TO-DO BEE DO BE DO

Waking up super early has one advantage, though I could wish it was not the case since I’m HOME AND DON’T HAVE TO GET UP. Because I can’t get back to sleep, I figure I might as well get up and moving and shower and eat breakfast so I can start doing whatever it is I have on my to-do list for the day. You might think that I shouldn’t HAVE a to-do list while I’m on sick leave/vacation, but have you met me? I live for to-do lists. And oh my god, I’m getting so many things done right now. I still have 2 weeks left before I return to work, and just think how many things I’ll be able to get done! Especially since I have nearly no plans ahead.

I also seem to have a pressing need to TELL you what I have accomplished. I fully expect affirmation, validation, or at the very least, applause, for my busy, productive self. This morning, BEFORE 12 NOON MIND YOU, I did the following: stripped all the couch and big chair cushion covers and washed them, ate breakfast, stripped and washed the bed linens, edited photos, vacuumed the furniture thoroughly and then the rest of the house, sent emails and dealt with AIC obligations, ordered shampoo refills for Anders, filled and ran the dishwasher, ran a third load of rugs, and a fourth load of clothes, made a batch of summer pasta salad, finished my book and started a new one, played a pile of mini puzzle games, went to the grocery store, went to Biltema for textile cleaner (and bought a new shiatsu massage pillow machine), stopped at the plant nursery for a new African violet. While I was doing all that, Anders took a load of stuff to the dump, steam-cleaned the couch and chair arms, and dealt with the quotation we got for putting in storage batteries. Now he’s making rhubarb chutney.

Since I got home from the shopping run, I’ve continued with laundry, made a delicious omelette and fried potatoes for lunch, repotted the African violet, picked a huge container full of snap peas, and put my feet up for half an hour. But I was starting to fall asleep, so had to get up and do something; hence this post.

We have so many snap peas in the garden that I can’t keep up. I’ve eaten a TON, and frozen two bags, and now have another full container in the fridge. There are at least 3x that still in the garden, so I’ve sent a message to my neighbor to ask if she wants some, and she does, so I’ll pick more this evening when I go out to water the tomatoes, and take a bag over to her. It’s fun having our own vegetable garden, but it’s hard to predict what we’re going to get, and when it’s too much, at least I can usually give some away to the neighbors or take some produce to work. I saw that there were a few cherries ripening on the tree as well, though it’s only maybe a couple of dozen and most too high to reach. They’re not QUITE ripe (I ate one, and it was close, but not really sweet yet). I’m surprised the birds haven’t picked them all off. We need to eat more potatoes, too. We have a ton of those as well.

The afternoon plan is to put the cushion covers back on, make the bed, edit some more photos, and hopefully finish and publish the crossword puzzle I’m working on. It keeps disappearing from the site, which is annoying and scary, as I worry it won’t come back and I’ll have to start over. It’s already done this once and come back, but I was still not quite finished despite working on it for over an hour late last night when I couldn’t GET to sleep after going to bed.

It’s been cloudy and rainy all day until about an hour ago, when the sun abruptly showed up. Still a lot of cloud cover, but it’s high and white and the sun is shining and lighting up the whole world. Still too wet on the deck to go hang out there…maybe in a while, we’ll see. Maybe I should take a nap soon before it gets too much later, since I am feeling very tired again. Have to make the bed first in that case, since I don’t want to drool directly on the mattress. 😀

I like being home like this, knowing it’s for a limited time, and I have plenty of things to keep me occupied, and I feel fine, and my digestive system has calmed way down, just since the new medicine 2 days ago. I could get used to this, I think. Maybe. …where’s that to-do list of mine?

Mood: accomplished
Music: Carbon Leaf—Let Your Troubles Roll By