Quiet weekend

Ahhhhhhh....... the sound of silence.  The Dawn's World version of the Sound of Silence, anyway.  That, folks, is what is going on here this weekend!  Since approximately 5:20 a.m. yesterday  morning, I have been  home alone.  (A scary event, I  know, but so far so good!) 

Of course, me  being home alone only means that I'm here without human companionship.  And the Sound of Silence means that the only human voices here are mine  (singing loudly and badly to loud and good music), the tv, or voices singing from whatever type of music might be playing  (loudly).  Oh, and I do "occasionally" talk to the animals.  : )

Yesterday, I was tired.  Friday night, at about 8 p.m., Jordan magically appeared with a bag of dirty laundry that HAD to be clean and ready to go at that 5:20 a.m. early, early hour on Saturday.  Jordan had been sick for 2 days and had to be on the road at that 5:20a.m. hour with Show Choir, so he wasn't going to be the one staying up to get that laundry done.  ("Mom, I started my laundry, but the white shirt on top of the washer has a stain that needs to come out.  Where is that stuff?"  My reply...... "Where are the half dozen other, identical white shirts that I've bought you so that we don't have this laundry issue???"  answer....... "Somewhere.....".  Sigh)

Since I have a dryer that works for the electric company, helping them to make record setting profits on my electric bill, getting laundry done in a hurry here just doesn't happen.  It was 1 a.m. before that last, small, load of Jordan laundry was in the dryer (for the first time) and headed off to try to get some sleep.  The alarm was going to go off at the pre-Me time of 4:30 a.m.  (Get it???  Pre-me??  hehee  Pre-Dawn!!  hmmmmm.... perhaps I still need more sleep!)  Sure enough, that last load had to have another go round in the electric guzzling machine before it was dry enough for Jordan to wear out and about. 

We did, however, make it out the door in time for him to catch the bus and ride off into the sunrise with Show Choir.  I, on the other hand, rode back home, where I was wide awake (of course) and didn't follow through with my plan to snuggle back into my bed.  Instead, I was awake for a few hours, before taking a nap!  Just enough to keep me going through the rest of the day.

I did go across the way and have a yummmmmmy Mushroom tart with my mama last night for supper.  Thanks Mom!  We made some plans for a vacation this summer.  : )  Looking forward greatly to that!  Gonna be so much fun.

I did some sewing yesterday.  That was fun.  I hadn't sewn in quite a while.  I got some things sewn up and put together.  Without managing to run a needle through my fingers or anything!  Yeah me!  Blood stained fabric is not my favorite type to work with.  I need to become a lot more acquainted with my sewing machine and a lot less friendly with that darn dryer!  The sewing machine is a whole lot more fun.  : )

I slept great last night!  Even with 2 cats trying to  hog my pillows and 2 dogs thinking that they had to guard both sides of the floor beside the bed.  As sweet as that was/is, and it really is sweet, I need animals that snore less!  The only one who doesn't snore is Jojo, the younger cat.  I don't know if its because the other 3 critters are getting up there in age or what, but goodness!  My sound of silence was pretty well broken by the snores and snorts and whimpers and yips and yaps and other various and assorted noised created by the (small) herd of critters keeping me company last night!  And Taltos, the cat who has been with me for more than 7 years and is at least 9 years old, has decided that one of his favorite night time activities is to sit beside my head, as I sleep, and lick my head.  Now, think about that.  Dogs lick.  (Except for Chester.  He's not much of a licker.  If you get a Chester kiss, you have been quite blessed indeed!)  Cats, as a general rule, do not lick people.  I don't know if Taltos has decided that I need him to help to groom me while I'm sleeping or perhaps he has decided that he truly likes my raging bed head hair in the mornings and is simply trying to ensure that my hair is helped in it's anti-gravity, morning acrobatics, by plenty of cat saliva.  I don't know.  What I do know is that having a cat, with it's rough, sandpaperish tongue, lick your head in the night is not a pleasant experience.  However, I do love the cat to pieces and he's been with me through a lot.  I'll put up with his hair styling attempts, but I may start shutting my bedroom door at night more often than I do now.... keeping the (small) herd of snoring, snorting, yelping, yapping, snuggling, grooming critters at bay!

I'm still home alone today.  No school tomorrow for the boys, so they may not come back until tomorrow.  That would make for another full day of Dawn's Sound of Silence.  I'm sure that the neighbors are thankful that it's not warm enough out for my windows to be open.  Spares them from the sound of my singing..... loudly and badly.  Some of my neighbors might actually like their silence to be silent! 

So.  I'm off to church, then to enjoy the rest of whatever this day brings my way.  I think I'll make a date with the sewing machine for later.   I think I'll skip the cat saliva salon treatment and jump right to fighting with the greedy dryer for fun after bit.  Who knows, I might even, gasp, have a true moment of Silence around here at some point and time.  Wouldn't that be sumthin'???