Sunday

The gym person designated to open up this morning was MIA. Finally about quarter after 8, the assistant to MIA arrived and figured out how to get us (and by that time there was a sizable crowd) all in. The pool was crowded but I had my lane and got a good swim in.

It wasn't exactly cut short, I was going to do extra, but I stopped when my right arm got a twinge. Lately, it's been hurting. Sometimes below the elbow, sometimes above and today, while swimming, the elbow started to feel like tennis elbow. I don't need that. I need that arm and hand. I know knitting aggravates it. I know typing doesn't help. Sewing isn't great for it. And I probably squish it in my sleep. None of this bodes well. I have been swimming with neoprine webbed gloves. That's going to stop for a while in hopes of taking some of the stress off.

Before swimming I woke up to a pretty sincere earthquake on the South island of New Zealand. It was about mid way between where my friends are and Wellington. One of the reports had damage in Wellington. So I G+'d my friend asking. It was 4 am his time but I got a fast answer that they were fine. They own a rental house in Wellington and had not heard about it yet. His parents live in Dunedin not far from where they were evacuating people from the threat of a tsunami. Hell of a way to start the week.

I'm looking at a quiet day. It's raining so the car show outdoor exhibit is rather quiet. No home games and even the football game (which draws cheering fans to the sports bars around) is not till this evening so very quiet Sunday here.

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And the rest of my quiet Sunday

I get the stuffing (this time I am talking about the fiberfil that goes into bears and dolls) I use in 10 pound boxes made by a company called Fairfield. Walmart used to have them for $19.00 each. One of them is nearly too big to fit into my car. I can get it in but then driving and seeing becomes a little not easy. So I generally order online. Amazon sometimes has had the same stuff for $19.00 as well.

Today, I went to order more and saw that Amazon no longer has them as a Prime item and the price has gone up. With shipping, the cheapest they offer is $36.05. Walmart raised their price as well! to $25 each. Bummer! But, they give me free shipping with $50 order so I got 2 boxes. I'm going to have to start price watching both Amazon and Walmart. I go through this stuff like crazy and catching a price break is more than handy.

Fairfield has their own website store and they sell the exact same thing - 10 pound box - for $62.99 with $10 shipping. Now, there's a major WTF for ya. Even JoAnn's only charges $43.

I made a couple of dolls and cut out bits for a bunch more. And really didn't do much more - took out trash, reloaded swim iPod Shuffle, made a bunch of pellet ice for the freezer (in case of a possible pellet ice shortage), and played gin rummy on my phone. Plus, it's just now only 4 pm. I've still got some time to piddle away yet!