I’m answering on my blog so as to have something fresh up there in the morning. Thanks for the idea!

Mary

Reading: Blogs
Drinking: Coffee
Goals: Finish coffee and blogs before boy wakes up.

I’m following Mary’s lead and posting my answers on my blog too.

Three hours!!!??? Arrgh. I thought mine was bad at 1 1/2 hours. You need a new washer and dryer. Go get yourself a really nice set…the kind that can wash an entire king-size comforter. Go on…you know you want to.

[Random]You know, I’ve been a fan of Kenmore washers and dryers in general, but lately their marketing boggles the mind. There’s this HUGE emphasis on the fact that you can get them in colors now, so, you know, “you can put them out in your living room like you’ve always dreamed and they’ll match your couch, because who wants to hide them in a back room?” Um…okaayy… “Oh, and by the way, it’s not really important, but we guess we’ll mention that the dryer dries as fast as the washer washes.” Excuse me?!? You have a dryer that dries that fast, and you’re trying to sell me on Orange, Red, or Biscuit?? Sheesh…[/Random]

Reading: Blogs and email from work… in that order, Pride and Prejudice, Oliver Twist and The Secret History

Music in my head: When Did You Fall In Love With Me – Chris Rice

Drinking: Coffee

Wishing: I could go back in time to hold my kids as babies again and to just LET THINGS GO. Also wishing to do the same things right now with my kids.

Considering: What/where God wants for our family

Feeling: Refreshed and tired all wrapped up in one

Goals: To not worry about goals

To Do List: Grocery shop, start running again, get house ready for get together tomorrow, continue to de-wallpaper bathroom

Hours gloriously spent in bathtub (last)tonight: .4

Things accomplished: 3 – Read Thr3e, had a sleepover with daughter where we had a good time talking one on one and snuggling and slept to 6. That’s sleeping in for me.

On the dryer thing…I had the same problem with a past dryer. What I found out was that the vent coming out of my dryer was full of lint…After it was cleaned…it did a whole lot better.

Long Bath?: without someone coming in or knocking on the door.

Goal: To get the extra pounds off

Drinking: Water…I love water, but I love to smell coffee while I’m drinking water…weird

I’ll play along on my blog, too….

Girl, you have nothing on “funk” like I do.

Thank God for sunshine today!!

Drinking: Creamer with coffee. I mean coffee with creamer.

Wishing: the Laundry Faries would visit me sometime soon and put all these clean clothes away.

Feeling: Congested.

I played, it’s on my blog

Reading: Naked by David Sedaris, Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt, and your blog.

Music in my head: the nephew song (Dream a Little Dream) and stuff from the movie Dreamgirls

Drinking: always water

Wishing: construction work could be finished with a magic wand, that I had a magic wand, and that winter was not cold

Considering: whether or not it is reasonable to live by the personal rule “I will not go outside if the temperature is not above 10 degrees” given that I live in New England.

Feeling: glad of the feeling in my fingers and toes. Warm. Toasty. These are not to be taken lightly.

Goals: finish my half dozen outstanding knitting projects. It should not take a year to knit a sweater.

To Do List: literally 4 typed pages long. Just added, Remind Kelsey that a new dryer is a great idea. Also, Send funk-dispelling messages to sister.

Drinking: coffee after coffee after coffee. Im on my third pot today )

Reading: Blogs and the novel Princess Daisy
Wishing: I hadnt done that last half hour on DDR becuase my ankle is killing me and my legs are sore.

Considering: extra big washer/dryer purchase. My dryer takes 3 hours, and my mom says that’s bad. It’s probably only slightly better than taking a hair dryer to a wet load of laundry, now that i think about it. Or exhaling big deep hot breaths.

Listen our dryer did this , longer for jeans towels and blankets, buy the washer/dryer, we did and its so cool when the dryer goes off, with DRY clothes, before the washer!

I want to answer on mine too, what a good idea. Talk about accountability! On second thought, maybe I won’t.

reading: holymama.

drinking: also water

considering: getting out of bed to get some things done!

and 3hours in the dryer? good heavens, that’s ridiculous.

Reading: Fair is the Rose – Lizz Curtis Higgs

Wishing: Next Friday would hurry up and get here – Kathy Troccoli is coming to my church for a women’s conference and I can’t wait!

Hours in the bathtub: Are you kidding???

On the dryer: I’m with Cheryl. Check the lint. I wanted a new dryer and cleaning out the lint was all it needed. Works great now!

I’m in a bit of a funk right now myself!

Reading: The Wonder Spot by Melissa Bank (just finished tonight); Size 14 Is Not Fat Either by Meg Cabot

Drinking: Iced tea

Wishing: That I could stay up and watch Grey’s Anatomy (on DVR) but am too tired–will wait until tomorrow

Accomplished: Three loads of laundry. One load consisted of 6 (yes, SIX) fleece blankets all at once. Total wash and dry time…90 minutes. Astonishing. Obviously, I’m a huge fan of the extra large, extra awesome washer/dryer.

Listen to Cheryl…..have your husband clean out the big accordianish thingie that goes from drier to the outside. Ours was completely blocked….icky….and the drier wasn’t drying.

Reading: mostly blogs and the Beth Moore Daniel Bible study…..very very good study!

Considering: How I could finagle *where’s spell check?* going to Seattle this summer with my sisters.

Music in my head: Work by Jars of Clay….and it’s not a real peaceful song….very angsty…makin me feel stress!

I posted my whole list on my blog, but here’s my three:

Reading: Audio, re-listening to Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident

Music in my head: My 1996 song, Breakfast at Tiffany’s but I don’t know all the words and it won’t stop

Drinking: Coffee!