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The week in review
Dec. 30th, 2005 10:54 amHaven't gotten everything done this week that I'd hoped/planned, but I made a fair bit of progress. I'm halfway through the making-costume-bits crocheting (which needs to be done by 1pm tomorrow), and By's gift afghan is completely done. I may have mentioned that already. I started working on a wide crocheted beaded rope as a choker, in greens; that's a take-along project, so that's no hurry to finish.
Today is By's last day working with Robyn, so wish him luck and a smooth transition. He'll be working part-time for her through Jan 20th (I think), to finish some projects, because she panicked a couple of days ago, and asked very nicely, and well, the money would be nice.
I hadn't mentioned before, but obviously, we survived the trip to Mom's last weekend. Sunday was pleasant; my uncle invited himself over to play cards, which made the afternoon go quickly, and they stayed for diner, which gave us someone cheerful to talk to after Sis and her husband got there. Husbeast was his sullen, angry, don't-want-to-admit-I'm-nervous-about-going-to-Iraq self, ignored the kids unless they were in his way, didn't want to do anything. Which of course stresses Sis out, from dealing with him, and pissed Mom off. He was furious about his mother giving the oldest boy a full-sized acoustic guitar (J is almost 7), because his boy didn't need any of that stupid music stuff. And that led to a long rant about how nobody needed that art and music crap in schools, and how much he hated that his tax dollars paid for it. And nothing we could say would turn him from this line of ranting, so we all just tried to ignore him. Lucky for us, they left early the next morning. We'd planned to stay through Monday evening, but decided we wanted to get home earlier, so we left after lunch.
Mom and Grandma wanted to hear all about By's new job, which we told them, carefully--"retail jewelry store attached to a gift/book shop" I think was what By said. Very neutral, very safe. Mom thought it sounded nice.
I really do love my biological family, but gosh, I'm happy to go home after visits.
Had a pleasant dinner at the home of By's new boss on Wed night, spent a lot of the evening drooling over the woodwork. Lovely, lovely old house. Talked T into attending the dinner (yes, we're making him be social), and then into coming home for the night, so I got my boyfriend fix. Yay!
Slept waaay too late yesterday morning/afternoon, because the boyfriend wanted to lay down for a little bit, and I wanted to snuggle. Three hours later, it's 12:30, and I'm finally dragging myself out of bed. Ooops. Got a decent amount done, anyway. Ran for more wine yeast, then to school to harvest sugar cane and citrus fruits, then to the Charlesworth house for HSA stuff and visiting. And all that put By & I both up until very late last night. He got home about the same time I did, and instead of unloading the trucka nd gathering up tools to take back to Robyn, he stayed inside and helped me process the sugar cane. THEN he went out and did truck things. So, we didn't crash until 1am. Ooops.
Today's goals are:
finish the costume crocheting
gather my clothes together for the party, do any laundry that needs doing for that
check the sugar cane (it's simmering in the oven right now)
start a batch of what's-ripe-in-the-greenhouse-today mead (lemons, kumquats, key limes, and pomegranates)
maybe do a bit of "fun" crocheting (squares, or the beaded stuff)
dream up something for dinner
Today is By's last day working with Robyn, so wish him luck and a smooth transition. He'll be working part-time for her through Jan 20th (I think), to finish some projects, because she panicked a couple of days ago, and asked very nicely, and well, the money would be nice.
I hadn't mentioned before, but obviously, we survived the trip to Mom's last weekend. Sunday was pleasant; my uncle invited himself over to play cards, which made the afternoon go quickly, and they stayed for diner, which gave us someone cheerful to talk to after Sis and her husband got there. Husbeast was his sullen, angry, don't-want-to-admit-I'm-nervous-about-going-to-Iraq self, ignored the kids unless they were in his way, didn't want to do anything. Which of course stresses Sis out, from dealing with him, and pissed Mom off. He was furious about his mother giving the oldest boy a full-sized acoustic guitar (J is almost 7), because his boy didn't need any of that stupid music stuff. And that led to a long rant about how nobody needed that art and music crap in schools, and how much he hated that his tax dollars paid for it. And nothing we could say would turn him from this line of ranting, so we all just tried to ignore him. Lucky for us, they left early the next morning. We'd planned to stay through Monday evening, but decided we wanted to get home earlier, so we left after lunch.
Mom and Grandma wanted to hear all about By's new job, which we told them, carefully--"retail jewelry store attached to a gift/book shop" I think was what By said. Very neutral, very safe. Mom thought it sounded nice.
I really do love my biological family, but gosh, I'm happy to go home after visits.
Had a pleasant dinner at the home of By's new boss on Wed night, spent a lot of the evening drooling over the woodwork. Lovely, lovely old house. Talked T into attending the dinner (yes, we're making him be social), and then into coming home for the night, so I got my boyfriend fix. Yay!
Slept waaay too late yesterday morning/afternoon, because the boyfriend wanted to lay down for a little bit, and I wanted to snuggle. Three hours later, it's 12:30, and I'm finally dragging myself out of bed. Ooops. Got a decent amount done, anyway. Ran for more wine yeast, then to school to harvest sugar cane and citrus fruits, then to the Charlesworth house for HSA stuff and visiting. And all that put By & I both up until very late last night. He got home about the same time I did, and instead of unloading the trucka nd gathering up tools to take back to Robyn, he stayed inside and helped me process the sugar cane. THEN he went out and did truck things. So, we didn't crash until 1am. Ooops.
Today's goals are:
finish the costume crocheting
gather my clothes together for the party, do any laundry that needs doing for that
check the sugar cane (it's simmering in the oven right now)
start a batch of what's-ripe-in-the-greenhouse-today mead (lemons, kumquats, key limes, and pomegranates)
maybe do a bit of "fun" crocheting (squares, or the beaded stuff)
dream up something for dinner
