super granddaughter

Last night my grandpa & step-grandmother arrived by train from St. Petersburg - they were visiting my dad's step-sister at the embassy in Moscow. I took the dog to meet them at the train station and walked them to a downtown hotel for their first night here, then dropped the dog off and came back to meet them an hour later.

In the two hours before I went to the train station and the hour and a half between, I: folded and put away one load of laundry, hung another, dusted, picked up an entire load of Wax's dirty clothes and half a load of my dirty clothes from the livingroom floor, table, and furniture, swept, vacuumed, bagged two bags of recycling, carried two armsful of dirty dishes into the kitchen, put away a computer's worth of spare computer parts and all the materials for making t-shirt stencils and printing tshirts from the kitchen and livingroom tables, and threw out some old food.

I still had to do an hour's worth of dishes after I brought them home with me, but then I cooked a delicious meal of pasta and pesto sauce with broccoli and chicken. And I accidentally cooked exactly twice as much of it as I needed, but leftovers of pasta & pesto are never a bad thing, so that was a win!

Sadly, I couldn't write at all. They will be leaving Tuesday, but hopefully I will manage to sometime before then.