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anyway, i spoke to the boutique and arranged a private showing of knitwits to pick out yarn on monday. also i get a massage from butter’s friend on monday. yay!! i have my hair appt to fix my bad dye job to-morrow, too.
i fixed a permanent eyeline job today, which went really great and she literally squealed with delight when she saw them. not only had they done a crap job on her, but she was terrified because it was horrible and painful. it looks a lot better now. and blue. it was greyish blue and she has brown eyes. hm. anyway, it was crazy at work. i sent bonnie’s package, i can’t wait till she get it. i can’t. i’m giddy. i am a crappy gift giver, i get too excited and give it away, i can never wait.
i need to take a photo of my yarn booty. i also got a ton of really nice berrocco and plymouth and other cotton, half price. what will i use it for? that is what big tupperware containers are for. i won’t get to do anything fun that is not a scarf or shawl for a while, methinks. i started a breast cancer scarf, with a really gorgeous mix of moda dea aerie and a french novelty yarn, whose label i cannot find. not good.i think i only got one ball of it and another colored one. it looks so cool i want to keep it.

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just a quickie, more in the morning. i spent more than 300 dollars on yarn. my mom put out the cash for me. yes, my mom. i need to get going on the scarves for the boutique.
i am emotionally exhausted, between my grandpa dying, the new shop plans, and the new knitting line, which i want to get some cool tags and wrapping, etc for, i am so tired. i also managed to piss people off without even trying.i am too tired to knit even. i have the headache and my eyes are all googly. i have been trying to fake it. i can’t read though, so i better go. i feel like floating away, but i am being drowned. or something. i got some turbo 17 circulars as well as a size 1/circular to use as a stitch holder or cable needle. i will try it. oh and bonnie, if i can figure out a cable, you sure as hell can. i am not the sharpest knife in the drawer. i can talk you through it. we should video conference. i agree. that would be really cool. i emailed bonnie this morn before my meeting to see her ideas on what to charge, and christine and they both gave me great advice. i love these gals!! and one gal will be getting a cooool package, soooon. out.

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migraine. again. found out that my sick grampa has a brain tumor. my granny has been trying to tell everyone that he is doing fine, and now he is in the hospital for good and will probably die in the next couple of weeks. they think the reason that my gran has been so mean to everyone is that she has dimensia. she is hysterical, not surprisingly. i don’t know what will happen. i think my mom won’t go until he dies. so i will go with her then. so sad. she is dealing well with it, which makes me think she isn’t dealing with it at all.
so my mom wanted to hang out today, i think first, she is sad, second she seems to maybe realize that she hasn’t tried very hard in the past, and also she wants me to knit her things. she realises that i can knit her things that her friends will be impressed with. dunno. anyway, i was supposed to go to the yarn store with her, which is kind of far away because knitwits isn’t open today, and i have to go to that boutique to show them the scarves and see what they want to do, if they want more, i should go to that yarn place and get more yarn. my mom will probably spend a bunch of cash on yarn for me, she gets excited, so i feel like i should push myself to go. i am a bad person. nah. you know you would do it too. unfortunately, she wasn’t like this when i was a kid. but my head is throbbing and it has been since i dunno when. it hasn’t gone away. i don’t want. i probably bore everyone to tears. i get so excited. which is what is so nice about blogging, and meeting all these fantastic people that like the same things as much, or more even, then i do. my stitchnbitch group is good for that too, they all love it like crazy too. i didn’t get a chance to tell her about the dream i had where she had a boyfriend in california that was in a band and didn’t tell me about it. anyway, so i am going to buy yarn and shopping always gives me a bad bad headache, i shouldn’t go. but free yarn. oooh. what to do. i can barely see. i need to go, i can’t see.
this cow’s hair is how i wanted mine to be.

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while i am getting used to the hair, i can’t wait til wednesday when i get the color fixed. it looks terrible. i am not sure what it will be when it is all said and done.
i have a headache, as usual and am exhausted, even though it is almost 1. we did a lot this weekend. that is probably why. we are supposed to eat with the in-laws for dinner, we haven’t seen them in ages, so i look forward to it, but i am so so tired.
we went to jo-jo’s yesterday and i got some beading mags and this really cool art magazine from england called craft. amazing. i want to learn to make some crazy beaded stuff. not just regular things. i got yarn for scarves because my mom told me the boutique wants a bunch for next sunday. i am stopping in monday to show them some things and see what they want and what they want to pay. they scarves, even a skinny one is 15-20 bucks just in yarn. they are pretty though.
then amy and i hung out on the back porch swing and read the mags and i figured out what to make for a scarf, had coffee and then when butter showed up we went to the bookstore and to eatnpark. everyone was pooped by 10:30, so that was it. i knitted in bed and that was it.
i had a dream that amy was dating someone in california and planned to move there and i flipped out on her for not telling me. i was mad when i woke up.
rumor has it that a bunch of cool peeps from the blogs will be at the wool and sheep festival that amy invited me to. i am so excited!!! i better start saving my pennies. and quarters. steal a sheep, we won’t have to mow grass anymore.
more later. deadwooooooood tonite. and the lword. sweet. bonnie, i have your package ready to go. yup. it will go out tuesday.

