sometimes morning really has broken.
After three nights in a row featuring outstanding nightmares (night 1: Hitler! night 2: zombies! night 3: covered in insects and they’re even crawling out of my nose and mouth!), I’m grateful for these things:
- an absolutely gorgeous morning, weather-wise. no humidity or excessive heat, just 74 lovely degrees and blue and sunny skies
- a Chinatown run, which means (1) lots of fresh cherries, (2) a bunch of seafood, and (3) very interesting vegetables.
- my favorite music on the iTunes playlist: annie lennox, john prine, REM, feist, amos lee, elton john, diana krall, and bluegrass
- homemade blueberry coffeecake for breakfast, with a big mug of really great coffee
- the pleasure of having done work that was FUN and also well received
- a long day, stretching out in front of me with open arms and nothing planned
Hope it’s the same for all of you. I’m off to actually do something. First, though, I’ve gotta do the twist – “you never can tell” by chuck berry is on!
edit, after dancing: when my kids were little, and i was going to school full-time and working and raising them by myself, i had 4 chore lists – 3 kid-friendly and one for me. each week, the kids’ lists rotated. we’d do a cleaning blitz…we’d each take our list of chores, do them in a pre-arranged amount of time then we’d all meet in the living room when the timer went off. i’d put American Pie on, and we’d dance dance dance until we fell on the ground in a sweaty out-of-breath pile. we’d do the fun and easy dances – the twist, the monkey, the pony, the swim – it didn’t matter. it was just so much fun, and one of my favorite memories. dancing in the living room is the BEST.
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That sounds like such a nice morning/day! I am off to get my hair cut soon, then back home to take my 5 year old to get her hair cut. Then the rest of the day will be spent hanging out at home, doing laundry, and knitting!!
yours sounds like such a nice day too! i hope it was!
Wow on the nightmares. I wonder what brought that on. yikes.
Sounds like a wonderful day esp the coffeecake and coffee
I buy beans from a local roaster/shop and this morning I had roasted coconut. It was so good – if you like coconut that is. . .
I’ve just about got everything organized for my trip so now the question is will it fit into my suitcase! I’m only taking a rolling carry-on bag (plus a backpack). I also worked some on Peasy
The dancing post-cleaning story is awesome!
On her own blog, Laura just wrote a post titled..Packing- Peasy- and Pickles
yeah – and last night was another nightmare! WTF, subconscious?!
I can’t wait to see your Peasy! The last time I checked it wasn’t up on your rav project page yet. Off to check….I’m so excited for your trip, and can’t wait to hear all about it!
Oh good reminder I need to post it on rav as I’m sure you’ve discovered it’s not up
Today I am going to sew the buttons on CPH so will post a FO pic of it as well!!
So sorry to hear you had another nightmare!!
I thought of one idea for your yummy vanilla/hazelnut yarn but not sure you’d have enough so it’s just a thought. On my project page is a snowflake hat in red, white and blue so I thought some sort of stranded hat project done in the round might work with your yarn. The white would really pop against the brown. That was my first stranded project and I didn’t think it was too hard. Just an idea….
On her own blog, Laura just wrote a post titled..Packing- Peasy- and Pickles
oh! That’s a great idea for the Eco Duo! And I might have enough left over for a pair of fingerless mitts. Look at these, they’re made with my exact yarn!
Yay SO glad I could help! I couldn’t get the snowflake pattern to print so remade it. If you like I can send it to you tomorrow – it’s on my work computer.
It’s going to be beautiful! hmm maybe I’ll make one too:)
And the mittens are super cute!
On her own blog, Laura just wrote a post titled..Packing- Peasy- and Pickles