Spaceship Made of Moonbeams

DTD for Saturday, Feb 27th

Sat, 27 Feb 2016 19:16:39 GMT

The Daily To Do list is fast becoming the Daily To Goddamn Do, due to my dwindling resources of time and energy, not to mention my patience for list-making. Here's a quick one for today:

- Write. (Specifically, finish up edits on two stories. Success! Wrote a paragraph. Also this entry. Gaaaaarrraawwwah)
- Listen to Janet Jackson's If. (Well, that was easy.)
- Work on crochet project. (Hat: 3 rows. Infinity scarf: NULL.)
- Pick up bulk order from local natural foods shop. Take baby, because woo, fun! (Not sarcasm. Baby has become more fun in the car and out-and-about. As long as he can handle it, I (and the docs) say the more exposure to the outside world, the better.)
- Attempt to gather tax stuff and forms.
- Repot spider and guest room plants.
- Reposition stakes and chicken wire around the deer's favorite backyard tree. Poor thing is near stripped. I'm hoping it comes back, but it doesn't look great.

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My kingdom for some dress pants

Tue, 26 Jan 2016 15:16:36 GMT

It is a bad week for pants. Bent down to pick up Baby E. the other day, and there was a quiet riiiip in the seat of my oldest black dress trousers. The rip was on the seam, so I could fix them without too much trouble. Then this morning I put on my other, newer pair of black trousers and discovered the hem stitching had disintegrated out of one cuff. Also a quick fix, if I could find the time to drag out the sewing machine, or needle and thread. But at 6:45 a.m.? With baby cries and tea to be made and a dog to be walked? (Just before I needed to leave for work?) It was safety pin time. Had lots of flashbacks to grade school and pants-pinning/rolling.

(And this looks more comfortable than pinning, but still)
(OMG 1980s-90s what was wrong with us)

Very icy on the sidewalks and roads today. I picked my way over it very slowly to make sure I did not die on the walk to work. Part of me wants to rail against the danger and the general lack of de-icing infrastructure, and part of me recognizes that in South Dakota, you could reasonably keep people on de-icing duty 24 hours a day, 7 days a week during the winter. No part of me suggests moving, because I love winter. But I can understand how so many people get to retirement/hip and knee replacement age and suddenly decide that Arizona or Florida is the place for them.

Daily To Do

- get blood labs drawn
- cajole hospital into discarding Baby E's old syringes (they have sat on the counter for months now, contained and )
- check out library copy of The Children's Blizzard
- post office
- grocery store (pinto beans)
- edit censer story
- write

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First evah DTD

Sat, 16 Jan 2016 17:40:25 GMT

It's my first post to my real-name journal. I have a fannish online persona, but I decided to create this journal to stake my claim on my real name, in case I become famous, notorious, or louder. I'll cross-post every entry to LJ.

Daily To Do:

Write
Practice typing quietly outside baby's door while baby sleeps (in crib! for fifteen whole minutes! what a triumph!)
Go to day job (yes, on Saturday) for a few hours
Research and finalize sleep-training plan for baby
Grocery shop
Drink more tea

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