thursday

Listening to a book while swimming does, I'm sure now, slow me down and also occupies my brain. When I listen to music while I swim, my brain just wanders around poking and looking and getting into all sorts of things. I'm enjoying the book but wonder if missing the hour of random thinking is worth it. Guess it depends on the book. I've got about 7 more days of swimming left in the Tracy Kidder book. And I'm sucked into the story now. So, hopefully, nothing will happen that requires my random thoughts in the next week :)

I could share a book between devices (phone/ipod shuffle) and activities (swimming/walking/before sleep) but keeping plots and stories straight is kind of location and situation dependent. So swimming will be about the kid who comes to America from Africa (Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgetting - Tracy Kidder) and the rest will be about the girl discovering her father after Alzheimer's claims him (The Unseen World - Liz Moore). Both very excellent books.

Oh! The People vs. OJ is on Netflix. I missed it when FX originally aired it. I'm also looking forward to Santa Clarita Diet. I usually steer clear of zombie shit but I love Timothy Oliphant so I'm giving this a go.

I was all set to deliver bears and dolls to the Baby Bank tomorrow but I just got a note from Jeannie asking if I could switch to Monday. No problem. I'm a little light on bears so that will give me time to add at least a couple to the pile. When I went to make a note in my calendar, I found another note... March of this year marks the 10th year that Jeannie has been finding homes for all my bears. When the Salvation Army closed its family emergency center, I was suddenly faced with a bunch of homeless bears. One of my LJ friends suggested the Baby Bank where I found Jeannie. Ten years ago. Amazing.

And here's one I finished last night.

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Just before lunch it was warm in my sewing room which got me thinking about my recently mentioned two favorite t-shirts and how I need to get at least one more "in training" as zyzyly would say. It seems way too much work to start with a new one. And all those thoughts led to my hopping into my boots and heading off to the Goodwill Store.

I did check the sewing/fabric area first - nothing worthwhile there and then onto the shirts. I combed the fat lady section and the big&tall men's section and scored pretty impressively. I got a really nice fleece sweater - lime green, a plaid fleece box jacket, 2 summer cotton button down shirts and 3 t-shirts - two of which are real contenders for the favorites pile one day. $55. Half of the items needed a bit of work. I trimmed the sleeve and bottom cuffs off the green fleece sweater. Much better. Two of the shirts were too long. Not any more. I'm quite happy with my haul.

I'm thinking butter/cream pasta and green beans with mushrooms for dinner. I like the colors.