Well, no electrician. But that's OK. (He warned me that he didn't know if he'd have time to get out yesterday or not). I have a floor lamp in there I can use for now.

And I now have a clean house - I cleaned yesterday afternoon while waiting on him.


AND today is my birthday. I already received a couple of presents - in addition to the books and dvd I talked about earlier (thanks again Angie), my mom took out a subscription to Cook's Country for me. And she made a small quilted mat (which I should photograph maybe) that is now on my coffee table.

And I got one of the Carolina Yarn Bells. It actually came last month but I didn't open it 'til now. It's the bright blue one. I'm thinking it will be best for lace-type knitting (always my "at home" knitting) because once you install a ball of yarn in the bell, there's no taking it out to carry it off to invigilate an exam or something.

(Speaking of lace knitting, I really need to get back to the Rosy Fingered Dawn shawl sometime).

But today, it's MY day. It's one of the few days that I take where everything I do will be just for me and for fun...I'm going to go to McKinney. I have directions (I hope they will make sense once I get there) to the new location of Quilt Asylum. And I'm going to the little old downtown for antiquing and whatever shops may be there (things tend to change or close unexpectedly and I try not to be disappointed when an old favorite is gone.) (But a quick check online shows that Happiness is Quilting - the second quilt shop in McKinney - is still there, yay).

I'm also going to go out to lunch somewhere - maybe The Pantry, maybe somewhere else. I don't know. I tend to do the same thing (go to the Pantry) every time - I tend to be a creature of habit and am actually happier, I think, doing something familiar. In part, I think it's because by going there, I remember the prior happy memories - the other times I was down there on my birthday, the day with Diann and Ken, the year my mom was down over my birthday weekend and we went there.

I'm not exactly a "novelty seeker" or whatever they call that personality type. Quite the opposite: when I have good memories of something, I like to bring them back to the front of my mind by revisiting that thing.

I haven't been "out" (not even to Sherman) nearly as often as I have in the past - part of it is that I just seem to be busier these days, but also, I've been trying to spend less. (And with a more extensive downtown now, some things that you just "need" are more readily available in town.)

I got paid yesterday so I got some cash - at least, for some of the purchases. I expect the bulk of the money I spend will be on quilt fabric.


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