• March 19, 2013 •

I had a good day yesterday, but I got really distracted with something that took a lot of time. I had fun though. :) After blogging yesterday I crocheted for bit, checked facebook & took my game turns & it was there on facebook that I got so distracted. The Sims 3 posted that the 2nd edition of their free e-magazine available via iTunes in the Newsstand. I downloaded both (since I missed the 1st one) & ended up reading both of them. One of my favorite features was a guide on how to build a garden. The 1st issue had a guide for building a Chinese

garden (shown both day & night ... 2nd & 4th pics) which I added to my dream home on the right side of the house. I also added a nice double door looking out into the garden at the end of the hall & the pathway leads right to the door (3rd pic). In the front yard I added a French garden, shown day & night & from my hobby room window (5th - 7th pics). When I finished adding the gardens to my dream home in

Sims I hand knitted for a little bit & finished the bottom ribbing on the sweater I'm making & then started the neck ribbing. I took the dogs out & then Pete was home from work so we started our nighttime routine. My Sim-self had a good day too. She worked on her athletic skill & became thin already! 1 day of working out & she's thin! I wish it worked that well in real life. :) I made my Sim-self look just like me &

now I remember how good I looked back when I was thinner. She cleaned the house & then cooked waffles for breakfast. She paid the bills, spent time with the pets, had a tofu dog for dinner, showered, & went to bed. Back in real life, This morning was very different from anything I normally do. I had joined a Meetup group a while ago that's a group of crocheters & knitters in my local area. The 1st meetup I decided to

go to was today. I woke up & took the dogs out, immediately showered, checked my AT&T homepage, uploaded the pics to this blog & then headed out to Farmersville to meet them for lunch at Sugar Hill Country Kitchens & then we walked a block over to the Fiber Circle yarn store. Now I have yarn. I literally have a yarn store's worth of yarn because I used to HAVE a yarn store & when it closed I kept all the yarn. I don't

need yarn ... but I WANT yarn. We call it YAS (Yarn Acquisition Syndrome) & I have it BAD. A photo of all of us in the yarn store is shown below (8th pic). The yarn I came home with is shown in the 9th pic. On my way home from Farmersville I glanced over at the time while I was driving over the bridge & noticed that Kyle gets out of school in just a few minutes. How convenient since I'm going to be driving

right past the school. I pulled in & got in the line, texted him & asked him if he wanted a ride since I was literally THERE already. I'm back home now, it's going on 5:p & I've done NOTHING other than take the dogs out this morning, speed shower, & check the news headlines on AT&T, & had breakfast. Yeah, I had fun today ... I shopped, I socialized, but I don't think I'm going to get much of anything else done at

all. This is why as much as I hate never going out or meeting people, I usually don't because I never understood how people do it & still clean their houses & get stuff done. I woke up at 9:30a ... it's now after 4:30p ... that's over 7 hours. ::: POOF! ::: We won't talk about the $75 that also went ::: POOF! ::: (I really should NEVER be in a yarn store unsupervised). That 9th pic you see of the yarn I bought there ... $67. The other $8.50 was breakfast. If I really want

to beat myself up I'd add fuel costs & wear & tear on the vehicle ... which reminds me, I also spent money on a car wash on the way there so my truck looked nice & shiny clean when I met all these new people. OK, a little over $80. Forget the lack of time ... I can't AFFORD to leave the house! $80+?! Luckily this meetup was unique. They normally just meet & knit. This "field trip" is rare. Phew! I did love it though. :) I walked into that yarn store, saw how wide it was ... how deep it was ... and there was a 2nd floor! My brain went into yarn overload. Endorphin overload in 3 ... 2 ... 1! My Sim-self started her morning by chatting with someone on the Internet & finally met someone new (just like I did this morning), then cleaned her house & cooked waffles for breakfast. Back IRL, LCFD Business Meeting tonight & tomorrow is my 2nd favorite day of the year ... the 1st day of spring! Tomorrow I add Gardening to my schedule on Monday afternoons.

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King has sold well over 350 million copies of the 49 novels he has produced to date - now that's scary!

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