True to the forecast, the weekend was gorgeous and in the low to mid-70's. I was indeed grateful that I had picked up a fan earlier in the week because as I suspected, my place gets a little stuffy and the fan came in handy.
I had a big weekend planned - I mean, lots of things I wanted to get done, not fun stuff. It had been a long week, and boring in the extreme with two days of meetings so I was ready for a good sleep Friday. Unfortunately some tenants had other plans. I suppose because Friday was the end of school term for some people, and that's an awesome reason for a party. However, this was a VERY loud party and I kept waking up again and again. The last time was around 3:30. I could have complained but since it was Friday and the end of the school year and I'm a new tenant, I just let it go. It did mean that I slept in very late Saturday and got a late start, but oh well. Tink and I finally got out for out long walk around 10:30 and strolled down to the lake, which was very busy with a million and one other people walking their dogs. I let her get into the water which she liked a lot.
One of my main goals this weekend was to finish up the Shining Birds Eyes Shawl, so I spent a few hours on that Saturday after running errands. I had to stop with 3 rows to go. I wasn't tired until late so I read for a long while, which meant that I slept in AGAIN on Sunday! Truly not typical for me these days but I guess I needed the sleep. It was gorgeous and warm again and I put on some shorts for the first time this year. Tink and I took an alternate route on our Sunday walk and I (finally) found my local dry cleaner. I knew there had to be one close since there are so very many condos and apartments in my neighborhood. So now I can drop a few things off tonight on our walk after work.
Before I could let myself pick up the shawl again I had to finish the closet and drawer project I started last weekend. It took a couple of hours but I managed to get my shoes switched out and coordinated, rearrange the drawer situation and put a lot of clothes into a box which will, most likely, get donated the next time I move (which hopefully won't be that far in the future). I was most pleased with the results.
I then spent the rest of the afternoon and evening working on the shawl. I finished up the last three rows and just started the bind off when I took a break to work out and have dinner. I wanted to watch a movie - I have three Netflix movies sitting there - but not as much as I wanted to get the binding off completed. It is a gorgeous bind off called crown picot bind off. It is also a time consuming bind off. I got to the exact half way mark and it took me nearly two hours! I have my work cut out for me. I did take a little break to walk Tink during that time and maybe it won't take me all of two hours to finish it up, since I am now in a rhythm. And the bind off is making this thing bloom! It's going to be huge. And gorgeous.
I have been scanning my Twitter feed for airline bargains to no avail .... yet. I won't give up looking but I have noticed that there never seem to be any bargains going out of Seattle and very few out of LAX. Maybe I don't have the right feeds. I'll do some more digging. I did find a great fare from NYC to London so that gives me hope that something will turn up. It is not necessary to get a killer deal, but since I have this trip planned so far in advance, it would be kind of fun to get an outrageous bargain as well.
I have been thinking about the linen camisole I'm going to frog. I hate working with that linen but I am thinking that maybe if I rewind the balls into one or two larger balls it would be easier to work with. Opinions? I haven't made a garment with linen yet so I really want to try it, but without all the hassle.
Only two meetings this week, but one of them is only 1 1/2 hours rather than a whole day. I did get quite a bit of plain stockinette knitting done on the Kaleidoscope cardigan Thursday and Friday so it wasn't a total waste of time. That is coming along nicely as well. In a couple more days I will be able to start the sleeves.
We are going to be having nice weather most of the week and I am looking forward to my run today. I didn't get to go even once last week so it should be a good one. Or not.
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