Sunday was a throwaway day -- I slept in, stayed home, and did nothing. It was lovely. :)
Today was my weekly day at the Collegetown office, where I am still trying to catch up on backlogged scanning, emails, filing, spreadsheets, etcetera. I made some reasonable progress. I also showed two walk-ins around a 1-bedroom apartment in one of our properties, since the 2022-23 tenant vacated early and we have it cleaned up and nice. Hopefully one of the people in question will return and rent something.
I did a quick mini-grocery run that was mostly just to buy some hard cider, some yogurt (for breakfast purposes), and a little thing of sushi for dinner. I have also set myself up to do laundry tomorrow evening, and then I think on Wednesday I will do my big supply run for my long weekend at Cape Cod and fill up my gas tank once I have a 20 or 30 cent-per-gallon discount. (My grocery store does a gas points thing, which was useless to me for many years but is actually quite handy now that I have a car.)
Hmm. I should probably also check the pressure in my tires. I think I left the gauge in the glove compartment...? Must remember to check that tomorrow, as well as calling my dentist and the gastroenterology office.
In other news, I have started work on an embroidery pattern. Thus far, I have completed a tiny woven-wheel rose in the center of the fabric. Tomorrow I get to work on some fly stitch, back stitch (I already know that one; that's just a standard sewing stitch), and split stitch. This pattern is by way of being a sampler to teach basic embroider stitches, and there's a YouTube instructional video to watch and work along with.
So far the biggest problem has been threading the bleeping needle. I have never had this problem before! I can get standard thread through any size needle eye, and my cross-stitch needles are pretty forgiving, but getting embroidery floss through this embroidery needle is like... I don't even have an analogy, that's how frustrating it is. And the pattern calls for three strands of floss at a time, so multiply the frustration by three.
I think I might try waxing the thread tips with vaseline or something next time unless they shape up and BEHAVE.
But enough of my frustrations. I am now going to wash some dishes and then fall into bed.
(Oh! One final thing. I wanted to note this, because it's unusual. I have not installed my air conditioner yet this summer. I haven't needed to. I had one miserable night back in May, but otherwise I've been able to get my apartment down to a reasonable sleeping temperature with fans alone, and it hasn't been unbearable during the day. I will probably need to give in and shove my AC in the window next week, which is forecast to be very humid and to hover around 70 Fahrenheit at night, but for now? It's been nice.)
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