectioner's sugar, so I will have to frost them tomorrow at my sister's house.

But it won't look like a bunny.

It will look like a scary disemboweled bunny.

I"m so sorry, Theo.

My friend went to her next stop on the visit, but it was lovely seeing her. But having someone stay here, even someone as kind and forgiving as her, reminded me of what a flith ridden nightmare my house has become. I've been cleaning up truly awful messes all day. Ugh.

Anyway the next step, besides finishing up some of the cleaning of course, is to color Easter eggs for tomorrow.

Damn, I forgot about Steph's lamb cake. That thing always makes me happy.

It will look like a scary disemboweled bunny.

We just ate the bow tie.

The lamb cake sounds wonderful.

Also this morning, my car started making a Dreadful Noise. But I took it to the nice little garage around the corner (as opposed to the Awesome Garage that rebuilt the engine, which isn't open on Saturdays) and they were able to diagnose and fix the tie rods and heat shield. That cost a shade over $200, but I was able to get out and Ubering for part of the afternoon, to at least defray the cost a little.

I feel like I'm on the hamster wheel of personal finances.

I went out and bought a bunch of small plastic bins to aid in the decluttering. It worked quite well: once I'd filled the trash bin and the plastic/paper recycling bin, I'd also put lots of stuff in the Thrift Store, non-magnetic metal, and magnetic metal bins. Plus the eBay and This Bears Further Study boxes. I think I went through two hours of the PBS home improvement shows while working, they were interesting enough that I didn't get bored just being in the room, but not so interesting that I looked up from working for more than five minutes at a time.

I need to start corralling various household chemicals and glassware to take to the pick-up next Saturday (no one around here recycles glass), and I'm planning on a trip to the metal recycler next Friday. The thrift store bin holds enough to fit into a grocery store bag, so I can decant that into a bag, put the bag in the car, and start tossing things as I come across them into the bin.

I also need to do another paper shredding session, I keep finding shoals of medical documentation that I'm not sending out into the world in a readable form.

I am not going to have a problem of too many plastic grocery bags for a while.

I am not going to have a problem of too many plastic grocery bags for a while.

Some groceries have bins where you can bring back plastic grocery bags for recycling, if you don't want all of them.