Things I Accomplished This Weekend

(...without The Man, mind you, who is on a little vacation to El Paso to visit Bret. Which I told him that I'm fine with, as long as there would be no beer drinking involved. He swore.)

• Took YG to music class while OG briefly attended a carnival
• Thenceforth picked up OG and took her to her soccer game
• Scrubbed the bathroom floors (on my hands and what is left of my knees, bitches!)
• Rearranged the glassware cabinet
• Dressed my children in their costumes for a nighttime - grownup, even - Halloween Party
• Attended the Halloween party, in a costume*, even THOUGH I had to go solo, and even THOUGH I didn't know that many people, and even THOUGH I Violently Hate Halloween
• Took the OG to softball practice (in batting cages, for the first time. She dug that.)
• Played with the YG incessantly during all of the OG's social/sports commitments
• Washed - and partially put away - 10 loads of laundry (!)
• Found the big plastic tub of OG's old size 3T-4T winter clothing and sorted it into YG's dresser drawers
• Went through some given-to-me-by-my-boss, hand-me-down clothing for the OG - who is now a size 8 (gulp,) and can wear tops that are a size 10 - and sorted it and put THAT away
  
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• Swept and mopped the kitchen floor twice
• Took the leaf out of my kitchen table, and Pledge-d the sucker until it screamed for mercy
• Cleaned my kitchen sink until it is...wow, it's white! I'd forgotten...
• Fed and played with the animals (Molly is now able to climb up on the back of the couch by herself! And she no longer smells like a three-weeks-open can of cheap wet cat food! She is utterly, fucking, amazing.)
• Bought art supplies and assisted the OG with a pumpkin painting project for school
• Made waffles - in the waffle iron, man, not Eggos - for my children, and didn't eat one
• Chatted with the neighbors as we watched our kiddos ride bikes on the street
• Taught YG to ride her little bicycle, which she did, for the first time, by herself
• Re-read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (because OG is deeply, excruciatingly, IN TO the books, and she keeps asking questions about them...and I realized that, in my quest to see how it all ended, that I missed some details.)
• Also glanced at the hagiographic Harry Potter entries in Wikipedia. They're scary.
  
• Reveled in the OUTSTANDING weather (78 degrees today; not a cloud in the sky. It's that time of year - that one time besides the corresponding same two weeks in March - that Austin has really reasonable weather.)
• Cooked a nice vegetable soup with stock I made from the remains of the turkey breast I cooked last week
• Listened to the MU Tigers beat Iowa State on the radio, from whenceforth we moved into the TOP TEN. Holy fucking shit. We are - say it with me now, children - ABOVE TEXAS in the rankings. As are the KU-freaking-Jayhawks. (Actually, beware; this may mean the approaching apocalypse.)
• Did not kill either, or both, of my children, though they each eminently deserved it at least once

*It was my perennial, no-effort costume, "Devil with a Blue Dress On." Nobody got it.