Musings of a marginally sane feline-appreciating female.

And kids, if you’re going to play with fireworks, be more careful than the fucking LAPD who had the audacity to tweet about fireworks safety after blowing up a truck full of confiscated fireworks on a residential street and injuring 17 people & causing a shit ton of damage. Dumbfucks.

We’ve got lovely weather here today for picnics and parades and in my case, housecleaning, LOL. Just gonna 20/10 my way throughout the house – thank you Unfuck Your Habitat for that one. It works well, and I do see results with it – when I am actually arsed to do it.

Here’s hoping I can keep it up *after* vacation as well – for now, I just want things to a point where I don’t collapse in a depressed heap when I get back from vacation, and then I can just continue to improve with a bit of work every day. Wouldn’t it be great to get into that habit?

I’ve never been a naturally neat & tidy person – even when I was a little kid, my room was *always* a disaster. My Mom just decided to pick battles and let that go. Thrown in a bit of likely ADHD, being easily overwhelmed, and mental health that has been all over the place in my lifetime, and yeah, there’s a mess. You’d think by the age of 49, housekeeping would be something I’d mastered, but… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

At least with the car, I am proving to myself that I can *keep* something clean. It’s just the getting it clean in the first place that’s the current challenge.

Still watching Elsa – still a tropical storm, and looks like it will continue to weaken and go over the NC coast Thursday night with 45-60 MPH winds and be well offshore by Friday morning. Let’s hope she quietly fizzles out.

And I’m realizing I’ve been putzing around so long that it’s no longer good morning, but good afternoon. And I wonder why I don’t get anything done around the house, LOL.

Off to clean! Enjoy the day and don’t blow off any fingers.

It turned out to be a pretty good week. I will certainly point to the benefit of not being overworked as a very large factor there. There is a lot to be said for not ending the week all wrung out.

New vacuum is fantastic and the amount of cat hair & dust and such it picks up is amazing. (And a bit embarassing.) Came with a ton of attachments, and I’ve got an adaptor coming to be able to use some of the attachments from the old vacuum that don’t have an equivalent on the new one. And it’s so much easier to use than the old one between the lighter weight and no cord.

When you detach the long wand to make it handheld, all the attachments can still be used, so you can actually use the regular sized beater brush and vacuum the floor sitting down. (Yes, I did part of the living room floor that way.) Honestly, I’d advertise that as an accessibility feature. Can’t stand for a long time but still need to vacuum? You can sit the fuck down and do it!

You do have to empty the dustbin on it more often than the old vacuum, but it’s so easy to do (and way easier than the old vac) that it’s no real problem.

Yes, I do love this vacuum. But hey, it’s a really good vacuum cleaner.

Got my hair done today and it looks great and the shampoo gal at the salon KNIT ME A WHOLE DAMN HANDBAG. She’d told me she’d made me something the last time I was in there – it would seem that the “I’m so sorry I have to cancel my appointment cause of the pandemic” big tip I left last spring was a bigger deal than I would have thought.

We’re keeping a close eye on Elsa… Thankfully it’s dropped to a tropical storm and will hopefully stay that way – it should be over Norfolk on Thursday afternoon and hopefully gone with minimal impact by Friday morning. Here’s to it just being a pain in the ass to folks and not damaging shit and hurting people and not fucking up my very much needed vacation.

And I’m thinking, since I’ve got Thursday off – I may go get a pre-vacation mani-pedi. Haven’t done that since summer before last and I found some pretty frosted yellow polish recently and snagged it – it looks like frozen lemonade.

The dudebro house across the street is having a party, which is fine, but thier taste in music is not great, LOL. Hearing some fireworks here and there, but not much, which is fine by me.

Didn’t really get much done around the house today, but it’s all good cause I still have TWO WHOLE DAMN DAYS OFF!

Enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Yes, it was actually in the box this time!

And I could see what happened last time.  The vacuum box is inside the cardboard shipping box, which is a sleeve, closed on one end and with just a tiny corner piece holding it all in on the other end. That corner piece was busted on the first box.

I ran out to meet the UPS driver – and he remembered delivering the flat box – he thought it had been sent to me as a return box.

It’s charging now and then I get to vacuum ALL THE THINGS!

My new vacuum cleaner was supposed to arrive today, but instead, I got an empty box. :(

The box was perfectly flattened along the seams, so whoever delivered it must have just thought it was artwork or something that was supposed to be flat and didn’t notice that the sticker said it was supposed to be 15 pounds. The ends appeared to not have been taped and the vacuum must have slid right out at some point in transit.

Target was great, refunds were immediately issued, a reorder was placed, and it should now arrive on Friday. (Of course, I’m suddenly thinking I should have had it shipped to the local store so if it happens again, it is their problem, not mine.)

It’s too hot to do any housework except first thing in the morning anyway this week.

And of course, long weekend & then vacation ahead means there is a work deadline tomorrow, LOL.

All the outstanding bugs for the version we’re relasing this fall are supposed to be done by tomorrow.

Now, I’ve only got three left, thank you testing and dev goddesses. One will definitely be done tomorrow morning, the second could be done tomorrow if everything goes right, otherwise Thursday. The third, well, Those Who Need To Know have been told, “I swear it will be done before I go on vacation.” and it is understood that I will get it done.

So, on the whole, I am far less pre-vacation stressed on the work front than I usually am, which is nice.