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ok, so what updates? i have a ton of email so return, so be nice to me. my computer’s hard drive was replaced and was not backed up so i am trying to get everything back on track, so lots of things are gone. back stuff up, people. and don’t tell someone else to do it. do it yourself. i can’t get my iphoto to send photos so hopefully that will be sorted out by to-morrow.

a little children’s boutique up the street called descendants appropriately enough, is selling my stuff, i am making vintage styled children’s things, well, baby and toddler things and they are fun to do!! so hopefully that will go and i may start working with that boutique that screws me around, as well, just for some extra income. so we will see. i will post the pics.

spinning is going well, it is fun. i am improving quickly. thanks for asking.

i have two of the cats wearing collars, really cute ones. i may make kitten a collar that is just a piece of plastic with his tag. maybe he will wear that. it is not like he needs to wear a leash. any ideas?

i am still searching for a name for my knits. i am stumped. totally. i don’t think i want my name in it, unless it was a really cute name. i thought about using “av8trix” or “aviatrix” but maybe it should be softer. god i don’t know. and i need to make tags soooon!!

oh, also for any of you people mourning the death of kool wool and cotton ease, my joann’s has the last of their stuff on clearance for 3 bucks, as well as some of the tlc equivalent, that is really nice and has awesome colors. if anyone needs any, let me know and i will see what they have…

i saw a really cute story on the news, which i really rarely watch, about the 102 year old japanese man who has the record in his age group for the 100 yd dash, he was asked what he was thinking while he was running, and said, “i must not fall down, i must not fall down…” that is a good motto for life, no?

i am doing a bit of advertising, which i cannot afford, for the permanent cosmetics, but really, i guess i can’t afford to not do it, since we are broke. gotta spend it to make it. like the 6 bucks that the cotton ease costs to do a 12 month old’s cardigan. yay!!

oh, also, anyone know the rules of using a published pattern for knits that you sell? is there any problem with it? not like they would ever know, but i don’t want to do anything shady. not to knit people anyway.

oh, also, winnie tagged me, so i need to see what that is all about. that winnie, she is a rascal. and very cute. so it evens out, i guess.

i found a dress maker’s form at the local antique-junk store for 25 buck!! ooh. i can dress her in scarves.

i may blog 6 more times tonite. i have missed you so.

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for all of you who sent me the wonderful emails with worries about me…i am ok…my computer, however, was not. it unexpectedly died, i will comment further on everything that has happened in the week since i have spoken. i went to my local library, jonesing for a blog and to answer emails and to see what you are all up to, everyone, winnie, my secret pally, aunt purl, bonnie, who sent me a wonderful surprise in the mail…and everyone else… made me feel so good, and guilty too for not being able to contact you…anyway, i went to the library to blog and it was closed!!! noooo…anyway, i got the computer on my doorstep, even though it should have been signed for, as i was leaving for work, so now i am late…i will send new photos of yarn i have spun, etc, and tell you what has been up. i missed you all so much. i’m back!!

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so, i had my spinning lesson yesterday. 6 hours of lesson. eileen, the woman that taught me is awesome!! she is so fun. i cannot even start to tell you. we had a great time. we took no breaks, my ass hurt by the time she left, from sitting on a hard chair, and i had a blinding headache soon after. the good news is, i can spin!! i feel like peter pan…i can actually spin really pretty looking yarn. and i can ply, as well. my fiber came yesterday from bountiful, and it is gorgeous…i guess it was worth the hassle. i have been mixing the predyed stuff together and it looks amazing…it was easier to learn than i thought. as much as people told me that the drop spindle would not help, it really did, i think, it is so much harder than the wheel, that i feel like it helped me understand things better…anyway, i had one of the worst migraines of the year and it was worth it. i konked out at 8 i think, and missed HELL’s KITCHEN damn! i looked on tivo, and jake didn’t tape it for me. ah well. now the dewberry is gone, it doesn’t matter anyway. i miss his buggy eyes and his strange womanly body. my migraine is gone, but i am exhausted, i spun for 15 minutes and made myself leave it at that. i don’t want to though. i will maybe do 30 min in a while. now!! anyway, i will get some photos of the yarn i spun, some of you will be getting some soooooon!! very exciting!! winnie spins thin, so i will do some thin stuff for her…yay winnie!!

ok, i am going to try to chill out. just watch tv and veg. i cannot believe how pooped i am.

