Half-day

I have a half-day from work today as I was invited to lunch with a colleague who is moving to a different office (and I wanted to make sure I could make it to that and not be stressing about getting back to work on time) as well meeting a friend this evening for a singing bowl event in my local fair trade shop (and therefore didn't want to risk being stuck late in work).  My plan was to come home and spend the afternoon cleaning up my pigsty of an apartment.  It's badly overdue.  I wanted to do before and after photos too but I forgot to charge batteries for the camera.  Oh well.  Can't just put it off because I want to show complete strangers what a mess this place is!