Discovered the joy of eating only side dishes for lunch. Roasted red potatoes + yummy rice = good lunch.
Cat from the office next door came to visit and batted at every paper cup that was sitting on my desk. Decided it was time to clean off my desk.
Cat didn't want to hang around for the desk cleaning, so tried various other options in my office, including my chair, the bookshelf, and the windowsill. When my desk was clean, he went to sleep in his favorite place - right behind my laptop.
Left work, stopped at grocery store to pick up precooked chicken, black beans, salsa and tortillas for dinner. They were out of chicken and salsa.
Got paged from work.
Gave up mexican dinner plan, quickly grabbed stuff to make pizza with, and dashed home.
Shoved bag of groceries at Abby and said, "Make pizza."
Logged into work, didn't need to do much after all.
Took Katrina outside with me to haul in the cabinet that I dragged home on Sunday, but hadn't brought upstairs yet.
Tried several times, unsuccessfully, to remove cabinet from the backseat of the car. It had been difficult to get it in, but I didn't think it would be that hard to get it out.
Stopped for a minute to think about how much force it would take to snap the back door of my car right off, and how much it would cost to replace it if one accidentally applied that much force to the door of the car.
Finally, somehow, the cabinet came out of the car without snapping anything off.
Put cabinet in the middle of the living room for all to admire. The cats were particularly intrigued.
After dinner, engaged the children in a bidding war to see who wanted to make extra spending money cleaning out the refrigerator.
Abby won the contract for $4.
Fixed the broken garbage disposal, from too much old stuff from the fridge being stuffed down it.
Cleaned the carpet, where a leaky garbage bag had broken through and splattered cream and other stuff all over the place.
Moved cabinet to bedroom
Admired clean fridge.
Watched my new favorite show Las Vegas and went to bed.
Got paged at 3:15am. Was finally able to answer the question, if I get paged in the middle of the night, will I wake up? Yes, indeed, I will.
Felt very pleased about having cabinet in bedroom, as it provided a handy place to put laptop.
Logged in to work, went back to sleep.
Got paged at 6:29am. Was digruntled to be woken up so soon before the alarm went off.
Got children up, figured out issue at work, laid in bed until 7:30am, when I leapt up and drove the girls to choir practice.
Got home at 7:50am, went back to sleep for an hour.
Okay, an hour and a half.
Okay, two hours.
Dug out shoes that were more appropriate than sandals for possible record-breaking cold temperatures
Drove to work, couldn't find parking place, aborted several attempts at parallel parking. My parallel parking is getting better, but it still has a ways to go.
Was blockaded by 1. A woman who thought that the middle of the street was a fine place to stop and drop her friend off, and discuss the fourteen things they needed to discuss before said friend left and 2. A UPS truck that stopped right in the middle of the roundabout.
Finally found parking place.
Walked past two black cats on the way in to work. Neither crossed my path, though, so feel sure that today will be full of good luck.
Posted by Rachel at November 4, 2003 11:54 AM