So I'm work on a Friday after already working 60+hrs this week... and I'm burned the f out... and trolling Offsprung and online shopping... whilst waiting for my data to be done... so the next fn' 60 hrs can start...

So OS'ers what SHOULD you be doing right now - instead of what you are actually doing?

Balancing the checkbook, finishing the vacation laundry, the dishes, some vacuuming, grocery shopping...

I actually can't afford to not do the grocery shopping any longer. It's the Post Vacation Empty Fridge Syndrome.

at work: watering the plants, filling orders, composing PR letters, taking photos of new work, updating the site, entering stuff into quick books,
at home: another round of laundry and dishes, picking up toys, etc.

Playing with the kids, making appointments, recruiting a new volunteer Webmaster for our co-op preschool system, encouraging the toddler to eat something for breakfast besides dry Cheerios.

I was working away revising my CV to start the whole job search thing. I was using my friends' CVs as models. Then I got all depressed looking at the amazing things they've done and my pitiful cv and am now all angsty about getting a job. So I took a break and ate 100 calories of Doritos and am surfing the web a bit before getting back to work on my chapter.

Packing the house for the moving truck on Monday.

Preparing for my two morning back to back meetings. And drinking coffee.

trolling offsprung in my pjs when I should be writing. I'm on deadline and need to submit a revised article by today. Which means I just have to get it done by Monday, but whatever. I suck.

Mowing the lawn for the big party.

Doing PR for my Taos retre -- hey! Look at this!
www.depthastrology.net/workshops-and-retreats/taos-retreats/

There, two birds with one stone. Now I can go play.

High fives to TM. Deadlines rot.

kathy - did the taos hum stop when you got home?

Finished with my meetings, and now putting off the tasks that came out of said meetings.

Is it Friday yet?

Oh wait...

processes STILL not done. working all weekend.
This shit better work.

The board of directors finally left. I'm hittin' the road SOON.

Oh and I'm still on OS putting off any remaining work.

I just made a batch of yogurt, a loaf of bread, a batch of granola and I've started some strawberries macerating for later to make ice cream. In another half hour I'm starting the dough for the pizza crust.

I should really go fold some laundry, but I'm already knackered.

hippy.

:)

GG-the hum stopped when I got out of Taos. Man, was it intense.

MNM-Can I have dinner at your house?

GG What the hell? I hope you LIKE your job.

MNM, yum!

Me, I'm at my parents' house in Rockville listening to my kids play as they come dangerously close to the danger zone where their lighthearted fun turns to pain and despair.

GG - yeah, a little! Just wait until I get my cheesemaking kit and am making curds and whey in all my crunchy granola glory!

kathy - anytime, babe.

Mommagrrl...I can hear that happening here too. But since AlphaGeek is home today he gets to deal with it. Yay!

Dang, can mightyninjamom be my mom?

I'll be lucky if I actually cook dinner tonight instead of tossing sandwhiches at the kids andhoping for the best.

I should go workout while Husband and Dude are napping. But instead I've been on OS for an hour. Then I need to finish the b-day gifts for the Dude's BFF (I posted on her, they're moving this summer, party's tomorrow AM).

And to MNM - "Blessed are the cheesemakers!" Inspired by TM's James DObson article and references to the Life of Brian.

wookie - if I was pregnant and still working, that's EXACTLY what I would do.

sabine louise - hee!

Writing Thank You Notes. I dread it because I don't want to think about eight delightfully grateful sounding things to say.

wtf is granola anyway?

BoL - it's basically just a mixture of toasted oats & nuts. Usually you make a little syrup out of fruit juice concentrate, a little sugar and some vegetable oil or butter. Then you pour it over the oats and nuts and then bake until it's nice and toasty brown. You can add of different stuff to it to change the flavor, like dried coconut, sunflower seeds, dried fruit etc. You can buy it from the store, but it's usually stale, and this stuff is best eaten within a week or so.

soooo... it bears more than a passing resemblance to toasted museli?

Yup. See, who says our Aussie friends don't understand American foods?

i'll be honest and hope i don't offend, but whenever i research american food online it seems to be mostly fake cream and piles of sugar and preservatives and crispy bits, and a can of cream of chicken soup is always in there somewhere. It's most bizarre. i'm very relieved to find that you guys at least know what a salad is, cos the internet would have me believe you all live on tinned and take out everything. (And omg canned cheese, for real??)

You don't offend, you just confuse. It's probably like the myth that all British food is bland (does Australia have that myth about British food?). Where are you looking on the internet, exactly? Some of it is a class thing, the food with the sugar and preservatives is much cheaper than the veggies and such and is more calorie dense. There is a link in the US between obesity and poverty. Canned cheese is a lot cheaper than hunks of good real cheese. The can of soup thing is also cheap, and a hold over from the fifties and sixties.

i've only heard of tinned cheese in Oz in the army rations sense. Like, they get cheese in a can, cos it keeps well... but you can't buy it in a supermarket or anything.

Figures about the pov=fat thing, same thing happens here. Also nutritional education doesn't seem to happen unless your parents either earn enough or are hippy enough. Quite a large portion of the lower-paid people here would prefer to buy cigarettes and cheap beer than eat an apple. Or at least buy crisps and white flour and refined sugar and cornflakes... which i just don't understand - cornflakes and crisps have to be among the most EXPENSIVE items in the supermarket.

It's funny about the canned soup thing... a lot of times i look for a recipe for something ordinary, like, i dunno, beef stroganoff is a good example, for which i would expect a recipe with cream or sour cream, onion, garlic, etc... and the recipes will often be "1 packet so-and-so spice blend, 1 packet blahblah powder, 1 can of cream of chicken soup, Beef." I've seen it pop up in everything from nachos, enchiladas, risotto, lasagne, lamb chops (big wtf from me), most creamy pasta dishes, any and all soups, almost every casserole...

We have the same "50s remnant" thing with pineapple. At some point mid-20thC one of our canned food giants, Golden Circle i think it was, had a competition for innovative uses for tinned pineapple, to boost sales. Must hve totally worked, cos we put pineapple in and/or on everything. which i quite like ;)