Today was eye check up day. It felt so strange to go there, to that office. I hadn't been in there since before Dad died. He was Dad's eye doctor too. I go there because he has the history. The history of macular degeneration in the family. Dad was legally blind because of that eye disease. I fear I will be too. But not today. Today I could still pass a DMV test without glasses. Can't read worth beans without my specs but I can pass that distance test. My lenses are clear as air (well maybe not the polluted air we live in), my veins are in tact and the pressure is perfect. Whew!

Went to the movies yesterday. Saw The Hours. Sad but good. Good lines. One of my favorites was something like "to achieve happiness one must not avoid life." Must now get a copy of Mrs. Dalloway to add to the tower of unread books.

Not much else going on so how about a little...
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Describe a process you know how to do. In steps.

Changing the Litter Box
1. Go to friendly grocery store where baggers carry your 30 pound box of litter to your car trunk.
2. Spend enough money to feed steak to a family of four on Super Fresh Scent, Multicat, Scoopable, Trackless, Dustless Premium Litter, the only litter acceptable to Mr & Ms Poopalot
3. Shove stuff aside in trunk so bagger can squeeze litter in
4. Convince husband to carry 30 pound box of litter into house
5. Remove cat # 1 from litter box
6. Remove cat # 2 from litter box
7. Remove cat # 1 from litter box
8. Remove cat # 2 from litter box
9. Put cat # 1 in bedroom
10. Put cat # 2 in other bedroom
11. Convince husband that he should lift the dirty litter box and pour contents into plastic lined waste basket
12. Take metal scooper and remove stubborn bits of poop from bottom of litter pan
13. Tie off plastic bag and carefully remove from basket.
14. Send husband out to trash bin with the bag.
15. Drag 30 pound box of clean litter over to the box
16. Find small tab on side of box and pull
17. When cardboard strip breaks off, try to pry the remainder of the strip up
18. After breaking two fingernails, get scissors and re-perforate the cardboard strip
19. Ignore the desparate yowls coming from two bedrooms.
20. Ignore husband when he returns from the trash bin cursing those cheap flimsy plastic bags.
21. Stand over the box of new litter, with threatening scissors in hand and demand that husband pour the contents of the thoroughly mangled box into the litter box.
22. Send husband back out to recycle bin with empty box
23. Dust nearby furniture after dust settles
24. Remove cat # 1 from bedroom # 1
25. Scoop poop when he finishes using the new litter
26. Remove cat # 2 from bedroom # 2
27. Scoop poop when she finishes using the new litter
28. When husband returns from recycle bin, send him back out to the trash bin with freshly scooped poop.
29. Feed cats on other side of room so you have time to sweep up tracked litter.
30. Scoop again
31. Feed again
32. Repeat # 30 and 31 for one week and then repeat all steps