So I haven't checked or written here since the December 18th. I was done for the year for work but had started the morning with things like getting a crown. It was not painful at the time other than the shots, but afterwards and still I have nerve pain. I think I have damaged nerves on that side and things just ache for weeks. So I've been dealing with that alot. Luckily I didn't need a root canal and I get the permanent crown on the 15th.

Frdiay the 20th I went to Ari's and cut out my dresses. We did dinner at Guadalajara grill and that was most excellent. Best salsa I ever had and we took the leftovers home for mel to make salsa bread. The next 2 weeks were holiday prep, cleaning, cleaning cleaning the house, sewing sewing sewing with breaks for Christmas and New Years. I did make all of the pie crusts for pies and they turned out amazing and did the good puff up in the oven. Mel did wonderful pizzas for Christmas Eve. We had Wander over for that which was absolutely lovely. Shanda brought lots of booze to try. It was a very nice and relaxing christmas. The goose was tasty that Mel and Ari did. We had mashed potatoes I made from roasted potatoes and green bean casserole. All of which turned out lovely.

We did small gifts this year minus me buying Mel his new beer fridge and him buying me my new serger. We spent more on the serger (babylock Celebrate) than I wanted but I'm replacing a hand-me-down machine from 1981 and this will last me the rest of my sewing life. So meh. The fridge is a SMEG knock off from Home Depot. Its bright red. The wine fridge we had went to Poe for her she-shed. The beer fridge went with Linnet. So more stuff out of my house.

Benton's room got completely emptied, cleaned and rearranged. And I found a nice second hand dresser to add to the room that fit in his closet so its not a dumping ground of stuff. Shanda also drove down a new to us bookcase that while it barely fit to get into the room is perfect and we got rid of a POS. We will be getting more from her stock of bookcases and from here adoptive father's estate to replace the crappy ones in the family room.

Cool things I got for xmas: books I've been wanting, a ryobi battery light/magnifier, rose jewelry from Ari, Legos from the hucks, a new matt for rolling out dough, meisen plas items, booze, an awesome bag of a RBF cat knitting that states "Easily distracted by Cats and Yarn from Ed/Asa, a dish towel that says "I'm really not the kind of person you want to put on speaker without a warning", pretty amythyst earrings from Shanda, a scent diffuser setup from her as well, yarn from the co-op in Minnesota, silver napkin rings, a castiron basting pot for the grill, a silver julep spoon.

But the new serger made things perfect. I was able to keep the silk brocade from shedding, the linen was perfect to work with and I'm again so happy I have a good steam iron. Cutting necklines is always a PITA but Ari said I needed to do a mockup and wow did that help since I had a double facing and it was good to know what went to what side. I still had to fix the back neckline a bit but meh. All good. I think the over dress turned our perfect and the under was simple but I added just a thin piece of trim and its really pretty. Becca helped me get the hem finished and the sleeve cuff buttons/loops done. My brain was not braining by the time we got to the vigil.

But can I just state that 1) my house looks amazing, 2)Mel is a rockstar and worked his ass off with Benton on his room, moving shit, pulling stuff off of the porch etc. 3) he hid a surprise for my elevation. The household did amazing. Tym and Rob, Mel and the boys all helped too to get things ready. The setup was magical in our secret porch, The boys finished up the path from the shop to the trees with bricks and then put in a pathway marker through the side yard.

We had about 40 people attend which was nice. It good to chat with folks and listen to them doing the "where are we going?" on the hidden path. Having this vigil really helped with my imposter syndrome and do I deserve this. I got gifts too which I was not expecting. Herveus sent pelicans with Megan. Lageartha made me a pelican. Sym gave me a John Wick coin since we have a Baba Yaga schtick for my ceremony. I tucked that into my bra for the event as good luck.

