busy day

Ted was off work today, so I brought the boys to the zoo, got them in on the family pass that has my name/picture on it, and went off to town to work. And work I did. I answered the critical emails that were piled up in my inbox and managed to triage another 500 or so. (And I still have 800 left, gah.) I spent time actually unflagging things because right now Gmail thinks EVERY EMAIL is Important, and I want to be able to use that feature for…

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Sigh.

Unpacking shoes and hair styling things is like unpacking a paean to the person I obviously wish I was. :p Nearly unworn heels, bought in a fit of I don’t even know what, except the joy of having discovered heels that were wide enough for my feet. A couple pair have reasonably low heels; I remember thinking they might be walkable-in. And maybe they are, if I was someone else who wore clothes that one wears heels with. And walked less than an average of 5 miles a day. And.…

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not dead

I’m making up for four posts on Monday by not making any more posts the rest of this week, I guess. We’re not yet fully unpacked. I have faint, tired hopes of finishing this weekend. We’ll see. We did get the clothesline up, so I’ve been taking advantage of the major solar spill we’re experiencing to dry clothes outside. And I did wash the mattress pad, which had been on my list of thinks to do a couple of weeks ago. So that’s something. I also–through the good graces of…

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wimbledon & shopping

I am given to understand that Paul Bettany won Wimbledon yesterday, and that the British are very excited about this. :) It was an insanely busy weekend. Saturday was pretty nearly perfect; we went forth and shopped, getting exciting things like lawn mowers and ice cream makers, and went to the farmers’ market, and had lunch out. We also got new shoes for Young Indiana which exploded three hours later. The entire bottom front half of the left shoe just went splooey and fell off, and all he’d done was…

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well & truly birthday’d

I had a lovely birthday yesterday. Friends came over for our BBQ Housecooling Party, we ate lots, I was given lovely stuff (homemade marmalade! sugar scrub bath stuff! cheese!), I got my hair cut into a cut that I’m not certain I like any better than the previous one, and probably other good stuff I can’t remember right now. :) Happy slightly belated birthday to all my birthday twins: Esmerel, Silkblade, Novella, Fahri, Marilyn, Morgan, and Superman! :)