Week 15 - Visits with Boundaries

It was week 3 of staying at home but I was still finding my way to the new normal. Work was fine and I did have a few bright spots in the week.

On the work front, Brook did his usual job of keeping things fun and we had themes for each morning's zoom meeting - funny hats, bring your pet to work, Hawaiian day, etc. I had a big project to work on - grad student allocations - and that made the week fly. But when I finished that and was facing a slow Friday afternoon, I couldn't face it and so took half a vacation day. I can't say I did much beyond streaming (McMillion$) and knitting but it was worth the ding to my vacation bank, keeping in mind I got 12 days added back to that pot when I cancelled the cruise. And I did get to something on my pre-Covid to do list - I went through my sock mending bag and mended 3 pairs and frogged back one pair that needed reknitting, which I started. 

On the social front, I had some lovely times, socially distanced of course. Monday found me knitting in the driveway with friends again, which is a lovely way to start the week. Then on Wednesday Anne came over for a walk at the lake (very windy) and Survivor. She brought spam buns, which were a comfort food from her childhood. They were delish and she left me a few extras to eat for lunches. Cindy and I had a zoom coffee break with Lana on Friday morning. Then on Saturday afternoon, Cindy came to drop off my mower, which her son had overhauled, and we sat in the backyard and enjoyed Via lattes, the packets for which had been a stocking stuffer. It was the closest I've been to Starbucks since our last latte on our last day at work. It was a gorgeous afternoon and the visit felt so normal. I needed that.

As for productivity, I made more masks and mailed some off to my sister and her husband then made one for Anne to give her when she came Wednesday. I spent time in the yard at the end of every work day whenever the weather cooperated, finishing raking the lawn right before Cindy arrived on Saturday. I had been cooking up a storm so had cheesy baked cauliflower for dinners most nights and made a strange cracker stuffing thing using saltines and some cranberry brats from the basement freezer. I shared it with Andrea who said she liked it. Andrea and I have been sharing lots of food. The banana cake in the spam buns pic was from her. Yum!

So another week down. I still wasn't finding working from home horrible and was absolutely enjoying all the extra time in my day from not commuting. That was absolutely showing in my yard, which looks better than it has in years and it's only mid-April. With no end in sight to sheltering at home, I can only imagine how good my yard will work soon. I'll take it. 

Stay healthy everyone.

Week 14 - A New Routine

It was the 2nd week of sheltering at home, not that our governor had shut down the state yet. But I was settling into working from home and was ready to enjoy warmer weather. My goal was to spend an hour outside at the end of each work day, making use of the time I wasn't commuting.

I put out an invitation to the Monday Night Knitters to do some social distanced knitting around the fire pit in my driveway. Heidi and Andrea said they'd come so I raked the front yard at 5:00, nuked some leftover lasagna and started some disinfecting - the chair arms and my bathroom handles. I propped the screen door open so they could open it with an elbow and I was ready for some knitting fun. The fire was nice and burned the entire bin of brush. Heidi brought long forks and marshmallows so we roasted those when the fire was just coals. After all my disinfecting, no one used the bathroom but better safe than sorry. And as a bonus, Andrea had gone to Aldi that afternoon and picked up a few groceries for me that will mean I wouldn't need to go to the store this week.

I had plans for another social event on Tuesday - an early lunch with my friend Lorri. We both go to go lunches from Mocha C's in downtown Wahoo (my fave chicken salad croissant, chips (Lay's yellow, of course) and a scotcharoo) and sat at opposite ends of a picnic table in one of Wahoo's parks. Her husband came along and I had brought 2 table cloths so we spread those and ate a quick lunch. I had to get home for a 1:00 Zoom meeting plus it got chilly whenthe sun went in so quick worked. It was still chilly after work so all I managed was picking up sticks in the backyard and breaking them up for another fire. My neighbor has a dying silver maple so there's never a shortage of sticks in my yard.

