A Mother's Prayer

Dear God (or which ever entity has watched over my life),

PLEASE let me be the kind of mother that can teach Baby E to love others as she would want to be loved, to cherish those important to her, to care for those smaller than herself and to be the kind of person that would kiss her baby doll.

If I can do just that much with my life, I can die happy.

Thanks.

Me

I'm a Momma!!!

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The Confessions of a Hardcore Slacker

I am currently in the process of trying to kick myself in the butt and do Good. Being laid off this winter, my goal was to do Super Good and make up for my slacker ways over the last year or so. After meeting with my school counselor, I'm not sure that even being SUPER AWESOMELY GOOD will be enough to get me where I wanted to be. I am trying to figure out the best plan for fixing some summer mistakes (those mistake being taking too many classes over a short period of time!!), as well as getting other some things on track before the end of winter.

First off, one of the important things to know about me and my current situation is that I don't sleep like I should. I LOVE being up all hours of the night, and with Hubs sleeping like a rock, I can do so without fear of bothering anyone. Because of my night owl ways, I tend to start my day no sooner than 11 am. With my class schedule, most days I have to be at school by 4 p.m. That means I have 4 hours of daylight to make something happen at home. Usually, those four hours are spent on the homework due for class that night.
Once I get home from school, even if it is a late night, I can be home by 9:30 p.m. Normally, I will stay up until at least 1 a.m. All in all, I'm still getting 8 hours in which to be productive.
I like to think that coffee makes me focused and productive, but in reality, it makes me more half-assed than usually. I drink coffee and the brain wheels get moving every which way. I start the laundry. I run water for the dishes. I get my school books and spread them all over the kitchen table. I'm going to be PRODUCTIVE!! (This is very similar to "Clean All the Things!" syndrome, but without the cute cartoons - and induced by copious amounts of caffeine.) I start looking at Raverly and plotting out projects in my queue. I also realize I have too many things on the needles, so I want to work on them while doing the dishes and the laundry. Some where along this line of thinking, I end up in my craft/study room, looking through my books/yarn/fabric, and trying to think of the thing to craft that will FIX my steadily snowballing slackerness.

Usually about this time, it is time to leave for school. So I leave with the sink filled with dirty dishes and soapy water. The laundry is in the washer done, but not moved to the dryer. Yarn is all over my school books and kitchen table. I feel like I wasted all day - but I SWEAR I will finish my endeavors when I get home from school!!!!

Once I get home from school, all I have the energy to do is watch South Park or King of the Hill on Netflix until 2 am. If it is a good day, I will at least bother to clear the table of the yarn I left. Maybe.

I seem to vaguely recall once upon a time in my office life, 8 hours of productivity was not a myth. Even though I might have felt I was spinning my wheels and getting no where, I knew that I had worked during those 8 hours, damn it!

Somewhere along the way though, I began to feel that 6 hours of work would give me the same (lack of) results 8 hours was getting me. Then 5 hours. Then 4. And then I would work from 10am until lunch and surf the 'net the rest of the day. No one really noticed a difference in my levels of getting shit done, so no one complained. And just like any bad behavior, if the behavior isn't punished, it isn't going to change.

So here I am, 8 years of bad behavior run a muck, and no way to fix it.

What do you do when Motivation to be SUPER AWESOME comes a-calling, but  lack of organization gets in the way of getting anything done?  Does anyone out there have those time management skills we hear so much about?  Share your thoughts in the comments!!

To Quote My Favorite Doctor

I really need to get my [bleep] together.

Since I'm currently not working, I have far too much free time on my hands. Instead of being Productive and Getting Things Done, I watch South Park on the Netflix, knit (or rather, knit, rip and then knit again), and try to clean something but get distracted before I get done. My mom once said I need a routine and I won't get myself into this cycle of non-productiveness. I half believe her, and am too lazy to set this "routine" up.

This is what I aim to do each week:

Monday is Homework
Tuesday - Thursday is clean, with school in the evening
Friday is crafting (sewing)
Saturday and Sunday is whatever has to get done (errands and whatnot)

This is what happens:

Monday is Hub's day off of work, so we hang out and watch movies
Tuesday - Thursday I watch more movies and drink too much coffee in an effort to be super speedy and get done homework that is due for the class that night
Friday is crafty/movies/cleaning/food shopping
Saturday is usually horse riding which wears me out and makes me only wanna knit and watch Netflix
Sunday is FOOTBALL which means I don't do much else, aside from knitting during the game, then naps afterward.

