A Long Week
Dec. 14th, 2005 08:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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fosveny left for Norfolk amid some excitement. So I headed up to baronadhemar's, not discovering Lewis's cell phone until I was halfway across New Jersey. Snow was due and my head was all frotzed; I wasn't sure (and I'm still not) if it was sinus pressure from the coming front, or lack of sleep, or what, so I self-medicated with cold drugs (the new ones what work, yay!) and a big thing of hot chocolate. It helped, enough to get me there, at least. Sometime after I arrived we went out for Mexican food and much talkies (hope you ate my leftovers which I forgot _again_ hun), and we stayed up not-nearly-as-late-as-usual watching I forget what. Oh, and there was shopping for ingredients for much comfort food.
Tuesday there was supposed to be a snowstorm, but there wasn't; we stuck with our original plan of making much confort food anyway, but not before running out to buy me hatses ('cos I needed hatses.) Both of the ones I got were actually back, but it's a bitch finding the right picture.
We went back to his place and I did dishes and napped while he made meatloaf and stuffing. I did say comfort food, right? Down to the mashed potatoes down the centre of the meatloaf. Then, we ate A Lot, watched something until one-thirty, decided to go to bed, and somehow wound up staying up talking until four instead.
The next morning, of course, was the day that we actually had something that we had to be at. It involved trees and Luna and Pam and some other stuff, and lunch. It was fun, though waking up at ten-thirty was _not_. After that, we went to Target and a really excellent chef supply place, at the latter of which I got silly and purchased things. Comfort food for dinner again, plus a lovely chocolate cake in a cool-assed bundt pan Adhemar got which produces cakes in the shape of a cathedral. Serving size, 1/2 cathedral.
Talked to Lewis for a while, and got him caught up on the latest heraldry news. Turned out that he needed to stay in Norfolk an extra day which is why I didn't go home Wednesday. Watched Pirates and then Troy and sewed a lot, then went to bed.
Thursday I pretty much got up and went home. It was a lovely visit but I wanted my cats and my house and my bed and my rats. And Lewis was gonna be home sometime that day, though we weren't sure when. It was a good visit, though. I didn't get near as much _stuff_ done as I wanted to, and we didn't go walkies at all. I did get a lot done on the cote I've been not-working-on since sometime in June. We didn't actually get any patterns done, but life goes on and I can always make that waistcoat _later_.
On the way home I stopped at Mitsuwa in an attempt to replace a plate I'd broken, but they had everything in that pattern _but_ the plate I was looking for. I manfully refrained from buying anything else (much less lots and lots else, like I usually do) and headed out. Edegwater is always exciting to get around in and while I found Mitsuwa all right, finding a place to grab food (somehow nothing Oriental looked good) and then get back on the highway was a bit more fun than I wanted it to be.
I decided to stay on 80 all the way across, instead of dropping down to 78. It got me out of New Jersey a bit faster, which is always towards the good, but mostly I just wanted to not take the same damn route. Northwestern New Jersey, especially right on the river, is just gorgeous, a fact I regularly forget until something takes me back through it.
I stopped at a picnic/rest stop/scenic overview. It was beautiful - a fresh coat of snow, broken by critter-prints and maybe a few sets of human-prints from especially intrepid folk. A nice view out over the hills, but I realized as I stood there that my gaze kept lifting, looking for the mountains that must be behind those foothills there...
*sighs*
I drove on. The highway parallels the river northward for a few miles before the crossing, and I went under a highly cool bridge. Shortly after was an exit, the kind that clearly goes not much of anywhere except for all the cool hidden local stuff, so I got off there and spent twenty minutes trying to find said cool bridge. With no luck, though, and I suspect (having got a better look at it) that's it's unused and actually overgrown. Someday I'll walk it, though.
The late nights started to catch up to me and I didn't make any more detours. I got home at three and went upstairs; Lewis was sound asleep, fully dressed and tucked under the covers. I think he got less sleep than I did, the couple of days before.
I'd planned to do Nothing Else the rest of that day but Christina showed up at six, as usual, for Sewing Night. Wups! At least I was home and the house wasn't too pitful. :) We didn't get a whit of sewing done, though.
Friday was sleeping and laundry and shoveling and it's a good thing Lewis had the day off anyway, because we got about eight inches of snow. Mostly a lazy day in any case, though I went up to Marshall's to get a pressie for Lewis's company Christmas thing. Saturday was much the same, ending with said party; we came home with two nice travel coffee mugs, and Lewis made off with the door prize - an iPod Nano. He's having a grand time with the thing.
Sunday was more not-much, save for going down to my mom's to hang out with my sister (up from Florida) and aunt and uncle. Apart from the requisite football on TV that was nice.