Wednesday was the first of the month so I spent the day doing monthly reports. I also popped out periodically to pick up wood from my neighbor across the street, who was having a tree cut down in her front yard. I had mentioned that I could use small logs so the man obliged and cut all the smaller branches into 6" cuts. The wood was green so would be for later burning but I got quite a bit. Nice. We had a cold snap coming so I didn't want to rake flower beds yet so at the end of the day, I raked the side yard. It felt great to start loading up that empty compost bin. I ended the day messaging with Dawn while watching Survivor. The work week was more than half over.

The weather was cold and dreary on Thursday so since I wasn't going to be going out, I got dressed in jammie pants and picked matching socks. At the end of the day, I Zoomed with Connie, who has been home even longer because she's got a compromised immune system. It was great to see her since my trip to her house at the end of March had been cancelled. I talked to Lori after Connie and so had nachos for dinner for the 2nd night in a row, with the layed bean dip Andrea had gotten for me at Aldi. Not nutritious but yummy. I needed to make sure to cook on the weekend.

I slept like crap that night and then had a bit of a panic on Friday morning. I was scheduled to do a Zoom demo of one of the new online forms I'd created but I was getting errors. Brook was nowhere to be found to help and I was a mess. He came back online and talked me through a fix in the nick of time. Between exhaustion and stress, I was over the day. I went down stairs at lunch and made masks for Carolyn and her family (I'd chosen the fabric in the wee hours while wide awake) and I got them into the mail for pick up that afternoon. We had a Zoom FAC (where would we be without Zoom?) with the office gang at 4:00 so it was an early day, which I needed. To celebrate the end of the 2nd week of working at home, I cast on new socks using the Stomp on Coronavirus pattern and yarn in the same colors as the virus molecule we see on the news - purply gray, red and orange. 

On Saturday I was going to drop my mower at Cindy's for her son to tune up and then go to the office to pick up my plants. But first I wanted to make a mask for Cindy with Eiffel Tower fabric. What should have taken 15 minutes took and hour because I broke my sewing machine needle. Grrr.... I found some but the first one wasn't right so I was pretty frustrated but did manage to finish it and it was cute. 

Just driving again felt great. Who knew I'd ever appreciate my commute? Cindy and I chatted in her driveway and then I headed to campus, which was eerie as all get out. The office was dark and creepy so I grabbed my violets and got out of there. I then went in search of my cats and found Pipsqueak, who I can touch, but Tortie Girl, who is totally skittish, also came out. She wouldn't come near me but she did come out when I called. Cool.

I had driven by Starbuck's on the way to campus but the line was nuts so I went home through town so I could check out another one. There was no line but that was because they'd closed half an hour before I got there. Bummer. But right across the street was Kaw Valley - the plant seller that pops up in parking lots this time of year. They were unloading trucks and were open so I bought some pansies for Lorri and me. Then I saw that Amigo's drive thru was open and they sell Winchell's donuts so I got 2 and a bag of crispos (deep fried tortillas sprinkled with cinnamon sugar) - yum! None of them made it to Wahoo. Talk about carb overload! I started streaming the new season of Ozark when I got home and didn't get hungry until much later so had stuffies and a Guinness. I absolutely needed to cook on Sunday because I had had way too many crappy food dinners this week.

We hadn't had the rain that was forecast so I needed to water the veg bed I'd planted a week ago. I dragged out hoses but hooked them up to the front of the house so I wouldn't have to snake them under the deck. It made for lots of walking back and forth but I got the bed watered in so hopefully I'll see germination soon. Then I pruned my roses and took the branches to the city burn pile. And somewhere in there I made masks for Lorri and Bob and dropped them off while I was out.

With the outside work done, I got busy cooking. I made a rock awesome homemade pizza and while my dough wasn't perfect, the toppings were and it tasted as good as Pizza Hut. I'll do better with the dough next time because there will be more pizza in my future quarantining. I also made chocolate marbled banana bread then Andrea came over and we swapped food. She gave me an entire loaf of homemade white bread and some banana cake. It's great to swap food to give us both more variety. Between all this, I finished Ozark. SO good.

