Oh! I just put on the tv and heard one of my new food show pet peeves! How do you people pronounce "Worcestershire sauce"? I keep hearing people call it war-chester sauce.

I sort of mumble it as "werr-che-ster" and hope that's close.

wush-tuh-sure?

Woostersheer. And it always puts me in mind of that marvellous Lea & Perrins commercial-slash-porn for hearing-impaired amnesiacs: "Once you were dry. I MADE YOU JUICY!"

I pronounce it woostersheer.

Today I walked the dog 3 miles, made bread, and pruned my fruit trees. That's enough, right? Except I have to go to the grocery store and do other errands.

Well done, JZ and David, on helping your neighbor. I heard a horrible story last week about a friend's mother, who had a stroke and lay on the kitchen floor for five days before anyone found her. So awful, and it really makes me grateful that Dad is in a supportive place where they check on him frequently.

wush-tuh-sure

woostersheer

I knew you people would know which letters to skip!

wist-a-sheer

Woostuhsher or woostersher. I think. Sometimes woostershustershoostershire.

I think the soup making is going to happen tomorrow. Kind of headachy.

I am doing laundry now and watching new-to-me Criminal Minds, so that's something.

I came in to work today after several days vacation, and I found a crocheted afghan on my chair. At first I went "Ah, that's sweet, they've seen me crocheting and knitting and made me an afghan." But there's no note, and nothing in my email. And it's not a new afghan, it's kind of fuzzy, and there's lint and hair on it. I don't know if someone found it somewhere and assumed it was mine because of said crocheting, but I don't want someone's old afghan.

I'll keep it through tomorrow, to see if anyone says anything, but then it disappears.

I bought an ironing board and iron. That's almost like doing laundry, right?

I am filled with the spirit of doing nothing.