Lazy Day

Today is a lazy day. All I need to do is laundry, grocery shopping, pita bread, dishes, ...well, ignoring all that, it's a lazy day. I don't need to deal with the crappy Saturday bus service, so I can do all my errands on *my* schedule. (Which means putting them off and doing everything really late, because my day has disappeared without me noticing.)

Since I'm around the house today, I thought I'd try an experiment. I've noticed my blog hits are really low on Saturdays, and I was wondering if that was due to my lack of posting (because I'm out waiting for the bus somewhere), or because all of my readers are off doing something. So, I figure I'll try to post more today, and see what happens to my hit count. ;)

Besides chores and random blog posting, I think I'll try to finish up my shower curtain today. Or, as much as possible. I've decided to use grommets instead of a tab top (since I don't have enough material for a tab top, and buttonholes are a pain), so I need to wait for the grommet kit to arrive from Amazon.

I did stop at the Wally World complex on my way home from Duke on Thursday. (I might as well get as much as I can out of my $4 round trip bus fare.) I found the rubber mallet I needed to install the grommets, but I didn't see a grommet kit. I saw some grommets, but not the gadgets for installing them. (Is it called "installing"?)

I also bought a replacement folding umbrella, and actually found a replacement carabeener watch! This one doesn't have a compass though... I did see one with a compass, but it didn't work. The compass, that is. The packaging said the compass was for decorative purposes only, and sure enough, the compass didn't point in any particular direction. Geez... if you've gone to the effort of putting the water bubble and compass face in, is it *really* that much more effort to add a magnet? Sheesh. So I got one without a compass... I didn't want to be looking at the compass and wondering why it didn't point north. (Which I so totally would be doing if I had bought the compass one.) The numbers on the watch face sure are funky, though. Ro, if you don't like that tilted coffee cup, *don't* buy this watch! It is a Timex, though, so hopefully the quality will be decent. So far it hasn't decided to beep annoyingly, so that's good! I was a bit miffed that it didn't have a timer as well as a chrono feature, but I guess they don't do much on their $15 watches. :P

I stopped in at Michaels too... (no grommet kit there either) and bought some postcard watercolour paper, a storage box on sale, and some bamboo circulars that were on sale $5 instead of $9. It was a size I don't need, but I thought I'd give them a try... I had lots of recommendations to try out different kinds, so I figured finding a pair on sale was a sign I should try it. ;) The others were regular price (and it turns out the Boye and Susan Bates were only about $5, so my whine about all circulars being outrageously expensive was unjustified), so I figured I'd try those when I needed ones in those sizes. No point in buying needles I don't need when they're regular price. ;)

Hmmm... methinks it's time to go eat breakfast... ;) Later!