We had a very nice time at the vigil. The boys got a good chunk of the left over firewood burned. Mel ran his butt off with smoked salmon, chicken, sausages and the most amazing challah braided ring ever. Poe's meringues were amazing. Dominique made chicken teriyaki and veggie skewers (and then she kicked ass and ran the kitchen crew at the event without being asked). I made tasty banana bread that was devoured. Dom made tasty beer and I will admit I had a hangover the next morning, lol. But we rolled with things and got to site just after opening. Since we had seated hats visiting we brought the household loner chairs. Things were a bit chaotic and our household grabbed some tables to sit outside for the feast. But first was court which I will right about tomorrow.

Its been a minute since I updated. oops. But we had the week of crazy at work before the Thanksgiving holiday. We traveled to Seattle early on Saturday the 18th, waited for the BIL/SIL to get in. I had rental car shenanigans that i had to deal with but we got all 7 of us loaded into the suburban. Can I say how much I hate not being able to rent through National for work anymore? We have to use Avis and they just suck. Anyhoo, we got out of seattle, grabbed lunch for the South Carolina family and then wound our way up through mountain passes into the high desert that is NE Washington State. We got in just at dinner time which was nice. Momma Ellen looked really good and we had a nice evening of chatting and getting things organized for what we needed to do in the morning for food shopping etc. We meal planned for the week. We spent the week doing things around the house for Mom. Well Mel and Rob did. I cooked a lot and crafted on mel's socks...though I never finished one. It was seriously in a time loop of knitting. I was not sleeping well most of the week and then got a bad asthma cough. Which resulted in me getting a chest issue when we got back. But we had a nice visit. did a bit of antiquing on our way back.

So the rental car had all of the bells and whistles but the main system for the electronics kept glitching and I couldn't use the onboard nav or the sound system. We had a ceiling piece come off on my nehpew from the middle third row seatbelt well and there was a piece of trim in the back that would not go down. I dropped folks off at the hotel at the airport and then went to return the rental car. It was about 20F and windy with the sea chill in the air. I got the car into the return line but pulled all the way to the front so they would have to deal with me first. I talked with the manager and explained and showed him the issues. They rebated me 110$ off the rental which was really nice. still a PITA to deal with. Then I had the fun of getting bussed to the airport, then I had to weave my way through the under construction section, to a skybridge, through a light rail station and finally out into the street to walk to my hotel a block down. It was chilly. I had my hat, half gloves and my thermal shirt but I was super chilled when I arrived at out table for dinner. We had adjoining rooms with the family so that was nice as well all cycled through showers and good byes. They had to get up at 4am to catch their flight.

SEA-TAC had their shit in a sock and you ahd to go down an escalator and then up stairs to get into the line for the security. Oh, well but once we got to security it went pretty quickly. Benton's backpack got pulled for a bag of rocks. Lol. But all good. We got to our gate and then I foraged for food. Benton wwanted subway for breakfast. Sighs. But I got that and coffees and some local cheese stick for mel. Mel went back and got a small cooler of cheese from Beechers Cheese. Our flight was good. I slept for most of it and that was also good as breathing sucked.

But we all managed to relax and get ready for Monday. I was beat...my blood ox was hovering around 92. I took it easy for the next few days and felt better. Did not go into work but Wednesday night Mel started coming down with something... Not my thing..I have no head congestion just the cough and some phlegm that Mucinex helps with. Benton has also had the same thing as mel but not so bad. He's been tired and snuffly but able to stay awake etc. Mel has has momemts of sleep. Spicy has been very happy to have snuggly humans and has been snuggling under blankets at times. I've had some bouts with insomnia and been up with her snuggling my feet on the couch. Insomnia is keeping me stressing about things with my mother's estate. The probate has brought up things we thought were handled and then they canceled her 401k at work and I had to scramble to get that sorted and moved to an inherited IRA at a different place. I hate the fact that my mother's generation was to have money ferreted away in way too many places and I have to track it all and I'd love to have it all in one place but isn't a possibility. Additionally, she had stocks in 2 different ethanol plants and I'm now the owner of shares and oof. For a woman who bitched and scrimped about money she sure had it handled. Sighs. Grumble...flail. Ugh. and inherited IRAs suck cause I have to dispense with them by 10 years from her date of death. That is a lot of paperwork to deal with. Sighs and that is not including the land issue. sighs.

