instead of having a ball up at Mohonk, I'm sitting here, cozy in my family room. devan's come down with some sort of illness. she's got a high fever and was vomiting throughout the night last night. while she's feeling better than she was, she wanted her mommy and i couldn't argue with that.
jon's gone to the hotel alone, but feels terrible about it. i keep reassuring him that it's ok, and to have fun for both of us, but he feels guilty and sad. oh well, in the morning it will be over!
cross your fingers that devan makes a speedy recovery!
Finally. Time to relax, or organize my bedroom. or bake cookies. or fiddle with the uneven parts of the tree. or go shopping for more gifts. or work on some last minute crafty gifts. or blah blah blah blah.
I have finished sorting/folding/hanging up clothes in the bedroom and now it's time to start sorting/shelving my supplies in my cute little studio space.
The branches of the tree are dry now, so I can put the lights on tonight.
Tomorrow I am taking Gockey holiday shopping, and then Devan has Brownies. I have to still iron all of her patches onto her vest before the meeting.
Hopefully I'll find some time to put the decorations on the tree. The goal is to be ALL done with decorating before we go away on Saturday.
I also wanted to take a minute to recommend a book to everyone in the world. It's called The Diving Bell And The Butterfly. It's a memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby. I saw a preview for the movie they made of this when we went to see No Country For Old Men (which was pretty dang great) and it looks spectacular, but I am a fan of reading the book before seeing the movie in most cases.
I've got a lot of work to do. More than normal for this time of the year. My goal is to be cleaned and organized by Friday night because Jon and I are going away to Mohonk on Saturday.
We went shopping last week and bought the furniture I need for my studio space. Jon put it all together yesterday and we started moving all my supplies into the room.
There's another book shelf on the other side of the desk. I want to get a shorter table for my press because the one it's on is a little bit too high for comfort.
Tonight we got our tree. It's a little bit damp but it smells amazing, and it looks perfect. Here's a pic of Jon adjusting it to my specifications:
-(11-08) LIKING:
knitting for babies, soccer, pregnancy, little potatoes, mitered squares, my bed, the ocean, travel, sleeping in my bed, Jonathan Safran Foer, tenament museums, linen, Air (the french band), Hugh Laurie, Intervention, babies, Iron & Wine, Clive Owen, letterpress, Yeats,
gray, mini-pigs, hotel chevalier, tea, pigs, Quebec, being anywhere but here (nj), modern simple quilts, autumn leaves, white on white, paper, lily snoring
