Expensive Saturday

Man. Feels like all we did yesterday was spend money. First off, I was on Ravelry voting on the yarns in the "Dye for Glory" competition, and found two skeins so gorgeous that I had to order them. (Or rather, pre-order them since they won't be available until after Sock Summit 2009, so sometime in September for delivery). I lost my glasses last weekend & have been making do with an old pair of prescription sunglasses which meant getting new ones was a priority for the day. Stopped for breakfast on the way to Lenscrafters. Had new progressive lenses put into an old pair of frames, then got new frames & lenses for a current pair of prescription sunglasses. While they were being made up, we bought a bottle of cold water & some cookies at a kiosk in the mall. On the way home we stopped at a garage sale, where we snagged a really nice coffee table and the red chair in today's picture. We've been wanting a chair for the red room for some time now, and as this was in good condition as well as being quite comfy we snagged it. Plus, at $20 it seemed more reasonable than the $1,199 couch we had looked at previously. We ended the day by deciding it was too hot to cook and ordering pizza, hot wings & cinna-stix for dinner.

No real plans for today. Ralph is getting over a case of shingles & is supposed to stay out of the sun as much as possible (he ignored that order at first, and ended up making the shingles worse despite the medications he was taking). Everything we can think of that we want to do entails being outdoors (archery, going to the arboretum, taking a walk) and therefore gets crossed off the list. I suspect we'll just putter around the house, brainsuck, computer games for him & knitting for me. I've got a couple WIPs right now so really I'm quite content with that game plan.