Sunday....leads....to.....Monday

The only thing making it semi-OK to be on the cusp of returning to work after 10 days off is the joy of a mid-week day off!  Two days on...one day off...two days on and then it will be another weekend!  Yeah!

I was really truly OFF which is a miracle.  Did check emails off and on and returned a couple phone calls (from people I trust to not ask me to call them back unless they have a reason to need something that can't wait)....forced myself to sleep in today 'cuz it was my last day to do that.

I ran a ton of errands this weekend.  Planned menus, grocery shopped.  J. did a Costco run yesterday.  He is keeping busy with some household projects including cleaning the carpet of the landing between the entry way and the kitchen/family room.  We're not sure what happened while we were away but they are an absolute filthy mess.  I think wet feet walked on them and then dirty shoes walked on them more and they are just gross. 

We feel pretty proud of ourselves for locating and ordering parts to fix our dishwasher 'all by ourselves'.  My instinct was to call a repair person - but we figured out what's wrong, found the part online and found instructions to replace the broken part with the new part and we feel pretty confident we can do it.  We also ordered two replacement knobs for our stove 'cuz people have not been careful putting hot cookie sheets too near the plastic knobs and they are melted.  They are also $39 A PIECE - which is ridiculous.  But oh well.  Every time I look at the stove, I get irritated about the melted knobs so we're replacing them.  Or maybe we will put the new knobs in a drawer and wait until the kids move out and THEN replace them.  But we probably won't be able to remember where we put the knobs when we could replace them...so that won't work. 

J. got in the pool and scrubbed away at the various algae blooms.  The pool guy left us a card to say he added chemicals to clear the growth - but it was taking off pretty fast so J. did a great job scrubbing it in both the pool and the spa.  It looks a lot better....

We barbecued hot dogs last night and tonight we are making hamburgers.  J. is also grilling some chicken for chicken fried rice tomorrow....

Better get french fries baking and start tidying up the kitchen.  I took a little nap so I will hopefully be up until at least 9 or so...and anticipate having trouble sleeping 'cuz it's the night before returning to work after a vacation and I always have trouble sleeping then. 

Weather is warm but not hot which is awesome!  Looks like it will be a great week -