A Light Through the Darkness

beard5 and I celebrate by getting up and going to the Concord Farmer's Market. We do this every Saturday that we are both in town: we go and get coffee (for him), tea (for me) and we split a bagel or a sandwich (today it was a BLT to die for on toasted sourdough bread - yum!). Then we go to the Farmers Market. Today, I got new potatoes, snap peas, broccoli, donuts and a corkscrew. He got donuts and fudge (the lamb folks weren't there, so he couldn't get lamb). It was a good morning.

Now I'm home, and cleaning. My living room is cleaned and vacuumed. Now I'm working on the dining room. My only slight sorrow was that none of the flowers spoke to me at the FM - maybe I'll see if I can get some pansies from my overgrown flower bed. Oh, and I have to thaw the salmon! Dinner tonight is salmon with lemon sauce, roasted broccoli and rice. I think I'll have Argus and Dad pull the table out and we'll eat outside tonight.

Have a great 4th, everyone!

As of 7:44 am EST today, it became spring. Time for a change!

This weekend, I have writer's group on Saturday, so tonight I need to do the reading for that. I think I'll print it out before I leave to go to my Remicade treatment and bring it down to the hospital with me.

Other than that, I need to see Mom and Dad on Sunday to go over some family stuff, and then I need to CLEAN. Spring Cleaning this weekend. There is laundry all over my living room, my dining room looks like a bomb exploded and so does my kitchen. It's a mess. Time to clean!

And if I get the cleaning done? Then I can start seeds. Yay! Gardening, here I come!

And up early to deal with snow before going to work. It's supposed to stop around 6 pm tomorrow, but I need to get into work. So up early to shovel it is. Lucky Argus, he's off on vacation all week. *grumble*

Bento packed for tomorrow. Plastic/bentoware all cleaned and organized. Back sore.

Bleah.

Night, all!

Yes, the house looks like a post-nuclear explosion. I can't deal with it anymore. So no writing, no WoW, no email, no NOTHING, until I've made a dent in the cleaning.

So here's the list:

- Living Room:
1. Put away laundry
2. clean off blue couch
3. Clean off table
4. Vaccuum floor

- Kitchen:
1. DISHES!!!!
2. Clean off counters
3. Sweep floor
4. WASH floor

Random:
1. More laundry
2. Cook
3. Head to Walmart and get outdoor lights and a wreath and a new mouse for the big computer.

Cooking:
1. dinner tonight: fish sticks, baked potatoes, broccoli and cheese
2. dinner tomorrow night: baked chicken breasts, stuffing with cranberries and brussel sprouts with garlic.
3. chicken salad
4. egg salad

I might make brownies or biscuits too, but I haven't decided yet. This is a good list.

I will be writing later tonight as well. And now I'm off!

So tonight there's a Mardi Gras Hurricane X coming through tonight, and Casa Ford is the overflow harbor, so to speak. Which means I need to clean, since argus7hills is helping a friend move today. So far, I've gotten the dining room clean, and most of the living room. I'm taking a quick break - at 3 pm, I'm starting laundry and peeling the devilled eggs for tonight. Then it's finishing up the living room, doing dishes and vacuuming. I might even have time to write today (being positive here).

Then it's dressed and over to Casa Xavier for the party. I have a mask, bling and a really cool top to wear. There might even be pictures.

Where did I get so much CRAP??? Yes, that means that today, after much whining, I attacked the mess that was pretending to be my office/sewing room.

As the Red Sox have fought off the Giants (still leading 9-5 in the 8th), I've battled the boxes. Now, you can walk through the center of the room without worrying that the boxes piled on the sides will cave in on you, and Cassandra has been set up on the desktop, so I can write. I'm contemplating leaving the desktop NOT hooked up to the internet, and just have both running on the desk (I have the room). But as Heracles is not even put together yet (I haven't had the time), I'll worry about that later.

So I'm taking a break to blog and catch up on email - then I'm going to attack the sewing table. Tonight, I'm going to write (almost done with the plotting form, so I can start outlining), and maybe hook Heracles together.

I like having an office again.

I hate working days. Even days when I get nothing but HW and help desk questions.

I really think I have an aversion to working in an office in the sun. There's just something so different about coming in at 9:30 am versus coming in at 3:30 pm.

I dunno.

OTOH, an issue that's been burning for a while here is finally getting some attention. That makes me happy.

Home tonight with hubby. Long bath once I get the DSL working. Then some writing and some sleep. Oh, and cleaning. I need to clean the apartment.

Badly.

*sigh* I need more energy and more hours in the day.

Because I've been cleaning all day. I have a new writing desk!!!!

That's great. I can put my own computer up, and all my writing stuff. Argus and I don't have to compete for writing space anymore!

Unfortunately, to put it in, I have to go and clean all my sewing stuff up. Ugh. I think I found where they hid Hoffa. *sigh*

I also found that I have a TON of gorgeous fabric. So no more fabric buying for Val until she uses some of her stash. I've also got a full box of "projects" - ie, garb that's partially done. Everything from "I cut it out and got interrupted" to "I just need to sew the neckline and add some trim and it's done." Argus has about 7 tunics like that in here. :)

So once the desk is in, I'll either be putting the laptop on there, or setting up a big computer. I'm not sure which yet.

So more updates later. If I can get the computers linked, I'll take a picture of the new and improved office when I'm done and post it here.

On the upside, I did a HECK of a workout today! Talk about sore! Hauling boxes of fabric is good for the muscles! :)

Off to work now!