My plans for today

Well enjoy your nice, lazy day !

I have to get some groceries and then I am going to forge on with knitting the second capelet, identical to the one I finished and took for my aunt. Her ex-cleaning lady was visiting and loved it to death, so what could I do but knit one for her, she has ovarian cancer and things do not look too bright for her. Trouble is, I loathe knitting that sort of lacy pattern twice, so I am making myself do it as quickly as possible. I think I put a pic of the original one on rctnp - the wool is local, locally spun, locally hand-dyed and partially silk, very nice to feel, light but warm. I had to buy a little more wool for this one and the only thing suitable was some wool from Uruquay, so it's very international now.

I was being facetious lol A side bar, did you know facetious is about the only word which contains all the vowels in order ?

I will send you the pattern. It is pretty when done and thankfully works from the bottom up so one is progressively decreasing which is always nice ! Pattern Police, ask me how much I care.

I'm prepared for a rather boring day. First I have an appointment with my doctor for my yearly checkup. Oops, I shouldn't talk about health here should I ??? From there it's off to the market to pick up some groceries.

After that I'll come home and think about getting the ironing done. Or maybe I'll just discipline myself enough to work on the finishing for the Oriental Fan. I so want to finish that and get on to the next, more fun project. But there's also the book I started that looks not bad.

So much to do and so little time to do it.

Lucille

I'm gonna take a shower and later go to the library. For maybe the third time in my life, I'm not going to finish a book I've started. It's deadly dull despite having a cute title "Don't Hex with Texas". I'll dump a bunch of stuff at the recycling center on the way home. There was a story about recycling efforts in a small town not far from here -- they weren't going to accept plastic any more because the companies they sold it to were able to get new materials cheaper.

I may take a nap

I will work on the Berlin dragonfly ... doing the two trellises so they intersected properly was such a bitch (such a good word) that after 3 attempts, I finally said what the h and fudged a bit.

Every day I don't go to paying job, the DH tells me that he wants 'my lazy day'. Yah - right!

Oh and I "should" try and make it to Manchester yet today - I need to get DD's name printed on her house jersey (like it will be visible under the hair). And DD wants the December issue of Men's Journal for the layout of the NY Rangers in suits on the ice and there is another magazine with an article about Sean Avery.....

Just arrived - that is lovely. Did you see the one in Needle Pulling Thread (btw, I love that magazine). Must finish scarf first.

It's a strange feeling the first time you don't finish a book, I can recall I felt guilty, about what, I don't know.

She herself has said there are times you have to fudge. I think if one did a lot of her work, there would not be the necessity but I don't know anyone who didn't on their first go. Bear in mind she did seven years training at the Royal School with the very best teachers, before that moment I doubt she had used a needle. They like to take students who have no erroneous ways lol

All right, I've found the jersey, all the books, none of the CD's and all the stuff to go in the mail. And the coupons and the bags...

I will not go play "Who's the Expert" again.....

.I am home for Day 2 getting over a stomach bug - enough details right there LOL.

I hope that, after my morning nap, I can shower, clean up the bedroom and maybe take the dog around the park once this aftrnoon. I aslo need to work on the model stitching I am doing, but have been too busy early in the week and now too headachy too pick up a needle.

Cheryl, I doubt any of us would ever think you are lazy - you and I are often in the same boat - get here, there, everywhere and pick up the dry cleaning too. I am fortunate to have a DH who goes to work at the crack of dawn so he can get home in time to feed the kids early enough for them to have food before practice - otherwise we'd be eating a lot of McDonalds! The kids can cook, but don't like to/want to/have homework. Sigh.

Linda

The executive of the Ottawa Valley Guild of Stitchery is meeting at my house tonight,(I am the treasurer), so I have cleaned the house. Soon I am off to buy some goodies to eat after the meeting, probably grapes and cookies. Next January, the Seville oranges will be around, and my recipe for marmalade calls for grapefruit and lemons as well. These I can prepare anytime and freeze them. Tomorrow the weather looks to be real yucky, so I will buy some grapefruit, and use tomorrow to get them ready. And in between, I can watch the news (price of oil, stockmarkets etc), and do a little stitching on my waterlily. Well, it keeps me out of mischief!