Anyhoo...I've done a bit of reading and knitting.

For reading I finally finished #36 The Enchantress which was meh. I finished it cause I was curious but not curious enough to read the next 4 books.

#37 was The Innocent Sleep by Seanan McGuire

#38 was Hell Bent by Devon Monk

I will start #39 tonight which is Lore Olympus #5. I will see what I will read after that. I have new T. Kingfisher, an other series to start and yeah. We shall see what is my fancy.

The ankle has been stiff and aggravated by my good tennis shoes. Anything that touches or rubs against the ankle at the point to attach the tendon it gets irritated. I need to research to find out what the heck.

My last post was at the beginning of my last week of work. The week was okay and I ended the evening with a nice happy hour at Borderlands Brewing Company. Got to meet a lot of the EE team and paid for their dinners as thank you. That Saturday I did the 12 Days of Xmas workout and made it through day 8 and felt good. Then after a lovely shower I went to Dom and Willa's and rolled up my character for our one shot Call of Cthulhu game for New Years Eve. We visted mom on sunday and got to sit outside in the sun with Mom and she enjoyed being there and kept asking for us to escort her to her car so she could drive home. We went with it and just kept her comfy. It was hard for Benton to see her like that and us too. I made the effort to work on the quilt for mom and taking things easy. With Help from Mel I got things lined up and rebacked. I hand tied each section and to the fabric and cotton thread at quilt basket which was nice to visit and support local. They are a very nice shop and super friendly. The hand tying took me a few days of a few hours of work per day. hands get tired. I was trying to get things done before Christmas but knew at that point it wasn't going to get done and she wouldn't be awake enough to see it or appreciate it. It was set aside with the binding cut but not attached.

Shanda was home with us from Thursday through Christmas day. It was nice to have her there and just catching up. We were very low key. I grilled steaks and sweet potatoes for Christmas Eve dinner and Mel made waffles for breakfast Christmas morning. Wander joined us for Christmas eve dinner and Christmas dinner. Willa, Erika and Dom visted during the middle of gifts. We had a wonderful time. Shanda loved the charcuterie board and puzzle table cover we got her. Mel loved his new flint napped obsidian knife and Benton loved the Switch mom got him. We had a few more days of presents arriving which was nice from the Hucks since we all just ran out of time.

Mom was pretty not responsive when we saw her on Monday but Tuesday (the 20th) she perked up and asked for a cheeseburger and soda which we brought her. the order number was most of her birthday date. She had a few bites of burger but had a few sodas. I could tell as could the hospice nurse that she wasn't really swallowing the items correctly. I could tell this was her rally and she was cracking jokes etc. Benton got to see his Grandma lively like she used to be. This was good since after that she really did not eat or do anything else. We visited every day and she was weaker and weaker. They upped her dosage of lorazepam and morphine to help keep her comfortable. She barely woke for us on Christmas and on Boxing Day she didn't wake up at all when we visited. The girls had set up her room so nicely and put her angels near her. I told her she could go when ever she wanted. When we got home we got the call. They checked on her about 10 mins after we left and she was gone. I guess she listened to me that she could go. Before that we told her she could go home anytime she wanted. I guess the wording mattered. I was relieved and sad at the same time. It was hard. We cleaned out her room on Tuesday with the help of Ed. That was nice to have help even though it wasn't a lot of things. Her clothes minus a few things that went to Ari all went to Goodwill. Her other stuff I still have 1 small crate to go through and will probably box most of that up to take back to her house like my Grandmother's bible and her angels.

