luxe

last things first…we took kahlo to the vet, he is from poland and looks younger everytime we see him. he has intensely blue eyes and a thick accent and the cat doesn’t even bother to fight as soon as they see him. it is odd. so first, he couldn’t believe she was 10 because she is so round and fuzzy and shiny haired. they would flip out if they saw fluffy peeps who looks like she did when she was two, although she has gotten more fluffalicious every year. they are from the same litter and i have always fed them fancy healthy catfood even when i couldn’t afford to eat, so i guess it makes a big difference. anyway, he looked in her poor mouth because i told him that she was missing teeth, and she is missing the molars on the lower left side and will have to have a few more removed on monday along with a cleaning because she has infect nasty teeth. peeps and pavel are going to be forced to brush their teeth whether they like it or not. kahlo goes insane if you try it on her. since her tooth fell out, i have noticed that her breath, which was hideous before, has gotten better. crazy stuff. ok, so otherwise he said that she looked really good and that was the only problem. she cried the whole way there and then shivered whilst at the vet. thankfully, they are always on time with their appointments, so they took us right in. also, the vet has a photo of him with dr fitzsimmons (fitzgerald?) from the animal planet emergency vey show, which cracks me up. so that was the drama for the day. she will have to eat soft food for the rest of her days, which i am sure she will be very pleased about. i love that cat. before we went to the appointment, i had to fight myself to not freak out.

what next? i photographed some new yarns, if you want one, email me stat before i add it to a big wholesale order, so speak up. i also took photos of new thrifty things i got….this cute acorn holder (ha!) that opens, obviously, there is a ton more stuff if you go to my flickr account.

i weeded the garden a bit after taking photos and found a few ripe strawberries….oooooooooy!
they taste amazing. and there are tons on the vines. i cannot wait. i love berries. love em.

i didn’t shower until jake got home due to being afraid i would miss the a/c guy and i have a hair appt to-morrow that i will have to cancel so i can be here if the dude decides to show up.

one more pic and then i have to go, despite having way more to say, because i am going crosseyed and can’t keep my eyes open…here it is….the sock!!!!

thanks so much for the well wishes…i know everyone always says it, but i know that it helps. and i know from the comments i leave and emails i send to others that have a pet crisis how incredibly heartfelt it really is. it is amazing that you can worry for someone you have never met….but wonderful.

apologies for worse spelling than usual, i cannot figure out the spellcheck on blogger…and i only have one eye open. i swear. craziness.

more to-morrow. i swear it.

xo,
n.

more later

i know i have been a horrible blogger, but there has been a lot on my mind. i noticed in the week before we left for vacation that kahlo, our usually chubby tabby cat seemed thinner. when we got back from vacation, it was very very obvious that she had lost a lot of weight, and when i weighed her, she had lost several pounds. i was worried. we lost a sweet cat a few years ago to cancer and suffice it to say i didn’t handle it very well.

i gave the cats some treats and while kahlo was eating hers she seemed like something was stuck in her mouth. i hear a funky crunch and a second later, part of a tooth came out. on closer inspection, i realized that she had no back teeth on the bottom of one side, just smooth gums and not many on the other side. she throws up all the time because she compulsively grooms herself and is bald in spots from it, and i realize that for a while she hasn’t been able to chew food. not that it is good news, but hopefully that is the only problem. i fed her tinned food today, which we never do, and she actually kept it down, although i had to keep the other cats away and keep coaxing her to eat. later, she was super lethargic and i gave her a regular brand of tinned food, rather than the good stuff, and i got her to eat almost the entire small tin, and a few minutes later she vomited it all up and then some. she wouldn’t come upstairs with me, even though she normally doesn’t leave my side and she feels a bit hot to me, although i dunno if i am paranoid at this point. i cannot deal. it is freaking me out. she has an appointment to-morrow, but…needless to say, everything else is taking the back burner right now. i had calmed down when i had gotten her to eat earlier and she seemed to feel a bit better, but if she can’t keep food down, she will end up in the hospital, which happened before, and if i lost her…i could not bear it. i didn’t handle egon’s death…at all. i fell apart. ok, i am going to sign off before i start blubbering. i will let you know what happens at the vets to-morrow.

xo,
n.

here i am knitting socks in the ocean. does it get better? i don’t think so. i never see photos of myself knitting, although i am going to ask jake to attempt to take more, but i was surprised to see the funny thing i do with my pinky(s) like i am posh and drinking a cup of tea. i think it is a big part of what makes my carpal tunnel flare up.