I was settling in with a new routine and it wasn't all bad. I was reverting to the time my body wants to sleep - 11:00 to 7:00 - and wasn't setting an alarm, which is always a treat. I was not resenting working at home and was just the right amount of busy. I was getting some yard word done a bit at a time in the hour I used to spend commuting. And I was managing to incorporate seeing people in person but still maintaining social distancing. If I can keep this up and manage to stay healthy, this won't be so bad. Now for some warmer weather. Stay safe everyone.

Week 13 - Safe at Home

It was the first week of working at home so everything was new and different. It's a brave new world we're living in and it was time to get working. From home.

In an effort to keep things light, I started a #socksofsocialdistancing project on Facebook. Each day I post a picture of the socks I'm wearing, hand knitted of course, and will see what lasts longer - my sock supply or working from home. People seem to like it and anything to do with knitting socks makes me happy. On that note, I cast on so many pairs of new socks that I was out of needles. Whatever it takes to keep me sane - I'm all in.

We had the first of our regularly scheduled team meeting via Zoom at 10:00 Monday morning. Cindy and I spend a few hours of the day getting Zoom figured out for my training classes and when we went onto Zoom for our 2:00 meeting, Ben was a no show. Well if the boss isn't on, what's the point? We ended up cancelling the afternoon Zoom going forward. I finished up day 1 and it wasn't so bad. Having no knitting on Monday was the icing on the weirdness cake.

Mary kept me plenty busy with data requests on Tuesday and after a quick lunch, I did my first zoom training. It went well. I had just one student, which was nice for my first one. When I was done, I signed off and headed to Lake Wanahoo to walk the damn. I had checked the temp in my yard and went without a jacket but had neglected to account for the wind off the lake. It was pretty chilly so I didn't make it all the way across but still did ~1.5 miles.

Anne, who is my Covid-19 buddy since we both live alone and aren't seeing anyone beside each other, was coming over for supper and Survivor on Wednesday night. I got busy at lunch and made soup and the sauce for lasagna. I put the lasagna together at the end of the day and threw it in the oven when Anne got there. First stop was back at the lake, with jackets so we made it all the across the lake and back. 2 miles. We got home just in time for the lasagna to come out and we ate it while watching Survivor. It felt good to some company that didn't require a computer screen. I loaded Anne down with food when she left. It's good to share.

I had more data requests from Mary on Thursday and my 2nd class went well. Both of the people in the class had kids at home so we had a few interruptions but went with the flow. I called the day done shortly after training and headed outside. It was pretty chilly out but I wanted to do something so broke up all the brush clogging my wheel barrow, which left it open for future compost sifting. I was chilled when I went in but felt good with my small start and there was just one more work day! The week was flying by.

I didn't have a super productive day on Friday but we had out team meeting and a DocuSign demo via Zoom so at least got those done. At the end of the day, I chatted with my neighbors across our yards and that felt special. Despite being home all week, I was still ready for the weekend. All the working was interfering with being home!

I was heading to Lincoln on Saturday for knitting and a fire at Anne's but spent the morning chatting with Sharyn and then Andrea stopped by for a driveway chat, 6 feet apart, of course. It felt good to get in the car and drive! When I got to Lincoln, I was shocked to see how many parking lots were full of cars. Heck, even Goodwill was full! I wasn't sure why it was even open but then our governor hadn't issued a stay at home order yet so... Anne and I had a nice afternoon and then went to Piezano's for take out pizza. We got 1 pizza and a piece of cake and it was $28! And completely underwhelming. I declined to take any leftovers home.

I spent Sunday mostly on the phone talking to Carolyn, my sister and then Deanne. I didn't pack the day with chores, which bit me in the butt later, but oh well.

