Alone in Europe: Day 2

I guess I used up all my paranoid energy yesterday because today felt perfectly normal. Slept fine, went to work, nothing new there...except for missing Ben like crazy! After work, I went out with a lady from work for a couple hours since it was so nice and warm today (in the 90s, which is pretty unusual here). She taught me to knit at work one day (I know, sounds crazy...but she knits and I expressed an interest since I crochet, and she brought me some needles and wool yarn and showed me the basics right there!), so this was a chance for her to teach me some more and to have a nice conversation with someone in the evening. So we had lemonade at an outdoor table of some little restaurant, and she taught me to "purl" (previously I had learned to "knit") and how to make little holes in the design. I'm just hoping I remember all this when I sit down to do it by myself! She was a great teacher and very encouraging, even though my knitting was very sloppy! She even brought me a magazine with a bunch of knitting patterns for beginners...now if I can just learn to read the patterns...

Made it home fine after that, but it was already getting dark so I decided not to run...darn. And just now when I thought I was ready for bed, it has started raining and thundering and lightening a ton...what was that loud noise in the other room? OK, paranoia, please leave me alone tonight...you haven't bothered me all day!