The Difficulty of Being Human.....

It’s late in the morning 9:20 and late in the summer. And late in my life I suppose I could add, me about to be 54! Well that’s silly. But I don’t have much time today as I must go to work at 1 to meet with the Prof. I don’t need to  cook supper since I made 2 quiche yesterday, which is good, but I’m actually thinking I might make 2 more quiche to freeze since we leave tomorrow for OR and I have all these eggs, milk and tomatoes. Also I’m thinking that I really should pluck some bunnies before we go, there are several that really are ready. I asked my neighbor yesterday if her daughters could feed the buns after my dd leaves on Fri. She said she’d tell me this morning after she figures out if they are going to see her sister. Boy I sure hope they can do it, otherwise, I don’t know who will and there is not much time to figure it out. My usual helper can’t because it is Ramadan and she is fasting and doesn’t want to take on anything that might be too hard (it is only her second time fasting). I could ask a friend’s son, but it is so far for him to come and it would mean my friend would have to drive him over. Well, I’ll keep fingers crossed about my neighbor. Of course, if she can do it, it still means I must show her what to do and then hope it all works out ok. This is one big reason why I do NOT like going anywhere.
    I stayed up to watch The Apartment which I had rented on Netflix and it was kind of a waste of time. I think I am too movie-d out, since I also went to see Eat Love Pray with friends yesterday. I didn’t really want to go, not having really liked the book, and not wanting to take the time, but I felt pressured. My friend really wanted me to come. She loves movies. Another friend could not come because of work stuff. I feel sometimes like I get pressured into things that I don’t want to do, and me being who I am I give in when others hold firm. It’s really different because my friends love going out to things, but if it is something they do not want to do, they are much better at just not doing it. I guess the difficult thing is that, though I like and value my friends, I often do not want to do social kinds of things. I don’t especially like parties, I don’t love movies, I do enjoy going to get tea, to get together to write (except so often we don’t actually write). Oh brother. It is complex.  Oh, and to add to the movie story, Sunday night the dh and I went to see The Other Guys which was the absolute dumbest movie I have seen in a very very long time.  So no more movies for a long long time.
    Which brings up OR and what the heck we will do there. If it was just me and the dh the whole time it would be easier. The day I am concerned about is Wed when it will be the 2 of us and the dd #2 since dd #1 will have gone off to work Tues. I think I will look up things to do in Portland, but I can’t imagine that she will want to do any of them.
    I have said nothing interesting in a fibery sense. I finished the wrist warmers and they are very nice.

They took precisely 1 ounce. I have started the Knitty Calorimetry headband
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and want to see how much that takes. It calls for casting on 120 stitches, but that is way too big and is based on a gage of 5 stitches per inch, while I got 4, so I cast on 96 stitches and hope that will work. I have also been working a bit on the scarf, and will add a photo. It is very nice, the only problem is that I must count as I knit so I can’t just do it anywhere. I think while I’m at it I will also take a photo of the baby buns – day 3

and of the display board I put together for my booth.

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