Hot Time In A Hotel Tonight...

Its 18 degrees out tonight, but I don't care. I try to treat myself to a hotel once every few weeks, and tonight is the night. $54 for a Super 8 in Hagerstown - heaven!

Now I wish I could just sit in the hot bath and soak my sprained knee, drink some Moscato, and then go straight to bed. But no, when I get a night in a hotel, I have to make it useful. I did an application online that took over an hour, and now I'm soaking the pieces of my sweater in a lanoline solution in the sink (this stuff is like bubble bath for sweaters, but it doesn't smell as pretty). In an hour or so, I'll wring out the pieces, and start pinning the edges to a clean towel (this is called "blocking", and this will be the first time I'm doing it).

Then, after all that, I'll get to watch some TV (TV is what I miss most about living in the car - its so hard to feel part of American culture when you are minus the TV). Food Network - I love watching it to come up with ideas for what I can cook next time I stay in a hostel with a kitchen. Since there are no hostels in this area open until the spring, I take notes in a notebook so I won't forget things. Living in this car, I have more notebooks than I know what to do with.