Saturday, March 23

[gottawonder]

Today I am grateful for:

Sunshine, and still pretty nice weather (not as nice as last week, but still above freezing is good enough for March).

A good phone conversation with my Mom. I still wish more of my family would spend some quality time with her. I can't figure out why no one picks up a bucket of chicken and just sits with her for an hour. They live right there!

A day just to be at home. I got motivated to do a bunch of cleaning, mainly because it's just easier in warmer weather to drag things outside and give them a good beating. I cleaned off the front step, changed cat litter, swept the porch (easier since last week's purge), folded and put away Laundry Mountain, washed some other clothes, and cleaned out the fridge (which is always a hideous job, maybe because I don't clean it until it is hideous). This means the house isn't CLEAN, but it's better than Drunk Hobo Clean (wasn't that a standard we used at some point?). I am grateful to be able to do this kind of work for myself, and it's nice to open the fridge and have it clean. No more eating just the front food!

I have to say, I am kind of appalled that it's really just me and the critters living here most days, so there's no one to blame but myself when it gets atrocious. It doesn't get "gross" dirty, as I don't have food filth or dirty underwear all over, or old Kleenex or cat shit all over. Mostly it's just a muddy porch, or this special cat hair and grit mixture that is everywhere.

My husband is home just for the night, and he brought me some groceries to tide me over. We watched an episode of "The Man in the High Castle", which was good. It's about a world where the Nazis won.