Week 46 - Too Much Drama

It was a busy week with a mix of fun, frustration and ridiculous drama. I was also getting things done outside to prepare for winter. At least the week started well.

When I was driving home from a Fremont run on the weekend, I heard something funky with my car and found that the shield that's under my engine was hanging. I called Ozzy's, the local mechanic, first thing on Monday and asked if they could reattach it. They said to come right in and they not only did it while I waited but didn't charge me. Gotta love small town business! I drove directly to Helen's for some cousin time and stayed all day, getting home just in time to scarf some dinner down before heading to knitting. 

My contractor was coming on Tuesday to finish my bathroom. He came with a crew because he was injured and couldn't do much himself. They changed my sink and shower fixtures then spackled and painted. Of course it's not 100% done because the new shower head didn't come with the cord thing so it's still brushed chrome and will be replaced at some point. Unfortunately they didn't wait long enough for the spackle to dry so I can see everywhere they painted. I guess I'll just touch it up myself. They were done around lunch time so I had time that afternoon to make this cute project bag I'd offered as an October prize in my online sock group. I made a pan of blondies for the next day.

I had had a package I'd shipped returned to me because apparently rules have changed and you can't put stamps on anything over 1/2" thick. I took the yarn and the project bag to the post office but couldn't get either the yarn or the bag into the already stamped envelope so left without mailing either and headed to Lincoln. I've had a sensor failing - the open door one - in my car so it would go off when I turned corners. Well, on the way to Lincoln it came on and stayed on, which meant I had to turn off my interior light and couldn't lock my car with my fob. Just another thing to fix when I get a tune up at Ozzy's next month (they told me to wait to schedule it when I need an oil change).

That was the end of the frustration for the day though. I had a nice lunch with Dodie, went to Nuremburg with Anne, stopped at Stuff and found some sock yarn then went to Lana's for a work party. It was great to see everyone and Lana's not so new house. I stayed until 8:15 and when I got home, I found a package with this skein of gorgeous sock yarn from one of the members of my online sock group, which she said was to thank me for being a moderator. How lovely!

After such a long day, I'd have liked to stay home but there was a talk at the lake on water at 9:00. Since we'd just had the boil water thing last week, I was hoping to get some answers. The presenter was not good but there was question time after he was done and there was someone who had some info about Wahoo's water problem, which apparently happened because they're been replacing water mains and that's when problems can happen. After I dropped Lorri at her house, I went to the post office to try again. The clerk was very nice but a guy who must be her boss stuck his nose in and was a total jerk. I mailed both packages after paying a bunch more money and left near tears. Total a-hole. And when I got home, I found a registered mail notice on my front door (it had been there for days because I never use that door) so I had to go right back to the post office. Luckily I didn't see the guy again. I went back home for garden therapy, which helped my mood immensely. I dug up all the plants that I wanted to save from the east side of my house, which will be dug up in late winter when my basement wall gets reblocked. I planted them in one of my veg beds and went inside to make a pot of soup. I had hopes that the drama was over for the week.

Not so much. I started the day Friday meeting Anne at the Quilt Museum for their artist sale, which was fun and I found some yarn, of course. I won't go into nitty gritty detail but when I went to my cousin's to drop something off, I ended up in a text blitz with her husband that left me feeling totally crappy. Not cool. I hit HyVee and went home for tea. I felt shitty for the rest of the day and am thankful I have friends I could vent to. By the end of the day I was feeling some better.

Saturday was spinning in Fremont so Andrea and I did the usual run. I found fun stuff at the Restore before going to spinning which had more people than any recent meeting. Afterwards we hit Goodwill, Aldi and Baker's, where Andrea and I went through every single turkey to find the smallest one for her. This is not the first time we've done that. It's kind of our specialty. 

As usual, Sunday was my chore day. I made a nice breakfast of waffles and bacon then got busy with laundry (it was warm enough still to hang things outside) and cleaned up the deck, planting the 2 little mums that have been on my deck table for a couple of months.

I still had fun but there was way too much drama for my liking. Here's hoping next week is drama free.