multipurposegoddess

...how about one for tomorrow? To wit

• Take the dog for a walk
• Get the broken branches off the front lawn (as much done as it's gonna be for a few days, anyway)
• Plant the blanket flower that I can't remember the proper name of
• Water the Walking Stick and the Camellia
• Mow
• Edge
• Weed flower bed
• Sweep porch, sidewalk and driveway
• Feed birds
• Pancakes
• Find teflon tape

Not necessarily in that order, and if I can get any of it done it'll be a success. Supposed to be a lot less hot tomorrow, I think, but I hope to get an early start just in case I need to cower inside in the afternoon.

I am getting overwhelmed with all the stuff I need to get done over the next little while, so I'm going to write it all down here so it's somewhere other than inside my head. Behind the cut, because BORING.


That actually helped. I think I need to make the housecleaning/arranging stuff more of a priority than it's been lately. One of these days it will be time to make sipping tea and reading murder mysteries my top priority. Sigh.

Oh, hey, a nearby chemical plant is on fire. Great. Maybe tomorrow we'll have locusts.

I got a High Definition DVR/Cable Box from Comcast today.

The opening graphics of the Newshour with Jim Lehrer is so beautiful I might cry. Animal Planet/Discover/National Geographic is going to kill me, I can tell.

I might need a HD Homerun for easy transfer to iPods and those occasions when I need to record four things at once (Thursday nights, I'm looking at you)

I am incredibly close to being done with the old house. I have one cooler-load of beverage to rescue from the fridge, two rugs to haul over, and then it's just however much cleaning I feel like doing and piling the trash up on the street. If DH takes tomorrow off (as he said he might), we should finish tomorrow. So ready to be done.

Then I can start unpacking in earnest. More work, but at least it's for my own benefit.

I had a lovely day yesterday. Not much of it would fit into the traditional idea of Thanksgiving. DH and I, oh, and Walter, headed over to my parents' place around noon. They met us outside and swept us off in their Prius up to Mt. Diablo, where we picnicked at a picturesque but cold and windy spot. We all agreed that the view was worth it. Mom had braved Whole Foods on Tuesday to pick up an assortment of things to eat, including roasted vegetables, some sort of squash salad with cranberries, green beans, brussel sprouts with pecans, a tofu and rice thing for them and some deli sliced turkey for the carnivores. Mom wasn't sure that would be enough, so she made some rice and cranberry pilaf that was delicious. Once we'd all eaten enough and decided we'd had enough wind, we packed up the dishes and leftovers and headed up to the summit. We headed directly to the observation deck on the roof of the visitor's center and looked at various landmarks through Dad's spotting scope. It was pretty clear - we could see Suisun and the Golden Gate Bridge and the Sutter Buttes, and could even pick out the Transamerica Building with the scope. We followed that up with a leisure stroll around the Fire Trail (it's got another name now, but I don't recall who it's been dedicated to) and made it back to the car before sunset (when the park closes). Back at my folks' house, we had time to sit in front of the fire and have tea and "pumpkin pie bars", which were good though not really pie like, and start playing a "Thanksgiving Trivia" game that my mom had cut out of the paper. We had to take off before finishing the game so DH could get to a meeting while I lolled about at home, enjoying not painting or cleaning or anything. When he got home we were both hungry again (weird how that happens) so he heated up some Matzo Ball soup, gobbled it up, and went to bed.

Nice day.

Today we cleared out the new house in preparation for moving in, put all the switch plates and so forth back where they belong, vacuumed, mopped, set up the Mac Mini and the phone and accepted delivery on our new TV, though we didn't set it up yet.

Still to do
So close!

1.  Washed two loads of dishes in dishwasher
2. Put one away
3. Wrote 1797 words for NaNoWriMo
4. Worked myself into a panic attack over giving notice of intent to quit apartment. Yeah, I don't know why.
5. Paid one bill and this month's rent
   

Intend to do tomorrow

1. Get blood drawn
2. Pay the rest of my bills
3. Pick up Adderall prescription and get it filled {Not happening until Monday. Just not}
   
4. Make my daily word quota again a little short, but I'll do today
   
5. Do some laundry {Maybe Saturday. Maybe not}
   

Hm. Laid out like that, it looks reasonable. Cool.