Yesterday was fun.  First, I went to try to figure out Bus 590.  It runs every hour and a half.  That can be a long wait that I’ve given up on several times.  Andy has gone riding on a Segway tour with her friend Denise, so I have plenty of free time.  When I told a man I was waiting for a bus that came every hour and a half, he replied, ‘Well, that’s useless!’

I was at the bus stop at 8 and it comes at 9…so I had a muffin and cappuccino.  It departed at 9 and off we went on a new route for me towards the Quilt Store.  When we got to the place I wanted to get off, I was asking the driver what times the return bus left…as he was telling me, he shut the door and drove on!  Wouldn’t stop to let me off until the next stop.  About a six block walk.  Well, I’m glad he did that.  On the walk I discovered a hairdresser place, and a massage place and a flea market.  At the flea market, I bought a vintage rosary with lovely pink beads.  This will be a thank you gift for the quilting lady who has taken me under her wing.  She loves pink and is a devout Catholic.  I think she will like it.  And I found a new Chinese place.  

Got to the quilt store.  Barbara was helping a customer, so I just looked for some fabric I ‘needed’.  Spent about 30 minutes on that.  She’s still with that customer, so I pull up a chair and start sewing on my squash project.  About  30 minutes later the woman finally decides on her one purchase!  It was a pre-packaged collection of coordinating blues in 2 and a half inch strips.  Barbara had shown her patterns and pictures on the computer and I had shown her pictures on my phone of quilts using these strips…including Evan’s Christmas quilt.  If she were choosing fabrics off the bolt that you have to coordinate yourself, she would still be there.  When she left, Barbara looked like she wanted to curl up and scream!  No telling how long she had been there when I arrived!  We finally got to visit and I sewed when other customers came in.  One picked up a new sewing machine she had bought and a nun bought a spool of white thread.  Other folks dropped in to say hi.  She is having a class on Monday to make fabric flowers, but we will be moving so I can’t go.  Maybe next time.  I leave and go to lunch at the Chinese place and it is very good.  In Italian restaurants, when you sit at a table…it is yours until closing time if you choose.  There is no pressure to leave.  They don’t bring you a bill until you ask for it.  So, I took my time with my meal, sent some emails and even sewed a bit.  Very relaxing.  Then I went for a haircut.  It’s pretty short, but it will grow and I don’t feel so shaggy.  Went to wait for the bus thinking it might come at 3:00 but it didn’t come til 3:30.  Next one at 5.  Got home and started packing for the move tomorrow to the new apartment.  I’m 98% packed and ready to go.  Dread getting the suitcases down our present stairs and up the stairs at the new place…but one step at a time.  Today, I’m planning to go to the flea market near our place that runs the last Sunday of the month, and having Indian food for lunch.  Then a relaxing Sunday.  Will be busy with move and cleaning old apartment tomorrow.  More after the move…