What I did do on Sunday was get started with yard work. First on the list was to empty one of the compost bins, which only had 6" of compost left from last year. With my newly emptied wheel barrow , I started sifting compost. There was more in the bin than I thought so I had a full wheel barrow and more yet to sift. That lead to clearing out one of my veg beds and spreading the compost there. It was too wet to till so I just spread it on top. And when I filled it again, I prepped a 2nd bed. I then planted the first bed with early veg but the 2nd one would just sit. Then I finally put together the wood rack I'd bought on Amazon 2 years ago. I couldn't find all the nuts/bolts so I tied it together in 2 places with clothesline. Whatever works! I immediately loaded it up with wood I'd picked up at the city's burn pile. I was already for my first fire - yay! So one thing lead to another but I ended the day with wood to burn, an empty compost bin ready for leaves once I start raking and my early veg getting an early start. All good.

So, I'd survived the first week of working at home and didn't hate it. I think a big part of that was that I moved my computer to my desk for working hours so work was there and so felt separate from home. I moved it back to my chair at the end of each day and then work was done. Since it looks like we'll be home for a LONG time, it's good to make peace with it. Stay healthy everyone!

Week 12 - Social Distancing Starts

It was a quiet week. Every day got quieter and quieter. Most students had left campus, Lincoln schools were closed so anyone with kids was home taking care of them and people who wanted to work from home were doing so - more and more each day. We were waiting for word that all employees would stay home too. In the meantime, I watched every news program I could fit into life - getting up early, going straight home and online at work when we got news alerts. In the meantime, I was knitting and knitting and knitting. But not at the library because we were being good social distancers.

We finally got the word Wednesday that all but essential staff should work from home starting on Monday. I had a class scheduled Wednesday afternoon but all the people signed up for it were already at home so I worked with Cindy to set it up as a zoom meeting with me in the training room and everyone zooming in from home. And then I had a meeting with Mary.

We were sitting in her office going over some data she needed when the post-nasal drip from the remnants of my cold set in and I started coughing. I coughed for a minute or so and we kept going with our meeting. I was back at my desk when Mary came over and said she needed to see me. I assumed it was about more data but she told me that people had heard me coughing and I needed to go home. Really? There was no talking her out of it so I had to cancel my class and go home. Unbelievable!

I had a nice afternoon once I got over being pissed and made a blueberry pie to take to work Thursday. But in order to be allowed back to work, I had to prove I didn't have a fever so I took a picture of my thermometer showing a regular temperature and went to work. I had plenty to do to get ready for working at home and Thursday flew by.

I spent Friday finishing things up and Cindy and I hit Aldi over lunch, where I bought 2 more bags of food, mostly veggies. I had hopes that I'd be set for food for a long time. It was too cold to take my plants home so I'd have to go back for them after we were shut down.

I've never liked working from home, preferring home to be home and work to be work, but now I had no choice. So I spent the weekend getting ready. Saturday's weather was nice so I did my chores, including washing linens and hanging them outside. I also organized my food cupboards and the fridge and had all my chores done by the end of the day. 

My goal for Sunday, when it would be cold and dreary, was to reclaim my desk to be my at home work station. Now my desk is between my kitchen and family room where the dining room table should be but I moved that to the front room years ago and the desk became a catch all for piles of crap. It was stacked with papers, yarn, whatever! It was a disaster area. This was the perfect reason to reclaim it as a desk. And while I'm not proud of this, here are the before and after pics. Much better!

What a freaky week! The whole country was on lock down and we were heading into uncharted territory. Working from home, staying inside and always keeping 6 feet away from anyone if we did go out. I had hopes that I wouldn't hate working from home. Time would tell. Stay healthy everyone and be as happy as you can be.

Week 11 - Starting to Worry

What a week! It started out so nicely with a day off work because of a midday dentist appointment. Alas, it all went downhill from there.

After a leisurely morning at home, I headed to the dentist at 11:30 for some drilling. I had hoped he could save the tooth and just fill it but, of course, it was a goner so he prepped me for a crown. This will be the 4th upper molar with a crown. Half way to completely crowned! Just call me Princess Merry.

