Medical Billing Wears Me Out ... or, Porn for Housewives

I couldn't decide on a title, so I put two. Kind of a risque, naughty title, but the pic I shot today reminds me of a book I saw at the library that makes me laugh. Okay, let's start with the time log here.

Time Log -
**Note - Foofie, with her stuffy nose (we've all got it), woke up about 2:30 am, crying because she was miserable. I was afraid we were going to go another round with ear infection, but after lots of snuggling, and a nose-cleaning with the bulb syringe that makes her feel like she's going through an alien abduction probing, she finally calmed down, and I got back to bed after three. Being sick, too, I slept in.
8:45 am - Foofie woke up, so I got up. I put her on the floor with a bottle in front of my desk, and started shredding the junk mail in my nightgown (which I wore almost all day.) Then I spent the morning doing bills, going through a pile of mail, more shredding, and balancing the checkbook. In the middle of this, Zen got sick of my shreddies everywhere, which a crawling baby was helping spread, so he graciously got out the vacuum and did the whole upstairs. Check this out:
Look at My Man, cleaning the house. It's like a book I saw at the Library Porn for New Moms. It's not what you think. It's a spoof on real porn, and shows men doing things women really wish guys would do - wash dishes, fold laundry, clean out the car, etc. Very funny.

Another sleeping baby moment on the floor. I love those, makes me feel like my house is peaceful. She ripped apart the videos, as usual, then went to sleep in the aftermath. But I was not bugged about the mess, she was so cute.

Back to the Log-
I probably had that wrapped up around 12:30 or so, then I started in on the medical bills. Uuughhh. It is such a mess! Billing for six people, and all of Connor's surgery. Now, I'm totally into paperwork, filing, organizing, and data entry, kind of suited to the anal part of my brain, but even medical billing hurts my brain. There's the stuff from the insurance company, the original bill, then there's the adjusted bill, and you have to make sure all the numbers coordinate, otherwise you'll overpay, and there are sneaky outfits who try to bill you for stuff they shouldn't and even the insurance company messes things up, so you have to double-check everything. After all that, I cleaned up my mess on the table and the floor. I didn't want to put away my beads, because I wanted to get those earrings done, but I didn't need the temptation either, for me or for Connor (stinker!)
2:30 pm - went downstairs and answered some eBay email, then got ready to exercise
3:10 pm - exercised on my Gazelle for 30 min., kept adjusting my foot position so it wouldn't kill me, did okay, then I made an order for my Pazzles stock, which I had run out of a few things, and answered some more eBay mail. Then, I showered & dressed.
5:30 ? - sometime after five I came upstairs, ate the last of the blueberry scones from Smith's, did some dishes, fed Emma, cooked dinner (linguine alfredo), and decided to make scones for the first time. I overcooked the bottoms, but they were awesome! It's the English tea scone variety, that is like a sweet biscuit, not the fried kind. I made cranberry orange, one of my favorite flavors of baked foods ever. Recipe:
4 C. flour
1 C. (2 sticks) butter
with two forks, or a pastry blender, cut the flour & butter together until it is crumbly
5 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1/3 C. sugar
cut in the baking powder, salt, & sugar
1 egg
1-1/3 C. milk
the zest & juice of one orange
3/4 C. dried cranberries
melted butter & extra sugar
Make a little well in the dry ingredients, then pour in the milk, mix the egg into that puddle, then mix in the zest & juice. Pour in the cranberries, and with a fork stir everything together until it forms a moist ball. Don't overwork the dough. Split this mixture into quarters. Generously flour the surface of your counter. The dough will be very sticky. Just spoon it out onto the counter and flour your hands. Form each quarter into a ball, and then flatten into a thick circle, about 3/4" to 1" thick. Cut each circle into quarters, and place the pieces on a greased baking sheet, about 1" apart. Brush the tops with melted butter & sprinkle with sugar. Bake at 425 for 12 to 15 min. Keep an eye on them, so the bottoms are a light golden brown. Enjoy!

7:15 pm - sat down to eat, and watched a little American Idol. That Danny Gurkey guy is my favorite, much like a Michael MacDonald, bluesy rough tone, and an extremely good performer. Some of the girls are really good, too.
8:00 pm - decided to start working on my blog post, maybe I could go to bed earlier, but I checked my email, and had to go problem-solve an invoice for a customer. It took me until 9:15pm just to finish chatting online with an eBay tech.
9:15 pm - read scriptures with fam, then go back downstairs to send invoice to customer, then work on blog post
10:55 pm - I'm about done, and now I'll go to bed. Still didn't get to the family blogs or to my website today. Aarrghh!! But tomorrow, tomorrow...

