More Coffee Please

Yesterday:

• Got up, ate breakfast, wished body would tolerate caffeine, read the (very thin) paper.
• Got dressed and headed down to the basement to help D mix up some thinset for tiling the bathroom floor. My role: holding the bucket so it didn’t spin and skate across the floor as it resisted being mixed. Also my role: absorbent surface for a great sloosh of not-mixed-yet-but-still-very-muddy thinset which decided to make a break for freedom.
• Shed muddy clothes. Decided this was as good a time as any to start the laundry. Ran up and down the stairs a few times with laundry hampers.
• Got dressed (again).
• Rethreaded the sewing machine with red thread (it’s still new enough that this is a scary process); fixed two holes in Maddy’s skirt without mishap. Yay!
• Cleaned the bathroom.
• Headed outside. Raked and bagged leaves, with help from Maddy, who likes to stomp them down in the yard waste bin.
• Somehow stepped in cat poop. Happily, Crocs are easily cleanable with a garden hose. Maddy helped by making loud “EW, STINKY!” proclamations.
• Raked the very long grass in one direction. Mowed.
• Moved stuff around in the garage so Maddy could extract and ride her tractor.
• Raked the still rather long grass in another direction. Mowed again.
• Raked in random directions, trying to make the STILL long grass stand up so it would be cut. Mowed a third time.
• Gave up on mowing.
• Remembered we also have grass in the front yard. Mowed.
• Dug great quantities of worm compost into the garden.
• Wrestled the tractor back into the garage. Wrestled sand from the sandbox lid (which Maddy had turned into some sort of sand-and-sea resort for ants) back into the sandbox.
• Beer. Aaaah.
• More laundry.
• Got the bread machine started on a loaf of bread.
• Helped Maddy tidy her room.
• Vacuuming.
• Admired newly-tiled bathroom floor.
• More laundry.
• Embarked on dinner. Shed various notions due to an almost complete lack of food in the house. Ended up with a mushroom quiche and a fruit crisp.
• More laundry.
• Showered!
• Nice dinner with visiting friends.
• Ran the dishwasher.
• Goofed about online for a bit.
• Folded laundry.
• Ran the dishwasher again.
• Packed Maddy a lunch for her field trip today.
• Fell into bed.