what an unproductive day. you will have to bear with me, that means, while i try to see what it is that i did accomplish in an attempt to make myself feel better tonight.
today i DID:
- drink a cup of decaf coffee (and yay, peet’s has a new decaf in the works!)
- give the cats fresh water
- get clyde off to preschool (actually i did nothing; he got himself dressed! ed fed him and leo and then drove clyde to school)
- make a work to-do list
- make and eat steel-cut oats with bananas, pecans, and maple syrup
- work three hours and a little bit more (but still didn’t get to my to-do list)
- make leo lunch and myself tarragon egg salad on wheat walnut toast
- eat two satsumas
- pick up the boys’ room the several times leo made his tornado-like way around it. we pretty much finished the room redo yesterday (here’s a peek at the final blue; yes, we got the boys bunk beds, but clyde still loves to play with leo IN his crib). paint done, carpet ripped up, old floors mopped and forgiven for their almost 90-year oldness, ikea splurge, bunk bed and shelf build, new rug unrolled, toys put away.
- consume a 100-calorie pack of trader joe’s oatmeal chocolate chip cookies—three times!
- take this photo of the rain and a bunch of other things from our windows
- drink two pots of tea
- talk to my best friend twice (love you, k!)
- manage to get completely devastated over heath ledger’s death. my god! he seemed like such a humble sweetheart
- catch up on election news (still mildly undecided)
- bounce cranky leo on my lap for three minutes
- get frazzled with none-completion anxiety
- pick up clyde from school
- eat the lentil soup/quesadilla dinner ed made (well, i made the quesadilla because ed THOUGHT soup was enough food for dinner—so that’s another thing i did. check!)
- kiss the kids goodnight (ed put leo to bed. since giving up nap#2, he basically collapses into bed around 7:30pm. then saint ed also read and practiced letters with clyde in our bed.)
- tuck clyde into his bottom bunk. he’s so small in that big bed!
- surf the internet
- write this far-too-long post
if i were any sort of well-balanced person, that long list would’ve made me feel better about the day (and, you know, the fact that i’m alive!). however, now i’m just cranky and more tired. it does make me realize how much emphasis i put on (ugh) work completion in order to feel accomplished at the end of the day. how do you get that feeling of accomplishment?
rest in peace, dear heath. i really really loved two of your movies and stalking you and michelle on all the baby sites after matilda came. you will be greatly missed.
:: inspiring happy
this photo clyde took • shutter sisters • this shot
:: wanting
to attend this little party • and you to come too!
:: watching & reading
jordan catalano, how could you?
I was hoping to run into Heath, Michelle and Matilda sometime in Brooklyn. So, so sad. And shocking. Eeek. Poor things.
love you, too. xoxo
“# make and eat steel-cut oats with bananas, pecans, and maple syrup”
Um, YUM. And PS: that is a lot of stuff.