Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
A woman at a knitting group this weekend was knitting with something that I thought was SWTC Karaoke. It wasn’t. It seems that Patons is now making a yarn called Soy Wool Stripes, which is 70% wool and 30% soy. It feels lovely and costs about $3 less than Karaoke. I bought a couple of skeins at AC Moore when I was there checking out the 40% off rubber stamp sale. Interesting colors and it feels nice. We’ll see how it knits up.
Have you heard about Penn Masala? NPR did a piece about them recently. Brilliant concept, and they sing pretty well too. 
You may remember that I started carrying my lunch to work a while ago. I haven’t been carrying my Mr. Bento much recently, because I’ve been carrying sandwiches a lot. If I carry a sandwich, I typically carry it in an insulated lunch bag with an ice pack. Unfortunately, however, I haven’t found a good way to wrap my sandwich. I hate using Tupperware for sandwiches, partly because they take up too much room in my lunch bag. I prefer a more flexible “wrap” for my sandwiches, but I hate wasting resources by using aluminum foil or saran wrap. Paper towels aren’t much better in terms of resource waste, and they don’t hold up very well.
A couple of months ago, I read about a product called Wrap-N-Mat, that is a reusable sandwich wrap and place mat. I just ordered a couple and I’ll be sure to let you know how they work out.
Some other cool lunch gear:
*fancy insulated lunch bags
*reusable grocery bags/lunch totes
*hand-printed lunch bags
*Dumpling Lunch Cooler
*Frog (and Cat) Lunch bags made from recycled soda bottles
Please note: I’m not necessarily endorsing any particular product, I’m just sharing stuff I’ve found.
Meet Tippy (on the right). Tippy is coming to live with us tomorrow. We are VERY excited!
There are some letters that you should not have to receive on Friday. Included in that list is a letter that we received today, from Bank of America:
Hello, we seem to have misplaced a $925 cash deposit that you made. We’ve subtracted it from your account and we’re not going to do anything until Monday, so you’ll have to wait until at least Tuesday to find out anything about where your money went. We appreciate your business.
Okay, so I’m paraphrasing a bit… up until the last sentence. What the hell is that? We appreciate your business, so we’re going to lose your money. Humph.
I’ve already called the 800 number, and I’m going down to the branch for the few Saturday hours that they have. I need to make some noise, because this is unacceptable. $20? I’m not happy, but I’m not going to waste much energy. $925? You can bet that someone is going to get a piece of my mind.
ETA:
10/28/2007 - I figured out yesterday morning, that the mistake was mine. I also figured out that they did not count the deposit when I made it (I knew there was a reason I don’t usually do deposits via the drive-through.). That bugs me. They should have counted it then - SOP when you take it to the teller IN the bank. If they had told me when I made the deposit that I screwed up, I would have accepted it with no problem. Instead, they take the money out of my account and send me a letter. I’m not okay with that.
Not really.
I think this is the one time in my life that I have spent a weekend doing something and not sat back and regretted some part of it - for not doing enough or doing too much. I saw so many people that I love, met so many new people to love, didn’t get enough time to talk to everyone, couldn’t afford to invite everyone we wanted to invite, and it was wicked hot in October… and it was a glorious and perfect weekend - flaws and all.
Just a teaser for right now. Once I get caught up, I’ll post about the festivities. Needless to say, fun was had by all!