You would think that I at least get a lot of knitting done during the week, but it so doesn't seem like it. I've been on a bad kick of ripping out most of the knitting I get done over the week and reknitting it in one sitting (usually until 3 in the morning), because its not perfect. Why (or how) I got on this kick, I do not know. The only explanation I can give is that because I have soo much time, I figure there is no reason for my knitting not to be perfect.

On the bright side, I am kicking ass at cleaning today. If we overlook the fact I should be doing homework, we can count today as a win!! In fact, I'm giving myself an award from one of my favorite blogs

In which I make my triumphant return to the world of blogging!

Once upon a time, I attempted to keep a blog. I was excited about my little corner of the internets and hoped that it would do well, make friends, and grow.

Then, on a dark, stormy day, I got an office job! This job prevented my from doing anything I loved and crushed my very soul. Soon all the things I cared about started to crumple and die, especially my little blog.

Out of no where, like a ray of sunshine and hope, I got the wonderful idea to leave the office life forever and to find a job that would not cause me such soul-crashing pain. My new position was that of caregiver to flowers and butterflies. I was overjoyed! My new job let me be outside on bright sunshiny days! I could spent my time knitting and reading in the sun! I never had to sit behind a desk again!

Sadly, not all good things can last. It is now too cold for the flowers and butterflies to be outside. I too, must be stuck indoors until the sun comes back to bring light and hope to Maryland. As a silver-lining to this deary situation, I can nourish my little blog and (hopefully) give it the life it so deserves.*


So I plan to blog again, and regularly. Just wanted to give you the heads up.


*This story, though based on true events, has been embellished for your amusement. Except for the soul-crashing office job. That part is 100% true.

And here is a monster I drew one day at said soul-crushing office job.

Converting the world - one little girl at a time.

I was hanging out with DBF’s sister’s friend’s little girl, Ava. She won at a game her and I were playing and declared that I owed her $3 cause she won (this wasn’t set up before I starting playing the game with her - gotta love little kids!). I told her “I don’t have and money - you want yarn?” She said yes, so I cut some bits of the yarn I had from the project I brought over, and started knotting the yarn into a friendship bracelet a’la 3rd grade. Ava come over to watch me do this, and was asking questions (she’s 7 y.o.).

DBF’s sis said “Why don’t you show her how to knit? She’d like that!” I asked Ava if she wanted to see me knit and she said yes. I was making a stuffed dog and had finished the body and had just casted on for his leg before I got there. I took my cast on row and started knitting, telling her the poem I heard “In through the front door, up over the back, peep through the window, and off jumps jack.”

Well, sure enough, Ava wanted to try. I only had my size three needles, and some “Reclaimed” yarn I was working with - not the best stuff to teach a young kid with, but damned if she didn’t keep trying and got it after a while. I kept telling her things like “you missed your house.” when she would put her needle between stitches, and “keep your hat on when you look out the window” when she would lose her yarn over.

Her older brother, who was in college, came over to watc, and I’m sure he thought I was nuts saying this stuff, but she was knitting and doing well. My fav. thing she would ask is “Where’s my window?” and I would take my figure or needle and show her where she was to peek out of.

I told her and her mom if Ava really wanted to keep knitting, to bring her over my house one afternoon and I had better stuff for her to work with and it would be more fun for her, rather than learning on these tiny needles.

Turns out, her father’s mom use to knit, and she died in a car accident when he was 24 - he teared up when he saw me knitting, and he left before I taught Ava how to - I’m sure he would be tickled pink if she learned :)

Sorry for the long post- this just made me happy and I wanted to share.

BTW - I was telling her how I make yarn from sheeps' wool and she asked me “who kills the sheep?!!?” I explained and put her on etsy to look at the different colors of roving and wool. After a bit, she pulled her brother over and proudly proclaimed “That’s sheep!” He said “That don’t look like sheep to me…”.

I've been busy

and nervous and scared and knitting and busy and ...

I started my own company. You may have (or not) noticed that I changed the name of my blog. This is now the home of Yarns from the Haunted Surf Shack. We are currently "debuting" at Sock Summit, thanks to Cherry Tree Hill Yarns showing some love to us Indie dyers.

This is where the nervous comes in. For purposes of full disclosure, I've only been dyeing yarns for about a month. Started when I lost my job, since I didn't have much else to do with myself (over then feel like crap, but that's another story). I enjoyed it, and send some of my hand dyed along on a Traveling Scarf Swap I'm part of over on the Ravelry. I figured that if I enjoyed my colors, maybe someone else would too.

