saturday

Next fall, we are going to buy large pieces of plastic (like a bunch of drop cloths, for instance), and we will lay them out all over the yard. When the leaves have stopped falling, we will simply pick up the corners of the plastic sheets, and throw them away. Ta-da. Yard waste managed. Because this raking deal, it's dumb. I have danced around this a little and made jokes about M doing all the work... but now you know the rest of the story, and it is that I really can't help him due to the whole pregnancy thing. It is really hard work, and I'm not up physically even if I were to be allowed to do such a thing. He has been working on it as much as he can, but between our weekend vacation, the fact that he doesn't get home until after dark, and the fact that raking is something you really can't do all day long due to it being so much harder than it looks... it's a pretty slow job. He's getting close on the front yard, though.

I was in bed by 8:30 last night. I was so, so tired. Our plan was to get a lot of stuff done today, but it turned out to be one of those days where you work on a bunch of things but then nothing gets finished. In the end, though, we got the tree up, and M bought and put up icicle lights on the outside of the house. I've never really considered myself a person who has lights on the outside of my house.. but M wanted to do it. It's so cute! We went outside to take pictures of it after it got dark. M even took the tripod, but our camera just couldn't handle it, and what we ended up taking a picture of was our house in the middle of a nuclear meltdown. There was a kind of creepy-looking ghostly effect in one of them--what is clearly a pair of legs standing where no one is standing. It reminded me of one of those chain mails about ghosts showing up in pictures. We actually figured out what had caused this particular ghostly effect. M had been using the timer. I was waiting for the shot to be over so I could go inside . When the shutter clicked, I started walking inside, but it actually wasn't done, so my walking legs are burnt into the image. And.. I guess that's what always makes me shake my head when I see those things. They might actually BE ghosts in the picture.. or it could just be a glitch in the camera. Which is more likely? Why, supernatural beings! I guess it might be. I can't prove it. I watched some show on TV once about how they thought that they were being haunted because there could be a graveyard in the backyard, and they dug around out there found a BONE that confirmed their story. Tiny fine print at the end of the show pointed out that lab tests had proven it to be a chicken bone. C'mon, people.

Well, wasn't that random? I should be working on a backup of my files, because tomorrow, I am supposed to be orchestrating a complete computer reinstallation for both M and me. We've been having some weird trouble with our network, and M has had trouble with his system in general. It's needed done for a while, so hopefully I won't get too lazy to get it done. Or I should be working on a picture resizing project for M, as I have all the mad Photoshop skillz in this household. I'm feeling a bit on the lazy side, though, since I have yet another headache. This is getting old.

[This post interrupted by accidentally falling asleep. I have beome slightly narcoleptic, of late.]