elfs | And she does this every day?

So, after I managed to corral Omaha into going to bed, I proceeded to do two loads of laundry, clean up the kitchen, and fetch Yamaarashi-chan, then stopped by the grocery store to pick up some stuff for lunch.

I boiled some hot dogs and made coleslaw, the good stuff, by hand. Nappa cabbage cut into thin slices with a knife rather than "shredded," grated carrot, some mayonnaise, and a teaspoon each of honey, flax seeds, and dijon mustard. To my great pleasure, Yamaarashi-chan actually ate hers all up.

I also cleaned and sterilized the bathroom with bleach, just like we do every week. Then we went outside where the girls played on the monkey bars and ran around with the kids from next door, playing with squirt guns, while I weeded a six-foot patch of the garden in preparation for replanting the cucumbers I've got growing in a seed box.

Omaha rose and said she felt good enough to try and make dinner. It was a one-pot chicken and rice thing that didn't involve a lot of bending or lifting, so I said she should do it if she felt up to it. With ibuprofen, she does. The kids ate that, too. Amazing: we've actually managed to get two whole, decent meals into them. Usually, it's "I don't like that," and "That's yucky," even when they haven't tasted it yet.

After dinner I dunked the kids into the bathtub, washed their hair and then let them play in the tub for a while, then routed them out to get them dressed. They're fascinated by the lavage procedure I go through with the irrigation syringe. It's not just ordinary tooth brushing. I'll be glad when the wound stops hurting and I can eat again. I read them four short books and then got them into bed. They fell asleep pretty quickly, which is a good thing, but they did a lot of running around. Kouryou-chan was showing signs of heavy stress earlier, getting upset easily and crying. She also managed to cut her foot on an art clip she'd somehow liberated from her drawing board, and while it was just a little thing it was slowing her down.

Wrote a niftly little script called 'nodoubt' for LJ. You give it the name of a user, and it then figures out who that user's friends are, and then checks every thread of every friend from the day before to see if the user participated in any of them. Just in case you happen to be really interested in someone and want to see what they're saying to their friends. I should probably expand it to include communities, too. Python rocks.

I'm gonna go play with gramofone for a while. It'll be interesting to see if I can get my old high-school glee club albums onto compact disc. And if I can't, there's a level of Half-Life to finish.