I didn’t write about it earlier this week because I’ve been too busy running about from ministry to ministry like a poor lost soul who can’t find her cubicle, but I had a lovely weekend. <\/p>\n
Really nice Saturday helping Gorgeous Sunday expedition to Stratford and K-W with We made it without incident from Oakville to the Avon Theatre in Stratford, where we ate some nosh and gazed critically at 150 quilts, making notes about favorites. Then we made it with only a minor glitch, but no actual lost time, to Len’s Mill in K-W for a fabricstravaganza that was all too brief. 30 minutes is in no way long enough to rifle through 12 million bolts of fabric. It just isn’t. Then we got thoroughly lost on the way back to Oakville from Len’s Mill. <\/p>\n MSN maps screwed us over with talk of some fictional highway “86”, which frankly does not exist, and we ended up in paroxysms of fear, pulling into a remote Coffee Time patronised by potential serial killers and bear hunters, whom we proceeded to ask for directions. They led us even further astray, and so we stopped near a house where many men in black suits and sunglasses were sneaking about. Sure, it MIGHT have been a wedding party. OR IT MIGHT NOT. We’ll never know, because a nice man with some important teeth missing told us new and completely different directions to the highway. <\/p>\n We became lost once more, circling endlessly through the same warehouse district that led us off the beaten path in the first place, quietly singing the Twilight Zone theme song to ourselves. Finally, as dark was falling, there was a reprieve, as we discovered a gas station selling petrol at 75 cents a litre. This did nothing to lessen the Rod Serling vibes of the place (when was the last time you saw fuel selling for under 80 cents a litre?) but Mum was so happy she almost wet her pants, and with a full tank, we drove with confidence until we finally found the highway home. <\/p>\n So, that was the weekend. Here are the woefully unproductive contents of last night: I’ve pulled a So, I hereby start my novel. Ahem.<\/p>\n Let the first sentence be: “Just push, damn you! Take a running start at it.”<\/p>\n Let my novel also include this phrase: “Fuck diabetes; I think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done damage to myself at the chromosomal level from eating all that candy.”<\/p>\n There. Twenty-eight words. It’s a beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I didn’t write about it earlier this week because I’ve been too busy running about from ministry to ministry like a poor lost soul who can’t find her cubicle, but I had a lovely weekend. Really nice Saturday helping and move into their new home, which is truly lovely except I’m nervous about them coming […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1) Read about inuksuit.
\n2) Ate delicious chinese food.
\n3) Watched zombie episode of X-Play with Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb.
\n4) Pinned quilt top to batting and backing.
\n5) Cut and ironed fabric for my ongoing ‘backwards orange peel’ quilt.
\n6) Watched JVL play some ‘Star Wars Battlefront II’.
\n7) Had laptop on and open to word processor for over 6 hours, without typing a single word.<\/p>\n