First, congratulations on the Smutasic Awards! :D *smooches*

Your dog sounds like a lot of fun *g*
But the "dead" old lady story is completely weird. What's up with her daughter selling everything? Some families really do have issues! *raises-eybrows*

Your priority hierachy looks pretty efficient to me. I should adopt something like that.
Usually I look through my friends page and open everything interesting or important in tabs. Then I work through all the personal entries. And then I try to read all the fics. And when I finally have two firefox windows with 15 tabs each open for more than five days I go to bookmark them into the To Read Folder of Doom, where those fics reside until I seriously have to procrastinate about something... *groans*

Do you want me to make you think I liked the whole fic when I didn't?
No. I think your commenting-strategy is really very reasonable. Mine is similar.