Domesticated Llama Watch

Now that the school year has started up again, we occasionally have Fridays like today on which I have the day off and the Missus has to go to work. For some reason, she seems to take this very personally, as if those long summer months during which I have to slog into the office day after day while she and the Llama-ettes disported themselves at their leisure somehow don't count.

Well, lest Certain People think I'm doing nothing but sitting about eating bon-bons and watching Oprah, let me just point out that so far today I have:

-cleared up everybody else's breakfast dishes and run the dishwasher
-emptied hampers and run a load of laundry
-cleaned out the kitty litter
-made the beds
-cleaned up the kitchen

Further, when I go out to meet the Missus for lunch in a bit, I'm also going to hit the dry-cleaners, the groc store and the hardware store.

So it seems to me that I'm keeping my end up 'round here pretty well. And the fact that after lunch I plan to sit down with a glass of sherry and watch Michael Palin and Maggie Smith in A Private Function? Well, that'll just be our little secret.

UPDATE: Of course, the movie also will be accompanied by laundry folding, so I got that going on. On the other hand, I got some absolutely arse-kicking industrial strength drain opener just now for dealing with the clog in the Llama-ettes' tub. Heh, what fun. Sulfuric acid-based, it smoked most satisfactorily as I was pouring it in. For all I know, it's already eaten its way down through the kitchen ceiling.

UPDATE DEUX: Done and done, at least so far as what I can do. I don't really know where all the gels' clothing goes, so I simply stop short at folding it all neatly and leaving it in the laundry basket.

As for A Private Function, well it's one of those films you watch more for the actors than the actual story. In particular, seeing Maggie Smith (who bears an uncanny resemblance to my sister-in-law) and Denholm Elliott (one of my favorite not-especially-well-known-to-Hollywood actors) together makes me want to dash off and netflix A Room With A View again. It may shock some regular readers that I would have anything good to say about any screen adaptation, but really, this movie is the best example I know of that sort of thing actually being done right.