Yesterday was my regular day off from the office, but it was incredibly busy nonetheless. Things I did yesterday included:

• Emptying the pan from the dehumidifier we borrowed from one of my co-workers (Remember Sunday's incident with the washing machine?)
  
• Spraying the laundry room floor with Lysol to inhibit mildew growth
  
• Spraying the bathroom floor with Lysol
  
• Checking the buckets in the basement and emptying the ones with water
  
• Removing everything from the wet kitchen counter and piling all my cookbooks on the living room ottoman
  
• Separating out the cookbooks with mildew from the rest of my collection
  
• Cleaning the kitchen counter
  
• Replacing everything on the kitchen counter except the cookbooks
  
• Taking a shower and getting dressed
  
• Giving my son a snack
  
• Having breakfast myself
  
• Giving my son a bath
  
• Helping my son get dressed and groomed
  
• Loading the dishwasher and turning it on
  
• Loading the washing machine, turning it on and watching it very carefully throughout the wash cycle
  
• Giving my son another snack
  
• Helping my son get cleaned up again
  
• Going to Staples to buy twine
  
• Failing to find twine, but managing to purchase a paper puncher, duct tape, an electric pencil sharpener a set of hanging folders and a set of colorful velcro straps instead
  
• Going to Michaels to buy twine
  
• Failing to find twine, but managing to find a roll of hemp intended for jewelry making
  
• Purchasing the hemp, a set of pipe cleaners, a cake pan shaped like a train, muffin tin liners, a large gift bag, a colorful bandana, a set of white vinyl letters, a door hanger with lots of pockets for craft-related items, a set of foam letters and a piece of foam shaped like a car
  
• Going to Barnes and Noble to have lunch and look for a copy of Robert Satloff's Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands
  
• Failing to find the Satloff book in the store, but purchasing the Thomas and Friends "Water Tower" after watching my son play with the store's train set for an hour
  
• Going to Borders to purchase a copy of Satloff's book (mission was successful)
  
• Going to Giant to buy groceries
  
• Getting stuck in a traffic jam for 35 minutes while trying to drive two miles
  
• Finally getting to Giant and buying items on list
  
• Getting home and sorting through the mail
  
• Unloading groceries and setting out prepared foods for dinner due to pressing hunger on my family's part and lack of patience on my part
  
• Transferring items from the washing machine to the dryer
  
• Baking an apple-sour cream pie
  
• Sauteing mushrooms and spinach
  
• Poaching chicken
  
• Putting my son to bed (this involves reading at least one book and going through a complicated ritual of setting up things in his room)
  
• Stir-frying chicken with zucchini and mushrooms in a tomato-chicken broth
  
• Putting away most of the cooked food
  
• Having dinner myself
  
• Folding laundry
  
• Emptying the dishwasher and loading it again
  
• Putting away dishes, except for tupperware
  
• Organizing tupperware cabinet after having trouble fitting anything in it
  
• Packing my bag for work the next day
  
• Putting items in the car for the next day

Whew!