backroom got vacuumed and most of the dishes got washed, but moping and moving things to garage did not. halfassed cleaning out of the fridge did though.

and most of the laundry from yesterday and today has been put away.

a banner weekend for cleaning for me and I did not over do it, so I shouldn't be wiped out come the morning.

The past 3 days I have done a shit load of organizing work in the house. 8 loads of laundry, one still in the dryer where it will stay until morning. Tomorrow is a work day but I hope to finish one more part of the project. DH's closet. He has like 3 closets worth of stuff crammed into one space. I took all his suits out first and put them in an unused closet. Next is taking all the shirts and shorts that can be folded and putting them in a spare bedroom empty chest of drawers. Hoping to get it thinned out enough that things can move a bit. Also, his clothes are absurdly big.

Tonight I had a dinner with my nephew and SiL, which means I've had dinner with my entire family this week. My SiL is in town for work, but my nephew does have a Dr's appt. to keep that chain going. (It's because he's part of a long-term drug trial so no sudden emergencies there.)

Ha, good to see family, particularly without emergencies!

My SIL arrived from NY so we had a get together at other SIL's house. Much joy and laughter. Rhonda was exhausted from all the hours on the phone arranging flight changes for the storm that never actually happened at her airport.

I had Maria here this weekend! We just went out to eat and hid from the weather. Good times.

Now tomorrow I'm REALLY going to hide from the weather -- the forecast is high of 10.

I was planning on getting a lot done over the long weekend, but instead I'm sick and am spending all of my energy on coughing fits.

The HoI guys were specifically shouting at the one black kid in the school crowd

The kids were the ones to point out that they had a black kid with them. They even shared that they have another black classmate who couldn't make the trip.

Ugh. A friend of a friend is commenting on every post about this with, "Why isn't anyone talking about how horrible those other guys are?" So I posted a bunch of articles about how they're a hate group. Apparently that's not what she wanted -- she wants everyone to talk about how horrible those other guys are instead of talking about the kids, not in addition to.

Lunar eclipse! Also, 16 degrees and 20mph winds, so I'm not lingering to admire.

The eclipse was awesome! I'm not going to say it was warm out, maybe mid 50s, but it wasn't so cold that I couldn't hang outside for about 15-20 minutes barefoot in my jammies. I expected to sleep through it, but the dog wakes me a couple times a night to go outside because of the stupid water pills she takes and she woke me 10 minutes before totality! She was very confused when I went outside too, and stayed outside.