I left work yesterday evening feeling great and it lasted nearly all the way home until some rude jerks ruined it. It was a lovely afternoon and the trail was full of people running and biking, almost like a weekend. At lunchtime I had walked down to the bike store and bought myself a new pair of biking gloves. Very comfy and cute too. So I was feeling just wonderful until I approached my left turn spot, where I start my two mile climb back home. Coming towards me were two women running and a man riding his bike. I signaled my intention to turn. For obvious reasons one doesn't want to come to a full stop before climbing a hill but rather keep up the momentum and hope it carries you a ways. All the man on the bike would have had to do was either nod at me that I should go or slow down, but he chose Option C -- to barrel through and make me come to a stop. Okay, that's fine. I took a couple breaths and circled around to get a little run at the hill on the road, still needing to cross the trail. I got up a little head of steam parallel to the trail and checked to see if anyone was coming. There was a woman behind me. I signaled to show I was going to turn left in front of her - she wouldn't have had to slow down - and started to go. She sped up! I had to brake, this time quickly, so that we wouldn't collide. Honestly! I swore and I could hear her down the way ... "Soooorrrry".
The lilies I picked this weekend are very VERY fragrant still and blooming. They are just astonishing. After my shower I settled in my comfy chair across from the lilies with a nice glass of sparkling wine and tried to get back to my happy place. I worked a bit on the Cloisonne jacket - finished the set up and started the first of 40 rows of stranded color work. And all I have to say is ... yikes. The front side is going to be okay but I wasn't even thinking about the fact that this has a wrong side as well and I'm going to have to purl in pattern. I guess I really do learn something new with every project.
I'm having a few people over for dinner on Saturday night and so I started going through my cookbooks after dinner, looking for something different. I've got a couple ideas but nothing definite yet. I know I don't want to go crazy. Maybe one semi-difficult dish and the rest simple. Then I started watching "The Big Chill" but I couldn't get into it. The soundtrack is still awesome but otherwise it seems so dated. So I put the cookbooks down and went up to read. I will have to decide on something tonight or tomorrow at the very latest. Oh ... and I haven't told Doug I can't rehearse on Saturday yet. Better call him as well. He's not going to be too happy about that. We haven't had a rehearsal since before we went to Hawaii! But I'm getting lots of knitting done.
No comments:
Post a Comment