Filed under: Books, City of Ottawa, Exercise and Stuff, Fibre Crafts, Make Lists of Things, My Kids, Stitch-n-Bitch, The Urban Jungle, Things I Do, Watch Stuff | Tags: Carleton Tavern, fog, free stuff, knitting, tea
Today is off to a good start. I’m hoping to maintain the positive momentum through the day. I really like waking up happy, but going to bed still happy is even better.
Last night I hit the Carleton with some crafty ladies and a couple crafty men for some quality time knitting, gabbing, and drinking beer. It was nice to catch up with John and Alex as I haven’t seen either of them in awhile since cooler temperatures ended the 2008 Brew and Q season — hopefully we’ll be able to sort something out in terms of a group family meal and get everyone together soon. I worked on my mother’s Christmas present and was happy and relieved to hear folks commenting on great colour choice. I’m not terribly good at selecting colours for stuff, and was worried it might be too drab.
This morning I woke too early with a scratchy throat and a coughing child, but managed to get back to sleep. The boys are still adapting to the time change, but are happy to play until it’s time for everyone to get up. I was amused by how eager they both were to cooperate in preparing their breakfast. Then I made myself a fine cup of home roasted coffee (and I may make another before lunchtime) and some toast, and grabbed a couple minutes to check the weather and news before getting the boys’ lunches ready for school. Yay, fog! Weather that reminds me of home — we don’t get nearly enough of it here in Eastern Ontario. 
Filed under: Listen to Stuff, Make Lists of Things, Stitch-n-Bitch, Things I Do
I’ve been rather unproductive the last few days–mostly because I’ve been stymied at every turn by my wonderfully busy children. To remedy that, I found them an engrossing combination of Doodlebops and a craft/game activity and have plugged myself into my mp3 player–onto which I’ve loaded all my retro faves:
- Blue Rodeo, “5 Days in May”
- Madonna, “Immaculate Collection”
- Bobby Darin, “Mack the Knife”
- Corey Hart, “Boy in the Box”
- Bruce Springsteen, “Born in the USA”
- Patsy Cline, “Complete Greatest Hits”
- The Band, “Best of The Band”
- Romeo & Juliet, “Soundtrack”
It’s all stuff I can sing to loudly–songs to which I know all the words that make me feel happy and energetic. A half hour of this has seen me:
- empty the dishwasher, put everything away, load and wash all the dirty dishes
- start a new load of laundry
- take out the recycling
- tackle some of the “yuckies” hiding in the fridge
- make a ReallyBigPot of jasmine tea
I’m about to scale laundry mountain now–something I was intending to do yesterday but, um, was perhaps a little hungover from enjoying the previous night’s tavern Stitch-n-Bitch a bit too much.
ETA: Laundry Mountain half-scaled! Yay! Now to go wash my hair..
EATA: Hair washed, older son picked up from school (and, thus, available to entertain his brother), some online shopping completed, and am about to tackle the remnants of Laundry Mountain!
