Saturday

[susandennis]

No work dream last night. Instead, I was having breakfast with Katie Curic and Christine Baranski. It was lovely.

At least lately, I have the most wonderful dreams.

Today is the usual. Swim. As soon as the pool opens at 9. The woman who often spoils my Saturday swims swam yesterday morning and usually does not swim every day, so, hopefully, she won't be there today. But Saturdays are always so iffy. I'll go and shoot for my whole mile and be ok if I only get in half of it.

I don't really have any other plans today. I could go get brunch somewhere but I'm not terribly inspired. So I'll probably come home and brunch myself here.

I started a new crochet project last night. I have a pretty severe case of ADD when it comes to knitting and crochet projects lately. I have my bears and have no problem doing them one after another but on the side, I have trouble sticking with anything long enough to complete it.

Yarn is so forgiving. Crochet/knit this one piece for days and change your mind? Rip it out and the yarn is good for something else. I used to have a woodworker friend who loved working in fine wood and railed at the injustice that if he cut wrong, he was fucked. When if I knit wrong, no harm/no foul. I think of him every time I rip something out to use the yarn for something else. Hi Jim!

I used to get all stressed about completing stuff but now, I'm old and I don't give a shit. I enjoy the process as much or more than the product. I try to reuse the yarn I've got rather than buy new. Giant stashes of yarn can be a storage problem as much as a financial one.

But, otherwise, no rules. What's grabbed my fancy today could be abandoned tomorrow. No problem.

I also have delicious viewing ready on my TiVo - several episodes of Downton Abbey, a couple of episodes of Vera, and the first episodes of that new show about the Breaking Bad lawyer - it could be a bust, I have watched it at all. Plenty to keep me entertained.

In two weeks... March 4... there will be baseball again! This year many of the Spring training games will be televised which is very cool. I'm ready.

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[spiffikins]

I told Tivo to start recording Better Call Saul - my coworker has been praising it to the skies this last week, so I'll give it a shot!

I never got into Breaking Bad, so hopefully it won't depend too much on knowing that series

[susandennis]

I never did Breaking Bad either. I hadn't heard a peep about BCS so I'm glad to hear a like!

[one-raido.livejournal.com]

Why does the woman ruin your swim? I get frustrated with people in the pool, too. My gym's pool is only three lanes, too, and I hate swimming next to the wall. But it's only $20/month and if I go enough I get that twenty back from my health insurance.

[susandennis]

This particular woman takes a lane and does nothing but a slow backstroke right down the middle. She makes no effort to even acknowledge that their might be somone sharing. If you try to pass her, she'll slap you silly. We're a strict circle swim pool and she's been talked to but she just ignores everyone. Fortunately, she only swims when I do about once a week or so. When possible I just go to another lane or to the teaching pool. On Saturdays those options are available. So I just get out and think unkind thoughts about her.

We have 6 lanes in our 25 yard pool and then we have a 15x15 teaching pool that is shallow but, if it's empty, and you swim diagonally, is perfectly fine for laps.

$20 a month is wow! I pay $45 a month which is the senior rate. My insurance is not impressed enough to reimburse :) but that's ok.

[one-raido.livejournal.com]

When I signed up for LA Fitness before they opened the one near me, it was $30. I cancelled it after a year because I was swimming somewhere else. They eventually asked me to come back for the $20 offer, using only the one I was going to, so I started back up. I really should go tonight before they close, but I still have three chores to do and I really need to get those done.

Chores are exercise, right?

[susandennis]

oh yeah... chores are definitely exercise!

Vera and Saul Fan

[(Anonymous)]

I LOVE Vera! I've recorded 7 episodes(watched 5) so far and she is such an interesting, sympathetic, yet strong character, that I wish she was real, so I could befriend her. As for Saul, I liked him in Breaking Bad. I've watched the first 3 episodes of Better Call Saul, and I will watch more because his character seems to be getting more interesting. I'm truly snowed in up here (Brrrrrr!), so Vera and Saul are on my "cozy up with knitting and watch list".
Mar from Oshawa