Domestic Geek

Man, I totally forgot to do Friday Five last week. Oh, well. Here's this week's:



1. What are the first things that you do in the morning to start your day?
Curse Marcus for hitting the snooze over and over (waking me up earlier than I want to be up), stumble to the bathroom, let the dogs out, get dressed, let the dogs in, warm up the car, kiss Marcus goodbye and go to work. This happens every morning except Monday when I leave off the car and work part (my day off) and Saturday when Marcus sleeps in and the alarm doesn't go off like 10 times (his day off).

2. What are the last things that you do at night before going to bed?
Let the dogs out, feed the birds, check my email, watch some WB2 news to see what's going on in the world, and read a little bit (usually a craft magazine, Foxtrot, Sherman's Lagoon, Stephen King), then kiss Marcus goodnight.

3. What daily routine have you recently added to your day?
Unfortunately, there is nothing new in my routine.

4. What routine do you wish you get rid of?
Going to work. HA! No, seriously, I could do without having to let the dogs out. I've got one of those dogs that always wants in and out. Drives me nuts.

5. What's the one thing that makes you feel like something is missing if you don't do it some point within your day?
Getting on the internet. If I don't at least check my mail, the whole day feels out of whack. What did I do before the internet?

Marcus wanted to do a bunny portrait for Easter since he considers it "their" holiday (related to the Easter Bunny and all). So, after much hullaballoo (have you ever tried to make five rabbits sit still and look towards a camera?), here is the result:

Oh, I forgot to mention that Marcus got his CCNA certification (the first Cisco cert) on Friday. YAY, MARCUS! I'm so proud of you!

YAY, it's spring! It's not even 8:00 a.m. yet and already 60° F outside. Time to do some much needed yard work. Since it's looking like we're going to be in the park another couple of years to be able to afford land, we've decided to go ahead and put in some grass and stuff. No point in being totally miserable here during that time. I'm also going to put in a small garden. I'm tired of putting off the things I enjoy. "Someday" may never get here, so I'm going to start enjoying my life. I think that's something I've been missing lately.

Well, the shower repairs took longer to complete than I thought, but it turned out great. We finished the last few details yesterday and I used it last night. No leaks! I'm such the handywoman. Next project: carpet cleaning. Whoohoo, I'm exicted now.

Yesterday we put a new remote control unit in the ceiling fan in our bedroom. The old one took a dump. The problem now is the fan remote doesn't work well, but the Dish satellite remote turns the fan on high speed. I have to look for the instruction book on how to change the Dish remote frequency since Marcus refuses to take the fan down again. I don't blame him, it was a pain in the butt.

Taking those few days off from work was fun. I so hated going back . . . And just as I thought, they didn't do all the work they were supposed to do. The weird thing on Thursday was I was mad, but I didn't blow a gasket like I normally would have. I'm to a point right now that I couldn't really care less. That's a bad sign. I usually do stupid things when I get to that point. Oh, well. I've been doing a lot a soul searching about my life the last week. I have a strong feeling that some positive changes are going to occur in the near future. I don't know wha'ts causing that, I just hope it's true.

Well, I'm going to go dig in the yard for awhile before it gets hot.

Can you believe they're actually playing music videos (and not crappy rap, hip-hop types) right now on MTV? Totally amazing!