9 posts tagged “mia”
The vet appointment went well this morning. Mia ***HATES*** to travel, and she was shaking and cowering in the corner of her carrier by the time we got to her appointment, but the vet said to put her carrier on the floor and let her come out on her own, and she seemed to really dig having some place new to explore. Of course, she snorted and growled when they tried to examine her (that's my girl!), but I gave her a treat to calm her down, and then the vet tech gave her an extra treat just to spoil her ...and that calmed me down. :) Now I *know* they'll spoil her so hard while we're gone, she might not even want to come home with me. *L* Even though I told them I'd bring food and toys, they wanted to know all her favorite greens and how she likes to play, and they asked me if it was ok if they just let her have the run of the office while there's someone there. :) She's going to have a fine vacation herself while we're away and I have a lot more peace of mind about it all now.
I am so exhausted. I thought I was run down yesterday, but multiply that weariness by at least ten for today, and add physical aches and pains. I didn't get my neck rub last night, so maybe tonight. I might take some Aleve in the mean time.
We went to meet up with the local NaNo group last night, and they broke me. There were at least three loud conversations going on at that table at all times, and I couldn't follow any single one of them for more than a minute or two. It was great to see everyone, but I just didn't have the energy to keep up, and all the chatter around the table was draining me at an incredible rate. It never got to the point where I can't even make out words any more, but it was definitely headed that way. I was having a hell of a time fighting the urge to put my head down and nod off. Who knows what stupid stuff came out of my mouth. I'm too beat to even care.
Today I'm utterly useless. I keep forgetting what I'm doing. (I started this entry an hour and a half ago.) I think I'm falling asleep with my eyes open, the way I keep losing my place in everything I've tried to do. It took me two hours after coming home this afternoon to drag my ass upstairs and put on comfier clothes. I am completely wiped.
So the stress of the past few weeks is getting closer and closer to being history, now I just need some serious bounce-back time. I think I'm going to put on some quiet instrumental music, and just play in my sketchbook a while. Words are hurting my brain.
I need some gum and a neck rub. My jaw is so tired and sore, my neck and shoulders so knotted, ...for days now.
I bailed on the funeral today. I'm not proud of it, but I am glad I didn't go. I got up early and got my shower and workout out of the way so I could go. I ate a high fiber cereal and some yogurt for breakfast to anchor my nervous stomach. But when it came time to put up my hair and hit the road, I totally chickened out. My stomach started rolling, my blood pressure shot up and I was shaking and dizzy. Stupid nerves. It was the usual social anxiety plus dreading driving myself to the nasty part of town where the funeral home is plus dreading being introduced to 3rd and 4th cousins, all on top of other stress I'm dealing with this week. I started feeling like I was going to throw-up and/or pass out, and I totally bailed. Instead, I put some comfy clothes back on, lit a candle for my dad's Aunt Helen, wished her well on her journey, and asked her to say hi to my Dziadzi for me. I do need to call my dad and apologize though. I hope he understands.
The plumber came by with a contract yesterday. $4800 worth of work to be done. Aieee! It's kind of working out that we're saving money actually though. We were told our water main was ready to fail at any time last year, so we've had our fingers crossed on that for a while now, knowing what a huge and expensive project it would be. Now our sewer line received the same diagnosis, with a quote of $3500'ish just for a new sewer line. So we're saving quite a bit of money by having them both replaced in only one dig-up-the-yard event. I'm trying to remind myself of that anyhow. The near $5k bill still hurts.
But, the work is scheduled for the week we'll be in Ireland after all. Both Craig and the plumber really thought that was fortunate timing. I'm a little antsy about having people in my house while we're half a world away, but the plumber is a good guy, and as long as he's over-seeing things, I can feel some peace-of-mind. ...or at least keep telling myself I do. It's not that I'm afraid of anything going missing. My house is just completely sacred space to me, and it feels very wrong to have near strangers moving through it while I'm so far away. It'll be ok though. And, we won't have to worry about coping without usable plumbing while the work is done.
As for the party planning, ...oy. Lots of little twists and turns there, but the head party-planner is a smart and sassy, dedicated woman and she's ironing out all the wrinkles one by one. I'm going to have to find some way to show my appreciation for her efforts in all of this. Right now my role is pretty straight-forward: I have location and beverages. *breathes* It's going to be ok.
Tomorrow is Mia's vet appointment. *Fingers crossed* that all goes well there and they say she's fit to board.
...One thing at a time.