I made the mistake of showing DBF.

He is ALL about quitting the day job for something that you love. This is the man that wants to give up our house that he just bought last year and just travel the country in our RV and make music, with me booking shows and whatnot along the way. Since DBF has been to a few LYS with me, and MD Sheep and Wool this year, he saw that I'm not the only one into fiber, and realized that, well, there's an opportunity here.

He's so super encouraging about this whole thing it's a almost a bit scary. Has bought everything thing I need of dyeing, without complaining. Is going to (slightly) remodel our basement washroom so I have a place to work. Even his brother has designed our logo, and my BBF Tamar is our printer of the business cards and labels.

Post Apocalyptic Luau in the mix

So what does all this come down to? I can't sleep. It's 3:48 in the morning, I have to get up at 6, and here I am, blogging, looking at colors, dye methods, yarn types, anything and everything I may need to keep this venture going. I fear failure. I don't want to let everyone down who's helped me. This could be awesome, or I could suck and not know it. I won't know for another week or so, until Sock Summit is underway and I how/if my yarns sell. I'll also have trunk show at Lovelyarns September 18, along with trying to submit something for the phatfiber sample box. So I've got enough to keep me busy for a while. And if I'm busy, I can't worry, right?

Argh, I need sleep.

Spinning - I can! (well, sorta)

I did that!

And I've done a lot more since that photo, but I haven't got the battery power to take *actual* photos of said work. So it may or may not have happened, depending on your way of thinking.

This year at Maryland Sheep and Wool, I finally got my Hitch Hiker spinning wheel. I loves it! Really. It took some figuring out as to how it goes together (cause I can't be bothered to read instructions!) but once I got my wheel working, I've been spinning just as often as I can. (Which turns out to be pretty often as I've lost my job. But I don't want to talk about that.)

I have lengths of singles from when I was trying to spin on my older wheel that I got for Xmas, and I think what I want to do is add some twist to them (terribly underspun), dye them each a different color (yeah, I do that now too), then join the whole lot together and see what happens. I'm hoping for awesome, but who knows.

Oh my GOD - I need to take photos!?!?!?!?!!?

Don't look at my Ravelry notebook. Really. All you'll see is a bunch of blank boxes, telling you that there should be yarn, or a project there, but really, there's nothing. Why? Cause I suck about taking photos.

Right now would be a great time to update all that stuff, but I can't - cable is at work and camera is at home. I'm at home, and therefore, can't upload anything. It's been this way for weeks, cause I'm too lazy to bring one thing to the other...thing. ARGH!

The other reason I need to take pics, is cause I wanted to make a really nifty tutorial thing about how I taught my self to knit Left to Right so I won't have to turn when knitting flat. But again, no can do.

So where I am, writing yet another pointless, boring blog, without the benefits of pointless, boring photos to give you something for the trouble of reading this. Well, I'm sorry. Stacey FAIL!

I'll do something better next time I bother to blog - I swear!

2009 - Fearless knitting

I know that last year, knittingdaily.com started the whole idea of knitting fearlessly and whatnot, but I'm always late to jump on a bandwagon, so here we are.

Besides, I was talking to Tamar and told her that 2009 would be the year I give up mindless knitting and try some challenges. Her and I both need shawls, and of course *she* wants a mohair one and I really have a terrible time with that stuff. I guess I can try again.

The other reason for this year of challenges is, well, I'm kinda getting bored. I've knit four headbands in the past month. Mainly cause they're quick and people love them. But it is SOOOOO mindless. I'm knitting socks now that is the second time I'm using this pattern. Mind you, I'm using a much smaller yarn than called for, so there was some math, but really - k3, P1 over 80 sts. makes me want to stab my eyes out a little bit.

So yeah. I figured I would make my point/resolve here - so it makes for some sort of accountability. I guess...

More spontaneous blogging

I know, I know. i post, what, 4 times a year? Maybe? It's really not you, it's me. I don't have the internets at home anymore, and have about an hour a day at work to play and that time's usually spent over there at the Ravelry. I heart Ravelry <3 So, that means, that I never post here. You don't know of my knitty adventures, (or lack thereof) or of my knitty progress (again, or lack thereof). But have no fear - I shall update you on everything, and it will be like we're old friends :)

So, where to start... well, my Left thumb decided to say "To hell with this!" and stopped working for a few months. I tried Physical Therapy, and ice, and heat, and rest, and not rest, and FINALLY got a cortisone shot in there about a week ago, and my hand finally is functional enough that I can knit again. So in the last 6 months, I haven't done a whole lot other than cry cause I couldn't knit, and read books cause what else am I going to do if I can't knit?

