Last week Wednesday was Administrative Professionals Day (formerly Secretarys Day, but then that became un-pc or something) and I was a little disappointed that nobody took Jessica and me out to lunch, but we got roses, so that was cool anyway.
They looked really beautiful on Friday when I left work, and I made sure to add some extra water so they wouldn't die over the weekend, but they did anyway. They're all sad and droopy now, but I haven't gotten rid of them yet.
Saturday was hiking day, and as usual, hiking in Sedona is beautiful:
That's a pretty cool looking dead tree we encountered. That is, it's beautiful until my hiking buddy loses the trail several times, and walks me around for 3+ hours on steep angled rock leading down to a sheer cliff and a drop to my certain death. While I'm exhausted because his pace is much faster than mine. Yeah. We circled Chimney Rock looking for the trail, walking a little, looking over the cliff at the trail below wondering how to get down to it, then walking a little more and looking again, until we came back around to the path that had lead us up there in the first place. It looks lovely when you look at it from far away, it's not so much fun when you're walking around it trying to find a way down.
All of which played a part in prompting me to go out the next day and buy some real, decent hiking shoes, just in case my hiking buddy wasn't so fed up with all my whining to never head out with me again. Check 'em out!
They have sticky rubber on the bottom so I can't fall off the rocks as easily! Hopefully I'll have a chance to try them out this weekend.
In knitting knews (hehe, I'm a dork) I managed to finish part of AJ's birthday present today. That's one down, one to go, and her birthday was only last Thursday, so considering my track record over the last few years, I think I'm doing fairly well.
I also finished the first panel of the super secret bag for the Knit Knack Purses and Pasties exchange. I learned intarsia for it, which was pretty difficult at first, then I got the hang of it, so it's not so bad. It didn't help that I came up with a pretty complicated chart for my first foray into intarsia. But that's just how I roll, I guess.
I can't wait to finish all the pieces and felt it, something else I've never actually done!
Wow, I hope the guys singing and playing accordian across the street pack it up before I go to bed...accordian-induced insomnia may be fine as the subject of a song by The Who, but in actuality would kind of suck.
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