Not as expected

 Today is not quite going according to plan. It started out right but I have gotten derailed. Let me catch you up, the morning started out on plan. I woke,  made my to do list, had home care come and go and then I got started on the list. Job one I took down the decorations that I had put up for Friday.

I had the No Cooks to my house for a little St.Patrick’s Day supper. We ordered in Chinese food and played trivia, just basically had a fun filled evening. Lots of laughs and good natured ribbing. I think I should invite them over more often. It does me a world of good to have them around. Plus they bring cookies!

Here is where the train jumped the track. I picked up a book that I had ordered awhile ago but it flitted through my mind, I maybe had bought it before. So I thought I’ll just read a few pages to see if it is the same book. Well 74 pages later I was finally able to get my nose out of it. It’s a very good read so far and no it’s not the same one I thought it was. Derailed! Woman overboard! Doomed!! Well maybe not quite doomed. I have high hopes to at least get a few things off the list before I go to sleep tonight.

I did not plan to blog today but here I am. I also did not plan to sort some paperwork today but I did that as well. I think that counts as much as the list of jobs I made for myself this morning.

I finished the little pink blanket I was knitting. I knit it on my fancy interchangeable knitting needles. I bought these some time ago and tried to knit with them but I could not for the life of me make them stop unscrewing and snagging my yarn. I put/pitched them into a corner and chalked the whole thing up to wasted money. Not the first time I have done that. Well I was watching one of my favourite crafty pod cast “the Crafty Toads” and they were showing how to use the key to tighten the needle tip onto the cord. The heaven’s opened and the angels sang. I found my needles, knit the entire blanket without the things getting unscrewed once! I love them, (the toads) the needles and my finished blanket. I have not blocked it yet, as soon as I do I will take a picture to share.m

I have a list of projects in my head and things in the house already in the queue to be attended to. Days when I am in a funk are not so frequent as they were. I still have blue times but I am hoping with time and with understanding they will lessen and not take over my whole being as they did, there is always hope. You just have to keep moving forewarn as best to can and celebrate the big and the small.

Toodles, Linda 

It’s Friday

 Friday does not have the same appeal as it did when I worked but I still can appreciate the anticipation of the coming weekend. I have currently been deep into my Friday morning routine. This I’d how it goes in my house of a Friday.

I usually laze about until just before home care arrives to do their thing. I get my self organized to face the day just in time for them to arrive. When I see them pull up I submit the order for my guilty weekly   pleasure, my McDonald’s breakfast. It will arrive shortly after the ladies have moved on. While I am munching on breakfast the other deliver shows up. My meals for seniors which contains three meals, salads, buns and a couple of dessert things. You know like cookies, pastries and a square of some sort. I will then indulge in a dessert with my coffee and throughly enjoy it. Once I am stuffed like a tick I will get out my knitting, tune into one of my favourite crafty pod casts “the Crafty Toads “ and I will knit while I listen to their live broadcast. That’s the routine.

Right now I am studiously ignoring the disaster zone that is my kitchen and blogging instead. I will get to it as it very much needs a seeing to.  Right now I am content to be in the living room, looking out at the sunshine glinting off the snow. Mother Nature had a nasty mood swing this past week and decided to give us a winters worth of snow all at once. Girl needs to calm down.

My little knitted blanket is coming along nicely. It’s a lot of stitches because the yarn is so fine but I’m loving working on it. 

I have also finished the little pink fuzzy blanket I was making. I think I will add it to my donate pile, the woman’s shelter can always use blankets.

I went mad this last little while and bought myself a big shot. It’s. a die cutter for scrapbooking. Rather expensive but I got it anyway. I saved for it and I have wanted one for quite some time. 

I feel a solitary scrapbooking event in my future. 

I also bought myself a house hippo. Does  any one remember the house hippo commercial that used to be on tv. YouTube has it if you don’t. I just thought this little guy was too cute and was really cheap. So now she lives with me. Meet Heloise.

Well I guess I should put an end to this blog and think of other things on my list that need my attention. So many things, so little ambition.

Toodles Linda