Cold Water Wash Thursday, Feb 7 2008

7 February 2008

Happy Chinese New Year!  Welcome to the Year of the Rat!

Did you happen to see the Google front page, today?  Honestly, I think it’s becoming one of my favourite aspects of any given holiday—-what cute thing have the Google folks come up with, this time?

We didn’t plan our Mah Jong party for tonight like we sometimes do . . . with dear friends getting married on Sunday, it didn’t seem prudent to try to gather folks tonight.  And, it’s a good thing, too, considering how Kyle and I have both been feeling all week.  I am much better, but still dealing with a horrible, dry, unproductive and painful cough.  <sigh>

So, I jumped right from Mardi Gras to Valentine’s Day decorations, today.  I left the house only to go pay the rent on my storage unit, and outside of five loads of laundry, cleaning off the front porch,  dealing with a U-Verse repair guy, working on sketches for my Scarborough folks, and toward getting my workshop ready for some heavy duty work next week . . . I guess I didn’t do much today.

I thought of Kyle’s recent challenge-mundane tasks—-as I snapped a few photos of our washing machine as it prepares for a rinse cycle.

~MB

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Attic Rope Thursday, Feb 7 2008

6 February 2008

Enough is enough.  I don’t want to be sick anymore.  So, I decided to get dressed early in the morning, and just start living.  I was still looking at holiday wreaths and tree parts, because I hadn’t felt well enough to climb into the attic.  Ridiculous.  So, into the attic I went, fully understanding that I’d ignored the situation up there for far too long, and that some serious cleaning was necessary.  So, I dug in, and now, all my holiday stuff is organized, and put away; I tossed a bunch of stuff I was keeping for no reason, and repacked other stuff; I vacuumed and cleaned and restacked boxes, and although tired when I was done, I feel great about it.

Not feeling so great about my photo, though.  I could not get my little camera to focus on that stupid green ball.  This is the rope that hangs from the attic access door . . . for as long as I’ve lived here, this green, marbleized, hard plastic ball has been the “handle.”  It’s so high over my head that I couldn’t hold the camera close enough to it and still enough at the same time.  So, I ended up turning the camera upside-down, and bracing against my shelves, but in so doing lost the focus.  Grrr.  But, it’s the only photo I even attempted today, so it’s what you get.

By the way, in keeping with the mindset of “I’m no longer sick,” . . . I fixed dinner!  :-)   Well, it was food, it needed some fixing, and we ate it for dinner . . . that doesn’t mean I really cooked.  I prepared a baked brie!  It’s one of the things I do know how to do, and have learned how to do even in our disfunctional oven!  That’s the real challenge!

I still have a nasty cough, but it’s on the way out!  I am tired of it!

~MB

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Tunnel Vision Thursday, Feb 7 2008

5 February 2008

Mardi Gras

Still sick.  But, so tired of staying in the house, that Kyle took me to No Frills for a burger.  My appetite is the one thing that hasn’t suffered during this odd little illness.  However, I was useless at trivia—completely unable to concentrate.  My photo is a good illustration of how I felt. 

~MB

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