Hello Monday

Hello friends and happy Monday. I am in Chattanooga, TN for a short work trip. I will be meeting this week with my Southern Highlands buddies. This is a group of attractions from Lookout Mountain Georgia to Luray Virginia. I have mentioned that we meet three times a year and visit other attractions and share ideas to help each other out. It is a really fun group and I always come back with something to share at my work place. We will be visiting some really fun places while we are here and I will be sure to share all of those with you later in the week.

Last week was a bit of a crazy week. By the time Friday rolled around I was ready for the weekend. Labor Day, well actually the entire weekend, is one of our busiest times at work and also the end of our tourist season. So it is both anticipated and a bit sad. Our attraction remains open all year but the crowds definitely dwindle after Labor Day. It seems like I am always ready for a break by this time and then I am ready again when the season first gets started.

Friday morning I went with my sister to see her oncologist and to get blood work and set up a CT scan to see how everything is going with her. By the way she is doing so great!!! Her blood work came back great and the NP that we actually saw was just overjoyed. So were we!!! But what we thought was going to be a quick in and out visit wound up taking a long time. Plus we were in Knoxville, about an hour from home, I was very late getting to work on Friday and still had a ton of things to do. This always causes me a lot of anxiety. I know it shouldn’t but it does that is just how I roll. I decided that in future I will not try to do a doctor visit with her and plan to work the same day. A bit of staffing shortage is what had put that plan in to place to start with.

Like I said by Friday evening I just went home and crashed. I made some popcorn and watched my favorite movie, When Harry Met Sally. I needed something to watch that I didn’t really have to focus on and could just chill at the same time.

***One of my favorite movies of all time***.

Saturday was pretty quiet and just what I needed. I finished a book I had started on Friday. Freak which was the sequel to Creep. I know they sound very strange. Both books are about a serial killer and quite a bit of mystery. Definitely not for the faint of heart.

I also finished this scarf I took with me on our trip a couple of weeks ago. I had it finished except weaving the ends and blocking it. I love the colors and it is so light and airy. I think I may keep this one for myself.

My meeting in Chattanooga didn’t actually start until around noon on Monday but I decided to go down on Sunday evening.

We are staying downtown Chattanooga for the meeting and there is going to be a huge parade for a man, Larry Taylor, who is receiving a Medal of Honor. This will mean that a lot of the downtown streets will be closed for the parade and a lot of rerouting will take place. Because I am not that familiar with downtown Chattanooga I decided to get there really early. I am about two hours from Chattanooga and I knew if I had to get up early on Monday and make my way through all of the traffic and deal with closed streets, it would not be good and I probably wouldn’t make it on time. So going down on Sunday evening worked best for me. I called the hotel and changed my reservation to come in on Sunday night. I was able to stop at Target on my way in, get something to eat, and get to the hotel in time to do some blog work and even get a little knitting in. It worked out perfect. Of course I hate leaving my husband and the kitties for an extra day but I knew it would work out for the best. Less stress is my new motto.

Chattanooga Times Free Press photo
Larry Taylor, the Signal Mountain man who in June 1968 saved four U.S. soldiers surrounded by enemies in Vietnam, will head next week to Washington, D.C., to receive an award for valor at the White House.

My room is very nice with a great work station.

I brought this scarf/shawl with me to work on. The pattern is knit half and then start the decrease to form the other half sort of like a triangle. It’s fairly easy but I have to be careful to count the stitches. It is not one I can work on and not pay close attention.