I wake up now and am totally confused and don't even know what day it is. It was feeling like Monday. I usually spend a lot of time with my husband on Sundays after he's been at work and possibly out of town Saturday and before that. So I spent a lot of time with my husband yesterday afternoon, after he had come home from working middle of nowhere Oklahoma on Monday. But since yesterday felt more like Sunday, this morning felt like Monday.

I'm pretty sure that it isn't Monday. Let's see, yesterday was election day, which is on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November. So if yesterday was Tuesday, then today must be Wednesday, regardless of what it feels like. And Wednesday is trash day, so I must remember to deal with that before I go running off anywhere to look for Halloween clearance stuff.

My mom will not be happy today. Most of my friends will be happy, since they have spent the last eight years or so complaining about or making fun of Dubya. They might have a party.

We are, in fact, having a bit of a party Sunday, but it isn't supposed to be about that. I'd forgotten about it until yesterday. Now I have to decide if I want to go, since it is a long drive and I don't like long drives anyway, and I have limited gas for at least the next week or two, and I should probably bring something if I go to this party, etc.... Decisions, decisions....

I mostly cleaned a room Monday and Tuesday. This is the last room with carpet, and while it doesn't look too bad at the moment, I hate that I did all that work, but I feel that the room isn't really clean because of the carpet. I think that I will probably have it removed at some point, but I can't deal with it right now. The mice are still a problem. I've found many dead mice while moving bookcases around and such, so I would think that they are finally all gone. But now I think that they are not all gone, and I think maybe some have moved in behind the bookcases that I moved just two weeks ago.

I hate getting rid of the carpet that still looks good, but I have heard that having no carpet is healthier anyway. Less dust, less stuff that might cause allergies stuck in the carpet, maybe less chance of mold. Certainly there would be less cleanup time if the house flooded again.

Maybe I wouldn't be so sick all of the time if there was less dust. Of course, I also have a zillion books, and books cause dust, so if I'm really worried about dust I should get rid of some more books.

Found some books that I had misplaced. I'm not getting rid of those books.

Time to go. Must go shopping now.

Can I just go back to bed now?

It is more than halfway through the month of October, and the weather is starting to get a bit cool. Not much yet, but this week if you get up early enough or stay up late enough, you do notice a bit of a chill. Last night this led to my husband saying he was cold and getting up to turn off the air conditioner. That just never happens, ever. Weird.

So that was just too weird for me, and I soon got up to turn on the fan. Not the air conditioner itself, but just the box fan. Perhaps even that was a mistake, but I've got used to the background noise and find it hard to sleep without that and some means of having air circulate in the room. Anyway, I had not noticed the chill when I went to bed, but maybe my husband had since he had more recently been outdoors. But I did notice the chill just a bit when I woke up.

And then I found a mouse in the trash can. It was still very much alive, so I took it outside and released it. Finding live healthy ones that are trapped somehow and can be taken outside is a much more pleasant experience than cleaning up after the three dead ones I found earlier this week.

It was a bit on the cool side, and I had to take a moment to find a sweater before I went out. Having done my good deed for the day, I should like to just go back to bed. But I'm afraid that I am much too awake now to go back to sleep, so the going back to bed would just be to have a warm place to watch TV. And I cannot watch TV in bed at the moment, as my husband is still in the bed, and he is also still very much asleep.

Sad news. Last night, I again did not win the lottery. This is getting old. So I should expect the rest of the usual problems to continue for a bit.

I think that I'm going to try going back to bed anyway.