In the 6 months prior to that, I was knitting about 16 hours a day, since I was out of work and could do that. Lots of stuff got knitted then (pics of which are over there at the Ravelry). Now, I'm playing catch up - trying to finish stuff started 6 months ago, and trying to finish things for Birthdays and Christmas. Right now, I'm making the BF a another pair of socks (which I was trying to take a picture of and the batteries just died in the camera. Argh!) and am trying to finish me mum's sweater. I made myself a sweater, and now sweater's are my favorite things to knit right now. I have this wonderful woolly brown yarn at home and I am DYING to make that into a wonderful sweater.

With moving, and now having to COMMUTE (which I've never had to do before) I'm only home and awake for about 4 hours in an evening. There goes my amazing amounts of knitting time. Hopefully Santa will bring me more time or something to help me out.

Free therapy

By which, I mean knitting. (duh :P)

I'm having computer issues at home (I think computer from 1972 finally died), so please forgive me for the lack of photos.

I'm currently working on something that I have no business knitting. Rather, I'm knitting *for* someone that I have no business knitting for. A very near and dear (ex boy)friend of mine has asked for a pair of black fingerless gloves. Mind you, I took up knitting because of the stress of the break up, I mean, because I had so much free time after we parted ways. And one of the first things I made after I started down my crafty road, was a blanket for him, made of about 20 granny squares (since I was convinced that no one would worry about him being warm after I left.)

And here we are , two some odd years later, new boyfriend, and much more crafty skills, so what do I do? i ask the ex "What can I knit for you?" Why? Well, (leaving out the hundreds of reasons of why I shouldn't even be entertaining this idea), I think I need to make one more thing, to put all my good wishes in, and then I might be done. With the ex, not knitting, or course.

I mean, even though it wasn't the best of situations for a very long time, I did have a lot of fun with him, and still get along with him on the few occasions that we happen to run into each other. And I still worry about him, and worry = knitting. I tend to think about whoever I'm knitting for at the time, and thinking about how helpful/useful the item is that I'm making and how (hopefully) the person will be happy with what I make, and maybe thing fondly of me, since I was so awesome and made it :P But with the ex, I just worry lot about him, and really and truly want him to be happy in his new life. And that's what I think abut when I work on his gloves. I want him to look at/use these gloves, and know I wish good things for him, that I worry about him, and that I want him to be happy. And making these gloves... the time that I've spent on them, has given me time to figure all this out, and realize that I'm in a good place now in my own life, and that worrying abut him, and dwelling on the ickyness that was that old relationship, isn't going to change what happen, and really only going to hurt what could happen tomorrow.

So, I'm making these gloves, and he'll get them, and with them, all my good thoughts and hopes for him and his tomorrow.

Godspeed - Dorothy Parker
Oh, seek my love, your newer way
I'll not be left in sorrow.
So long as I have yesterday,
Go take your damned tomorrow!

(won't be one bit surprised if that's the email I get sent to me, should he ever read this blog :P)

Goes to show what can happen in five months

Well, I'm back. I guess. Not that I ever really went anywhere. Well, I kinda did. Argh. Let's start again.

Promptly into the New Year, I got fired from my job. Which caused me to have to move from my apartment and back home to my mom's house, and killed what little yarn budget I had. So, with that being said, I was not really in the best of places to be blogging about anything really, so I didn't. I Just sent out resumes and knitted. Alot. I start a new job on Monday, and feel much better about, well, everything! I'm hoping that i won't disappear from the blogosphere again.

So what have I been up too... a lot of knitting. Everything that was on my needles at last count is done, AND I even bought yarn for, and knitted my long awaited Lil Red Riding Hoodie. I don't have photos of it yet, since wearing it in May isn't really something that needs to be done since it's 60 some odd degrees out. I've got a good number of things on the needles now, two of which are sweaters. Come to find out, i really like knitting sweaters. I loved socks for a long time, being so easy to take everywhere and work on. But the sweaters are starting to win me over. I don't know if it's because I like how relaxing knitting for miles in the round can be, or if it's because Lorrine from A Good Yarn has been so kind as to teach me the sweater pattern for the past few weeks, in hopes that I can help her at the shop. Since I'm working now, I don't know what will happen with that, but I'll talk to her soon, see what the deal is. I'd love to still learn from her, and I'd love to help out, but I don't know how much time she will need from me.

