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All righty,you better visit the ‘rest stop’ and top off your drink I’ve got a lot of catching up to do.
To start with I promised a photo of my slightly wonky, cube shaped, project tote.
It is, at best a medium duty tote (if you filled it with books the handles would surely fall off), but I really like the idea of it, filled with knitting sitting next to the knitters favorite chair. What do you think?
Friday was a ‘good mail’ day. I received a very nice SwapBot package. It was a small swap, but it was super clear that she read my profile and that doesn’t happen too often. She included some beautiful fabric in the swap .. I need a ruling on this one. Broken resolution? There was also a ‘just because’ package from Rox containing a really cute bookmark (unless you are Kim) recipe fridge magnets and bubble gum, which I promptly got in my hair. How does one become so old they cant safely blow bubbles?
Saturday D and I ran an errand, dropped the dog off for her weekend ‘play date’ with her mom and headed north to St. Pete for the motorcycle show. We had talked about staying the night and our mildly late start cinched it. We went to a hotel we were familiar with, grabbed a room and then D took me to the fabric store. Yes, I said fabric store. I managed to leave empty handed, but I wont tell you that I didn’t fondle a fair amount of it. They had a super nice section of oriental patterns, some of them appeared to be kimono fabric ... really, really pretty stuff. Once we left I needed a drink to calm my fabric loving nerves so we went to a little ‘hole-in-the-wall” for a super tasty lunch. Then, off to the show which was a whole post in and of itself. There were bikes of course.
A few of which D needed to get really close to.
Even though we stuck out terribly, most of the designer / builders were super nice, very patient and more than happy to show off their passion.
There was also a great deal of ‘hard-not-to-stare” people watching. Of course, if you paint yourself yellow stares are what you are after, we couldn’t help but oblige.
And there was ‘boob’ watching too ... you’ll have to guess which one is the boob - heh!
That second one was a tiny thing, I could have snapped her in two with my little finger and she said to me, “It so neat that he has such a cool wife - giggle”. It made me laugh.
As things turned out even our abbreviated afternoon was more than enough time. There weren’t as many competitive bikes as we thought there’d be ... maybe 30, and even though the vendor area was interesting (you could get your teeth whitened, buy a real hedge hog or kitten, get a tattoo, buy several kinds of motorcycle insurance and pick up teeny-tiny bumper stickers) twice through was plenty so we wandered off to dinner. Our choice? Another hole-in-the-wall with super great seafood. We finished the evening with a little hotel room lounging before turning in early. Yeah, we’re old.
There aren’t any good photos for Sunday, but we spent the day wandering the pier area and downtown, taking the trolly tour and visiting the Dahli museum. We even stumbled on this, which we can’t afford .. but it is kind of a cute idea, no? We had so much fun we’ve promised to try to have a weekend away once every three or four months.
Which brings us to today, which only has one interesting note. You might remember I had a blood test a few months ago ... my platelet count was borderline dangerously low, the doc said no drinking and retake the test. Getting back into the doc’s office to have the results read to me was more than a little difficult but today I finally managed it. After waiting almost an hour and a half to see him he announced all tests to be normal ... and that the problem was likely due to low iron levels during my ‘cycle’. Good news, but darn it, I didn’t get to drink the bottle of wine I bought for my fortieth because of his alarmist ways. I’m happy that all checks out, but oh, so tired of spending months with little, niggling worries banging around in my brain. I dont sleep well as it is, I dont need his help. Me thinks it may be time to get a new DO.
So, there it is ... did ya make it to the end or did ya doze off? I expect this week to be hit and miss on posting as we’ve reached our first ‘month end’ with the new computer system. Things are still seriously screwed up and I don’t imagine there will be many spare minutes. Hopefully you’ve got your fix of my blather and it will tide you over till next time.