Best of luck. That sounds stressful all around.

I woke up to find that my kitchen floor next to the back door had acquired an unusually high number of ants, which I traced back to a piece of bread or bagel crust stuck in the bottom of the broom that lives in that corner of the room. So that was incredibly gross. I vacuumed them up, emptied the vacuum filter into the outside trash and stuck an ant trap onto that corner of the room so any latecomers to the free bread crust party will die die DIE.

I think we need to reinstate our monthly cleaning person. Because what I clearly *should* be doing with my time today is scrubbing the kitchen floors, but what I *want* to do, and probably will, is rent a stand-up paddleboard and spend 2 hours on the Croton river and then come home and watch the rest of S2 of Nailed It with the kids.

The latter sounds like a much better idea Jess. I have an ant problem as well (the kitten kept spraying food everywhere when being force fed, and the ants love it) so that's on my list of to-do today. Don't want to scrub the bathroom floor but I guess I will.

Flipping hell, it's hot. I mean, I know it's hot everywhere, but still.

We bought like six kinds of cheese at the grocery store. These two facts are unrelated.

Yeah, your actual plan sounds way better, Jess. Be a job creator!

Also, btw, I found out a guy in my band is from Ossining today, and thought of you!

Timelies all!

Natter's been quiet today, I see.

I'm glad Mr. S is going to daycare tomorrow. He's been so hyper lately.

Cheese is never unrelated.

I spent 5ish hours with dance moms & dad's watching the Scottish highland dance interregional competition. [link] My friend from college's daughter was competing. My friend is a dance mom, for reals. Not crazy kind, though I'm glad it's not me. 5 hours was more than enough. & They've been there since THURSDAY.

Also, probably the whitest large group I've been in in the state. Not terribly surprising, but I notice things like that.

I did not really clean the kitten-bathroom (I threw out the trash and cleaned the food dishes and swept, but it really needs to be scrubbed) but I did do a bunch of weeding on my patio, which was. I e because then Erin stopped by on her way back to PDX and we could enjoy the patio! Also I made lemon bars and brought them to friends watching the women's soccer game, who had made ribs and corn on the cob and other yumminess. So mostly a good day. Except for the part where my best friend here is probably going to move away. Which is going to suck a whole lot.

I forgot to do laundry yesterday, so I'm wearing a padded bra today, and it's a little startling when I look in the mirror. I bet no one else would notice. I mean, I hope no one else would notice!