Setting Forth

I have been on a roll today. I got all the vacuuming, dishes, laundry and recycling done. I returned my sister's book to the library for her and walked out three books that had been on my "to-read" list for a long time. I saw the movie No Reservations, which is so good!!! I will definitely be watching it again. I even watched the series finale of Sex in the City (I am counting the days until the movie comes out).

I am excited because the PACK IS BACK!!! My all-time favorite football player Brett Farve and the boys won the big game at Lambeau Field and the snow was falling and it was just so pretty....His wife's new book was one of the books that I checked out at the library today.

I also found the world's most perfect Valentine's Day card for Sunshine today at Walgreen's. I am so proud of myself because it is one of the coolest cards I have found in awhile and it just really describes us perfectly.

Tomorrow the big Masterpiece season kicks off on PBS and I am so excited because they are doing "The Complete Jane Austen." Six of the movies based on her books and one Jane Austen biography movie. The first one they are showing is Persuasion. I am really excited about this because one of my goals this year is to read all of her novels, so this series could not occur at a more perfect time. Plus, my cousin gave me the BN complete Jane Austen edition which is really heavy, but it is handy to have them all in one book. I printed off the teacher's guide and the Jane Austen bookmark from the Masterpiece site too. I am stoked.

More book talk. These are the three books I checked out today:
1. Slash - the audiobiography by Slash (Velvet Revolver and Guns n Roses guitarist amongst other accomplishments). He was one of my musical idols growing up.
2. Don't bet against me! - Deanna Favre's new book about her life and overcoming breast cancer. I love stories that inspire and talk about overcoming the odds.
3. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain- written by Oliver Sachs, who wrote Awakenings (remember the movie version with Robin Williams?) I am a total sucker for music and books about music. This book looks like it will be really good.

I know it seems odd to be checking out books when I haven't read the ones I received for Christmas yet, but my library is a really nice library and they order a lot of new books and since there are apparently a lot of readers in my town, sometimes there is a long wait list to read some of the more popular books, so if I see it on the shelf, I check it out. Plus, I like to save the ones I buy for trips because that way I don't have to worry about losing a library book or racking up a fine if I don't make it back in time.

I did download the Into the Wild soundtrack last night and yet again, Eddie Vedder has provided me with hours of blissful music. It's a good cd to chill to.

I did sleep in until 8:34 am today, so I am really proud of myself because I am one of those sickos that functions on 6 hours asleep every day except on the weekends when I might get 7 or 8. I did get my oil changed. Sunshine would be so proud of me. I took my Mac and my new issue of Vogue Knitting which was a good thing because I sat there for over an hour. They are always busy on Saturday mornings and you pretty much have to get there when they open or else you will sit there forever. I just had my external door lock re-keyed, but that key is at the bank because I am lazy and just use my keyless remote. I watched the mechanic go outside to get my car, and he didn't click the remote right so my car didn't unlock, so he tried using my ignition key (which no longer unlocks the door) and that didn't work so he came inside and got me and I had to tell him the abridged version of my sob story and then I unlocked the car with my keyless. My car is low-tech and you have to hit the remote twice until you hear a click. No clickie, no unlockie. This dude was really embarrassed, but there's no way he could have known my car's quirks. anyways, my car received some new oil and a clean bill of health, so I am happy about that.

Our new back door (all metal) is supposed to be installed on Monday and my sister talked to State Farm on Friday and we should hear back in about a week on the results of our claim. The bank stuff is resolved but the payroll dept at work screwed up and left off my holiday pay for New Years which annoys me because I could use that money and I have email confirmation from them that my holiday pay was supposed to be on that check. So that's what I will have to straighten out on Monday. Things are starting to get back to normal. We are making the best of a really shitty situation and the messiest stuff has been taken care of.

On the yarn front, I started another hat using RH Lipstick. It is a multi with red, magenta, and purple in it. It kind of makes me think of Valentine's Day. I organized all my new yarn into two 1 ft tall totes and my antique Budweiser wooden crate (it has a hinge lid that is really handy). One of these days I will enter it all into Ravelry, but that will happen later on because I am tired of taking inventory right now.

All in all, it has been a quiet yet productive day. My sister is in Dallas and since I haven't received any phone calls since she arrived I am assuming that she is busy having the time of her life. Which is good, she needs a little break and some fun.