My weekend is household chores (lawnmowing, laundry) and errands, then over to Mom's Sunday night to have her traditional Easter ham for dinner. I might squeeze in a movie matinee tomorrow if I feel like it.

I have a sink full of dishes to do, which I am resentful about because I already conquered a sink full of dishes earlier in the week.

I haven't run as much this week as usual, and also ate like crap yesterday so I really should go running since it's not currently raining.

I think what I'm saying here is that I will get in a run that I don't want to do as a way of avoiding the dishes for another hour.

No real plans for Easter as that was JZ's bailiwick: taking Matilda to mass, getting basket together, dealing with Greek relatives and dying eggs.

I suppose I should get a token basket together for Matilda.

I do have half a little ham so I could make another pot of the ham green bean thing, as that was popular around the house and delicious.

I’ve got the roomba going, so the room is getting more presentable.

I’ve also got dishes to wash, but first get the shoe area in order.

This weekend I am focused on overdue housekeeping. You cannot imagine the amount of sand that makes its way into my place. The dog park is a sandpit, and we bring so much home. I am going to attempt a new plan where I keep a pair of specific park sandals next to the door, ones without sand grabbing treads. Go to park, stamp feet in parking lot, drive home then stamp feet again in parking garage, then leave special shoes next to door. It is mostly his shoes which grab tons on the stuff in the treads. It wouldn't bother me quite as much if it didn't make the floor so treacherous when you hit a patch of the stuff.

No particular plan for Easter, except maybe walk over to the beach for sunrise. There will probably be more than the usual yoga types there tomorrow.

I have: gotten groceries, filled up the car with gas, gotten the car washed, and went to the bank.

I still need to: change the sheets and ride the bike. Today's ride will be 8 weeks in a row of riding the bike 5 times a week -- I haven't done any kind of cardio [walking, biking, etc] 5 times a week since before Covid. I'm proud of my progress, but also, my legs are sore. I need to find a massage therapist.

Tomorrow is the 300-Eggstravaganza with Tim's family. We're bringing salad, fancy appetizers, and lots of wine.

2nd load of laundry is in. Most of the dishes are done. Couch is mostly cleaned off. Shoes are put away. Stairs are de-furred a little.

I just took my lemon meringue pie out of the oven, and mistakes were made, but it looks OK. I just hope it doesn't disrespect my grandmother's memory.

And why would an antibiotic for a cat smell like bubblegum? Makes no sense.

Pediatric meds. It's that or cherry. If only kids wanted tuna flavored meds.

It also comes in bubblegum flavor for dogs. They haaatessss it.

I just made up a non-food Easter basket for my sister. Easter is not something I pay much attention to, but I can tell she’s been thinking about it and missing it. But we’ve been doing this reduced carb thing and making a lot of progress. So. Basket with colorful paper straw, grow-a-sunflower kit, piña colada sugar-free gum, Bluetooth dongle so she can connect her headphones to the treadmill at the gym, Hello Kitty Lip Smackers, a mini spring colors Lite Brite set, and some little mini bags of pistachios. Not too bad I think!

Now I just have to remember to put it out in the middle of the night.

Aww that’s super sweet of you Brenda!

I had brunch with friends who were staying with me for the night, then drove them to the airport. Took the dog to the park and have done zero else. Will probably drag myself to the store eventually but the real question is will I buy ingredients for anything or just the things on my list? I was tempted to make this ricotta pie until I saw that even at 1/8 of a pie it was over 500 calories per slice! And living alone id eat all of it. So…maybe not.