I’m just busy knitting tiny mittens and socks for the annual aunts’ ornament party. They’re having it early this year. Really early. Like a week from this friday when they usually have it the weekend after Thanksgiving. The one aunt who lives out of state will be visiting so they wanted to have it while she’s in town. But that put a bit of a crunch on me since I was planning on handknitting the ornaments. So I’m busy knitting ornaments and chenille washcloths for the present exchange instead of knitting in fun autumn-y colors like I want to. But I’m almost done!

It’s been a fairly quiet week other than that. Had some tooth pain a few times and had to take a few prescription pain reliever-induced naps. One of my crowns came in early and I went to have it put in yesterday but one side wasn’t as flush with the other tooth as much as it should be so back to the lab it went. The temporary crown is working fine anyway I can chew on that side without getting stuff stuck in that little crevice. But the other side is still a pain. God I hate my teeth.

I had a lot of fun on Saturday though. The Knitters Not Quitters group is so much fun the way it expands and shrinks every week. Always interesting people and conversations. And the Napoli people are so nice about us moving furniture and using our spinning wheels.

Beverly and I had a great time chatting about books and knitting and taking a short roadtrip to Good Fibrations on the other side of the east mountains in Edgewood. She and her sister are going to be in Rome at the same time as my sister and her husband so hopefully they can all go out to dinner. Those with higher English degrees unite! Odd, isn’t it that I’m surrounded by word people? My husband, my sister, her husband, Erin, her husband, and now Beverly. Even one of my favorite online buddies is an English professor. Not something you’d expect from a slightly verbose visual arts chick.

I found out we’re going to have visitors from San Francisco the week of Thanksgiving which is exciting. So we’ll have to do some tidying and clean up the guest room - which is the usually kitty room so it’s full of hair and scary cat emanations. But I’m not going to worry about that until after the ornament party. I’m not sure but I think I’ll do the half-assed Furr’s precooked thanksgiving meal kind of cooking. All I know is I’ll be delighted to see Jocelyn (whom I haven’t seen since March) and get to know her boyfriend better (I’ve only met the guy once before) and have someone to eat turkey with since Cody will be working that night, as usual. So that’s exciting.