My life as a corporate whore.

Needless to say, I've been absent from my blog and computer and life in general for a while. As Thanksgiving and Christmas approach I am spending a lot of my time at work, and the time I'm not there I am dealing with kids while thinking about work. I am going to be so happy when the holidays are over and I don't have to train new people or deal with bitchy customers all day (usually complaining about the new workers).

I have been knitting, mostly small stuff. Lots of scarves, because I make them brainless and I can work on them when I'm tired. I abandoned the ribbed hat, because it was frustrating me and instead am making a cell phone cozy.

I went to the FiberFest in Torrance with Mouse. I came home with a load of yarn. I bought rug yarn that will eventually be a felted gift, it softens up nicely when washed. I'm making a multi-directional scarf out of Crystal Palace Roman, which is a gorgeous rayon/cotton blend, which must be a discontinued yarn because I can't find it anywhere on the net. I have also picked up my drop spindle again and am trying futilely to spin something out of Seamus, whom I won at the raffle table.
I always forget that I am better at the drop part than the spin part. I need another lesson.

I also had a birthday, I'm now 26 and don't feel any different. I had Mouse and her DH over for a combined birthday (R's bday is the day before mine). It was great because I got money and went out and spent all of it in a day. I bought some long overdue clothes, a sqooshy turquoise pillow for my legs(side sleeper), the new Stitch & Bitch Nation book and the Sew Easy Knitting Machine. The last was an experiment and I figured for twenty bucks it couldn't be that bad. It's a zippy little knitting machine and RM is fascinated by it.

I also got a present from my Secret Pal, a little pincushion of felted wool, a felted handbag, a sheepy ornament and the coolest Pink Panther CD which is currently in the car stereo. I'll post pics this week. I hate the digital camera, it's too much work when I'm tired. I hope I get one of my own for Christmas. Thats all for now. Back soon I promise.

No pics that I took.

Need to hunt down the camera and load pictures up. I'm a procrastinator, so sue me. I won't apologize but I will tell you about all the stuff I'm doing. I finshed Halloween sewing and now I tackle Christmas. Only two people on my list are undecided. I probably have close to 20 items to sew. Mostly nightshirts, they seem to be requested by quite a few folks. I make big cuddly snuggly ones out of flannel. Some kids items and a couple of Hawaiin shirts round out the list. And I'm knitting a few things.

I decided to knit one hat and I decided yesterday at the Michaels to knit a couple of easy scarves out of sqooshy yarn. I picked up 2 skeins of Cozi in the Fire Brick color. I also gave in and bought 2 skeins of Fancy Fur in the Stained Glass color.
I'll knit them up as last minute gifts, for anyone I might overlook. It never fails that I am scrambling for a present at the last minute. If I have pre-knit scarves I can just bag them up and go. I now have an excuse to play with easy care fun yarn.