so while at snb, this nice woman, karla, asked if we wanted to be on their knitting home page, and i said yes. after thinking about it, we have plenty of folks, and any more and we will outgrow the coffee shop. which i think will be too many people. everyone can chat now, and i worry about people coming that are agressive, rather than laid back like we all are, so i went to email her and i cannot find her info anywhere. now i feel panicky about it. i love our group so much and i don’t really want it to change at all. if you read this karla, please hold of on listing us…
anyway, i am pretty tired, i haven’t talked to my mom all week so she thought i was dead or something. we all had a great time last night and the barnes and noble ladies were awesome. i actually went to college with one of the girls. i am looking forward to getting to know them better. the people i was hoping would not come did not come, so it was really great.
i cannot remember what i blogged last night, i did right? so i will check that first and be on late tonite and fill you in.
jason b may come out with us tonite, i have nicknamed him jason butter, or butter for short and he likes it. sweet.
amy got to chitchat with fran, who was her professor at school, so she had fun. she was pretty outgoing with all the girls, too.
i got one of my motorcycle jackets last night, it is really matrix looking. because of the armour in it, i look like a linebacker. in fact, it is so big, that my 6′2 hubby can wear it and zip it. the sleeves are short. so i will be sending it back. i think a medium may even be big. normally my boobs don’t fit into jackets, so i ordered it big, but it is huge.
oh, this morning pavel was crazed and had moved their cardboard cat house across the room and pulled all of the toys out, like 15 all over the floor and his scarf out a crack in the top and then their cat cube was in the hallway about 6 feet out of the bedroom where it normally is. he is now sleeping, not that i am getting up. it was nice at 6 am. it was freezing in here and jake had swiped the covers. i snuggled up to my spousal heater.
my hair is growing on me. i hate the fact that i can’t cover my ears, which look gross and when my skin is bad, christine thinks from low carb, i am hoping from soda, which i promised butter i would nix, and i have since wed. i almost drank a diet pepsi and eatnpark lat night. ooh. it is hard. anyway, i can’t cover my skin with my hair, or my neck. the color looks dumb, but once that is fixed i think it will be ok. i can just muss it up and go, it’s crazy. even if i just got out of bed. easy peasy. ok, i gots to showa. yo.

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snb was really really fun. we had a great turnout, 3 of the lovely and remarkably talented women of b and n, some of the usuals, most of the usuals actually. really good group. we all had fun. and bev told me that they have bellydancing classes locally at the y. yay!!
christine, you would come to the wool and yarn festival? that would be so exciting. bonnie lives in arizona, so that is a bit far. how far is it from you? i am sooooooo excited. me, you, sheep, yarn, my good friend amy…i think my friend jason b, who i have been trying to nickname butter may come with to keep hubby company while we ogle the fiber.
anyway, we had fun.
i hope to feel recharged to-morrow. i have been so exhausted. heather came to snb even though she was sick, amy drove hours to get here, although she really wanted to see her professor, so i was glad to drag my butt there. had lots of fun. just so out of it, but can’t sleep.
i got lots of compliments on the hair. tammy did a good job fixing that mess. i don’t mind the cut, the color is crap, but the cut is cute. ok, i must try to sleep.

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this photo is from pinku’s blog. this is spring in japan. can you believe it is real? gorgeous.
anyway, i am about to get going for work. i have a stacked schedule and didn’t have the mental ability to do the drawing i needed to do, so i will need to reschedule that appt. i feel like this week has been a month. when i remember just yesterday it seems like forever. so odd. i started a wrap with this hand dyed hemp yarn and this berocco metallic yarn last night. i don’t know what i will think when i see it, i was in a bad state last night. was i ever. god i am tired.
snb is tonite, so i will take photos this time. my camera died last time. ok. getting up.

