Tried to Play It Cool on Sunday with Course Preparation, Exercise, Gutter and Garage Cleaning, and Doing a Tremendous Sweep of the House

I suppose I jinxed the CNY Homefront when I told Cynde yesterday that it has been mildly quiet from all of them in Syracuse. Then, overnight Saturday, dad got confused on where he was supposed to sleep, which triggered all the lights to be turned on, which triggered my mother to get upset which triggered her calling Dylan to come over and to get him in the right bedroom which triggered the need to wake up Cynde from her long-day at OCM BOCES (Saturday classes) so she could spend the night. 

Casey arrived in the morning and convinced dad to take a bath which, unfortunately, resulted in him slipping in the bathtub and banging his head. He couldn't get out. She covered him with a towel and call 911 which resulted in St. Joe's and the normal DMV process of hospitals. Doesn't matter what state you live in, the care in health care has almost subsided completely. But he's there and and he's being checked out. These things always happen on the weekend.

And I'm trapped in CT. Chitunga and Alyssa were in Boston (he had a conference) and they got to take Nezi to dinner, which was cool. I spent the morning waiting for updates and realizing there'd be few I walked Karal and started to tackle all the indoor and outdoor chores.

Cleaning gutters suck. Why? Well, I have a tall house and can't get the top gutters even with my 30 ft ladder. Edem and I used to try and we always failed. Also, the way the people did the gutters when I resided the house is a bit wonky, especially with two down pipes coming into a gutter at the same place. The mud gets think and keeps the gutter from draining properly. Let's just say a lot of unhooking and cleaning out of the gutters occurred while high up on a ladder, cleaning what I could.

I also sorted the garage as I want that to be the storage place for incoming books so they don't take over every table in my house (I can't keep up with them).

I saw a t-shirt the other day with a cat in a winter cap sipping bourbon. I tried to find it with a dog, but instead only found a similar one sipping coffee. Good enough. It goes with the chill mode I wanted for Sunday, which really turned into non-stop labor. Ah, but class is prepped for part of the nigh on Tuesday and I'll have Monday to work on CWP materials and NCTE preparation. 

I sometimes wonder what it's like not to have to work every hour, post work, and all throughout the weekends and summer. I can't imagine punching out at 5 pm on Friday and returning at 9 a.m. on Monday without total commitment in all the off hours. Perhaps in my next life I'll learn such a thing. 

For now, I'm find my 'chill with a t-shirt here and there. I'm feeling good about the gutters being cleaned but I told Chitunga, it may be worth it to hire out in the future, especially because of the house's height.

And hello, Monday. It's you again.