So hey, I'm finally back on Facebook! I'm still catching up, but I only had 12 notifications, half of which were for my Animal Crossing group, which I haven't read yet. I did cheat a teensy bit to respond to IMs from a friend (we were making plans) but I didn't touch my newsfeed all weekend. I'm also just calling it a Facebook/Twitter/G+ free weekend because I didn't do so well avoiding my RSS reader. I am weak, but I only messed with it once (see below.)
Things that I really, really wanted to post about and couldn't:
1. I made red raspberry jam on Friday! Nine whole jars of it plus a small tupperware that I kept in the fridge. This was my second batch of jam, as I'd made seven jars of strawberry jam earlier in the summer. I am tentatively addicted to home canning. We'll see how the next (bigger) project goes. I don't have the equipment that I need for it (a china cap/chinois sieve or else a food mill), plus I am down to three empty jars, so yeah. May have to make a trip to fleet farm. And my mom's house for more empty jars in other sizes.
2. I love good karma. Back when we were dating and then married with no kids, Dan and I used to eat at a particular Perkin's that had a claw machine near the entry. He'd sometimes play it for fun and give any toy he happened to win to a kid that happened to be there eating with their family. On Friday when Sam and I were finishing up a mid-jam Cub run, a lady walked up to us with a little stuffed dog her daughter had won in the claw machine there, and didn't want for whatever reason. So Sam has a new puppy, courtesy of nice people doing things that his dad used to do.
3. We went to Target and I chased Sam instead of Dan chasing him, and Dan pushed the cart. It turns out that Sam gets really upset when he doesn't know where Daddy is (because Sam's run off) when we are all at Target. Eventually I got tired, and we made our way to grocery where Sam usually gets a free cookie. I told Dan we were going to quid-pro-quo it to get Sam in the cart. It wasn't too easy, but he got in, and when he got his cookie and we told him to say "Thank you" to the baker, he said "Kank-oo fow da cookie!" Dan and I both lost it. Sam doesn't speak in original sentences, like, ever. So that was neat. I think they are working on those sort of things at school during snack, but still.
4. I got so, so bored by the end of the day Saturday. I'm used to spending the majority of my day reading, so without much to entertain myself, I did get a lot of housework done. Then I pulled up my phone's ereader and read the entirety of Alice in Wonderland, since I'd downloaded it (for free, hooray public domain) and hadn't actually read it. After that, I broke the rule and looked at Feedly. There were all of 12 posts, and only about 2/3 of those were ones I was going to read (the others were Pocket Your Dollars weekly shopping list posts for stores I didn't intend to visit this week.) I discovered that I get more out of my feed if I only view one category at a time, i.e. all of the comics, all of my friends' blogs, all of the parenting blogs, all of the religion blogs, all of the "other" blogs, etc. One topic at a time means that I'm less likely to skip over things that I'm not in the mood to dig into at the moment.
That's about it! I also slacked on the cooking stuff, for reasons, so I'm making my roasted vegetables with sausage tonight instead of two days ago. Will write about it for tomorrow.
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