Some weekend things

 *I guess I missed Friday. I wasn't feeling very well; I wound up staying late over at school to work on stuff and I've been having sinus trouble (either that or I have several teeth that are failing; sinus trouble seems far more likely and the teeth are less painful this evening [I can eat again with minimal discomfort])

* I had to take a run out Saturday. For one thing I desperately needed to see something other than the four walls of my living room, but also I needed to replace the hot-mist humidified (my  old one died). So I went to Sherman. 

I went to lunch first, but then to Michael's. I didn't buy a LOT of stuff, but I had bought a pattern for a crocheted kobold (a creature not unlike, but also different from, a dragon) from someone on Etsy named Libbydoodles and none of the yarn for toys that I had seemed right. I wanted a really bright color - either a green or an orange or maybe even a hot pink.

I found this

It's almost obnoxiously orange. It's a lot stronger colored in person - it's like if lava were fluorescent. It will be perfect. 

* I also went to Target (I know, I know, some people are boycotting them for Reasons but when you live where I live, boycotting the few stores around mean you either have to mail order stuff and wait and pay expensive shipping, do without, or shop somewhere that's not any "purer." I admit I have issues with the "boycott everyone" mentality)

I got my humidifier, and some food to have ahead and a set of sheets to replace a worn-out one (I don't REALLY need more sheets, but these were those Pillowfort ones and they had pegasuses on them)

And then I found this

I don't NEED more stuffed animals, but I made the "mistake" of picking her up. She is very soft and is weighted with pellets in the back end, so she feels more like a "real animal" when you hold her. I admit, I broke into a big silly grin right there in the aisle as I hugged her, and said to the two young (late teen or early 20s) women browsing the aisle: "I'm almost 56 but I am buying this for MYSELF." They laughed, but it was not the horrible mocking excluding laugh; rather it was a "yeah we get it" laugh - and one of them did comment that the stuffies on that aisle were "wonderful"

Her name is Princess.

She is very nice to hug when you're distressed. I did have to do a tiny repair; I noticed when standing in the checkout line that there was a TINY hole (probably something that happened in production, like the fabric got snagged) on one side of her shoulders,, but I knew I had thread the right color, so rather than get out of line (the lines were long and moved slowly) and also put this one (which I had ALREADY named Princess) back, I decided to just say nothing and fix the hole at home. Which I did.

I haven't washed the new sheets yet, again, with my sinus issues I haven't felt as energetic about doing things these past couple days. Hopefully things start to get better - my nose has been draining and I think the humidifier helps.

* I'm slowly picking away on the Moon Moth sweater; I'm within a dozen rounds of being able to start the colorwork, which will be more interesting to do