The Things I Carry

On my nightstand:

1. alarm clock
2. I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Interviews of Andy Warhol (due back in three weeks at the library)
3. This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie (ditto)
4. can Red Bull, empty
5. tube aromatherapeutic muscle rub with rosemary oil
6. potholder
7. telephone, on charger

On my RSS reader:

1. blogs of 17 friends/intarweb folks
2. 2 feeds for local writing gigs on Craigslist
3. 5 science blogs (2 public health, 1 medicine/anti-quackery, 1 biology, 1 microbiology)
4. 7 knitblogs
5. 7 allergy blogs/newsfeeds
6. 4 career/personal development/personal finance blogs
7. 3 baseball blogs
8. 2 pop culture blogs
9. 2 life hacking blogs
10. 1 French music blog

In my knitting bag:

1. 1 book of knitting patterns for infants and toddlers
2. black chenille toddler dress, approximately one-third completed
3. 1 pair size 9 Addi Turbos
4. 1 set size 2 Crystal Palace bamboo needles
5. Everything and More, David Foster Wallace
6. 1 unlined sketchbook
7. 2 diapers

In my purse:

1. 1 wallet, green
2. 1 planner, Victoria-orange
3. 3 lipsticks
4. assorted receipts & paper scraps
   
5. 1 coupon organizer
6. 1 pen

In my refrigerator, off the top of my head:

1. cucumbers
2. carrots
3. zucchini
4. eggplant
5. homemade mayonnaise (use by 8/30)
6. leftover bruschetta topping (should be thrown out)
7. leftover insalata caprese (should be thrown out or sold to SCIENCE)
8. three containers Greek yogurt, one opened
9. one container organic half-and-half
10. two half-gallons organic milk
11. jar tomato juice
12. package shredded organic cheddar cheese
13. block of Parmesan cheese (or Grana Padano, one or the other) in a Ziploc bag
14. Dijon mustard
15. leftover vegetable broth
16. leftover butternut squash soup
17. apples, about 1.5 lb.
18. cantaloupe, cut up, half container
19. leftover pan-braised green beans with garlic (throw out or sell to SCIENCE)
20. leftover London broil
21. leftover etuveed carrots
22. sage
23. cilantro
24. prune juice (not mine)
    
25. probiotic tablets
26. cocktail sauce
27. Gouda cheese or somesuch similar
28. capers
29. taco sauce
30. salad dressing, one bottle (Parmesan peppercorn? Something with Asiago?)

In my living room:

1. Legos, probably at least partly dumped onto floor
2. 2 Victoria-orange chairs
3. 1 white and black couch
4. 4 Indian silk pillows
5. 1 geometric square rug
6. piano, Yamaha U1, with complete Chopin waltzes open on music rack
7. 1 Celtic harp
8. 2 end tables
9. 2 large bookcases, filled with books and 2 shelves each of "Nora space"
10. 1 wooden play kitchen, with play food strewn about in vicinity
11. 1 wicker basket, lined, with small pink baby blanket that used to be Nora's inside (or, as Nora would say, "Baby Jane's bassinet!")
    
12. 1 pedalless tricycle
13. 1 antique secretary, lovely
14. 1 dish towel, stolen from drawer of kitchen linens
15. 1 pink backpack
16. 1 large green hiking backpack
17. 1 computer keyboard, currently used as a pretend computer

1 dance card. Full.