Fight Hangover

Yesterday was a complete waste of a day. Roser and I had a fight the night before, and even though we made up yesterday morning, I had a "fight hangover" all day. I didn't get anything productive done, although I did beat my best score on Test Twist. That will happen if you spend four or possibly more, hours playing a game. The down side of spending a day doing nothing is that I keep thinking of Bette Midler's character in the horrible remake of "Stepford Wives". If you were lucky enough to not see it, she plays a writer with horrible homemaking skills. Her house was a wreck, and her kids were independent, not because she raised them that way, but because they had to be to survive. Because of yesterday, I have been thinking about how cliches become cliches because they are true. The breakfast dishes from yesterday morning are still in the sink. I don't have to worry about dinner dishes, because last night was 'fend for yourself night'. It should go without saying that I didn't touch my niece's quilt. Proud me. Today I will clean enough to keep CPS from taking my kids, work on the quilt, possibly do a phone interview for work, and, blessedly, go to book club tonight.

We read "Like Water for Chocolate". I have read it at least twice, maybe three times before. I love the magical aspect of it, and of course the passionate, sensuous food descriptions. Very little of the discussion tonight will center on the book. We will talk about Thanksgiving, and our relatives, our kids and our husbands. We will get bawdy and personal. We will eat delicious food, and I will walk away feeling like I got an IV of some wonderful combination of Prozac and Ecstasy. Honestly, I don't know what I did before Book Club. It is such a consistent calm port in the hurricane that is my life. Even though I only see the Book Club girls once a month, I love them and I'm grateful for them. I have to go and try to cross as many things off my list as I can today. Wish me luck.

For my own curiosity, what is on your to-do list today? And...does anyone else get fight hangovers?