The time had come to purge the evil gathering in Colin's Room. There was a whole world lost in that child's room. While there were other things that happened this weekend, that was the big one. So, in typical weekend intelligence fashion: here are the highlights!
Friday night was spent goofing off in game. Fortune smiled: I once again found a 24 pack of Ice to get the weekend started right. We spent most of the evening playing FFXI. When we decided to grab a late-night meal, we saw a stray full-sized dachshund, complete with a collar and tags. I called to it to see if it would come and he was a big ham - he came straight to me and rolled over. When we checked his tags, I was very surprised to see they were blank. Yes, blank tags. Seriously, who puts blank tags on a dog? Doesn't that kinda defeat the purpose of having tags? We were going to keep the dog overnight and ask around about him the next day, but he was barking and whining seemed anxious to go, so we let him back out after getting him some food.
Cleaning Colin's Room was the order for Saturday. We were determined to get completely rid of anything and everything that he doesn't play with and throw out all the trash. It was brutal. His room was twisted into a nasty mishmash of rotten food, hamster poop, candy wrappers, dirty laundry, bottle caps, random 2-cent toys and feathers. When we finished cleaning all the visible spots in the room, we moved the bed and bookcase, revealing a whole new world of filth. This whole activity took the better part of 5 hours, filled more than 4 trash bags and yielded 2 large bins full of toys. We decided to donate all the toys to our daycare, and whatever she doesn't want can go to Goodwill. It will be harder for him to make a mess now, because he doesn't have much to make a mess with.
I want to finish off the remnants of Colin's room and start working on the loft and Clara's room sometime in the upcoming week. It's my goal to have the upstairs completely clean before Colin gets back. I think part of the reason it got to that point was that the act of cleaning it all was overwhelming for an 8yr old boy. There's no way I would have been able to do that at his age. So it just slowly got worse and worse. This way, the overwhelming mess has been taken off his hands, and he can see how we want him to keep his room from now on.
Anyway, we went to besieged and campaigned a little in FFXI on Saturday night. I got over 10 levels in Enfeebling Magic skill in besieged. It's a hell of a lot easier getting it there as opposed to spamming it when I want experience on BLM. I also got to keep my campaign medal. I don't think I will ever get a promotion unless I come across a ton of free time. I can't really campaign more than I do now. DeAnn was starting to feel sick and wanted to call it an early evening, so I fished after she went to bed, and almost hit 41 in fishing.
DeAnn was full-on sick on Sunday, so we didn't make it to church like I'd wanted. I spent most of the day taking care of a sick wife and juggling housework. We were able to get some Beastmaster experience in later in the evening, once she started feeling a little better. I'd forgotten how fun that job is. We pulled half the zone of mobs at the Labyrinth of Onzozo, and still somehow we managed to escape without dying. Once we got our groove going, we pulled in an admirable 5k/hr before having to call it a night.
Well, one more week until the opera. I'm really looking forward to going to Tosca. ^_^ I just hope DeAnn's feeling better by then.
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