The Last Dark Morning... for a while

I have always been a morning person. I love sleeping but not in the mornings. I like to get my day going. I liked getting to school before everyone else. I liked getting to work before everyone else. I like getting to the pool first. I think it comes from knowing I'm not the best at what I do - no matter what it is - but at least I can get a head start on everyone and so maybe they won't notice I'm not the best.

I love morning dark. To get on the road to school, work or the pool has always been energizing to me. YES! I will get a jump on whatever is next in the day! So this time of year - until tomorrow - is my sweet spot. Today it was night dark when I got to the pool. Tomorrow - same time - it will be daylight. Sigh. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

None of the Saturday morning regulars were at the pool today. There were a couple of people I'd never seen before but they didn't last long. I'm not wild about a super crowded pool, but I definitely swim more slowly when there's only me in the pool. I need a pacer :)

I decided that I needed to have breakfast cooked for me and I had two spots in mind. Neither has good parking so my plan was to go to the closest, If not parking, then go to second. Found a spot at the first and so had a perfectly delicious Croque Madame for breakfast. It was lovely and the service was excellent. I might try the other one tomorrow.

Also I need to get back in the habit of parking far away from where I'm going. I used to be good about that. But, I've gotten lazy. Today's parking spot was right in front. I need to walk and parking far away is a great way to get a little walk for free.

There might be sewing today. There might just be knitting and TV watching. It's rainy outside and quiet and just a nice day for doing whatever the hell happens. I'm totally on board with that plan.

My tweets

• Fri, 15:35: In Seattle, they'd take up a collection to pay the pigeon's fare. https://t.co/1QmLkVgiBs
• Fri, 16:42: I just deleted a gynormous folder of rss feeds by accident and I'm not sure I'm sorry...
• Sat, 10:47: This was just as delicious as it looks. https://t.co/ghupAxyXhm

Doin' Stuff

Nice day. I made a batch of stuffing and froze it in individual portions. I can't always get my preferred stuffing mix but this time of year, it's everywhere so I cashed in. A little celery, a little onion, a lot of butter and some chicken broth. Yum. In fact, I've got a nice, fat chicken thigh sitting atop one of the servings ready to be baked for dinner tonight.

Then I baked two giant potatoes and scooped them out and mixed them with butter, chopped green onions and sour cream. I cut the shells in 2 so now I have 8 servings of twice baked potatoes in the freezer!

I really find cooking pretty tedious but once in a while making a bunch of do ahead stuff, feels very productive.

And I finished a bear.



And made a doll.



Also my Etsy order for more doll fabric came in (really really quickly) and it's fabulous. 10 quarter yards - all fun kid fabric - $10. I started to order 2 bundles the first time but thought I'd better check it out first. It totally checks out and that's an amazing price. So I just ordered two more bundles.

I have 2 manual clocks that if I don't 'fall back' before I got to bed tonight, will drive me nuts tomorrow for sure. I just hope the person in charge of opening up the gym in the morning, remembers.