Review of the literature

This will be a brief note because… the cleaning lady comes tomorrow so that means I have to excavate so she has surfaces to clean - this is just the way it is the night before ‘the event‘. People who say “how ridiculous to clean before the cleaner comes” have never considered how ridiculous it would be to pay someone to do an archeological dig instead of putting the finishing touches on the polishing.

The other reason for a short note is because… I NEED to review my cruise information (quite a hefty package) which I picked up from the travel agent today while in Yarmouth (had to make that drive on slippery roads with impaired visibility worthwhile) She says that this trip is meant to be as she has never seen such great sales on hotel rooms in Miami (Wyndam and Hyatt) and she discovered on booking that we saved an additional $250 on the cruise to pay for those accommodations on the way down and back. It’s starting to be something to look forward to now. Made a little detour to Frenchy’s for cruise wear and picked up a bathing suit (discovered it was new when I got it home) skirt, dress, gym pants and a pair of American Eagle shorts which daughter # 2 assures me cool people wear. They are being washed as I type.

Laundry though has been an issue here tonight and not because it wasn’t done because it was (sort of) and I’ve been fixing up the mess ever since. It seems like it was a father and son job where one put their work clothes in the washer and the other started it but the main problem was that a box of Downey dryer sheets got dropped into the washer with the clothes. The jury is out on which one of them did which task. What a mess! The cardboard shredded and adhered to the clothes and inside the washer. How many washings do you think it will take to remove it? Well, at this point I can tell you more than three!

I did however come home to find supper cooked and ready for eating. Pasta with ‘special meat sauce’ and was it ever delicious! The working outside all day dismantling the deck of the boat in the wind chill of -30 c however took it’s toll on the chef. A sauna, shower and all of three pages of the book he’s reading and the snores drove the cats out of the bedroom. I’m sure I can manage more than three pages of choices of shore excursions or what to wear for formal night. Yeehaw!