Honey I'm Still Free, Take a Chance On Me

I'm just going to skip over the apologies this time. I always have the best of intentions.

I went up to the cottage this weekend, just for a day trip. Sometimes after a week of work I just don't want to move from my couch on Friday night. I left at about 9am and I didn't take anything with me but my current knitting project. I honked and waved at my neighbours as I drove away.

I filled up at 178.9 on the way up, which felt great. I miss the old driving route but this one will do. I stopped at Subway to have some food for the day. The guy in front of me was a piece of work. First he's asked if he wants toasted and he says "Sure why not" and I think, he's pretty chill. Then he comes to add the toppings and he says "Ugh, no lettuce, oh that lettuce is disgusting." Then he moves on, "The tomatoes don't look that good either. No those hot peppers should be thrown out, those are disgusting." I just kept my head down at that point and quietly felt horrible for the person behind the counter. And I regret to say when I got to top my sandwich I passed on the hot peppers because douche magoo was standing right next to me. Does he see something I don't see I thought?

I got to the cottage by 1130. Sat on the deck and knit for a good while until it was too cold. Eventually it warmed up a bit, or the wind calmed down. And I kept knitting. Knit knit knit. I've been trying to make a point of practicing hobbies instead of just thinking about them. I left around 8pm, to catch the drive home in mostly sun. The sunset was unreal when I caught it. A bright red ball slipping behind the horizon.

When I got home my alarm modem was still tripping on and off. Sounding like it's trying to connect to the internet in the 90s, but not quite so harsh. Maybe the cell chip is fried. I don't know if I even have full cell service back. I'm getting text messages 8 hrs after the fact. And in some cases not at all (credit card purchase notifications don't come through yet).  Rogers really pooched it this time. I'm looking forward to the credit we're going to get. For all the people who were stranded with no cash, who needed to call nine one one and couldn't, or were just left twiddling their thumbs all day wondering what their bestie was up to - Friday was a shitty day.

I'll leave it at that, for now. Byyyyyje.

Edit: Knit progress. It's boring right now so I've also included a photo of the intended final project.