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05 November 2007
State today's assignment here. →[More:]
I am going to clean my house and open all of the windows because it is glorious outside. It's going to take a while. I'll report back with my accomplishments.
My day's half over as it's twenty past two and I've been at work since 7am. My plan is to not fall asleep before the end of America's Next Top model (Season 8 in the UK showing now).
Boy is home sick from school, and I have to wash all of his bedding, which has been my intended goal for today since last Friday. I will force him to sit in front of the television for a few hours and play video games so I can wash every last piece of bedding in his bedroom. Then Febreeze the hell out of the whole place, because his room smells of feet. Feet and I don't know what else - it's that indescribable boy scent that permeates a room after a time.
I am going to go to the post office. And some other work-related stuff. Then I am going to take my mom on the normal Monday errands (grocery shopping). At some point I'll eat something tasty. I need to go coat shopping. I have coats but none of them do the thing I wish they'd do. I have a super warm ski jacket which is great for walking the dogs because it actually is warm but it is also really ugly (it was purchased for snowboarding). I have a good looking grey wool coat but I'm just sick of the greyness of the thing + it's not really warm. (The grey coat was $10 at goodwill.)
I would also like to grab a couple hours sleep sometime because Binky woke me up way early.
I also need to get a pair of black flats for my feets.
My day: finish up the work I didn't get done on Friday, hopefully early enough to go home early and see a friend who's in town for a few hours. Also, clean the litter boxes and do some laundry, esp. socks.
I am also sick, so my assignment is to force myself to leave work early if I start getting feverish again; I keep waking up feeling fine and then feeling like crap by 3pm, and it ruined my entire weekend.
Must also buy cat litter and cat food.
Get my reading done for class tomorrow, or at least a big chunk of it.
TODAY will be the day I DO THE LAUNDRY. I've been saying that every weekday for a week. But TODAY, TODAY is the day. I will also take the AC out of the window and finish absolutely everything there is to do at work (heh).
1. Go to the post office at lunch. Remember to bring the address I need.
2. Call the photographer when I get home. No ifs, ands, or buts.
3. Finish the laundry, not matter what distracts me. This includes folding the pile of clean laundry.
I am expected to work all day (dull tasks, dumb things I gotta do). I am expected to finish a baby quilt for a birthday party on Saturday. I am expected to bake chocolate chip cookies for my pub quiz team. I am expected to make script notes on two different scripts. I should like to play Civ IV. Some of this will not get done.
send in rebate forms for laptop and laser printer
straighten up bedroom/office
take out garbage
pick up mail
study a bit more CSS
make home-made pizza for dinner
enjoy one of the last decent warm (well, 50s) sunny days for the year
Adding to my previous assignment: Make spinach and cheese blintzes for dinner. I've never had them before but have a mysterious craving for what I think they should taste like.
I am finally done navigating the bureaucracy of going back to school after 6 years off...today's assignment, is to drink too much coffee and wait to see how much financial aid i get...
I might play a bunch of online scrabble and boggle though too...
Am at work after 4 day mini vacation. As expected, all hell has broken loose. Have unexpected visitor in form of Aunty Flo (see yesterday's weekend thread & add me to the cyber hormonal list, sheesh, a week early) which is not helping. Way too much to do. Meeting with boss at 3:00 to discuss waaay too much to do. Would be easier probably just to do it. Ey yi yi.
This thread stresses me out, looking at your ToDo List when I can't even put together my own ToDo list coherently.
To Do Today maybe, hopefully.
1. 3 overdue grant reports due. I hope to knock off at least one of them.
2. Do some emailing with tricky negotiating. Requires thinking and composing time.
3. Answer all the other emails I ignored over the weekend.
4. Some laundry, any laundry. It's getting desperate, though I am not wearing bikini bottoms in lieu of underwear...yet.
5. Litter box cleaning since my bf is in complete denial of cat bowel movements.
6. Take big bag of clothes to Goodwill
7. Go to the bank and get some money
8. Make some Pasta-y sort of thing
9. Maybe watch Heroes, except it has been boring me to tears
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