Sniffling

I think I caught a cold. My throat was a little sore this morning, and I've had a few sneezing fits today. But what's really annoying is the constant sniffling that's been going on all day.
I know a few people with or just getting over a cold. I don't know who to blame.

Two For The Show

My arms, especially my left arm, are aching from carrying around two different 20+ pound babies two nights this weekend. It didn't dawn on me when I agreed to watch these kids that I would be doing nearly back to back babysitting of children that aren't independent walkers.

Both boys are such good kids. I've had to watch nightmare children in the past, and I'm so glad these kids are good baby guys.

Fresh Eyes

I made chocolate chip cookies for the block party tonight. This is the first time all of these relative strangers have had my baking so I was anxious to hear what, if anything, people would say. I sometimes feel like my reputation precedes me when I make cookies or cakes and that people compliment me before they taste anything. Or that people I know will tell me something is good whether it is or not.
Although now that I think about it, why wouldn't these people lie to me? The compliments seemed genuine, but there are a lot of theatrical people on my block so maybe I wouldn't know if they were lying. I've lost the abilty to tell whether the cookies are any good. I like them straight from the oven and less and less as the days pass. I've also been making them without wheat flour so they taste off to me. I should buy some wheat flour.

Full TiVo

I'm not sure how it happened again, but my TiVo is full. I have 0 deleted programs. There are a lot of Friday night shows that get recorded, so that's part of the problem -- although two of them weren't on tonight so that can't be the only problem. I recorded a few movies, which is another part of the problem.

It's just unbelievable because I had 17 deleted programs earlier in the week. I must not have watched enough tv this week.

This simple solution would be to get a bigger TiVo. I'd love an HD TiVo.

Sloppy Joes

I'd say I was about halfway done with my office reorganization. I can only work on it for an hour or so at a time because it's too overwhelming. I'm doing my darnedest to purge as much as I can. The biggest problem is that my office has become a repository for miscellaneous papers, toys and other stuff over the years. It's frustrating, but I'm sure it will be worth it in the end.

No News is Good News

I finally got through all of the newspapers that I had in a pile in my living room with the exception of those sections I saved so I could cut an article or two out of them. I'm going to have to go through that bunch next.

It was a perpetual pile that grew and shrank as I added new unread papers or I read and/or flipped through the old ones. I never thought I'd read the whole stack. It's nice to have the corner in front of my fireplace bare again.

Never Trust a Junkie

I totally broke my ban on going into the AV room at the library. I went to pick up a book (and DVD) I reserved and the reserved shelves are so close to the AV room that I couldn't resist. I can't help that I'm a movie junkie and that there are so many movies that I need to see. I guess I don't "need" to see them, but I want to see them.

I can stop at any time.