Canada was a wonderful trip but boy, it felt great to be
home. As usual, I was headed back to work on Tuesday so had no spare time for
transitioning back but with only a few days left in my vacation bank, I couldn’t
afford any extra time. It could be a trying week but I’d get through it. Only
working four days would help.
I slept like crap and was still awake at 2:30 a.m. so Eileen’s
early morning wake up on Monday was painful. I’d packed the night before so all
I had to do was get dressed, grab some breakfast and get out the door. We were
on the road at 7:30, with Sam driving and Eileen riding shot gun. Cindy’s
flight was leaving two hours before mine so I’d have some knitting time at
Buffalo airport. There are worse things than sitting and knitting, even if it’s
at an airport.
Well, two hours was a drop in the bucket. There was still
blow back from the fire at the Chicago air traffic control center and so
flights were delayed all over the country. By the time my flight finally left,
I had been rebooked onto a later flight to Omaha in case I couldn’t make my 20
minute connection. That flight was delayed too though so I had another wait in
Chicago. I had hoped to go to knitting but I didn’t get home until 7:30 and I’d
realized on my second flight that my amazon card was no longer in my back
pocket. Damn!
I told myself it wasn’t too bad since I’d used it at both
Target and Home Depot, both of which had been hacked. I felt the need to
completely unpack just in case it was in my carry on (I’d used it to buy lunch
in Buffalo) but didn’t find it so called to cancel it. Since I was unpacked, I
started laundry. Andrea stopped by after knitting and brought me leftover
pizza, which I ate standing up at 8:45 and called dinner. The cleaning lady was
coming the next day so I wrote her a note and headed to bed. I thought I’d
sleep like a rock but that didn’t happen so I was pretty tired Tuesday morning.
Oh well, back to work.
The week flew by. I finally got a good night’s sleep Tuesday
night so felt good Wednesday for monthly reports, which bled into Thursday. I
got back into the pool Thursday night and ran some errands on the way home
Friday. I was ready for two blissful days at home.
I had a big weekend to do list to really get back on track.
It had been damp, cold and raining on and off all week so I was hoping for some
sunshine. I had a good day on Saturday chipping away at my list and getting
some knitting done between. I even made some real food for dinner – tuna casserole
and rhubarb upside down cake. Part of my goal was to heat the house up a bit by
using the oven because it was pretty chilly in the house. I was pleased with my
progress and still had all day Sunday and I was nice and warm under the covers.
Unfortunately I didn’t make the Downton Abbey project bags I
had to have done for Monday night and that woke me up at 3:45 Sunday. I gave up
on falling back to sleep and got up at 4:30. I went through a single basket of
craft stuff in my spare room and found everything I needed. Too bad I hadn’t done
that before I went to bed. I had plans with Lorri to hit the roast beef dinner
at Colon’s Catholic church for lunch and must have been outside hanging laundry
when she called to say she’d been delayed at church so would be late. By the
time we’d picked up our meals, I was ravenous. We ate at Lorri’s while catching
up and I was home and sewing by 2:00. The bags came out cute and I had all six
done except for the handwork by 6:00. I ate leftovers from lunch and sat down
to watch TV and do that handwork. I still had a few things left on my to do
list but I had finished the must do’s and had clean clothes and things to eat
for the week. So I guess I was back to “normal”
because when do I ever get EVERYTHING done? Pretty much never. : )
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