I'm still trying to process things in my head and I have a list of things I need to do for her like planning the memorial that just sit. I get to pick up the death certifications today which will allow me to do some of the financial things but I have a lot of I don't want to. But I need to. I took an extra few days of PTO and came back on the 9th, I will use my 3 days of bereavement leave when we go to the funeral at a date to be determined. But yeah. the week after things I slept a lot. Mel said my stress response was valid and that not wanting to do anything, even working on the quilt was hard. about a week later I got some gumption and got the binding done and fixed and stitching that had come apart after 70 years. And then I had a brain blitz and its the only project my mind can think about is to do another quilt block and then embroider the dates of who did what on it and attach it to the back of the quilt. It seems like a good thing and I think its part of my grieving process that has tangible results versus phone calls and property.

I finished books #42 and 43 before 2022 ended and then finished up the 44th book in reading a few days into the new year. That was Calculated Risks on the 3rd. I started teh first full book of 2023 is Spelunking Through Hell by Seanan McGuire. I'm now caught up on the Incryptid novels and awaiting the next book in March. I'm still in the same universe but I'm now reading the Ghost Roads offshoot series where the first book is Sparrow Hill Road.

One bright side of the holiday on the last few days before we went back to work we got new bikes. Its something we've been wanting for a while and it had been 7 years since I road. But it was good. We've done some small rides to get back into gear and I'm very happy with my Giant. I also was able to game for the first time in forever. I got dressed up in my fancy silk dress and did my hair all debonair 20s and had a great time rolling dice and killing off a thing from the great beyond at a fancy New Years party in NOLA. I played a debutante with a fliar for books and guns. I may have induldged in good booze too much and was picked up and I put myself to bed at like 830 but I woke up to the fireworks and gunshots at midnight to get more food and water. Jan 1st we went to Bisbee with Ari to antique and she found a nice bed for her guest room. It was a nice trip and we had a good time getting out of the house sans kiddos. The boys stayed at our place playing video games.

So a jumbled update but its mostly all there. I'm barely thinking about War of the Phoenix and I will worry about that after I finish planning the memorial and when we will be gone. I think I can think about it then. Multitasking just makes me stressed out.

I had 3 weeks off and would have preferred another and I could have taken it but....yeah. It took me a full 2 weeks to "shut off" and come down and relax into things. The lead up to Christmas was easy minus a bit of weird with pie crust. Mel decided to make homemade and I couldn't get it to work. I ran to the store on Christmas eve to get things we missed and pie crust. While I was out he redid the crust and it just needed more moisture since we live in a desert. It was just fine with rehydration. Lesson Learned. My pies turned out great. We had peach, cherry and rhubarb.

We had a socially distance visit with Shanda for Christmas. She got in about when we got up. I made the french toast casserole from Binging with Babish and it was perfect. Seriously good. Will be doing it again. It did not hurt that mel made cranberry swirl bread for it and that was perfect. It was good to see her for a few hours...damned Covid.

I had big plans for over the vacation and then my back decided it didn't like the fact I spent a weekend reading and refused to work. Its my stoopid hip muscles being assholes and I've been trying to stretch etc but I only got like 2 walks in the whole time and no gym time. But I did read a lot of fic since it was the finale for a Stucky collab and there were a lot of 100k+ word fics. Seriously Good stories. So I lost time to that. Mel played lots of video games and I knit a 2020 Dumpster fire ornament and cast on a new shawl with yarn mel got me.

My CC project took a detour after I finished up all of the seams and tried it on and realized I inset the sleeves too high...6 hours of taking things apart later and I was back to sewing it all again. But now its almost done. I need to finish the sleeve ends and bind the hem. But its rather pretty.

Usually I look at my old journal entries to see what my goals were and the beginning of last year was....not great...so I didn't make any. This year I hope I get my love for a few things back (read SCA clothes) and I've been itching to work on a few wayward projects. I have two commissions I need to do/finish. I need to just sit and do them but that will be after the CCC is done on January 31st. I have to make at least the over dress and maybe the coat...we shall see.

