It is 54.3 degrees in the house! There’s something wrong with our stupid boiler and we have no heat. It blows. Luckily, I have a heated blanket. I plan to stay in bed tomorrow until it’s fixed. And I’m going to bed with a hat on.
We were able to stay out of the house most of the day. We went to Worcester to see Milk, and then we went out to dinner at the 99, because we had a gift card we got for Christmas. I’m trying to get my family to have a new year’s resolution to only eat out at local places. My mom is trying to tell me that there aren’t enough options. I tell her that’s bull crap. There’s a great Mexican restaurant in Lunenburg, and several Italian places, and good Thai and Vietnamese places, too. There’s also an OK regular American place that my mom doesn’t really like, but it’s not terrible. I think we have plenty of options, and if not, then we shouldn’t go out to eat!
I finished the fourth and final Twilight book tonight. The author started to write a fifth book, but it got leaked to the Internet. She stopped writing it, but allowed her fans to read it on her website. I checked it out not long ago, and it’s 264 pages! I’m pretty excited to read it, but haven’t started it yet. I guess it’s the same story as the first book, but from Edward Cullen’s perspective.
On my to do list for tomorrow is to clean out the basement and organize things. I have my whole “apartment area” of pots and pans and dishes and stuff like that, and it needs to be organized. There’s also a lot of other crap in the basement that just needs to be tossed or freecycled. That’s one of the things I told my parents I’d do with my free time.
Knitting a blanket would give me something to do with my spare time. Afghan yarn is 50% off at Micheal’s this week (what is afghan yarn?? It sounds appropriate at least). My brother got me a gift card there, because I told him I want to knit a blanket. (I actually haven’t received the gift card yet, because he’s a dead beat.) But I love blankets so much that I think it’d be great to be able to use a blanket that I made. Every night when we eat dinner, I wrap a blanket around my lower body. Here I am in December of 2007 after my first surgery, with my blanket at the dinner table.
My dad took this with his iPhone as the picture that would show up when I call him. This was the time I was wearing turtlenecks all the time, because I had bandages on my neck.* I can also tell because I look really tired and worn out in this picture. I’m smiling, but I can see the tiredness in my eyes.
*It’s actually a funny story - the bandages were to stay on for the surgeon to take off - usually one week. Because my surgery was December 17th, one week later was December 24th, and then a week after that was December 31st. My surgeon was on vacation until January! So I left the bandages on, and wore lots of black turtlenecks. The fuzz from my brand new turtlenecks (I bought many black turtlenecks— I had to wear black to both Macy’s and Destare, so figured I’d wear them a lot) was coming off on my bandages, making them this gross dark grey color with little black pieces of fuzz. Because of the grossness of the bandages, I HAD to keep wearing turtlenecks. Finally, I took the bandage off two days before my surgeon appointment, cause it was 90% off anyway. In March, for my second surgery, I didn’t give a crap about anyone seeing my bandages, and I wore whatever shirt I wanted. Now I’m stuck with three long sleeve black turtlenecks, a grey turtleneck, a brown turtleneck, and THREE short sleeve black turtlenecks that I bought for Destare. Seriously.