we got home last night, after a 12 hour drive, of which jake did ALL of. i fall asleep in the car, really easily, so i slept on and off a lot of the way. i worked on my sock, that has been knitted and reknitted several times. today, i think i got things figured out better, i think i have got it. i actually made them open toed so that i could wear them in the warm weather or with flipflops or to spin, i will take photos soon.

we were so so so glad to be home. i missed to the cats horribly, despite my love of the beach, i have a hard time being away from home, although amy took great care of them and for the first time ever peeps did not poop anywhere in retaliation. yay peeps! after 10 years she is growing up! kahlo ignored me for about 2 hours after we got home and then came up to cuddle. pavel is very very close to jake, and i know he gets really upset when he is not around, so he totally lost his cool when he saw his papa.

before we left, i had noticed that kahlo seemed a bit firmer, she is our chubbiest cat, so so cute. when we got home, i noticed that she was noticeably thinner and when i weighed her, i think she has lost a few pounds in a few months, which really worries me. next week i will have to take her to the vet. and if there is something wrong…i can’t even think about it.

i feel a bit out of sorts and unfocused for blogging, so i will go for now, but i will give you a detailed blog with loads of pictures next time. i swear it.

xo,
n.

whilst sitting on the beach, in our chairs on the edge of the water….knitting(!!!) i said to jake how disconnected i felt not being able to check email regularly and not being able to blog whenever i wanted to. i used to write in my journal all the time, but now i blog, instead, and it fills a huge need for interaction in me. bigger than i realized. i learned to make a sock on one circular, using the cat bordhi(sp?) book, which probably would have been a bit easier had i ever made a sock before at all. and i couldn’t go onto knitting help or anything else, so that was frustrating, and then the local knitting shop are dpn users, and i don’t want to mess with them. anyway, i think i have figured it out, the second one will hopefully go a bit more smoothly. i got sportweight cotton/nylon sock yarn that is really pretty and am knitting on size 4 addi naturals, which pointier than turbos. my big gripe with turbos is that they aren’t pointy. i hate that. why addi? why? so, as i was saying, i think i have figured out the basics, and like anything else, once i have knitted something, i don’t tend to use a pattern. will i make crazy patterned socks? leaves and vines? i dunno. maybe not. but this was pretty fun, amazing to see the three dimensional heel developing and i felt like an engineer. even jake thought it was cool. i have pics of knitting on the beach, don’t you worry. and i was able to buy a new cable to load the photos, although at the camera store they told me that card readers are cheap and work well, and i don’t have to constantly try to find where i buried my cable. my guess is that it is under a pile of fiber in the studio. so, does anyone use a card reader for their camera? and how do you like it?

we are going to savannah to-morrow. everyone is very excited to go to the lady and sons, which is pretty near to wild fibres. i always get nervous, as you know, about selling myself. not my yarns, but myself. it is easier for me to pack stuff up and let them speak for their fuzzy selves. the store is gorgeous, i will take photos, and the owners are really hip, for lack of a better word. really unusual things that you don’t see anywhere else. sadly, their website sucks. ah well.

ooh! i got the new issue of knit1 and it rocks! i know people mock the magazine, but i think they are really trying to show people new stuff. and despite the fact that everything in it is made from the same brand stuff, they still manage to make some really unusual things, like the chandelier…but i think it would be cooler to knit a cover for an actual one, rather than a fake one. but loads of amazing things in there, if not things i would make. and they talk about lots of people i know, like knitgrrl herself, or the knitting taggers, or lexi of pluckyfluff fame. and there are some really funny art references, like the girl made up to look like a heroine in a roy lichtenstein painting, or frida! woot!

what else? one of my favorite authors ever, peter carey, has a new book out, that i didn’t even know about (shame on you amy!) an really pissy painter, and so far, it rocks. i have actually been READING a lot here, due to the lack of computer or tivo. so. it happens.

spinning, you ask? yeah, a bit. i feel funny being out of my studio. i am not sure why. i don’t even spin outside at home on the porch or anything because i feel strange. i had some wool/linen (i think) that i had dyed this strange smokey tealy blue and spun it into a single to make a bag or something out of and i wanted to barf the whole time i was spinning it. i have a horrible time with fiber that is not soft. i also spun a two ply out of the same pastelly colors using this sherino roving i got from frenecreek farm. it is very lumpy and textural, it will look gorgeous knitted up. that might be all.

