It’s Monday again, isn’t it? Doesn’t matter what I do, Monday always shows up right on time.

We successfully had a completely lazy weekend. It’s been a while since we had one of those, so it was nice to just lay around and do nothing at all, and no lawn mowing at all took place on our property. In fact, no yard work or any other sort of work at all took place at Casa de Orb. What a wonderful weekend!

The weather is looking to be most foul today. On the one hand, that’s a good thing. Can’t mow a lawn while it’s raining, and Annoying Boy tends not to be out and about when it’s nasty out. Unfortunately, I desperately need to go to the grocery store for fresh veggies, and I am none too keen on driving in the rain. Not so much because it bothers me, but too many morons out there drive like brainless dweebs when the roads are wet. I’ve got the local news on right now, and there are already several wrecks out there, and it isn’t even raining yet. Still, I have to go to the store. I guess I’ll be watching the weather and when there looks like there is a clear patch for about an hour, I’ll make a quick trip and get as few things as possible so it doesn’t take me forever. I can always go back later in the week.

The only other plan for the day is to stuff more trash into my near overflowing trash bin, doing the dishes from the weekend, and the laundry. Then I want to play some FFXII. I am well into the end game, but my characters are still not a high enough level to complete the game. I always do that the first time I play a Final Fantasy game. I get too involved in moving the story along, and then I look up when I get to the end and realize my characters are spending more time dying than fighting … or actually more time curing and reviving each other than fighting. The last “boss” I fought was doing about 1000 hit points of damage each round to all my characters, and they only have just over 2000 hit points each. Yeah … tough little battle that was!

I also have a household project for this week to get started on. I am planning to pack up some of the stuff in the kitchen that is just sitting there taking up space and not being used. Actually, it’s not so much stuff that isn’t being used, but do I really need to have 20 coffee mugs and innumerable glasses in my cupboard? All that leads to is me putting off doing the dishes until everything is dirty, and then it’s a chore. It’s not like we ever have more than two or three people over at a time, so I think maybe 6 of each will be more than enough.

For that matter, does the entire top shelf of my cupboard have to be filled with hurricane glasses? We never use them. I could certainly use the space to store some of my small kitchen appliances so they’d be more handy than in the lower cabinet under the pots and pans. I’ve been eye-balling the pots and pans too. I have a lot of duplicates. While I don’t want to get rid of any of them, I don’t really need them sitting in the kitchen either. I’d rather have my storage containers sitting somewhere other than my limited counter space.

Basically, I want to force myself to do the dishes more often by not having so many dishes, because if there are clean dishes, glasses, pots and pans, I will use the clean ones and ignore doing the dishes until I simply must do them.

I also need to go through the pantry. I know there’s stuff in there that could go in the trash, and it could certainly be organized better. That may be a project for another week. Let’s just get the dishes dealt with first. That’s going to be enough of a task.

There’s a big storm front headed our way and expected to hit in about an hour or two. Since I won’t be doing any driving until after it and rush hour are over, I guess I’ll go putter in the kitchen for a while. You know, maybe doing the dishes … unless I get distracted by cute kittens demanding attention or the painting sitting on my art table.