Seriously: never idle

Friday: 

• Arrive home from work to the sounds of apartment maintenance (thankfully, once the paint's dry, it's done!)


• Go for a drink (but it's never just one)


• Dinner back at home


• Packing + more drinking


• 1:00+ -- crash

Saturday:

• Up at 7:3045


• 10 minutes on the 110 to Dodger Stadium; 20 minutes from there into DTLA


• Exit freeway, get a little lost in Downtown, get back on at Convention Center


• Drive in good traffic to LAX


• 3:30 p.m. local: arrive in Kansas City, MO


• Taxi to hotel


• Transfer hotels due to plumbing issue


• Get ready at new hotel


• Taxi to church; attend wedding


• Reception


• Taxi back to hotel


• 1:00+ crash for 5 hours

Sunday:

• Up at 6:0030


• Shuttle to airport


• Sleep during most of the 3-hour flight


• 10:00 a.m. local:  arrive at LAX


• Receive call from DC's visiting friends


• Meet them in Redondo Beach, hang out for the day


• 4:30 p.m. head home


• TJ's run


• Make hodgepodge dinner


• Crash

Happy, happy birthday weekend, DC.  Very-very love.

Never idle

Thursday:

• Evening Target run w/ BFF


• Pack for the weekend (including prepping laundry and baking ingredients)

Friday:

• Drive to work (instead of taking the bus); leave earlier to park + climb >150 steps


• Work through lunch; leave at 4:00


• Head down to HB in the midst of rush hour traffic


• 6:00 -- Korean food dinner w/ friends (BH's first KBBQ and last night in L.A.)


• Meet BH's friends at local bar


• 12:00+ -- crash

Saturday:

• Quick breakfast of coffee, bagel, and fruit


• Farewell to BH at John Wayne Airport


• IKEA run ('cause it's right there)


• TJ's run


• Laundry


• Siesta


• Fire up charcoal grill (minus man-points for DC)


• Al fresco dinner of chicken, mashed potatoes, and wine


• Walk to liquor store; buy small flask of brandy


• Prepare cookie dough + bake


• Prepare sangria + refrigerate/marinate


• 12:00+ -- crash

Sunday:

• "Sleep in" until 9:00


• Laundry


• Pack up; head back home


• September Sunday Sangria party with old friends


• Facilitate workshop


• Church


• Meeting with pastor


• Dinner


• Crash

Monday:  Off in observance of Japan's Respect for the Aged Day

[exhale]

To knit or not to knit?

Coming home from Maui--yes, I know: two weeks ago--I was met with red lines of fire and black smoke in the San Gabriel Mountains (set to be contained this weekend) on the drive back home, and, opening my door, a layer of dust over the entire apartment--and the retrofitting is still not quite finished.  I've been living out of my laundry basket, growing  an expensive pile of dry cleaning, and--having forgotten to take out the trash before going to DC's last weekend--am dealing with a mini swarm of fruit flies in my kitchen.  That's just the tip of the iceberg, friends.  I'll be back when I can finally clean, and the dust is swept away for good.

In the meantime, here's something I saw in Sunday's paper that made me smile:

To knit or not to knit: Is it rude in a crowd? -- latimes.com

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