Sunday, November 08, 2009

super-weekend

Oh, my! What a weekend we had! I took the day off on Friday (I believe the appropriate term is "mental health day" and a much-needed one at that). Had coffee with a friend, did some sewing and relaxing, and then that night saw Margaret Atwood read from her new novel, The Year of the Flood. It was amazing. Then I stood in line and she signed my Handmaid's Tale while I effused. Dream come true.

Sat. we cleaned out our garage, did a little yard work (it was amazing weather this weekend in Chicago area - 70ish), then we went over to a friends house for pizza and Project Runway and a bizarre not-quite-horror movie called The Haunting of Molly [Something-or-Other].

Today we went on a bike ride in the Forest Preserve up to the Chicago Botanical Gardens. Oy! My aching toches. I think we rode about 15 miles. The gardens were lovely today, but everyone and their mother and their screaming child had the same idea, make it less of an idyllic stroll through the gardens and more of crawl through a roving mob of humanity. Oh, the teaming masses. How I detest them.

I'm sewing farm animals for some 2 year old twins that we're going to visit in NY next week - will post when I finish - think will be really cute. Here are a few pics from the gardens:

5 comments:

dad said...

Aren't Super Weekends Fun? Glad you guys had one!

Carrie said...

Man, I would need a day off Monday to recover from all that activity! I love M's hair. I think that is the shortest I have ever seen it.

Carrie said...

Why do you have this security word verification? Should I have one? Am I unsafe in blogger world?

Special K said...

I had to put on a word verification because I was getting a lot of spam comments. You're not unsecure without one, don't worry.

KHM said...

I want to see what you're sewing! I love riding bikes and the teaming masses drive me nuts, too; some people have no sense of cycling decorum...

You and Mike look awesome...