i skeined a bunch of yarn i had from sheep and wool last year, noticing that the one single i had bought that was handspun had been spun not very well. needless to say, last year i had no idea. i just thought it was pretty. whilst winding it, the ball popped off of the winder and went shooting across the room. i realized though, that when you put the ball winder and swift on the table at the same height it works much much much better. jake suggested it to me before and a month later i actually tried it and was blown away. i am slow on the uptake sometimes. most of the time.

we need to get going to meet for dinner at the thai place, but first, i will comment on the dude that called my yarn cat puke…i hope no one thinks that he hurt my feelings. my years at art school gave me a very thick skin when it comes to my work. i feel that it is its own entity once i put it out in the world, whether it be art or crafty stuff, and a miserable little man such as that one, that has no understanding of anything that comes from the heart will certainly not squash this fuzzy soul. i just wanted to point it out to everyone so that he could get a bit of his own back. i tried to send him a nice email to just say that we all have different views and it doesn’t matter. why should it? what makes him happy, unless it is rape and murder, has no bearing on me whatesoever, and vice versa. but thanks so much for all of the sweet comments! especially the hedgehog and the yarn wench, who is not a wench at all, but a master of all things fuzzy and then some…crack me up! oh, and elizabeth from alaska…cracked me up! ha! i love the fact that you guys have got my back. where were you when i was kid? we could have been a force to reckon with. weeeeee!!

ok, off i go. i may not be in touch till saturday. i will try though. i miss you so! i really do. i will be doing a nice big update on the luxe shop when i get home. i can’t wait!

smooooooooooooooooooooooooooooch!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo,
n.

ok, so there has been some mayhem going on in the “art yarn” world, unbeknownst to some of you…i have come under attack from a dork of the highest magnitude who has a knitting blog and went on a bit of a rant about how we suck. the link? i dunno if i should. although, it would be fantastic if he got flooded with comments that didn’t support his idiotic views, one them is that we don’t know how to spin, that our yarns cannot be knitted with and that we are looking to make a quick buck. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. ha. ha. hahaha. ok, i will stop. ok. i am doing it. i don’t care. he wants to slam people he doesn’t know and question our love of the world that is fiber…be damned! you will face the wrath of the blogosphere! and so it is written….his boring picture-less blog. i commented, i really nice comment, especially considering that this yarn was compared to vomit. i will let you read it for yourself. he is a know-it-all that not many compare to, you will be blown away. i don’t know many people that do this for a living that could POSSIBLY do it for the money. are there crappy yarns out there? sure. are there people who pride themselves on knitting stuff that is so boring that bert from sesame street would be excited? oh, yes. do i care? no. if it makes you happy…go for it. if you love my yarn…super! if you hate it, that is fine too. totally fine. to each their own.

as you all know, i think, anyway, i am in south carolina, so we have no internet, causing me to go to barnes and noble and spend 4 bucks to check email and send you a short blog. cause i miss you . so much! seriously. i mean it. i brought my wheel, a ton of fiber, and i am learning to knit socks on circulars. i will keep you posted. i started out with the fingering that i dye, which is super pretty, but i can’t knit something that thin. i will go insane. it takes forever to knit 2 inches. my attention span cannot allow it. cannot. i made a bag from the one skein book, which i plan to line and put handles on when i get home. i swear it.

we will go to savannah this week and my favorite yarn store in the universe (next to kpixie.com) called wilde fibre. they have wheels, a bit of fiber, and wonderful yarn, habu included (!!!), japanese books, and they offer you a “soft drink…sweet tea…coca cola?” i am planning to take photos to post. i swear. although i lost the cable for my camera. amy have you seen it in the house? usb on one end, little square thingy on the other end? amy? please?

otherwise, i had a bad bad migraine most of the way of the 12 hour journey here, and the first two days of vacation. last night i was sure i would have to go to the ER. i didn’t. i was just a bit hysterical. you know how that goes. so i am not sure what the problem is, but i hope i am done with the migraines. i haven’t had bad ones like this in a while.

i will probably come back to check emails again in a couple of days…
smoooooochies!
n.

