It was going to be a strange week. It was spring break so
there was no swimming and then even knitting got cancelled because I was the
only one going. That meant I could go right home from work every day like a
normal person and cook/eat dinner early. Yeah, that worked.
We were having a food day on Tuesday and I’d signed up for
pie so went home Monday and baked, stopping long enough for hot dogs for
dinner. I stopped at the market after work on Tuesday and it was 6:30 before I
got home and put everything away so I had pasta with red sauce from the
freezer. Then I did my taxes, which took the entire evening but at least they
were done. It wasn’t until Wednesday that I was home before 6:00 and was able
to make the cheesy cauliflower and ham I’d been wanting. Yum!
Snow was in the forecast for most of the week and it was
gray and overcast when I left for work Thursday. Well, I drove into full blown
snow, with bad visibility and slick roads. This is spring? I guess so because
by the end of the day, it’s like it had never happened so the ride home was
fine. I stopped at HyVee to pick up 99 cent eggs and found a steak fry going on
so got that to go and ate half of it when I got home. At least the food thing
was feeling normal-ish. And it was already Thursday night.
The work week had flown by. I had some fun with planning
meetings on the Affordable Care Act (love the analysis part of my job) and then
dug in on some identity management problems. FYI, that’s also fun in my world. Plus
I managed to get some things crossed off my to do list. It was 5:00 Friday
before I knew it. I’ll take more work weeks like this one please!
Darla and I had postponed our Goodwill trip to Omaha until better
weather (there was more snow due Saturday) but hit our fave thrift shop after
work on Friday. We didn’t find anything in the clothing racks but I hit pay
dirt everywhere else. I got a baggie of yarn, which I didn’t look at very
closely, a bunch of fun craft/house stuff and a brand new looking bread machine
in my exact model so I can use the pan, whip and gasket from it and have the
machine to spare. Only when I got home and pulled out the yarn did I find that
it was a brand new 16 ounce skein of Mountain Colors hand dyed yarn. Retail
price - $76! That’s my best thrift score in years. Maybe ever.
So with my entire weekend free and crappy weather, I could
dig into just about anything. I spent most of Saturday finishing up projects
and had 3 packages in the mailbox by mid-afternoon. That felt great! Good thing
I got that done because the rest of the weekend was less productive. On Sunday,
I decided to start a pair of mittens while I was between socks and the yarn
wasn’t working for the pattern I’d picked so I decided to design my own pair.
Fast forward to Sunday evening when I’d started 3 different times, switched
yarns (which meant I could have gone back to my original pattern but did I?
Nope.) and finally ripped it all out. I wasn’t happy that I’d killed the whole
afternoon and had nothing to show for it. I should have done something else.
Sheesh! Oh well, I finished watching the last season of Mad Men (love it!)
while I was knitting and discovered FX’s The Americans on Hulu, which is worth
checking out.
I ended the night trying to cram in a few chores and did have
a pot of homemade baked beans (only because I’d set them to soak at 6:00 a.m.
so had to keep going) ready by supper. I also tromped through snow to hang my
sheets outside, leaving them there even when it started flurrying, so had
fabulous smelling, clean sheets when I went to bed. Since the cleaning lady is
coming this week, I’ll be doing a bit of neatizing every night to get ready but
I will be swimming again so I guess I’ll be back to MY normal. : )
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