the night before pesach
Mar. 26th, 2002 10:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidthis year's was the best i've ever had.
lots of factors, including, in no particular order:
* my first painkiller-free day since the surgery (also needing to elevate the hand less while i sleep.)
* leaving work earlier than usual & getting in some last minute shopping (thanks, queue!)
* being the mellowest yet about what absolutely must be done, and what is merely preference (modified by the inability to do major cleaning)
* having a wonderful cleaning lady who knows how to clean for pesach
* having a great sister-in-waiting (hey, tigerbright!) who not only helped cover my kitcen surfaces, but hid the obligatory chametz in ... interesting places that made me laugh (1 tucked above a picture frame. 1 on the ladder she'd brought up to get my pesach pots out of hiding. 1 on the marble track magnets on my fridge. (!). etc.)
* being done w/ what i needed to do at a reasonable hour, early enough that i put things in the oven on timebake, & went off to her house, to keep her company (can't say i actually helped)
* and being out later than i have been much recently, and having a real raincoat to wear for the walk home (now if i could rewaterproof my boots, i'd be in clover...)
and teddywolf was home, and after the start of the from-scratch gefilte fish recipe (this impresses me - i'd never thought to attempt this as home), we played my first game of chez geek, which i think i'll enjoy more when not tired & allergic to cats...
lots of factors, including, in no particular order:
* my first painkiller-free day since the surgery (also needing to elevate the hand less while i sleep.)
* leaving work earlier than usual & getting in some last minute shopping (thanks, queue!)
* being the mellowest yet about what absolutely must be done, and what is merely preference (modified by the inability to do major cleaning)
* having a wonderful cleaning lady who knows how to clean for pesach
* having a great sister-in-waiting (hey, tigerbright!) who not only helped cover my kitcen surfaces, but hid the obligatory chametz in ... interesting places that made me laugh (1 tucked above a picture frame. 1 on the ladder she'd brought up to get my pesach pots out of hiding. 1 on the marble track magnets on my fridge. (!). etc.)
* being done w/ what i needed to do at a reasonable hour, early enough that i put things in the oven on timebake, & went off to her house, to keep her company (can't say i actually helped)
* and being out later than i have been much recently, and having a real raincoat to wear for the walk home (now if i could rewaterproof my boots, i'd be in clover...)
and teddywolf was home, and after the start of the from-scratch gefilte fish recipe (this impresses me - i'd never thought to attempt this as home), we played my first game of chez geek, which i think i'll enjoy more when not tired & allergic to cats...