Fell asleep early and so I am up early. I feel pretty well-rested finally, which is good, because I want to get some more stuff done in the kitchen. I didn’t get much of anything done in there yesterday, because it was cold and nasty … and I felt less than spectacular. I want to at least get the recycling out and the floor finished today.

One very exciting thing did happen when I was cleaning some more of the dark and hidden corners of the kitchen yesterday. I found two tiny potatoes from our last crop, and they have already sprouted! In case you haven’t been keeping up with the gardening babble, I only saved the six most perfect potatoes to plant, and then all six of those plants were lost when that one deep freeze blew through for a few days. It looked like the Great Potato Experiment would need to be started anew, but now I can kind of pick up where I left off. I can’t really plant them in the garden just yet (too cold and way too wet to be digging around in the dirt), so I’m going to put each one in a little container with some dirt and find a nice warm and dark place for them to wait a couple of weeks to be planted outside. I am very, very excited about this.

Also, I scored some more of the butter potatoes I originally started this experiment with earlier this week, so I’ll be planting some more of those as well. Now I’ll have to begin labeling the plants, because I’ll have original source plants and F1 plants going at the same time. The Great Potato Experiment goes on!

But don’t talk to me about the rest of the garden. It’s still pretty depressing out there.

The weather is supposed to be a little better today. Not so much warmer, but at least they are saying it probably won’t be raining. Good thing, because I need to go to the store to get weekend snacks and toilet paper. Probably a couple other things too. I forgot a few things when I went on Tuesday. I always forget a few things. Well, didn’t so much forget them. I had to trim the list a little to fit the budget. But it’s payday, so time to get those things we can live without but shouldn’t have to, like French Vanilla Creamer!

In other news, one of my domain names expired, because I wasn’t keeping up with it. Thankfully, the registrar sent me an email saying “Hey, you do know your domain name has expired and someone could come along and snag it don’t you?” I quickly went and bought it again, after having a moment of panic. Not that I think there are too many people in the world just waiting to buy Orbizart.com, but you never know. I may not be using it at the moment, but I can’t lose it. Someday, OrbiZart will be used again, possibly even soon.

Let’s see, what other silly things can I babble about this morning?

Oh, I repaired my tabletop fountain yesterday, and it is happily gurgling away on the kitchen table. Ronin and Myu are thrilled to bits about it, because it was one of their favorite things in the world when they were tiny little kitties. Tora has never seen such a thing before, and she seems pretty certain that whatever it is, it is evil. Pretty funny watching her look on in horror as the other two play with the water. I am sort of surprised by her reaction, seeing as she is the one who just loves to dump out their water bowl and play in the puddle.

And my mouth is healing up just fine. Not that I can see all the way back to the wisdom tooth area of my mouth, even with a dental mirror, but my tongue informs me the gum has already pulled together, and the itchy feeling inside tells me the bone is filling in nicely. Interestingly, with the removal of that wisdom tooth, my jaw is now aligning perfectly, and I have zero mouth pain. It’s the first time in … my lifetime. Well, my adult lifetime anyway. Also interesting is that the lisp that came back when the dentist corrected my front teeth has almost vanished, so I’m not walking around sounding goofy. Next appointment is on March 18. I wish it would be the last, but I suspect there will be one more after that. Then I’ll be done with all of this. Sometimes that feels really weird to think about, because I have lived with dental and jaw problems my whole life, and now I really won’t have that hanging over my head and bringing me down anymore. Not complaining! I’ll adapt to not having to think about my mouth and teeth all the time. It’s going to be great.

Well, I’m dying for a cup of coffee. Lin’s asleep in the living room, where both of us passed out while watching the news last night, so I don’t really want to wake up him an hour early by firing up the espresso machine. It isn’t exactly quiet. Though he did say he was headed to Houston today, so maybe he needs to be up earlier than usual. I wish I would have clarified that before we both fell asleep. Yeah, I think I’ll just go make my coffee. I really, really want my morning coffee now. If it wakes him up it wakes him up. Unlike me, he seems to be able to always fall right back to sleep. Wish I were so lucky! Maybe once all the dental stuff is done I should start working on solving my sleeping problems. Getting proper sleep would probably change my life too.

Anyway, off to make coffee and pester the cats. They are all milling about begging to be pestered … and fed.