- Am I the only one who wakes up every Monday morning to a house that looks like a tornado went through it? Every single fork and spoon we own was dirty! I've spent the afternoon cleaning like a crazy person and the only room I worked on was the kitchen. I even cleaned all the grimy drips off the cabinets and the took apart the stove. It was getting pretty nasty.
- Now I'm drinking a well-earned chick beer (Newton's Folly hard cider from Trader Joe's) with my feet up while Genoa watches Lazy Town next to me. Naked. (her, not me).
- Dave's health continued to deteriorate all weekend and no matter how much I love to say "I told you so" I wish he'd just gotten his butt to the doctor on Saturday instead. Like I
toldbegged him to. Last night he sent me to Walgreens at 10:30 just to buy him some cold medicine so he could sleep. This morning he woke up with his eyes crusted shut and two hours later he returned from the doctor's office with SIX prescriptions. SIX! [Two for reactive airway disease (snot-inspired asthma), one for his goopy eyes, an inhaler, a cough suppressant and some nose spray.] All day I've been reminded of this video (originally seen via Dooce). - Genoa insists on pooping in the potty now. I haven't changed a poopy diaper in four days! Pee-pee still depends on whether or not she's got clothes on or not, but if she's naked, she's basically potty-trained.
- Carol's house is coming along. Fernando was over there painting all weekend and the results are pretty awesome! Hopefully she'll be moving up here in the next week or so.
- Is anyone else watching In Treatment on HBO? Dave and I are absolutely and totally addicted to it. Neither of us can figure out why we love it so much, but our addiction is SOLID. They put all the episodes on Comcast On Demand on Mondays and we've usually watched them all by Tuesday night. If you have HBO and you aren't watching this, it's a series about a therapist and his patients. Each night they run a half-hour episode featuring a session with a patient. Each Monday it's Laura (who is in love with the therapist and vice versa), Tuesday it's Alex, Wednesday is Sophie, etc. You get to follow the therapeutic progress (or lack thereof). Like most things HBO, the writing reels you in and you feel like you know all the characters in real life. Few non-HBO shows ever do that to me.
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- When is Dave going back to work again? I swear I can't get anything done with him at home.
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February 25, 2008
Monday list
Posted by Amanda P. Westmont on February 25, 2008 | Permalink
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Make sure you also pull out the stove and clean under that. My stove broke and when the repairman pulled it out, I was horrified. I could not believe that there was that much grossness in my house. I will now be cleaning under the stove, fridge, washer, and dryer all the time!
Posted by: Jen | February 25, 2008 at 05:47 PM
As for the house being trashed every Monday: ohhh yeah. Believe me, I know.
Btw, do you hate Lazy Town as much as I do? It grates on my nerves more than possibly anything else on Noggin. The puppet characters just creep me out. Weird Icelandic kids' shows.
Hooray for pooping in the potty! That's awesome.
Posted by: cindy w | February 25, 2008 at 06:05 PM
My husband is home too. Spent a week w/toothache, didn't call dentist, finally I threatened to make appt. myself.....tooth abcessed, getting root canal @ 9a today! Du-huh! Men are just plain stubborn. LOL So he will be home today "helping me".
Posted by: grammice | February 26, 2008 at 05:14 AM
Now that my kids are a bit older (5 and 8), I've decided that it pays to bust my booty to clean up a little on Sunday so I don't have to face the waking nightmare of Monday morning.
Hope your hubby feels better. Sick men are just a bad thing.
Posted by: Kimmie | February 26, 2008 at 07:49 AM
GUH! You just gave away a major Wire spoiler!!!!
Warnings please before that kind of information. I haven't seen this season at all....
Posted by: purpleME | February 26, 2008 at 03:56 PM
Ummm...yes. Mondays. The reason Pea and I usually have an at-home day on this day of the week. But I also try to get all the laundry done and whatever house cleaning I feel like (other than the never-ending kitchen floor...) so then we can play or be flexible the rest of the week. And sick men are worse than children or babies, and just as unreasonable.
Posted by: Annagrace | February 27, 2008 at 04:52 PM
OH Amanda! I second the spoiler warning, please, pretty pretty please.
Posted by: jessica fantastica | February 28, 2008 at 01:38 AM