I went to Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival for the first time last weekend.
Went with the Little Bro and Tamar. Ravelry was there, and I spoke to Jess, thanking her for my user pic sticker, since they had printed a bunch of pics and were going to hand out buttons to go with pics, but ran out well before Sunday, when I was able to get there. I also fell madly in love with this "mini" spinning wheel, called a HitchHiker. I'm soooooo getting one, once I get some of my back debt taken care of. I also found a super nice guy by the name of Pat Russo who restores old spinning wheels, and would be able to make me some bobbins. Eeeeee!

It's great that I can spend my first seven paychecks before I get them. *sigh*

Knit Fearlessly... Or Rather, Spin Fearlessly... I guess...

he, he. I got a spinning wheel. See?

It's got pretty stars on it and everything. Now if i could just figure out how to use the darn thing...

I have purple wool roving that I got one day at a street fair on an adventure with Paul, but I stored it all wrong and it really feels like it should be brushed or something. So I went to Clover Hill Yarns and picked up some pretty, new, soft wool that they got from Maryland Sheep and Wool from a sheep named Oreo. I also have a few tuffs of wool to play with that came with my spindle that I ordered for my Birthday, and DBF said that he got some sample fibers when he ordered the driveband (but didn't bring them over to my house. Strange...). So, in other words, i have more than enough fibers to keep me busy for a while. But again, i just need to learn how to use this darn thing!!! *sigh*

But i didn't want to just boo who about my spinning (or lack thereof). i have books coming in the mail t o help with that, and i should be able to head back to Clover Hill and meet other nice spinners who won't mind helping me out. What i did want to do is, in the spirit of 2008, list my current projects, and my to do list for the year (so far). With the Xmas knitting taking over for a while there, I've kinda lost touch with what all I *am* working on. So here are the list...

On the Needles

*Carter's Blanket - baby blanket for a kid born already. I'm ready for it to be done, cause, well, i need the cables.

*Brooke's mittens - i mean really!!! I've only been listing these darn things since August, so they need to be done by now.

*DBF's Winter socks - a very nice Xmas elf got me sock yarn to have something knitted for my honey and the socks just turned out too big. gotta do some fudging here and there.

*Tamar's mittens - words can not express what this girl has done for me over the years, and not ONCE has she even asked for anything from me - not even gas money!!! So I've started some mittens for her, and then i owe here bag that she was been waiting on since July.

*Mystery Shawl KAL - i just started Clue 2. All the clues are out now, but I didn't get my yarn until Clue 3 or so. Needless to say, I'm a bit behind.

*Michele's scarf - Started Christmas Eve Eve. With it being thick yarn, I thought I would have it done by now. It tricked me!

*Irish Hiking scarf - i casted on a few rows of this, but i don't know that i like it, let alone if i want to keep working on it. May get frogged.

*Paul's sweater - Just need more yarn.

Waiting to Cast On

*Butterfly knee highs

*Heidi's sweater

*Hemlock lap blanket

*arm warmers

*blue throw

*red sweater?- i haven't decided if i am going to make this or not yet.

And at Some Point

MY HOODIE!!!! - this will be done soon!!! i think i found the yarn i want for it. i just haven't swatched yet.

Jr's Mohawk hat

DBF's Mohawk hat

the dozen or so things in my queue over at Ravelry - but in all fairness, some of those things are listed above.

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I think that maybe everything. Or at least, everything that I can think of off the top of my head. I need to update my Ravelry page with yarns and such, and I need to track down a manual and foot pedal for the old Singer I have at home so I can start *that* whole adventure. And at some point i would like to read a book or two that *isn't* fiber related. And go back to school. Dear god I've got a long To Do list.

It's begining to smell alot like X mas, if you know what I mean

For it being a holiday that i wanted to call out of, and feared that knitting would not be done, and that none of my presents were "good enough", it turned out not being that painful.

Guess who got a spinning wheel?

:-D

I'd have pics, but the wheel is at the DBF's house, awaiting a drive band, but will be at my house on Friday, and prolly taken on the road to West Virginia for the New Year. There looks to be a spinning store in Owings Mills, so well as Chesapeake City (where ever that may be). So we may be able to stop in and get some roving and such to play with while on the road. he, he. I got a pretty wheel :)

My mom got me a tea kettle and will be ordering me a boat load of books for Knit Picks, along with a ball winder. When I told her that I got a spinning wheel, she asked "do you still still need a ball winder?" She saw that in the the catalog, and she just thinks it's the "neatest idea".

