Thinkin' About It Thursday

August 28, 2014

This week, I'm thinking...

That if I have one more birthday celebration (mine or anyone else's) I really won't want to get on the scale again anytime soon.
That going out to dinner two days in a row on weekdays also means I miss two consecutive days of exercise.
- See first bullet point above.
That I've seen more family and friends in the last six days than in the last six weeks.
That I'm enjoying that, but I'm also looking forward to a quiet weekend.
That I won't get that quiet weekend for awhile since we're going to see DD at college this weekend.
That I can't wait to see her new living arrangements.
That I'm hoping we don't have to buy her anything else for her dorm room.

That it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that when I got my new Artisan Pasta book from UPS today, the very first page I flipped to had a recipe for Chocolate Pasta.
That I apparently have an unfailing radar for chocolate.
That maybe I can convince my husband to like pasta if it's got chocolate involved.
- As long as it doesn't also involve melty cheese.
- Because that makes him gag.

That the dogs are sticking close because after watching DD's taillights go down the driveway Monday they're terrified all their humans will start disappearing on them.
That end-of-summer flies are the most obnoxious kind of flies of all.
That three flies can be obnoxious enough to feel like there's 60 in the house.
That they keep running into me as I'm walking down the hall because they don't fly out of the way fast enough.
How dogs seem to want to eat flies.
That the sight of Sammy trying to catch a fly is entertaining.
But that I hope I'm out of the room if he ever does catch one and eat it.
- Hashtag gross.

August 21, 2014

This week I'm thinking...

About how tired I am now that I'm exercising regularly again and I'm wondering when all that "extra energy" I normally get from exercising will finally kick in.
About how well I'm sleeping, though, for the first time all summer, so that's a bonus.
About how I know in another few days things will even out and my body won't be quite in as much shock.
About how I still don't have much quilty mojo but that'll come back too.
About the fact that DD heads back to school on Monday for her senior year of college.
About how much I'll miss her, but I won't miss the stacks of cr*p in the family room.
About how she can't get her car packed fast enough for my taste because somehow the stacks of cr*p in the family room are multiplying frighteningly fast as she moves out of the bedroom and basement and lands in the family room as a transition point before it eventually (and better!) all ends up in the trunk of her car.

About my princess doggie.
How she is clearly not herself, but doesn't have specific enough symptoms to go to the vet.
Whether I could call them and say, "Well, she's just not as freakish as she usually is."
And... "for her, calm isn't necessarily a good thing."
And... "She actually sticks by my side in the back yard. That's just not right."
That my work task list seems to be using fertilizer--it just keeps growing no matter how many tasks I prune off it every day
That I turn 49 next week.
That I've always preferred "0" years to "9" years because 9s are the end of a decade, 0s are the start of a brand new one.
That this birthday next week starts my "sabbatical year," as Frances puts it.
That I may be in for a lot of changes between my 49th birthday and my 50th one, sabbatical year or not.
That I really enjoy the #twilters because they make me feel like I'm still in the quilty world even though I haven't touched my machine in nearly a week.
That I have a lot of other very random thoughts wandering through my head this afternoon so this should probably just end here before it devolves.

August 14, 2014

This week, I'm thinking...

How nice, and absolutely necessary, it is to get away for a while with my husband, even if just for a couple of days.
That I still have to dye 24 scarves for sure, maybe 30 if I want breathing room for last-minute additions to the list.
That it'll be a long time before I dye something purple again.
That the previous statement is probably not true since I do happen to like purple.
That Sam is a fun playmate on a sunny, breezy day.
That my daughter is shaping up into a very good cook.
That it turned out to be neither invisible nor red thread.
That I'm narrowing in on actually finishing a quilt project for the first time in several weeks.
That said daughter will soon be going back to college to start her senior year.
How time flies.
That I'm getting old.
That it's nice that my husband and I are getting old together and still have a great time going away for weekends together.
That no matter how old I get, I'm still the youngest is my family, and younger than my husband, so I can still rub it in.

Thinking About It Thursday

August 7, 2014

This week, I'm thinking,..

About whether invisible thread or red thread would work better.
How good it feels to sleep without needing a pill.
- And how fantastic a luxury a hot cup of non-toxic coffee is first thing in the morning*.
- With fat-free French vanilla creamer, of course.
About whether I'm awake enough yet to hold a drop spindle for any length of time.
- So I can play with all the pretty pretty colors of roving I was just gifted by an online friend. (Thanks, friend!)
- And how pretty all colors are, really.
About whether I feel like messing with invisible thread, in any case.
That it's probably time to change my needle before using either invisible or red thread.
How I need to iron 20 purple scarves again because I re-purposed some of my hand-dyed scarves as table runners for our work event and they were rather haphazardly folded as we were breaking down and packing on the last night.
How I need to count all the scarves again to remind myself of how many I have left to dye in the next few weeks.
How red thread would probably look best.
That I've got very old dye concentrates sitting in my dye studio that probably just needs to be tossed.
About whether or not I can get another batch of purple dye concentrate out of the powder I have left.
That I really need to stop clicking on Craftsy sale emails.
About whether or not I've got enough scarves left to dye or will have to do one more order.
About whether I've got the right shade of red thread.
That I should make another batch of soup.

*To understand this reference, you'll need to listen to this week's podcast episode here.