My Week

My desk:

a stack of unread essays and creative writing pieces
food journal
stapler
bills
3 Obama buttons
pictures of my Swedish and German daughters, sent as a surprise (they pretended they didn't meet when S was in Stockholm)
Kohl's cash certificate (I think I only go shopping when one of the "girls" is in town)
two portable phones - one removed from another part of the house when my mother called
cell phone (in case my mother calls while someone else is on the landline)
a recipe for S's favorite meringue cookies
notes for the Blog Action Day entry I wasn't able to write due to other crises that day
calendar for tech week for C - 1940s Radio Hour
unfilled prescription for sulfasalazine that I'm afraid to start. D-Day is Wednesday.

My browser:

AOL Mail
gmail
www.sparkpeople.com
info on a broken coccyx
half-written e-mails to students
google reader (hah!)
www.nytimes.com
yahoo news
C's e-mail account since he's too busy (with tech week) to check his e-mails and he's waiting for an e-mail from a teacher

My kitchen:

most surfaces covered
apples on the counter from this morning's trip to the farmers market
meringues in oven
huge, fresh chicken in the fridge, awaiting roasting later for S's last supper before she flies back to Germany tomorrow night

Dining room table:

math, math, math, math
a calculator
a textbook
Dorie Greenspan's Baking: From My Home to Yours from the library and due too soon (and now on my Christmas list)
Heartless by Allison Gaylin (now all I need is the time to read it)

Living room couch area:

two issues of The Week that inexplicably arrived at the same time
bills
mail that isn't bills
papers left over from parent/teacher conferences
notes from a presentation on study skills for high school students
another copy of C's tech schedule
money S owed us for shopping
Haribo Color Rado licorice
various fantasy books on the floor by where C hangs out
Twilight which S is reading now
the checkbook I was looking for earlier

Bed:

four separate piles of laundry

It's been a long week.

Hope you all are having a good weekend. I'll be back when I'm out from under.