lazy day

Today is my "Saturday"- the start of my "weekend". I work Thursday through Monday and consequently have Tuesday and Wednesday off to relax and do non-work/non-skiing things like sleeping in as late as I can (usually 8 or 9), making pancakes just for me, reading, checking emails/facebook, doing laundry, paying bills, etc. It is nice, however, that on my day's off, the bank is open when I need to put in a paycheck. Good stuff!

I've been finishing the book "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" most of the day and haven't done much else. I need to finish knitting a hat for a friend of mine who is living in England for a few months- the girl I met on the train from Australia. She saw me knitting so I thought I'd send her a hat to keep her head warm from the damp. I had better get it done before summer! I also have thank you notes to write. My parents thankfully instilled writing thank-you notes when my brother and I were young. We hated writing them, but now I love them and think of myself as old fashioned in this new technology age where everyone texts (except me) and emails. That's so impersonal but yet I do it because I have to. There's just something about a hand written note (or typed- those that got a Christmas card from me).



Freeport Town Wharf



I should have gotten my thank-you's finished a few weeks ago. Last week on my "weekend" I went to Maine to see a friend of mine before her last chemo procedure. She had lung cancer, but had surgery and chemo to take care of it. My mom got a call from her yesterday and she said it was her worst bout of chemo and if she ever got cancer again, she would NEVER have chemo. Ugh. that's not good. I was so glad that I got to see her. I also got to spend some time at LLBean and drive though the real town of Freeport- off the beaten path. Good times.

bull moose at LLBean

Long drive, but it was a great 2 days. And all I bought at LLBean were wool socks that are thin enough to wear with my clogs. Gotta be warm!

On my ride either to or from or around Maine, I was thinking of my "bucket list". I have it written somewhere- things I want to do before I die. You know you have one- maybe it's not called a bucket list, but it's a list of things you'd like to do in your life. I can't find mine, but I know some of the things on it and I came up with a couple more-
(in no particular order)


1. Go to see all of the Major League Baseball Parks
2. Go to all the state capitals
3. learn to surf (in Hawaii)

4. Ski Tuckerman's Ravine (and live)

5. Go to every lighthouse in Maine

6. Go lobstering (set and bring in traps)

7. Go ice skating at Rockefeller Center

8. Go to an opera in Italy

I know there's more, but I can't think of them right now. So do share some of your bucket list!