I headed home to let the Novocaine wear off and stop drooling. Right when I got home, an email came from Craft Cruises with cancellation details for our Baltic cruise in May and our Facebook group exploded. I volunteered to call the travel agent to clarify some confusing things and then I posted to our group. We had until the 20th to decide and we'd only lose our deposit, which would be issued with a credit for a future cruise. A few decided then and there to cancel but Anne and I figured we'd wait and see. I headed to Monday Night Knitting, hopeful that the corona virus would subside.

I had loaded up the huge bag of yarn and all the rubber stamps into the car so dropped those off at St. Monica's over lunch on Tuesday then hit Aldi for some groceries. I made a to do list that afternoon at work and went home and did absolutely everything on the list that night. That rarely happens so I was pleased. 

The last thing on Tuesday's list was to load clothes to donate into the car and I dropped them in a Peoples City Mission toss box over lunch on Wednesday while running errands. More stuff out of my house - yay! Anne and I talked about the cruise in the pool and were leaning towards cancelling the cruise. Trump's speech that night sealed the deal and I emailed the travel agent to say we were out. This was getting serious! And I didn't know it but that was the last time I'd be swimming for a long time. Maybe forever.

On Thursday, I slammed on travel reports all morning, pulling details on who was outside of the country and where they were. I went straight home that night with worry setting in. 

UNL had announced that there would be no classes starting Monday, giving students a 2 week spring break, and all classes would be online starting March 30th. Students were encouraged to go home so on Friday, campus was already emptying out. I suggested to Layton that we go to the Chinese buffet because it would probably be the last time we'd eat there for awhile. We practically had the place to ourselves. We were one of 4 parties in a restaurant with at least 50 tables. Rene was having a potluck at her house that night and I'd made a pie. There was no talk about the virus but it felt like it might be the last gathering for awhile. With each new day, things were getting weirder and weirder.

On Saturday, Andrea and ventured to Fremont. It only seemed a bit less busy than usual and hand sanitizer was out in several stores. We hit the Restore for 20 minutes before they closed then went to Baker's supermarket in search of goat's milk for Andrea to make cheese. We had free coupons but didn't find the milk. We went to the estate sale store and bought a few things there then headed to Goodwill. I wasn't feeling it so went to the car to knit while Andrea finished shopping. We then hit Aldi, where I spent $50 despite having already shopped that week. I did NOT buy toilet paper, even though they had plenty. Actually the shelves were well stocked. We went across the street to Wal-Mart, which was a mob scene, and found the goat milk there. We grabbed it and got out of Dodge. I enjoyed Saturday snack supper of stuffies (stuffed clams like you see in Rhode Island, which I found at Aldi of all places) and beer. It felt good to be home.

I spent Sunday holed up - talking to family and friends, doing chores, cooking and worrying. Things were scarier with every passing day and I was ready to stay home for the long haul. The students were gone but staff still had to report but I felt like it had to be coming. It was just a waiting game and while I'm not usually a worrier, I was starting to. Me and the rest of the planet so at least I had company.

Week 10 - Gone is Good

With March here, I was determined to keep going with my Gone is Good plan so started Monday but dropping a big bag of fabric in a Peoples City Mission toss box while running errands over lunch. Check that off. I also hit the bread store, a Goodwill (no yarn scores) and 5 Below, where I found the cat pin set I was looking for. All good and I ended the day at Monday Night Knitting.

We had a lunch and learn on investing on Tuesday hosted by Union Bank. Having just met with my Fidelity rep, I was pretty much all set but you can always learn something and the mac & cheese they brought was delish and I took another plate, at their urging, which would come in handy the next day. But Tuesday night was my go straight home night and my goal was to reclaim my back room, which was still filled with all the fabric. I had it fully sorted and put away before I sat down for the night. Of course Andrea called at 8:45 to say that St. Wenz (the local Catholic church) was looking for fabric. I'd just moved to baskets to the basement. : (

In continuing with letting things go, after the UAAD exec board meeting over lunch on Wednesday, I decided I'm done with that too. Now I'm a former president of UAAD (University Association for Administrative Development) and was back on the board this year as co-chair of a committee. UAAD is the ghost of what it was in my day, with very few members and low attendance at every meeting/event, even when we're giving away ice cream sundaes. Dodie, Van and I had talked about suggesting a reboot but the resistance to any of my suggestions at the board meeting made me realize it was useless so I'm done with UAAD once this academic year is over. This getting rid of annoying things feels great and I hope it'll have a positive impact on my life.

