good things:

• the shower is back to normal, and clean.
  
• sweaters progressing slowly but surely + extra green yarn
  
• waking up feeling somewhat better

not-so-good things:

• spending an hour and a half on the bathroom floor with the brushy end of the vacuum and an old chopstick, cleaning plaster residue out of the floor grout.  we have very small tile.
  
• finish ( Read more... )

today:

• chased a known shoplifter out of windsor button.  chased.  (i won i won i won)
  
• walked home through 6-8" of really cold, dark, murky, unavoidable water.  not snow, not slush.  water.  (yuck/brrr/yuck)
  
• ate surprise chicken saltimboca.  surprise italian dinner.  (love tyler)
• oh my. ( " )

tomorrow:

• sleeping in, payday.

i just filed my tax returns using h&r block online.
they tell you how much you're getting back, and approximately when.

i think last year it was a lot quicker than they said - here's hoping.

have you ever inhaled and had your nose whistle in such a way that you whipped your head around to see the bird in your apartment?

dogs wake up so early.

being wide awake for extra time before you have to leave for work is always so peaceful.

oh my.

rowan is finished.

good things:

• they still make sneakers, and put them on sale
• new song stuck in my head
• i can read again
• almost done knitting
• secret excursions beginning with coffee and a baked good

good things:

• back, front, and one sleeve finished
• yarn for tweedy, fluffily-lined aviator for meeee
• sleeping past noon for once
• day off, day off.
• horror movie marathons

i would like to point out that i have been so good about only knitting rowan. it's been six weeks. i have a heap of more enjoyable, easier, larger-gauge projects on deck that i would really really like to be working on.  as loopy as this may sound, i think this sweater is contributing to my lousy mood, in cahoots with cold weather and early