Rainy days and Tuesdays
Austin has had clear days in the 70s, and even daring the 80s on Sunday, for most of the past week. Today it's pouring rain -- actually a good thing since it will green up the lawn that I'm so awesome to have just mowed! Yeah, that's right! I mowed the lawn, woo hoo! (You really gotta let the little things in life make you happy; you'll live longer and better!)
Therefore nuthin' for it today but a day of knitting and staring at the magic box. I invited my mom over, and we're going to sit around and knit and watch "The Godfather" today, which we both love. I'm really looking forward to it!
My relationship with my mother is really in a good place right now. Lately I've been conscious of the peculiar humor we share. It's particular to my mother's family, and my aunt shares it as well. Naturally, there's just an unique bond of humor and language between my mother and me. It's fun to say something bizarre to her, out of the blue, something weird but not necessarily as part of an established inside joke, and know with utter certainty that she'll Get me, and laugh. It's a certainty one might experience to a degree with a spouse or close friends, but it really is different with family, and it's fun.
My mother knit this hat in January that has "ribs" of puffy rows and then flaw rows -- sorry, no picture available at present. Mama commented at one point that she thinks this hat looks like an Appalachian decorative cover for a toilet paper roll. Since then, this hat has been informally dubbed the, "Toilet Paper Hat," and so it remains. She cracks me up!
I'm almost finished with the baby blanket for the Landreths. I'm putting on the final hem right around, and I'm concerned because it's coming really wonky looking. Mama assures me that once I take the blanket off the needles, it will straighten out and look right. I remain skeptical, however. Unfortunately my skepticism has turned into the sort of discouraging delay that's preventing me from finishing this up. I have less then 2 hours work left on it, but it has sat untouched for days. Today, with help from Mama and the Corleone family, I hope to finish it.
Ian told me yesterday that his last day at work is next Thursday (moved up slightly due to an office move right before what would have been his last day). Although I've known the whole time this was coming up, now it seems sudden and immediate! It only now occurred to me this means that my daily loneliness and isolation comes to an end next Friday. Ian and I will have to work out a new pattern of life together for the time that we're home during the day. He has his portfolio to keep him busy, and I certainly have lots around the house to keep me occupied and out of his hair while he works. I look forward to it!
Mama's here, so the Corleone Family Annual Knit-a-Thon is about to begin.
Trace
Therefore nuthin' for it today but a day of knitting and staring at the magic box. I invited my mom over, and we're going to sit around and knit and watch "The Godfather" today, which we both love. I'm really looking forward to it!
My relationship with my mother is really in a good place right now. Lately I've been conscious of the peculiar humor we share. It's particular to my mother's family, and my aunt shares it as well. Naturally, there's just an unique bond of humor and language between my mother and me. It's fun to say something bizarre to her, out of the blue, something weird but not necessarily as part of an established inside joke, and know with utter certainty that she'll Get me, and laugh. It's a certainty one might experience to a degree with a spouse or close friends, but it really is different with family, and it's fun.
My mother knit this hat in January that has "ribs" of puffy rows and then flaw rows -- sorry, no picture available at present. Mama commented at one point that she thinks this hat looks like an Appalachian decorative cover for a toilet paper roll. Since then, this hat has been informally dubbed the, "Toilet Paper Hat," and so it remains. She cracks me up!
I'm almost finished with the baby blanket for the Landreths. I'm putting on the final hem right around, and I'm concerned because it's coming really wonky looking. Mama assures me that once I take the blanket off the needles, it will straighten out and look right. I remain skeptical, however. Unfortunately my skepticism has turned into the sort of discouraging delay that's preventing me from finishing this up. I have less then 2 hours work left on it, but it has sat untouched for days. Today, with help from Mama and the Corleone family, I hope to finish it.
Ian told me yesterday that his last day at work is next Thursday (moved up slightly due to an office move right before what would have been his last day). Although I've known the whole time this was coming up, now it seems sudden and immediate! It only now occurred to me this means that my daily loneliness and isolation comes to an end next Friday. Ian and I will have to work out a new pattern of life together for the time that we're home during the day. He has his portfolio to keep him busy, and I certainly have lots around the house to keep me occupied and out of his hair while he works. I look forward to it!
Mama's here, so the Corleone Family Annual Knit-a-Thon is about to begin.
Trace