M. Silver's Journal: Housewife hat is back

Both the Perl programmer hat and the small-business-person hat are on the rack right now, and I've actually gotten some stuff done.

My cleaning lady came over, and we cleaned, swept and mopped the kitchen and living room, and then - because it's unseasonably cool and perfect for working outside - cleaned the porch. Now, we have a little bungalow with a covered porch the width of the house... porch swing, flower boxes on the rail, the whole nine yards. The porch is concrete, and covered with a nasty indoor-outdoor carpet we'd really like to replace someday, because it accumulates dog hair (tracked out the door) and tree bits (tracked up the steps). And it's like Velcro, it holds onto the stuff despite our best vacuuming efforts. Broom-sweeping was moderately effective (though the stuff grips the pushbroom so well I had to pull it), so we got it done as well as possible.

Then I went and enrolled my son in preschool (learning that we'll spend a month in once-a-week parent/teacher conferences and assessments before starting five-day-a-week class), bought him a backpack (awwww), and picked up some begonias to put in the flowerboxes (the pansies never make it through July).

Whew.