I need a day off to recover from my day off

[auntiemeesh]

I was supposed to go shopping this morning, but the Pittsburgh Marathon had other ideas. My friend was completely unable to get from her house to my house via any known roads, so we postponed for afternoon.

In order not to waste the day, I started doing laundry. When I went down to the basement to switch from the washer to the dryer, I found the drain sink completely full and overflowing, with a good half inch of water standing on the floor in the laundry corner (which is raised above the rest of the basement by a few inches and doesn't have a drain in the floor). Grimacing, I reached into the sink full of grey, murky water and fished around until I found a rag blocking the drain. Then I ran upstairs and borrowed my landlady's old mop (the kind that requires a bucket with a wringer, which I don't happen to have). I then spent half an hour mopping up the standing water and hand-wringing it all out. Not my favorite half-hour ever.

But then it was time for shopping, and by some miracle, I think I managed to get everything that I had on my list, plus a few other things that I forgot to put on the list but really needed. I have a new, fun floor lamp which will beautifully illuminate my living room as soon as I buy light bulbs for it. I have a toilet seat which doesn't make me cringe, a plunger to replace the one with cracks in the rubber part, a new Libman Tornado mop, a watch to replace the one that broke last week, a pair of capris, a skirt and three t-shirts (all of which are very boring and moderately ugly but nice and modest with little to no cleavage - we had a dress-code meeting at work last week), and a set of plastic storage drawers to go next to my newly cleaned off desk.

The floor lamp is assembled and all ready for light bulbs, the toilet seat is in place, the laundry is folded and put away, the dishes are washed, the bits of styrofoam packing from the lamp box are all vacuumed up and the bed has been scooted over to make room for the storage drawers. Now I should really do a bit of that work-work I brought home with me. But I really don't want to.

Comments

[shirebound]

What a marvelously productive weekend! But I know how it feels to need just one more day to recover.

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

It's a vicious cycle, though. If I had tomorrow off, I'd just do more stuff and then feel like I needed Tuesday off to recover. There are times when I wish I was independently wealthy and could do without the work bits.

[ani-no-mouse.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a very busy day - your own personal marathon, really. I hope you enjoy all your new stuff for much time to come, that you got the Evil Take-home Work done painlessly and that you had plenty of time to relaz afterwords!

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

I just now made myself buckle down and do the Evil Take-Home Work. It's mostly done, with only a modicum of pain. It involves one of the most poorly designed websites I've ever seen, which makes it take three times longer than it should, but it's done! And I still have over two hours before bed time.

[ansostuff.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you had a good day. I'm sorry about the laundry room though. That's annoying when it happens.

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

At least I wasn't the one to leave the rag in the sink. That would have made me feel no end guilty - my landlady is old and I wouldn't want her to have to clean up that kind of mess.