Veteran's Day

The weather is just beautiful today. I have the day off (would anyway because I don't work Mondays) but so does Jeff. We went out for lunch at OCB (yes, probably a mistake) and now he is napping while I surf around the internet and catch up on things.

Last night I started working with my Sculpey clay again. Last year I made a bunch of magnets and this year I want to make some unusual pendants and some actual mini-sculptures that I can attach to canvases or have freestanding - stuff that is more art pieces than just kitsch. I also have been thinking a lot about ways to combine doing that with both painting and photography to create completely mixed media pieces.

Friday night I hosted a potluck for my grad group. It turned out great! Jeff rented an eight-foot table that we set up in the living room and with some centerpieces and candles it looked really pretty. The food everyone brought really meshed well together and was yummy and we had a good time.

Saturday we went to Jeff's aunt and uncle's 50th wedding anniversary party at the Rosemount Community Center. There were about 125-150 people there and the food was served buffet style. They had a "head table" with the honored couple and their attendants from when they got married sitting at it and it was very cute. They had a table of photos set up from their wedding and they were so interesting and gorgeous - very 1950s. A country band called the Dakota Ramblers played and even though that kind of music is not my style, they sounded pretty good. We didn't feel like dancing much but we still had fun.

Hallowmas!

We had a pretty mellow Halloween. Work was quiet. I didn't win anything in the Bake Sale Rafffle at work and that made me mad. I really wanted to win either the cat or dog basket and got nothing. I bought two little pumpkins at lunchtime and took my car to the carwash after work. It was so filthy they had to run it through the wash twice. It's nice now though. After that I went to meet Jeff at Junior's Grill in Eagan for dinner. After that we came home and spent time with Abe. He was very silly last night and it was nice. I think all the Halloween stuff going on outside was exciting and he knew there were trick or treaters out there. I love my silly happy dog.

Today I went to lunch with my Dad at Leeann Chin. He brought me some organic eggs and I was able to stash them in my mini fridge at work. I'm so glad I got it! It's nice to be able to keep things cold in my office instead of having to share an overcrammed fridge with the neighboring department. I finished my initial cataloguing work on the WWII interviews going to processing so that was a good job done. It took me longer than I thought it would but it was worth it because I caught a couple of errors and was able to fix them. Hopefully I caught them all. Tonight I just came home and ate a salad (which Sweetie was inordinately interested in, literally balancing on my right arm to get closer to it - I don't know why because I know she would never eat it) and surfed around on the internet a little. I'm started to get interested in crafting again and I want to make some bracelets and other things as gifts for the holidays. I'll need to start now so I have time to make everything. Between doing that and thank you and Christmas cards and New Year's party invites I will have a lot on my plate!