Reasons why I love Michael

He comes up with things like this:

• Wednesdays are the unflavored rice cakes of the week.
• All the other days never invite Wednesday to parties, Wedensday would just moap around with nothing witty to say.
• Wednesday watches the weather channel a lot.
• Wednesday drives a pre-owned 1996 Nissan Sentra, Tan, AM/FM radio, no options.
• Wednesday's favorite meal is spaghetti with no sauce.

My additions:

• Wednesdays think watching grass grow qualifies as a sport.
• Wednesday wishes he was Monday - because at least Mondays have something to complain about and Wednesday doesn't even have that.

What are you additions?

Rainy day

Yesterday I put in the paperwork to take today off. It had been a long week and we have a very full weekend planned so I knew that nothing was going to get done around the house so I took the day off to get things done. I was hoping that is in addition to gettign things done I could work in the garden or sit out on the patio and knit. But the weather is against me. It is cold and rainy and all plans for sitting outside have been shot. I guess this means I really will have to get some work done. Here is the list:

• Hang Photos that have been sitting in frames with the hammer, nails and level next to them for the better part of 6 months. Seriously - 6 months. Though it was only in the last month that they moved from the guest room to the room where we plan to hang them.
• Photos hung! The one on the left is one of my favorite wedding pictures, the top right is me and my brother and bottom right is Michael and his brother and sister. We are all very cute. David is surprisingly blond in the picture which throws me every time.
  
  
• Clean Hall Bathroom. I cleaned the Master Bath last week, but the hall bath could use a scrubbing.
• Bathroom Scrubbed! I love my bathroom floors. The grey and yellow tile just makes me smile. And after a good scrub they look even better. I have decided that we need a shower curtain liner - no amount of scrubbing will save this one. I've been using seventh generation free and clear all-purpose cleaner - some say clean smells like lemons or pine, but to me you shouldn't be able to smell clean, so I love this product.
  
  
• Sweep Floors. I love having wood floors, but you can tell when they are dirty and they are dirty all the time. I sweep at least once a week and it still always looks like a fur ball exploded and with all the ins and outs from the yard there are little peices of grass that just have to go.
• Floors Swept. And once again I am shocked and appalled by the amount of dust and dirt that is tracked into our home over the course of a week.
  
• Vacuum. Only two rooms have carpet but there is Tallulah hair everywhere. I'm telling you Goldendoodles shed. They may be sweet and wonderful, but they shed - don't let anyone tell you they don't - they are lying.
• Carpet Vacuumed. So much dog hair over so little floor.
  
• Put Clothes Away. We have 2 baskets of clean laundry just sitting in our bedroom. But to put these clothes away I need to pack-up my winter clothes. Something I'm having trouble finding the motivation to do.
  
• Finish Baby Wrap Dress. All the knitting is done, yippee! All that is left to do is sew on the ribbons, block it and add some optional embroidery. I might skip the embroidery.
• Dress Finished! It looks so cute. I can't wait to see it on a baby instead of just a ruler. Now I just have to decide which baby shall wear it. There are so many out there right now.

• Sew Up The Test Bag. I fear I have lost all steam for this project. I really hate making muslins and this was definitely that. But I need to finish it up before I move on to making the real one so I can make sure that I like the size and strap width and length.

• Pay Bills. Technically this is already finished. I just need to track down a few stamps.

• Run My Outside of the House Errands: I'm going to map this out to take the most energy efficient route. Something I never do - I'm a backtracker.
  
• Turn in my CSA Application at the Hen House. $25.00 a week = 2 bags of farm fresh fruits, veggies, milk and meat. You never know what you'll get - but it will always be what is in season and what is locally grown. The trade off for this is that I have promised to stay away from the Farmer's Market this summer. I think it will be a fun experiment in "cooking with what you've got". I'll also get a cook book when I sign up so that will help.
• Swing by Prydes of Old Westport. They seem to be the only place that carries non-plastic food storage containers. I'm on the run from BPA. Before we even think about bringing a baby into this house (and we are not even going to think about doing that for at least another 4 months) it will be as BPA free as I can make it. Luckily we don't have too much plastic to begin with - but what we do have we will be saying "farvel" (that's good-bye in Danish).
• Visit Michaels or JoAnns for another skein of yarn. I'm making a caplet for myself and I'm short about a 1/2 skein. Sigh.
• Pick up Milk. I can alway tell when Matt's been swinging by the house - we go though milk much faster than normal. That and the big bowls are in the sink - the bowls that Michael and I never use because they are too big.
• Errands Run. Mattie joined me. At Prydes I picked up gifts for the three weddings I'll be attending at the end of the month and one small BPA free container. Then we went to the Hen House to sign up for the CSA. I like the CSA program but a HATE the Hen House. It is dark, the people are mean (seriously everyone who works there is unpleasant. At the Hy-Vee everyone is nice. They've even run to the back of the store to get cream cheese for me and did it willingly and with a smile.) and it is expensive. I'll just be running to the market section on Saturdays and getting the heck out. Plus the cookbook that came with the membership is the "Cattlemen's Guide to Healthy Beef". Seriously. Beef? I need to know how to cook the million veggies that will be coming our way this summer - not beef. Also - I didn't find the yarn..boo.
  

