So yeah, I managed to get this cute picture of the two of them tonight shortly before bedtime. They’re cute.
Today was a pretty incredible day. I managed to accomplish about half of the tasks I had on my list of things to do, which was amazing to me. I started out in the morning with a trip to get my hair cut (which was about time), then a few errands (amongst other things making sure the concrete saw was in order for Friday and getting a repair estimate for the car).
I came home and went up into the attic to do some inspections, which turned out alright. I found what I was looking for in the electrical department, so I can pick up a few things on Wednesday and be good to go in getting those projects lined up and ready to go.
I also managed to take two years worth of aluminum cans to the recycling place — 53 pounds of cans. Crazy. Nice part is that I get paid for those…so that’s cool. I’ll be taking some copper pipe and scrap metal there later int he week as well.
When I got home from that (around 1PM), I spent a few hours working outside. Amongst other things, I sprayed down the house and surrounding areas with an insecticide, so that’s a good project down for a while. That should help with spiders in the windows and whatnot. I didn’t get to mowing the lawn, but that’s a project for later this week anyway. Possibly Wednesday, we’ll see.
So day one of more or less being cut off from work (which wasn’t completely true) was quite productive. Mark and Abby came out for a few hours tonight — we had some good grilled stuff and lit off some fireworks after Kirstin went to bed. Good times. They also brought out their spare copy of Super Mario (the original) and Duck Hunt for the NES…so I’ll imagine there will be some playing of that going on tomorrow.
I’ve got several things lined up for tomorrow as well, but there will be a lot less traveling going on. I plan to stick around the house and get a few other random things completed. I just hope I can keep up this pace…or something of similar gusto…throughout the week. I could get a load of stuff done at the rate it’s been working out. It also feels good to get a few things completed. They don’t really take all that long, but they’re medial tasks that have been put off for a long time.
So that said, I’m going to head for bed and call it a day. Until next time…
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
– Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
–MZ