February 2, 2016

This morning I took a sinus medication for my headache and I'm not sure but I think it tricked my body into thinking I drank an Olympic-size swimming pool because I lost track of how many times I went to the bathroom. The two could be unrelated but I really hadn't had any more to drink than usual this morning so I don't know how else to explain it. Unless my body absorbed all the moisture in the air.

Speaking of, we were supposed to have a snowstorm today. Instead we got a bit of rain with a projected high of 50 degrees. Thanks to the cloud cover we never made it out of the low forties, but that is nowhere close to a snowstorm. So much for that snow day.

I again spent most of my day looking at spreadsheets. I have all the scores entered and linked and now I'm working on marking the change in the scores between the Fall and Winter. I'm only on second grade so I've still got a long way to go but progress is being made. I also printed out all the reports for teachers and distributed them. It would be nice if I could get my spreadsheets done by the end of the week but there are only two days left in the week so the odds are not great.

After work I read the textbook chapter for this week. And that was the extent of my schoolwork for the day. After dinner I sewed for a bit. I wanted to try out my sister's idea of making bookmarks out of the strips of fabric that my mom got me. I only made one but I'm going to say it was a success. I like how it turned out, at least, and I'm a little surprised it came out like I saw it in my head. Not that it was a complex project. It's basically just a long and skinny version of a coaster without the batting inside, which made it much easier. For the center bit of the coasters I spiral in and for the bookmark I did a zigzag down the middle The pattern of the fabric is pretty “loud” so it is hard to see the white thread, and I'm okay with that, but I think the zigzag looks good when you take a closer look and actually see it. I've got a lot of fabric strips left so hopefully there will be a lot of fabric bookmarks in my future.

It's not too long after ten o'clock now an