Sunday, October 14, 2012

Goodbye vacation...

After all the excitement of the last two days, today was a day to just chill at home. Normally, that means doing nothing but knitting - but I got a bit of a bug up my butt about my TV, and just had to do something about it.

You see - I've been very lucky, and gotten most of my furniture as hand-me-downs. My TV stand was a large TV/storage unit that began life at my parents old house when I was a teenager. It survived two household moves, as well as me shuffling it around the living room every six months or so, but it was starting to look a little beat up and well.. crooked and wobbly. I've been wanting to get something a little smaller and more streamlined for a while, and as fortune would have it - a coworker was getting rid of just the type of stand I wanted. I brought it home, and it's been sitting in my living room, waiting for Dave to have a spare moment to switch everything over.

He was going to do it tonight when he got home from work... but like I said, I got a bit of a bug up my butt... so I did it all myself. (And I didn't even have a Wonder Woman costume!)

However, I wasn't able to move the old unit to the basement, so I pushed it into the kitchen, out of the way until Dave could attend to it...
  .... much to the delight of the boys. They don't often get a chance to look out this window. And it was warm enough that it was open today.

I also had a craving for cream cheese frosting...
so I made some cupcakes to go along with it (carrot-apple cupcakes!).

Despite that, there has been a little bit of knitting....

A new shawl design in Barn Cat Transitions.... you can see I'm just starting to get to the middle shade of  pink. Mom put a few Transitions in the shop today if you want to knit something similar!

And so marks the end of my vacation... tomorrow is back to the grind. Sigh....

4 comments:

Zenitude said...

Moving furniture around or changing it is always fun. I love the transition yarn. Great colour too!mewrot154

Araignee said...

That yarn is spectacular!

Unknown said...

Way to go...just jump right in and get everything transitioned over to the new stand!

Beautiful transition yarn too.

Delusional Knitter said...

Ahhh cats and the need to sit on anything that is out of the ordinary, LOL!!! Hope you are enjoying your new tv stand!