Thursday, September 15, 2016

I thought today was going to be an easy day – boy was I wrong!

I started my morning with grocery shopping. I have a Guild potluck tonight; I’m taking Deloise’s Corn, Black Bean and Mango salad and I required a few ingredients. I went to Quality Foods because I know where things are there – or at least I thought I did. No problem in the produce section but when I looked for beans in the Mexican aisle I had no luck. There were lots of refried beans but no black beans. I found brown beans right next to rows of chocolate bars (!) so I had to look for someone to help. He told me to look for beans in aisle 6 (they turned out to be in aisle 8) and when I asked about the beans and chocolate he told me that was their British food section. I never did find the chopped ginger I was looking for but I was glad to get out of the store with what I really needed.

I didn’t think I had a lot of paperwork to do today – wrong again. I was mostly caught up on Cranberry Hall work and there wasn’t much Guild work to be done. My own paper and e-mail (and Pat’s accounting) took me until well after lunch. I’ll have to spend a bit more time on Pat’s books as his year-end and GST reports are due before the end of the month.

I’ve got four cards ready for the mail tomorrow. I have to meet someone at Cranberry Hall tomorrow at nine so I’ll take them to the post office on my way home. Every now and again I like to weigh the envelopes I’m sending just in case I’m not putting enough postage on them. I’ve only had one returned, but I felt badly that the card was late.

I don’t have much time before I’ll have to get started making my salad. What shall I do? Ukulele, cross stitch, paper piecing, continue with paper work? The choices, as always, are endless but some are more appealing than others.