– When I went to my parents’ yesterday afternoon to pick up the rose plant, I’d been instructed (via e-mail) to take some of the zucchini bread ‘butts’ that were wrapped up on the counter. (The middles had gone to work with my mom.) I don’t know if other people do this, but that’s how we refer to the semi-undesirable, leftover part of anything. Like a cigarette butt, I guess. Just don’t go to Red Lobster and complain to the waiter that you’ve been given ‘crab butts’, when really Dungeness crab legs are just a lot smaller than snow crab’s. That’s one of my clearest memories of eating out as a child. (It wasn’t me who did the complaining, of course.)
– I’ve been doing laundry all day. All day. As I brought a load up an hour ago, I realized I’d put the first one in twelve hours previously. Okay, so I haven’t been very attentive to switching machines and bringing stuff up, but that’s still a long time. I’m bored with it. But my sheets will be so cleeeean tonight!
– Halfway through my laundering marathon, a man from the gas company came by to do a routine safety check of the meter. As I was leading him downstairs, I suddenly became very conscious of how I duck every time I pass under the point where the high stairwell ceiling becomes the regular basement ceiling. Then I thought that it was probably silly to do so; I’m not THAT tall. But I checked later, and I definitely would bean the top of my head if I didn’t duck. There’s no point to my telling you this, but these are the valuable experiments that working from home affords.
– I took two Benadryl last night before I went to bed, and I slept blissfully, from about 12:30 until… 9:00? I can’t remember; I had a Benadryl hangover. I’m tempted to do the same tonight, but I have to leave for the Sandstone Octoberfest at 9:30 tomorrow, so I should wake up at a reasonable time. Both friends I’m going with said, ‘Sure, 9:30! I’m an early riser! No problem!’ This is a very strange reversal of roles for me, suddenly being the one who wants to sleeps in (especially when I made the schedule). I’ll set my alarm for 8:00 and therefore wake up at 5:30. Considering that, I suppose I should probably go to bed soon.