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i couldn’t sleep last night because i was too excited for my lesson. now i am pooped. not fair!! anyway, eileen gets here in less than an hour, so i best get up…

i found these kim hargreaves patterns that are gorgeous. there is a crocheted scarf this is the like the flowers i knitted, but bigger, which i think i may knit…obviously from my own pattern…cute though!!

oh, for all you cat owners…i got pavel a collar, it has his tag and a bell on it to help with us not falling down the stairs from a kitten attack, and he keeps messing with it…to the point that i took it off last night. peeps doesn’t mind hers at all…what can i do? it isn’t too tight or anything….please let me know…

anyway, i’ll be back later…

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yesterday heather and butter and jake and amy and i went to dinner, at a new local restaurant that was disgusting at best. ew. we had fun though. amy and i went to burlington and i got slippers that look like babydoll shoes and some cute barrettes and some beaded mules, i will put them with my photos. cute!

we were up super late, jake was asleep by the time i got out of the shower. i woke up late, after waking a lot during the night, we got groceries and then i went for a ride on jakes motorcycle for the first time. i was really nervous, i don’t know why, even though i have ridden bikes before. we had a really nice time. it blows me away how much i love my husband. not only love him, but like him so much, he is so wonderful, so gorgeous, so sweet, kind, smart, easygoing. i don’t know how i lucked out like this. we were riding and i just sat behind him looking at his neck, touching his waist, thinking that i am home. i have never been so happy, felt so safe, felt complete and settled, not looking for anything, except for inside of myself, work stuff, creative stuff…my relationships with other people in my life are sometimes lacking, my relationship with jake, i have no complaints at all. how crazy is that?

also, i got collars for the cats, a name tag for pave. i am so worried lately that something would happen and no one would know where they belong. pavel’s collar jingles all the time, he keeps messing with it and managed to get it in his mouth, so i tightened it. not in his mouth though. peeps is so fluffy that hers doesn’t jingle at all. i didn’t think k would wear one, but the other two, especially peeps doesn’t seem to even notice it. jake and i ogled the kitties and how adorable they look and how pavel never had his name on anything before. so cute. we got home from the ride and went into the backyard to pick strawberries, which are growing like crazy…yummy!! so sweet and good and juicy. i have a bit of an ant problem out there.

in the biggest news of all…i have a spinning lesson to-morrow starting at 11 a and going on for SIX hours!!!! whoa…and the fiber is slated to be delivered to-morrow. adrian from hello yarns gave me the name of the person she gets fiber from so i will check that out, she is not only really talented, but super duper nice! yo adrian!!!

the photo at the beginning of this post is one of the aprons…tie one on!!…i scored the other day, made from a tea towel. cute!!

also, i wondered if anyone would be interested in doing a knit along from loop d loop by teva durham…anyone? i am open to the pattern, that bag with the wooden handles looks awesome. i love it and everything else in that book. it is great. i think that sarah dallas book looks really great. anyone get it yet?

lastly, on karrissa’s blog i saw this insane and gross story…ewwwww.

if i am not too exhausted, i will blog about my lesson and post some photos…wish me luck…oh wait, i don’t need luck!!

oh, p.s. my mom-in-law put an ad in the paper for her wallpapering business that she is trying to start and got 3 calls since wednesday! i am so impressed that she is sticking her neck out and taking a chance!! yay mom!! she is a strong and brave and beautiful woman!!

ok, in the same vane of the knitting knazis…i have noticed some people, i will not metion names, have put “not a secret pal” buttons on their blogs. it says “be proud”. what is up with these joyless…um…people..? also, some of these people said they would stop ready knitty because of the doll clothing patterns and the nursing top. i think they have all different blogs, with different photos but are all the same person. these people use t-squares and high math in conjunction with their knitting. these people do not have a creative bone in their rigid bodies, and believe that those of us who are happy and like to do fun things are not as “serious” as them. on the off chance that any of these people would read a silly blog like this one, from a person like me that thinks that you should do what makes you happy, even if it does not require using size 1 needles, laceweight yarn and a scientific calculator…screw you!! i love my secret pal!! i like doing nice things for people, even if you use trig to figure out a pattern, it still doesn’t mean it will fit, or look nice! you cannot control the world with misery and math!! so there. now, i will get up.

