Ticking off the ticky boxes

[lblanchard]

A good bit of today's over-ambitious to-do list actually got done.

• Incredible backlog of laundered-but-not-folded sheets and pillowcases folded and ready to be stashed
  
• Two loads of laundry washed, dried, and sorted
  
• Thanksgiving tablecloth and sixteen Thanksgiving napkins laundered
  
• Fifteen clear lightbulbs from two chandeliers unscrewed, wiped down, polished, and replaced (don't laugh! they were covered with ick)
  
• Dried up dead plants removed from window boxes and replaced with fresh mystery shrub, pansies, and feverfew
  
• Leaves raked from front sidewalk (Roy did this)
  
• Kitschy garlands of faux autumn leaves installed at strategic locations in dining room
  
• Trailing rosemary, in bloom, auditioned as Thanksgiving centerpiece. It will do!
  
• Incredible quantities of silverware polished
  
• Groceries and a Christmas present purchased at the Asian supermarket, including big tubs of green curry paste for cheap cheap cheap
  
• New-to-us chairs for dining room wiped down with damp rag and wobbly one glued (Roy did that)
  
• Refrigerator checked in a cursory way for biology experiments and other embarrassments

There is no hematoma at all on my right shin, just a big old bruise and some slight swelling. So the petits pois treatment appears to have worked.

I've frogged the entire little feather-and-fan lap robe I knat a few weeks ago. Being as I have *two* skeins of the cheap blue yarn, I can make a bigger lap robe with bigger needles so it has a slightly better drape. Not that Wal*Mart house brand yarn is ever going to have a particularly good drape.

Tomorrow starts the work-week again. I plan to work some extra hours tomorrow and Tuesday, then knock off a little earlier on Wednesday so that I can go into full maniacal Thanksgiving overdrive. Good thing I'm not baking...