So yesterday I had two 40% off coupons for Hobby Lobby. You could only use one per person, per day though so Ben went with me to Hobby Lobby last night and we looked at fabric and patterns. I bought a pattern to make scrubs and with the two 40% off coupons I got two fun fabrics to make scrub tops with. Since I can’t seem to find any scrub patterns with pants that I like, I am just going to buy some of the kind that I like in solid colors to go with the two tops I make. Here are the two fabrics that I bought…

It should be fun to see how the two tops turn out. Maybe I will post some pictures of the finished product (that is if they turn out good enough to show everyone:).

I believe I have handed in a total of four reading cards at the library as of today. That means that since mid-January I have read 20 books (5 books per card). It is kind of cool to get to enter a contest based upon how much I read. Sometimes I wonder where I get all this free time to read all of these books though… especially when I wish a lot of days that there were more than 24 hours in a day!

I had my very first sewing class last night and it was pretty cool. We didn’t do too much actual sewing this week, but I still learned quite a bit. One of the ladies in the class has the same sewing machine as me and she already knew a little bit about sewing and her machine, so that was kind of helpful. We are working on sewing a shirt (my teacher calls it a blouse:) and we are actually using a pattern that you trace rather than just cut out. I like that because switching to one of the cheap cut out patterns will be easy, but if it was the other way around I probably would have a hard time learning how the tracing works all by myself.

The teacher for my class is an interesting lady, she is from Germany (so she has a pretty heavy accent despite living in the states for a long time) and she seems like one of those sweet, but yet spunky grandma types. Of course, she prefers the higher-end sewing machines, thread, fabric, scissors, patterns, etc., (and she can since she has sewn a long time), but when you are first learning I don’t really think putting a ton of money into something is always such a great idea. Although I must say that I have a very nice sewing machine and a pair of very fancy scissors (which I actually found very on sale, thanks to Ben’s help). Anyways, I think the more high end patterns will be fun to sew, but for now I think I am going to start with the cheap cut out tissue paper type of patterns and fabric that I won’t cry over ruining if the pattern doesn’t turn out.

I can’t believe I haven’t posted anything since Saturday… Both Sari’s and my last posting were on the same day:)

Life has been kind of busy with work and everything, but I am really enjoying it. Monday I didn’t feel very good and had to stay home, which wasn’t much fun. Although Pounce and I hung out a bunch, since he wasn’t feeling too good either. We are both doing much better though. He went and saw the vet, who gave him some medicine to take and he seems to be doing better.

Yesterday, I was feeling better so I went to work. It was a pretty typical day for the most part. We have two new vet students there this week (we get new students every two weeks), and they were trying to give treatment to a dog who has a wound on her foot. She is a really sweet German Shepherd who was brought in to the shelter because her daughter or mother (I can’t remember) kept attacking her. Well they were both adult unaltered females, which would explain why. Anyways, she was pretty freaked out at first by everything (especially other dogs), but she is slowly warming up and you can tell she is a sweetheart of a dog. So back to my story about the students treating her wound… well she was whining a bunch and generally not happy about it, so I walked up to her and started talking to her. She recognized me as a familiar face and settled right down. In fact, every time I tried to walk away she cried and whined some more. So I ended up staying by her for a little bit, and it felt kind of nice to be recognized as a friendly face.

Today Pounce and I have been taking it pretty easy. He is fast asleep right now, while I type and wait for Ben to come home from work. Tonight I have my ballet class (good news about that – my teacher is having knee surgery, not so good, but we are getting a different teacher who I already know is a good teacher, very good). I am not sure though what week the new teacher will be taking over the class. Tomorrow night is the first night of my sewing class, so I am pretty excited about that. I keep seeing and thinking of all sorts of things that I want to sew, so I can’t wait to actually get started. Hopefully it won’t be too difficult…