We've had a very lazy weekend, which is fine, because Tim has been working his ass off for the past couple of months. Today I finished the first Harry Dresden book, and we ran errands and went to see GotG again (still fantastic). And now we're having pancakes for dinner.

Trading mopping for vacuuming with my mother was brilliant, I have to say.

Now can you come clean my house while I paint?

Ha ha ha. I barely cleaned my own house, over the course of three days!

Go, msbelle! Go, -t! Also, go, Steph! Relaxing is also important.

I am still gonna get more done.

Paid my bills for the first half of September, which is probably the one thing that most needed to get done today. Bringing my task completion average up to 68% for the weekend. That's pretty dismal.

Connie and Zen, I had dinner recently with an extremely thoughtful young man I know, both of whose parents are Presbyterian theologians, and he made the argument that in today's economy, if you have the means to hire someone to do things like that, you have a moral obligation to do so. So tell that to the head-Calvinists.

-t, your meal planning is inspiring!

I got the VB6 cookbook for my birthday so I'm planning to have a bunch of meals out it this week. Not too many because Bob will be away from tomorrow night through Friday and I have dinner plans Thursday. I did prep some meal components but not as many as I wanted to. And we had turkey burgers with shredded carrot, fresh corn, and 5-spice powder based on a recipe from the book tonight and they were pretty freaking good so that's promising!

We cleaned Saturday and I sent a work email that would have plagued me all weekend and the toilet racer is almost completed (thanks, sarameg!) plus I celebrated my birthday with my parents and brother and family. And I brushed the fuzzy kitten! So I feel like we got a lot done this weekend but thank god for the extra day!

Hah, all I contributed was the sprayer trigger and chatting and eating food when it suddenly hit me I'd eaten nothing all day... I felt awwwwkard basically going inside and stuffing protein in my face, but it was either that or bad things....

And that's a lot done. And a happy kitty, I hope.

Hah, all I contributed was the sprayer trigger and chatting and eating food when it suddenly hit me I'd eaten nothing all day... I felt awwwwkard basically going inside and stuffing protein in my face, but it was either that or bad things....

I felt bad because we had huge brunch beforehand and couldn't eat the snacks! So it worked out! All I really contributed was holding and feeding the baby and then passing the baby to my mom to hold. Which also worked out for everybody!

Stuff done:

Organized a yard sale for later this month.
Completely emptied out one armoire and sorted/culled things before hanging the to be kept garments back up.
Made lamb stew for dinner, which is currently simmering.

Later tonight, hand-sewing.
Alterations to a frock coat.
Removing buttons from a waistcoat I'm getting rid of.
Taking the Hogwarts patch off a jacket and setting it aside for when the next frock coat I order gets here.

All while rewatching Penny Dreadful, because I CAN.

Your mom was in absolute heaven with that baby girl.

I'm really glad to have met Ellen because of you. Well, and everyone else too, but she's the newest!