Odd day

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I would say I didn't do anything, but that's not true as I finished DD's mittens and have done about 8" of scarf already. She loves the mittens and wore them all around the house this afternoon. She's so cute. You have to understand, it rarely gets colder than 55 degrees here, and it's only that cold in the evenings -- although I suppose it does get colder at night and we have had the occasional frost -- whenever we are outside it's usually at least in the 60s. The idea of needing mittens is pretty ludicrous, but she wanted them, so there ya go.

I managed today, even though I was exhausted... put laundry away and cleaned up the kitchen and got the cranberries drying in the oven as we speak. I think it's going to take a week! My oven doesn't go as low as was suggested (it only goes down to 170), but it doesn't seem as if that is too hot. They are definitely drying out, not cooking. Hopefully they'll be ok. What a PITA!

Tomorrow, have to take the cat to the vet. Eh. She hasn't been feeling well and has been leaving little presents around the house lately. The first I thing I do when I come down in the morning is look around and see if she's left anything for me to clean up. The vet thinks her thyroid is going hyper, as this is a typical symptom, but I don't know. She doesn't seem all that ravenous, although she has lost weight. Who knows what is going on with her. I think she just gets annoyed with me and this is how she shows it? We'll see how it goes tomorrow.

I can't wait for this week to be over, honestly. I'm so tired of driving around everywhere with the kids. I carried DS2 around quite a bit this morning as he was grumpy and that helps him feel better, but now my abs are totally killing me (it's a post-op thing, I'm sure). Also, my stomach is funky again I'm wondering if it's because 1) I've had way too little sleep over the last 4 to 5 days and this sometimes happens when I'm exhausted 2) it's a remnant of the stomach bug I had weeks ago which is staging a comeback (doesn't feel like it) 3) a side effect of all that lifting and carrying this morning or 4) because I'm finally out of the acid blockers one of my docs put me on temporarily to try and treat something else.

For dinner I had cream of asparagus soup from TJ's made with half-and-half and about 20 Kashi TLC crackers. I love those crackers. Everyone else had leftovers from various restaurant trips recently. It wasn't the most successful dinner but at least the kids ate the waffle fries!

The kids have set up all their stuffed animals around the Christmas tree, on the couch. They (the animals) are having a "before Christmas party" at midnight, I've been told. I'm sure it's going to be a wild scene, but I'm hoping to be in bed long before then. We'll see.

Back to the knitting!