Right now I'm chuckling at the short dog/urine collection stories. Having boys, and thankfully I've never had to collect a sample, I hadn't thought of those problems. Gazania, you're hubby is a jewel! And Marilyn; I'll never look at my soup ladle in the same light again! LOL Out here on the wind-swept prairie, I'm planning (another) day of sorting/tossing/arranging in the sewing room. I'll fire up an audiobook on the iPod and keep entertained and motivated that way. Right now I'm "reading" No Rest for the Dead.. It's excellent. One of the book's sites says "More than twenty New York Times bestselling authors team up to create a first-rate serial novel - a collaboration that combines the skills of AmericaâÂÂs greatest storytellers to produce a gripping, spellbinding mystery. Ms. L layed the VERY LAST tile in the basement bedroom yesterday. The floor is so lovely. She will hopefully come tomorrow to do the grouting. Once that's dried and sealed I can start furnishing the room. For right now I'll be using the twin bed that's been in the sewing room, freeing up needed floor space in there, and one of the night tables from the sunporch. I'm not planning anything else for today. If I make any visable improvements in the sewing room, I'll be delighted. Here is a link that might be useful: More infor on multi-authored book

Wow, you've been busy this morning! I worked yesterday, till 8pm and then stupidly stayed up half the night reading on-line, e-mails, here and another website I go to. Woke up the first time at 6:20 to get the kids up for school, went back to sleep after they got on their buses. Didn't get up again till almost 11:30. I feel like a slug. Last week when I was off I had to get up and stay up because of my car problems and I felt so much better, even with less sleep. I'm eating my breakfast now, doing a load of laundry and will do my workout before showering and going to the store for a few things and gassing my car up. It's going to be a busy week. Lauren's having a big birthday party in a couple weeks so I have to start doing a bunch of cleaning, especially the carpets and the sunroom, where they all plan to hang out. I work two more days this week, Friday have a doctor's appointment and then Alex has another ACT test on Saturday. At least I won't be laying around sleeping most of the rest of the week. I think I'm going to do all the carpets today, it's supposed to be fairly warm today.

Yesterday I played 18 holes of golf and then had lunch with the ladies I played with. Returned some shorts I bought for DH. Then returned books to the library. Played duplicate bridge in the evening (partner and I came in 2nd) Then came home and watched DWTS which was taped.

Good morning! It's 77 degrees here, and it feels very nice. Today I decided to send a vase to my brother in Victoria, B.C. It was our mother's, and it belongs to him now, but it was expensive to ship so he asked me to hold it for him. My dad gave it to him last summer when he was visiting. Anyway, I decided to send it to him, and had to go to two courier shops to get this done. Expensive, but he will be happy. I also did the dishwasher, and some laundry and will do some ironing soon. DH and I are either going for lunch or for dinner, and we have a short meeting to go to tonight. I will also probably go for a walk, and do some weeding. Nothing special, but I like having a day off to putter like this.