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Anticipating: I'm sitting here halfway through my two hour delivery window. My new front loader arrives today. Our old washer was starting to put little holes in our clothes. When it put a hole in the thigh of the dude's new khakis that was the last straw. {Plus 50% off for Independence day.}

Making: You know all those recipes you tear out of magazines and then they sit in a stack in your kitchen? I've been working my way through them. I divided them into categories--breakfast, dessert, summer, fall, winter, spring--and made Woman's Day's Slow-Cooker Chinese Orange Beef (yes), Rachael Ray's Indian Pizza (yes), WD's wasabi salmon (no, not enough flavor), and Cooking Light's olive and almond pesto (eh). 

Watching: Midsomer Murders. We should just get rid of cable and watch streaming Netflix. Oh, except we need cable for the sports...

Writing: Donation request letters for the library's silent auction. This year they gave me three month's notice. There's no stopping me! Hey, if your company donates things, or if your grandmother gave you an ugly but expensive purse you haven't used, let me know!

Reading: Elly Griffiths' Ruth Galloway mysteries. Ruth is a professor, expert in forensic anthropology. I like her better than Bones because while she is smart and awkward, she's not on the autism spectrum. A little more professor-normal, like people I know. I just finished The House at Seas End, and I'm eighth on the waiting list for A Room Full of Bones.





Applauding: Our Good Citizen! She passed. What a good girl.