Campus is closed, anyway, and when I went in on Friday it felt like maybe they'd shut down the AC for the long weekend.
But also, I'm gonna be tired. Last night there were fireworks until about midnight ("individual" or "personal" fireworks are legal here, and if there's any regulation about not shooting them off within city limits, it's ignored this week). That's kinda okay, I get that for a lot of adults "normal" bed time is after midnight, and it's just one night.
But. Then someone in my neighborhood apparently decided it would be fun to shoot exactly two off in the alleyway behind my house at 3:15 am. So I got maybe a total of 5 1/2-6 hours of sleep, but in two shortish chunks.
I try not to be a grinch about this, but I don't like noise, I don't like being startled, and I do badly when I don't sleep well. And I expect tonight will be about as bad, even if a lot of people do have to work tomorrow.
I also noticed a lot of folks shoot off fireworks and just leave the wrappers and debris. (A few years I've had to pick it up out of my yard). Okay, I suppose it's possible they will wait until during the day and clean it up when they can see it, but I don't think it's a very neighborly thing to shoot off fireworks and THEN leave the trash for others.
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In a bit I need to get up and do a workout - it was Independence Day breakfast at church so I ate a meal at what would be "brunch time" for me (9:30 am) so I figure I won't need another one until at least 3 pm. I don't have anywhere else I have to be today and the only other thing I really need to do is move the rollcart down to the curb before it gets dark (As far as I can determine there is trash pick up tomorrow, despite it being a federal and bank holiday)
I made blueberry muffins for it, I was told to make 2 dozen but few enough people showed up (and there was so much other food) that I think I have close to 18 left, I will need to freeze most of them I guess. I also made brownies (from scratch, using the recipe in the old Betty Crocker Dinner for 2 cookbook that is the one my mom always used. I don't put nuts in mine though, I put chocolate chips in these instead).
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I did manage to get some housecleaning done yesterday; I guess I have to get into the mode of "it doesn't have to all be done all at once" lest I get overwhelmed and shut down. I also did all the accumulated laundry, including prewashing some fabric I bought for quilts. (I prewash MOST yardage, unless I know I'm going to use it with a precut packet - which you can't prewash or it will ravel to nothing). I also finally washed a set of "winter sheets" that had been in the hamper a while and put them away.
Oh, the house is still technically a mess but it's better than it was
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I've been working a bit on a pair of "Oma's Sokken" - this is a simple sock pattern that looks kind of "vintage" in that it has ribbing down the front of the leg (which also makes it fit better). I'm using a sort of odd, drab-colored Opal (I will post a picture later) from the Opal "Freche Freunde" collection; the color is called (in German) Neunmalklug which literally means "nine times clever" but I guess figuratively means "know it all" - it's sort of interesting colors, a dull gray green, and a grayish blue, and sort of a peach color, but they work together, and it does have kind of a "vintage" feel that works with the sock pattern.
Heh, I guess the whole collection name means "naughty friends," I didn't know the meaning of Freche (had not encountered that on Duolingo) and had to look it up
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