General

Do you ever feel like you’ve forgotten something important that you were supposed to do? I feel like that right now…

Hopefully it wasn’t anything too important!

After spending much of the winter too busy to keep up with general house-related stuff, I’m finally getting around to thorougly cleaning. Except…as long as I’m doing it, I’m doing it right this time – getting rid of stuff I don’t use, changing stuff I don’t like… Which, of course, takes ten times longer and makes a bigger mess before it’s done.

Consequently, no knitting, blogging, or pretty much anything else has happened this weekend.

I’m nowhere near done yet, but I’m tired, and nothing conspires to make you sleepy quite as much as a sleeping puppy. Is it time for bed yet? :)

(Proof that Molly is starting to accept Murphy. At least as a pillow.)

I’ve been so busy setting things up here, and getting used to the new routine, that I haven’t done anything exciting enough to blog about. :P

Must. Knit. Tonight…

(I’m wearing my knitted socks today! I’m going to have to make a few more pairs, since they’re so comfy.)

I got to the gym again this morning! (How many days in a row do you have to do something before it becomes a habit?)

One of the really nice things about working here is that I’m not in a cube. I’m sitting next to a huge window with tons of lovely natural light. And it’s sunny today!

I haven’t knitted in days, and it’s driving me crazy. I have to get some knitting in tonight. I started the pacific northwest shawl, and I still have my sweater sleeves to finish.

I joined (well, re-joined) the local YMCA this morning. I even worked out for a bit! Since I don’t have to commute very far to work anymore, I’m thinking I can use my morning driving time to work out instead. Let’s see how long it lasts…

The new job is going pretty well so far, although I’ve really only managed to get my environment set up. It’s nice – I’m able to go home in the middle of the day to let Molly out. Molly thinks it’s nice too. ;)

I still miss everyone terribly, though. <sigh>

This has been a week of “lasts”. And this is the last time I’ll be blogging from my cute little Apple G3 laptop, since it belongs to work, and it’s staying here when I leave in a little while. I’m not good with last things. Not good at all. I think maybe I wasn’t thinking clearly when I put make-up on this morning…

Hopefully, next week, a week of “firsts”, will make up for it all. :)

You know you’ve had enough of winter when:

The radio is playing as you’re trying to wake up, they mention the weather forecast, you hear “high near 40”, and you drift back off to sleep, dreaming about opening up the pool because it’s going to be 40. Maybe I dream in metric – let’s see, that’d be around 100°F…

As I recall, unlike last spring, in my dream the pool was crystal clear and warm when we opened it. :)

The reality is, there’s over a foot of snow on top of the pool cover, and it’s only going to be 40°F this weekend. I think I liked the dream better. Too bad Denis made me wake up to go to work!

Last night we were at my parents’ house. My brother and my husband were sitting next to each other on the couch, each with a laptop on his lap. I was sitting on the loveseat, knitting. All of a sudden, I thought I smelled something burning, specifically, I thought the chili on the stove was burning. Innocently, I asked, “hey, do you guys smell something?” In unison, they each picked their laptop up, brought it to nose level, and sniffed. I laughed so hard I cried. I could barely find the breath to explain to my parents what was so funny. I need a video camera embedded in the frame of my glasses so I can capture stuff like this…

Today is strange…it’s my last Monday here. I’ve started packing up my stuff – no small feat considering how much I’ve managed to collect over the past few years! I don’t know if this has really finished sinking in yet, and I’m a little worried about how I’m going to feel by Friday, but…it’s not like I’m leaving by choice… I’m kind of sad today. :(

Darn it, the second Harry Potter DVD won’t be out until April 11th! Unfortunately, between the holidays and being sick and the musical I didn’t have time to see both that and Lord of the Rings. Of course, LOTR had to win out. ;) It’s actually still playing in one theater…maybe I can talk Denis into going this weekend. Or, maybe I should learn to be patient…

But I did buy “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” on DVD last night, because it’s such a fun movie. You know what I’ll be watching tonight!

(I shouldn’t be allowed out with my credit card on my own. I was supposed to be looking for Valentine’s and birthday gifts.)