In Recovery Mode

Good morning and happy Juneteenth! Although I have the day off today for the holiday, I still got up at the usual time and am enjoying being able to leisurely drink my coffee.

Although at the time I requested Friday off, I didn't remember that I also had today off, it turned out to be a good time for an extra-long long weekend. We had an amazing time at the concert, but it was a very long day -- we didn't get home until after midnight, and I had gotten up to my normal alarm and gone for a run that morning, so I was pooped! Mo told me that it was the best day of her life and kept asking me during the concert if it was real or if she was dreaming, and she had a sore throat still yesterday from all the screaming she did.

You can see a bit of her outfit here -- she hot-glued a ton of faux gems to a black t-shirt in the style of Taylor's "Bejeweled" video outfit. As concert outfits go, hers was pretty sedate. There was a lot of glitter to be seen (I shudder at the thought of all the pollution from it), and plenty of women and girls who weren't wearing much at all. I went for comfort; my one nod to Taylor Swift was my t-shirt, which read "You Need to Calm Down." My favorite shirt was on the dad sitting in the row behind us, which read "I survived the Taylor Swift Ticketmaster 2K Challenge" and had the "There are 2,000+ people ahead of you" graphic from the Ticketmaster website.

For those of you who were wondering, yes, I did take knitting with me (though I only knit during the wait before the show and the opening acts):

I cast on a new pair of socks to take with me, as I didn't have anything on the needles that was small and easy enough for mobile knitting. These were intended to be fore my mother, though I'm not convinced that these are her colors and might change my plan:

Much of my weekend crafting time has been spent at my wheel (with occasional cat naps), and today I'm ready to ply these singles:

Mo and I are also planning to spend some time on our shawls today, and I'm hoping we can spend an hour or so doing that -- the more time she works on it, the sooner she'll get the hang of it. But for now she's still sleeping, and I'm letting her sleep as long as she needs to in the hopes that her internal clock will get back to normal.

(Side note: I didn't plan it at all, but did you notice that there are two colors that are prominent in all of the photos in this post?)

I hope your holiday Monday is a restful one!