also, in this dream that had a hundred different layers of suck, as usual, one of my friends had gotten almost the identical haircut and color as mine but acted like she had no idea. so odd. additionally, there were women in my dreams talking about childbirth things and in my dream my dad was telling me just be tough and have a kid or two, and i was super freaked out. i started thinking about my lack of energy and how i would possibly take care of kids. needless to say, i was reading ms. melanie’s blog before i went to sleep. i get alarmed just reading about what other people are trying to do. and let me just say how incredible it is that she has MALE friends that stay up with the babies. i think none of my friends would. in fact, we might not even have friends after that.

i packed up orders and did businessperson sorts of things, went to the post office and then realized that one of the packages had been labeled, but i left the label at home. this is a regular client, so i pondered for a moment if i could remember the address on my own. actually, i could have looked it up on my phone, or at the library, but i didn’t think of it. the post office is like 2 minutes away from my house, so i will go to-morrow. no biggie.

i also decided that i will be shipping first class with insurance and delivery confirmation, so that i don’t continue to pay for shipping out of my pocket, it actually costs a few bucks more per package, sometime a lot more than that, for all of the services i add, and it will get there just a fast. so.

i sent the pattern for the loop stitch necky thing to shannon for one of the books she is working on. and hopefully it makes sense. it actually would make a super cute purse.

what else? oh, i love le pens. they are my favorite pens. my writing looks a million times better with those pens. and they come in really good colors. teal. olive green. brown. but! the are not waterproof ink. i found out the hard way whilst mailing stuff in the rain. sigh.

my friend john from pdx is in town, although, in traditional john behavior, we are supposed to have dinner but i have yet to hear from him. and it is after 6. so. jake wanted to go, but it will be too late for him. but! his wife, lady diana (really) is getting some pressies from me that i was planning to just mail, although the mail might get there quicker than she will get it from john. anyway. some good stuff. like yarns that were not listed on the site. from me to you! and more. so much more!

the yarn store in atlant finally got my samples, the second one, the first never showed up, and made an order, i think the pricing is sorted out, but emailed her just to confirm. so that will be good if it works out. i know i need to talk to some local yarn shops now that i don’t have one that i sell to…i am so sad that they are closing. i am stunned that no one bought it. anyway, i have a hard time calling people and going out to meet them, despite the fact that i have done super duper well everytime i have done it. it isn’t shyness or anything. just my antisocial nature. it is so bad. i wish i wasn’t like that. if there is something going on that i am supposed to come to, i start getting nervous about it and that people will fuss over me and then i will not be able to ditch out, and…i suck.

ok, off to do some work.
xo,
n.

i had paperwork and business sort of things today, but the freshly dyed and dry fiber was calling out to me….pleeeeeease! spin me! fluff me! please! so i did. and my dear friend amy went to the farmer’s market for me because by 4p, when we were supposed to go, i was in pajamas still. i didn’t want to waste time getting dressed, although i did put on a bra. that is saying something. and monkey socky things. so. needless to say, no fun to-morrow, all packing and mailing and banking, etc. ah well. i split my merino top that i had dyed and gets a bit felty into pencil roving and rolled it into balls for ease of spinning to take on vaca, so i have a better idea of what i have. i condition my fiber with fake pantene for smoothing curly hair and i smell like it. and so does pavel, the youngest cat, so i know he has been laying on top of the drying rack covered with fiber. hmmm? busted! he always smells so nice, though. so between the spinning and the prepping fiber, my hands and arms are really hurting. also, my husband, after getting up at 2:30a and getting home from work at 4p, like usual, told me, upon getting into bed that he was exhausted. jokingly, i said, i have lupus and chronic fatigue syndrome! i know tired…and he knew i was joking but looked like a peed in his cheerios. i felt so bad. not a funny joke, but meant to be a joke. i feel like an ass even now writing it in my blog. but i try to be honest. even when it makes me sound like an arsehole. and then he wouldn’t admit that i just made him feel really shit for something he didn’t do. sigh. in fairness, i used to do stuff like that ALL THE TIME and it cracked me up. i didn’t tend to notice that i had really made someone feel horrible. i like to think that i don’t do that much anymore, unless it is someone that i cannot stand. although, my new approach to people that i dislike is to act insane and friendly and just freak them out. i won’t mention any names. although, i act insane and friendly to people i do like, as well. hm. that isn’t good, at all.