I had woken up with a dry throat Tuesday morning but it was still an issue (dry but not really sore) by that night so I started zicam'ing and kept it up Wednesday morning. It was clear by mid-afternoon that it was the start of a cold so I took a Claritin D and ignored it. I swam after work and then went back to the office to eat the mac & cheese leftovers from Tuesday before heading to the library with Cindy for a lecture about hidden archives from Jews who lived in the Wausau ghetto. It was fascinating and I learned a lot.

We had a big staff meeting on Thursday, where there was talk of what to do about corona virus and the "if you're sick stay home" thing, which the chancellor had emailed about earlier, was reinforced. When I got back to the office, I was given grief for being at work with a cold. Seriously? I was fully functional and the Claritin was masking my symptoms but if I blew my nose, Ben gave me grief. I had a full day again on Thursday despite the cold. I thrifted over lunch and scored the ever illusive sock yarn at Goodwill then met Dodie at CostCo after work for some shopping. I wasn't impressed by their prices (Aldi is cheaper for sure) and the huge packages that don't work for a single person but I did find my favorite Canadian candy - OMG's (not good to have that in the house) - and got the 2 things I've had friends get me over the years - laundry detergent and raw sugar. After eating pizza and ice cream with Dodie and filling up on cheap gas, I headed home. See? Fully functional.

Despite all that, I called in sick on Friday, for which I was thanked by my boss and his boss. Sheesh! I did some work from home in the morning but then sat in the sun in my nightie for the rest of the morning. While I didn't get showered and dressed until late afternoon, I did manage to sort yarn all afternoon. I went through every single bag and basket in the spare room and ended up with a HUGE bag of yarn to donate to St. Monica's (an inpatient rehab in Lincoln that accepts donations for their art therapy program) along with the unsold rubber stamps from last week's sale. Get a load of this bag! Another success in my gone is good month.

I still felt fine, and maybe some better, on Saturday so loaded the fabric into the car and started in on clothes. My goal was to get the spare room under control and I did it. I went through all the clothes piled on the bed and came up with another pile to donate. I also found 3 that Gansey had chewed. Damn cat! When I was done, I had everything in the closet, drawers or totes, safe from her chewing. What are all these clothes you ask? It's 2 entire wardrobes from one and two sizes down from where I am now because I've gained a butt load of weight back. Time to get busy addressing that too.

I was not as productive as I should have been on Sunday, probably because I knew I'd have Monday to catch up since I was home all day because of my 11:30 dental appointment, which was all he had on short notice. I didn't even do laundry! But I did clean up the kitchen and got caught up stashing yarn plus talked to my cousin, my friend Sharyn and both sisters. With the windows open to get some fresh air in the house, I made a charity hat and started a cowl with some of the mystery yarn I'd kept after the big yarn purge. All in all, I was fine with my weekend and would catch up on laundry and cooking on Monday, when it would be raining and I'd be drooling from Novocain. All good.

Week 9 - Letting Things Go

The theme for my week was letting things go. Not a bad way to end the month. But first there was food.

I drove to Natasha's over lunch on Monday to deliver some recuperation tetrazzini. She looked great and we visited for longer than I should have (so much for an hour lunch break) and then she sent me a cute picture of her eating it for supper. That made me feel great. The food theme continued with food day on Tuesday, for which I brought my Mexican cheese dip. On Wednesday, Dodie and I had lunch with Van, who is someone fun on the UAAD executive board. Meeting him may be the only good thing that came from being back on the board. We had fun over salads at Panera. 

