Day 126 — Monday, July 20, 2020 or I’m actually going to take a few days off!

Or I will after I attend one quick morning meeting and answer a few e-mails…why is it that there is just always something to do when you are trying to take a few days off?? My weekly Monday morning Zoom meeting went longer than I had hoped (some Mondays it’s only 10 minutes, that’s my kind of meeting!), and folks weren’t even saying much — I’m sure I was the only one hoping that it would end soon!

And it did (26 minutes this time!) and then I worked on composing the one e-mail that I had to get out that morning before I could log off and start my vacation. And then that one e-mail turned into 4…as it always does. But I finished around 10 a.m. and logged off, ready to start my vacation!

But I still had to do some last minute pick up for my friends’ arrival. They’re staying in my home “office” for the next two nights and I wanted it to be comfortable. I had already changed the sheets on the bed yesterday and vacuumed the carpet, but I still had some stuff cluttering the surfaces. I definitely wanted to pick up my stack of work to-do’s and my planner that I can never remember to actually use.

And then there was our second pantry that I had to move into the other spare room. What, you don’t have a second pantry?? How is that possible? Where else do you store the extra food items and paper products that your husband purchases at the grocery store? You mean you don’t have 4 family-sized jugs of pasta sauce, two boxes of elbow macaroni and two bags of fancy fusilli sitting in paper shopping bags on the floor in your spare room? You don’t have enough ground coffee for the next 3 months? And I am sure that you don’t have so many jars of deli pickles that you could put one on a sandwich daily until at least October. Hmmm…what do you do with all your free time? I mean it takes a lot to manage two pantries in one house. There’s only two of us here and at least one of us can’t find the item they are looking for about twice a week. I might create a third pantry just to be an asshole.

Well, I’d better get back to cleaning up the spare room — my friends will be here in a few hours and there’s 30 rolls of toilet paper and a case of paper towels that I need to relocate.