Jammy Day

I'm off work all day today. I was thinking about going in and picking up a couple of hours of overtime, but decided to stay home and have a jammy day. Unless I decide to go to the store or church, or work in the yard, I'm going to spend all day on the couch in my pajamas. I have a lot of stuff I want to do, but nothing that involves actually getting dressed. I have been promising The Girl that we would bake cookies, but either we both forget or something comes up and cookies never materialize. I don't know what kind of cookies I want to bake. I'm leaning toward chocolate chip oatmeal, but I got a bunch of cookie cutters and a rolling pin for Christmas that I still haven't used. I don't particularly like sugar cookies, but I could go for some gingerbread.

The other thing that I am doing is watching the original Star Trek all day long. We just switched satellite TV companies, and our new receiver has TiVo built in. It is sweet. Whenever I see a commercial for a show that sounds neat, I don't have to worry about forgetting it. I would almost never remember to watch things I wanted to. Even if I would circle the show in the TV book, or wrote it right across the cover, I would still forget all about it. Now whenever I see a commercial that sounds interesting, I just scroll forward to it on the guide and select it for saving. I also have all the shows that I like to watch marked and every time they come on the TiVo saves it so I can watch it whenever I like. Most nights I don't get home until 8 or 9, so I miss anything in prime time. Bite me, Network TV, I have TiVo now. Prime time is whenever I sit on the couch.

So today we are watching Star Trek for 7 hours. And burning the episodes on DVD's. Our old CD player started gimping out so we bought a new one with our tax rebate. We decided to go ahead and get one that recorded, too, since it wasn't much more expensive than one that just played CDs. So now my husband is on a quest to record every episode of Star Trek and South Park that comes on. You got to have a hobby I guess. We don't have very many disks, so he's going to stuff as many episodes as he can on them.

It is probably not going to be a jammy day all day, because there is a beautiful day outside and I have some bulbs that need planting in a flowerbed that needs weeding. I just want to wait until the afternoon when the flowerbed is shaded so I don't bake like a cake. I got these bulbs from a friend of mine, Marsha. She gave me some lilies and elephant ears. I never had either one before, so I'm looking forward to watching them grow.

My main problem with the flower bed is I actually like my weeds. I mean, look at those pictures and tell me if that doesn't look like some kind of seed catalog. Even their names are pretty. Roundleaf Mallo, Scarlet Pimpernel, Rabbitfoot Clover. For some strange reason, my husband doesn't agree. I think a great big Thistle plant looks neat, all covered in purple and pink flowers, and then all fluffy and white. Unfortunately, the police agree with my husband, so I'm forced to go against my will and pull out perfectly nice plants just because The Man says so. They're all a bunch of weedists. Not that I have any thistles growing right now, but I have a bunch of weeds that I think are really nice. I remember when I was little I would go out in the yard and pick bouquets of Henbit and Violets and Yellow Wood Sorrel. Not exactly Martha Stewart.