Lately

So I owe you a March meal planning wrap up, plus an April meal planning post but what I have is a couple of photos of absolutely nothing important, so I guess we're going with that instead.







I'm behind on being an adult right now.

Things I need to do (rather urgently): 
Our taxes (we still have a few days - !!!)
Changing our car registration (I remember we need to do this every day as I drive home, but forget by the time I'm in the house - fail)
Take Circe to the vet so she doesn't get rabies (meaning, we're a month overdue for her vaccine and I feel worse about this one than the others, although it's less likely to have legal consequences)

Things I needed to do that I actually did: 
Meal planning (post soon)
Grocery shopping
House cleaning

Things I have done instead of the things I need to be doing: 
Baked a lot of those oatmeal cookies
Ate a lot of oatmeal cookies
Went a week without eating oatmeal cookies (or sugar) so I could prove it was possible
Read a lot of books (post soon)
Spent untold amounts of time trying to convince* the pigeons that are roosting in the eaves above our kitchen window to roost somewhere else so I can open my kitchen windows again, goddamnit

And that's where I'm at.



* I was putting up with it for a few weeks because they had a nest and I was worried there were babies in there, but this weekend they decided they were done with their nest and dumped it all over the driveway (no babies, thank god) and I decided that it was time for them to pack up and poop somewhere else, preferably away from the area in which I cook since I'm tired of having to keep my windows closed all the time. I read that pigeons are trainable and so I'm trying to train them by keeping a water gun outside and squirting them with water every time I catch them roosting up there. So far, results are mixed but my gun arm is getting very sore.