Saturday: overheard

Setting: Isaac and Joshua are playing a game of make-believe in the basement.  It is important to note that this is Joshua's character talking to Isaac's character.

Joshua: I have a note of encouragement for you.  

Joshua: "I hope you are doomed!!!"

Isaac, deadpan: I don't think that's encouragement.

Friday: blood donation

 I gave blood today.  The donation went so, so much better than it has the last several months.  I did *actually* do a good job of drinking enough water, so I'm hoping that was the reason.  I've tried in the past donations to drink enough, but this time I drank even more.  We'll see in January if it goes well again.  

Anyway, I was a bit worried when they poked my finger for the iron test because the blood did not want to come out.  (If you recall, the last blood donation was barely eligible because we were having a hard time getting the blood to come out of me.)  Anyway, they got the needle in my arm easily and I finished in six minutes, which was record time. Woot woot!

Thursday: bananas

 I got these bananas last Monday.  They were green, but they tend to ripen within two-three days.

It's now been ten days and they still aren't ripe enough to eat.  I'm annoyed.

Tuesday: the worst

I hate final exams on Fridays.  This semester I have two.

Monday: Back to it

The day started out early, as I volunteered to be up in case our 6-9am delivery showed up in the 6-7:30am slot.  (It showed up at about 7:40, which was an ideal time.)  Anyway, Joshua was a bit crazy in the morning at one point only walking backwards.  It caused him to trip into the laundry basket, and then we had to recreate the whole scene for some pictures.

I felt as though I got a surprising amount done today...I just kept working through the list.  As normal, several items only took 5-10 minutes.  I can't, or don't want to, do them when I think of them though.  It works for me.  I did start O:CtH - kitchen.  There were two drawers/cupboards that I was thinking about tackling first.  Then I ended up in a completely different one as I couldn't fit stuff in it this weekend.

Before:

During:

After:

I remember doing this not that long ago: empty or stale chip bags seem to pile up on us fairly easily.  Hopefully it'll last a while though.

Sunday

 Joshua made a Christmas tree with presents during church.

We also went to Red Rock for Ben's birthday dinner.  I had a pesto-sausage-mushroom-feta pizza and it was delicious!

Saturday: Happy Birthday!

It was Ben's birthday today!  It really was a pretty normal, but very nice, day.  We did some work, put together some Lego sets, played a game, and had some screen time.

Joshua made a cute dragon.  It rolls up into a ball, although that's not pictured.

Yesterday I hurt my hand a bit while moving a TV.  I took on something that was just a little too much for me: getting the TV off the mount.  I was a little too short and a little too weak.  (Yes, Ben said we could wait for someone to come help but I wanted to get it done and thought I could.)  Anyway, yesterday my hand was rather sore.  Today it is bruised, although it doesn't hurt nearly as much.

Also, Joshua liked that Tornado was giving Horizon a hug and wanted a picture.