Average Jane’s Saturday At Home

I had a very pleasant day yesterday. I woke up early and surfed a bit until it was time for me to go to my volunteer shift taking care of the adoptable kitties at a nearby Petco store. I let all of the cats run around together in the dog training area while I cleaned their cages, then trimmed all of the older kittens' claws and gave each of the five youngest cats a pill.

I try to choose animal volunteer positions with the least temptation, but one of the kittens is really starting to grow on me. When I opened his kennel, he leaped out and landed on my shoulder, purring lustily. How can you not love that? I keep telling myself that four cats is MORE than enough…

I didn't have anything else planned, so other than a quick lunch with my husband and a stop at the grocery store, I stayed home most of the day.

My band is recording our demo here tonight, so I used the Shop-Vac to sweep the stairs leading up to the studio, as well as remove probably a half pound of kitty litter from my office carpet. Trillian is in the habit of doing jazz hands as she leaps out of the box each time, so she scatters litter everywhere. Before I put away the vacuum, I tackled the kitten-sized clouds of cat hair on each step leading up from the basement. Much better.

I spent a good amount of time in the kitchen yesterday. I made a cheesecake for a brunch I'm attending later this morning and I also baked a loaf of banana bread using two overripe bananas from last week. Dinner was a plate of jasmine rice with butter and soy sauce because I couldn't think of anything else to make. I even washed all of the dishes and pots and pans before bedtime. I don't know what got into me.

Even with those little highlights of productivity, I still managed to spend a good portion of the day watching TV from last week. I caught up on "The Daily Show," "Ghost Whisperer," "V," "The Office," "Mythbusters" and "Community." 

I finished out the evening by reading the first couple of articles in the latest issue of Cabinet magazine. It's a great bedside magazine and I can make an issue last a week or more.

So what did you do yesterday? Doing anything fun today?