still busy

To make up for the past few weeks, I have not left the house at all this weekend. It was still very, very busy. I undertook a fairly significant housecleaning measure Saturday, as the plumber and electrician were done with the shower and had left a big-ass mess behind. I still have not mopped, but possibly that’s for the best as today’s barbeque meant a fair amount of tracking dirt and wet around. Maybe tomorrow, she said unenthusiastically. We had the whole fan damily over for dinner today, including a…

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might as well make a list

It’s 7:20am, I’ve been up 90 minutes, I might as well make a list of things that need doing. – clean the house, comprising of: » cleaning the kitty litter » empty garbage & recycling bins » sweeping » clean toilets » do remaining dishes » move everything off the tile & wood floors » so i can mop » put everything back » so i can vacuum » finish our laundry – get fabric brightener stuff » so i can do young indiana’s laundry – shop for food for…

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:p

There is an electrician in my house. He has been here since twenty to six. It is now twenty to nine. My son is sleeping on the couch. I would like to be able to sleep with him, since I have learned to sleep when he does, but I can’t exactly conk out while this guy is here. >.< And poor Zilli has been locked in the back room all evening because I can't trust people to close the front door. :p eta: the electrician just left. it’s 10:20. boy…

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SO MUCH *STUFF*!

There is SO MUCH STUFF going on in September that I want to go do! The first annual Phizzfest is this-and-next week, with an art crawl, history lessons, musical and theatrical performances, outdoors yoga classes, drumming workshops, and a photography contest thing to enter your photos taken during the festival. And it’s nearly all free! Next week is the Mountains to Sea Book Festival in Dun Laoghaire (wow, I spelled that correctly on the first go), and I have promised that I’ll pop out. I should arrange that with her…

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