A Monday...

When cranking up the Singing Singer this last time, I chanced to note that the manual was for the 400 series. After verifying my Singer was a Rocketeer ('the greatest sewing machine ever built'....built, mind you!) and, therefore of the 500 series, I determined I needed a more apropos manual.

So off I went to the Singer Sewing Company website and ordered me up one. Yes I did.

And it came today.

There will be no stopping me now! Actually, there has never been no stopping me when I have set my mind to something. The question has always been what ever have I set my mind to, and whatever for?!

I quote, 'you will know it's excitingly different...You'll marvel at its truly remarkable sewing and almost unbelievable ease of operation (well, yes, as a matter of fact...30+ years without a manual! Pretty easy, I must say!)...the amazing services it performs (perhaps somewhere in the manual it will tell me that my Rocketeer cleans bathrooms!), the convenience features never before built into one machine... And remember...it's made entirely in America!'

Onward.

I am making peanut butter cookies tonight to take to Galaxie Guy in Vegas. We are going to exchange Christmas with Dearest Sister and Galaxie Guy, and peanut butter cookies is what I do for Galaxie Guy. So that little bit of effort has been ramped up into the Vacation Mode. That's okay. I like Galaxie Guy, I like peanut butter cookies, and I like not having to ship them this year. The recipe I use is old-fashioned, full of peanut butter and margerine, sugar, and white flour. Not so healthy, and very tasty indeed.

I won an ebay auction today for an acrylic stamp block, getting it for about 60% (including shipping) what I would have paid normally. I love winning an auction!

I have yardage in the washer, in preparation for cutting out three garments for Christmas gifts. I hope to have that little chore done before leaving on Friday. The cutting out, that is, not the sewing up. The sewing up if for doing on our return from vaycay. I am looking forward to sewing. (I may even do some fancy stitching. Watch out!)

What else...I have been knitting. I have knitted a pea coat, a sweater, a bag, and am working on a skirt. Oh yes I have! I have completed a scarf. I have started mittens, an unnamed object, and Wonderful Guy's alpaca socks are 75% complete, more or less. Wait 'til you see the photos. Be patient. I can't show them to you just yet. I am also readying my travel knitting. A scarf to match the mittens, dishclothes, the WIPs, and I am not sure what else.

And I am really glad that I had lots to be positive about today, and that I am practiced in being grateful, because we learned this morning that Friday my company filed Chapter 11.