WNBP: One Week Down

It may be summer vacation time, but we still stick to the schedule.  Wednesday means that it is time for the Wednesday Night Bullet Post.  This is probably for the best since there isn't a heck of a lot going on around here today and my only hope for a post is to just give in to the random brain firings.  Let's see what they can do for me...

*I am one week into my summer break and I think I finally got the hang of it.  There was just the right mix of activity vs. non-activity.  There was knitting.  There was napping.  There was reading.  I even baked a little.  It was juuuuuust right!

*Figures.  I discover my inner vacationer and, tomorrow, I have to go into school for training.  I think I have to go again on Friday.  Those people sure do know how to interfere with a perfectly nice routine...

*But it is mandatory so I don't see any way out of it.  I'll bet I can knit, though.  And, being a mandatory sort of thing, I think I'll also see a little extra in the paycheck next week.  I guess I can suck it up for a day or two.

*Doesn't make it right, though.

*According to the UPS tracking service, the package of goodies I ordered online with my brand new bookstore gift certificate was due to arrive tomorrow.  Great.  The day I won't be here...

*Lookee what came today!

They did not track true.  But it was to my benefit so we forgive.

*Cute UPS guy, too...

*I am starting to get a handle on EZ.  My ears no longer bleed when I read her.  

*I think it all started when I was chuckling over something she'd written and said to myself, "Gosh, that reminds me of when I first started knitting and was all innocent.  I actually thought that a sweater was just a bunch of knitted tubes...isn't it nice that I now know more about garment construction and that I cannot knit sweaters?"

*Then I read a little further.  It seems I may have been onto something back before I learned a little something about garment construction.  

*Don't go looking for a sweater any time soon.  I was just making an observation, is all.  

*The Absurdly Gi-normous Kitty and resident Handsome Boy had a very nice day.  He slept a lot and I didn't have the heart to disturb him with flash photography.  

*You are therefor all excused from obligatory cooing and kitty praising for tonight.  

*I haven't had a boy kitty since I was a kid.  Just girl kitties.

*I started a new sock today.  I cast off the scarf I was knitting because I simply couldn't take another row of it.  There was every reason to believe I would go utterly mad were I to knit one more repeat.  Now I have to weave in three million ends...

*I have set it aside for later enjoyment.

*Besides, a sock is a much better travel/mandatory training kind of project.

*I'm still working on the AGK's blankie, too.  But I don't want to crochet that at a workshop and have to explain what I am making.  

*My colleagues already think I am a little "different."

*When you lose a cat to cancer, you find yourself a little worried about anything that is lumpish or unfamiliar.  I saw a lump on the new baby last night as he strolled away to the kitchen for a snack.  

*My heart sank.  

*Did I mention that I haven't had a boy kitty since I was a kid?  

*Um...not a tumor.  

*Thank God I didn't try to get a closer look.  Then the AGK might start thinking that I am a little "different," too.

Happy Wednesday!  May your day be pleasant, filled with just the right balance of naps and knitting and a more solid understanding of feline anatomy than I seem to have.

SA