one of those nights

Feeling completely non-productive. I'm at the point with the sweater where I have to start sewing, and I'm not in the mood. At all. I want a night of vegging out in front of the tv, but there's nothing on (nothing new), and desperate as I feel, I'm not desperate enough to watch Real Housewives. Maybe it's time to break out the video games and make a big cosmo...

heaven

We've been teenless since noon yesterday. She's at the DECA competition, staying in downtown Minneapolis at the Hyatt. I think that things are going pretty well, if you can base it on her texts.

I'm loving the quiet. We have semi-quiet evenings when she's around, but the kid's a talker, and she's not that great at entertaining herself, so there are many nights when reading a book or writing anything or working on a project are next to impossible with all of the interruptions. I adore her, but I look forward to being an empty nester.

Especially now that Brad's going to be working downtown! Woo hoo! We're already planning after work happy hours and nights where we stay downtown for dinner and carpooling and scootering and... hopefully, he won't always be onsite at clients' offices.

All of the pieces of her sweater are finally done. Maybe tomorrow I'll start piecing it together. Not really looking forward to sewing it up - it's such fine yarn, I'm afraid that you'll see too many stitches and mistakes. I'll just have to go slowly....

proud

Tomorrow, my husband is going to get a job offer for what is currently his dream job. He put himself out there, networked, and talked his way into this company. They had no plans to hire him - he just made them see that they need him. It's so not his way to step out of his comfort zone and sell himself that way, but it paid off. I'm terribly proud of him.

productive evening... no, really...

I'm finding out this week how much I depend on having that time at lunch to workout. The training class has been eating into my walking time, and I get and stay busy enough once I get home that I can't count on workout time.

That said, I didn't spend my night aimlessly bouncing from task to task or website to tv. I spent a big chunk of time relearning/teaching pre-calculus to the teen (tag teaming with Brad), and then after dinner, I did some reading and some knitting. Did I miss the workout? Yes, but there are only a couple more days of this training class. Am I happy about what got accomplished tonight? Yes! (for a change)

whole lot of stitching going on

I'm almost finished with the little Golden Girls cross stitch project that I'm doing for Shelley's birthday. Looks like I'll be done almost a week ahead of time - that's unheard of for me! The pattern doesn't call for outlining the finished pattern, but I'm doing that. Otherwise, a couple of the ladies get lost, their colors are so pastel.

I've got the house to myself tomorrow night. Brad will be in Duluth on an overnight ski trip, and teen is spending the night at Grandma's. Hooray! All nighter of video games and dozing in the big chair....

soooo not in the mood

I want to be, but I'm not. I had such a terrible week at work last week, and I'm afraid it's going to spill into this week and poison it, too. It took me the entire holiday weekend to get over it (and let me say, I think it was the brunch at Cafe Twenty Eight that finally made me smile again), and I'm trying very, very hard today, but I feel like I'm slipping a little. I think I'll finish this (small! and only!) glass of wine, head upstairs with a book, and wait in bed for my husband to come home from darts. With any luck, I'll still be awake when he gets home...

spring, and a girl's thoughts turn to....

.... vegetables. All it took was two days of February thaw, and suddenly, I've got CSAs on my mind. I left off last season with a promise of a half share from Loon, but I'm a greedy, greedy girl, and I told them that really what I wanted was a full share. They never replied, and I saw today that Driftless is taking orders, so I emailed Loon to find out if there's a full or half reserved for me. If it's just a half, then I have to decide if I want to also do a Driftless half and just hope that the two farms wind up doing their half shares on alternate weeks or if I want to say thanks but no thanks to Loon and go with Driftless this year.