We ran a lot of errands yesterday. Did a little retail therapy visit at Village Wools which was nice. I probably wouldn’t have asked Cody to take me there but Jamie was working and I thought it would be good to get out for a little while. I’d brought Zola there last fall so they were really sad to hear about her. One of the women who works there, Franzi, had just picked out a pattern and some yarn to make a felted hedgehog so when she heard about Zola she took me right in the back and let me buy them instead, even though one of the yarns was the last in the store. It made me tear up. Again. Just every once in a while I get sad about it. Wasn’t that just incredibly sweet though? I also found some really pretty iro and some funky optik and picked up two #1 circulars since the fuzzyfoot is going pretty well and neither of my circular kits go that small.

Then we got some boba tea and went to Page One Too to look for some books for Cody. I found a few things: a mindcandy Barbara Michaels, the new John Irving, and Reading Lolita in Tehran. I also ran into Kay, a very nice lady from the dropped stitch knitter’s guild, whom I’d just seen at the giant knitathon at Tuesday’s Stitch n Bitch. I hadn’t seen her in months so it’s been nice to run into her twice in one week.

She was the first person I watched spin with a spinning wheel. Unfortunately it was an incredibly cool Journey wheel (wheel in the sky keeps on tur-nin’ - sorry can’t resist hearing bad Journey songs in my head now) so all wheels pale in comparison to its coolness. Except my lendrum of course. Love my lendrum. Secretly want a journey wheel. (don’t stop be-lievin’! Damn that Steve Perry’s voice.) I’m hoping that Kay, Beverly, and I can get together and spin on our wheels sometime when Beverly’s gets here. (Oh Sherri! Hold on Hold on!)

Then we went to the grocery store and bought food for the next two weeks. Then got subway sandwiches on the way home. So after having the dog run around and give us lots of kisses because she never thought she’d see us again and bringing in all the grocery bags while keeping the cats from getting into the garage I was putting the refrigerated stuff away. And the phone rang with the “long distance” ring meaning it was probably my parents or my sister. Cody was closer to the phone so he answered it.

It went sort of like this:

My Dad: Is this (Cody’s and my last name which sounds a lot like DaVinci’s but isnt)?

Cody in a friendly voice: Yeeees

Dad: I’d like a large house salad with light dressing and a large Mona Lisa pizza.

Cody thinking my dad is kidding: A large house salad and a large Mona Lisa pizza? Sure we’ll get that for you.

My Dad: Ok we’ll be by in forty-five minutes to pick it up.

Cody slightly panicking thinking they’ve come to Albuquerque as a surprise (which wouldn’t be the first time) but also confused because he knew they were supposed to be in Atlanta this weekend: Uh, forty-five minutes? Ok, we’ll have that ready for you.

Then he hands the phone to me. I’d heard the conversation and didn’t have a clue what that was all about but I saw my parents’ number on the caller id so I took the phone. And Dad had hung up. Now if this had been Cody’s Dad we would’ve thought he was kidding around and would call back in a minute. He’s kind of silly. My Dad is not silly, at least not silly like that. So I called them back.

I asked my mom if Dad had meant to order a pizza from us. Mom was confused. It seems that the phone in Dad’s office is kind of weird (it’s given me trouble when I’ve used it too) so it had redialed our house from when they’d called on Friday while Dad was dialing DaVinci’s in Birmingham. The best part is that Dad is a retired executive from, what else? The phone company. So he really thought he was ordering a pizza. And probably wondered about the employee being so cheeky. This is an interesting new way to get me to call my parents.

It was very very funny.