Pinchy nose plugs, good to know. I am hoping I will have something lying around that will work, since I have an awful lot of things lying around.

I have gotten as far as moving all the to-be-washed laundry into the garage, I think. The sheer volume is pretty impressive. That is not all getting washed today. Fortunately, I just have to be able to dress myself for four days at the office this week; if I spend a little time prioritizing loads I should be able to manage that.

I hope the particular combination of laziness and being busy with other things that led to this laundrocalypse does not recur for a while.

So for breakfast I tried that thing where you cut a hole out of a piece of bread and fry the bread with an egg cracked in the hole (and fry the piece you cut out separately, of course, because what are you gonna do, not fry and eat some extra bread?) because I've never had that before. Pretty tasty! Fried bread is a little more delicious than toast. I wonder why - I'd've thunk bread+butter+heat would produce practically identical results. The browning of the butter in the pan, perhaps? A little extra burninating?

Egg In A Basket, which I just made for Matilda and myself, and am about to make for the just risen Emmett.

Matilda is obssessed with the fry-bread, and for her birthday, I'll cut little circles out of an extra piece of bread so she'll have so many extra rounds.

I don't have a family name for that egg toast either, -t. I think my mom made it once.

Bagels, lox and cream cheese for breakfast, then a chat with one of my favorite neighbors.

Heh, Nameless Egg Toast might be my name for it now.

My mom called them egg in a basket too. I don't think that I have ever made them!

Have gotten a pedicure and seen my father. My next plan was to go for a walk before I clean the bathroom etc., but I accidentally sat down.

Lightbulbs from IKEA, hose, sawzall blades, and grinders and gloves from Harbor Freight . I'd hoped for more inspiration from ikea, but oh well. Going to hose the car off this evening, stupid linden trees.

I took a nice morning bike ride, picking up some groceries en route. I'm hoping to pick up a little contract work until a full-time job comes through, so I ordered some home office things. Then I took the cat for a good, long walk, watered the garden, and now I'm doing laundry.

I'm trying not to freak out about not having another job lined up, when my last day at my current job is tomorrow. Mostly I'm succeeding. But every now and then some panic seeps through. I've applied to about 30 positions. Come on, random HR person. I'm awesome--hire me!

I just looked into getting a newspaper subscription -- they've got one that's just for the Sunday paper -- so that I could get the coupons without having to go out (the closest store that sells the Harrisburg paper that gets the good coupons is about a 10 minute drive), and I figured that, like with most things, if I got a subscription, it would be cheaper. Turns out not to be. The Sunday-only subscription costs $2.50 a week. That's the price printed on the front of the paper, but one of the grocery stores here sells them for $2.25 each. I looked at the other subscription option, and again, it's the same as the newsstand price. I guess it saves me the trouble of going out each Sunday, but still.

My local paper does things like give you a month free if you subscribe for 6. Maybe call and ask if they have any deals like that?

ETA: also, continuing job~ma, Calli. I am envious of your bike ride + groceries. I aspire to do that. And, really, the grocery store is within my range, I just have to actually do it. One of these days.