Tuesday: evening

Joshua came down to the basement for questions, and then, as normal, chose two lovies to also get questions.  Grey Bear was second, and his bad part was that he really wanted to be a parachute.  (He was just looking extra parachute-y and he loves going outside, but rarely gets to anymore.)  Joshua and Ben both laughed, but I was a bit surprised about it...it wasn't that amazing of a bad part.  It turns out that they had just had a similar discussion after books about Catachino using Grey Bear as a parachute.  I promise I did not hear that discussion and it was total coinedence.

Ten minutes later Isaac came down to discuss plans and he only had one slipper on.  "I couldn't find the other," he said.  (It was found in the laundry the next morning.)

Monday: chores

 Creeper was required to be part of nap pile today.  He was not amused.

I got through a bunch of chores today, although I'll also be honest that a lot of them were less than five minutes.  I know that per all the advice I'm just supposed to do the chores that are only a few minutes, but that just doesn't work.  But, it sure is a lot of fun to check the items off.

Sunday: D&D

We played a bit more of the D&D campaign today.  Isaac made a fun cave.

We're also watching the live action Lilo & Stitch with meals, and Joshua commented that Creeper is a lot like Stitch.  So today's bad ...and good!...parts were that Joshua made that comment.  Creeper has complicated emotions.  A few days ago Creeper's bad part was nap pile, but Joshua had thoughtfully put him on the couch so that he didn't have to join nap pile.  It turns out that Creeper hates nap pile so much that he doesn't want others having nap pile either.  But his good part was also nap pile, as he was really glad he didn't have to join.

Saturday

 It was a normal and not normal Saturday.  Ben and I didn't have any plans, but Joshua ended up spending the afternoon with a friend and Isaac has a pool party in the evening.

Friday: cleaning

Friday is my day to work on Operation: Clean the House.  While I'd love to do this more, I've kind of found that Monday needs to be "get the stuff off the to do list" and Wednesday is "do the weekly chores", for the most part.

Anyway, I cleaned up the paint can area, getting rid of several things that were there since we moved in.  I also went through two boxes that I was not looking forward to dealing with.  There was a bunch of stuff that needed to be washed, a few things to donate, and a few things to put in other locations.  But the boxes are gone!  I also got a few things off of a shelf because I had a different place to put them.

I'm working my way from the back corner towards the front, more or less.  I'm probably about 2/5 of the way done, but I did do some other things early on to make the space usable, so I'm more than 2/5 of the way through the whole clean.

Thursday: weird

Today was a weird day.

I saw a rainbow on my way in to work.

When I got to work, there was a manager loudly reprimanding one of his workers across the hall.  I could only hear half the conversation, but even hidden in my office it was rather uncomfortable.  (I'm not sure about the appropriateness.  Not knowing anything about the situation, some seemed fine and some a bit extra.  The main thing was the volume.)

I caught my first student using AI to submit a summary of some articles.  I'll be honest - I haven't really been on the look out for it.  But I decided that this semester I should look harder.  Due to other considerations this isn't quite as cut and dry as most academic incident reports, which is a bit annoying.

I picked Isaac up for PATH and saw the family that he car-pooled with last year there at the same time.  They volunteered to drive the whole year last year, which was a huge blessing.  (I offered several times.)  So now I'll probably contact them again to see if they're interested in car-pooling, but I feel a bit awkward doing so since I was the one that benefited so much last year.

The chicken nuggets we had for dinner where a different shape.  They were about half the size of a normal nugget.

Catcachino managed to dirty his bottom again.  What is up with that?

Wednesday: cats

The cats stole the camera roll today.