TWTW - the one with the scheduled things

Friday night smelled like teen spirit. Just kidding, it smelled like scentsy because Amanda hosted a sniff & sip & slip. It was a nice night with the girls and Frank.

I was down in Ocean City checking out the scene on the beach and boards by 8:30 Saturday morning.

When I got to our house, I set about putting the efficiency mostly back to rights. MFD still needs to put my bike together and we still have shit to hang, but anything that was undone due to storm flooding is now re-done and it's pretty ready to open next weekend. I also spent a half hour looking for my phone to call a contractor and it was literally right in front of my face. Hashtag elderly brain. I cleaned up most of the trashcan area too, which involved touching soaking wet trash. FUN!

Comcast came to install cable and Internet, which took four hours because the old lines were shot and had to be replaced and a booster had to be put in to get wifi through all four stories. There's only one TV in the living room so I'm sure people will be streaming. The water is still turned off in the house so I may have had to pee in a DD iced coffee cup which I then had to dump outside, along with my dignity. Like a dumbass I didn't turn on the heat because I didn't expect to be there that long and froze my black soul to the core. However after four hours together in the cold like people stranded on Antarctica to die, my Comcast tech and I are BFF and he does home repair and licensed HVAC on the side so I'm glad to know him because we have needs for those things down there. Another contractor who fixed a leak before we made settlement that came back was also through on Saturday so ceilings are getting replaced this week fo' free since it wasn't made right the first time. And I went through the house making yet more lists of things that still need to get done and bought. I was heading home by 4:15 under some gorgeous skies. I got the hottest shower on record, ate a pizza, and was asleep by 10:30.

Sunday I hoped to be up and out by 9, but I actually woke up at 9. When I finally got to Marshalls armed with gift cards and a list a mile long, I found there were no carts. It was like playing Supermarket Sweep - shop, run stuff up to the register, pick up more stuff, run stuff up to the register - except nothing was free and I had no chance to win.

In the afternoon I headed up to the William Penn Inn brunch buffet to celebrate Pete's 80th with Carol's family. The food and company were great as always, even though I had to duck out of cake back at Dave & Sue's to get home for dog duty. MFD made it to the end of brunch but was basically working all over SE PA on Sunday so dog care fell to moi.

My niece Lola is behind the smiley hearts because she gives people smiley hearts

In dog town, Gus felt good to be king, Mae only wanted to be left alone to sleep under covers, and Geege was on patrol...so nothing new with the crew this weekend. No pooping incidents or food break incidents.

Weekly food prep: breakfast burritos made with italian sausage, egg, jalapeno cheddar cheese, and diced green chiles to freeze; power breakfast muffins to freeze; egg muffins with jalapeno cheddar and italian sausage for this week's breakfasts; baked chicken for dinners (will be served with sweet potato fries and steamed veggies). I'll be making poop soup for the dogs and corned beef soup for lunches this week tomorrow night after zumba.

Let it be known that I have washed all of my heavy duty winter coats so I don't want to wear them again, winter. Please respect my boundaries.

Book talk tomorrow!

Linking up with Biana at B Loved Boston for Weekending

TWTW - the first one in December

Friday night I spent a lot of time talking about poop at Amanda's Scentsy party, which made me laugh since Scentsy stuff is all about the good smells and poop is, you know, not. Eva the Diva was the star as always, dragging a lovely bag around like she was a woman about town. I bought some tarts and a mermaid warmer for the shore, as well as two plug ins, one for home and one for the shore. I'll be buying more of those in the spring, I think they're awesome.

I slept in until 8:30 Saturday, then set about doing the hated leaves. It was my third tango with the bastards. Six bags out back plus two out front, all done in winter gloves because I couldn't find gardening gloves and I'm not into touching worms or things dogs peed on with bare hands. I also finally got the remaining greenery out of the front flower beds, lugged a bunch of pavers the bunghole concrete people left all over the yard like we were the set of Sanford & Son, and moved all the furniture around out back. After that I rained hell down upon MFD's shit pits, where his mail and other stuff collects until I get rid of it. He's like wait, it was all trash? Yes. That's why it's called a shit pit. I changed sheets, put the down comforter on, washed all bedding, did five other loads of laundry, purged beauty products and made some headway in the reading room purging/organizing, and did a bunch of cooking. By 7 p.m. I was totally pooped and so were the dogs from monitoring my hausfrauing all day. I showered and read, which was a great way to spend a Saturday night in.

MFD was out at work and a music thing most of the afternoon and evening, but he did Gris it up when he got home Saturday night. The front window photo is courtesy of him, and the stockings have been hung with military precision. Do not touch, Santa.

Sometimes when I am very productive on a Saturday, Sunday is a slow start. That was the case this Sunday. But I put my big girl panties on and headed up the turnpike to the hell that is King of Prussia on a Sunday in December a few weeks before Christmas to enjoy a lovely, leisurely, two plus hour lunch with Marla of Luck Fupus, Brie of A Breezy Life, and Nicole of Nicole Marica. It's always nice to get some face time with my local blogging ladies. That little key lime pie down there was the shit. I was considering licking the tiny mason jar.

Weekly food prep: egg muffins with sausage, spinach, and cheese for breakfast; baked chicken thighs and sweet potatoes over spinach for Saturday dinner and lunches this week (I only need three); a double batch of power breakfast muffins for here and for Michelle and Bob; roast pork loin with mashed potatoes and steamed broccoli for dinners; dog stew/poop soup for los perros (not pictured); and celery with peanut butter and frozen blueberries for snacks.

The dogs were extra clingy and cozy this weekend. With me...they were jacked off at MFD because he kept using the staple gun while decorating. He means serious business. He's not called Clark Griswold for nothing.

I was supposed to tackle a clothes purge Sunday night but ended up blogging instead. I harassed Clark to get the outdoor decorations up - he needs time to get in the decorating mode...so when I went to bed at 10 he was outside with a headlamp on cleaning up the exterior and when I woke up this morning the outdoor decor was completed. It's like when the stores decorate the windows overnight except they probably don't need headlamps.

Since we've been down the shore so much, our house was a little like hoarders and it felt nice to make some headway here on the homefront this weekend.

I hope all of my Jewish friends enjoyed the start of Hanukkah and that my parents enjoyed their wedding anniversary at the beach in Delaware this weekend!

Remember! Show Us Your Books tomorrow.

Remember (and honor) the 2,000+ victims killed in the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor this day in 1941. You are not forgotten.

Linking up with Biana at B Loved Boston for Weekending