Today I am . . .
- Taking the bus downtown to get my hair cut by the cheapest and best hairdresser in town.
- Taking my mother to see a play of Somewhere in Time. It’s her Christmas gift, and I even found 50%-off coupons in The Chinook Book.
- Picking up a FREE 8X10 “Collage Print” at Walgreen’s as a Father’s Day gift for my husband. This is a national deal, and you only need to use the code DADCOLLAGE and place your order by Saturday night.
- Starting to eat the ripe raspberries from my garden.
- Reading “Wedding Night” by Sophie Kinsella.
- Thinking about I have yet to start my Goal of The Week. Although I am cutting myself some slack, as I’ve put in a lot of hours at work this week.
- Excited that today is the last day of the school year for my 9th and 11th grade sons. Both guys did really well this year, and my younger son absolutely rocked his first high school final exams and projects.
- Going to put new locally purchased, made in the U.S.A. casters on my antique couch, as the current ancient ones are scarring up the hardwood floor. This will actually raise the couch up a bit, and help my living room to look like a theater set. (For quick set changes, all theater set furniture are on casters.)
- Buying donuts. This is our traditional after school snack on both the first and last days of school.
- Dreaming of sleeping in and the break from school lunches. Ahh . . .
Now you. What are you doing today?
Katy Wolk-Stanley
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Today I am…
*Missing my husband who is out of town on a business trip but am super excited that he got word last night that a teaching job he applied for, he got! So looking forward to this new direction for him.
*Working
*Going to the bank
*Going to the Goodwill (all by myself ~ Heaven!!)
*Starting my goal of the week (works better for me to start later in the week) of getting our (home) desk area organized. Hoping I find some good organizational tools while at Goodwill today
*Happy to know after making today’s payment on my daughter’s braces, that I only have 2 more remaining. Beautiful teeth and money in the bank? Score!
Have a great weekend everyone! 🙂
Love your getting donuts – our first and last day tradition is a Subway sandwich in their school lunch.
We also had 9th and 11th graders this year and had a very good, but exhausting, year, but are all happy that summer vacation is finally here.
We’ll be picking raspberries from our yard this weekend, and are picking up two flats of Hoods tomorrow to make jam (and eat).
Happy Portland summer (even though it’s still cold enough to wear a sweatshirt)!
Two flats of “hoods”? Can you explain? Is this some cool grouping term with fruit like a “gaggle of geese”? 🙂
It’s a local variety of strawberries. They’re absolutely the best I’ve ever had – very sweet and juicy.
Local to Oregon.
Local to Oregon I forgot to add.
Oh. Could be why this Chicagoan hasn’t heard of them. I might need to head to Oregon during strawberry season.
Today I am:
Cooking quinoa for the first time…a friend gave me some to try
Cleaning house
Took a nice long walk
Putting up a second hummingbird feeder….counted seven trying to eat at the sole one out….decided to elimate some of the congestion:)
Also picking raspberries and the very last of the strawberries…very abundant this year…made jam and froze a bunch..yay!
Balancing the check book…ugh
Thinking ahead to what I will make to take to the Father’s Day Potluck my brother is hosting Sunday
Beginning and ending day of school traditions are so neat! Wishing you all a wonderful and relaxing summer….they fly by, don’t they:)
Flying by too quickly. 🙁
Katy
*Working
*Loving that I got an extra shift next week and a little commission this week on my 2nd job
*Looking forward to my day off tomorrow when I’ll hopefully accomplish my goal-of-the-week – weeding & clearing the “woods” behind our fence
*Looking forward to going home to hardwood floors instead of crappy carpet in our guest bedroom (thank you, son-in-law!)
Today I am –
Cleaning house and cooking beans, macaroni salad, sweet potato fries for a dinner at our house with friends tonight
Going through magazines to give to my friend that is coming over – we have a book/magazine exchange going on
Going out on the lake I live on with friends and enjoying some cooler temps – only 80’s as opposed to the 105 it was this week
By the way, I LOVE your Lately posts!
Today, I am
Taking a break from grocery shopping
Making berry-banana breads
Nursing the burn from making berry banana breads
Cleaning the kitchen
Roasting a pork tenderloin
Waiting for the doctor to call wondering why some doctors are so insensitive.
Enjoying the piece on the news about my niece who got a little hero cape because she is a trooper going through chemo(18 mos old)
Poor kiddo.
Katy
I don’t get raspberries until August in WI, sigh!
And I love Somewhere in Time! I worked a summer in college on Mackinac Island, where most of the movie was filmed. The island still looks the same as it did in 1912! No cars or anything, its crazy cool.
What a great summer job!
Katy
Today, I’m tackling my mending/modifying pile, which has been sitting on my office futon for about three months.
So far today, I think I’ve done four shirts, five skirts, and several pairs of shorts. Yay me!
Yay you!
Katy
Today I am:
1. Happy I did the final smoosh of ceiling paint in the guest cottage next door. I hired someone to seal the orangey marks from a long-repaired roof leak and repaint the whole ceiling. THEN the damned stains were still there! Now it’s DONE.
2. Feeling good after acupuncture.
3. Tickled that in today’s pilgrimage to the Goodwill As-Is, I found a couple of vintage Torquay mottoware pieces in perfick shape, one a tiny pitcher saying “Be canny with the cream”! Best 71 cents I’ve spent this week.
4. Feeling great about the $10 vintage designer rattan chair bought last Friday at the As-Is, sold yesterday for $150 on Craigslist. It went straight into the College Fund for Grandkids tin.
5. Working on The Paper That Will Never end, next-to-last paper to finish my master’s in Textile History/Quilt Studies.
6. Am greatly looking forward to going to see “Somewhere In Time” tonite with my younger daughter. We saw the original 1980 movieway back when, and swooned over the doomed love affair between Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. Very curious about how they set all this romantic goop to music.
Today I cleaned out the top drawer in my night stand. Nothing spectacular or took along time but it felt good to get junk out and things sorted and put back in the places they belonged. Cleaned out another shelf in my fridge. (I only tackle my fridge in stages otherwise I worry the food I have to take out will go bad before I’m finished cleaning.)
I’m still battling fruit flies with ACV and dish soap as well as ants. This seems to be a neighbourhood problem this spring. I am getting ready to go out tonight with my husband and the people at work. I will be getting my son fed before dropping him off at my girlfriend’s place. I am hoping my husband can find something he wants to wear out. Sometimes I wonder who the prima donna is around here? Me or him as he claims he has nothing to wear. I wonder why his dresser and side of the closet is full 😉
Love these posts:
Today I am:
* freaking out that my daughter is officially in high school and my boy is a 4th grader
* celebrating the start of summer break with root beer floats {all ingredients bought on sale!}
* hoping to get some fresh berries soon…. I love raspberries!
* get the thriftiness urge 😉
Today I am:
*Worked
* Hit the safeway $5 sale, still getting things for my daughters place.
*Watered the veggies, we will have strawberries as soon as it heats up
raspberrys are still a month out.
* finally got smart and moved a ornamental grass my maggie dog has dug up 5 times. I’m a little slow. I think there’s a ground squirrel hole there somewhere.
*And finally cancelled Direct tv. Sorta missing it, but the savings. Wow!
Try watching shows on Hulu for free (no need to pay for Hulu Plus; there is plenty to watch on Hulu for free!)
Today I am:
Putting new dirt in the front yard so that I can grow flowers and food in my front yard!
Washing 4 loads of laundry
Making bread