Lots got done this week - cleaning, cooking, planning trips and online work. There were lots of zooms involved. What did we do before zoom?
I started the week zooming with the other moderator of my online sock group who is American but lives in Germany. We had to arrange the 12 voted on challenges for the different months next year. It was fun to chat with Lia and we got it done. There was drama later in the week when one of the members took offense at another member's post. I had to email the offender and ask her to change, which resulted in zero change and an irate return email. Oh well. It all seems to have blown over. Tempest in a teapot. Since Sunday was December 1st, I had to do the monthly tally so I spent quite a bit more time than usual on my Socks from Stash this week but it's all good.
I zoomed with Anne and Rene on Tuesday morning to plan our trip to Palm Springs at the end of January. Under the banner of everything's harder than it should be, Anne's credit card didn't work, our zoom got cut off at 30 minutes and nothing else was easy. It took some time but we got a VRBO, rented a car and bought our plane tickets. Anne had to pay through the nose for a fully refundable ticket because Rene has a free companion ticket that can't be redeemed until January so we had to reserse the seat. Sheesh!
I was hosting Thanksgiving so spent Wednesday cleaning and making pies - pumpkin, a small blueberry and banana cream for Anne (NOT a festive pie but it's what she wants.) I didn't sleep well that night and had stress dreams about broccoli, only to get up and find that my broccoli had frozen in my fridge and was nasty. Good thing I had some Brussels sprouts. Everything else went fine. I had the turkey stuffed and in the oven first thing then prepped all the veg and set the table. Rene and Anne arrived at noon and we ate all the yummy food. They left before it got dark and I had everything put away, pots and pans washed, the dishwasher running and the tukey carcas in the crockpot before I went to bed. Nice.
I spent Friday doing online stuff for my COBRA and flex reimbursements. I screwed up thinking I'd only put in $50/month on flex when I'd actually done $64 so was short with things to reimburse. I will have to dig for receipts for over the counter stuff. Hopefully I'll find some. : )
I was madly working on Christmas knitting and had finished Dee's socks and started Bob's. I had sent an email to Ginny, who shares an email account with her husband, asking if her socks fit OK. I got a terse answer back saying they needed to be smaller. I had cast on a smaller pair for her - fewer stitches on smaller needles - and they were a slog. When I mentioned this to her, she had no idea what I was talking about. Her idiot husband had answered for himself so Ginny's socks fit fine but Bob's are too big. And what was I almost done with? Another pair of socks for Bob that now I know wouldn't fit. He laughed it off but I was pissed. I was not going to reknit his pair and it was my last pair for him so he will not be getting a better fitting pair from me. Jerk. At least I got to rip out the smaller pair for Ginny.
Other than a quick trip to the farm store to stock up on cheap birdseed, I spent the weekend inside cooking all things turkey. I made soup with the stock, turkey salad for sandwiches and put some dinners (stuffing, turkey, gravy and cranberry) in the freezer and finished up making a yummy cottage pie with the last of the turkey and gravy with the leftover mashed potatoes on top. Yum! It tasted different from all the rest, which was a good thing because I was getting sick to death of turkey, just like most of the country at this point. Until next Thanksgiving.
I hope you all had a great holiday. Christmas is only 3.5 weeks away now. Yikes!
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