Penance

We tried out the collard greens last night with a roasted chicken and stuffing. Yum! The greens were even better today than yesterday. Doesn't Jesse set a nice table? We made a recipe that I had tried before, a butterflied chicken roasted over the stuffing and it cooked perfectly. I don't think I can say enough how much I love my new oven. Anyway, after dinner (which was a lot later than usual) Jesse had a few things to finish up for work so I went back into the bedroom and watched a BBC miniseries on Netflix's Watch Instantly.

As BBC television shows usually go, it wasn't earth shattering, but I was sucked in immediately. I stayed up until midnight waiting to find out if Dorothea's weirdo husband would finally succumb to his "heart illness." Even after my watching spree, I still have three more episodes to go. I have promised myself that I won't even think about finishing Middlemarch until I have done penance for last night's indulgence.

Jesse's good friend, Ben, is coming to visit on Saturday and there are still quite a few things that need to be accomplished in the apartment. I have been lax in doing things that are unappealing to me lately, like hanging that shelf in the kitchen and organizing a pile of stuff in our bedroom. There is also a mound of laundry that keeps staring at me and more paperwork that needs filing.

It's a lot to take on in just one day (just the laundry alone might kill me), but I am determined to check off several tasks on my to-do list!!