i didn’t do anything more than a card for my mom-in-law or for my mom and i feel rotten about it. when i called my mom, she seemed to be glad to hear from me, despite the fact that my brother(s) probably sent her flowers. i have some scarves that i made for her a while ago, super skinny ones, mind you, that i didn’t think she would care about, but when i talk to her now, not often, but she will ask what i am doing in knitting and what they look like, so i think she actually would probably really like them. the crazy yarns are like jewelry to her. sometimes i feel like it is one of the few things we have in common, that we both like sparkly things. i will send some things to her, with apologies for being a crap daughter. nothing new, i reckon.

so…a friend of mine told me that she doesn’t click on many of my links in my posts because there are too many…what do you guys think? i actually make an effort to put tons in there and photos all the time…is it overwhelming? i find most of the great sites and blogs that i read through other people’s sites, so i try to pass on the favor…but please give me input.

what more? i blogged that on grey’s anatomy everything always comes out ok because it is that kind of a show and then…oh man. everything came out not so good. and i cannot believe that she screwed that dude. also, did you notice that she pulled down her pantyhose, but didn’t take them off, yet we are expected to believe that they had sex in that position? seriously? feet up? don’t think so.

also, the new show pepper dennis is super good. i watched it by mistake when it first started and am totally hooked. it is a really great show. oh tivo, why do you make me watch so much tv? well, it is much easier to spin or knit while watching tv(and i like to put it on closed caption and play the stereo at the same time!) than it is to read and do other things. that is hard! i swear i am going back to my pre-knitting, lots of reading, the way it should be. shameful! i have always been a big reader, in addition to insisting on reading heavy, hard to follow, obscure things. i have eased up a bit, but still don’t read anything MUCH lighter. i feel like it needs to be educational or something, or i am wasting my time. this from someone that watches grey’s anatomy and then blogs about it. oop.

ok, i need to transcribe a pattern for shannon’s book…wooot! i may have to reknit it if my original notes make no sense, which they probably do. ay ay ay!

i hope i didn’t post this pic already.

xo,
n.

so, i HAD to watch grey’s anatomy tonite to see what would happen, of course everything will be fine, it is that sort of show, but still. and he asked her to marry him. that is like something my husband would do. i feel like that about him. you know? additionally, when we started dating, he just had this sureness about him, that this was written in stone. no doubts. no worries. i acted like an idiot, i was crazed, he waited me out. and made me feel safe. and it did make sense. like he knew something that i didn’t. why? i still wonder why. he doesn’t seem to have the self-doubt that everyone else has. he just does what he wants to do and makes it work. and if he doesn’t want to do it…forget it. no way.

anyway, so back to the transplants…woah. they have always amazed me. just like having a bad car part and replacing it, or the sparkplugs or wires or fuses or whatever, and then it plugs in and works. just like that. of course, sometimes they don’t work…my mom has had corneal transplants, just stick it on your eye and there it is. cut off your finger, sew it back on. craziness. the complexity and simplicity of the human body is amazing. it blows me away that our organs, etc, all works together and we are able to talk and move and do anything at all.

in other news, i dyed an estimated 6 lbs of fiber, more than half of it was loose, so it looks like a lot. it is all over the drying rack and all over the dining room table, because it is raining and i cannot put it outside. so the cats are probably sitting on it. what can i do? nothing. i did lots more of the muted muddyish pastels that i have been loving so much. amy got to witness, again, my refusal to measure or figure out what i will do ahead of time. after dyeing, i was exhausted, to say the least and had to lay down. i get tired, then really cold and then fall asleep. really really odd. at least i am getting used to how things work with me, and just let it do its thing. what else can i really do?

due to the crappy weather, no drawing outside. again. it felt like it was nighttime all day. elizabeth left at a really good time, because this whole week is supposed to be crap.

i am bringing my spinning gear to the beach, well not ON the beach, but the condo, so i want to make sure that i have loads of stuff to spin, especially because we have these terrible single beds that we push together in our room that are crippling. because jake is 6′2, his feets hang off the end of the bed by more than a foot, 12 inches, i mean. we are going to get an aerobed…(amy, do you have one?) to put on either the floor or on the beds, anyway, for some reason i have a horrible time sleeping there, so i like to have things to do, books, knitting, fiber, but i worry then that i will not have what i need, so i take tons of stuff. additionally, after reading a crazy post about knitting on galactica, i thought about the fact that i would be the one person that had all sorts of yarn and fiber and books and music if the planet blew up, because i have to take it with me all the time, like a nomad. pills, books, skincare, nailpolish, you name it. i have probably got it.

i am really tired. i will knit a bit and then go to sleepies, i reckon.

xo,
n.

