Alright, so I missed a few days. It’s been a busy, odd, foggy couple of days.
Lewis and I had one of the strangest kinda crappy days on Wednesday. It started off well enough, until Lewis got to campus. He pulled his hat out of his bag, and as he was going to put it on, a big cockroach jumped out! How terrifying! Lewis squished it, but it was so very odd! We took ourselves out for Japanese lunch which was great, but we got caught in a big rain storm on the way back to campus. We were having a fondue party that night and I had to get our cheesey supplies, so back into the rainstorm went I. Got thoroughly soaked on the way to the Co-op, and as I was right in the middle of shopping when I heard a huge thunderclap and the whole store let out a collective “oh!”. Absolutely poured after that, but thankfully only for a few minutes, so it was fairly rain-free for my bike ride home. I was still pretty nervous about that thunder, so I rode home pretty fast. Sadly, bike chain fell off while going up the overpass, and then I fell off my bike while trying to get it back on. Sheesh! Followed all that up with some semantics homework and my second optical migraine, so I guess I’m headed to the doctor on that count. Luckily it was all looking up from there – had a wonderful fondue party with the most delicious cheese-goop and delightful company. Phew!
Yesterday was much less eventful. Class went well, I got lots of work done, and had a nice relaxing evening with Lewis’ family. They always get together on his grandpa Pappy’s birthday to have his favorite meal in his memory, so we went over to his parents’ house and had dinner with them and his Aunt Linda & Uncle Bill & Annie. I always enjoy the family events, and Annie is always amusing to hang out with. Anyway, much meatloaf and cherry pie was consumed, and it was great to have something low-rev and chilled out to be doing.
…which is exactly what I’ve spent all day doing. I’ve only got one class on Fridays, and I’m done by 11, so it’s something like having the whole day off. I got all my work done, and spent much of the day reading slowly and watching crappy (read: satiating) daytime tv. Did a little prepping for some sewing only to discover I don’t know how to use the tracing paper I got from Francie this week. So instead I poked around with mom’s old machine and cleaned it up a little bit. It’s a multi-day clean-up task, but I figured out a few things, like how to wind the bobbin, and how to get the bobbin shuttle out. Yay! Now if I had only managed to have something more than a bowl of rice crispies for dinner…