Friday Freestyles

Friday!

Finally!

And I am glad. Because I am off today.

And it isn't that much to get stoked about. I only worked 5 hours on Wednesday. And 3 hours yesterday. Why? Because there is work going on on the roof of our building and the most noxious fumes are coming in through the air vent. It is quite unhealthy.  And they are suppose to be working on the roof for a couple of more weeks. You would think they would work on this on the weekend or at night, but no, that's not the case.

Oh well.

Free time off. But today is Friday and it's a scheduled leave day for me. I am hanging out with LadyTee, as is our normal tradition for our birthdays. And we are going to do our Thelma and Louise thing, which amounts to a movie and dinner. I think we're going to see Divergent (you know how much I like sci-fi. I hope there is some black folks in it). I read a few chapters of the book last year. It was similar to Hunger Games, but didn't hold my interest. It's alright, but I'm wondering how they are going to pull off something that will be better than the Hunger Games. This feels more like a Hunger Games Lite.

What I'm happy about is finishing LadyTee's birthday present. That doggone blanket. It is DONE.

I had to really crank to get that done. If I woke up at 3 in the morning (I rarely sleep all night), I would get up and work on it. And as soon as I got home I would work on it. It was a bit stressful. I think it's because my schedule changed a bit. I have to run all the way out to the westside early 3 days a week for the chiropractor visits. That has thrown me all the way off.

But I finished the blanket on Wednesday. I try to give myself a day to trim it, which takes a couple of hours, but I am doing better about trimming and hiding loose strings as I go. So that worked out well. I almost didn't know what to do with myself when I was done. I did load up a bunch of pictures for blog posts next week... and I laid around doing NUTHING. Now THAT feels good.  And I thought about the things I need to get done going forward.

The problem now is that I have a lot of honeydew yarn left. Too much.

I don't know what to do with that. Why on earth did I buy so MUCH of it?  I could take it back to the Wal-Mart.  That's a $21 refund. However, I owe a little girl a blanket. She's only 3 so it doesn't have to be too big. And the skeins of yarn there are enough to make an all honeydew blanket.

Hmm. Something to ponder.

Salad of the Week. Alright, I know I posted a salad yesterday, but here's a doozie.

Honey, that salad looks like I can just throw it in a wok and stir-fry it down. It was a bit too heavy-handed for me. My jaws and teeth hurt from chewing that.  I took a good LONG nap after eating that one.

Picture of the week. So... I was on my way home from somewhere the other day. I was getting off at the I-20 Capitol Avenue exit and I saw this:

The Devil is a Liar Salon!

Ha ha!

I want to walk into that salon and holler "GLORY!!!!"

Then walk back out.

Because Soho cuts my hair. I'm not going to get it cut anywhere else. I just like the title of that salon.

You have to admit, it does grab one's attention. Indeed.

Song of the week. I haven't heard this song in a very long time. Optimistic by Sounds of Blackness.



I wish there were more songs like that. My days would be so much better!

Alright, that's it for me. Back to our regularly scheduled programming of posts!

I STILL have the gift cards, sitting right here on the dining room table. So my big goal this weekend is to work on those. I promise they will get out soon. (Ya'll know how slow I am. Sigh).

You have a good weekend...

On purpose!