Week 13 -A Normal Week

Since I was waiting to hear whether I'd be in the study, this was the first week in a long time with no medical appointments. Could this be a normal week? Apparently!

I spent Monday and Tuesday at home getting things done. I moved more branches to the curb - ones from the alley pile to add to the ones that came down in the storm, did my taxes since I'd found all my documents when I cleared my desk, did laundry, ran errands in town and even got downstairs to my craft room to make an Easter project bag. I also finished my book club book 2 full days before we'd meet on Thursday.

Wednesday was a Lincoln day. I started with coffee with Darla, scored some yarn at Goodwill, picked up my credit card from Anne, had lunch with my work friends at Bison Witches, hit Aldi and was home in time for tea.

I had sold tons of yarn to a woman who has a yarn website so spent a bunch of time gathering those skeins, updating my stash pages and prepping a big box to ship. I then sold 2 more lots, one of which was quite a few skeins, so pulled and prepped all of those too. I finished my sister's birthday socks and mailed them off along with the first of the of Jean Moss books that I was distributing to US knitter who had gone on her trips. Gone is good but I was ready for a break from all the packages

Andrea needed to pick up some calligraphy supplies so we headed to Blick Art in Omaha on Friday afternoon. I had heard of a new thrift store to try and I was thrilled to find a sugar bowl that not only had a hole in the lid for the spoon but was the Evesham pattern, which is close to my heart because John's mother had given me a small quiche pan in this pattern years ago for Christmas. Being Lent, I'd scoped out a pasta dinner at a nearby church so Andrea and I went there for supper. It was a fun evening.

Have you heard of the term niksen? It's a Dutch practice of doing nothing on purpose. I decided to embrace the concept for the weekend. I talked to friends and my sister, caught up on YouTube, knitted (of course) and read all Sunday afternoon. It was lovely to just relax.

I hadn't heard about the study yet but they had said it could take 2 weeks so I'd probably hear next week. In the meantime, I enjoyed a week that didn't revolve around medical appointments and cancer. It was just what I needed - the calm before the storm perhaps but time will tell on that front.