I managed to make 1 huge blanket, 1 stuffy, 1 hat, 1 cowl, a 2020 dumpster fire ornament, 1 shawl and I painted 6-7 scrolls painted. compared to 2019 I only did 5 knitting/crochet projects so I compelted one more and I don't know how many scrolls I did in 2019. I could look I guess but I just know last year was a shit show but I did manage to read 45 books a millions of words of fanfic So I did something.

Well, when last I wrote we were planning on going to SD for Thanksgiving. We did not do this. Things are so bad with the virus and SD is one of the worst states at that time. Things are even worse now due to people getting together for the holiday. Mom and I were sad but its way safer.

We had a very quiet thankgsgiving at home. I only made 3 pies and I delivered food to Ari so she had good noms. We did a nice turkey and some salmon. Green beans, grilled sweet potatoes, sweet rolls, and the best stuffing I've ever made. Seriously. We used herbed bread mel had made as the croutons. It was so good.

On the craft front I've had a bit of enuii but I did manage to get my shift done. I still have my underdress to finish..its together but I need to sit and pleat it. The hand finishing has been triggering my tendonitis and I've not beem feeling great overall. The weather change gets to my sinuses badly.

Work has been...special. I've had to give large presentations for a new proposal to my new director who is back east due to the merger. Its been a big learning experience and frightening as well. Talking casually about millions of dollars just freaks me the eff out. But its going okay. I have 8 working days left in the year. Ugh. But I've made some progress on some career goals for a cert I've been working too.

The girls turned 2 over Thanksgiving and that is so surprising. It doesn't seem like we've had them a bit over a year and a half but they are.. they are enjoying having the weather cooler. We did get the furnace fixed and that has been nice. The house is now reasonable. My studio is still too chilly but I have a space heater.

The boys got the xmas lego train up and have been putting up a lego xmas building kit from last year. It takes up the entire piano and that is okay.

The dress:


The legos:


I felt very pretty for my big presentation and tried out new lipstick:

Well, Christmas and New Years was really nice. I had my surgery and while I'm still recovering I still enjoyed things for the holidays and slept a lot. I also got a cold and that didn't help either. Sighs. We had my MIL here and that was wonderful and Shanda was here for a few days and that was awesome.

So when we last left my poor journal I was recovering from a cold and worked my last week of work. I spent that weekend cleaning and getting things setup for xmas since I was going to be laid up a bit. I will admit that being home for 2 days by myself was handy since I had the quiet to do my thing. I also had the Craftvent shawl to work on in between things and that was good too. Tuesday the 19th I had lunch with Mel's coworkers at Mamma Louisa's and then I went home for final prep before taking a Lyft to my operation. I was very surprised I got to ride in a Tesla Model S. It was swanky.

The surgery was okay. They had me on a lidocaine pump which was neat and I was very sore when done but I really didn't feel anything except in a few spots where they pumped me full of lidocaine some more. Got cleaned up and bandaged up and Mel was there to pick me up. We had to stop on the way out to get a bandaid for a stitch I had at the top of my left thigh...it was going to catch on everything. I was bandaged for a few days and Thursday night the bandages had slipped an bunched behind my knee that I could not sleep and the vicodin made me feel weird (face numbness) so I called the doc in the AM to see if I could take them off earlier than my appt that afternoon. Luckily Wander was there to help me since things were bloody and stuck to sutures and I hadn't really looked at the damage and it was hard to move etc. Then came the best and hardest shower of my life. The one after Benny was much easier. I had to sit down for this one and slowly scrub over the sutures. The sharpie marks from the surgeon took a week or so to come off. AFter that I was just in compression thigh highs for a week and then moved to only compression knee socks and now I'm doing pretty good. The legs are weirdly stiff, especially the one they ablated the vein in. It pulls something fierce and I have to keep getting up and walking...oh noes...more walking. :) They took the sutures out the afternoon I took the bandages off which was nice.