End Post #28, 2009

Trying to Getting My Act Together But Still Distracted

Well, I've been working on this time log theory for two weeks now. I don't know if it's become boring for anyone else, but if it has, you're out of luck!! Because, like a food journal, I have found it keeps me from messing around too much, and keeps me on track. I call Dani the Queen of Distractedness, but I think she might be just the Princess. I, too, have a way of getting distracted. Maybe I'm the Dowager Queen? But, la, la, la, I'm still pretending I'm twenty-something, so that makes me the Queen, or maybe I'll even revert back to Princess.

What I really want to get done today is get my website functional. I'm not saying it will be anything spectacular, just that it will have a home page, and I need to find out how to add scripts to my eBay listings, so I can start putting together the listings for all of this garbage in my craftroom that really, has spilled over into two other rooms. Aaargh!!

**Note - I probably didn't fall asleep until 12:30 or 1:00 am last night, another one of those can't-make-the-brain-shut-up times, plus the fact that I couldn't get comfortable because of my stuffy nose and sore throat, so I read a little, then finally fell asleep
7:45 am - woken up by Dani to sign a paper for school, so I rolled out of bed, and went to look at my blog and email. I hope we get a good turnout for Girls' Chick Flick Getaway! Also, I finished some inventorying, placed a small order with Notions Marketing, mostly the stuff they were out of stock of on my last order, so I have a complete color-line of ink pads to put in my eBay store.
~I'm really looking forward to selling stuff this week! Yippee! With so much more stuff cleared out, and at least the majority of things listed in my store, I can allow myself the luxury of building the modular shelving I REALLY want for my craftroom, and have a streamlined, efficient workspace, which will make me more productive, and allow me to make things for pleasure, as well as business.~
Back to the time log - I fed baby, got her ready for the day, helped Zen with a little paperwork
10:40 am - put baby down for nap, got distracted looking at Blue Moon beads, then started my blog post. Now I'll stop and get ready to go to the rec center to exercise.
11:45 am - get ready for the gym, go to the rec center, do the exercise bike for 30 min, do 7.71 miles, avg. 3.4 level difficulty (out of ten), 216 calories, and the inner part of my hip bones that rest of the edge of the bike seat are now killing me. I must get my crack out of bed early and go swimming!!
12:50 pm - on my way out of the gym, I saw this little advertisement for pain-relief orthopedic shoes called Z-Coil, and I think, "What the heck, I'll check it out on the way home," since it was close by. The dealer wasn't there, she just works out of a chiropractic office, but I take her card and go home.
1:20 pm - get home, Foofie is still asleep (remember, Zen was home), so I had some lunch, took a shower and got dressed. I called the Z-Coil lady, and made an appointment for 2:30, shredded some paper with Foofie, who woke up
2:25 pm - go to the appointment, she was a little late, but I'm the lateness queen, so no frets, she gave me various styles to try on, and it was instant pain relief, not 100%, but like around 80 to 85% I'd say, so even though it's a hefty price tag, around $200, and they look kind of funky, I'm going to invest in a pair. She has to order the one I want in a size 10, because I have ginormous feet, I usually wear about a 9-1/2 W, and they only come in whole# sizes, also because of where the pain is in my foot, she said it is likely I have a bone spur, and that I should consult a podiatrist. I am not older than 25, I tell you, NOT NOT NOT!!!! Sigh...
I ordered the brown ones, they really are less ugly, I SWEAR! Kind of a weird mix of comfy and futuristic robotic. You can see more at www.zcoil.com.
3:05 pm or so - head to Smith's to get some things for dinner, drop stuff off at library, go home
3:30 pm - Back home, talk to kids, snuggle Foofie, made an appointment with a Podiatrist for 10am this Friday, check email (by the way, great response on girls' weekend, YAHOO!!!!!)
4:15 pm - get packages ready to mail, stuck an extra funny surprise in Sue's binky package, maybe she will bring it to girls' weekend, go to post office
5:00 pm - back home, puttered around, I think, then started grilling the chicken for the egg rolls and to have extra cooked chicken breasts in the freezer for other meals, I fed Emma, while the chicken is grilling, I made the mistake of sitting down and working on a red bracelet "really quick". Stupid me. I opened my Pandora's box and it distracted me for the rest of the night, but I did make the egg rolls, not bad for a first try, pretty yummy, should have taken pictures, darn it! Connor had to get in on my beading action, and I gave him a set of fat beads to make "bead trains" on my bead board.
7:15 to 7:30 pm - served dinner, and that's when I noticed what Connor had been doing while I was distracted making egg rolls. He had taken four of the vials of tiny beads I'd told him repeatedly to leave alone, and dumped them all together on my bead board. Drat him!!
He looks so pleased, doesn't he? Remember the last bead mess he made? Stinker!
Funny thing - I nixed his creative bead play and started cleaning it up. He went in to his dad to rat me out, "Mom is messing up my rainbow beads!" You're darn right!
8:00 pm - Foofie in bed
But, hey, it wasn't that bad, at least we got it cleaned up in about an hour and a half, as opposed to the weeks we spent sorting Perler beads last time.
9:05 pm - I noticed it was bed time, so I stopped and we all read scriptures. Then I went back to my beads, and finished an "everyday" bracelet.
The top strand is how it came from the store, the bottom strand is the bracelet I made. Which do you like better? I want to make a matching necklace, but I'm undecided.
A neutral, everyday bracelet. I just love the silver and the crackle glass beads. I'll make the earrings tomorrow
10:30 pm - come downstairs to write blog post. Foofie joins me, because apparently, she thinks it was only nap time, and not bed time
11:35 pm - post this, then I will change her diaper, put her back in bed, then go to bed myself, you notice I did not get to my website today? Drat!!!