*edit so, i am super into augie march, ok, i really really want to hear the a whole cd, but what i have heard was awesome… you can listen to one of his albums on itunes or amazon, anyway, whilst looking on amazon for a used cd from him, i realized that “the adventures of augie march” is a saul bellows book from more than 50 years ago. how embarrassing to have not known. my dad was a big saul bellows fan. anyway, i ordered the book, which is 600+ pages long, to make up for my lack of knowledge. so. there must be loads of adventures in there.

i am not a big grey’s anatomy fan. i watch it, i enjoy it, it doesn’t change my life. i am normally do multiple other things whilst watching it. well, tonite, izzy did something totally insane to “save” the guy that was dying and she is in love with and i literally almost threw up i was so stressed out about it. my stomach hurts. love is a strange thing. the things i would probably do if necessary for someone i love, especially jake or the kitties, or close friends…might be scary. i remember when our cat egon got very sick very fast and i would have done anything to keep him with us. anything other than make him suffer. i wasn’t going to blog tonite because i am exhausted and want to actually read a BOOK…yes, a book, that doesn’t have pictures of yarn or sheep in it, and then saw that and got pulled in and etc…

we wanted to see who would win on survivor, but we knew it would be terry, the most close to perfect man ever. super nice, strong, smart, a fighter pilot, althletic, interesting and a really honest down to earth guy. at the last minute, this chick we had a pact with him, that he had pulled her through to where she was picked the other dude and jake a i decided that we didn’t want to know who won, because it should have been terry. you all know, since rupert left survivor, i haven’t had that light in my eyes when it comes on anymore…and terry…you just gotta love him. he reminds me of an older version of jakie.

we spent the day together and it was really really nice. we had been listening to music on itunes all morning and went to best buy to pick some stuff up, i will keep you abreast of what is good. then we went to barnes and nobles and he got a bunch of guitar books, so he was very jazzed about it, and they were all on the clearance section. so even better. i got some mixed media callage stuff, the one skein knitting book which has gorgeous things in it that are small, inlcluding a bobbled clutch that rocks. in case you are not a crocheter, a few of the patterns in there are crocheted. many of the really cute ones….i also got the new interweave knits, which has great stuff in it. lots of cool things. that magazine is really shaping up. i am pleased that they try to be on the pulse of what’s new and amy singer is on there monthly. good stuff. yay interweave. me me me!

there is lots of other stuff to say, but i am tired, so i will go and read a bit. i meant to call my mom for mom’s day but it was too late. i will call to-morrow and send a card to-nite.

happy mom’s day to all the moms! my mom doesn’t read my blog, but if she did…HAPPY MOTHER’s DAY!!!!!!!!!!

lavendar scented smooochies!
n.

first…a ton of spinning fiber on the luxe site, and some amazing yarns…like what? well…i know, i know, i normally take pretty good photos and these sucketh. sorry. what else? a few new things on the www.luxe.etsy.com site…

what else about etsy? i did a trade for this awesome pillow that she made me custom. she will do custom stuff and does crazy embroidery with her sewing machine. super cute. and! she writes a story for EVERY item. so adorable. i wasn’t surprised to see that she is from portland. we have to move there. have to. there is a super cool craft fair EVERY weekend. and john and diana live there. and the dandy warhols. and donuts filled with nyquil and…the list goes on and on.

i lurve poppies, they are my favorites…my neighbor has these in their yard, which i have been wanting to go out and draw, but it rains and it shitey, so i haven’t gotten to…
i did a trade with…

i got to do NO art stuff whatsoever again today. i had to list stuff and tag stuff and pack up packages and of course there was a new order as soon as i got back. i always feel bad that the person could have had their package by monday or tuesday, but it is only sent out monday instead. so, the big atlanta deal was pending on them getting their sample package from me. i sent it last thursday, priority. to atlanta. from here. packages to sanfranciso got there monday. this one never showed. so, i thought firstly that priority was faster…they told me that if the express truck has room on it, they would put the priority stuff on it. if not, it goes with the regular mail. meaning that it could take up to 2 weeks to get somewhere. and you can’t track it. i was told that you could. so, i am now doing delivery confirmation in addition to insuring it, although that just says that it got delivered to their house, not them. if i make people sign for it, i think people will get annoyed because they will have to pick it up from the post office which is a pain in the ass. hopefully nothing else will get lost, especially because i don’t know how nice they are about paying for insured stuff. you know?

