AuburnChick's Adventures

Happy Monday, Friends!

First of all, brrrr.

It. Is. Cold.

So, how was your weekend?

If I had to use one word to sum up mine, I’d call it “productive.”

But first – Friday. When I got home from work, the Mr. told me that he’d accidentally had my sister’s Christmas gift sent to our daughter – but the address didn’t match her address, so he had no clue where the package was going.

Y’all, what the heck? The chat support wasn’t connecting, so we drove back to town to visit the brick and mortar shop (where we should have purchased the item from to begin with, but that’s another story).

They couldn’t help us with the tracking on the original order, but I did manage to buy the item in the store.

What a mess.

For the record, we figured out the address situation the next day. It was my son-in-law’s parents’ address. Whew!

Crisis averted – for the moment.

We finished watching Slow Horses that evening. I think we had two episodes left. It had taken us a few months to watch them because football had taken over our lives.

Saturday

Although I typically like to stay in my pajamas on Saturdays, I had things I needed to do, so I went ahead and got up, washed my hair, dressed in regular clothes, and put on makeup.

One of the gals in my office had mentioned a cute little shop I’d never heard of, so I wanted to check it out. I was on the hunt for a trinket or two to add to my sister’s Christmas present.

While I waited for the Mr. to get up, I did a few of the chores I usually complete on Sundays. It was nice to get ahead for a change.

Bed linens were washed, as was Gambit’s water dispenser.

The Mr. opted to stay home once he heard what I had planned for the morning. It was a gorgeous day!

I made my way to a little town called Waverly.

The road reminded me so much of the tiny town I grew up in.

This is the view of the five or six shops that encompass the town.

The shop I stopped at was Fig & Wasp. I didn’t take a picture of the front, but my goodness, it was so cute!

There were a lot of odds and ends inside.

I saw this beautiful nativity, but the price tag was too hefty for me.

I saw this puzzle and knew it was going home with me.

I bought a book for the Mr., who happens to be a big John Wayne fan. We aren’t doing gifts for each other, but we are still doing stockings. This won’t fit in a sticking, but whatever.

I didn’t find anything for my sister, but I did get ideas.

On the way home, I stopped by Ulta to grab a few things.

When I got home, I started another knitting project – a pair of mittens to accompany the scarf I made my granddaughter.

Here’s the finished scarf.

I added a personalized tag, which I’d purchased last year when I crocheted a few hats as gifts.

I looked in my yarn boxes for yarn for the mittens and pulled out the remnants of this skein, which I thought would complement the blue on the scarf.

The first mitten knitted up fairly quickly, but after weighing it, along with what was left of the skein, I realized I was going to be short what I needed to finish.

Sigh. I decided to let that be a problem for the next day.

Saturday evening, we walked a few houses down to attend an open house a neighbor was having for the people who live on our street. They moved in a couple of months ago and were simply precious.

When we got home, we watched Auburn basketball (we won), and we watched the other school in our state get beat. Yay for that. Ha!

I slept fitfully that night because my sweet Gambit got me up every single hour. He’s almost 15 and is starting to show his age mentally. I’m concerned that he’s getting senile. He seems so lost sometimes, and it’s breaking my heart. He jumps off of the bed at night and stands in the middle of the hallway just staring at nothing before I am able to coax him back to bed. Nights are just tough for our little old man.

Yawn.

Sunday, the Mr. and I headed to church and heard an amazing sermon.

When we got home, I headed back out to the gift shop I’d visited the day before because I wanted to grab a couple of things for my sister’s birthday, which is in January. I always buy her birthday gift around Christmas since there’s not much time in between.

I should have taken a picture of the watercolor book and paints I bought her.

Does she paint? Nope. Will she after her birthday? Yep. Ha!

On the way home, I stopped by Michael’s to buy another skein of yarn for the mittens.

Knitting had to wait, though, because I needed to make a tin of toothpaste using this coconut oil/baking soda recipe.

Then, I meal prepped Tofu Mahkani.

The spice combination for this was unique but tasty!

It was my turn to work on the advent puzzle. The Mr. and I are trying to play nice, but it’s hard, y’all. We are competitive, but there aren’t enough pieces in each day’s box to share fairly, so we take turns with the days.

The puzzle I got this year is difficult. The colors all look alike, so we have to be very mindful of how they fit together (and they all seem to fit well together at first glance).

I was pooped when I finished all of the things, so I relaxed the rest of the day.

I restarted the mitten (no picture yet). I also watched a few episodes of Season 21 of Survivor. This is the season Jimmy Johnson was on. I honestly do not care for this cast. It’s going to be a long season.

How was your weekend? Did you get much accomplished?

Have a wonderful week and stay warm!

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