I have done nothing this morning--well, except visiting with all y'all right now. I go in to work at the bookstore at 3 pm, and work until 10:30, so I hope the freezing rain and sleet we have been having the last few nights holds off until I get home tonight. I look forward to seeing the full moon tonight, and, if it is not raining, might even put the top down on the car for the short drive home.

I have deciding that colouring in the lines still suits me as a stitching activity, so today I want to transfer a couple of really retro days of the week type patterns to some Martha Stewart flour sack towels I bought on sale. I have a new position at work, which will entail some widely variable hours. Don't know about you, but when I come home after a late shift (and I will have some ending as late as midnight when Christmas hours kick in), the brain is not ready to shut down? Sometimes it is working too fast to focus on reading, so some really basic stitching might be part of the answer.

So, off to a morning of puttering, some laundry, some basic throwing stuff out, but nothing too strenuous because I fear I have a tonne of magazines to shift tonight. I am hoping to get a schematic done so that other store people don't inadvertantly undo all the hard work the magazine crew does.

And hey, Starbucks brings out their Christmas drinks and goodies tonight. I am hoping their crew will be practising, since our crew are their usual guinea pigs for trying out whether they have got the drinks right, since an eggnog latte would really brighten my shift

Dawne

I took a good look last night, our forecast is for clouds tonight. We know it here as a Beaver Moon.

Take care getting home.

I got home from my morning chores a little while ago. I changed into shorts and a t-shirt because it's hot and humid, let Puff out of the closet where he put himself when I went in to change my clothes, put away my non freezer groceries, looked at the ironing, went to the computer, went back and looked at the ironing again and decided to have some lunch and then do some needlework.

To hell with the ironing.

Lucille

"Lucille" wrote> I got home from my morning chores a little while ago. I changed into

I think you should work up a "To hell with the ironing" sampler. Perhaps with a nice drink with an umbrella pictured on it, in recognition of your hot and humid climate.

Dawne

You can come call my day lazy! Maybe you'll be predicting something.

So far, I've taught three classes, had a girl faint at my feet in the caffeteria (yelled to call 911 and hung out with her until they arrived and her friend took over), come back to my office for office hours and lunch. From here, I'll go pick Cash up at daycare, pick up my order at the printer, pack up my stuff and head to Worcester where I'l register at my hotel, pick up the keynoter for tomorrow's conference and head to dinner. Tomorrow I'm overseeing the results of several months of planning for 280 people and attending an agility class (but without my dog, since I don't have time to get back to Salem to get him before going to Franklin).

Call lazy for Saturday, willya? Oh, no, wait. I have papers to grade....whatever happened to that sabbatical?

Elizabeth

You can come call my day lazy! Maybe you'll be predicting something.

So far, I've taught three classes, had a girl faint at my feet in the caffeteria (yelled to call 911 and hung out with her until they arrived and her friend took over), come back to my office for office hours and lunch. From here, I'll go pick Cash up at daycare, pick up my order at the printer, pack up my stuff and head to Worcester where I'l register at my hotel, pick up the keynoter for tomorrow's conference and head to dinner. Tomorrow I'm overseeing the results of several months of planning for 280 people and attending an agility class (but without my dog, since I don't have time to get back to Salem to get him before going to Franklin).

Call lazy for Saturday, willya? Oh, no, wait. I have papers to grade....whatever happened to that sabbatical?

Elizabeth

That sounds something like my life 20 years ago. I loved it but I got tired.

Lucille

That does sound like fun, but I would prefer a great margarita with salt around the rim of the glass. Don't you need extra salt when it's hot and humid?

Lucille

"Lucille" wrote.

I think so. And what a lovely little picture it would make, nice limey green tones, and maybe you could use some little seed beads around the rim of the glass.

Dawne

I'm curious as to why you didn't just stick her head between her knees?

From here, I'll go pick Cash up at daycare, pick up

I am oh sooooo happy to be a retiree lol

Don't even look for a reason, just have it - though I do think the sampler would be great fun.