No work day

Well, my customer for today never called back to confirm that she was leaving a key, so I didn't run all the way to Springfield. No sense in wasting gas. Still haven't heard from her.

Hope tomorrow goes better workwise....

I decided to watch a movie this morning and it turned out to be terrific.

"Juno" I highly recommend it.

Weekend

Lucy's family get-together went off nicely. Still can't remember all the players but doesn't seem to matter. Good, down-to-earth people that welcome even an outsider like me. The weather was just gorgeous, so we all sat out on the terrace of Dorothy's apt. building, and chatted from 1:00 till I excused myself to come home and take my nap at about 4:00.

I woke up well-rested this morning at 5:30, read my paper, started the crossword, had coffee and cigarettes and now I'm ready to lay down for an hour before getting ready for the day.

Eating Out

It has become my week for eating out.

Yesterday I went with Susie to the Herndon Farmers' Market and to lunch at The Cheesecake Factory at Fair Oaks Mall. Today I met Lucy and Dorothy, her sister, at Nissam's in Vienna and had a wonderful lamb cabob dinner. Tomorrow Lucy's family is having a get-together at Dorothy's condo-building community room, which means lots and lots of good food.

Next week I will eat only salads, I promise.

Day rearranged

Well, it's 7:00 PM and Lucy is not here yet. Her flight was delayed because of mechanical problems and is now due in at 9:55 PM. It's going to be a long evening just waiting around to go to the airport and then driving her to Falls Church. What are friends for???????

Organizing

Today I bought 2 shelf units to organize my wallpaper and paint stuff in an upper bedroom and worked all afternoon on getting my "junk" out of the living room. This project was more motivated by the new windows that are going in sometime in the next 2 weeks. The installer has to be able to get to the windows. Fancy that???????

We have also scheduled a special trash pickup for Friday to get rid of old tv's, microwaves, closet doors, etc. Seems we are in a frenzy to improve this place but it is way, way overdue.

Tomorrow I have to pick Lucy up at Dulles around 12:30 to 1:00, that is if the hurricane allows her to fly out of Florida.

To work or not to work?

Today I hung paper which was my only scheduled job. I am perfectly content to just work 1 day every week just to keep my foot in the door. Hope it doesn't pick up anymore for quite a while. Maybe I'll never take on a full week again. All good things have to come to an end and maybe I have reached that point.

Seems I find so many other things to do that fill the days. It's a great and peaceful feeling.