Where Did the Weekend Go?

Well, I got stuff done, I guess.

K stayed over at R's Friday night to look after the cat and get to her Saturday morning class without waking up so early (R is away for the weekend), and took my car, since the A/C in hers is dead and it's been a million degrees here everyday. Okay, high 80s, which is extremely unusual for this part of the world at this time of year. No real end in sight, either, although we expect rain later this week and possibly, just possibly, the high 70s, which is still too damn hot for October. Very few of our trees have started to turn color. It's weird.

So I ran an errand or two in her car yesterday morning -- it was hot -- including a brief Ikea run, only to find out that the DVD storage tower I need a third one of is discontinued. Bummer. I got a different one later in the day at Best Buy, a cheaper one, which I guess is okay. I have a serious shortage of space here in the Mouse House.

My laundry is done, but not put away. After dinner last night, I went back with K to feed the kitty, as we did this morning. She's sleeping over there again tonight, and R will be back mid-day tomorrow. She's an exceptionally adorable kitty, very hyper, and not too sure about anyone except R, although she'll cuddle with K if she's there long enough by herself. Me, not so much.

After kitty-feeding, we made the Sunday trip to Target, of course, and then came home and watched more of The War. I think I've finally seen it all. Anyway, I put all the episodes on DVDs and cleared them out of the DVR. I'm about warred out for now.

I also organized the beginnings of my Disney packing. I bought a carton and am putting some stuff in there, as well as gathering other stuff to pack. I don't need to pack clothes until a day or two before I go, but I like to have all the other stuff in one place, and I'll need to ship the box about a week before. My luggage is not large, which makes it easier to carry, but it means it will pretty much just hold clothes, so I'll ship all the other stuff, and ship a box home, too. Why not ship everything ahead of time? I don't know; it sounds like a brilliant idea to me, but I guess it just isn't done. I've never heard of anyone doing it, anyway.

Oh, and when I was looking for the airplane adapter for my headphones, I found what seems to be a working Mickey Mouse wristwatch, which I didn't know I had. It needs a battery and a link removed from the band, but I can get that done tomorrow, maybe, after the mason leaves.

I've got a mason -- not like from the secret society, but a man who knows how to use mortar and tools -- coming to look at our front porch, which is breaking. It's only about six years old; I had the man who installed it come and look in June, which I may have mentioned. He said it was cracking because the guy who put in the railings did it wrong, but that he could repair it and it would only be a couple hundred bucks. Which was hunky dory with me, except he never came back to do it. I haven't called back, because frankly, he looked like he was at death's door when he was here and I don't want to call and have his wife tell me he's dead. I called a more local guy to come look at it, and hopefully, that will be fine. It needs to be fixed before winter, or the whole porch/rail/post/overhang combination could just crumble and collapse. The guy is coming after school tomorrow to give me an estimate.

Oh, here's big news for me. It was hot today when we went out, so I pulled my hair back in a ponytail. You can't imagine how long it is since I've been able to do that, maybe 15 - 20 years? It's a little scrawny ponytail that I pulled out through the hole in the back of my baseball cap, but still. It kept the hair off my neck, and it was nice having the option.

Okay, folks. Time to make some iced tea and start getting myself together for tomorrow.

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