So Mom's decided to keep giving Grandma her weekly bath on Wednesdays, since she gets off work early enough to get there around the same time she was arriving when she was unemployed and had all day to do it in. She's tired, coming home from work like that, but at least that means it's one less thing she'd find herself doing on the weekends. And ( Read more... )

Last night I accomplished very little -- got home and lost two hours to just lying around on my bed, first reading things on my Blackberry and then just lying there unable to motivate myself to do anything else. Eventually I got up and found food and then spent a while reading and putting some rows onto the Warlock Sock. Into bed at 11pm, so ( Read more... )

It feels like I didn't get much of anything done last night -- largely in part because I unexpectedly collapsed when I got home (to a house with working AC, hallelujah! for just the price of a new thermostat plus the service call) and dozed off for like an hour and a half (leaving the cats unfed until Mom got home, bringing Lauren and Aidyn). I ( Read more... )

Tolerable Monday night in which I saw some TV with Mom and got the latter part of the toe and an entire repeat of the Mad Color Weave pattern done on the rainbow sock. (Feeling the urge to do the Slippery Socks pattern with the yarn instead, because the yarn is pooling in the alternating-colors way that the Slippery pattern really works best with, ( Read more... )

Got out of here fairly earlyish last night, having gotten a couple of policies printed during my time at the front desk so I could finally get this account off my desk that I'd been doing off-and-on work on for the last couple of weeks that kept getting interrupted by higher-priority data entry. So that was nice ( Read more... )

There aren't enough hours in the day, and I'm spending half of them at work (or driving to work, or getting ready for work) and I come home and don't have more than two or three hours of being able to do much of anything between dinner and getting ready for bed. ( Whine, whine, whine -- I'm so tired and I get so little time to myself anymore )

So, right, had the house to myself last night. Got home kind of lateish, though, because I wound up swinging by Wal-Mart on the way home from Grandma's in the hope of making one last run at the Valentine's candy before they cleared it out -- and I was just in time, since they'd already cleared the shelves on that aisle and what was left was on a ( Read more... )

Mom got home good and late last night, so I sat around knitting while reading until I started thinking that the best thing for me to do would be to go for an early bedtime. Which is when she got home, and was disappointed to hear that I wasn't up for starting the second season of Downton Abbey (having finished our rewatch of the first season over ( Read more... )

In bed at midnight, an hour later than I wanted to be, but at least I'd finished the ribbing on my pink-and-grey sock and gotten a third of the colorwork band done. Another ten rows and I'm into plain striping -- and I bet I can get that done by the time I go to bed tonight, especially if I get some knitting time at the front desk and at Grandma's ( Read more... )

So Lauren bailed on me at the last minute because she had to babysit for her niece (or rather, her boyfriend's niece), so I went down to visit Paw-Paw by myself on Saturday. The time saved in not having to go collect Lauren (and sit around waiting for her to finish getting herself ready to go, even though I keep showing up late and so by rights ( Read more... )