{{Zen}} That is good to read. Recognizing that it is time to do the thing that was impossible before, well done.

My get up and go has got up and went.

Everyone, please send a good thought that my bilingual coworkers are finishing the one thing I need done today, so I don't have to half-ass my way through it! Otherwise, my finishing-up work today was pretty painless.

Good for you, Zen.

And fingers crossed for you Jesse that your coworkers come through.

I need a project for my peoples today, or all will go to hell in a handbasket soon. Ugh. I am promoting exercise of some sort based on last weekend's hike.

I was starting to get anxious because I haven't heard anything yet, but it's not even 2! Plenty of time.

Maybe I'll go to the supermarket.

I slept in today. skipped church. head kinda hurting, I think because the rain is finally stopping for a bit, so the pressure is changing back.

I am trying to get some stuff done, like beyond just the base level that I manage, I need to get to some of the stuff that never gets done.

Regular stuff I've done and the schedule they should be done on:

clean and refill cat letter (ideally, twice daily)
sweep cat area of kitchen and change out pee pads as needed (ideally daily)
put away washed dishes (eh, I really don't mind a full drain rack)
wash dishes (ideally whenever there are some in the sink, every couple of days)
put away groceries (whenever bought, same day - these were bought yesterday)
wipe kitchen counters (after any food prep and/or every couple of days due to yuck and cats)
feed animals (twice a day, mac should take care of dog, but I left him sleeping)
chair slipcovers into dryer for air fluff ie: de pet hairing (once a week - the only way to stay on top of hair)
folded remainder of laundry (ideally laundry would be put away within a day of being done)

Now what I need to do:

Vacuum the living room rug and the chairs (should be done once a week)
Finish moving a bookshelf from front LVG to back LVG (one time thing, ongoing moving of furniture, this has been going on for weeks)
take pictures and list at least 5 things for sell (again ongoing stuff for me, moving way slower than I want because I am a sloth)
clean cat beds (this should really be done once a week also, they are gross)
make blueberry scones (mac is home alone this coming week and I told him I'd make some for him to have as breakfasts/snacks)
make mac a schedule for coming week - chores/reading/trombone (he will have these for every week that he is not in a summer activity)
start new bag for non-selling get rid of stuff

I may have a friend coming over today for re-watching Arrow from the beginning, so I should start on this stuff, huh. Maybe a shower first, or at least get dressed.

My mom, I swear, she does not get my life.

Emailed me yesterday at 9:21pm about a friend of hers that has tickets to a concert thing that my mom thinks maybe mac would want to go with if he could take a friend. Symphony playing video game/sci fi music with a laser light show. ok, fine, good idea for trying to get the kid who never wants to do anything to do something. I lament a lot about how mac never wants to go to music things, museum things, street fair/fest things. Mentioned it yesterday to her, in fact, over lunch.

So she emails me now. did you get the email. not even a day later. The concert is in 3 weeks. If your friend needs to know by a specific time if we want the tickets, let me know that in the initial email.

So my response. Yes, I got it. mac says "I don't know". I told him I need a yes/no answer today so we can let the people know.

Who has two thumbs and a sunburn? Yeah...one rain free day and I get torched.

Also made my last rent payment and first mortgage payment. Woot, woot!!! Just need to clear three things from the apt and I can turn in keys.

Who has two thumbs and a sunburn? Yeah...one rain free day and I get torched.

Also made my last rent payment and first mortgage payment. Woot, woot!!! Just need to clear three things from the apt and I can turn in keys.

Who has two thumbs and a sunburn? Yeah...one rain free day and I get torched.

Also made my last rent payment and first mortgage payment. Woot, woot!!! Just need to clear three things from the apt and I can turn in keys.

Also made my last rent payment and first mortgage payment. Woot, woot!!!

Yeah!!

We found out this weekend that our contractor royally screwed us over...we hired him do reface our kitchen cabinets plus a handful of other small things around the house. He started with the little things to get them out of the way, and somehow overspent our budget by $4k without even *starting* on the fucking kitchen!! Also hasn't provided any actual receipts for materials or invoices for labor, but suffice to say, we're challenging him on the cost (no, we will not be paying twice our original budget for half of the work you promised...) but now I don't know what to do about the kitchen. The cabinet refacing was the thing we really needed, and now we're back to square one. Somehow we're going to need to find another contractor or handyman who can put in decent looking cabinet doors and rebuild drawers for basically no money. (And we can't do IKEA, their cabinets are 30" high and ours are 24".)