too busy living again

I've been doing too many things to remember to tell people about them. Not quite sure what-all I've been doing ...
last Friday I went to a drag party at this fun co-op down in Hyde Park. I got to wear my Carhartts, so i was happy. Danielle was here, as her grandmother had passed on and she came to town for the funeral and to help her parents clean out her grandmother's apartment. I inherited a bunch of awesome stuff that they had not the space nor inclination to ship to Florida or wherever. The crown jewel of my 'inheritance' (which seems a fitting term, as her grandmother was Brenda Kelly before she became Wedral) is a 1946 Singer Featherweight 221 portable sewing machine ... a real beauty, in its lovely carrying case, with a variety of different presser-feet and several bobbins and replacement needles ... and it works! an incredible windfall, to be sure. i haven't started using it as of yet, because i want to get some oil and grease it up, because who knows how long since it was last used? and also because i am trying to finish the scarf i've been knitting for the past month, as it goes with my new jacket and my other scarves do not.
so, Danielle came and promptly got a horrendous cold, and was only here long enough to pass the disease on to me. ugh. this week has passed in a haze of sore throat, chest pain, and overwhelming tiredness.
fortunately for me, i could watch Wednesday's eclipse from my bed. it was pretty amazing. eclipses never get old for me.
now i am at work, plumb out of things to do - i did them all, and am waiting for feedback from the head honcho ... trying not to twiddle my thumbs, but i am actually leaving early because of lack of things to do (at work - many errands to run!), rather than waste any more time looking for make-work. i'm hoping for a big pile of revisions on Monday morning!
i am also currently listening to Pride and Prejudice on a book-on-tape, copied to my iPod, only i somehow skipped Disc 8 in the copying process, and i am terribly distraught at being left hanging - Elizabeth's sister Lydia has just run off with Wyckham, and Darcy is about to console her! Oh, the drama ...
this is my first foray into Jane Austen, and I am rather enjoying it - especially on CD, read by a woman with a droll quasi-English accent.
Happy Friday! i'm planning a wild night knitting while watching a movie, and early early to bed.