{"id":2521,"date":"2011-12-28T23:42:13","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T05:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/?p=2521"},"modified":"2011-12-28T23:42:13","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T05:42:13","slug":"the-remains-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/2011\/12\/the-remains-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Remains of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday, 26 December 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

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:<\/p>\n

1) Organize Owen’s project cabinet
\nWe 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.<\/p>\n

2) Get my garage door operating correctly again.
\nYeah, for some reason, it only opens about 6 inches. I gotta figure out why and solve the mystery.<\/p>\n

3) Get that crappy, annoying cabinet out of the bathroom.
\nThe 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

But for the most part, it was a lazy day. Here’s a photo journal depicting the remains of yesterday’s revelries:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Nothing says “Post-Xmas Breakfast” like leftover enchiladas and green and red M&M’s.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I decided to decorate this rather empty shelf in or kitchen with my take from last Thursday’s gift swap<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>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.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Here’s one of Owen’s presents: a big-ass dinosaur puzzle. He must be guarding that candy, sitting off to the left.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Isla’s new xylophone is “Supplied with 2 beaters.” Wow. That’s great. Maybe we can get them to play “At this Moment<\/a>” for us.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>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<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>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.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Isla – who never changed out of her pajamas all day – is sick of her lunch, which consisted of enchiladas and M&M’s.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>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.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>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.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>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<\/em> the socks. Either way, lucky her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2521"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2548,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions\/2548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}