Wednesday, Yes?

One retirement cliche that is certainly proving true for me is that I never know what day of the week it is. I only know that I do certain things on certain days, like I get a massage on Thursdays, but I'm doing that today, since I have other plans tomorrow, so I'm all screwed up.

Tomorrow, the Hubs and I are venturing south to have lunch with his folks and a variety of other family members, a mini-reunion. Nice people, everybody likes to laugh, so that should be fun. And as it turns out, we don't have to drive, which is astonishing. I thought we might be picking up the Hubs' just-widowed aunt, but it turns out her son is picking her up, and invited us to fill out his car, so yay! Looking forward to that.

K has gone to two of the four days of her workshop -- the third day is today -- and comes home each night excited, raring to go. She talks about her lesson plans with me, and god, she's good. She not only knows her content, which is a given, she just knows how things need to be presented to kids, what methods work, what standards she wants to maintain. It's so in her blood. I'm so proud of her.

My house is so, so tidy, although I have things to put away upstairs, as it seems I'm gradually finding places up there for stuff that has always been clogging up corners and bags down here. I had planned to move all my clothes up there, but I'm re-thinking that, although I'll move some stuff. It's so nice to use the closet there for craft supplies, at least for now. It's a long-term thing, I guess. I did do one thing that I've always wanted to, a silly little thing. I have many scarves and such, some hand-made, others that I just like, and they've always spent all winter sitting in a pile on the rocking chair. The rocking chair's upstairs now, so I made an arrangement:



I guess it doesn't look like much, but it's a big step for me. I wanted to use them decoratively somehow, but the opportunities are limited, since the house is so small. (The plaid one on the right, btw, was bought for me by my grandmother when I was about six. Somewhere in the house is another scarf that she made for me when I was about 4 and was taught to knit or crochet; it was her first project, and is perfect. I'll look for that, and hang that up, too.)

I need to eat some kind of breakfast here, but I'm lazy today. My default lazy breakfast is an Egg McMuffin with no meat, and I only eat one side of the bread. Meh. I wonder if there's something better at the Barnes and Noble cafe -- B&N is my first stop today; the FIL wants a history of Bizarro Town that's part of a series of New Jersey towns and he must have lost the copy I gave him a few years ago that was signed by the author. I could hit Whole Foods next, since it's near Target and the massage place, my next stops. Actually, at the moment, I think I should go wherever I can get food the fastest. McDonalds is looking better and better.

I'm off.