Hopes and plans

I've got hopes that this weekend will see something accomplished around here.

Specifically, getting things organized enough (read: clean enough) to be able to a) buy and have delivered a microwave, stove, and possibly dishwasher; and b) schedule someone to come and rehang basically every door in the place, interior and exterior. Because I can think of one interior door that closes easily right now, and one exterior door that's passable. One deck door is totally worthless use-wise, since we had to use part of the lock from it to fix the main door.

That's the big, may-not-get-finished goal. There are some smaller ones, too.

• Buying some Forever stamps.
  
• Checking the free credit reports that we got in the mail last week.
  
• Moving a chunk of money from the no-interest checking account (but with free checks) to Vanguard, where it will earn interest.
  
• Possibly going to Red Lobster for Mother's Day, and scarfing down bunches of shrimp.
  
• Getting DH to install the Firewire card that we bought in February, so I/we can actually do something with the video we've shot on the camcorder that we bought in November 2006.
• Move the houseplant jungle out onto the porch for the summer. It frosted last weekend, but I think they'll be safe now. (I should hope so - it's May, for cripes' sakes.)
  

Funny story about going out to eat. Monday was Cinco de Mayo. We went out to eat, because I was uninspired to cook (again). Since it was almost 8:00, we drove by our favorite Mexican place, thinking the crowd might have thinned out by then. Not so much - we ended up having BBQ and doing some grocery shopping. As we were putting the groceries in the car, we heard sirens. By the time we'd gotten everything in the car and left the parking lot, we'd seen 7 police cars come, sirens screaming, into the strip mall across the street and park near the newish Mexican restaurant. For this town, that's a lot of cops. It was never mentioned in the newspaper, but we're guessing it was some sort of combination of a Cinco de Mayo drink specials, college kids, and who knows what else. If guns were involved, it would have been in the paper, so I guess it was just a really big bar fight. But it's a little odd that something with 7 squad cars involved wasn't in the news at all.

Anyway, hopefully we'll accomplish even half of that list and put a dent in the biggie this weekend. I meant to have the doors taken care of last fall, and it was too cold to do the outer doors before I knew it. Time flies these days.

On the up-side, I got 2 bags of paper recycling ready to go out on trash day. The pile was overflowing the paper bin, so it had to be done.