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 I stayed in bed for a while this morning--kittens needed cuddling.  When I got up, I ate a piece of Ingrid's German fruit topped short cake for breakfast and took my pills.  (I had brought both pieces of cake upstairs with me and put them in the fridge up here, and my pill caddy was up here because I needed to refill it.  I took the pills that I should have taken on Thursday.  Rah.

I worked on my bedroom today.  I got the area rug vacuumed and all the stuff that sits on and around it dusted.  I did not get the tops of the dressers dusted as I was sitting on  the floor to do my little hand-vac technique. It looks pretty good except for the fact that I emptied out my dvd shelves to dust them.  I want to dust each individual DVD and inventory them, but I didn't get to it.  Maybe early tomorrow morning I will take the time
to do it.

It was lunch time, so I went downstairs and heated up my left overs from Carlos O'Kelly's.  Yummy. 

The kitty litter boxes were full of crap and pee, so I cleaned them.  There was "shit grit" all over the floor near them, so I swept that up.  I figured it was time for me to clean out their water machine too, so I disassembled that and scrubbed it good.  It was nasty and slimey on the inside, so I was right.  It was high time it was cleaned.

The first thing the little shits did when I put it back on the floor for them was to stick their dirty little paws in it. 

I did not really feel like cooking today, but I had chicken in the fridge and I did not want it to go bad.  Tomorrow I will be gone most of the day at school, so there'd be no cooking then.  I baked the chicken with chopped carrots, onions, and celery.  I seasoned it with a little soy sauce.  It tasted very good when it was done baking.

While that was baking, I started the hamburger cooking with ground carrots and onions.    While that was cooking, I boiled up some rotini.  After draining it, I threw it back in the pot, carefully scooped the hamburger out of the frying pan with a slotted spoon to avoid the grease, and added the Bertoli five-cheese sauce and some shredded cheese I had in the refrigerator.

While that was simmering, I cleaned all my grapes and bagged them in individual snack sized bags.  I put 20 grapes in each baggie.  When that was done, I did the same with the cherries I had bought--but they were bigger, so I only put 12 in each baggie. 

I am making a serious effort to eat fruit and eat three healthy meals a day instead of just eating whatever comes to hand or going out to eat junk food every day.

I put the chicken and rice in two good-sized storage bowls and put the roaster in the sink.

The spaghetti like hot dish was done by then, so I put that into two other good sized storage bowls.

Then I rinsed out the big pan and boiled up some more noodles.  I chopped up pickles and cheese and celery and drained black olive slices and mushroom slices.  I used up all the rest of my pickles to make my macoroni salad, and then I used up the rest of my Miracle Whip.  I didn't know I had so little left. 

I had called Jim earlier to tell him I was cooking and he and DeAnn and Swazye got some.  He stopped in to pick it up later in the afternoon.  He came just minutes after I had finished the cooking.  I was sweating like a sailor.  I gave them half of everything I made except the macoroni salad--the got 3/5s of that. 

Jim was then kind enough to bring up my basket of laundry from the basement where it has been languishing for a week or so.  He also put my last two bags of garbage into the garbage can and hauled it out to the street for me. 

Swayze terrorized the kitties in his attempts to play with them.  LOL.  Eventually they will all become friends, I am sure.

I wanted to make some oatmeal bars today, but I was just too exhausted and overheated to consider that. 

I hauled my laundry upstairs and folded and put it way.  I had thought about dusting and putting away my dvds, but decided I can do that tomorrow--maybe early in the morning, since I am hoping to wake up around 5 am.  
 
Time for bed now.  My ass is dragging.