Saturday good things

I figured out how to knit a ribbed pattern! It’s probably only big news in my world, but now I do not have to condemn myself to hours of monotony while I enter the world of knitting volleyball scarves. JG assures me that there will not be nine seniors this year, but I am not leaving anything to chance, and I am determined to have four scarves finished by the time the season starts. I have not yet settled on a pattern for this year, but my knitting repertoire has doubled, and I am psyched.

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On Saturday morning, JG and I made a grocery run, and I scanned the floral section, as always. I don’t always buy something, but I like having fresh flowers on the table, especially if I have the satisfaction of a low price. I spied spray roses on sale for $4, so I selected a bunch of deep pink blooms and added them to the shopping cart. I am not exactly a roses girl; they seem kind of pretentious and overdone to me. I prefer wildflowers that will stay with me for a while and aren’t quite so — oh, I don’t know — stuffy. Spray roses may have won me over with their sweet fragrance and petite scale. I am hopeless at flower arranging, but with those four stems in a vase on the dining table, I had a dozen roses, minus the monstrosity of a full-sized arrangement. Plus, they were only $4! Lovely.

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Two Fridays ago, Nancy Pearl Wannabe graced us with a guided tour of her library domain. She IMed me in a panic that morning, all verklempt because her text showed up as erroneous hyperlinks, and she could not figure out why. Finally, we guessed that Internet Explorer was to blame, and I could almost see NPW shaking her fists at not being able to use Firefox. She sent me her login information, and I went in and quickly deleted the extraneous code from the post. It was the work of two minutes, but NPW declared, “I’m buying you a present!” Well! Okay! On Saturday, a manilla envelope arrived at the house with the postage canceled suspiciously by the swipe of a permanent marker (instead of, say, a postage cancellation stamp), and I pulled out a thin parcel of colored printer paper. There was a thank-you sticky note and look! Lip gloss! I tested out the shade right away, and it was shiny and sheer on my lips, despite my thoughts at first glance, which were something along the lines of, “Vial of blood!” Thanks, NPDubs!