In my last post, I talked about feeling good.  My mom says this cursed me, and apparently she was right.  A week and a half ago, Mark brought me home some nasty virus.  That, combined with all of the &*#@^%$ oak pollen outside right now, has conspired to make me a sick, miserable mess for the last 10 days or so.  Hopefully the worst of it is over now, and I can enjoy this mini get-away we have planned. 

Due to our unusual staggered vacation this weekend, I spent last night at home all alone.  Mark and the girls are at the beach, and today Holly and I will join them.  Holly, however, didn’t want to miss her last day of school today, and had to be there at 7 a.m. - and since I wasn’t working today, I was not about to get up and take her.  I asked her to see if she could find a friend to spend the night with, and ride to school with this morning, and she did (and they say teenagers never do what you ask!).

After work yesterday, Sarah and I attended a self-defense seminar put on by one of the teacher’s husband, a tae kwon do master.  It was fun, funny, and man was it a workout!  My butt may never be the same.  Sarah then took me to pick up my car (oil change before the long drive), and I was on my way.  I stopped at the grocery store to pick up my favorite “alone” dinner - Stouffer’s mac & cheese, and a pint of Ben & Jerry’s.  I also stopped at a discount store and picked up 3 Sterlite clear tubs - I was going home to have fun with the yarn!

While my mac & cheese cooked up nice and brown on top (yum!), I broke out the yarn.  All of the yarn.  My, what a sight to behold.  The problem with the yarn being cooped up in non-see-throughable containers is that I forget what I have.  I petted, played, sighed, and admired.  I had threatened to come home and roll around in it, and take pictures of it in comprising positions, but someone had already packed and taken my camera, so you’ll just have to believe me.

In the end, the yarn (which was in 2 large containers and 2 big plastic bags) ended up in 2 large containers and 3 smaller clear containers.  The sock yarn, being king of course, got 3 clear containers of its own.  One is for the really good yarn - CTH, STR, LL, Mama E, and any hand-dyed (including mine).  One is for the “other” sock yarn - Regia, Trekking, Online, Louet - you get the idea.  Both of those are rather full.  The third is for sock yarn remnants.  Some are actually full balls, but they’re 50 gram balls and wouldn’t make a full pair of regular socks, so they’re in with the remnants.  I actually have some really good remnants - maybe I’ll make a pair of Monstersocken some day.

The rattan chest in the living room that formerly held most of the “other than sock yarn” stash now holds the good stuff - shawl yarn, Noro, some llama - the stuff I’d like to see most.  The former sock yarn container now contains all the felting yarns and all of the other stuff - the stuff I probably won’t need too often.

While eating my yummies and playing with yarn, I watched most of the 2nd DVD of Firefly - still loving it, though Shea says it’s the most implausible show she’s ever seen.  Well, yeah - combine the future with the prairie days, and it’s a bit strange, but I love it.  And obviously there’s a knitter on the costume crew.  You’ll catch glimpses of knitted shawls and sweaters in every episode.  In one of the episodes last night, I saw Zac Efron playing a very young Simon, and I was impressed that I actually figured out it was Zac - he looked very different.  I stayed up late, watched Lost, and slept in until 9 this morning.  

I suppose I should go start packing!  It’s very strange to only have to pack for me - other than the bag of food I sent with Mark and the girls, everyone packed for themselves.  One definite bright spot in this whole growing-up mess.

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