August 21, 2011

Less than two weeks and I will be headed for Utah for Meryl's wedding. Seems hard to believe it seemed so far away...yet like every other event...it is here before you know it. Frontier changed our flight departure time and that is making a mess of everything. New planning will have to be done. I am going out today to try and find something else to wear. I bought (of all things) a skort and a top a couple weeks ago, but I find I don't like the top much so I need to buy a new one. There is also a problem with footwear...as in I have nothing. I am also going out to check out the Borders liquidation sale and also make a stop in Joanne fabric. I really HATE shopping, so this will not be a fun day.

Last Sunday I made it down to Wizard World. Not one of my favorite places but wanted to go to help out with our group's booth. I ended up taking the booth home and then had to deliver it to Plainfield on Tuesday. I do love to see the other costumes, thought I have to admit that there isn't much to see at Wizard World. A lot of the costumes there are kind of amatuerish...but not as bad as it was years ago. I think that there are a lot more people getting into costuming.

I was proud of myself for not spending any money past just gasoline to get there. I even, through a stroke of luck, got parking free as the parking structure had an oops in their machine. I went to pay in advance and the lady said the ticket was not scanning....so she said I would have to scan when I left and when I left, that person said it was paid.

Friday I left work early to do an event at Hope Children's Hospital. I had loaded up Artoo the night before and he was along as well. We went there to pass out toys that we had been collecting at the past few events. The toys were collected in honor of a little girl who died at 15 months of a heart defect and her dad came to see us Star Wars geeks at the Joliet Library event. Hospital events are serious business as there are a lot of really sick kids there and certain protocols need to be met. Thankfully, we had no issues and made it through the day without problem. I had the Parts Department deliver me and Artoo and then pick us up. I lost one piece of Artoo and broke one of his holo-eyes. Fortunately, I was able to fabricate the piece I lost but am still trying to secure Artoo's holo eye.

I made more cherry jam yesterday with cherries I still had in the freezer and today I am going to process some tomatoes. I am getting a little bit of a late start on the canning. I usually like to be done by now, before it gets hot out, but I slept in this morning till 4:30 AM.

I also got more garden cleaned up yesterday. My goal is not letting anything set seed! I also nuked a few plants in the back of the garden that are too close to the spruce. I started the paring down of plants last year and will continue this fall and into the spring. Things were a lot less crowded this year for sure and it seemed to have worked out well.