Saturday

1. Soak beans
2. Make beans
3. Do some weeding
4. Plant new tomatoes
5. Trip to neighbor town to hit bank and PetSmart and Target
6. Laundry
7. Bedroom in tip top shape

Pretty good day here.

I got up and rolled out of bed this morning.  Got dressed and immediately went to work.  My breakfast was shoved quickly in my purse.  Finished grading in just the nick of time (noon.)

I came home. Did some laundry.  Watered.  Found squash bugs.  Learned some tips on how to deal with squash bugs.  (Literally squash bugs.  They're on my zucchini plants.  OUTSIDE! YES!)

I made some zucchini lasagna.  Ate some zucchini lasagna.  Let it all settle and then went for a walk/run.

When I finish this I'm going to fold some laundry and head to bed. 

I'm meeting with Mimi tomorrow at 11am for a 2 hour workout.  It's our last workout before she moves off.  So we're going to make it long and probably quite difficult. 

Tomorrow night I'm meeting up with a new writing group.

Early next week I start part-time summer job hunting and V. comes for a visit!

O.y. V.e.y.

Nothing is ever as easy as you think'll it be.  Especially when you aren't think it'll be all that easy.

Damn bugs.

The fogging didn't do the trick.
But I've spent the week in a constant swing between getting things cleaned/washed from having been fogged and continuing to try to get rid of dem bugs.  I'd rather not go into too much detail, but let's say it's like I've had to move out of the kitchen, go to war with insects, and move back in.  Still moving back in.  The dishwasher is taking care of all the stuff from inside the drawers right now.  Then it'll be time to attack the pots and pans.  Then finally figure out the new dishes/old dishes situation and get those washed and put in.  Then?  I want to start rearranging furniture and painting.  I've got my work cut out for me.

Also going on at the moment is Bailey running around the backyard on a beautifully cool evening.  Zukes nad cukes are both blooming.  Tomatoes are growing.  Beans are running.

A Pur water filter is soaking the required 15 minutes before I rinse it and then put it in the pitcher.

The rest of my Saturday night will involve heating up soup and watching the last episodes of season 1 of Treme.

And oh.  Leo quit.

YAY!

Sometimes it really helps to write out a plan.

A few things need to happen in my household soon.

1. Sort through dishes and make box of things to take to Goodwill.
2.Wash and put out dishes I've had in boxes for years for when I finally ended up somewhere.
3. Fog the kitchen for roaches.
4. Move in the groovy little chest freezer I got on Craigslist for a steal and the repainted.


So the question is: how to do this is the most logical, productive way?

After I fog, everything is gonna be kinda gross.  So it would make sense to go ahead and pack up the stuff I want to donate, but not yet put out the stuff I want to use.  After I fog I'll be running the dishwasher lots and so can stick said new dishes in that job.  Then move the freezer in once I've cleaned up post fogging.

Complications:

1. If I pack up most of my dishes to donate, then I don't have dishes (getting rid of most) until Wednesday at best. 
2. Where do the critters and I go while fogging happens?

Okay, 2 is easy.  We'll all go hang out in my office.

And I just need a plan in place for 1.

I'll have a smoothie or oatmeal in the morning.  Easy enough to clean up before fogging.  I'll take my lunch to work, no biggie there.  Dinner is the problem.  I could get fast food and eat it in the office, but...I'd rather not.  It's money I should spend and junk I shouldn't eat.

I have some bean soup in the freezer.  I could take it out tonight and stick it in the fridge.  Then grab it as we head up to my office and heat it up and eat there.

Have I solved all my problems?

Time to get to sorting. 

You know, except I'm tired and have a headache.  I could watch one more episode of Treme instead.  Then wash the dishes in the sink and go to bed.  I could come home early enough to sort, then fog.

Procrastination, thy name is Jackie

Life's been busy, and a bit unfun.

Had a bad reaction to some medication and had a very sick night or two.

Have recovered.

Rediscovered today how much I love making to do lists on paper.  The joy of checking something off or scratching it out.  The portability of a list.  Crossed all ten things off today.

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Have been watching Treme.  So very much want to drive the five short hours to New Orleans.  Or the one and a quarter to Shreveport. 

Sometime Tuesday night I felt something weird going on with my back, right around one of my tattoos.  The skin felt kinda numb and tingly.  Then it hurt a little.  The skin, though, not the muscle.

At first I wondered if I did something while working out with Mimi the day before, but dismissed it because nothing was sore, it was numb.

Worry.  Worry.  Dr. Google.  Searching about diabetic peripheral neuropathy.  More worry.

At the doctor's office today, she had me take my sweater off, and began prodding around my back.  She asked if my arms were numb or hurt.  Nope.  My neck?  Nope.  She prodded and then ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh that felt good.  And she asked when I had worked out last.  Monday.  Did I do any upper body stuff?  Bicep curls with overhead presses.

Yeah.  I pulled something, just a little probably, and it probably swelled up and is probably putting pressure on some nerves making my skin feel numb.

She prescribed some muscle relaxers which weren't supposed to make me sleepy, but WOW I'm druggy and tired.  If it's not back to normal in two weeks, I go back and she spends more time looking at my neck.

It's all fine.

And I'm tired.  And druggy.  And my head hurts.  And I don't think there's much else to talk about for now.

Tomorrow:
1. Lunch with Sylvie
2. Party at chair's house