...And later, batting my eyes at my husband to ask him to work out the knots in my neck.
I'm so not a multitasker. I know being able to multi-task is a badge of pride these days, but you know what? Fuck that! I can give one thing my full attention, thoroughly accomplish a task with integrity and confidence, and then move on to the next. Multitaskers are always doing just enough to get by. I wasn't designed to work that way. (Another in a long list of reasons why I've never wanted children.)
But, I digress...
Feeling the pressure today. There are too many important issues/concerns on my plate right now, and it's grinding on my nerves hard and fast.
I made the reservations for boarding Mia while we're in Ireland. I can almost check that off my list, except they want to examine her first. I don't think that'll be a problem, but I'd really rather just know that finding a plan for her can be checked off my list of worries already. I feel tons guilty enough about leaving her for a week as it is. So, Friday she has an appointment, and I have all fingers and toes crossed that my sweet (*old*) girl is deemed healthy enough to take on as a boarder, and that she likes it there.
I really need to make a packing plan for Ireland already, while I still have time to acquire any wardrobe essentials that might be needed. We're staying casual and packing carry-on only, so packing light is the name of the game. It's going to be colder and rainier this time around though, so quick-drying layers are ideal. I think I'll sit down with a cup of tea in a bit here and start working on that list, just to get it settled in my mind a little.
Oh yeah! I need to call the bank too and see how much time they need to order some Euros for me. Must have the monies before we leave!
Then there's the party planning. It's nigh impossible to say no when it's for someone you love dearly, but I have to start doing that. "No party planning ever" needs to be one of my hard and fast rules. I do not like parties. Attending them is hell enough, planning them is excrutiating! I've already committed to this one though, so I have no choice but to plow through. I'll have to get back to that today too. I put it on the back burner last week when I had other priority issues eating my time and sanity. I can't put it off forever though. It's been haunting me and I just want to be done with it!
Today's election day. We'll be going out to vote when Craig gets home. Not a big deal there. It's a simple ballot this time and I know exactly how I plan to vote. I still get performance anxiety about it though. My brain and all of it's stupid anxiety! Oh well. That'll be a non-issue by 6pm, ...sooner if I can't manage to push it out of my head, because I'll just go out on my own and get it over with for sanity's sake.
Then there's the plumbing. We're now looking at replacing both the sewer line and the water line. Both need doing, disaster is imminent in both cases otherwise. We're talking about $5k in forseeable expense. Oof. The money's not even the biggest stressor, though it certainly registers! We're also talking two, maybe three days without functional plumbing. Argh. It really needs to be done before permafrost, which means before Ireland and preferably before the party I'm hosting, ...which means work needs to start this week ideally. argh. Not much I can do about that right at this minute other than worry, and worrying gets nothing done, so for today at least, I'm going to try to just not think about it.
There'll be a funeral for one of my great aunts this week too. I can keep that bit of stress out of my head for now because details haven't been arranged yet. Hopefully it won't coincide with Mia's vet appointment or the start/progress of plumbing work, because we're down to the wire on those things which need to happen ASAFP and I don't have rescheduling options.
Ok. So if I can get at least three of those things taken care of so they're not weighing on me any more, *then* I can start thinking about the holidays. I really need to jump on that as soon as possible, because holiday stress builds exponentially for me with every passing day.
I do feel better just for having listed it all out though, honestly. All that vague pressure and sense of impending doom never looks as bad when it's organized and prioritized. It'll look even better if I can deal with some of it and just get it crossed off the list though, so I'd better get to it now.
I'm getting really tired of so very much again. Overstimulated. I've been clenching my jaw so tight for over a week now that I have near constant headaches and jaw pain. It's time to retreat from the world again and recharge my sanity and sense of wonder. No more tv, no commercial radio, no news. No reading controversial blog posts or following links to articles that feed the flames of my misanthropy.
And even though I love my job, I'm coming up on the end of one version and ready to start the next, left with the tedium of tying up loose ends, which always makes me feel like Sisyphus.
I need some time off, from everything.
I can't afford much time off from work right now, but I'm taking the rest of today at least, and maybe some or all of tomorrow. The plan is to get myself grounded again, and then I can make up the time off, even this weekend if I have my head together by then.