My mom is not a fiber junkie, and when I took an interest in yarn at a young age, she took me to all our neighbors that she knew who knitted, crocheted, or needle pointed. And to their credit, they all let me watch and tried to teach me, and even gave me their left over yarn to play with and make Barbie items out of. But she never really took an interest herself. But she does brag about my knitting, and asks for blankets and sweaters. And since I don't have any Grandma types in my family, it's a bit depressing for me to not to have someone to share my passion with. I did find out that DBF's Aunt Janet knits and such, so that was nice on Christmas Eve, to have someone to talk to, and to Ohh and Aww over my new wheel :)

AAAANNNNDDDD, I got my Winterwonderland Coffee and Yarn Swap package. It came with some Cherry tree sock yarn, which I've been dying to buy, but can't since I'm being good :( And some Opal sock yarn that is named for the Blue Poison Dart Frog, so of course, me and my frog loving self is really excited to see how it lookes knitted up. And I got espresso coffee. What more could I want? (of course there is more - and everything had the cutest "snow kisses" design on it!!! Well, go look at the pic below!) And I know that my Knit it Forward buddy got her package and likes it. I'm still waiting on my Knit it Forward Item, and the holiday Swap item from the swap I'm hosting over at the Myspace.

So yeah. Over all, it was a good holiday. I'll be a lot happier once I get back for West Virginia. So I'm just faking thru work till Friday. *la sigh*

Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying this time of year.

I got Presents!!!!

THANK YOU NATALIE!!!

Lunchie enjoyed getting mail too :P

more later

knit on, knitter!

With possible icky weather coming this weekend, i'm hoping that i can get some good knitting done. the BF live too far away to want to come visit in bad weather, so i might have a chance to get my christmas knitting done. here's the list
*finish birthday toe up sock by monday (for BF's B day)
*knit three head bands (at 6 hours each)
*2 pairs of fingerless gloves
*knit two toy monsters
*dishrags for my mom and BF's dad
*shawls for BF's Sis and mum
*finish brookes' converable mittens
i have to order/buy yarn for two Lace KAL (one's on clue 2 - 3 will be posted this week) and for two swaps, and a pair of lace needles (i think) *not worried about getting these knitted before chirstmas.
*finish the baby balnket (for the baby born two months ago)
here's hoping for a snow day on monday. good thing i don't sleep :P and i still have a week and a weekend to go. Does this look do-able?
God i wish i could leave work already and get started!

Weekly Topic

What is the ideal setting for enjoying the perfect cup of coffee? Who would be there - or would you be alone? Inside or out? Morning or night? With food or just the steaming cup of joe?

It really depends these days. The last three months or so, DBF and i have discovered our shared love of the all might bean, so we've had many a great morning or evening having coffee together. Most recently, we sat outside a Starbucks (which we both hate, but was the only coffee to be found at 8 o'clock at night) and drank on a very nice, clear autumn night, on our way to get our Halloween pumpkins.

I can also really enjoy a nice mocha on the rainy days at work when the big bosses' are gone, and it's just me and Alec, eating chocolate covered espresso beans, him telling me about the latest adventures in suburbia, me telling him of my latest knitting misadventure or night out.

i rarely eat while drinking coffee. If i get a cup at lunch, i don't tend to eat much else - maybe a cookie. Again, too many years of working at a dessert place where all there was is cookies, ice cream and coffee.

oh

Sorry for the lack of updates. i know that i have at least one swap that checks here for status, and i haven't mentioned my poor little Harvest Sock in forever, let alone much else. I'm kinda drowning in knitting right now - all my own doing. Everything is beeing worked on at one time which means that nothing is getting finished.

I've finally made some progress on cathy's bag, and am going to for go sleep tonight to finish it

- but i also casted on for the DBF's birthday present, so i'm not making a dent in the knitting pile. *sigh*.
But Cathy's bag will be finished tonight. Then my harvest sock. I want to have that shipped out by the end of the first week of December. I also have the Knit it Forward swap that is due the same week, but that is *much* closer to being finished. I might pick that up tonight after i finish the bag and get that done.

i'm just knitting my life away.

argh.

Having home computer issues this week. Can't really post from the work computer. Should be fixed sometime over the weekend.

Just so you know.