We had a quiet New Year’s Eve, as we always do. At least we were quiet. The neighbors had a party, with live music starting at about 5pm.
For dinner we started into the second Thanksgiving casserole, with chicken, stuffing, wild rice, and pastry. We were a bit late going to bed (10:30pm) because we wanted to see to the end of “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End”. We had no sooner settled into bed when the neighbors decided they needed to plug in their amplifiers. After that Paul had trouble sleeping and I had trouble concentrating on my book. [I’m currently reading The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. I’m enjoying the mystery of it, plus the quirks and twists of the concept of time travel.]
At midnight the neighbors’ music stopped, but fireworks went off all over the neighborhood. Hannah bolted off Paul’s legs, awakening him. She skedaddled downstairs. Sydney just waited out the noise. Just when I thought Hannah was settled under the couch for the night, I noticed she was on the cedar chest, looking out her window at the neighbors and their shenanigans. For once, I didn’t hear any gunshots. Ten minutes later all was quiet, and we all finished our “naps”.
Today Paul and I walked down to El Pollo Loco for lunch. Paul goes for walks often, and I joined him today. Eating at EPL is our usual Friday routine and we verified last week that they would be open today. It’s cloudy and a warm 60 degrees today, and at least it didn’t rain while we were out.
I’m throwing caution to the wind and doing laundry today. (Some superstitiously think you can wash your relatives away if you do laundry on New Year’s Day). But I like to enter the year clean, and my hamper happened to be full.
I finished knitting up my 3rd helmet-liner last night. Have to work on fall-back knitting until my next batch of yarn arrives. I know, I worried about being 5 weeks behind. But the knitting went faster than I thought, so I ordered up more yarn.
I’m making steady progress on Mean Jean’s quilt. (I guess it’s really Yvonne’s quilt.) From each shirt fabric I had cut one block worth of triangles and squares, forgetting that it will take half again as many blocks for the quilt I have planned. I’ve completed 14 of those, but who’s counting? Here’s the first crop:
I’m not currently beading, but I dream of pearls. One of my on-line sources, fusionbeads.com, is having a crystal pearl sale. I would like to make something, but must narrow down many design choices first.
Here are the girls on a rare occasion. Hannah is on Sydney’s regular sleeping place, getting a bath from her sister. I like the sublime look on Hannah’s face.
