Manic Monday

This weekend was nerve wracking. We had the funeral for DH's great aunt. Not great-great (my bad). Then we found out about inheritance tax. Gotta love that. I won't go into detail until we figure everything out.

Finished one sock this weekend and started on the second one. I changed the pattern up a bit (well can you call stopping early changing it up). The original pattern calls for 8 stitches total to be grafted together for the toe. I decided that looked too pointy, so I changed it to 16 stitches to make the toe look a little more natural. With it being only 8 it looked like an elf sock. I do like the way the colors came out, though. Purple, pink, blue and green stripes.

We tried having the kids write a stream of consciousness today. That didn't work too well. They didn't quite understand that they just needed to type what they were thinking. It's hard to get First thru fifth graders to understand that.

We are still working on finishing our living room wall. We sanded down the plaster this weekend. Next weekend we are going to put a protective topcoat on the whole wall. That should be really fun. Troweling on topcoat.

I haven't had a chance to even crack open Harry Potter this weekend. I bought it on Saturday, but there was just no time. I'm saddened. I am trying not to read certain places on the web because the plot would be ruined for me. I heard that it is sad, though. Does anybody else think that Rowling will stop with the next book?