Well, I didn't exactly take a vacation, but I would still like to say I did. Instead of spending all of my Spring Break working or sitting around my house I spent 5 days and 6 nights in Chillicothe. It was really nice to sit in a quiet house during the day with no barking dogs or someone telling me to come down stairs for a moment, which can turn into an hour or more. I didn't have to listen to MTV when I woke up in the morning. Pure silence...Well, almost pure silence. Some days there were rain, but I did notice I heard a train quiet a bit in the area whistling its approach.
The best part about my time away from home was spending what time I could with Jay. We went out to dinner and lunch, I made dinner for us, we watched "Troy" with Brad Pitt as the star (yet, I must say I think Orlando Bloom was the handsome one of the two), talked and he played the guitar. Sunday we went to the bowling alley, met up with his friend Ben and we ate pizza and bowled. Jay's last game was the best ever. He bowled over 200 (right now my brain and I are arguing if it was 211 or 214, or if it is either of those). We also went to his parents' house on Sunday night for their annual dinner night (usually pizza) and his mom told the interesting ghost stories that happen in the house, one Jay never knew about till that evening, and believe me it sent shivers up my back.
While he was working, I spent my days enjoying the quiet. One day I didn't turn on anything for background noise until well after 5. I remember working on the dishes and decided I needed something to listen to. I put in "Marlie and Me" and got to work. Throughout that day I did laundry for Jay, too, and doing laundry for someone else is a lot easier and more motivating than doing it for yourself. I hate doing my own laundry. I absolutally hate folding it and putting it away. A lot of the time my jeans and hoodies sit in the clothes basket after I bring them up. I also can never find my socks. Anymore I pretty much just buy a large bag of socks and probably will wear them once before they get up and walk away from the laundry pile. I had also made no bakes twice while I was there, so I cleaned up that mess, twice.
The biggest accomplishment I made while I was at Jay's would have to be the subject of my seminar paper. I worked for over 5 hours on it, and managed to crank out almost a full 5 pages. I was a paragraph short of having 5 pages. I do have an outline for information for my next subject I wish to discuss in it, and I need to do some more research in order to do that. My goal by next Friday is to have 10 pages of seminar complete. I will be spending a great majority of my time in the library this week. I need some book sources. Right now I only have 4 or 5 internet sources for the subject plus the seminar book itself, "Great Expectations."
My fun project while I was at Jay's is my knitting, which was a lot of the reason why I decided to update my blog. It is currently 5:30 am, and thankfully I do not have to work until 6 pm tomorrow night. I will be taking advantage of my extra time snoozing! I started a blanket while I was at Jay's. Last night (Wednesday night) I completed the 45 rows of my first color, and started on my second color while I was up there, and I do remember when I packed up this morning I had 15 rows of my second color left to finish. Right now I am at 25 rows into my 4th color. So, in the process of 5 hours I knitted 85 rows. I am pretty excited. Tonight's goal is to have the panel of 6 colors completed. This blanket is going to be huge! I cannot wait to have it all completely finished. The biggest reward when it is all said and done with is when you get to snuggle with your finished work, unless of course you are giving it to someone.
Well, I do believe it is about snooze time. Murphy is at the foot of the bed ready to snuggle. He was very excited when I came home for the hour and a half I was home before I left for work. When he saw me walking around with my work uniform and keys in hand he was in a mood! I mean a MOOD! He is ready to snuggle with Mama. I really did miss him while I was away. Oh, in case anyone was curious about the tuna steak recipe, we never managed to go to the store together and decide on a recipe. Hopefully next visit I made to Chillicothe I can figure out a recipe and have a really great meal. It will be a challenge that I am looking forward to! I've never had tuna that was not right out of the can before.
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