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so, if you want to see the rest of my haul, including a tea towel apron, go to my photo link…

anyway, the wheel did show up yesterday, for any of you who thought i was being unneccesarily mean, my main issue was that she told me it would be here at a certain time, and then every time i called she would lie and say it went out, she had sent the tracking number, emailed the invoice, or that she didn’t tell me that, she never just said i am sorry, i thought it would go out monday, including the package coming from her. if i had know it would take so long to go out, i would have had it sent 2nd day. i just hate it when people lie to me. hate it. and i ordered a book, the spinner companion, to learn how to spin, because my lesson is not until monday, and they fiber and the book did not come, only the wheel, so i put it together and attempted to mess with it, but have no clue what i am doing.

oh, my awesome secret pal sent me a little lamb in the mail. i have him guarding my handspun…i got this box, after kind of a long day, didn’t feel good, this super lite tiny box that made a rattly sound…i open it to see this adorable little lamby!! thank you secret pal!! it makes me want to send her little cute things, too.

oh, another note, the purse that i posted opens up into a tote with snaps. how cute? and the pink bag in my flickr is this insane distressed leather barrel bag, my favorite shape, perfect size to even fit my little sketch books. i love it!!

in other news, heather came up to the shop, gabe and i were at the coffeeshop around the corner and i didn’t bring my purse or cell phone and she called and no one answered and she thought we were avoiding her? anyway, she came up, full throttle, all upset, i don’t know why she thinks i would ditch my best friend like a rotten tomato, anyway i had told her something that gabe had done, that he had confided in me and i should not have repeated and she said something to gabe about it, i am not sure why, he flipped out got upset, she told me that she said it and i didn’t bitch at her, but i was not real happy about it, and now i feel like he won’t want to tell me anything. he already is paranoid about people telling everyone his secrets. my stomach dropped. i told jake what she did and he was like, “why would she do that?” i dunno. she didn’t mean to be a jerk. and then she was all upset that she had done it and he was pissed and i was pissed. sigh. i need to keep my mouth shut in the future. i don’t even tell her stuff to gossip, she really wants to know the scoop, so i give. in. i will stick to reality tv for my gossip, and general hospital…

in other news we are going to be getting dinner and hanging out with butter, heather and amy tonite.

i have a headache again, it was bad last night, which was why i didn’t blog. i have been really tired lately, all the time, and constantly sore.

my garden is totally crazy, i haven’t planted anything, but it is monster. and there are ripe strawberries every day. i eat what is ripe and then the next day there are a ton more. so nice. i love summer. and the raspberries should be getting ripe soon….

oh also, olay quench with a bit of tanner is nice!!

so, the woman sent me a tracking number, finally, and the wheel should be delivered today. frank the ups guy knows me, and seeing that it isn’t at my house yet and it is almost 11, i would guess that he will take it to the shop, which is several blocks from my house. the fiber is in illinois.

i had this strange dream that there was a new QED thing that was like postapocalyptic house…and i was in it, trying to cook on a broken stove to keep like 10 small children from crying. i would never be on a show like that. the stove woulnd’t get hot, and everyone knows, i cook hibachi style, hot and fast!! whew!!

anyway, i dunno if this is a kidney thing, but i have a lot of back pain that radiates into my legs. it rocks!! i wake up so poooped.

i started a wrap out of this berroco linen/cotton yarn i found on sale…i am not even using a drop stitch. it makes it go slow!! my hairdresser complimented me like she wanted it. no! i don’t have a single thing that i have made that i wear. nothing.

i just started watching “dry dock” on tlc. i cannot find a link for you, i did look though. no dice. ok, i need to think about a shower. i will bring my camera to work…and again, anyone know how to put multiple photos into one blog entry, please let me know….i will post photos of the wheel and the loot…

so, it appears that every cat in the neighborhood want sot get into our house and is ready for love. they are outside howling mournfully and crying and my cats are going nuts looking out the windows, freaked out. pavel even humped his socky jojo. everytime there is a cat screech outside, they freak out. egads.

