Workin' on the Weekend

Or something like that...

I finished out the day yesterday, worked on the data entry screen for the contacts database, but certainly didn't get it finished at work. Fortunately, though, the rest of the day remained pretty quiet. It's nice to not have all that many aggravations happening.

After work, I had to take a little longer way home than usual so I could stop and get some gas in the car. I wound up getting home at about 5:30, and the girlfriend told me that she had a few little errands that she needed to run. So, I figured that I could join her and get the drill bit I needed. I cleaned out the cat's litter box after I got home, and I realized that I needed to get some kitty litter, so I added that to the list of things to do. The girlfriend had already done the dishes, and the kitchen was looking nice and clean, so that doesn't have to stay on the list. I took out most of the garbage, but I did it before emptying the litter box, so I still had that to take out. I did also get all the recycling sorted out so we could drop it off on the way to do her errands.

We left some time around a quarter to seven in the evening to try to make it to the city office in the mall to pay the power bill. We got there in time, got the bill paid, and then the girlfriend wanted to stop at JC Penney to look for a shower gift for one of her friends at work. I wound up buying a 3-pack of socks, which cost me a lot more than I thought. I could have sworn the little ad posted said three pairs for five bucks, but it turns out it was five bucks per pair, so I paid about $16 with tax for them. I just hope they wind up being really good socks...

We went to Petsmart to get Kala's litter after that. The girlfriend actually went to a little fashion store next door, but I went in to get the litter. It turns out that they actually had the filters for her water dish this time, which they haven't had any of the previous times that I've looked there. Just a month or so ago, the girlfriend made a little jury-rigged filter out of some muslin fabric and activated charcoal. And, as always seems to be the case, as soon as that happens, there they are in the store. I got one 3-pack of those, and next time I need to replace the filter, I'll see if the girlfriend can sew some fabric around one of those with some charcoal inside of it...

Home Depot was next, and we got a new shower head to replace the leaky, clogged one in our bathroom. A drill bit was also purchased, and then it was off to Target. So, add the shower head replacement to the to-do list for the weekend. We spent a fair amount of time at Target looking for her shower gifts and some other stuff that she wanted to get if they had it. Then it was off to get some gas in her car, and we headed over to see if they had a time posted for the open house at the place she wanted to look at. They didn't have a time posted, but we did find out that her commute to the place would wind up being a whole lot easier than she thought it would have been.

We got home right around nine, which was convenient because she wanted to see the new episode of Battlestar Galactica. We wound up not getting down to the recycling place, but I just figured we could do it in the morning when we went to see the house. Unfortunately, I wound up watching Battlestar with her, and then some show about Lincoln's assassination, and I wound up getting almost nothing done with the rest of the evening. We pretty much drifted off to sleep in the latter part of the evening.

We got up around ten this morning. I still didn't get a really great night of sleep, because I kept waking up during the course of the night and early morning. I don't know if I'm ever going to feel well-rested again, damn it. I brought down one of my totes in which to put the Dremel stuff, but I haven't actually put it away yet. We just pretty much puttered around the house a little this morning before heading out into the world.

We stopped at the recycling place and I threw all the crap away. We then headed up to the house, but it looked like it was still locked up. We walked around a little bit and looked at the yard and such, and then the girlfriend called the number on the sign advertising the open house. Unfortunately, it turns out that the open house was cancelled because someone has already made an offer on the house. So, hopefully she'll quit focusing on the house now.

We got back home and I installed the new shower head. I fired up the computer and looked through some of my e-mails, had a bit to eat with the girlfriend, and then she went off to work. Unfortunately, I found out that there was a hockey game on this afternoon, and I watched that. It ended just a little bit ago, but aside from putting a couple loads of laundry through the washer, I haven't done much else with the day. Oh, and I did bring Kala's water dish downstairs, but it's still sitting in the sink waiting for me to wash it.

So, for the rest of the day, I need to finish washing her dish, finish the laundry, put the Dremel equipment away, and work on the data entry form for the contracts database. I also need to put up the shelves in the girlfriend's room upstairs, and I'm going to put at least a few things into a tote that I'm going to use as my give-away bin. So I guess I'd better get started now...