Ahh weekends….
I love my job, and even when E and I are daydreaming about that elusive ’someday’ when we will be working for ourselves and/or have enough money that I could quit, I’m never exactly sure I would want to. I find it quite satisfying to work in the field I’ve been in for the last 8 years, even when I’m sick of office politics, or the stress that comes with it.
But to say I work for the weekends is true… they are all that keeps me going.
And actually, very soon I will have a little over a week off, and I simply cannot wait. I am still hoping that we’ll be able to go up to my hometown of Wabasha. I’d love to visit, and I’d love E to experience it in the winter time. (Boy, is he in for a shocker). But if you’ve never seen cars parked on the river or lake, then you really haven’t lived!! We’ll see… if it turns out I can’t go, I’ll make the best of it. I do enjoy a vacation spent at home occasionally. I never seem to have enough time to do the things that I want to do around here. And I have so many projects at the new house. I have to finish painting trim in the living room and hang my curtains…. after I finish the last bit of sewing I have to do on them. Then I have to put up my cornices. (love them). We still have Eric’s studio to work on, and of course the biggest room of all - what will someday be our family room but right now is still full of things begging for our attention.
To be honest, if I was a little less social, some of these things would probably have been done already. But I divide my time between friends, family and Eric, with as much ME time thrown in as possible. Sometimes that means arranging for E to hang out with one of his friends to get the house to myself…. and at that point, usually all that appeals is curling up on the couch with Stormie, a cozy fire and a good book. Or, alternatively, a good movie… But we are making progress at least and that’s all the matters.
Last night we went to dinner and bowling with friends… which ended early so we went to their house and stayed up late. I slept in til 10ish, and then E and I went estate sale shopping which was fun. I found an old camera that I bought for $5. I just liked the look of it. Its an Argus, I think C2 is the model, judging from the info I was able to find online. They only made them between 1938 and 1942, I’m going to have my photographer friend take a look at it since the film release thingy seems wobbly. I also found something tiny but very exciting! (sidenote: shopping at estate sales is always a little sad to me. Sifting through the personal property of someone who just died, while family look on? it doesn’t bear thinking about too much) I was browsing through various knicknacks on a shelf when I saw two wayang puppet pens!! Let me explain…
Wayang puppets are from Indonesia and look like this:
when I was there 12 years ago and buying souvenirs, I picked up several pens that were carved and brightly painted like miniature wayang puppets… I gave some away and the ones I kept for myself have long since disappeared. But there I was, at an estate sale for an elderly woman today and saw two of them laying in front of me! One blue, and one green, and I snatched them up, completely happy to pay 50 cents for pens that don’t work. I wondered how the woman had come about having them as I didn’t see anything else in the house that really looked like it might have journeyed from Indonesia. Regardless, I’m happy. Maybe I’ll take a pic of them tomorrow and post.
Tomorrow our plan is to go to the flea markets and see what treasures we can find. I know E will want me to wake up early with him and go, and I certainly hope I can considering how late it is already. I am wide awake. But, I think that I will at least go through the motions of getting ready for sleep, and read in bed until my eyes shut of their own accord.
