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January 17, 2006
ripping it out 
This whole four day week thing is a bitch. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love the three day weekend. It's the coming to work on Tuesday, which feels like Monday with a hangover, even if you didn't drink anything the night before.
Oh my gosh, though, what a great weekend. Saturday, we cleaned like fiends. By Saturday afternoon, the house fairly well shined. Then we had a couple people over for a winter beer tasting.
I'm always certain that people find my house a sty, and this is particularly painful given that my mother is so incredibly, insanely clean. And while the house could have been cleaner—I missed dusting around some geegaws on the lintel, and there was a little bit of spilled coffee on the backsplash—I think it was cleaner than it's been in years. No visible fluids of dust, as some call dustbunnies. No huge cobwebs. All neat and tidy. Not like Architectural Digest tidy, but, hey, we live here tidy. I have to admit, I found the cleaning very satisfying.
Also satisfying: I did a bit of cooking. Not a lot, but I put out bowls of munchies, and made both hummus and pea dip. I used to make hummus weekly, I love the stuff, and mine is particularly good. And the pea dip, it's always good to have an excuse to make the pea dip.
I love having people over, and people seemed to enjoy themselves. Yay! And what's more, my sweetie, who frequently isn't so crazy about having folks over, had a wonderful time. Which is a good incentive for me to try to keep up the cleaning.
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Also on the agenda this weekend: going through my (piles of) pants and making some new designations. Do I have pants that are appropriate for travel? Sufficiently comfortable? Attractive enough to wear near relatives and inlaws? Are they hemmed? I've been on a hemming binge lately, hemming up a couple sets of curtains, and now I'm considering pants! Crazy!
I found the next knitting project that I'd like to do. Knit boots. This is the sort of thing that makes me sad that I have given so many shoes to G8dwill that could now be the base of my knitted boots, those theoretical boots. As it is, I'm sure I can find a pair of shoes that will work for them, and then start knitting. How crazy! I did some swatching, so I'm ready. All I need are the shoes.
In the but VJ, you already have 5 projects going category are those damn scooter gloves. Oh, I am loathe to rip them out, really, I am. I got a copy of Beverly Royce's Notes on Double Knitting, and the book just assumes that you can do your own math. I can do my own math, but I tell ya, it's not pleasure reading. Still. I need to get these gloves right, and I will.
Posted at January 17, 2006
Comments
I usually have multiple projects going myself. It's weird how a tidy house can make you feel so much more relaxed, but it works for me every time.
Posted by: neca at January 18, 2006 6:02 AM
I'm really intrigued by the idea of pea dip. I don't think I've ever had it. How do you make it?
Posted by: Marisa at January 18, 2006 7:15 AM
Oh, I want to make knit boots, too! I saw the same article.
I haven't been reading running/exercise blogs lately, because I've been kind of hosed with migraines, but I'm getting back to exercising *and* reading, so *hello*!
Posted by: Rose at February 1, 2006 3:04 PM