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!

So much TCB! An extra day really does help.

My mom was in Granny heaven!

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

Awww, yay! I do think that's one of my skills--getting cool people to meet other cool people!

Extra 3 days for me. And I need every one of them. (Taking off tomorrow too, clearly.)

BABY.