I don't know that it's just my own issues that have me worn thin right now, but it feels like more, like some weird pressure or storm cloud hanging overhead. I've never much believed in that "veil is thin this time of year" stuff, but there does seem to be an abundance of weirdness. Normally the weirdness delights me. Like the feeling of a hand tucking me in at night, or the gourd I found, plucked from my own garden and left like a gift on the corner of my deck where I like to sit. Probably some squirrel leaving a lunch that he didn't like, but I find those kinds of weird things delightful all the same, especially if you entertain less "sensible" explanations. Ordinary is boring, and harmless out-of-the-ordinary things are delightful in comparison.
Last night though, some weirdness freaked my rabbit out and got her thumping the floor in warning about every ten seconds or so, for maybe twenty minutes. I had just managed to fall asleep after about an hour of meditating on boring objects like straight pins and two-by-fours, trying to get my brain to SHUT THE HELL UP! There was some commotion from downstairs that woke me, and then the thumping started. I went downstairs to check it out, but all the windows and doors seemed secure and nothing was overturned. I sat on the floor and looked under the bed where Mia was hiding. She was freaked. I sat there for a while, talking to her and trying to coax her out with treats, while she continued to beat her foot on the floor. Eventually she came out, and after a little while longer, she crept tentatively back into her room, taking a few steps with her front feet, eyes wide and ears at attention, then after a second or two, her back feet would catch up. She pause again and listen, then creep forward with her front feet again, like some gigantic, furry inchworm, I followed her ever cautious steps into the room and gave her some fresh food, told whatever scared her to knock it off, and shut off the light, ...at which point she ran back under the bed in the next room and thumped the floor again. *sigh* I went back to bed, only hearing a couple more thumps, and spent another hour trying to get back to sleep.
So there lies a lot of my problem today. My sleep was hard fought for and restless at best. My brain has been on overdrive night and day for days now, only temporarly quieted by meditation and sleep when I can get it. And then things just feel kind of off in general.
So I retreat. Self-imposed quiet time. And art. I need to channel all this overstimulation and wild energy into something, so I will draw and craft myself back to sanity. Because right now, and for the past couple of days, I'm most wanting to channel it into a fight with any and every person or thing that confronts me. And my teeth hurt.
For starters, if it's not raining, I might go sit out back and just stare at my gourd for a while, ...maybe fill the bird feeders and leave some extra seed and nuts out for whatever rodent delivered such a fine and only barely tasted offering.
I'm getting so very excited about our upcoming vacation. When our travel agent started looking at airfare, the best route to Ireland was through Amsterdam, so Craig asked him to give us a one day layover on our way home so we could have a little time to get a quick peek at the city. It's not a lot of time at all, not for some place we've never been, but it's a nice way to audition the city for future vacation plans. I figure we'll probably have enough time to check out a museum or two, walk around a bit to get a taste of the city, and find a good restaurant for dinner. The Steltman Gallery that features Michael Parkes' lithographs is in Amsterdam, so I'm going to have to look up the location and hours for that. :) WOOT! I love exploring new places!
I'm totally stoked about the driving tour through Ireland though! I'm looking forward to going back to a few of our favorite spots like Cashel, Ennis and Slea Head, but I'm also looking forward to seeing new places like Dublin, Connemara and Galway! I'm looking into a visit to the Hill of Tara too, hoping to see it before the M-3 highway project trashes too much of it. It looks like our suggested driving route takes us pretty damn close to the area on the way back to Dublin, so it shouldn't be too difficult to work it in.
It'll be good to experience the weather in Ireland in November too, given how much I currently want to move there. I did some quick research, and it looks like November can be rainy with a chance of snow. I don't know why, the thoughts of warmer sea air probably, but I wasn't expecting that Ireland ever saw much snow. I still want to move there, my thinking being that we'd be close enough to the mountain ranges of Europe for some awesomely snowy winter vacations if I really needed a snow fix. I told Craig though, if it snows in Ireland while we're there, I'm taking it as a serious sign that we're supposed to stay.
I went and looked up all of our hotels yesterday, and they are swank! They all have fitness centers and pubs and complimetary breakfasts. The hotel in Killarney has a *gorgeous* pool, and the Galway hotel has a spa with all sorts of crazy offerings including an ice cave(!) ...whatever the hell that is. *L* Of course, I don't expect to be spending enough time in our hotel to take advantage of most amenities, but it's still nice to know we'll be staying in clean, beautiful, comfortable places, and the fitness centers and pool could come in handy if I can stay disciplined enough to get through a daily workout when there's so much sight-seeing to do. ...Honestly, I'm not going to feel *at all* guilty if there's too much to see to make time for working out, but it's nice to know I have the option.
