Three Day's of Rest

Yeah!!! I actually have someone covering all the conference calls that were set up for tomorrow, so I can sleep in, go knitting on time & visit Amazing Threads (preferred LYS) to use my discount on yarn!

To top all this off, tomorrow is my birthday, so I am really excited that I will be living this day of luxury! (Maybe I will even get breakfast in bed?) I had the coolest phone message today - my great aunt Kat (turned 103 last Sunday) sang me Happy Birthday! She said she called while she was thinking about it so she wouldn't forget tomorrow - hah - she doesn't forget much of anything!

Saturday is almost completely restful - there is the baby shower I am co-hosting at noon, but I think that will go well. Again - rest of the time can be filled with fun.

Sunday is church, possibly shopping with my dd & her friend and then a fun gathering with our Couples Life Group.

This week I was one of the 'everybody workin for the weekend'! Can you name the music artist who sang that song.

Friday - SNOW!?!?!?!?

OK, I love snow and downhill skiing, but not today! I fell asleep last night about 8pm and overslept this morning (probably a good thing on vacation), but missed knitting at Dunn's. I have the bottom 1/2 of G's room to finish, no ambition left. I have to take M to hair appt. at 11:45, G needs a hair cut, need to make a bank run and I still haven't prepared for the 4:30pm tax guy appt.

I THINK MY VACATION IS OVER!

Ok, enough of the pity party, I need to get moving! Mantra for today - the better prepared I am for tax appt. the more likely the tax return! READY, SET GO...

Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday

So, according to my companies holiday calendar they are celebrating today as a paid holiday. I think that is great, with 1 major issue: it is 1:47am and I am on a conference call for work. The meeting started at midnight and we are hoping to end before 4am. What part of this seems like a company holiday? Maybe the thing that is making me the crabbiest is that this meeting is an attempt to provide our vendor (we are the customer) insight into the issues we are having with their product. This is the same vendor who stopped our project cold because they all had to take the month of July off (Finland tradition?).

Ok, enough whining. I will get to sleep during the day tomorrow - after I get my dh off on a trip to NY at 7am. My goals for tomorrow were (before I learned of this meeting) house cleaning, trip to look at fabric for couch, LYS (local yarn store), hang out and knit. I think I will be much less motivated.

My dd and her friend did get more of my book collection into LibraryThing. It amazed us both how many books we actually have. All but dh are avid readers. It is a pretty cool site, would recommend a click over there to take a peak if you are a book hoarder like me.

Lazy Saturday

Isn't it nice when a Saturday comes along and you don't really have anything pressing to do? That is how today felt. The whole family just 'vegged'. Ok, I guess my kids and dh were a little active - they went rollerblading. Dh felt pretty out of shape when he came home. My ds runs in the house and tells me to be nice to him, he had a tough time - kids! We even had time this evening to learn a new game called Dutch Blitz. It was fun and could be played by all (8yo &up).

Some of the relaxing could have been
some blues - Jaz leaves tomorrow, but
I think everyone knows that this is
truly best for her. During my down time,
I continued work on my Wallaby
sweater. I have the arms complete.
Yesterday morning I created the pouch and last night I was able to attach it at the top. I have learned that knitting for big folks take alot more time -not just yarn.
Hope it will be worn!
Good night. Deb