in other news, i found out too late that helloyarnwould sell me a wheel for a really good price. why too late, you ask…well, that..um..woman from bountiful continues to lie to me and tell me she sent me the tracking number, or the invoice, or it was sent out monday, or as of thursday, not at all…i cannot express how much it pisses me off. bullshit. so, the fiber will not be here for like a week, and it was supposed to go out monday, and as of today, the wheel supposedly is overnighted, but it shouldn’t have had to be because it is 2 days away and was supposed to go out on monday. and she continues to insist that she sent this or that or the email…like i am a dummy. so i won’t order from her again. i will send her an email telling her how disappointed in her service i am. so now you know why a cheap price may not be worth it. plus i wonder what this 6 hour spinning lesson will cost me. i want to spin with the spindle, but i need to conserve the fiber in case the other stuff really doesn’t come until the 13th. bullshit!!

i again forgot my camera. and i got my hair done, 3 different shades now. i swear, i will post photos. can anyone tell me how to post multiple photos in a single post?

i stopped at tj maxx to get sunglasses because i ruined 3 pairs in 1 day. sweet! and i needed a new pair and i need a summer purse that is medium sized..i found a really cool one in this strange crackled pink leather. really cool. everything fits in it. on sale drastically. the only other thing i got was some bras. i am straining a 36D. i always was 34…i am dieting, when my boobs grow, i am pushing maximum density.

also, gabe and i put a big pillow in our clothes and demonstrated freakily big people, i will post the photos. it is hilarious. we almost peed our collective pants.

also, i experimented with tags for the knitted stuff. i may as well get my name and info on the tag, so i can get custom orders. also, i hear that there is a ligonier market on saturday mornings that sell all kinds of high end arts and craft stuff, i may look into doing it, although morning is not my thing. ah well. we will see.

wish me luck that the wheel comes to-morrow and i was not lied to, yet again. do not order from bountiful!!

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so, first things first…lately i haven’t been feeling so good. all of a sudden i get the sweats, the chills, teeth chattering, i have been really tired, etc. i thought i may have a kidney thing going on. well last night, i felt bad, started the sweating and chills and got super out of it and fell asleep at 9 p. i woke up a couple of hours later to pee and when i did, i heard something hit the toilet bowl, about the size of a pea when i looked. then this morning, a few little ones came out. i think it was a kidney stone. i hope that doesn’t mean there are more. i have been having back pain, and pain in my trunk, like an asthma attack and my legs have been really hurting…i thought kidney stones would hurt more though. i have had problems with my kidneys forever, so maybe i am kinda used to it. hm. i mean it did hurt, just not as bad as i would have thought. anyway, that is that…

next, i called the place i bought the wheel from, bountiful. they didn’t ship the fiber when they said they would, mon, so when i tracked it, it is still in colorado. and the wheel is not tracked, which probably means it has not been sent. she told me i would have it midweek, or i would have had it sent faster. not that it would matter, because it didn’t go out when it was supposed. she also told me that she said it would take that long. the ups thing told me i would get it on the 13th. the fiber. the wheel is a mystery. the nice thing about that is that i have a spinning lesson on monday, and it is supposed to be 6 hours long, if i don’t get it this weekend, i will have to wait a whole week. bullshit. pisses me off. just be honest, you know?
last, i want to make some flipflop socks…i saw them somewhere else as well…but not the ones that your toes are totally showing…i love em.
rumor has it that the awesome peeps at SPUNMAG have been getting shit from the readers, i know most of us thing they are fantastic…make sure you let them know! they work hard to get this out for us and have full time jobs in addition to lives, so let them know how much you appreciate their hard work. you would not believe how much difference it makes…

otherwise, i finally finished the third shoulderette for my shop clients, i just have to sew the poncho, although i am thinking about putting buttons up the side instead so she could wear it as a wrap? i’ll just sew it, she probably wants it already. i also need to bull jm’s boutique and find out if they want stuff or not. and if they don’t tell me, i will just forget it. i am not doing it at the last minute. bullshit! i need to do tags, etc, if i do sell there so people can call me directly from their clients and order stuff, so it is worth my while.
i watched beauty and the geek last night, well i fell asleep before it was over, but it is goooood!! the other one i really like is with jerry hall in which she is looking for a boy toy…some of those dudes or so remarkably dumb…one of them said that the mansion they were staying in was gorgeous and really old, like 3000 years old. and then the the cut is a new project runwayesque show…and the new season of blowout. i was watching qvc because i was bored i and love to hear the callers, and johnathan was on, the strange bird that he is…and said the new season had started! so check it out reality people!! i feel that by watching reality shows, i get all the drama i need, without having to actually deal with the drama! awesome!
ok, i’ll let you know if anything shows up(not). and i swear i will photo the stuff i promised. have a super day.