I've been child-free for about 3 hours. DGD will be here tonight (probably soon) because she and dgs swapped nights (so he could get two nights in a row like she had.) Sigh. They do try to keep it equal. SMH. (They are out with ddil's family for supper, celebrating ddil's brother's birthday.
Since dgs left, I have
* watched Auburn lose the super regional baseball game to Coastal Carolina
* finished vacuuming the hard floors in the center bath, den/dining room, kitchen -- still need to do laundry room and master bath,
-- AND rugs/carpet in the rest of the main areas of the house. This is just the quick WHB "hit the middles" vacuuming. But having my front windows open, I did see dust
bunnies elephants in a few corners, etc, and I did a little spot cleaning in a couple places.
* typed the church minutes and emailed to pastor and those who need to see this
* TRIED to troubleshoot printer to no avail -- all it says is "low paper" but I have filled the paper as much as it will hold, and it has the blue light which means "connected -- ready to use" but it obviously is NOT ready to use.
Cathy, there used to be a Jesse Owens 10K that went right by our house. (Olympian track star Jesse Owens was born here.) Our church youth would set up a water station in our driveway so IKWYM about being "trapped" at home! They discontinued this race some years ago, but apparently they have renewed it as of this year -- I didn't know that, didn't see anything about it until the results were in the paper a few weeks ago, and they honored a deceased runner who was one of the leaders in getting it started to begin with. If it went by my house this time, I certainly slept through it.
Twins -- we had a severe thunderstorm warning a few hours ago, but it is clear and sunny right now. Rain is supposed to start up around 10:00 pm tonight and continue through most of the day tomorrow. Hope your dh and dd have a good visit with family, even though the circumstances are sad.
(((Kittykat))) and your furbaby. Hope all goes well!
Nancy, I always sorta panic when the boards are down. I'm glad I slept through all that!
Monday has always been my laundry day, but I may have to re-think that. It would be best to do WHB on Mondays, because that will be the day dgs is most likely to be with me, and he minds his own business and is pretty independent of me. He says he wants to be here all the time, but he doesn't need me to be actively playing with him all the time, like dgd does. I try to keep reminding myself, she is growing up so fast, and she's not going to want me with her all the time for long.
Cathy, I would have loved to go to our library book sale too, but OTOH -- WHEN am I going to get through my "to be read" pile already. I can imagine myself just having paths to walk through between the maze of books. I've got to stop playing games on my phone and start reading real books.
LadyM -- I can relate to keeping teens/preteens fed. But this is an example of how well dgs and I manage things -- he let me sleep late, finished off a box of Cheerios, and didn't concern me for food until much later, when he asked if I would fix a frozen pizza. DGD would be begging to go to McD's. Of course, dgs has his moments when nothing but Subway will do, LOL. I think he would be happy to eat there every day.
I hope HRH is feeling better soon, Harriet.
The humidity level is giving us chilly evenings inside - new AC certainly works fast. then we find ourselves uncomfortable, and it's about to be summer!
YES. DGS and I went out on the porch during the storm, and it was so hot out there, when I came in I had to put on a sweatshirt because it felt so cold in the house.
And I hope things are calm around your house, blessed!
Waving to ALL!!! I'm going to work with this printer a while more. The wi-fi light is on; it looks like it is just fine, but it refuses to print my church document.
