Home Alone

The house is so quiet with everyone gone, but I'm not complaining.  I do miss them all, but I am enjoying the quiet.  I think that hubby may have thought I'd have a hard time finding things to do all by myself, but I've stayed pretty active yet not busy. 

After dropping B at the airport on Wednesday morning, I met a friend for lunch.  I ate leftover pizza for supper then curled up on the couch with my knitting to watch Yentl.  Yesterday, I met the same friend early in the morning at Koteewi Park for a brisk walk.  Next we be-bopped over to the flea market for some hidden treasures for her re-decorating project.  After we said our goodbyes I headed over to MomII's for some company.  We ate at the Pan Asian Grill.  MomII had her usual mushroom soup and egg rolls.  I chose the Thai tea, black pepper shrimp and avocado soup that came with fried wonton strips.  MomII asked why I took a picture of my food and my reply was that I never knew what I would blog about so I just snap pictures. 

Doesn't this look yummy?

Last night I attempted to update our attendance records for school.   B set up the sheets in Excel, but for some reason I'm struggling with getting anything to work for me and this was one of my big projects planned to finish while everyone was gone.  I even went to the library to get books to help me, but the computer &/or Excel has other plans.  I spent several hours working and hit save last night only to find out that my work was only correct for about 1/3 of the weeks of school.  Grr!  So, this has been part of my workspace for the last couple of days.

Not a fun activity for my free time.

Last night I watched The Hours while I worked on the attendance records.  The movie didn't make the work fun or easy.  I've decided that my hand-written notes will have to suffice this year.  I wonder why there can't be some sort of Geek Squad for Excel. 

Today I've cleaned the house, made a pinwheel as a mock up for some invitations, mowed the lawn, cooked a batch of homemade laundry detergent and am now blogging before heading out to sing at Hamilton Life Center with my church worship team. 

Tomorrow I'm meeting my friend again to walk.  The afternoon is booked with ladies coming to watch Eat, Pray, Love and The Help with a pitch-in Italian dinner in between movies.  I'm going to make chocolate pie for dessert--the nice kind!  Think a few of us may be making more of the pinwheels too. 

I've been home alone, but not without things to do.