Sorry, no blogging today. (Unless I have a lot of energy later on this evening), off to our weekly knitting night so I can keep poppin’ out those Christmas presents and Christmas orders!
Hope you have a great Wednesday evening!
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Christmas Knitting
So, I can’t reveal most of what I’m making these days, because most of them are Christmas presents. I was smart this year and decided to start making my Christmas presents in August.
(Top-secret-Christmas-knitting)
So, if I am not updating as much it is only because I am very busy with things that I can not yet show you. My apologies. But I might be back with more snippits. Because it’s fun to hear your guesses. (And no, that picture above is NOT a scarf. Booya.)
Ha!
How to get to Bel Air. This is mostly for Heidi, because she shares my love of watching Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
Bum thumb
So on Monday, right as I was getting to work I slammed my finger in my car door. Hard. So hard, in fact, that the door latched and I had to pry it back open with my other hand. Anyhow, this is just an informatory post letting you know that the crafting might be a little light until it gets better. I’ll still try to post often, but it might not be as fun as knitting posts.
But hey, on the bright side, hitchhiking will be so much easier now!
Giveaway
There is a VERY high chance that the giveaway will be up tonight! Just an FYI….
Help a girl out.
So I’ve gotten alot of positive feedback on my little knit animals, and have had several people ask me to make them for them and they’ll pay me…. but what do you guys think is a fair price for something like that? Obviously, the smaller ones (like the mouse) would be less, but I have NO idea what to charge. They do take a few hours, but not alot of money, because they use so little yarn. I looked some up online, and the prices vary so much that I don’t really think it’s a good gauge on how much to charge…
So, you should help me out!
Coming up!
A DIY and a giveaway coming THIS EVENING! We’re off to a wedding and will be back in a bit!
Updated…
Pictures, projects, new yarn (9 skeins over one weekend. Yikes!) lots of stuff to share, but now it is bedtime. Tomorrow I will update! Several new projects to show you!
Signing off for the weekend.
I’m packing, packing, packing. Feverishly trying to remember if I can bring my knitting needles on the plane, or should I bring my embroidery, but if I do that can I bring my scissors? Are they allowed on the plane? Should I take some crocheting? The hook is a pretty harmless looking instrument… Oh decisions decisions. Take the camera? Risk breaking it in the luggage?
Oh! Remembering to pack pajamas and a toothbrush. The two things I always forget.
Wish me luck, I hate flying.
Alexandra and the Terrible, Horrible, No good, Very bad day
Today started off like any other, went to work, got my paycheck and (Mistake #1) decided to drop it off at the bank on my lunch break. I deposit my check without any complications, and go back to my car, hop in, turn the key… nothing. Nada. Numpin. Seriously. SERIOUSLY?! Come on. I have 40 minutes to get home, get lunch and get back to work. I think, well, the battery has been a bit sketchy in the past few months, maybe it just needs a jump. I unsuccessfully try to find someone, anyone in the surrounding area that might be willing to help a girl out. Again, nothing, nada, numpin. And mind you, this is downtown, people, on the corner of 3rd and Main! So (mistake #2) I decide it would be a good idea to run home (yes, literally run) and grab the Taurus, drive that car downtown and see if I can’t get the Beamer started again. By this point, it is, naturally, pouring down rain. And I’m in slip-on Vans.
I make it home in record time (Oh, did I mention that I also received a package at work and didn’t want to leave it in the car, so I ran with that, too. Yep.) So I run upstairs to our apartment, grab the keys to the Taurus, run back to the car and scurry downtown as fast as I can. I find a parking spot (miraculously) right behind my car (Yeah, the Beamer’s battery is in the trunk… it’s a weird car.) I get the jumper cables out, get them hooked up, start the Taurus, let it soak up some good battery juices. I go back to start the Beamer, and again, nothing, nada, numpin. Repeat 3x-still nothing. Dead, dead, dead. I call AAA, they can’t be there for over an hour, and at this point I need to be back at work in like 15 minutes, and apparently they can’t come jump or tow your car unless you are present. Ughhh. This is in the downtown district, 3 hour parking, and I am afraid of getting a ticket. So I leave a scribbled note on the dash that says “I have a dead battery, someone is coming to pick me up, please don’t give me a ticket”
At this point I am angry, frustrated, wet and very hungry (This was my lunch break after all, and I haven’t gotten any lunch yet). So, then (mistake #3) I called Paul, and since he was in class went straight to voicemail, and I think I left a message that must have sounded something like this: “Paw, I, *sniff* canna get duh carra start anna gotta go backawork an *sniff* tribbleay cannuh come and caw me back when you getthis please *sniff*” So, I leave the car there and go back to work.
Paul checks my voicemail and calls me back, skips his next class, because I sounded like a ridiculous wreck, and he so kindly offers to call AAA, and go to the car and wait there until they come. But he decided to just take a stab at it and see if he can diagnose the problem with the car, so he gets in, turns the key…. starts right up. First try. What the heck! So Paul calls me at work to tell me this and I just about lost it, right there at my desk.And my pants and shoes were still soaked. But, we have a fireplace at work, and since we didn’t have clinic today I took off my shoes and socks and put them in front of the fireplace and let them dry out.
And that was the story of Alexandra and the terrible, horrible no good, very bad day.
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