Not rough, strange.

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I was awake until midnight.  I felt thoroughly roughed up, used up, dried out, and under the weather when I finally arrived home.  I still had to put things up.  Somethings could wait until the morning, but the fridge and freezer requiring materials had to be laid in, which meant separation as well.  And so it was.  Still, I was in bed, according to the the alarm clock, somewhere between a quarter and three quarters past midnight.  Very late.  Neck hurt, which was creeping up the spine and I thought sure to result in a headache, even when and certainly while I slept.  Plus, I was burned.  Not sure if that has healed already.  Sometimes, for light burns, I do heal fast.  I was not looking forward to morning, whatever and whenever that might be.

As it turns out, morning was at right at 7:00.  I hadn't bothered to set the alarm.  I couldn't tell if I would be popping out earlier or later and didn't want to be tripping over the device... not this morning.  Though it is a bit... rustic, here in the body, it isn't bad, not yet.  It might go bad, there is that vein if my body goes that way... tender nerves on the neck leading into headachesville.  I didn't exhaust any muscles, per se, simply tweaked my general capacity for an extended stay while switching day and night.  All good, mind you.  I need to keep pushing things, from time to time.  Still, all in all, it is a good start to the morning.

I already put the fruits to a soak, and will be tending those before long.  Some things aren't washed, of course.  Onions, scallions, garlic cloves...  I don't even wash the bigger potatoes until I use them.  They have been cleaned a bit, but a little of that on the out layer keeps them longer, or so I have heard.  Scrub them just before use, I believe, is how mothersville puts it.  Not all such tales are true, though you can trust science less quite often, so...  Pick your poison.  I generally, on some things, break toward mothersville... if I don't always do it easily, freely, or openly.  They'll take advantage if they see you doing it.  *grins*

What today?  I am not absolutely sure anything will go forward.  If I can get out of my my coffin and find my walker, you ask?  Well...  breaking down boxes, sorting some things as I go, and if I get through those, then on to the kitchen.  In the kitchen I am hoping to do a top down break down and cleaning, while sorting, on the exterior spaces.  Then, when that is done, doing a check, clean, and toss, on the cabinet cupboard interiors.  Yes.  I think I can.  I do not know how women keep everything "up", put away.  Some do better, some not so much.  But most women I have known have been sticklers about it.  I guess I don't know stickler!  I'd like to try to figure out how to do so.  I want a clean, or at least clean looking (though with a solid footing) home.  And I want to cook, and be able to cook... and otherwise tinker... in the kitchen.  With the table perpetually clear, for example, I can much more easily sharpen knives.  I would like to sharpen, or attempt to sharpen, my own kitchen knives... and my straight razors.  Even if I don't get it just so, at the start... which already I haven't... over time I will learn.  It's the angle, especially for the Shun knives (more because it is a different angle, more like, say, 12 to 15... while I have learned more like an 18 to 22 degree grind angle.

Cooking, and tinkering, cleanliness, and life.  It's what I'm hereafter.  It's just, often enough, I forget what I am hereafter.  Bleh.  I'm working on it.

Oh, not sure I will dig into the hummus today.  Tomorrow most likely.  So I really do want to do a bit of this and that in the kitchen.  I could, probably, do it as is.  I just don't want to do it as is.  Incentives.  The only thing really perishable is the lemons.  Even the fresh herb won't go bad too quickly, as I bought a whole plant.  Smells loverly by the way.  If I water it, it will last at least a week, more like a month.  So... I have a bit of time, as lemons don't go bad with speed.

That's that for the morning report.  Be well, enjoy your weekend, lay in a little work if have it to you.  Find some durned fool or blessed sufferer to lend a prayer, even if it is yourself though I have better even myself, and be well.  Blessings, ladle, and close your eyes and prepare to shiver... blessings can be a little chilly yet this time of the year.  *smile*