2002 Story Set
| May 19, 2002 Day 26 Saturday May 11, 2002 8:45 AM I am up and tumbling around with my coffee. My hair is positively wild. I am sipping coffee and will take off in a moment to Orchard Supply, closer than Home Depot. Home Depot moved and is two freeway exits down plus a drive across Fremont. Not in the mood. Also taking the van. Need 4 boards and 8 bricks, the tomatoes and other stuff as the availability strikes me. The boy got up so I fixed bowls of cereal and noticed that the milk was past its use-by date. I put my head in the sink and soaked it. And put a lot (large glob) of straightened gel in it and combed it back slick. I put on full make-up. I have my nice tank and shorts from Sears and socks and sneakers. Only way to shop. Looking neat. I went to Orchard and found a $19 plastic rack on sale - cheap and easy - got that instead of the boards and bricks - and if I don't have enough room on the shelves for all of my shoes, will get another. Won't know till I start the spring bedroom cleaning romp. This is now my shoe rack. Then I got three large stackable drawers - 45 Gal size - I want all slips, bras and exercise clothes off the pegs in the bedroom. If those are not enough I will go back for more. I have clothes hanging everywhere! (Of course, it is also time to go through all these clothes and get rid of some of them!) I found garment racks! At last! Except the 40" delux (i.e. stable and won't fall over when loaded) was not there. Orchard will call and try to get me two of them. I will check on Monday. I had this stuff rung up (in two baskets by now) and then went back in for the tomato plants I had gone for in the first place. And other things - like summer flowers, seeds, Miracle Grow Garden Soil, 4" started tomatoes, squash, cucumbers. I will plant seeds for corn, beans and peas. I don't have that much room. I have more BugGetta Snail bait - and came home to find a damn snail had attacked the lovely new bloom on an Amaryllis that was growing in a pot outside. KILL! I grabbed what was left of the 2-flower bloom and put it in a glass on my counter. I have 2 potted mums (purple) that were $4 a pot as opposed to $6 charged in the grocery store. They get planted outside later. Mother's Day flowers for ME! They are on the dining room table. I watered outside a bit in preparation. 12:00 PM It is now high noon so I will go rest and read until a little later. I don't think I should be digging up the front yard at high noon. I microwave a hunk of multi-grain bread for me, and a Healthy Choice Bowl for my son. I have had another coffee, ditched all my nice clothes and am ready to get down and dirty. My normal state. I proceed to assemble my shelves and load them with my shoes. Yep. Full. I clean the carpet where it will go and haul it into place. Too bad I do not have both mirror doors to the closet. The guy who installed the new wall to wall carpet, broke one in each room. Nice of him. Did not tell me. On the list to replace when I go to sell. I also loaded the drawers. One for slips and body suits. One for bras. (Geez - I have a lot of them!) And one for exercise clothes. One bank of pegs now holds two purses and the other holds my caftans. Much better. I drag trash out of the room. Wow. Nothing like neatening things up a bit. Now to get the laundry off the bed. The drawers are wonderful I need to get three for the kid. Cheap way to organize. 2:00 PM I head out. I need to weed-whip the front yard. Then use my new narrow rake to load up two recycle bins full of crap from the front yard. I will need to do hand weeding for the stuff too close to things I want to keep. I have, over the next two hours, a cup of coffee, a cup of cold Gatorade, and 3 See's Candy dark chocolates. I man the weed whip for an hour then search for the brass high-jet nozzle. I have a new 25' section of hose so I can clean the street. Or most of it. I found the nozzle and also the broken egg where a dove had built an unstable nest and it had fallen down. Dumb bird! Built it on a 4x4 and it had no support. Last time they were up in a corner and it was more secure. Had four babies. I guess we should clean that old nest out so they will reuse the corner. Two recycle bins full later, I have rounded up I swear a ton of Liquid Amber seedpods. Those round spiky things. They were all over the street and in the gutter, not to mention in the front yard. I jet the gutter that is full of