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Hello! I'm here. Just finding that I don't particularly have a lot to say, or if I think about a bunch of stuff I want to say I find that I don't have time to say it all. Quite the quandry, huh? Apparently I have both the time and the stuff to say at the moment.

The weekend was very good. Cleaned a bit on Friday and then cleaned like a madwoman Saturday morning (was going to have people over in the evening and I wanted the place to be all nice and stuff). Almost got into a tiff with the husband as I was being nagging- but we both caught it before it even started and had a conversation resulting in all being good.

With me here's the deal- take a degree of social anxiety and combine that with a control streak. This can lead to some ugly things. Especially when I'm having people over to my house for the first time and I'm half convinced they're going to judge me on the state of my house, even when I know that as former roommates of mine- they're not going to. However, there I am all anxious and trying to make everything perfect- so having someone help me can actually be a problem because I get cranky when they don't know how to do it the way I want it done. I realize this is a problem, and I try to compensate for it- but it doesn't always work. My hubby is learning this about me- and is working to compensate. The biggest aid over the weekend was him simply asking me what I wanted him to do. That's what kept my anxiety in check and kept us from having a tiff. I explained, and we worked together merrily.

Cleaning and household chores have never exactly been my favorite things. Organizing I'm good at and like, that's not the same thing as cleaning. ;) The depth of my organizing neurosis is something like this: picture me sitting on the floor with a stack of papers in front of me. These papers are items such as phone bills, car payment stubs, bank statements, and so on. Then imagine me going through them and separating them out into their respective piles- in date order. Easy enough... then notice that the piles are in alphabetical order by company. This makes me happy. That said, I am so amazingly grateful that I have a loving husband who finds these types of quirks not only cute, but things that are easily worked with. Someone who is actually impressed with my abilities to sort, organize and remember, and wants my assistance. Yet another reminder that I have found the best possible person to spend the rest of my life with. :) I absolutley adore him. The times when we're both home and working on cleaning together.... I actually kind of like the cleaning and get a warm fuzzy because this is 'our' place and we're both working to make it a nice, comfortable and clean place to enjoy.

Okay, enough analysis/mushy stuff. Saturday evening the Mage group actually met at our place for the first time. The Ann Arbor/Ypsi people arrived- and I didn't hear any thing about getting lost or anything. Leo and Sasha were big hits, and Sasha was comfortable with those folks she knew. Leo was quite charming and sucked up to DK impressively. He's a smart boy- always manages to figure out who he needs to suck up to. (Which is how he managed to sucker me into bringing him home so he could be the hubby's cat...) Of course, the somewhat allergic DK greeted Leo properly, she let him sniff her and didn't once try to pet him. This pleased him greatly, which is probably why he decided to hang out with her for much of the evening- well, when he wasn't stealing randomspin's chair, or sitting next to mightyafrodite briefly.

Sunday was both frustrating and nice. Nice because it was really relaxed and quite lazy. Eventually got moving to head to Roma Bakery- there were a few things I wanted to pick up. Only to discover that Roma's isn't open on Sundays. Oops. Okay, so on the way to our next stop we decided to stop at Jimmy John's for lunch. This led to a discussion about sandwiches and how I think they're among my favorite foods. My favorite restaurants- Quiznos, Jimmy Johns, MGs Deli (in Midland) and yeah.. there's a trend. The hubby laughed and mentioned that his favorite place was Zingerman's (though I think he's only been there like once). So we're working on a plan to get down to Ann Arbor some Saturday in order to go to Zingerman's. :) The next stop was Hobby Lobby- since Roma's was a bust I figured why not... Forgetting that Hobby Lobby is ALSO closed on Sunday's. Grr Arg.

So that was frustrating. But there was Jimmy John's. And Kroger wasn't too bad, though I was tired and dragging at that point. On to a slow evening, mostly listening to music and stitching. I finished the Antique Amethyst Angel! that I was working on (in "competition" with losgunna. Technically she won by about 8 hours...). Now I'm working on a Dimensions Gold Petite... Ah, here: A Walk on the Beach

I started that kit awhile ago, and on my last cleaning rampage I put all my cross-stitch WIPs in one tote and am going to work on them in rotation I think. Though this little one I may try to finish before I move on. At least in rotation all the projects will get SOME attention. ;) Though I have yet to figure out, exactly, how I'm going to work the rotation... How long will each piece get, and will it be a number of days or a number of hours? Should be fun.

And that's pretty much it. Going to go home after work, maybe nap, or maybe stitch. The husband has pharmacology tonight, so he'll get out of class around 8- so we'll actually get to spend a little time together! :) So that's of the good, though I'm really tired for some reason. I almost went to bed at a reasonable time last night, but got distracted by a cross-word puzzle. The horror.