Good
morning! I know there was something I wanted to write about this
morning but now that I'm here, I can't think of what it was.
Yesterday
I managed to redo the heel flap on Seth's second sock. I had it all
done last week and was ready to turn the heel when I realized that I
hadn't done it with two strands of yarn like I'd done the first.
Well, much easier to take out one heel flap than to take out half of
a finished sock, so that's what I did. However, in the taking out, I
managed to mess up three stitches at the end of one needle and I just
didn't feel like dealing with that at the time. I dealt with it
yesterday morning and then almost finished the heel flap at church.
At home I finished that darn flap, turned the heel and got all the
heel stitches picked up that needed to be. Now that I just need to
finish the leg (including the decreases by the heel), I should be
done in just a month or so. :) I am kind of hoping that one day I'll
be able to finish a pair of socks in less than six months.
Saturday
evening before I went to bed, I decided, for about the millionth
time, to take my eating habits back and get them under control. One
of these days when I make this decision I figure it will stick. To
that end, I had a pear and an orange for breakfast. Then went to
church where the Relief Society was cooking up a storm for their
Board Meeting to take place after church. If there is cooking going
on again like that, I'm going to feel free to leave. On top of
smelling food all during Sunday School and Relief Society, I needed
to wait and a fifteen minute wait ended up being an hour. And if that
wasn't enough, I knew that making deep dish pizza (Paul's request for
his birthday dinner) was going to take some time once we got home. By
the time we got home, I was hungry and we were looking at an hour or
so before time to eat. So, I ate a pretzel cookie. However, I only
ate one. And I had some water. On the other hand, then I had the last
two pieces of candy left from Christmas/New Year's. On the other
hand, that's the worst thing I did all day.
The
pizza turned out pretty good. Paul didn't complain and ate two thirds
of his so I'm guessing he thought it was okay. It had/has peppers,
onions, and mushrooms. I made a regular pizza for Amena and the boys
with just pepperoni (and a quarter with jalapeños) and there is just
one piece left. I made a square deep dish for me with pepperoni,
sausage, mushrooms, and jalapeños and it was good. I've got lunch
set for me for a few days.
The
reason we were so late getting home yesterday is because people are
never as quick as they think they will be. I was asked to teach Amena
seminary several months ago but nothing was done more than that.
Teaching seminary is more important, in my opinion, than playing the
piano so I wasn't about to start before it was made official. Well,
after just having checked to see when I was first asked, it was ten
weeks. More than two months. Time enough to take care of business,
I'd say. So, not only did it take ten weeks for something that should
have taken one or two, it took an hour rather than fifteen minutes
because when most people say fifteen, they don't mean it. I don't
think they mean to not mean it, but they don't.
Since
I am now officially a seminary teacher I figured I deserved one day
to get things ready (in spite of the fact that I've had ten weeks,
because, you know, I am me and this is the way I work) so we didn't
do anything this morning. Since I also didn't get anything ready for
the boys for school beyond Friday of last week, I am going to take
this day to get ready for the upcoming weeks for them. This is good,
I think, especially since I've decided to take a somewhat slower
approach to math for Seth since we really aren't in any hurry.
Joseph
started his new math book and is doing very well which is good. While
I did get all the files off the desktop portion of my fried hard
drive, I didn't get files that were in my documents folder. That
means all the really meaty stuff for the boys for school is still
AWOL and I'm not sure it will be recovered. I do need to ask about
that because it will make a difference on how I proceed with things.
In
other news there isn't a whole lot to report. Cedric and Amena didn't
miss the bus this morning. Seth and Joseph are still in bed. I need
to wash a few dishes and milk the goat. I think it is colder today
than it was yesterday so I'm not really looking forward to milking.
On the other hand, if this winter were last winter, I really wouldn't
be looking forward to milking. On the other hand, if this winter were
last winter, I probably would have let Zoey dry up.
Speaking
of winter, this one has not been typical in the least. It has been
uncharacteristically warm for here and there has been almost no snow.
The snow we did get got rained on and immediately turned into a two
to three inch thick slab of white ice. Not cool. Or extremely cool.
Depending on your point of view. I would complain but I really don't
like how cold it has gotten during the winter while we've been here.
I don't like it being so warm, either, because I wonder what it's
doing to my poor garlic and I'm afraid to go look. I don't like the
lack of snow; it just isn't winter without it. I am glad that the
west has been getting snow. It has been too long.
I
think I might be about ready to end this and get it posted. I don't
have any pictures for you today because I haven't yet attempted to
download them from the camera and I don't think there is much on the
phone. I guess I shouldn't say that—there are some from Christmas
and probably some others of interest. Basically, I'm just not feeling
a terrible urge to do anything with pictures.
In
spite of that, have a spectacular day!
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