I was thinking I'd board Mia at the vets' for the week we're gone, but I'm starting to have second thoughts about that. I have to get out there to see their boarding facilities. She's used to having the run of a quiet house. If they're going to have her in a small cage listening to squaking parrots and exotic birds all day every day, well I don't know if I can do that to her. That's kind of like sending your kid to San Quintin while you jaunt off to Europe for a week. I'm thinking about getting a house-sitter if the boarding thing doesn't look as swank as our hotels are. It's always so tricky making sure our bunnies are going to be well looked after when we travel. I have a few options, I suppose.
We spent an hour outside last night looking for meteors. The neighbor's porch light came on almost as soon as we stepped outside, and it was on for quite a while, but we still managed to see a few meteors despite the light pollution. We counted 13 meteors (numbers 10 and 13 being amazingly huge with long, bright trails), 4 bats, 2 satellite(or ISS?) sightings and countless planes. And I only got a couple mosquito bites. :)
Well, my coffee cup is empty and I'm starting to feel my brain kick in, so I guess I'd better get busy and get some stuff done today. I have big plans for today. Big plans for tomorrow too. ...And Saturday. Pretty much, big plans from here on out for the forseeable future, ...'til the end of the year at least. :) Life is *really* good!
My neighbors had a fire going in their yard last night. The smell of it was bothering my asthma, like smoke sometimes does. I've seen lots of their stupid antics over the years, and honestly, I don't trust them to burn clean wood. It wouldn't surprise me if they tore lead-paint covered boards off of their garage to burn them, burned pressure treated lumber, cut and burned some of that poison ivy tree growing up through their garage, burned garbage, ..., etc. So I closed the windows. This morning I was surprised at how smoky it still smelled downstairs, ...until I stepped out on the deck and saw a thick plume of smoke still rising from the fire pit. It looks like there's a lid on it, but it must not be on tight. So good of them to leave that smoldering all night. Smoky the Bear would love them. *rolls eyes*
I'm trying harder than ever to stay positive recently. I've been trying to convince myself that the whole world has e.s.p. and can hear my every thought, so I'll quickly correct myself when even *thinking* catty things. As you can see by the paragraph above, it's hella hard! Yesterday it was me that was smoldering. I was pretty sure this morning would be a pressure-releasing explosion of meanness. I went to bed planning ways to curb the damage. Then this morning I woke up with some pretty bad back pain just as Craig was coming up for his shower after working out. He saw that I was awake and told me there was a rainbow over the house. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmjnh (bunny typing detected)
As I was saying... :) Rainbow. It was starting in the western and slightly northern part of the sky, arching over our house towards the east. I have *never* seen a rainbow run in that direction. It was cool, and strange. But it also softened up my mood quite a bit, so the tsunami of negativity that was threatening has subsided mostly, and it's back to the standard thought and attitude monitoring efforts.
I've really been noticing how very contagious negativity is. It's kind of scary. You try to share something uplifting, and a lot of people will resist and grumble and even avoid you or put you down for being too chipper. But then one person says something crabby and it starts an avalanche of pissing, moaning and fighting. I can still feel the pull to join in, but I've been better than ever at zipping my lip when I've nothing nice to say, so the effort to keep my head space clean must be paying off already. Hopefully it will get easier.
Mia has been doing ok this week. She still prefers "the bunny room" to the living room, where Craig and I can usually be found. I've moved some of her rugs out, and one of her houses (boxes), and I scatter Cheerios and raisins around in the livingroom to try to convince her that is the place to be. She prefers the bunny room though. And she still seems to be looking for Jasmine once in a while. She's started snuggling with Jasmine's toy rabbit though, so I'm hoping that's progress.
She won't let me put her harness on her yet, but I feed her treats through the collar and she pokes her head through it to get them, and I sometimes just lay the thing on her back which she barely even notices, so that's good. I leave it on the floor for her to investigate whenever she wants and get used to. Everything has to go so.very.slowly with rabbits. Being prey, they're usually extremely slow to trust and adapt to change. I would absolutely love to let her run around the yard this morning though. It's so hard to resist the temptation to force her into her harness and carry her outside, which would probably traumatize her so much that it would be the last time we'd ever get her outside. :/. ....But then, the yard is still filled with smoke from whatever the neighbors were (are?) burning, so today probably isn't the best day for playing outside anyhow.
We had a long holiday weekend. Craig took Thursday and Monday off, in addition to having Friday off. Stuff happened.
