Solitary Sunday

E was here all week until yesterday, and R is still gone, so I spent today just me and the dogs. It was fun having E around, but I felt bad for having to work (and also that out of nowhere we had 3 days of seriously wintery weather, but it was beautiful again by the last few days of his vacation); and having time to myself today was nice, I certainly needed the rest- I'm sick. My throat started feeling sore on Friday, and I just assumed I hadn't gotten enough sleep, since E is a night owl and I worked early several days this week, but then I started developing a head cold too, and by the end of work yesterday I was completely exhausted. I think I only made it through the day because of daytime cold medicine, honestly.

So last night and today I relaxed- got to work on my sweater again (I have the sleeves attached and am working the raglan decreases & puff sleeves now) finally (after seeing Kris' birthday anemone, E has requested one for his birthday next year!), talked to my Mom & Victoria (I talked to my good friend Kathryn about a week ago as well, we haven't seen each other in forever and I miss her!), watched movies, read, and ate some of the many leftovers from this week of good food. I haven't been really hungry though, plus they do say "starve a cold & feed a fever" anyway.

Tomorrow I need to make cookies, minty brownies, and my "famous" zucchini banana bread, because the Very Merry Un-birthday Mad Tea Party is Wednesday. I didn't let the house get too messy, but I'll have to spiff up the back yard a bit and make sure everything inside is presentable. It should be really fun, and I love theme/costume parties!

I played around on the new automatic substitute scheduler website, I don't know what to think. I need to return my paper saying what my specialties are (science, duh, and apparently Spanish as well?) but they didn't say where to return it, and there was no option at all for science as a specialty. It's so strange that I only have two weeks of work at the park remaining! I did my sea otter program for the second time this Thursday, I think it is improved a bit. I am scheduled to do my animal tracks program for the first time the Thursday before Labor day, we'll see how that goes.

I'll put up pictures of my anemones and sweater tomorrow, I hope.