Yes, its monday. Its been a week since I've been at work and only 46 emails left to answer. Oh, now 39 emails.

Lets see. We got the new windows installed. I've attempted to install curtains that posadnik_ivan likes and have failed twice. Would of thunk that valances could cause such strife. Try number 3 will occur this week if I get time. Had two t-day dinners (thursday and Saturday) which were fun.

I made 12 pies and including 2 failures on key lime pie that will be turned into icecream.

My allergies really made me not enjoy Thursday and Friday. I've lost a lot of my sense of taste and the stuff I can take is barely taking the edge off and I'm still not tasting things right.

We got caught in the sand storm on the way to phx on Saturday for the college crewe dinner and that was the suck. Good day there and good fun playing Apples to Apples.

Sunday was a bit of crazy. We bike the pistol hill loop in vail in the morning and up the hill just before pistol hill we had rain, hail and thunder/lightening. It was a wet, cold, miserable ride and then my derailer cable loosened up so I couldn't stay in gear. I'm taking the bike in to performance this week for another tuneup. Glad we did it though, I need to keep off the holiday pounds. Got back from the ride, showered and had lunch at joes. The appreciated the pie we dropped off on Thursday.

Then I spent the day working on Twila's projects and then not getting the house picked up. That will be this afternoon. I also need to finish laundry and get my studio up and going...its the last room to not get back in order after the windows.

The windows have made the house very comfy. Its about 10 degrees warmer than usual and its much quieter. I really like them and it was a really good investment. We are hoping to also select wall material so maybe this early spring we can get that taken care of and work that out to be done and we'll be almost up on all of the home improvement besides landscaping we wanted to do.

Anyhoo..that is the jumbled update.

Well, its been a week. Yup.

I've worked hard at work and at practices. My body is weary and I'm stuffed up to boot which isn't helping things. I've got a few things to finish up on and then things can wait until next week. I've got data reduction that isn't making sense and I know a well rested me will be better than the currently over tired engineer. I need a clean look at the data and monday it can happen. All good.

Gonna get home, clean up the house get things ready for tomorrow. We need snacks and lunch and things...our scribal deadline got pushed a week which means I should be able to crank out one more scroll for the case. I also need to get working more on my A&S stuff and my clothes for the next 3 weeks of events.

So, hopefully, the floor work I have at 1030am will go quickly and life will be good and I can go home. Here's to hoping.

This week has been pretty good for me...not so for other people and I forgot to post about that. My PE Mike went in on monday after having "chest pains" which he thought was just indigestion and ended up having bypass surgery on Tuesday AM. He's doing good but he's gonna be out for a while to heal up. Keep him in your thoughts and honestly folks...go in if your heat burn hasn't cleared up in 8 hours after taking lots of antacid...seriously. Dumb boys..basically my other PE James had to tell him that he was going to call the ambulance if he didn't go in on Monday. Thank goodness he listened. Don't be DUMB!

Got home from a fruitful day at work and I got down to making myself a really nummy omelet. I think there will be more of that tonight. Then I got cracking on my studio and now have it set up for use. Admittedly, a bit more re-org would make it a bit more tidy but its usable and I set my calligraphy stuff up. I'm hoping to get a few scrolls done this week and really hit things hard next week to clean out my case. During the cleaning I did manage to get my new speakers to play my iphone but it doesn't charge it. I can just keep my ipod plugged in and use the aux in cable for the phone too..which is what I will probably do. They both have the same music, I just use the phone for pod casts right now. All good though.

After the studio blitz I changed clothes, grabbed my afghan and headed to grandma's for knit night. Had a really nice time and got to see folk's progress. One of the gals is knitting two socks at once on circular needles and its fascinating. Doing them both at once guarantees that you get equal stitches on each sock, thus matching socks in size, maybe not color repeats depending on your yarn but it also helps with the dreaded "second sock syndrome" which is a plague upon knitters as I understand. Basically, you are triumphant and have finished a sock and now you need to do the other one and its disheartening since you got to do it all over again to get the second one.

So,I had to leave to go to class but I had a good time, especially using the iPhone to get another song in our heads ,"Dead Man's Party, versus "Grandma Got Ran Over by a Reindeer" which was in our heads cause of Viki's granddaughter's little moose toy. Got to class and got going. Paul is obviously in the "lets kick our butts" mentality. Ugh, more legs this week joy! Then while the black sashes tested one of our white belts the rest of us went through the 4 lower forms ad nauseum. Course I don't mind it, I needed to review the lower forms anyway...we probably went through the set about 5 times, usually doing each form twice in each set. So, lots of forms. Then we finished the night off with the gauntlet and that was fun. I got yelled at to not stay so static...uhm, yeah I know..but leg was tired. I'll work on it.

Got home, cleaned up the cat box (I really, really hat clay litter) and then headed to the shower. Got cleaned up and then back to the family room to work on embroidery. I got almost the bottom half of the hammer white done. I think I'm getting faster but I don't know. Then I perused through some books and found some of the information I needed on one of my A&S projects. I need to sit down and start writing out the documentation. Course I also need to order a few more of the York Archeological books too. (okay, ordered books, never mind). Then it was time for bed.

I finished WWZ and was very happy with it...though places were sad etc it was a really good look at the human condition and our society as a whole. Eye opening really. I slept okay, kept waking up but I got up and moving this morning...legs aren't as sore, arms are especially after I slammed my right elbow into the corner of the dresser. Ow..parts of my hand are still tingly. Gah!

On the agenda today are making a call to Stitch It for a blog post, doing some embroidery and of course the hall. Hopefully I can keep up.

Well, yesterday afternoon after our potluck I was feeling...off. I was tired beyond what is normal for me and I was getting a rather scratchy sore throat. I made it through the afternoon only because I had things that had to get done and I got them done and then went home. I slept for about 2 hours on the couch and then made tea..wasn't hungry and laid about more dozing. I got a shower and mel was nice enough to heat up some meat for me. My head was still pounding but I snuggled up and slept rather well.

My voice is kinda raspy this AM. I've got tea and alka seltzer cold to keep me company. I have a few meetings today but the rest will be restful paperwork at my desk. If I had the vacation to spare I would be home right now. I'm doing okay but I'm sure by the end of the day I will not be...sighs. Eh. I'll survive. Its the weekend...it will be okay.

Things on the docket...being baroness for a good chunk of the weekend...cutting out fabric, doing laundry and packing for south carolina. Next week will be very, very busy.