What is hard for me is that I like to be home. I am a creature of habit; some would say in a rut, others say that as long as your rut is comfortable, who cares. I love to go out, to see new things, and to have fun, but when it comes down to it, when given a choice, I would choose to be home more often than not. And I stress when I am away from home. I worry about the cats, the house, and the business. This week I went away thinking we were almost out of heating oil, so that stressed me, and there was a storm coming, so that stressed me, and I had things to do, so that stressed me. Somehow in all of that I figured a way to have myself a bit of fun.
Sunday C was gone (in Haarlem, the Netherlands) and he called me early in the morning (my time, a 6 hour difference) to tell me he was there and safe. I spent the day doing show applications, laundry, and blogging. I also went and explored Wegmans for gluten free food- of which I found quite a bit, but it is all so expensive.
Monday I got quite a bit done before I left- emails, orders, blog, exercise, shower/shave, pack clothes, cat food, cat water, clean the kitchen, eat breakfast, and pack knitting. Around noon B picked me up and we started down to Atlantic City. On the way we stopped at one of her favorite bead shops, which just happens to be in the same complex as one of my favorite yarn shops, and right next to a quilting shop (I don’t quilt, but I know people who do). I picked up some yarn for a project I am working on for a swap (So I can’t say much about it just in case my swap partner is reading this) and a gift for the swap recipient as well. We made it to AC and had linner (lunch/dinner) and lost some $.
Tuesday: Casino hopping, eating, losing more $
Wednesday: the morning was raining something fierce so we left after lunch and stopped at a new bead shop and a new yarn shop that neither of us had been to before. Unfortunately, B didn’t like her bead shop as much as I was in love with the yarn shop. I found some sock yarn that I never can find, and spent way too much $ there in it. Later that night my dad came to visit and he had to fix something in his truck so it was off to Home Depot, then dinner, and then shoveling the snow before it turned to ice.
Thursday I treated like it was Friday but got even less accomplished. I answered emails, went over to Stone Soup Studios to talk about an event in March (more info later), watched the NASCAR Duels and knit.
Friday C came home in the early evening so I spent the morning doing laundry, and dishes, and changing sheet, bringing out garbage, answering e-mails, making copies of some patterns in some magazines, put stuff where it belonged (the house was a wreck), had brunch, emptied the van, did a little soaping stuff, and sent out two orders.
Saturday ended up being a lazy day. C was tired from his trip and I feel like I am fighting off some sort of cold. Just achy all over and cold in my joints, a sore kind of cold, like after you shiver for a long time. So I painted the office some (almost done) and napped, and knit. See, lazy day.
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