End Post #27, 2009

Bling Part Dos

8:05 am - Rolled out of bed, get us all ready for church, take a quick pic of Emma, we barely made it in time for the sacrament. At church, I turned in my two Project Linus blankets. I hugged the pink ladybug quilt goodbye. Sigh... I will have to make a rag quilt! But only after I sell off all the old stuff in my craftroom!!!
12:15 pm - back from church, change little kids' church clothes, worked on Sue's Secret Surprise
2:20 pm to 6:55 pm - got to nap, Ohhhhh, the pleasure of Sunday naps, I really needed it, my body is protesting the recent lack of sleep, and gave me a cold. I tell you, it's fantastic having babies with teenagers in the house who can entertain the little ones for several hours. I've got them trained well...
6:55 pm - wash some dishes, help Connor & Emma, make tacos for dinner with guacamole, yum, then come down to computer, intending to catch up on everyone's blog, but got distracted by looking at beading online, naughty, naughty!!
9:05 pm - read scriptures with fam, put kids to bed (bath, stories, nagging, etc.)
10:10 pm - down to computer to blog & write email
11:15 pm - go to bed!!!
Here I am, in all my new finery. Beautimous, nes pas? But it reminds me of 2 Nephi 13 - chewing out the women for their worldliness. Hmmm...

Emma, with her pink binky bling

I called Sue, and asked her if she wanted me to blog her Secret Project, or wait for the surprise in the mail. She said, "Oh, blog it!" So, Sue, expect this cute binky clip in the mail in a few days for Sweet Baby Mackay

Thought for the day:
Don't buy fudge marshmallow cookies, they are evil, because you can't eat just one! And, no, I'm not the only one who snarfed these. I only had five or six, not a dozen. That's important.

End Post #26, 2009

Every Girl Needs a Little Bling

7:05 am - Emma woke up, couldn't she have slept in? Maybe she will take a long nap today... Anyway, changed her diaper, gave her a bottle, turned on Wonder Pets, and tried to nap on the couch, not much use, when Gil woke up (who slept on the couch last night), I went back to my bed.
9:15 am - I can hear Emma fussing, so I know I need to get up and feed her, which I did. Made some headway through my shredding pile, then started planning my Wal-Mart shopping list. I need Emma's prescription cold medicine, which I forgot last night, and a few more beading things, so I might as well get the grocery shopping done. As I was puttering around, I noticed Connor having the breakfast of champions - lemon wafers & root beer. Holy Monkeys, where is this kid's mother?!!
9:55 am - came downstairs to get dressed for shopping, decided to check my blog, nice commenting ladies! Yes, I live to embarrass my teenagers, or at least think about it. It's just revenge for all the heck they give me, and oh so satisfying.

