Productive!Phnee

( Artistic!Moi behind the cut, aka a Random Meme )

So today I have washed the bathroom, done a major load of groceries (though they're not unpacked yet) and bought a chest freezer. I looked seriously at the upright models, but they were way outside of my budget. Freezer is getting delivered next Thursday, at my request. They're getting in a new shipment today, and I was told that I could have it as soon as tomorrow, but they couldn't give me an exact time, and I have stuff to do tomorrow outside the home that means I might not be home to take delivery. So.

I bought a ton of groceries, mostly non-perishable, in an effort to re-stock my seriously depleted pantry. I had almost run out of every single kind of canned tomato there is, as well as all the beans I use to make chili, and I was perilously close to not having any pasta except elbow macaroni and linguine. Damn. I just realized that I forgot two things. This is what happens when I don't make a list. Buggery and damnation. I shall have to head out again this afternoon.

Anyway, I re-stocked my soup supplies a bit, and am still on the lookout for Scotch Broth, which for some reason I can't seem to find anywhere. I am feeling marginally better about the whole food situation now. My pantry was feeling terribly empty, and as a result I was worried that I might end up buying pre-made stuff, which is something I'd like to avoid as much as possible. At least now I'll be able to make my own stuff in advance and freeze it. I bought some extra Tupperware too, just in case. Huh. Spell-check insists that I capitalize "Tupperware" even though I was trying to go for the generic name. Anyway, tomorrow there will be soup, soup, chili, and macaroni and cheese, and something involving beets, because I just picked up a HUGE bag of beets for a song. I keep forgetting that I like beets, so it was nice to be reminded of the fact by a sale.

Anyone know of any good recipes for beets that I can make in bulk?

Now I have to bring back the car, unpack the groceries, and toss in a couple of loads of laundry. The laundry may have to wait until the floor people have been and gone.

This afternoon, IKEA. I may pick up a floor lamp while I'm at it, which will officially make today Very Expensive.

This whole moving into a new home and trying to live like a responsible grown-up costs more money than I originally thought it would. Yeesh.

Nifty

It's amazing how a well-stocked pantry can lift the morale. I just re-organized the whole pantry in order to maximize my usage of space, put my cans in order of date purchased, and re-arranged all my Tupperware to fit nicely and to look good.

I also re-located my worm bin, and arranged various containers of cat food, oil, etc.

Suddenly my pantry looks inviting and cozy, and it only took about 20 minutes.

I rock like a rocking thing.

Ridiculously productive

The floor person came and went, and the snag is going to be unsnagged on Thursday. Fingers crossed that it will all go off without a hitch. Messages have been left for the original floor people to come and finish the job once the snag is unsnagged. I am cautiously optimistic.

I went to IKEA and got myself a floor lamp, shelves for the bookcases, lightbulbs and a couple of cork boards to hold pots when they're too hot to set directly on the counter. Ran into massive amounts of traffic on Décarie. These days, there isn't a single solitary time between five am and one am when Décarie isn't congested. Between the extra traffic and all the construction, that autoroute is a nightmare. Hit traffic on the way back, too.

Popped by Alexis Nihon Plaza, where I utterly failed to find one of those round mirrors that you can affix to the wall of your bathroom on a kind of extensible... thingy. Yes, this is why they pay me the big bucks, because I has the words! Anyway, I've been looking for one and figured that there might be some at Canadian Tire. Turns out I was wrong. I have no idea where to search next. It looks kind of like this, but less swanky. I don't need built-in lights or anything.

Anyway, I did find a cover for my ironing board, a rack for my paper towels, and two Rubbermaid bins in which I plan to house both Hallowe'en and Christmas decorations yet to be acquired. I lived vicariously through ai731 and the_exclamation for many years, but now that they have moved away it's time for me to get my own decorations. I may do some exploring over the weekend, if BorderCrossing is amenable to that. IKEA already has all sorts of Christmas decorations in stock, and it took all my willpower not to start stocking up right now. I love Christmas decorations, not that you would know it to look at what little I have. This year, I may go a little nuts. :)

After Canadian Tire I stopped by the IGA to pick up a few things I'd forgotten in my mega-shopping trip this morning, and ended up running into gats briefly. Very briefly, since he was in the middle of baking bread (he works there, lest you all think I'm insane) and I was running an hour late to meet up with the parental units for dinner.

I had dinner with the maternal unit only, as the paternal unit turned out to be at a conference. Still, I had a nice time with her, and she gave me a picture frame as a present, complete with two photos of me when I was a wee girlie. I have to find a home for it now.

Tomorrow morning I must be up bright and early. The cleaning service is showing up at 09:00, and I want to have a head start on the day. While the woman is doing the cleaning, I'm going to do the laundry I didn't have time to do today (it's the one thing on my list that didn't get done, *and* I got all sorts of extra things accomplished, like going to IKEA!), and try my hand at unpacking my books.

Once she's gone, then I will cook up a storm (the laundry should be all done by then), clean up after myself (new resolution!), and head out to Hurley's for Hump Day, even though I'm not working this week until Friday, I still think I'm allowed to go. ;)

All in all, I have had a super productive day, and am very pleased with myself.