It Must Be Winter

Another dismal snowy day but I decided early this morning that I would write down two things in my notebook and call it my To-Do list.  I needed to do up the dishes and I had several stalks of celery in the fridge that were not being used up quickly, so they needed to be washed and chopped up for the freezer.  I haven't gone out in the car since Saturday, so I am still without dishwasher detergent. I don't have citric acid, so I couldn't even make my own in a pinch. That means that I have to wash my own dishes....ugh! While washing them up and placing into the dishwasher for them to drip dry, I also washed the tops of my stovetop, my counters, and the coffee bar in the dining room. I bleached my cutting boards.

While chopping up my celery to place inside a freezer bag, I decided to also peel a couple of carrots, chop an onion and zucchini, wash and slice some mushrooms and added some spinach to the vegetable casserole I planned on cooking tonight. It is in the oven right now with some Basa fillets. I shredded some cheese. I collected the trash from all the rooms and placed it all into a garbage bag which needs to go to the curb after dinner tonight. I sorted through the recycling and placed it outside for the Blue Box collection tomorrow. I put Draino in six of my drains to clear them. I shredded some more papers from the box under my desk and placed the lot into the garbage pail at the back of the house. By this time it was 1 PM and time for lunch. I ate two bowls of the lovely thick beef and veggie soup I made earlier in the week before I put away all the dishes. This afternoon I relaxed in a chair at the living room window and worked on some more embroidery. Sometimes just the act of writing down a couple of small chores spurs you on to keep going. Fortunately, that was the case for me today.