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Saturday, November 22, 2008
snippets part five zillion
Poor T. Here is what he hoped to do when he took the week off:
1) Relax.
2) Sleep in at least the majority of the days.
3) Hang around the house with his family.
4) Maybe do a little reloading.
5) Work on his Charger.
6) Go shooting at my parents' ranch with a friend.
Pretty simple goals, right? Except when you're a guy who is IN DEMAND, I guess. Here's a representative sample of what he ended up doing:
1) Shooting expedition was nixed.
2) We cut a lot of wood.
3) He worked on his friend's car.
4) He helped another friend butcher turkeys (we're not complaining; we got an absolutely enormous free one)
5) He... set up his reloading bench.
6) He fixed his sister's brakes.
7) He helped his grandmother with a computer project.
8) Number of days out of ten with no alarm set in the morning: One (1).
Let me be clear; I'm not really complaining about any of these except the first one and the last one. Certainly we don't mind helping people AT ALL, and the wood was necessary and important, and we did do some fun things (like play Airsoft as a family, something I'd never done before). It's just alarming how quickly the poor guy's time fills up once people catch wind of the fact that he's going to be home from work. Maybe next time we'll tell people (including ourselves!) that we're going away somewhere even if we're not.
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Our propane water heater has decided that it really doesn't like this whole heating-water business as much as it thought it did and it wants to take a little break. We do have a solar one on the roof, which does an amazing job in the summer, but on frosty November mornings it's only slightly helpful. So I'm heating huge pots of water on the stove for C's bath, which is more adventure than inconvenience to her*, while we wait for the home-warranty people (God bless home warranties) to set up an appointment with someone who can come convince the water heater that really it has a good life here with us and should be grateful.
*The only way it could have better suited her dramatic sensibilities would be if I had used snow (which, sadly, is unavailable right now) melted and heated on the woodstove.
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I am feeling increasingly Christmasy but I'm still holding off: no decorating (which, for us, means lights on the eaves, a fake wreath on the door, and a Christmas tree in one corner of the living room; Martha Stewart we aren't) or carols until the day after Thanksgiving. I did sort of cheat by importing some of my Christmas CDs to iTunes last week, but I didn't listen to any of the songs all the way through. I'm staying strong, see?
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Because I am more than a little bit insane, I cast on a new knitting project -- a triangular shawl, something I've never made before, but the mathemagical way it shapes itself tickles and pleases me -- for a Christmas gift for someone. Because, you know, I have all this spare time lying around waiting for me to figure out what to do with it between now and December 25th. I've already let knitting make me get behind on my schoolwork this week -- I now have about forty pages of notes to take between now and tomorrow evening. BAD ME.
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Random fact to close: did you know that I have not spent a night entirely alone since 1993, when my parents went to Texas to visit my dad's aunt while I was still in high school?
Comments
I finished a triangular lace shawl on the plane home yesterday! This is one of those that starts at the back of the neck and them grows out and down.
Re #4 on T's original list, maybe that one's not a complete waste - if he got the bench set up maybe he can reload now whenever he has smaller spaces of time free in the evenings or whenever.
Posted by: dichroic at November 23, 2008 08:37 PM
I'm trying to remember if I've *ever* spent a night entirely alone, and nothing's coming to mind. . .
Life without hot water (in November) is only marginally less restrictive than life without any running water at all. Hope that's fixed soon!
Posted by: Michael at November 24, 2008 05:57 AM
Christmas music? Oh, a mighty yes! We started listening to it on Thanksgiving DAY! But I do still have a turkey to pick and my fall decorations are still up. I'll get to the rest of it soon. I think.
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