On with the whole "progress" thing.

Remembered to eat.

The godawful mess that's been driving me nuts in the living room got rearranged -- I picked up all the miscellaneous cardboard and moved it, and suddenly it was no longer sufficiently oppressive to be the major reason I want to move and became something that must be fixed now. So I cleaned it up until I could vacuum the rug.

Also did laundry, and managed to get it all done efficiently primarily by flagging it as "move laundry to dryer when arawen arrives", and it only took me about a half hour to remember that I had set that flag.

Was working on the carpet on the stairs when arawen got here. This was a godawful, dusty mess. I was deeply thwarted by the way it wrapped through the spokes on the bannister and was stapled down there, so I worked on clearing the treads while he pried loose the parts on the outside of the stairs. He dealt with the carpet in the hallway while I went back to the stairs to pry up staples, with occasional pauses to vacuum things. Final bit was the bottom stair (we worked from the landing up), where the carpet was held on by sufficient staples to chain Loki, and I couldn't do a damn thing with it, so arawen did. It probably was about five hours of work for the two of us.

Somewhere in there I managed to make the bed -- my breaks had a lot of doing random other chores in them.

When teinedreugan called to say he was on his way home, I informed him that feeding us was his contribution to the war effort. So he brought home a chicken.

Gave arawen a bit of massage because his neck had cramped up. Mild distractions. Wound up watching The Saint and snuggling on the couch while teinedreugan talked with suzimoses. Will see him tomorrow for finishing off the stairs (trim needs to be replaced since some came off with the carpet), bricking up a hole, and actual spending time together when we're not completely exhausted.

Speaking of which, I'm completely exhausted.