Mission Accomplished

Sort of ….

I didn’t get everything done on any of my daily plans, but I accomplished the most important items on each day, and made progress on some of the lesser items.

I got off work early on Friday afternoon, so I went to Dinstuhl’s to get the Easter basket goodies for the kids. It was a bit of a zoo, actually. Then I went to pick up the kids, but they were out running errands with my parents, so I sat down and watched the recording of Survivor that we had made the night before, since we had dinner plans for Thursday night. Once it was over, I headed home, calling my folks and asking them to just drop the boys at the house.

On Friday night, I planted herbs and cleaned up the storage shed while waiting for the ex to pick up the kids. That took a couple of hours, because the shed was a disaster. Then, as I was utterly filthy and had cobwebs in my hair, I took a long, hot bath (with scented bath salts) followed by a shower to wash my hair. It was now about 8:30, and I realized that I was starving, so I went to a local restaurant and had veal piccata and a fresh mozzarella, basil, and tomato salad. I felt much better after that.

When I returned home, I cleaned my kitchen, which was a small, but important job. I a dirty kitchen. Then I got the percale sheets down from the attic and changed all of the bedsheets from flannel to percale. This was crucial because the temperatures here have been in the 80s during the day, and around 70 at night. Far too warm for comfortable sleeping on flannels. Then I filed some papers for a while and fell into bed around 11:30.

Saturday morning, I got up late — around 7:30. I cleaned my bedroom and then filed papers for several hours. Once I’d finished that, I was ready to go and do my taxes using my dad’s computer (and his copy of Turbo Tax). But first I went to the vegetable store and the local “belly boutique.” I stocked up on Perrier at the fancy grocery, and got celery, ruby red grapefruit, and bell peppers in four different colours at the veggie store. Then I went to Mom and Dad’s house.

I did my taxes, which took almost the entire afternoon. I also helped Mom and Dad clean off their patio (too much sitting makes my back hurt, so I alternate sitting chores with moving about chores). by the time we got everything finished, it was almost 9:00. So we got Wendy’s take-out for supper, because none of use wanted to stand up to cook. LOL!

Anyway, I headed home and to bed after that. And Sunday was church, of course, and then I fixed up the kids’ Easter baskets and did some laundry while waiting for them to come home. (And goofed off a little — I was feeling lazy.) When they got home, they wanted to go to a local New Orleans eatery for supper, so we went and had a good time eating on the patio. By the time we got home, it was their bedtime. I stayed up late double-checking some of the figures on my tax return, as I am getting a whopping big refund that I didn’t expect, and was afraid maybe I’d put in some numbers incorrectly. But it all checked out, and I’m going to be able to pay off a serious hunk of debt when I get that check!

It was a good weekend.