Yesterday was a long, hot day. I had lots of work to catch up and I feel good about what I did get done. I took a short walk at lunchtime - no running until this cough is gone. Plus it was about a million degrees outside. I had made a hair appointment for yesterday a month ago and I couldn't change it so I did have to leave a few minutes early. It couldn't be helped. Poor Tinkie didn't get rescued from my hot apartment until after 6. That's a long long day for her and I let her lead the walk. It was so hot that she wasn't that interested in lingering too long. Then I got the air conditioner blowing, took a cool shower, mixed up a martini and I was finally relaxing by 7:15. I swear I could have fallen asleep right there but instead I watched a little TV and heated up a couple of slices of left over pizza for dinner. Tink got a late walk a little after eight and it was still just beautiful outside. Blue skies and not quite so hot.
Oh I wanted to knit, but even with the air conditioner blowing there was not any way I was going to put a pile of wool (or in the case of the Venomous Tentacula, alpaca) on my lap or even off to the side. Just plain too hot. It was all I could do to stay awake until 9:30. And then with my fans blowing I fell asleep and slept just great. I don't remember waking at all coughing so the worst is (finally) behind me. Just a little cough now and again to remind me.
I need to set up our noon knitting group for tomorrow. Everyone has been either on vacation or sick for a month of Wednesdays. It'll be nice to be back in the air conditioned comfort of MaryEllin's conference room (if it's available). I got 2,000 yards of lace weight yarn in a lovely light green from my YarnBox subscription for July. I think I'm going to tackle one of the lace stoles with a border from my Victorian Lace Today book. I think there's a design-your-own kind of thing there. I need to look at the book again. What else can you do with so much lace weight yarn? I guess I could double it for a cardigan or something. But I haven't made a big fancy stole since I did the Frost Flowers Shawl years ago. So, that's my plan for now.
I need to untangle this TA situation today. Then you know what? I need to realize it's my birthday week! Since I got a couple of big presents already it almost feels like September. But it's not. So I'm going to work on the birthday frame of mind. In my spare time.
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