After that it was into holiday things pretty much full swing just at a much more slow rate than I normally do. That was okay. I needed to take things easy and Shanda helped me get lasagna done and pies. Mel and his mom had fun shopping and doing things and Benton was super excited to have folks there and presents and the like. Unfortunately, just as we finished the holiday Mel and Ellen got bad colds and Benton was lethargic with a kinda cold too. I knit on my shawl, watch MacGuyer (original series) and dinked around for like a week. All good. I finished the shawl and blocked it ready to wear.


Over New Years I worked on banners with the household and we got new furniture for the front room. The IKEA table went to Ari's and we got a 1915 mahogany gateleg table and then a side 1950s Danish Modern to use when we needed big space. We had a lot of folks who do not have linen banners for themselves and we needed to teach the method and we have this great big porch and well, we did banners. I had given everyone homework and well...only one person really did that but it all worked out in the end. New Years night there was painting, good dinner, light saber fights and then watching Spiderman Homecoming with a bunch of people. I painted more banners and we had a nice week with Ellen before Ben and us went back to work and school.

Work has been busy and all of the SCA stuff is getting busy again too. The weekend before we came back was Kingdom 12th Night and Benton was awarded his Lion's Pride. The tail is uber cute.

So, albums for friends and family:
Xmas 2017

Leg Surgery Kinda Graphic?!

My Shawl:

I will be back dating some info as time permits buts my holiday was okay. We had a lazy and busy time. It was very weird. The entire family was sleeping in till at least 8am...sometimes later the entire break. Ben is growing and eating all of the time which was good but we learned not too much sugar otherwise he's a grump monster in the AM. We went roller skating with scribe_ari and the kids. Ben did great on his new from Santa skates and it was fun. Definitely need to do it some more soon. We hit the zoo and in general had a nice time.

Mel and I are almost finished watching all of Gravity Falls on Hulu.

On the making things front I made:
1) a cowl for public_shaylan


2) Caution Orange sock for Mel, I still need to finish the second one but its at the heel gusset.


3) Finished the minecraft creeper hat for Benton and Viktor


4) Got the hot head torch on and made beads with swordmage as a gift for Wolfgrim's wife Jess which we made into a Viking Festoon.



5) Worked on a baby gift for little Cora Jade which I hope to finish this week/weekend.

We also managed to get new to us furniture. So in the way of last January we reorganized where we reorganized the front room. This time we reorganized the family room and the bedroom. We had intended to buy bedroom stuff but managed to buy stuff for the family room. We moved out the big dresser and the futon and the purple couch. We replaced them with a 1930s armoire, a new Ashley couch and a new to us vintage 1960s custom sofa and chair.








So this has spurred a reorganization trend and I've been throwing things out in the KonMori style and folding things small and making things better. Yay!

I managed to finish book #10 (Hell Bent) and #11 (Stone Cold) by Devon Monk and started #12 which is House Immortal also by Devon Monk.  Its an alternate world or post apocolyptic (maybe?) USA.  Still trying to figure it out.  Its interesting though....

I finished my "No Bunnies" Shawl and blocked it last night.  Yay!

Cats like shawls.
Before blocking with foot meaure:


After(in progess) with yard measure:


Halloween was tiring but fun.  Ben and I carved a pumpkin, he is not a fan of the guts and we headed out with Ed/Candace (Holly & Henry), Mary/Andrew (Inara) and had a good ol' time going around Civano.  We had no trick or treaters at the house.  But a good time was had by all.




Sunday Ben was grumpy and tired and we all were.  I spent way too much time shopping but oh well.

Monday I worked and then gave a STEM talk about Mechanical Engineering to a group of Middle School Girls.  I was a bit nervous about doing it but it went really well when I could tie in showing them hardware that linked into the rockets they've been working with and have some hands on show n tell with hardware I had with me.  Plus some youtube of my products doing their thing.  It was good.  One of the neat questions I got was "How many tests I failed".  I was only an average student.  I failed a few courses and "D" for done on a few but I'm still a good engineer. I had a social life in school and am really well rounded. I stress the technical/social communication/presentation skills over the math and science becuase when you work in business you need to be able to talk to a wide variety of disciplines and backgrounds.

