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Jun. 23rd, 2003 10:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesThis weekend was productive, mostly. On Saturday, before it rained, we went out with friends to scope out furniture options for them. I was sort of looking for a new dresser, but I didn't find one I couldn't live without. They made a list of stuff they wanted, and then we all went to lunch, and then they went off to do other things. We came home and then went off to the Arsenal Mall in search of a fleece blanket that would actually fit my bed and some various clothing. I found a blanket, and was presented with a copy of the new Harry Potter book as an early birthday present. I came home and proceeded to practically inhale the book (we got home sometime late afternoon-ish, and I had finished the book by half past midnight). I won't say anything about the plot for the sake of those who haven't read it yet.
Yesterday we went out with the furniture-shopping friends while they bought (and ordered, when they couldn't buy) miscellaneous bookshelves and other necessities. Then there was lunch, and ice cream, and we came home again. I had offered to embroider a pair of linen pants for Hillary, so she picked out a pattern she liked and I started in on the embroidery. I think it works out to about 40 count, if not smaller. At any rate, it's going to be something I can only work on in daylight if I don't want to get a headache. I'm modifying the pattern slightly, because it's sort of rosette-like and the middle of each rosette has about five colors in it, and I'll go blind and insane trying to make that happen.
So, life progresses. I'm going to visit my parents for at least part of next weekend, because my aunt and uncle from Seattle will be in this end of the country for once, and I haven't seen them in years. The last time I saw my uncle, he looked exactly like the Swedish Chef from the Muppet Show, only with slightly tamer eyebrows.
I looked up the weather (since NPR is doing its second beg-a-thon in as many months, and they don't do weather when they're begging) and it says showers today, partly cloudy for the rest of the week, thunderstorms Saturday, rain Sunday and partly cloudy for the rest of next week. Sometimes I wonder where the weather gets its timing from. Can't it rain during the week when I have to spend most of my time indoors?
The annual graduation dinner at work is on Thursday. I wouldn't go if I didn't have to. At least I don't have to pay $60 for it like everybody else does, because I plan the damn thing.
Whee
Yesterday we went out with the furniture-shopping friends while they bought (and ordered, when they couldn't buy) miscellaneous bookshelves and other necessities. Then there was lunch, and ice cream, and we came home again. I had offered to embroider a pair of linen pants for Hillary, so she picked out a pattern she liked and I started in on the embroidery. I think it works out to about 40 count, if not smaller. At any rate, it's going to be something I can only work on in daylight if I don't want to get a headache. I'm modifying the pattern slightly, because it's sort of rosette-like and the middle of each rosette has about five colors in it, and I'll go blind and insane trying to make that happen.
So, life progresses. I'm going to visit my parents for at least part of next weekend, because my aunt and uncle from Seattle will be in this end of the country for once, and I haven't seen them in years. The last time I saw my uncle, he looked exactly like the Swedish Chef from the Muppet Show, only with slightly tamer eyebrows.
I looked up the weather (since NPR is doing its second beg-a-thon in as many months, and they don't do weather when they're begging) and it says showers today, partly cloudy for the rest of the week, thunderstorms Saturday, rain Sunday and partly cloudy for the rest of next week. Sometimes I wonder where the weather gets its timing from. Can't it rain during the week when I have to spend most of my time indoors?
The annual graduation dinner at work is on Thursday. I wouldn't go if I didn't have to. At least I don't have to pay $60 for it like everybody else does, because I plan the damn thing.
Whee
