when I asked you your name you said John Wayne and I guess it's true

I'm thankful for the coldsnap because it's giving me a chance to catch up on spring cleaning before it gets wonderful and warm and I am tempted to blow it off and go camp my weekends away.

These tallies do help me feel organized and motivated, but they're also shameless brat bragging because though my nature is to be a little messy in motion, no bitch throws down on cleaning like I do. And my housework dress is cute.

Yesterday I:
ran 3 miles and did core
helped my bud get his paintings hung in a shop downtown
cooked a pretty cool sockeye salmon herb cous cous with an ab-lib lemon butter yogurt sauce
danced at a bar
went to bed at a reasonable hour

Today I have:
got up at a reasonable hour
bought red romaine and some violets at the farmer's market (I know I have a hoard of seedlings, including greens, going in as soon as it gets warm enough, but I couldn't wait.)
bought some groceries
sorted out and packed away my winter clothes/brought out my spring stuff/tossed the crap I don't wear
vacuumed and mopped my entire house
washed and put away all laundry
changed the sheets
cleaned all bathrooms (My new toilet bowl cleaner's scent is "country." Hmm, if you insist, Lysol.)
dusted the house and washed the windows and mirrors, the way my grandmother taught me how to do with old bed sheets instead of paper towels so they don't streak (Upstairs westfacing window v. gross from yours truly pressing up on it in her eagerness to take sunset shots for her dumb instagram)
fed the crows and songbirds
fixed a 6 year old kid a vegetarian dinner? (Okay this last step actually hasn't happened yet and I'm a little duuuubious.)

Another thing I'm working on today is a little play potion kit for Layla, whose current favorite game is playing "potions." It feels good to have some of Yan's junk from Legends going where somebody might hopefully have fun with it again, instead of packing it away somewhere.

Tomorrow I will:
mow the lawn
run 5 miles
grill six lbs of pork loin
prep and pack my camping kit for next weekend
make some more little vases and terrariums out of the two boxes of creek glass a well-meaning family friend gave me after seeing my post on facebook about the handful I made for my mantle a couple weeks back
mess around in my garden

So a chore day and a mess around day. Having finished up my list (aside from dinner cooking) now, I think I'll write some and drink this basic-ass honeydew melon bold rock cider.