Time off

I have been enjoying 5 days straight off of work Thur - Mon -- 3 more to go before it is back to work. Thursday, I just took care of things like returning movies (but first I watched Personal Effects which I hadn't had a chance to watch since I'd rented it and it was due back), going to the post office to mail off a couple of packages, did some random cleaning. Chris and I went to dinner at Red Lobster.

Yesterday, I worked in the garage all day long - from 6 am - 5 pm, and managed to catch up on all of the laundry also. I also took all of the trash to the dump. I know it's not the way most people want to spend their time off, but I'm feeling good about getting this stuff done. I am trying to minimize.

I got up at 7 am this morning, and sat on the sofa and promptly fell alseep again until I had to wake Chris up at 9 am because he had to go into work today. He just left a little while ago, and now I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do today... guess it's back out into the garage. I'm making a second run through boxes and trashing some of the things that survived the first cut. But I think I must pause for breakfast first.

Machines

Okay, so we all know machines are going to malfunction at some point. My question is WHY do they always have to tear up at the same time?!?!?! My car air conditioning went out, got it repaired, and did the brakes while we were at it, then uh oh -- a few days later, we had to put a new set of tires on it. The air conditioning at the house went out, they are still working on it. Yesterday, the lawn mower acted up, and so did the leaf blower.

Thank goodness the TV, computers and Internet are still working!