Weekend Diddly Dos

The Spouse woke up with some sort of critter up his you-know and decided to make the Viking shine like it did when it first came to live with us. Then, as long as he was at it, he figured he might as well pull out the fridge and clean there, too. He was rewarded, initially, with a dime and 2 furry gumballs. Then he got lots of snaps from Moi. Say what you will about the man, when the mood takes him he can clean like no one I know.

Now the kitchen is nigh unto spotless for the dinner we're having tonight with good friends. We used to hang a lot more often but they bought a house in the north end (more house for less money) and despite all our good intentions, we just don't see them as often as we used to. So I'm looking forward to this evening. The Spouse pulled out the BA Grill the other day so we're going to fire it up for some orange-thyme pork kebabs with bulgar pilaf. Say "yum".

Dropped a wad at the drugstore getting crap for The Child to take to camp. HMOG, you'd think she was going to the rain forest for the foreseeable future instead of 4 days at a CYO camp 1 hour from town. Sunscreen, bug repellant, allergy and headache medicine, just in case. It would have been a bigger wad if I hadn't insisted she keep to the school packing list. When faced with a rack of travel size gimcracks, she suddenly becomes the girliest girl. The child who brushes her hair only at gunpoint suddenly needs pomade? Needless to say, I was using the word "no" a lot. Which is really exhausting, by the way.

I also bought a new mop. I love getting new tools so I find this very exciting, even though mopping is actually one of my least favorite chores.

A good friend is turning 40 today and we're off with a bottle of single malt scotch to celebrate. Then it's home to make panna cotta for tonight's dessert. Have a swell week-end.