Hit by a Pitch

Have you ever wondered what I do all day on the days I work from home and Soren is here? No? Well, here is a brief summary of today’s major activities. For the record, today was an above-average day in terms of productivity. This is why I’m sharing it with you — so you can revel in my awesomeness (not really).

• Breakfast with Soren: We split a banana because there was only one left and each had a bowl of Kashi Cinnamon Harvest (his with milk and mine with soy milk). Biscuit-type cereal is awesome for toddlers. Coffee for me.
• Hang out with Soren: We do random fun stuff around the house, including but not limited to getting books off the shelf and putting them in random locations (he’s partial to Plato, Hume, and Kant — either that or he likes the yellow books) and pushing a toy shopping cart around. An episode of Yo Gabba Gabba was watched.
• Shovel our sidewalks and the neighbors’ sidewalks (we have an unofficial mutual shoveling agreement). The snow was super light and fluffy, so this ain’t no thang, as they say (no they don’t).
• Vacuum. I didn’t mean to do this today but the couch was furry.
• Share apple with Soren.
• Wash, dry, and assemble diapers; get diapers ready for school tomorrow.
• Make filling for calzones (spinach, onion, garlic, basil, mozzarella, ricotta, parmesan, salt, and pepper, with a cheese-only version for Soren, who is offended by spinach and onion in his pizza-like items). Accidentally add 2x as much basil as called for by recipe. (I’m pretty much following the Moosewood recipe for these — that’s the first vegetarian cookbook I ever had, so I find the recipes kind of old school and comforting.)
• Lunch date with Soren: He had a quesadilla (tortilla, butter, cheddar) with a side of peas and carrots and I had munches of calzone filling and leftover nachos (I know).
• Proofread 5 articles (I’ve already edited these) on the following subjects: single-member LLCs and asset protection, nondischargeable securities judgments in bankruptcy, the admission of blood alcohol reports after Bullcoming v. New Mexico, implied non-infringement and ownership warranties in intellectual property agreements, and insurance coverage for expenses relating to repairing or replacing nondefective construction work that is damaged as a result of repairing work that is defective.
• Do a tiny bit of internetting, including but not limited to sending and receiving work-related emails.
• Take a 10-minute catnap (me) (the kind of nap where you only know you even fell asleep because you were having some weird-ass dream about a Zappos ad campaign that doesn’t exist) and an awful, stupid-short toddler nap (Soren).
• Do communal laundry. Is this a thing? “Communal laundry” is stuff like sheets, blankets, and towels. I generally do communal laundry, Soren’s laundry, and my laundry. Ben does his laundry and the dogs’ laundry.
• Get our indoor compost bin. Yay! Soren carries it around the house, discusses the fact that it is white (he pronounces this “wipe”) and green, and puts random things in it.
• Make dough for calzones.
• Engage in an ongoing mental debate wherein I ponder the costs and benefits of seriously getting up before the crack of ass tomorrow morning to go to the gym.

And now we have come to the part of our day where Ben is home and I have a beer. Ben is watching this video because I guess he’s going to remix this song? How freaking cute are these guys? They’re like 10. Apparently we are Oberhofer fans now. They’re playing at Hi Dive on April 25. Anyone going?