Accomplished cat!

So, today started out pretty normal for a Sunday, in which the wife and I got up and ran to a drive-thru at the last minute to grab breakfast and then drove around town a little just sort of enjoying the day and planning things out and digesting.  We went to Home Depot and Target for a couple things – actually we went to Target twice since we forgot something – and then headed home.

At this point, the wife’s mood took a sudden and unexpected downturn and she became Grouchy.  We sat around the house for a little while wondering if it would pass and trying to decide if we would actually get anything done today until a friend called and asked if I was busy.  So, M stayed home and I went and hung out with my friend.  He has just moved into a new house and the previous tenant had left some things around that he thought I might want.  One is a little metal toolbox, which, yeah, whatever, and the other is a very small, almost desktop-sized bandsaw.  It’s usually used for cutting glass for stained glass work, and has a diamond band on it now, but I can totally use it to cut circuit board, metal, wood, plastic…  Look out, world!  This guy’s got a bandsaw!

So anyway, I came home and the wife and I sat around some more until we both realized we weren’t interested in cooking and went out for Thai food.  After dinner we drove around some more and found some good trash.  Another HP Pavilion CPU for me, as though I need another trash computer, and something I think we will find a good home for in our mega-eclectic living room: an old Mini-Bar mini fridge.  That took us circling the block *several* times before we even figured out what it was, and then another turn about the block to decide if we wanted it.  Fortunately by the time we were starting to get funny looks from the neighbors we had decided that it must be ours, and it is now sitting in my truck awaiting its place of honor.

Anyway, we came home, farted around on the internet some, then realized that we needed to brine a turkey that the wife is cooking for her work Thanksgiving thing.  We did that, and then I fixed our Ikea loveseat, the frame of which had started to come un-stapled.  See, the framing pieces of this couch are basically held together with wire brads, and the excessive sitting we have been doing on it had pulled the main cross piece away from its brads and had the whole couch looking very lopsided.  So, some wood screws and some metal angle brackets and it’s back, almost as good as new.  Next time we buy one of these I am going to go ahead and start out by putting the brackets on before the couch actually breaks, but hindsight is 20/20 and all.

Finally (I know, right?) I planted a basil sprig that I had been soaking in the hopes of drawing some roots out.  A couple days ago I swear I looked at it and there was nothing, but today I checked it out and there were a bunch of tendrils 4-5 inches long.  Planting that got me wanting to do a bunch of other stuff, so I tended to my tomato plants – which are about ready to be planted in their own container, and my peppers – which are about ready to get their temporary transplant, and the cucumber seeds I had been starting with damp paper towels.  These last had not actually started, so they went into some actual dirt and to hell with hydroponics and whatnot.  If history stays to course they’ll sprout in a few weeks, just as I’m starting to despair of them sprouting at all.  Note to self: time to make some more self-watering containers.  Like, two or three more.

All in all, I think it has been a very successful day, even if we didn’t get the bedroom cleaned up like we had goddamn meant to.  Neither of us wanted to do that anyway, really.