Yeah, this is going to be an expensive month. (I don't have the computer back yet so I don't know what the damages are there). That said, my car runs BETTER and MORE SMOOTHLY than it has in months, and it's quieter as well. And really, having a reliable car is very important to me - probably more important than the people-in-families who can rely on a spouse or an adult child to ferry them around if their car dies.

(And rentals, wow, those are expensive. Less than a hotel room at this point, but still expensive).

Thank goodness it's the weekend. I'm just in my office briefly to enter some student grades on the online system (so students can check their grades; it's a fairly nice system but this is the last semester I am using it because the campus has decided to start levying (this summer) a $5 per credit hour per student added fee to classes that use the system, and it galls me to think of each student in my classes having to cough up an extra $20 for what amounts to a convenience.)

But this afternoon, I have decided it's a work-free zone. Because tomorrow I have to bake a cake, go to a meeting, and do Youth Group. Monday night is another meeting, as is Wednesday. Tuesday I am going to hear David Quammen speak, which, while not strictly a "meeting," is also a time when I am not comfortably at home. And next Saturday is Honors Day, which has the virtue of getting me out of the house and doing something purposeful on a day (Feb. 14) that I was given to moping on in some earlier, younger, sillier years, but still.

So the coming week is going to be Not Fun. So I think I need some Fun today to make up for it.

Not sure if I'm going to start a new quilt or if I'm going to work on the ongoing "No One Expects the Digital Transition!" (and yeah, that's probably getting old, but it still amuses me) blanket, or knit on one of the many projects I have going.

I'm leaning towards starting the sea-glass quilt. Or maybe cutting pieces for both it and the County Lines quilt. Not sure yet.