I love weekends

So Friday sucked a bit, but thankfully my week is now over :-D When your day starts with unexpected snow (!!! It's only early November) you know things aren't going to go well. I like snow, except when I've got to drive through it and I'm the only person in the province with winter tires.

Anyway, today is going to be a day of awesome. I have chores to do first, but then I'm off to do fun things. I'm going into Staples to buy a portable external hard drive. This year I'm doing a Christmas box for a child somewhere overseas, so I'm also going to pick up lots of paper, pens, pencils and stuff.

Then it's off to the mall for some more things for the box - hat/mittens set, possibly, and a small toy or two. Must remember to buy a shower cap while I'm out because mine is dying. I may pop into Starbucks for hot chocolate action :-D

After that, I'm popping into my local yarn shop. I need to drop off some DVDs and possibly spend a bit of time knitting and gossiping. Then I shall pick up the odds and ends I couldn't get at the store last night (spinach and ricotta cannelloni requires, er, spinach) before picking up some sushi and heading home to watch SJA and Spooks.

If all this actually works as planned, I'm going to have an awesome day.

Toys!

My day out was lovely, although I did get home with a sore back (er, so nothing new there) and a bit of a headache. Feeling much better now due to the consumption of rather fine sushi. Yay.

But...

I have toys! I have a Western Digital My Passport 400GB hard drive that is tiny and beautiful. That will be played with extensively tomorrow.

I also have a teeny little optical mouse that attaches to the compy by USB and the little USB stick actually fits into the mouse when it's packed away. It is awesome. And it will make using my lappy so much easier. Shall no longer be knocking the cats off my lap each time I need to access another video file, for a start.

I love toys.

Also, Tubey has been bound off and the ends woven in. I tried it on and feel very happy with it. Best of all, I got to ceremonially add it to my sweater shelf. That's one of my favourite moments, when something turns from something I've been working on to something that's a part of my wardrobe. I'm planning to debut it at knit night :-D

And now for Strictly Come Dancing and a sock, I think.