Upstairs while I shredded, Gil had been commenting how good a bass guitar player Dani is on Rock Band 2, and as I sat writing, my brain kicked in and it occurred to me something momentous was happening:
First of all, Gil stooped to do something with his sister, then he actually had something nice to say about her.
Baby loves watching the kids play RockBand2. Connor can even sing some of the songs, sort of. It's so funny to listen to him sing hard rock!
It was an epic moment of cooperation. Who knew that jammin' out to AC/DC and Beastie Boys would bring my children together?

11am - to Wal-Mart to get the grocery shopping done, and of course, to pick up some more beading supplies
about 12:30 pm - back home, helped Dani fix one of the Wii cd's with an awesome gadget called the Skip Dr., it smooths out the scratches on the bottom of the cd/dvd and makes it useable again. Awesome! Then I added more to blog post
1:15 pm - go to rec ctr, Zen & Gil took Connor raquetball & swimming, I did the stationary bike for the first time, it was really hard! I had to concentrate to keep going. I find the first fifteen minutes of a workout are the hardest. Then I seem to pick up endurance after that. I did 30 min., 7.96 miles, 225 calories, and averaged 3.7 on resistance, and the machine goes up to ten. Good workout, killed my thighs, but it was easy on my heel.
2:20 back home, eat lunch, feed Emma, make mac n cheese for Connor, sit and stare at my jewelry, thinking about stuff to do
3:30 pm - finally get off my crack, start some laundry, so everyone has clean clothes for church, add more to blog post, gather things to return to Wal-Mart, probably spent 45 min looking, aaargh!, finally gave up and took what I could find
4:45 pm - did a few errands, came back & picked up Dani to go to Wal-Mart because she had money burning a hole in her pocket, she bought a computer game and jewelry,
6:30 pm - we were finally back, and threw a couple deli pizzas in the oven, I finished a movie (got a thing for the zombie movies lately, end of the world stuff, even though I hate horror movies, go figure), then got busy beading. I put baby to bed around 7:45 pm, did some more laundry, and at 11:30 pm had to run back to Wal-Mart for some more beads. Here are the results:
Another cute binky clip for missy Foo-Loolie. I saw the ladybugs at String Beads this week, and knew they would be great for a binky clip. Love the ladybugs!
I've been dying to make this for weeks now, to go with one of my church skirt outfits, and I finally got to do it!! I love the aquamarine color that has an iridescense to it, and also the fact that I finished a complete jewelry set: matching necklace, bracelet, & earrings
3:50 am - (lost an hour to daylight savings), finished projects & cleaned up, and yes I'm a lunatic for staying up this late! It's not the construction that takes forever, beading is pretty easy, but it's the designing & daydreaming that's a killer. I'll catch a few z's before church, then take a big Sunday afternoon nap, one of my favorite things of the week. Gotta quit staying up so late! No more Project Linus blankets (except for Lora's cowboy woobie), and gotta lay off the jewelry for a few days, so I can get the ball rolling on my big eBay sales.

End Post #25, 2009

Aida

Technically, it's 3:45 in the morning, but let's just call this Friday's post. Foofie-Loo kept me up off and on last night, we probably slept half the time on the couch, holding her upright, as I suspected she might have an ear infection.

