Weird weekday

Instead of being at work this morning, I am at home, on hold with Century Link. I had a rare 3 day weekend, and while it's great, taking care of all the stuff that I have put off because I am never home Monday-Friday 9-5 is taking forever.

The good news is:
-The kiddo now has an appointment to get her last round of immunizations
-There's a gift card for $90 on its way so I can replace my "office" chair that has its left arm hanging by a thread and threatens to tip over whenever you lean back at all.
-Century Link just dropped my bill by $57 a month! And gave me my long distance service back to boot!

So now all I have to do is:
-hit the bank at some point today to deposit a few checks.
-go to the library
-visit my LYS, since it's right across from the library and drool over the Big Bag O' Fun again!

And on a completely unrelated topic, when the heck did OTC allergy meds get so expensive?? My nose is stuffy, my eyes are itchy and I thought I would grab something and see if it helped. OUCH!

We did get some very sad news over the weekend. My husband's grandmother has died. There's absolutely no way he can get back for the funeral (airfare is nuts and then add in the fact that his passport has expired and that's the end of that!). I wonder how much it costs to send flowers overseas??

Spring Flowers

I went out and bought a tomato plant yesterday. I'm going to try growing it in a container, see if I can get some nice real tomatoes, instead of the mushy things from the grocery store. Figure the advantage to a container plant is I can start it inside and move it outside once I am convinced the weather will stay nice. And at the end of the season, I can pull it inside long enough for the last tomatoes to ripen. Unlike my mother, I won't eat fried green tomatoes, lol. Silly cow that I am though, I planned on using a 5 gallon bucket that we already had. It's full of crap and gross to boot, so I am going to run out to Lowe's and grab another bucket in a bit. Then I'll dig out our drill, put in a few nice holes for drainage, throw some rocks in the bottom for more drainage and fill the bucket 3/4 full of dirt, then plant my little baby. It's meant to be grown in a container, I made sure of that, a Better Bush hybrid. My main concern is sunlight. I'm not quite sure it will get enough sun on my patio, but I figure I'll try anyway ;)

I have never gardened at all out here, other than planting flowers, so this will be a new experience. At some point I am going to have to go get some flowers for the patio too, but I think this year I am going to stick to all geraniums. I had petunias last year, that I bought mixed in with a gorgeous little white flowers. Long story short, the plant with the white flowers ended up needed waaaay more water than the petunias, and I ended up having to pull the petunias into their own pot. They never really thrived after that :( But the plant with the little white flowers is still in my kitchen window, flowering away and growing like mad, lol. So I think I will leave them where they are and just get some more geraniums. They do very well here, since they are naturally drought resistant, and seem to thrive on benign neglect, lol. Of course, that means more to bring in in the fall, and more for the hubby to ask why I don't just put the older ones back outside. But I swear they get used to being inside and all the leaves go yellow when I scare them by putting them back out! I usually end up pulling them back in again at that point.

Knitting is going absolutely no where, although I do have an awesome new LYS, The Loopy Ewe. I just had to buy some sock yarn while I was there ;) And they have these AMAZING random bags, The Big Bag O' Fun

that have bits of sock yarn in them. Probably enough to do a square for my Crazy Quilt! too bad for me that it's $80. Which is seriously reasonable but the hubby won't go for that kind of yarn expenditure, lol. When I bought the sock yarn he ran the old, "We'll be living under a bridge" speech by me again. (We won't discuss how much it just cost us to have an oil change done and a tail light changed on his folly of choice! *Grin*)

Anyhoo, I am off to read for a bit, then I should drag my lazy butt out for a bucket and some soil ;)