Blog style

Once upon time this was a crafting/cooking/things I do blog, but as it does every summer it has turned into a whining about life blog. Partly because during the summer months I craft and cook very little and spend most of my time fretting about work. Last night was the last Walk for PKD of the 2007 season and I thought that this would mean a full nights sleep. Nope I popped awake at 3:00am fretting about work - work things that are already over!
I think it's going to take some time to wind down.

And in my attempt to progress the unwinding I am going to:
a) Work on my red scarf for the red scarf project. Its due in less then a month and I have about 1/3 finished.
b) Actually meal plan. I was inspired and a bit jealous as a friend explained her weekly meal planning and using her freezer for more then just holding frozen pizza.
c) Clean house - Michael is fabulous and super helpful around the house, but there are some jobs that are mine...jobs I have neglected. So I'll be picking up that slack today.
d) Finishing the 2nd baby quilt. The baby was due Friday, so I should really have this finished.
e) Sit in the sun porch and read.

What away to unwind.

Just a Wednesday

Eating: Chicken Tacos with Avocado
Listening: Radio Lab "Beyond Time"
Talking: To my brother (come hang out some time)
Wishing: For the drive to finish my many projects













Note the many things on my desk. The quilt, the pieces for the Bitty Booties, the beginnings of a collar for Tallulah from the new book Bend the Rules Sewing.

Reading: The Subtle Knife
Enjoying: The Air Conditioning
Feeling: Frustrated the Apple Mighty Mouse doesn't work well when your index finger is in a band-aid.
Realizing: That Michael taking up model making has tipped the scales. So between my knitting and his modeling we are officially an 80 year old couple in the bodies of 20 somethings.
Questioning: Male Camel Toe - Seriously, its not a good look on women - its worse on a man. Now I hate the baggy pant look. You know the one - when the guy can only use one hand for any task because the other is being used to hold up his drawers and we are all being flashed his boxers anyway. It's not a good look people! But possibly worse than that are pants that are too tight. I shouldn't be able to see which side you "dress".
Men of the world, I beg you, for all of our sakes - wear appropriately sized pants!

Thursday

Visiting - The office. Well, more than visiting.

Eating - Leftover jambalaya with extra veggies.

Wishing - For healing of all those involved with the Minnesota Bridge collapse. (Alexa, I'm so glad you called to let me know you were safe.)

Enjoying - A full night's sleep for the first time in weeks - and plans for more sleep tonight.

Feeling - Fuzzy and ready for a weekend.

quick run down

Michael is a computer hog.
But I can't really blame him, he's been working on some cool projects which has left me time to work on some of my own like:
- Finishing Harry Potter! (So good - and final)
- Plunging right into The Golden Compass. (Very interesting so far)
- Knitting a second shrug. (The first one turned out very cute so I'm trying again with a few modifications.)
- Watching Season Two of Doctor Who. (Oh David Tennent - you just get yummier)
- Work, work and more work (I love it, but if I haven't gone in early I've stayed late (or both) for the past few weeks, and its starting to wear on me. We are interviewing this week so hopefully we will be getting some extra help soon.)
- Planning out my next sewing project. (Booties!!!)
- Enjoying the bounty of the garden. (I made pesto last night and I'm just waiting for Pepe the Pepper to turn red so I can eat him too.)
- Enjoying the bounty of other peoples gardens. (The farmers market is my new favorite place. This weekend I made zucchini curry soup that even Michael liked from one of my finds.)

Well, that's about it. Hopefully I'll pick up the posting again.
tata!