Flying By

This week has been crazy. It really nice that I don’t have any place to go this weekend because I know this coming week is going to be rough because it’s month-end and the fiscal year end is drawing near.

Last weekend I discovered Trader Joe’s oatmeal and cranberry cookie dough. It is packaged into 16 little dough balls and smells like heaven in the oven. I have so much fun every time I go there just reading the little stories on the packages and the employees are laid back and friendly. I still love my Whole Foods too because they have my favorite croutons and dip and the trash bags I like.

I scored The Tudors Season 1 on dvd at FYE’s big dvd sale this week for only $15 and this normally retails for between $30-40. I think I am going through a Brit Lit phase again. I re-read Jane Eyre recently for the first time in ten years and then I found the BBC/Masterpiece Theatre edition on DVD and loved it. I also watched the new versions of Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion and the biopic Miss Austen Regrets. I also bought Smart People on DVD with Ellen Page and Sarah Jessica Parker and it is hilarious! I am happy that I bought that one too.

I finally read Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks (LOVE IT) just in time for the movie to come out next month(?). I also finished reading Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer. This book is definitely the most dark and twisty book in the series but I was happy with the ending. I also read Looking for Anne of Green Gables: The Story of L.M. Montgomery and Her Literary Classic by Irene Gammel and White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Brenda Wineapple. Both books were excellent and make me want to visit Prince Edward Island and Amherst. I have been reading like crazy lately and so that’s why my crafty progress has been slower.

The sewing machine drama continues. I still can’t figure out how to thread the damn bobbin so I am going to go to the Singer store on Saturday and plead for help. I have the new needle installed and threaded so I am so close. I have over a foot completed on the knitted shawl but I am using two strands of TLC Amore and I knit really super slow so it is taking me forever. Plus, I am also halfway done crocheting a dishcloth and I started crocheting another shawl out of Lion Brand Homespun in Gothic (which is the deep purple that I really like). I haven’t made much progress on the tote bag I started crocheting in Virginia Beach because I have to alternate stitches every row and I keep forgetting which row I am on. I might be ripping back and marking it off as I go on a Post-It.