Sunday (Yesterday)

No Home Computer

So Sunday was a busy day, though not an awful lot was accomplished. It is, indeed, Monday by now, but I was correct in my guess that I’d get nowhere near finishing the desk assembly. In fact, I haven’t even started. I consider it a major accomplishment just to get the still-boxed furniture dragged into the library last night so I’d only have one room in chaos. Well, and cuz I needed to open up the futon, and the boxes were leaning up against it.

Not-so-Exciting Adventures at the Laundromat

My day started relatively early… finishing up the disconnection of all my ‘puter stuff and clearing off the desks. Then I picked up Mom and her comforters, along with a bunch of my own large blankets, comforters and sheets, to wash at the Laundromat. Of course, we had to head back to my place first to pick up the last comforter I’d forgotten and left right there on my floor intending to bring it with me on my last trip of loading the car. Doh! I swear, senility is striking early. Though, Mom insists that CRS (Can’t Remember Shit) is not age discriminatory.

The Laundromat only had so many mega-capacity washers for the comforters, so we had to wait a bit… by time everything was said and done, it was already 2:00 and we were due for another late lunch. So we dropped off the newly cleaned bedding at our respective homes and headed out to Breadbasket for some sammiches.

Side Trip

While we were in the vicinity, Mom wanted to check out Famous Barr to see what kind of sales they have (she’s been slowly building her new China set according to their sales) so we wandered about the department store for a li’l while until she started to poop out again and figured we’d best get my old desks moved before she lost all energy.

Move Em Out

So we switched to the truck back at her place and loaded it up with the desks at my place. (Fortunately, we’re only about 5 minutes away from each other). Bus Snob tried to call while we were in the middle of cartin one of the desks out, but I explained we were in mid-transit and she was cool about callin back later. The desks weren’t really very heavy at all, so Mom could handle them okay with her bad wrist… but she was really losing steam. I suggested we just leave them in the back of the truck (it’s covered) until Pop got home so he and I could get them out and take them down to her basement for strorage.

Tidying Up

By that time, we still had a little bit of time before dinner and another movie… and Mom knew I was itchin to get home and putz some, so she shood me out and told me she’d give me a call when they were about ready for dinner. I was hopin to mebbe get out to run some errands I’d missed all weekend, but ended up spending most of my time vacuuming up the newly vacated half of the library, and applying my new bedding to the bed. It’s a cute li’l set… dark blue comforter, bedskirt and pillow shams with lighter blue swirlies and big yellow suns and moons… and white sheets and pillow cases with li’l yellow suns. I’ve never had a bedskirt before, so I discovered what FUN it is to apply one to Queen-size boxsprings all by myself. lol

Happy 2-Days-After-Your-Birthday to You…

I was pretty pooped, myself, when I got done with all that, so I figured it was a good opportunity to get some good quality lap-time in with Ms. Pukesalot. I also remembered that I’d totally forgotten to call up IHOP Buddy to wish her Happy Birthday since Friday. In fact, I haven't gotten around to callin her since I’ve been back from San Diego, either. She wasn’t home, but I left a message and hopefully can get back with her some evening this week. I can always talk while assembling.

Winding Down

The rest of my evening was pretty relaxed. We didn’t do the regular Sunday Night Dinner with Gram cuz Mom was sick and didn’t want to expose Gram. Neither Mom nor I was up for cooking, so we ordered in sammiches from Jimmy John’s, and watched Secondhand Lions… very good flick, btw, we all enjoyed it.

When I got back home around 9:30, I entertained the idea of starting on the desk, but then took a quick inventory of my physical and mental resources, and promptly dismissed the idea. I DID open up the box, though, and pull out the instructions to go over. It looks pretty straightforward. The desk is designed in such a manner that it can be easily disassembled for transport. Which is a good thing, considering I think it’s too wide to go through any doors. I’m definitely gonna have to assemble it IN the library.

Amway, like I mentioned earlier, I DID go ahead and drag the furniture boxes into the library, though… plus the computer monitor, CPU and printer that I'd temporarily thrown in the kitchen that morning to clear room to move the desks in the library. I STILL don’t have my new furnace, so I didn’t want all that shit sittin out when they come in to install it.

After a li’l more lap time with the cat, while watching an old episode of Law & Order: SVU, I could still hear the machine guns goin upstairs, so I pulled out the futon and crashed.

More stuff on today in Monday’s own post. :)