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Made lists

Cleaned bathrooms for no good reason even the toilets

Threw away old stuff

Poured more Drano down the shower drain

Checked pantry for mouse poop

Washed hands many times

Started laundry and sprinkled in essential oils to combat stink

Washed all the clothes I wore in the hospital and thought of Avett Brothers lyric

Ate a brownie

Finished the milk

Went through the accumulated mail

Found another speed camera ticket

Answered 12-year-old’s question “what happens if you can’t afford to pay a ticket?” by explaining they just keep doubling the fine until you can’t afford it even more and there’s nothing you can do about it

Perused the library books I checked out

Put several in the pile to return

Read a chapter or two of several others, mostly about British witches

Had hot flashes

Changed pajamas

Had hot flashes

Changed pajamas

Ate saltines

Tried to plug in 12-year-old’s phone but couldn’t find the charger

Dust-busted some lint in a corner

Looked online for used loft beds and chairs

Wondered why people use strange names for chairs

Thought about measuring space where chair would go but didn’t, again

Wondered why resale economics is so confusing

Put stuff in Amazon cart for when money appears in bank account

Felt guilty about using Amazon but not enough to stop

Rearranged apps on phone screen to reflect current realities and also make pretty patterns

Checked location of daughter out late at college and remembered it’s ok to go out late at college

Checked location of daughter to make sure she was no longer out

Piled up trash by the front door

Scowled at heap of recycling that has not broken itself down or taken itself out

Checked all social media platforms for anything important, found nothing

Couldn’t stop thinking even for a second during all this activity about the fact that there’s a tumor in a lab somewhere that was recently in my husband’s brain and how that clump of cells has changed all of our lives and we don’t even know how yet