After dinner Wednesday night, I broke a tooth while flossing. Clearly there is no justice in the world. I called first thing Thursday morning and they could fit me in Thursday at 4:30. Gotta love a small town dentist. He put in a temp filling and scheduled me for either a replacement filling or crown prep for 10 days out. He won't know which until the drilled starts. Yikes!

About the cleaning lady. I had been frustrated with her and so called her from the car after swimming on Wednesday. Our original orientation had been cut short when Lorri stopped by after church and then took her away to hire her so I wanted to discuss what mattered to me vs. what she could ignore. The talk went well and I had high hopes that I'd finally get a good clean. Yeah, right. When I got home Thursday after the dentist, not only had she not done the cobwebs on the kitchen light that I specifically mentioned but she also hadn't washed the bathroom floor, as evidenced by the mud from shoes I'd let melt on the floor (see pic). Seriously? Time to fire her and remove the annoyance of paying through the nose for crap work. 

Continuing on the removing of annoyance, I decided not to join UNL's Master Gardener program. It's a lame program that frustrates me to no end and I have no chance of getting in enough hours so I didn't pay my dues by the February 28th deadline and crossed that off my list. DONE!

Now for the sale. I had waited to do the final fabric sorting until after the cleaning lady came so brought up all the baskets of fabric when I got home Thursday and started sorting. It took hours but before bedtime, I had all the totes full of smaller pieces with bigger pieces back in the baskets. I left pulling stamps and loading the car for Friday night. Speaking of Friday, when I went outside Friday morning, I found the door of my car wide open. Apparently I'd been planning another trip out to the car. I dodged a bullet that no stray cat got inside and sprayed but I think the big orange kitty who sometimes sleeps on my deck may have slept in there because there was an off smell but at least not urine. Anyway, I loaded the car and pulled the stamps Friday after work as soon as I got home. I'd been making a list of things I might need so pulled those together Friday night too. I went to bed feeling ready. 

I woke up super early so whipped up some banana bread and was at Andrea's at 7:15. She had offered to go with me, which took a load off my mind and would make it a fun day. We arrived at 8:00 and unloaded to our table, leaving some free time to check out other tables before the sale opened at 9:00. There was a Moda rep selling charm packs of quilt fabric that we both got some of. But back to selling... There were steady amounts of people all morning and I sold steadily. Lori came around noon and sat with us chatting for a couple of hours. The people had dried up by then, probably because it was a gorgeous day outside so people were out and about instead of inside. I ended up selling about a third or maybe a half of what I brought and we started packing up at 2:00 along with many other sellers.

Andrea and I ran some errands and were at The Acadian Grille, the Cajun restaurant I wanted to try, when they opened for dinner at 4:00. I got shrimp and grits, which was delish, and we shared a beer. I dropped Andrea and was back home by 5:30. I left the car in the driveway and went inside to collapse. It had been a long day and I ended up making ~$175, which in my mind was not worth all the effort but nothing ventured nothing gained. And I still had tons of fabric to get rid of. Oh well. I was exhausted and waiting for bedtime so it was great when I discovered the series Hunters on Prime. That kept me engaged until it was time to go to bed. 

It was another gorgeous day so between doing 3 loads of laundry and hanging them on the line, I unloaded the car and sorted fabric AGAIN, this time allocating some to donate, some to keep and a basket to take to spinning to see if the quilters want any of it. And since the car was empty and the seats down, I ran to the car wash and vacuumed out the back of the car then went home to put the car back to normal. Otherwise there was sitting/knitting, of course, and no cooking. I had chips and salsa for supper and called it good. 

So it was overall a productive week. I let go of 2 major annoyances and got rid of a bunch of physical stuff. All good. And since Sunday was March 1st, I was implementing my Gone is Good motto for March. My hope is that I will spend the ridiculously light filled yet too cold to work outside days after the too early time change to keep working inside, purging, organizing and donating, so I'm ready to get outside in the yard as soon as spring weather arrives. I have high hopes.