Stupid Weather

Why is that when I take a Friday afternoon off work, the weather goes to crap? I started my time off with a trip to have my car’s oil change and the only thing I can say about that really is that they had wi-fi in the lounge area so I was able to surf Ravelry while I waited. Then I headed over to AC Moore to buy the yarn for the Afghan of Awesomeness. I have ten colors plus black for the edging. I am kind of waiting until I make a few more blocks & have a better idea of size before I add in any additional yarn. I have three blocks worked up now and I really like it so far.
After AC Moore, I went over to Target and I ended up buying the handheld pink Dyson vacuum. This little vacuum is beyond amazing. It has all the suction power of the full size Dyson with the size of a regular handheld and it has the coolest attachments. This makes cleaning a lot easier and it will be easier to vacuum out my car now.
Friday night, I ended over to G’s for dinner and game night. They are hardcore Monopoly players and I hadn’t played Monopoly in ages, so I basically had my ass handed to me a plate but it was a lot of fun.
Saturday I woke up really tired, so I decided to head to Starbucks to recharge and it was raining which continued throughout the day and it cooled off more, which sucks. I WANT MY NICE WEATHER BACK!!!!!!! H came by and we headed off to Chapel Hill where I spent a whole lot of money on yarn, Addi hooks and pattern booklets. $108.00 and that is fine by me, because even though I am using my tax refund for grown-up things, I had saved a little chunk of it to splurge. I also ended up getting some things for the Top Chef Ravelry Pool winner in my group so now I just need to go back to Target and get a little box because all I have are these giant boxes. We ended up going to Whole Foods and Trader Joes. I ended up buying a bottle of wine at Trader Joe’s so hopefully it tastes good. Then we headed across the way to Durham where we ate at Chili’s and went to AC Moore. H and I had a lot of fun, I just wished it wouldn’t have been raining the whole time because we wanted to get popsicles but it wasn’t a really good day for that when we were out in the rain.
Saturday evening basically slipped away from me. I ran out of the silver blue yarn on the last row of my big granny square afghan that I was making out of Vanna’s choice so I ended up driving in the cold, pouring rain to Jo-Ann’s and bought the skein I needed and a leaflet at 40% called Cuddles to Crochet for Pets. I was suckered into buying this leaflet because the front cover has these newborn puppies in a basket with a little pink crochet blankie. It has blankie and toy patterns for puppies and kitties. I stopped at Borders on my way home and they were having a 30% off sale on DVDs and CDs. I ended up getting Secret Diary of a call girl season one (love billie piper) and No Reservations Season 3 (love Anthony Bourdain and this has the Russia & South Carolina episodes).
I’m not really sure what my small project should be while I’m working on the Afghan of Awesomeness because hauling around 11+ skeins of RH SuperSaver is not very portable at all. I had this idea where I thought I would be able to take the divider out of my wine box and then just stand them up inside and because they are still full skeins they don’t all fit and had to lay two of them on top but at least they are not just piled on the floor anymore.