Today was... something else

I took mom to the bank today. There was some irk there, it was raining, getting around with mom was annoying due to some fiddling with my bags and stuff. It was pretty minor. She waited for me at the bank while I took a quick trip to the yarn store one street over. I got two more skeins for the sweater, and a hank of this garnet/grape hand dyed fingering yarn I've been daydreaming about making into a pair of fingerless gloves as a way to pamper myself a little.

She spun the hank into a ball for me, but it got all tangled so it ended up taking forever. She gave me a different one in the end because it was just too messed up. It was really interesting to watch the yarn being spun from the hank, and it was so beautiful with the deep burgundies and purples.

What was odd was the trip home. I realised that there's a loose leaf tea emporium ... basically behind my house. There's two bookstores, a cafe with board games, a metaphysical shop, the yarn shop... a farmer's market. o_O I haven't been around there lately because I've been taking care of mom but, seriously... Geez.

And to top it all off, I went into the storage room to put something away and found a pure wool peacoat that fits me perfectly. ...I really have such a hard time finding clothes that fit and this was just right. The only thing is that it's BRIGHT red. I've always wanted a black or grey peacoat. It rubs against my personality slightly, but I have to admit that the reds are my colour thing...