Sundays are for blogging

In the same vein as the Harlot's "Tuesdays are for Spinning", I am going to try really hard to establish Sunday as a regular blog-update day - some weeks I get every day in and some weeks not at all - I need to be more consistent with a lot of things in my life (hello, can we say laundry?) and I'm trying to get some structure back now that "the event" is over and things are getting (back to?) normal.

So, a week-in-review update, with no pictures because although most of my house is tidy, my desk is not and I can't find my camera.

Sunday last: married. You heard. Moving on. :)

Monday: Victoria Day (observed, it should really have been Thursday but then we don't get a long weekend). Slept late, took naps, went to bed early. Really a perfect day off. No knitting.

Tuesday: back to work. CHAOS! My job is complete chaos. Trying to catch up with things and just get a handle on what the heck is going on, and when, and why I'm getting yelled at for it. Also answered a lot of "how was the wedding" questions, accepted congratulations, and confused people by changing my last name on email and voicemail. (I had an email asking if my voicemail was me - how fun is that?) No knitting.

Wednesday: uh, more work. That's about it. Still no knitting.

Thursday: still more work. Oh, and the car decided to have a transmission "incident" midafternoon - we were having a minor one-day heat wave (30 celsius plus humidex) and car didn't like it. Fortunately I was 10 minutes away from my mechanic at the time and his shop is air-conditioned (car isn't, at the moment). They did something, it's fixed, but needs "looking at - soon." I totally cannot afford car repairs right now. Argh. Still no knitting, although I had a sock in my bag at the mechanic's - read a trashy mag instead.

Friday: Work, but at a much less frenetic pace. Organized for the week to come, cleared most of the clutter into manageable piles, and was out the door promptly at 1:00 as we are now on our summer hours and I get Friday afternoons off! Woohoo! Errands and then home to a quiet evening. Again with the no knitting. Started to worry that I haven't knit in nearly a week!

Saturday: GARDEN TIME!!! Up at the crack of dawn (or thereabouts), to the nursery, to the other nursery, to the hardware store (for watering implements and assorted garden gadgets), to home where we planted:
1) Tomatoes. Three varieties.
2) Purple cabbage.
3) Bell peppers.
4) Potatoes.
5) Beets (beetroot for the Brits).
6) Radishes.
7) Cucumbers.
8) Snow peas.
9) Snapdragons (not edible, but pretty and planted).

We also moved a few rosebushes and things around to make room for all the veggies, and Peter discovered that his Mom had the startings of an herb garden so I will put the rest of the herbs in there (we'd been waffling on where to put the herb garden anyway). Then, we came inside, ate HUGE sandwiches and watched movies. AND - I knit! I had to, I was relaxed and ready and just could not sit and watch three movies without knitting. Worked on the Wednesday's cardigan and then dug out my Karma Chameleon Clapotis (abandoned in disgust last summer) and restarted it (after a full two hours untangling the bag-o-yarn that it had become). Felt good, REAL good to be just knitting away on whatever, whenever again.

Today: wedding-present shopping! See, our lovely guests were mighty generous with the 50/50 draw and cash gifts tucked into cards as well. We bought a really nice patio set (COMFY chairs!) and a Dyson "animal" vaccuum cleaner (remember, we have two cats and I'm allergic to them, poor fuzzybutts). Apologies for linking to places with prices; I know it's tacky but it's also easy.

And then we came home and had naps and baked bread and had a nice quiet Sunday. The end.