Monday a dear friend was scheduled for reasonably unpleasant medical procedure involving sedation, and since her mom's a twit I volunteered to drive her to the hospital and keep her company instead. We taked about cows and alpaca and fabric and how to save the world, and apparently I did a pretty good job of keeping her from thinking about things too hard. She wasn't too loopy afterwards and could probably have driven home herself, but better paranoid than crunched; I'm glad I was there. Also, she has greyhounds so keeping her company until her husband got home was quite the fun. :)
Yesterday I managed to run errands for three hours straight. Chili, some shoveling, and cleaning took up most of the rest of the day. Today will be more cleaning, the errands I didn't get to yesterday, and (with luck) some actual baking. Tomorrow's Sewing Night again, and this weekend is the Shire revel, for which I ought to wrap a couple presents, I suppose.
fosveny left for Norfolk amid some excitement. So I headed up to baronadhemar's, not discovering Lewis's cell phone until I was halfway across New Jersey. Snow was due and my head was all frotzed; I wasn't sure (and I'm still not) if it was sinus pressure from the coming front, or lack of sleep, or what, so I self-medicated with cold drugs (the new ones what work, yay!) and a big thing of hot chocolate. It helped, enough to get me there, at least. Sometime after I arrived we went out for Mexican food and much talkies (hope you ate my leftovers which I forgot _again_ hun), and we stayed up not-nearly-as-late-as-usual watching I forget what. Oh, and there was shopping for ingredients for much comfort food.Tuesday there was supposed to be a snowstorm, but there wasn't; we stuck with our original plan of making much confort food anyway, but not before running out to buy me hatses ('cos I needed hatses.) Both of the ones I got were actually back, but it's a bitch finding the right picture.
We went back to his place and I did dishes and napped while he made meatloaf and stuffing. I did say comfort food, right? Down to the mashed potatoes down the centre of the meatloaf. Then, we ate A Lot, watched something until one-thirty, decided to go to bed, and somehow wound up staying up talking until four instead.
The next morning, of course, was the day that we actually had something that we had to be at. It involved trees and Luna and Pam and some other stuff, and lunch. It was fun, though waking up at ten-thirty was _not_. After that, we went to Target and a really excellent chef supply place, at the latter of which I got silly and purchased things. Comfort food for dinner again, plus a lovely chocolate cake in a cool-assed bundt pan Adhemar got which produces cakes in the shape of a cathedral. Serving size, 1/2 cathedral.
Talked to Lewis for a while, and got him caught up on the latest heraldry news. Turned out that he needed to stay in Norfolk an extra day which is why I didn't go home Wednesday. Watched Pirates and then Troy and sewed a lot, then went to bed.
Thursday I pretty much got up and went home. It was a lovely visit but I wanted my cats and my house and my bed and my rats. And Lewis was gonna be home sometime that day, though we weren't sure when. It was a good visit, though. I didn't get near as much _stuff_ done as I wanted to, and we didn't go walkies at all. I did get a lot done on the cote I've been not-working-on since sometime in June. We didn't actually get any patterns done, but life goes on and I can always make that waistcoat _later_.
On the way home I stopped at Mitsuwa in an attempt to replace a plate I'd broken, but they had everything in that pattern _but_ the plate I was looking for. I manfully refrained from buying anything else (much less lots and lots else, like I usually do) and headed out. Edegwater is always exciting to get around in and while I found Mitsuwa all right, finding a place to grab food (somehow nothing Oriental looked good) and then get back on the highway was a bit more fun than I wanted it to be.
I decided to stay on 80 all the way across, instead of dropping down to 78. It got me out of New Jersey a bit faster, which is always towards the good, but mostly I just wanted to not take the same damn route. Northwestern New Jersey, especially right on the river, is just gorgeous, a fact I regularly forget until something takes me back through it.
I stopped at a picnic/rest stop/scenic overview. It was beautiful - a fresh coat of snow, broken by critter-prints and maybe a few sets of human-prints from especially intrepid folk. A nice view out over the hills, but I realized as I stood there that my gaze kept lifting, looking for the mountains that must be behind those foothills there...
*sighs*
I drove on. The highway parallels the river northward for a few miles before the crossing, and I went under a highly cool bridge. Shortly after was an exit, the kind that clearly goes not much of anywhere except for all the cool hidden local stuff, so I got off there and spent twenty minutes trying to find said cool bridge. With no luck, though, and I suspect (having got a better look at it) that's it's unused and actually overgrown. Someday I'll walk it, though.
The late nights started to catch up to me and I didn't make any more detours. I got home at three and went upstairs; Lewis was sound asleep, fully dressed and tucked under the covers. I think he got less sleep than I did, the couple of days before.
I'd planned to do Nothing Else the rest of that day but Christina showed up at six, as usual, for Sewing Night. Wups! At least I was home and the house wasn't too pitful. :) We didn't get a whit of sewing done, though.
Friday was sleeping and laundry and shoveling and it's a good thing Lewis had the day off anyway, because we got about eight inches of snow. Mostly a lazy day in any case, though I went up to Marshall's to get a pressie for Lewis's company Christmas thing. Saturday was much the same, ending with said party; we came home with two nice travel coffee mugs, and Lewis made off with the door prize - an iPod Nano. He's having a grand time with the thing.
Sunday was more not-much, save for going down to my mom's to hang out with my sister (up from Florida) and aunt and uncle. Apart from the requisite football on TV that was nice.
Monday a dear friend was scheduled for reasonably unpleasant medical procedure involving sedation, and since her mom's a twit I volunteered to drive her to the hospital and keep her company instead. We taked about cows and alpaca and fabric and how to save the world, and apparently I did a pretty good job of keeping her from thinking about things too hard. She wasn't too loopy afterwards and could probably have driven home herself, but better paranoid than crunched; I'm glad I was there. Also, she has greyhounds so keeping her company until her husband got home was quite the fun. :)
Yesterday I managed to run errands for three hours straight. Chili, some shoveling, and cleaning took up most of the rest of the day. Today will be more cleaning, the errands I didn't get to yesterday, and (with luck) some actual baking. Tomorrow's Sewing Night again, and this weekend is the Shire revel, for which I ought to wrap a couple presents, I suppose.
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