With change comes some adjustments.

So I changed jobs.  It sort of changed the amount of spare time I have too.  I lost an hour and a half out of my week days with this change.

It's a lame excuse, but it's mine.  Now I don't knit as much as I used to and you know I don't blog as much.  The APB has been canceled.  I'm still here.  Thank goodness for a snow ice day or I may not have had the time to post this.  Have y'all seen the footage of the ice falling off buildings in Plano!?  I work in Plano, why would I want to go park my car there?

I've also been going to yoga classes again so that takes up some of my free time, too.  It's a good thing. 

I've done a little travel this past week.  Jolea came in to town for Thanksgiving and I took her back to Austin on Friday.  As always we had fun as she ran me all over ATX Friday night to meet all her friends at their places of work.  We had great Italian food, good wine and each of her friends felt the need to serve me one of their very own signature drinks.  Eric (one of Jolea's roommates) served up the best Dirty Martini I think I have ever had.  I had two big glasses of water to dilute that one!

At one point we popped into a place don't ask I can't remember the name of the place, we were moving fast and another friend, a very attentive bartender not just to us, but to everyone, he was really good served up what he called a Skinny Jenny.  This place is famous yet not with me in the ATX club scene for signature drinks using natural syrups and flavored elixirs.  The shelves back of the bar were lined not only with the customary bottles of liquor, but also with jugs and bottles of herb and fruit infusions.  This guy combined Citrus vodka, lime, lavender syrup and ginger beer to make the Skinny Jenny, which i think could be one of the most awesome cocktails.  I'm going to have to try to copy this beverage.  Looks like I'll have to get some kind of frosty tin cup to serve it up in also.

Our main plan for the weekend was to zip over to Fredricksburg for a vineyard tour on Saturday.  Which we did after visiting In.gredients a funky, bring your own containers kind of grocery store.  My review: very tiny, limited amount of goods, but I really like the concept.  Jolea asked them for a bottle of water and they said "sure, where's your bottle?"  Yes, I did have my own containers for peanut butter and coffee and as always my own shopping bag to put my purchases in.

We scooped up Jolea's friend Kristy and off we went to Fredricksberg.  More about that later.

These snow days are rough, time for my nap.