also, the sock yarn is backordered because of the dye-o-rama thing, so i am hoping to get it next week, and then we leave for vacation friday, so fingers crossed. and make sure that you order your stuff soon, because the week after next, there will be nothing shipped. sad but true. there will be tons of new stuff when i get back though. i am bringing my wheel, which is super good because i never sleep whilst there, but i need to get fiber and get it dyed so i have stuff to spin. also, there is this awesome spinning/yarn store in savannah that i am excited to go see again. the have tons of habu stuff. rawk!

so, i packed orders, ran errands, got to see a friend at the post office and talk briefly to another friend on the phone about the constant drama crap around here that makes me want to talk to my cats, my inlaws, by hot husband and not many other people…other than my blog friends of course! ok, actually a lot of people, just not the two faced bullshitty people. i have no energy for it anymore. none. and the older i get, the easier it is for me to write things off. i have a limited amount of energy and i refuse to waste it on crap. i could be making something. why would i want to deal with crap? you tell me! whilst at the post office, i was greeted by a mailman driving by, by name…”hey! natasha!” my friend cracked up. i am a local celebrity. next stop…the universe! i headed home, started listing stuff and continued until i was done at which point i fell asleep with the computer on my lap and woke up when jake called to say he was heading home and we were going out to dinner with the in-laws, i fell back asleep, had strange dreams and he told me that he actually called twice before i answered. after dinner, we got to actually spend some quality time together. and you know what? i never cease to be amazed how much i adore jake. he is hot, sweet, thoughtful, strong, kind, understanding, easygoing, handsome, wears cute clothes, is tall, smells awesome, listens to great music (ok some of it is not my scene, but it isn’t crap) and loves me so much. he is so good to me and i never dreamed i would be with someone so wonderful. there is a saying about loving someone more everyday and that today i love him more than yesterday, and to-morrow i will love him more than today, and it is true. it doesn’t seem possible. i feel giddy sometimes. he will be sleeping and i will put my face into the space between his shoulder and his neck and just smell him and he smells like heaven. i feel like i will implode i love him so much. and anytime that i don’t take the time to just turn off the tv and put down whatever i am working on and turn off my phone and just be with him, sealed off from everything…it is just wrong. it is so important to appreciate every second that you have with the people you love. and i have an amazing anniversary present in mind for him…i am excited about it. i am not sure if i will make it or buy it, because have found someone who will make it. anyway, i have known him more than 10 years and i don’t know how i can continue to feel more intensely for him, but i do. he is my everything. i love you so much jake! i will send your mom 5 mother’s day cards just for producing the angel that is you!

i apparently bought two tattered gardening journals from ebay, they are from the late 70’s-80’s, which i wouldn’t have bought. i have no clue. i dunno if maybe someone just sent it to me. there was no invoice or anything. anyway, the woman cut out things from the newspaper, mainly about gardening, and i will be posting them maybe daily. we will see how that goes. oh shite! i forgot fiber friday again! off to do that.

who has heard about these crazy dudes …gnarles barkley i have only heard the one song, but i loooooooooveedd it!

i am getting really sleepy, so i need to get going but, i am thinking of running some special deals for people doing secret pal stuff…one of the options being that i will put in a cute card, wrap it up purdy in tissue, and put in cute little stuff and send it directly to them if you would like me to. nextly, you can request certain colors in either a commercial spun yarn, like laceweight or a sock yarn, for example, your favorite colors, or your secret pals’ and i will give you a reduced price if you are buying for a secret pal. the sock yarns come in a 1/2 lb skein that would make 2 pairs of superwash socks in fingering weight. if you request a color and get the whole skein, rather than $22 per 4 oz ball, i can give you 10% off so it would be $39.60 for enough for two pairs of socks. pretty good, eh? i will give you 10% off of anything else in the order, as well, as long as you are spending more than $35. i am open to other ideas, as well, so fel free to suggest away! ok? seriously. i am really interested. so get your secret pal something SOOOOPER cool that was made JUST for them! i am planning to start a club for regulars that gives you a perecentage off from each orders. i am still thinking about how it would work. tired and the letters are moving around…i wish i knew how to use this stupid spellcheck. sorry.

xoxo
n.