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Zara is snuggling next to me with her warm little body. Aww.

Overslept. I’ll take my shower at lunch.

Mimi: Hurry up Mommy, I'm starving!!! Me: No, you're not. Now that she ate, she wants to be petted. I told her that she's one spoiled cat.

Hmm. I went to fill out forms for my eye doctor appointment, and got a screen that said that they were going to send a notification to me, but didn't get one. I guess that I'll need to get there early to fill out forms. We're getting out of work early for the holiday weekend, which is nice. Crud. I don't get a free eye exam, unless I get it from Blue Cross Blue Shield. Okay, I got a new reminder about the exam and was able to fill out the forms.

I got my orthotic shoes delivered. I need to wear them to get used to them. Oh crap, they sent them to Michigan. I know that I put the new address in. Crap. My address is correct in the Shop app and it says that it was the default address. This is the second time that this has happened and I’m annoyed. I now deleted the old address. I guess that I’ll toss a pair of rain boots in my suitcase. I can’t find my rain boots. Sigh.

It’s pouring rain out. Oh great, there’s a flash flood warning.

Mimi wants food again. I gave her Zara’s leftover food. I don’t really want to pay to throw out food.

Oh great. Mimi peed on my backpack that I’m taking to Italy. It’s going to take a lot of scrubbing to get the smell out.

Had my eye doctor appointment. Ugh, I have the very beginning of cataracts. It’s too early to have surgery on them though. I did find a pair of glasses that I liked there, so I ordered them. But I came back with a prescription so that I can order rush from Zenni.

Now Zara wants food. But she had food in her dish, which I gave to her. She turned around and walked away. Cats!

I ordered a pair of "rush delivery" glasses from Zenni. I hope that the holiday doesn't mess things up. Speaking of messing things up, Mimi was walking on the laptop again. I shooed her off quickly because I didn’t want her to order glasses for me.

Now I'm going to take a nap. Napped until 9:30 PM. I just want to go back to sleep, so I'll do so.

I rescheduled my eye appointment for next week. I want to rake on Wednesday because they’re picking up lawn debris on Thursday.

I keep forgetting to post a picture of the salad greens now. I’ll have salads soon! I think that I will get another Aerogarden to grow herbs in the winter.

I swear my workman likes to deliver bad news, but actually it’s Mom’s house delivering the bad news. (It's now issues with the back door steps.) Sigh. Mimi heard me talking to him and decided that I was talking to her!

I'm leaning towards getting an apple tree for the front yard. Fresh apples would be nice! I'm looking at a Honeycrisp apple tree. Oh, and I bought a long hose for the yard. Hmmm, that reminds me that I need to get a sprinkler (done). I'm also looking at articles on how to create a curved garden bed. I need to get stakes to mark out the area for it. I ordered potting soil for the planters and wooden stakes and twine to mark out the garden. I bought some dirt for the planters. I bought some planters for my herbs and tomatoes. Crud. I was going to go out to rake tonight, but it's supposed to rain. I looked online and it seems that Lowe's and Home Depot have herb plants in. I should stop by this weekend and maybe also hit one of the garden shops. Though I might have to do mass quantities of raking on the weekend because it's supposed to rain most of the week.

I found a bookshelf at Target that I really like.

I ran out to get the Short Story box from the car so that I can try on clothes tonight. I'll do that and go through the mail. Probably before I log on again because it's oppressive (hot) up here. My fan will arrive in a day and it won't be soon enough!

And here comes the rain....

Tried to nap but couldn’t sleep. I guess that I’ll work on the mail while it cools off upstairs (done). Oh, and I also need to get the garbage out (done).

I have the dahlias, their pots, and dirt, but I need some stakes for them. I ordered them and some garden gloves to come on Friday.

Hmm. White Flower Farms has an Herb Garden for Cooks. It has plants that I want to get anyway, so I might get it. I'm going to need more pots though. They also have some nice tomatoes and a chive (because mine is sad). Actually, they had a bigger culinary herb garden that I'm getting plus a couple of tomatoes (cherry for salads and full-size for quiches).

I got really hung up on my homework assignment. I'm going to pack it in, even though I didn't do well. I need to work on the next one earlier, but I should be able to do so because my weekend is free except for yard work and homework.

I need to go downstairs and chill, literally.

The Illinois Tax folks say that they need a copy of my W-2, so I need to upload it.

There's a small storm going on. Whoa, there's some loud thunder. Maybe it's not so small a storm. They're predicting rain for hours. I'm glad that I planted the potatoes yesterday.

I need to get some bubble mailers tomorrow so that I can sell some books on Amazon.

Yikes. I called to make an appointment with the eye doctor, and the receptionist kept on getting my information wrong. But finally, I got an appointment in mid-September.

My voice lesson went well. The problems that I was having with my voice magically cleared up. My teacher thought that it might be allergies or lack of sleep. We're now working on one of my favorite songs, "The Dimming of the Day" as covered by Bonnie Raitt.

Did a session of Tai Chi. It would be a good morning activity (if I could pry myself out of bed early, ha!) because it made me feel warmed up and energetic but relaxed. Maybe I could do an abbreviated version once I learn the moves. Or it would make a nice break from sitting at my desk.

Studied Italian. I feel like I'm making progress.

Oh cool. I've made plans to see Randy Rainbow with ljravengirl in Chicago. Oh, does that sounds like fun. I haven't done anything frivolous in a long time.

Practiced piano. Did some knitting practice and got frustrated. I'm still having problems with the Perl stitch, so I dumped what I had and started casting on again.

I uploaded my tax W-2. Hopefully, that will get the tax snafu resolved.