sand and seed pods. I hauled all the heavy awkward round redwood things (3 big ones) from the tree removal out of the front yard and onto the driveway, millipede, slugs, snails, spiders and all. I use them for steps. I have a row of buried ones but before we could get the second row buried, I lost the guy. I should say the contractor lost the guy and had no replacement. I trounced the rounds with snail bait and Sevron garden dust, hitting the anthills by the garage in passing. I also move all the loose planters sitting on the lawn to the driveway. I note the places needing hand weeding and consider the product I saw at Orchard's Supply. It can be dumped onto plants and kills grass for 4 months. Hmmmmm. 4:00 PM I have left the sprinkler running out in front so I can plant in the morning. This will also facilitate hand weeding. The dirt is dry and hard in spite of watering. It is adobe brick-like in texture. It cracks in the summer. Why I have bags of Miracle Grow Garden Soil. I have also hosed the back walk (again) and watered and fed the dog and rabbit. I have cleared the rabbit pellets that have strayed into the no-rabbit-pellet zone, where I run barefoot to feed the critter and the dog runs to the side yard. We neither of us want our feet dirty with rabbit pellets. I don't want mine punctured by cherry tree stuff either. My son asked how I was doing. I guess I look tired. He dressed (wow!) and has sat on the living room sofa with his G4 laptop all day long. Lucky him. My arms are shaking from the weed whacking my back hurts from that and the raking, which is always one-sided. My back likes things kept even. My feet hurt a little because I was barefoot in size 9 sneakers. I should say sock less. Size 9 sneakers having been retired from gym use when I am walking on the treadmill more than 20 minutes. I need protein. I think I will use up the milk that is turning (but hasn't yet) in tapioca pudding. I like tapioca pudding. I will use Omega 3 eggs and low fat milk. Either that or I will eat the entire box of See's candy. Maybe I should consider real food. Hmmmmm. A hunk of multi-grain bread is not enough! Maybe I should just fry an egg. With cheese. Onion. Yum. That sounds good. My teeth are sensitive. I will hunt down the dentist and he is next on the list. The new eyeglasses are due in a week or so. My Visa is crying in the bottom of my purse. So be it. I pour a glass of wine. Red wine. Presidio Ruby Port. Sipped some. I fix eggs - not Omega 3 and egg white after frying mozzarella cheese and purple onion. Whoops! Cheese matted up and captured onion. Added slice of American cheese. Added some milk (little) and two slices of ham lunchmeat cut up. Shtirrrrr. Medium heat. Hunted for tortillas. Out of flour. Found white corn ones. Warmed in microwave. Feel like leather. Shtirred the eggs. Put eggs stuff in. Need three more. Emptied sack. Flour better. Don't split when folded. Spayed with leftover I Can't Believe It's Not Butter. (Fabio not spokesman so don't buy it now.) Put butter on old pizza pan with the tortilla thingys and added salt. Pinned them shut with toothpicky things. Put in oven. At 350. Crisp up and serve with hot sauce. Flour tortillas better. Slurped wine. Feel much better. Yes I do. Better turn off shprinkler...... Tortilla thingys splitting and crisping and bubbly in oven. Outside not wet enough. Finish wine. Nice. Shupper. Check outside. OK. 1 hour. Turn off. Flip tortilla things. They have split apart! Don' like corn tortillas! Four better! OK. Get big dinner plates. Pur hot sauce. Ooops! Spilled sauce. Scrape on other plate. Fine. Wine buzz nice. Put them on plates. Burned wrist. Ugh! Poured more wine. Emptied bottle. Damn! Ate. Mouthfull of toothpick! Ooops! Ate with fingers. Can't manage fork. Sipped on Root Beer diet soda. Went to room. Doolittle II. My shpeed. Finished wine. Ish. 11:20 PM OK. I have had 4 pieces of Candy, a glob of peanut butter and jam, with wheat thins. I had a few pecan halves. Then I about gagged at all that. I drank soda. I was out of control. I wondered what was going on. A light dawns! I had skipped all my vitamins this morning! So I took them now. Sipped water. Gave the kid his shot. Went back to bed. Had slept a bit after the wine. Was awake only a short time before asleep again. Carvings subsided quickly. Need to drink more than one cup of Gatorade tomorrow. |
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