30 November 2008

Quiet Sunday at the apartment

Today has been a quiet day. Almost like being at home except there is no football on TV. Whoever complains about nothing being on TV should be in a place where there is only 1 channel in English and football games on Eurosport are really soccer.

This morning after I got up, I went for a short walk outside. Just a beautiful Sunday morning with the sun shining and cool temperatures. It was about 5 (41 to you Fahrenheit people) and the air is crisp. A day made for FOOTBALL. I just know that right now the people in the states are sitting down watching the game. I am keeping up with the scores on NFL.com. The Bear's don't play until 7:15 CST so I won't know the score until tomorrow morning. I expect Don to email me right after the game. He knows how much I would love to be there watching it with him, David and Mike. Nothing like seeing it in person.

I have been busy today. I am going to a party next Saturday at an Expat's house and started a cross-stitched ornament to take. I have been working on it almost all day and it is coming along very nicely. I should have it done by Saturday, but I will let you all know. I did want to do some stamping but decided to do the ornament instead. I will get to stamp this week because I will need to make a card to give with the ornament. I can't wait!

I also decided that I would cook something today. Yesterday when I was at the market the sauerkraut looked so good that I have been thinking about it since then. I had some red kraut in the pantry so I thought I would go ahead and fix it for lunch. Well, I am not used to an electric stove (and I am not the best cook anyway) so the kraut burnt. This was quite a mess. I emptied the pan and set it back on the stove never thinking about an electric stove remaining hot after you turn it off. At least I thought that it was off. Pretty soon my apartment had smoke all over it and I went back out into the kitchen and found that the stove was not all the way off. There is an extra step to turn it off. Now I had a pan that really had burnt on stuff in it.

So now I had to do the dishes again. I do not like to do them, but they don't wash themselves. The only problem that I had this time was that I had this pan but no scratching pad. It took me forever to get that stuff off even with soaking it. Top of my shopping list, after laundry detergent, is a scratching pad for dishes.

After the dishes, I sat down again to work on my ornament when I noticed something moving out of the corner of my eye. I jumped up and went over by the dining room table to discover that there was a crawling bug. Not just any bug, but one of those Japanese Beetles. I thought that I would not see them over here and I hope that if I brought it with me, it did not bring any friends with it. I have not seen any others but you can be sure that I will keep my eyes open for them. There are too many back in the states that I have had to deal with, I don't need that headache here.

Tonight I am just going to finish watching CNN Heros then go to bed. Finally something interesting on the English channel!

Have a wonderful Sunday... GO BEARS!!!!!!!