7:30 am - pulled myself out of bed when Emma woke up, did this and that, reworked my 2009 calendar of Zen's work schedule, started some laundry. In the summer, he has May 28 to June 3 off, June 18-24 off, July 9-15 off, July 30-August 5 off, and August 20-26 off. I forget now how that works with the proposed Cox Family Reunion, but I suspect Zen might be out of luck for that. Oh, well. I plotted it out, and at least he has Christmas off.
9 am to 9:35 am - looked at my jewelry-making library books, most of them are too advanced, I think I'm only going to be into beading, instead of serious metal-work
9:35 am to 10:10 am - tried to exercise, but had a few kid interruptions. Plus, my right heel has been killing me for weeks, with sharp little pains on the right side that are mild to severe, depending how much I'm on my feet on any given day. I've strained some kind of tendon or ligament, I'm sure, but I've been working through the pain. I need to wear my best-cushioned shoes and lay off the exercise for a few weeks, and I'm sure it will feel better. But I can't stand the thought of going that long without exercise. I think I'll switch to swimming for a few weeks, but that means getting my crack out of bed at 5:30am every morning, so I can go do laps without having to worry about getting a babysitter every day. But, obviously I've been too lazy to pull myself out of bed that early. Sigh... So the pain goes on.
10:10 am to 11:05 am - feed Emma, switch laundry, start blog post for the day, so I don't have so much to write at the end of the day
11:05 am to 11:50 am - online at amazon.com, ordering replacement power cord for my laptop, and looking at beading/jewelry books - luscious!
11:50 am - shower, dress, start organizing bead stuff, get ready for baby's dr. appt (suspected ear infection),
12:55 pm - grab Emma, who is still asleep after her nap, race out the door to dr's appt. (I will never be on time), it turns out she does not have ear infection, she was just cranky last night from having to breath out of her mouth, it kept waking her up, I thought of using the nose sucker (bulb syringe) last night, but I was too lazy for some reason, oh well. Ran into Jeannie Richey at the dr's office, and she said she was heading out of town this afternoon for Denver, and wondered if I had the other fleece blankets ready to tie, so she could work on them in the car. I told her to call me before she left town, then went home and got to work. I'd planned on doing them today, but that kind of lit a fire under my butt.
2 pm - I got two of them done by about 3 to 3:15, when Jeannie came by, then finished the rest by about 4:45. Whew!!

4:45 pm to 7:25 pm - Went to Home Depot to look at tool boxes. I grew out of my jewelry tool box already. Then on to Wal-Mart, and looked at more storage containers for my new hobby. Still not satisfied, will look more tomorrow. I cooked dinner (spaghetti, salad, garlic bread), then Zen and I went to see Aida up at the community college. It was really, really good, especially considering it was a college production. The set and costumes were great, and the performances weren't bad either. I might go see the matinee tomorrow at 2pm.
Gil went too, his fourth time, with one of his best friends, Ty Rawson. Of course, they sat far away. I have this inappropriate, slightly sadistic fantasy of sitting behind Gil at the movie theater sometime, and making out with Zen like a pair of crass teenagers, just to embarrass my teenage son. That's too much PDA (public displays of affection) for me, but it's still funny to think about.
10:30 pm - back home, Dani babysat for us, like a real trooper, I'll have to reward her with something. Hmmm... Put Emma to bed (hope she really sleeps in tomorrow), then sat down and played beading. Finally!
See my loot? I have many projects to make!
My prizes from String Beads in Salt Lake. What secret projects could I be making? Hmmm...
My first original binky clip. See the lobster clasp? This means I can make a gazillion interchangable binky chains for this one clip. I spent forever deciding on the colors, and it turned out kind of plain, but forward ho! I will make some more tomorrow, and maybe a little bling for myself.

3:05 am - quit playing beading, write post, then go to bed at 3:45 am. Yikes! I'm totally sleeping in tomorrow, if I can.

End Post #24, 2009

A Day In the Life...

Let's do things a little differently today, shorthand a little more.
6:45 am wake up, exercise, shower, dress, feed Emma, help kids
about 9am to noon - help kids, work on cutting the fringe for the Project Linus fleece blankets
Me, cutting fringe, pic taken with tripod

A close-up of my cool strip-cutting gadget, and the style of fringe, which is cut strips and tie each into a knot at the top, I did the fringing, and Jeannie Richey will tie the knots

Anytime I record doing things, you can always be sure I'm helping the kids, too, so it's not a straight-shot of work time. Connor insisted I spin him in the computer chair, over and over.

Emma went along for a ride, too.

I'm not sure which is more satisfying, rocking a baby to sleep, or finding them asleep on the floor after a hard morning of play.

12:00 to 12:45 pm - honestly, I don't even remember what I was doing, but it wasn't goofing off.
12:45 pm to 2 pm - made grilled cheese sandwiches, tomato soup, & applesauce for lunch, Emma woke up, I started work on the dinosaur cutouts for Scouts

Somehow, this reminds me of the picture when I was little, eating out of the dog or cat bowl. Goldfish crackers taste better, though.