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this crazy photo is from the pittsburgh fiber arts council. there are some amazing artists. anyway, i won’t be long, i have had a crazy week. yesterday, i got the worst haircut of my life. ok, i got a worse one that resembled a frizzy fluffy pat benetar cut in 7th grade. i went to a different hairdresser because i was pissed at mine for screwing up my dye job and just being a slackass. so the woman i went to, however nice, disregarded the 20 photos i brought and everything i told her and gave me a dorothy hammill haircut. except that my hair is curly, so it was more like a little hat. i will post photos. anyway, i have never, aside from 7th grade, become hysterical over a haircut, and i literally did not know what to do, called amy from outside, left with wet hair and went home to try to restyle. not just a horribly ugly haircut, but after i went to my usual hairdresser early this morning, and everyone there asked me if a friend cut my hair, i found out a really badly executed haircut and color. again, i will post photos. she denied cutting much off, yet me almost shoulder length hair, is almost shaved in the back and the longest pieces don’t even cover my ears. my hairdresser fixed it up, so i don’t look retarded, it at least looks intentional. i will get the color fixed next week. i guess i won’t be leaving my hairdresser. i will post more on this later. anyway, so i then found out that my good friend john was in town and he had been looking for me, while i was being tortured like the lion from the lion the witch and the wardrobe, and i was tired and didn’t want anyone to see me, i showered and pinned my hair back, and got dressed and met him out and had a great, uplifting time. more later on that. i went home latish, went to walmart for sugarfree whipped cream for my coffee obsession and some storage containers for yarn. i am organized. at least my yarn is. really organized. so i was exhausted and had a bad headache. i had to see my hairdresser early. i woke up feeling wretched. went to get my haircut and then went to work to tattoo jason b. butter i call him. i stopped at knitwits to show them the fairy shawl and the owner loved it and got the pattern. i got yarn for another shawl, hemp and a gorgeous metallic combo and had her hold the yarn for bonnie. still pondering. i will get it this weekend though. anyway, met jason, made him give me a shoulder rub which was awesome, and then had another coffee and worked on him. we talked about a lot of stuff, including his lack of confidence which is holding him back.my headache was out of control by the time we were done. i waited for my next appointment, feeling crappy, he wasn’t healed enough to work, so i went home and took migraine stuff, when it finally kicked in i felt all crazy and don’t remember much, barely able to stay awake, making myself stay sort of awake, i know i will wake up 2 hours later if i let myself sleep. i wanted to knit. couldn’t. wanted to blog. so, it is coming back again. i realized i hadn’t eaten anything but coffee and water all day and a low carb english muffin more than 12 hours ago. i had some almonds and a decaf coffee/whip for supper. all the drama makes me so sick. my god. amy is in town this weekend, snb to-morrow, on top of a busy schedule, a drawing i was supposed to do to-nite but i was too sick, so i need to get up early and hope i get it done. then on sat there is the opening at dv8 and dinner, which hopefully jason will come for. i got the yarn for his summer hat. the pattern i have is for way thicker yarn, so i dunno if i will try to figure it out or get a different one. if is organic blue sky cotton that has a really gorgeous natural green color, super soft and has some stretch and rebound to it. he was excited and paid for it, so yay. also, he has a friend who will massage me for not a lot at all, and will come to me. again yay!! so when i feel like this i can get massaged. oooooh. otherwise, i found some fiberart things going on nearby, some i missed, i was sad to see. but some are this summer, so that will be fun. i will put all the gorgeous ads that lady diana did for me on the blog when i have a moment, they are so fantastic. i am so excited that everything is finally coming together. they will be in town in 6 weeks or so, so i am really hoping that she will feel comfortable staying here, even if john is busy, so we can hang out. we like so much of the same stuff and i really want to get to know her better. she is gorgeous and petite, and talented and smart and most of all really cool. so i really hope she won’t be scared of me. right now i am scared of me with this stupid short hair. ay! ok, i need to chillout and try to get to sleep. i feel like hell. also i have nothing to do at snb. so i need to dig out something easy.
my head is on fire.

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i have some other photos in flickr, if you want to check them out. anyway, here she is. i will name her…amy, because of their matching attributes. i learned a lot from doing a trial run. little things to tweak, things to mark, like not doing the fringe in bed, for example. i am excited to do the real thing. i have no knitting on the needles, that i want to finish anyway, at the moment. i am taking a break even though i don’t want to. no burnout for me.
i left work early, feeling gross. i started sweating like crazy, my vision went funny again and i felt like i was going to hit the floor. i rescheduled poor jason for to-morrow, and left.
my good friend john is in town, unbeknownst to me until now, and i think he wants to get together tonite. i am worried. i feel like garbage now, i am sure that at 10p i won’t be more peppy. anyway, i am going to attempt to get drugged into relative normalcy to fulfill the tasks of the rest of the planet. wish me luck.

oh yeah, i promised jason i wouldn’t drink soda. he fears that it is killing me slowly. and making my skin gross. the latter is sadly more important to me. sigh.