I came home early from work (just a half hour) because I had a headache. I seem to get one every afternoon. Drank a few sips of a coke zero, instant relief. Since giving up my drug of choice (sugar) I have neglected to have more than one coffee a day, I guess the caffeine wears off by afternoon. Or my poor confused body can't figure out why I'm only giving it water all day?

Anyway, the living room and kitchen were trashed (as usual) and "the maid" (me) "comes on Saturday" (the day I devote to all things housework) was not cutting it in the excuses department. I resist so hard every day when literally 15 minutes is all it took, and I even took a few extra minutes to sweep.

Of course dinner and dishes are pending, but I will normally just work around the mess, or go to bed and ignore the mess completely. A tick in the adult column today!

Also apologies for my gratuitous use of parentheses and exclamation points.