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Sunday, November 26, 2006
whizzing through
I am frightfully busy, making things for Christmas presents. Then (hallelujah!) tonight I got a big transcribing job, so I have to add that into the mix somewhere. It's always nice to be able to buy T's Christmas and birthday presents with money I earn, instead of money he earns.
I went shopping on Black Friday and had a blast -- it was just invigorating enough without being stressful. I had to buy a washing machine (SUCH an unexciting thing to spend $350 on, but mine went to the Appliance Graveyard in the Sky, good riddance, cranky old thing with a bearing going out making it sound like aliens landing in the utility room, spewing water all over the floor from its stupid leaky pump AGAIN) and even that went smoothly. I bought many many yards of flannel which I am hoping to transform into (top-secret list follows; good thing my children don't read my blog) a Jedi bathrobe (that's a Jedi robe made of flannel, of course) and tunic, a nightgown and an apron for C, a coordinating apron for myself (actually the aprons are calico, not flannel), and a bathrobe for my mom, all before Christmas. Also bought some fleece on a really good sale and made five adorable hats for C's friends for under $5 in under four hours. Also bought a couple of new bicycles for some children who really need them, and finished almost all our shopping except for the things I'm going to buy for T which are TOP TOP SECRET.
So things are going well. We put the Christmas tree up and did all this fun shopping stuff just in time to banish a case of the blahs that was kind of hanging around ready to pounce, and I feel fine and happy and productive. I'm just frenetically busy. I just finished an hour or so of transcribing, so now I'm off to go sew the hood on the Jedi robe, record a chapter of a book for Librivox and for my dad, and knit a bit while I proof-listen. JUST when I thought it would be a lot more grown-up and reasonable to start getting to bed before midnight every night. Maybe on December 26th.