My mental "week" started off last Tuesday when I had a pretty big anxiety attack. I was beyond the "exercise or meditate" remedies and couldn't think of any other way to calm myself down, so I added a little pomegranate liqueur to some soda and had that with my lunch. I had goggled "anxiety and alcohol", just to make sure it wasn't going to make me feel worse, and came up with page after page of warnings about needing 12-step programs and such. In the moment, I felt really low for resorting to alcohol as a remedy, but a) it worked, b) it worked fast, and c) once I was past the panic, I realized that I only have these attacks once or twice a year, and if a little bit of very weak alcohol helps me calm down once or twice a year, I really don't think I have a problem. Plus, d) less side-effects to worry about than pharmaceutical remedies. The next day we were talking with a coworker who brews beer, discussing the stigma of alcohol in the US. He had taken some European visitors out for breakfast, and was amused when they blew the waitresses mind by trying to order beer in the morning. So I've decided not to feel bad about having a sip with my lunch to bring my brain back to reality, stop the tears, and calm my racing heart and trembling hands. It wasn't a fifth of anything or even a whole glass of wine. It was a shot of very low alcohol content liqueur in some soda, and it calmed me down perfectly.
Wednesday I went to the office with Craig. I had a big meeting I preferred to actually attend rather than call in to, and my car was in the shop for a leaky master cylinder. It was to be a longer-than usual meeting discussing things that completely mix up my to-do list, but in a good way I think. Craig was more than willing to use my "needing a ride home" at lunch time as an excuse to take some well-deserved comp time and start the weekend early. We had Thai for lunch, ran some errands and went home to chill.
I don't honestly remember everything we did this weekend, but we did set up our new tent. It's pretty awesome. It was super easy to set up (and take down). We did sleep in it one night, a little backyard camping, which was my first time sleeping in a tent. Very relaxing to be outside, even if it was only in our backyard. Amazingly cold too, for July! I can't wait to actually go camping some time soon, after Mia settles into a new routine and I can board her for the weekend without worrying about her.
We also had our traditional 4th of July picnic and enjoyed the fireworks at BG, even with the rude people there. If you're going to play catch in the middle of a crowd of picnickers, you'd better be able to actually ...you know, CATCH!!! We had a ton of near misses with a baseball, and the same group tossed a football that would've turned over a chair and hit Craig right in the head if we hadn't been paying attention to their dumb game of almost-catch. I was fantasizing about stabbing the football with my pocket knife each time it landed next to us, and handing it back that way.
The fireworks themselves were most enjoyable, and highly entertaining. They seemed a little sparser than in previous years, and I figured it was a budget thing, times being what they are. After the finale, there was a huge encoure though, and then a second one. And then as everyone was walking back to their cars, large fireworks continued to go off in the sky for another 15 minutes or so. Methinks they had some wiring/fuse issues. :) They were gorgeous, as always though, and the crowd watch in near silent awe, except when the perfect smiley face burst over all our heads and cracked everyone up. :)
Sunday morning we went out for breakfast, and after being playfully harassed by the waitress and enjoying a good meal, we were told that some other couple had paid our bill with the message, "Have a nice day." Craig and I were momentarily stunned by the act of kindness. It's silly how stupid difficult it was to process a random kind deed like that without suspicion and intense curiousity. Our waitress winked and said, "I think you have an admirer, and I think it was HIM, not her." Then Craig tripped a circuit in her brain when he replied, "I'm ok with that. I'll take any admirers I can get these days!" *L* :) We picked an older couple in the restaurant and anonymously paid for their breakfast before we left, passing on the good deed.
We also had a too-brief visit from some good friends this weekend, we did a little antiquing, Craig worked on a project in the garage, ....um, I don't know what else. Sunday and Monday my thoughts were pretty much all on Jasmine.
Yesterday, on our way home from the vet, we stopped and picked up a harness and leash for Mia. We're going to have to provide her with a lot more entertainment and enrichment now that she's without bunny companionship. I'm going to *TRY* to leash train her so I can take her out in the yard once in a while. I may build a rabbit run too, but with the feral cats and eagles and some toxic plants and the large deck to hide under and her natural ability to dig and run fast... well I'm not going to be letting her have the run of the yard. I figured we'd try the harness thing first. We picked out an obnoxiously pink harness and leash, with a blinged out heart on it. I don't know why. It made me laugh when I was feeling down, so Mia must suffer it ...at least until she chews it to shreds. :)
So the "week" started with an anxiety attack and ended with the sad loss of a furry friend, but there was a lot of good stuff in between last Tuesday and yesterday.
