Wow. It’s February already. This new year is kicking in pretty fast. The good news is that for January, at least, I feel like we’re making really good progress on the ‘Getting Things Done’ front. Granted, most of what’s been done has been done by someone else (the flooring in the attic, finishing the floor downstairs, etc.) but the point is, things have gotten done, and I never said we had to be the ones to do it. Heh. The handyman came out again on Friday to finally finish off the transition strips, and fix two doors that were sticking, so check those items off the list. We’ve ordered a ceiling medallion to cover the patch job underneath the chandelier in the dining room so that’s at least partly underway, and the replacement latches for the windows downstairs are also ordered and winging their way to us (or rather, inching their way toward us as slow as they can, considering the length of time the service rep said they would take to get here). And I think we have found ourselves a kitchen designer. We met with the guy yesterday and while we both really liked the woman we met last week, we also both like this guy’s designs a lot more. He gave us a list of references, so I’ve set up one appointment already to go see a completed kitchen in our area, and I’ve left messages with one other couple to go see theirs. We’ll be good and follow up on the references, but unless something really weird pops up, I think we’re going to go with him.

Unlike previous weekends I did not do any great batch of cooking, unless you count another batch of fat free oatmeal whole wheat bread, or a batch of cornbread to go with the can of turkey chili we had for lunch on Saturday, or the batch of experimental frozen yogurt pops I put into the freezer this evening (1 container of frozen orange juice concentrate with 3 containers of homemade fat free plain yogurt. We’ll see how they turn out). Oh, and I guess there was also the batch of vegetable soup I made for dinner last night, so maybe I did do a tiny bit of cooking after all.

I decided to take advantage of the fact that Richard’s been healthy and inhaler / nebulizer free for a whole whopping two weeks straight now, so Saturday we got up early and we walked down to La Bou for breakfast, and the weather obliged us by only being slightly gray and drizzly during our walking. And this morning we walked an extra few miles down to the local bistro for omelets and coffee and toast, which was a lovely thing to do because after weeks of gray and drizzly and bitter cold, the sun finally decided to peek through the gloom, and it was so glorious to be out walking around in it. We even took a pass through the cemetery on the way, mainly because there is no sidewalk on that side of the road, but also just to check it out. Sadly, this is one of the boring cemeteries where all the grave markers are flat on the ground, so if we’re really in the mood for wandering around checking out cool gravestones, we’re going to have to go somewhere else. But it was still a fun little detour nonetheless.

It’s been a fairly uneventful weekend other than the walking and cooking and such. I camped out on the sofa this afternoon, with some cats and some afghans, and did a significant amount of knitting while I watched one of our latest Netflix offerings – “Little Black Book”. I knew it was going to be fluff, so I wasn’t entirely disappointed in how inane it turned out to be, but for something to which I didn’t have to pay much attention in order to follow, so I could instead focus on my knitting, it worked out just fine. We also quite cheerfully skipped the Super Bowl because we really do not care one bit about the silly little thing, and now that one can access all the interesting parts of the whole event (i.e. the commercials) online, there is even less reason to have to care. Not, mind you, that we have gotten online to watch any of them yet, but at least I know where to find them, and without all that distracting football stuff getting in the way.