The Husband and I drove down to Monterey on Wednesday to spend Thanksgiving with my parents. They also had guests (Covent Players) staying with them, so The Husband was cooking Thanksgiving dinner for 8. Come Friday I was extremely ready to come home. Being around new people that I have nothing in common with tires me out physically and emotionally. So, it was either leave or start smacking people for being too up.

The rest of the weekend was recovery from Thankgiving. Saturday, we went to see Harry Potter. Sunday was originally intended to be a pajama day, but we decided to take the scooter out for a spin. The Husband, who took care of all his motorcycle license paperwork on Tuesday, had not been on the scooter since I got it in March. Apologies were made to the scooter for not being ridden in almost a month, tire pressure was adjusted, and I rode off towards my work while The Husband followed me in the car. He got to toodle around the parking lot, then ride it home.

I get to go to the DMV on Friday morning to turn in my safety course completion form and so they can take my picture for my license. This is of course why there is now a rather large pimple forming in the middle of my chin.

I took the Clapotis for my mother-in-law to my parents’ house. I got a lot of work done on it that I then got to rip out as I realised that instead of making it slightly smaller than the pattern, I had managed to do the exact number of repeats as instructed. So, I ripped back to the point where there’s only 5 repeats total and moved on to the straight rows. Thankfully, this is a rather easy pattern to memorize.

The afghan for my mother is being worked on at home in front of the nightly TV watching. It is going to take forever. And now I’m hoping that it will be wide enough… slightly hard to tell when the thing is wider than the circular needle you have it on. It’s a 40″ needle, and the pattern says it’s supposed to be 45″ wide. For some reason, 45″ on my measuring tape seems wider than on the afghan. I’ll just write it off as I’m not drinking enough while working on it.