And now, Mia seems to have fallen asleep with her eyes open, like she does, so I'm going to get up off this hard floor, go hang up some laundry, and actually try to get some work done.
Let's see... Last I wrote, my allergy meds were having nasty side effects. I quit them and felt better. Still sick though. :/ This is *REALLY* getting old.
Took Jasmine back to the vet. The good news is her ulcerated cornea is healed. The bad news is that her sinuses are blocked and we have to continue with this rigorous three treatments per day schedule FOR A MONTH! This is wearing both me and Jasmine out. She does seem to be a happier bunny in general on the meds though. It's only when I'm trying to give them to her that she scratches and bites. *sigh*
The vet appointment itself was kind of traumatic. They put numbing drops in her eyes, then took a blunt syringe full of warm saline, inserted it *way* down in the front corner of her eye, and tried to flush out her nasal cavity by pushing water through. ...Except the poor girl is so stuffed up, the needle broke off the plastic syringe and water went everywhere. And the needle was just sticking out of her eye! I squealed and got a little queasy. They pulled the needle out, reattached everything, tried the other eye, AND THE EXACT SAME THING HAPPENED! I contained myself a little better with just a *meep*. It was horrible. They told me Jasmine was numbed up and it shouldn't have bothered her. Numb or not, I think a large piece of metal sticking into your sinuses THROUGH YOUR EYE is kind of unnatural and upsetting. Poor girl. I'd taken Mia in the carrier also that day, because the roads were bad, the temps were worse and it took us an hour to get there and another hour home. Mia provided Jasmine with warm snuggles and stress relief. ...She also made the carrier MUCH heavier!
In other bunny news, they'd liked the little handfuls of snow we'd brought in for them before, so we brought in a whole box this time, and they LOVED it. Mostly they ate it, but Mia thought it was nice to sit in. She's such a goof!
And then in other winter news, the week has seen my car doors frozen shut nearly every day, Craig's car so frozen that it wouldn't turn over, and pipes in the house frozen and, in one small instance, broken. Craig thinks our roof is leaking again too. And, have I mentioned that I'm still sick? I honestly still love winter though. The snow is making me happy. We haven't had so much of it stick around so long in quite a while. I hope we get more this week.
So that's mostly what's been going on for us this week. (Oh yeah, and BSG finally, which was AWESOME!!!!) Mostly it's been cold and I've been sick. I'm feeling completely anti-social these days, and I'm okay with that. Winter is the time for hibernating, and I'm pretty much doing that the best I can and enjoying the hell out of the solitude.
We did go out today though, for my nephew's 2nd birthday celebration. He's absolutely adorable, and it was a fun two hours. Back home now though, back to hibernating.
After years of keeping the bunnies contained with a puppy gate, Mia has finally figured out how to fold it out of the way and let herself out. While amusing, this is not a good development. I'm sure I can secure it somehow (my brain is much bigger and I have opposable thumbs), but I'm lazy and it was nice just being able to easily slide it around myself whenever I needed to all this time.
Kroger had mini-muffin pans on sale, buy one, get one free. YAY! I've been wanting mini-muffin pans for a while, but have been too frugal to buy the good ones and too picky to buy the cheap crap. I made zucchini mini-muffins today. Delicious and so cute.
I've remembered that I can view text files on my mp3 player while listening to music. This feature never really interested me before, but today when I was debating whether I should print out my recipe or haul my laptop out to the kitchen, I remembered about the text files and instead loaded the recipe onto my mp3 player. It was quite a nice way to work, listening to music and always having my recipe at hand for reference. Now I'm thinking about making an arm-band, or maybe figuring out how to hang it upside down from my neck so it's readable and mostly hands-free.
It's candle season again! I have my first two burning right now. My MIL gave me a couple more bags of church candles, so I'm quite candle-rich! I love these church candles because they burn so very evenly and clean. I really need to clean my house up and get my autumn decorations out, then deck the place out with candles. I love this time of year!
...That's all I have right now, I guess. I spent the weekend doing very minor home improvement type things, but it feels like time well-spent because the home projects list is soooooo long that any time I can cross something off it makes me feel accomplished. I did get the mudroom cleaned up though, and that's most exciting because I have room to work with my torch in there again now. I'm hoping the work I have planned for tomorrow goes smoothly and I can squeeze in some torch time!
Ok. Time to feed the bunnies and call it a night. I'm looking forward to this week. I intend to get so very much done.