2pm to 5pm - finished the diecuts, took them to Scouts, then dropped off four of the cut fleece blankets to Jeannie Richey, who was thankful we'd followed up on our original plan, it was a good sense of accomplishment

5pm to 9:30 pm - cook dinner, sew Dani's blanket, I was going to treat myself to playing with my jewelry-making supplies and working on secrect projects, but I wanted to get Dani's blanket out of the way, and I knew she'd be really glad to sleep with it tonight. That reminds me of the night my Mom brought the Holly Hobbie blanket home from Relief Society. I was already in bed, but I snuggled up to it right away. It stayed with me for years and years, and I only quit sleeping with it a few years ago. TMI? Anyway, I'll have to play jewelry tomorrow.

I made asian dumplings for dinner, yum!

All this blankie-making piqued Dani's interest, and initially, she said she wanted a woobie, too. Of course, Dani not being two years old, the little square turned into a lap blanket at the fabric store yesterday. This blanket is sooooo soft!

It's like soft fur, mmmm....

9:30 pm - read scriptures with kids & Zen, who is back from Man Camp again! He's home now for a few days, hallelujah! Then, I finished helping put kids to bed, wrote my blog post, now at 10:45 pm, going to bed

End Post #23, 2009

Connor Has a Good Heart

We took a trip into Salt Lake today, to get a check-up on Connor's heart. About a year and a half ago, his pediatrician found a murmur in his heart, called a Still's murmur, a slight vibrating sound in the heart, that is very common in young children. It often goes away, but to be cautious, they wanted to see him back in about a year. So, we took care of that today. After getting an ultrasound on his heart, it turns out that everything is completely normal, and his heart is healthy. Good! Less to worry about.

Connor was a trooper today, watching Dragon Tales while the tech guy put "stickers" on his chest, and goop for the ultrasound gadget.
Connor had a great time hunkering down at the "feeding trough", aka Golden Corral, which used to be one of our favorite places to eat in West Jordan
Dani likes to ham it up for the camera. Baby had a good time eating mashed potatoes & mac n cheese, but her favorite was the banana pudding with nilla wafers and whip cream. Can't start 'em too early on sugar, don't you know.
One of my errands while in Salt Lake was to visit my favorite fabric store, The Fabric Center on Redwood Road, just south of 90th. A lady in my ward gave me $100 to buy fleece to make the no-sew fleece blankets for Project Linus. I'm going to cut the fringe around the edges with my handy new cutting ruler (pictured in the center). I'm totally nuts right? But it's for a good cause!

Time Log -

5:40 am - woke up, I don't know why, but I wanted to sleep more because I was still tired. I don't know if I did at all, honestly, but I finally dragged my rear end out of bed
6:50 am - out of bed, got dressed to exercise, Emma woke up, gave her to Dani to wake Dani up, exercised 10 min (lame, but it was all I had time for), tried to get all of us ready to go, why does this ALWAYS take forever?!!!!
8:40 am - pulled out of the driveway, stopped for gas, finally got on the road
11:10 am - screeched into the parking lot at Primary Children's for the appt, got Connor's echo and finally saw the doc, Connor's heart is great!
1:35 pm - back on the road, took everyone to Golden Corral in West Jordan
3:00 pm - Fabric Store, can you believe I was out of there in 30 min?!, on to Jordan Landing, where I dropped Dani off at Target to find some shirts, the rest of us went to Robert's Crafts, picked up Dani, had to go back to the fabric store because Connor left his blanket there (whew! I just cringe thinking what it would have been like if we drove back to Rock Springs without his blanket)
4:45 pm - call Gil, tell him to get a ride for his choir concert (third or fourth performance this year, so I only feel a little guilty for missing it), there's no way we are going to make it back to drive him to his concert, so I decide to go to String Beads, a beading/jewelry store in Sugarhouse that I wanted to get to today, and was going to abandon. My brain, and my purse, just about exploded from the variety, will have to go back, got some things for Secret Business for Sue, now I want to take a tour of all the beading shops in Salt Lake, like Liz and Jane used to do a quilt shop tour
5:45 pm - back on the road, stopped in Park City for Gas, stopped in Evanston for gas & treats (30 min break)
8:50 pm - finally back home, unload & clean out car, run to Wal-Mart for some necessaries & the cool cutting gadget for cutting the fringe on the fleece blankets
9:50 pm - read scriptures with kids, put 'em all to bed, clean off kitchen table for tomorrow
10:55 pm - check email, write blog post
11:30 pm - go straight to bed, don't pass go, don't watch any movies...

End Post #22, 2009