Current mood:

Determined

Monday
Not much to report. The schedule goes back to "normal" this week. EGS starts school today and ED goes back to work. YD, 2ndGS, EGD and I all start exercise classes this Friday. The kidlets are going to Swim & Gym, YD is taking a Tai Chi class, and I'm doing three days of water exercise. I did a class two days a week in the fall and really enjoyed it. Till the pool got so cold. Am NOT looking forward to returning to the cold pool in January, either. Had hoped it would be in the indoor therapeutic pool, but I don't think my luck is holding.

Tomorrow I have to go to DES for a Jobs Orientation. In order to get Cash Assistance, I have to either find a job or convince them that taking care of my grandkids is a job. I'm not looking forward to this at all. Am trying to keep from stressing about it. Either I'll still have my Cash Assistance or I won't.

I can report I did some spinning yesterday. I have a long hair dog, Sugar, that's a chow mix.

I gave her a bath last week and then brushed and brushed and brushed. I got quite a bit of her undercoat and saved it all. Yesterday I carded it with some similar colored mohair blend I had and ended up with a grocery bag of dog/mohair blend. So I started spinning last night. It's really kind of pretty.
Anyway, it took me most of the afternoon and evening to hand card all these together and then start spinning. It's been almost a year, I bet since I've done any spinning but it was just like riding a bicycle!

I did a bit of hand quilting, too, while watching the last of the Seaquest shows I'd recorded on the DVR. It was a nice series and decent TV during the holiday season.

I've organized all my reading lists on my other blog. It took quite a while to go through all the books I have from the library and get them listed. My library has started making the list of books checked out on a card available to the patron, so I went through and pulled all the fiction off that list too. It's only a partial list of what I've read last year as the service only started in June. However, it's still kind of impressive! I still have a stack of paper backs I bought at a swap meet to add to my On The Bookshelf list. My reading isn't heavy stuff.... I read to escape and if I get into really good heavy stuff, and then get interrupted, I get cranky. So it's better I read light so getting up to help a grand kid or animal doesn't bother me.

I did find a book group on Yahoo, TheReadingLoft that looked kind of interesting. Their next book is Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke. It's been on a list of books I want to read anyway, so I put it on reserve at the library.

So, that was pretty much my day. That and a load of laundry, two trips to the store and visiting with my YD and GDs. EGD spent the night Saturday and we had a good time drinking tea, coloring pictures and just chatting.