Monday, 26 December 2011
Yesterday, Jennifer made a point of declaring that today would be Lazy Day. I declared that I would let her have her Lazy Day and, for the most part, join in. Since I like to do something, however, I set up three goals to accomplish on this, my first of several, days off of work:
1) Organize Owen’s project cabinet
We keep Owen’s painting, drawing, coloring, and cutting supplies in an overflowing cabinet in our dining room. It’s time he thinned that herd a bit.
2) Get my garage door operating correctly again.
Yeah, for some reason, it only opens about 6 inches. I gotta figure out why and solve the mystery.
3) Get that crappy, annoying cabinet out of the bathroom.
The downstairs bathroom has a low-quality cabinet installed directly over the toilet. So when I sit down, I have to lean forward in order to not hit my head on the cabinet.
I’m pleased to say I accomplished all three of these tasks. First, Owen and I took about 45 minutes to clean out his cabinet. We organized everything into piles and bags, he filled up a bag for recycling, and gave extraneous art supplies to the Headed-for-Goodwill box. Second, it turned out one of the wheels on the garage door’s track had come out of the track. Not sure how this happened, but it was a relatively easy fix, and I think I’ve bent the track back in place so it doesn’t happen again. Third, that bathroom cabinet was really bolted and glued in place. I had to bang up the wall a bit, but I managed to get the cabinet out. I’m gonna take the shelves from the cabinet and hang them in the garage. The cabinet front, on the other hand, I plan to burn.
But for the most part, it was a lazy day. Here’s a photo journal depicting the remains of yesterday’s revelries:
Nothing says “Post-Xmas Breakfast” like leftover enchiladas and green and red M&M’s.
I decided to decorate this rather empty shelf in or kitchen with my take from last Thursday’s gift swap.
Here’s our Wall of Fame: cards we received wishing us happy holidays. The gap between the molding and the wall provides a convenient place to hang and display them.
Here’s one of Owen’s presents: a big-ass dinosaur puzzle. He must be guarding that candy, sitting off to the left.
Isla’s new xylophone is “Supplied with 2 beaters.” Wow. That’s great. Maybe we can get them to play “At this Moment” for us.
Isla spent quite a bit of time playing with her little dolls and furniture. Here, we see she made a dream bathroom: two sinks, two toilets, and three bathtubs. Question for the ladies: do you all go to the bathroom with your pants on and your legs straight out? Of course, I’m no woman…but I might have some suggestions on how to make life easier.
2:00 and he’s still in his brand new pajamas. Like most parents, we worry that our son does not spend enough time in front of a screen. We’re hoping this gift will fix that.
Isla – who never changed out of her pajamas all day – is sick of her lunch, which consisted of enchiladas and M&M’s.
Sometimes the dice game leaves us with things we didn’t know we needed: Owen walked away from the game with this bag, which can evidently only be used when wearing – or to store – maillots.
Owen also won some anti-monkey butt powder in the dice game yesterday. Oh that’s just great, make the kid fret over yet another ailment.
Another dice game issue is winding up with multiple copies of the same gift. I won two packs of wool socks, which I decided was one pack too many. So I swapped one pack for this multi-tool gadget. Turns out, my cousin-in-law’s boyfriend had won two of them, so he was looking to make a trade.
And finally, here are the wool socks I took home with me. After donning them, my wife declared that she had never been more attracted to me. Not sure if she said that because I was wearing the socks, or because I was wearing nothing but the socks. Either way, lucky her.