Monday Night was lots of calligraphy to get ready for Coronation.  Me being off a week didn't help.  My business trip for next week was cancelled though so that makes Southern a bit better to handle. I still have lots to do.

I attended the YWCA Women's Conference yesterday.  I got to hear Dr. Nancy Bray, Head of the Kennedy Spaceport for NASA speak and attended 3 workshops and a luncheon where we got to hear from the 2015 Changemaker of the year Dr. Laura Banks-Reed and Dr. Dara Richardson-Heron.  Pics of my work ladies are here:



What the conference taught me was I'm pretty much slacking on my career.  Which I've been feeling.  There are many folks my age who are much, much further along and I'm frustrated enough with things I'm almost thinking drastic action of switching departments or leaving the company.  I hit basically tenure in January and no longer acrue any further PTO per year etc.  That would be a lot to let go of and I get a pension so, yeah. Don't want to loose that but it tempting.  So, changing things a bit now and going to work for 2016 to be a transformative year for me.  I need to follow Rule #1 at work and my goal is to dress nicer and look nicer in general.

The weekend before the holiday was quiet but Mel is still sick. We had a bit of respite on that but his crud is now back with a vengeance.

Ben is still being trying. But we've made one potty training advances. He's not taken a nap in over a week and today was craptastic with his behavior. Sighs. I hope they can manage him at daycare on Monday. I need a break.

Xmas itself was good. Had family and friends over for a nice relaxing time. Got lots of nice things and was delighted to see that my shopping choices were excellent.

Just a bit down due to my parenting fails of late and my lack of anger management or even my lack of making things. Have lots to do and not doing any of it cause I feel like crap. Luckily I pulled my head out of a fandom since I read everything now and can get back on trak.

Did get a bike ride in and I did do that 5k. Will blog more with pictures etc soon.

Wednesday I left work around noon, ran some errands and then put pies in the oven in between working on paperwork. By the time mel was home with Benton the house was smelling nice and they got some time in the shop to play. Had Ari over later that night for our own internal stitch and bitch. Mel got the bird ready and we had a nice night...really, nice.

Thursday we slept in a bit and got the Turkey on. Mel took Benton out to the shop and I proceeded to make stuffing, sweet potatoes, baked brie and green been casserole. I was on my feet for most of the morning and by the time everything was done I had to get back up from the couch and get things heated for the dinner. Oh, well. No rest for the wicked. We had Elinor, Ari and Mariyah for dinner and then later we had Wander over for pie. So good. We had pumpkin, apple crumble, ginger macadamia nut, custard and key lime. I also made a blueberry but that had accidentally got given to the girls at joes with their key lime pie. Eh, all okay though. The evening ended with sharing a beloved movie with Wander and lots of knitting/crafting going on. So good.

Friday Ari and I headed out for lunch/pedis and a trip to Grandma's. It was SCA day there with lots of folks having stopped by before we were there and during. It was nice. Saturday mel had a brewing day and I got a hair cut. Benton was acting kinda not normal. Sunday morning he was an uber crab and we ended up giving him tylenol for his teeth. I then took him by stroller to joe's for breakfast while mel relaxed on the couch. Got back and he was feeling much better and I got to working on some projects. I had to frog a lot of things the day before.

All in all it was a good weekend but I so could have used one more day to clean house etc. Oh, well. Monday night it was uber small scribble and I did not feel like sketching so I worked on some crochet. Tuesday mel went to Oklahoma and I got the boy taken care of and then put my feet up and started in on Cold Days.

So books so far:
#21 - Turn Coat
#22 - Gulliver's Travels
#23 - Proven Guilty
#24 - White Night
#25 - Side Jobs
#26 - Cold Days (in progress).