Saturday, December 20, 2008

The Saturday numbers

As at 10.17 pm Sunday night update:

Christmas presents bought: 2
Christmas presents delivered: 3 (not the same ones)
Morning coffee dates kept: 1
Family visits paid: 2
Christmas Day arrangements made: 1
Boxing Day arrangements made: 1
New Year's Eve arrangements made: 0.5 1
Christmas cards written: 0 3
Dishes washed: 0 1 sinkful, still not enough
Reviews written: 0
Christmas trees up but still not decorated: 0 1
Minutes Hours spent on tax preparation (accountant appointment Monday morning): 4.5 and still not finished!
Pages of weekly fiction for review read: 0 263
Pages of 700-page biography for 2000-word review (due 1/1/09) read, in total: 13. Still. Gahh.

Sigh. Sigh.
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7 comments:

  1. ZoeDecember 21, 2008 at 11:48 AM

    Number of family members who have had a weep today: 3

    piouslyc

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  2. Kerryn GoldsworthyDecember 21, 2008 at 12:37 PM

    Before lunch on a Sunday, too. I'm guessing the man of the house is the stoic here.

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  3. ZoeDecember 21, 2008 at 2:39 PM

    All smiles now, but rotten sun shifting into Capricorn doesn't really suit me too well.

    So for happiness' sake, here's a new eggcorn I found today, from a Melbourne food blogger describing the resignation of the two leading food/restaurant writers at The Age for new roles elsewhere:

    "This strikes me as a huge coo for The Australian"

    I can just see Chris Mitchell preening now :)

    clasest - you really do have the best doorbitch

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  4. Kerryn GoldsworthyDecember 21, 2008 at 3:02 PM

    Well that's going to ruffle a few feathers at Fairfax!

    Sorry, you started it.

    A huge coo, eh? That is an eggcorn among eggcorns, a bilingual prize.

    I have Capricorn rising, so that probably explains why I just felt inspired to sit down and did two and a half hours straight of work on my tax. That and the appointment with the accountant in the morning. Income down, deductions to go.

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  5. ZoeDecember 21, 2008 at 3:05 PM

    Yes, I'm sure that Fairfax is feeling they've been shat on from a great height. I did start it, and I'm bad at stopping these things.

    You are a Very Good Girl. I have packed off the menfolk to the pool and am 1/3 of the way through the annual Day of The Plums. Sauce made, pickle and chutney to come.

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  6. lauredhelDecember 21, 2008 at 3:20 PM

    Oh nice! And a true eggcorn, too, with a re-analysis encompassing the admiring Pommy interjection/ejaculation "Coo!"

    I can't see it in the Eggcorn Database yet, despite a few sightings on Google - care to submit?

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  7. AnonymousDecember 22, 2008 at 11:55 AM

    I am glad to find out (in a schadenfreude-type way) that I am not the only person left in the world without a dishwasher.

    Sigh.

    (Word verification = "poriz". Very Scottish lol-cat: "I can haz poriz?"

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