Yet another busy week. Nothing new there. But this one seemed a bit more frantic than others, which made it fly by at least. I think it may have been all the late nights, both doing things and then not sleeping well.
I should have known it would be a busy week when I started it by hitting Wal Mart before work on Monday morning. I knitted that night and Anne Marie came over to wind
yarn afterwards. I had lots of pots and pans in the sink and the cleaning lady
was coming Wednesday so I worked on those while she wound and kept going until
bedtime. No down time there. Then I swam on Tuesday and finished prepping for
the cleaning lady before sitting down to veg. I worked through lunch on
Wednesday so I could leave work early to meet my friend Nancy for an early
dinner. Then, at last, I was home for a night of TV and relaxing. I needed it
because Thursday was swimming, dropping recycling and grabbing chicken tenders
from the market to eat in the car on the way to Jeanie’s daughter’s house where
she was helping restring my spinning wheel. I got home ~8:30. By this point in
the week I wasn’t sleeping well, probably because I wasn’t getting any down
time. You think?
Friday was the first so when my cat woke me up at 5:20,
instead of rolling over for another half hour of sleep, I got up to run my data
builds and cast on my March socks. It was a nice way to start the day – the socks,
not the reports. The day flew by, as deans’ reports days do and I bolted home
eager for the weekend.
I had another busy day on Saturday. I had a Friends of the
Library meeting so I did the treasurer’s report, which required calling the
bank to confirm some things, and was at the library at 10:00. From there I went
to the bank then hit the thrift store for the bag sale. I brought a bag of
clothes to Andrea’s store, where Lori was hanging out so she and Andrea split
them up. I was picking Andrea up at 1:00 to head to Cosmic Cow (the cool quilt
store in Lincoln) but customers came in at noon so Lori and I went out for a
latte and scone. I ran home to pick up some yarn, picked Andrea up and headed
south. We had fun finding fabric. I was thrilled to find Jenn Ski’s fabric (the
mid-century modern blog in my list – check it out on the left) so bought a few
fat quarters. After a quick stop at the market, we went to Yarn Charm so I
could use their knitting machine to make sock blanks with my lilac cones from
Brown Sheep. Well, that didn’t work out like I’d planned. Between the machine
having issues and me not knowing what I was doing, it was a total waste of
time. After an hour and a half, we ripped out what I’d knitted (badly) and
headed home. It was another long day.
Sunday was a wonderful day at home. At last! I had a lovely
day intermingling chores with knitting and listening to the audio book for book
club – Shadow of the Wind. I even managed to do all kinds of things that have
been hanging around too long, like putting away some Christmas dishes that have
been living on the counter and my stocking stuffers, which have been sitting on
the hutch since Christmas. I know. Ridiculous. I also went through every piece
of paper on the desk. I ended the night
with a yummy layered tortilla thingie I threw together for dinner. The house is
picked up, I have a big bag for Goodwill and another to take to work to divvy
out and I can see the top of the desk and the bar. Best part though was just
being home. Since I’m a sucker for saying yes to all kinds of things that keep
me from home, maybe it’s time to schedule 2 weekends a month to do that and not
allow other things to supersede that. Do you think there’s a chance that could
work? Hmm….
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