Weekend Review

I’m rapidly, rapidly running out of time before we leave for Savannah early Wednesday morning. I’m attending Stitching in the Garden of Thread ‘N Needle. We’re driving down, so we need to go down the day before, so that I can get myself checked into the event Thursday evening. It’s a 12 hour drive, so we’d have to leave at dawn to get there in time for me to check in and if there are any lounging festivities (which I expect there will be), I would be so dead, I wouldn’t be able to attend. Friday through Sunday see 4 classes (one by each designer), a teacher’s market (which I will probably skip, since I’ve already bought a ton of stash in the last month), and a riverboat cruise dinner one night. Monday, we’ll stick around and see a few of the sights and then leave early Tuesday morning. So, we’ll be away for a week (have I mentioned that I’m loving the security system we installed several months ago?) and I need to prepare. I haven’t even created a packing list yet, so I’m getting a little stressed. Well, I take that back, I have a packing list of items that I need for classes and have most of them packed up into a tote.

Not necessarily relating to Savannah, I did actually manage to get a few things done this weekend. Not as much as I would like, but the day’s not done yet (though I’m really lacking in energy, so I might be).

• Finish model stitching – nope; put in 3 hours straight (I didn’t leave the chair or stop stitching the entire time; unusual for me), finished the next to last section of complex hardanger and then worried that it might not meet the designer’s standards, so I sent a scan and am waiting to hear back before putting in the remaining 4 hours or so need to finish it off.
• Finish Ott-lite carrying bag – nope; I have all of the parts and pieces sewn together, though. Just need to tack the batting onto the outside of inside bags (for extra protection), then insert the insides into the outside, create the flap and strap and sew it all together. Darn, that sounds like a lot. I think I can get the batting tacked on and maybe the flap and strap created and ready to go tonight. If I can do all of that, all I will need to do tomorrow night is to put everything together and sew it.
• Dig out from snowstorm – check. And let me tell you, folks, this was no small feat. The snow seemed to have blown down from all of our slightly higher elevated neighbors down into our yard. The drifts over most of the driveway were 2 to 3 feet tall, I think. They were taller than the snowblower, which made the work a little slower-going. While Terry was blowing out the driveway, I shoveled out around the truck, in front of the garbage can (since it has to go out Monday night and who knows how long it will take this stuff to melt), the driveway leading up to the one garage door where the car is currently residing,and half of the sidewalk. That’s as far as I got in the nearly 3 hours it took for Terry to handle our entire driveway and half of the neighbors’ driveway. He finished off the rest of the sidewalk in about 15 minutes. In my defense, I handled all of the drifted areas and his part of the sidewalk was a lot less deep.
• Wash the pile of dishes that need to be hand-washed – check.
• Move the pile of recyclables from the kitchen into the containers in the garage – check (and you know, it’s such a long walk…);
• Clean kitchen sink – check.
• Defrost ring of shrimp for non-Superbowl-watching snack – check.
• Launder bed linens – check.
• Make a sizeable dent in the multiple heaps of laundry – check.
• Trim the fur between the girls’ pads (not just for looks, but more for traction) – check.
• Brush both girls – check.
• Trim both girls’ nails – nope; while we have let them get too long, Terry just did them the other day, so we should give them a little longer for the quick to retract; we’ll need to do them when we get back.
• Consume my half of the aforementioned ring of shrimp – check
• Exercise – nope; however, I think that yesterday’s shoveling might count. I might hop on the Gazelle in a couple of minutes for today’s exercise.

Wow, it seems like I accomplished so much more today, though everything below the snow clean-out was done today. I had a huge burst of energy and motivation; I felt like I was running around like a crazy person. And now for the things that weren’t exactly on my list of things to do:

• Get a knock-down, nearly-puking migraine – check; okay this wasn’t exactly on my list of things to do… I think it was a result of all of that shoveling.
• Spend an hour (okay, I think it was less; I hope) playing around in Restaurant City – check; I was getting annoyed with not making enough money every shift, so I paid the forum a visit, did a little research, created a new layout and decorated while I waited for my popularity to max out so I can optimize the amount of money I make during future shifts.

Okay, well that’s enough for now. The dryer has stopped and the laundry isn’t going to do itself. Wouldn’t that be nice, though? I have what I think is going to be a big, personal post brewing in my head, so be forewarned.

By the way, I appreciate all of the opinions that I’ve gotten so far regarding Phoebe’s Christmas stocking. I’ve stickied the post so I can hopefully gather a little bit more.