SABTC: Update #3

Here I am at the start of a very busy week. Let's kick it off with a Monday Morning Bullet Post.

• Neatnik's third Vacation Bible School session of the summer started this morning. We had a near miss on a meltdown when she realized she wasn't assigned to the same second grade classroom as her friends from school. Fortunately, the lady who runs the show is kind and compassionate. Neatnik was quickly reassigned and the crisis was averted.



• I was thinking about maybe duplicate stitching a faux seam across the top of yesterday's socks. I was thinking navy blue would be a good contrast.



• For the Second Annual Box Topapalooza, we now have 79 Box Tops in our kitchen collecting box. Yes, we added just two more this week as well. With me eating fresh fruit and oatmeal bread for breakfasts and Neatnik requesting oatmeal and the occasional waff-ooz!, we are eating a lot less cold cereal at chez trek these days.



• I really, really need to mail Chris her prize from the quarters in the tea tin contest. I haven't forgotten you, Chris, but I did forget how infrequently I have time to visit the post office in the summer and how easily chocolate melts in the heat. I can rethink the chocolate accompanying the sock bag or I can wait until the weather cools to mail it. It isn't like you won't have other prize packages waiting in your mailbox, now is it? ;o)



• Speaking of summer heat, we had crazy amounts of thunder and lightning both early yesterday morning and yesterday afternoon and on into the evening. All of that electrical activity has done nothing to decrease the humidity and the grass pollen counts are predicted to be pretty high today as well.



• I'd better carry my inhaler.



• I am reconsidering how to fashion the handles for the Interminable Pink Panda String Bag. The ones I have hooked in past have a slight ruffliness about the handle edges that I'd prefer not to have. Part of the planning process includes figuring out how strong the stress points will be on the finished bag. More on this later.



• I have to cast on a pair of socks. Today. The only knitting on needles at this moment is the Cable and Rib Cardigan (Ravelry link) and it isn't good for social knitting and tonight is knit night.



• As long as Number Guy gets home from work early enough, that is.



• Neatnik and I are now tied at 92 new titles each for the calendar year 2009. She is viewing this as a contest and has expressed renewed vigor to finish the books she has started.



• We are nearly out of fruits and vegetables. It is astounding how much produce one family of three can consume in any given week. Oh, well, at least it is healthy - even if it means that I have to visit the store every couple of days. Totally worth it.

And now I must end this post here, since I *do* have to "visit with the vegetables" and it is much quicker to do that run solo whilst Neatnik is at VBS. Who knows? Maybe I can also score a walk before pick up time.