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My knee is a bit better today than it was yesterday. I was able to go down into the basement for laundry and then come back up. Which is good because I’ve got at least two loads of stuff that I need to wash today. In terms of volume, it could have been one load, but I’m pretty sure that Cordelia’s red blanket will bleed, so I didn’t want it with whites. It’ll be fine with dark blue towels.

I have actually won a GoodReads giveaway. I’m surprised. I enter a fair number, but I just assume that I’ll never win. It’s a non-fiction book called Aphrodite and the Rabbis: How the Jews Adapted Roman Culture to Create Judaism as We Know It by Burton L. Visotzky. According to GoodReads, the author is a rabbi and a professor of 'midrash and interreligious studies' at the Jewish Theological Seminary. The reviews indicate that the book is quite readable by people who know nothing about the subject, so I’m hoping that I’ll learn something.

There is construction on Pontiac Trail for the next five or six weeks, so the bus that I use to get back from downtown won’t be running where I need it to. Cordelia also won’t be able to use the bus to visit her friends the way she had been planning to. There are a lot of people who live out Pontiac Trail who are going to be miles from the nearest in service bus stop. Cordelia has a birthday party to go to on Sunday that’s out that way, and if Scott’s working, I’m pretty much going to have to send her in a cab. Fortunately, they bill by milage rather than time and tell one up front how much the ride will cost, so I can pay up front and not worry about giving Cordelia the cash.

I did very little writing yesterday, but I did manage some. I’m not sure that today will be better because Cordelia had another bad night. I got to bed after 1:00 and then had Cordelia in two or three times plus Scott getting up at 5:00.

I offered to let Cordelia stay home, but she was completely appalled by the suggestion.

Scott had to be ready to go in early this morning. Fortunately, they called at 11:10 to say that they didn’t need him until the start of his normal shift. I’m not sure what the rest of the week looks like. Cordelia asked him to try not to need to go in early on Saturday morning, but I kind of doubt he remembered.

I’ve got too many things to do today, especially when I’m low on sleep. I need to cook two different things, one that will take a lot of work and one that will take a medium amount. Scott took out the trash last night but didn’t move the bins to the curb. I mentioned laundry earlier, and I ought to change our bedding and Cordelia’s if I can come anywhere near to managing it.

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I really, really want to sleep right now, but I’ve got a lot of physical tasks to deal with before bed time, and we expect to have friends over from 7-10. The stuff involving laundry also involves a lot of waiting for things to finish, and so, to be honest, do the cooking chores.

Right now, I’m working on getting the laundry (another three loads, I think) ready to go downstairs. (There’s stuff in both washer and dryer already.) After that, I’ll wash the potatoes and cook them. Then I need to make our bed and Cordelia’s (Cordelia’s being more urgent). The trash bins need to go to the the curb. I need to cut up the pork shoulder into largish chunks and cook that. I’m doing the potatoes first because the pressure cooker is very easy to clean after that and much harder to clean after cooking meat.

I also need to make Scott and Cordelia sandwiches. Cordelia normally does her own, but since I’m making one for Scott, I might as well make hers. I’ll have everything out already anyway. The biggest difficulty is making sure that it’s possible to easily tell whose sandwich is whose. They’ll be exactly the same except that Scott wants margarine on his and Cordelia doesn’t. The first step there is to put the margarine on the counter to soften. The bread Scott bought is too soft for it otherwise.

I want to listen to something to help me stay awake, but that means I won’t hear when the dryer buzzes. Maybe I should set the timer on the stove? I can hear that over the TV or music, and an hour to an hour and a half ought to be long enough for the dryer.

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I’ve made the sandwiches, and the potatoes are in the pressure cooker.

Two loads of laundry are completely done. I put away some of that stuff and gave the rest to Cordelia in the hope that she will put the sheets on her bed. There’s a load in the dryer, a load in the washer, and a load waiting to be washed.

I’m not sure I will get to the pork shoulder today. I’d rather do it today so that I don’t have to do it while our cleaning lady is here tomorrow (she will clean the kitchen counters which would be really nice after I work with raw meat on them. I’ll clean as well as I can, but she’s more thorough than I am), but I don’t know if I’ll manage it.

It’s not clear whether or not we actually will have friends over tonight. I would like some social time, but I also very badly want to go to bed early if it’s possible. I have no idea how Cordelia will do tonight. If she doesn’t sleep, I don’t sleep.

I’ve written one paragraph. I’d like to manage more, but at least it’s a little bit done. I am so very seriously tempted to just stop this story where it is even though nothing has been resolved. I’m not sure that anything can be resolved in a reasonable space, not without going way out of character for my POV character.