Saturday, April 18, 2015

When I fall off the wagon, I fall hard!

I fell off the yarn wagon yesterday at the Interweave Yarn Fest. My daughter actually pushed me, hahaha. I brought home 2 gorgeous,sparkly, skeins of sock yarn. Oh yeah, I am part crow, because anything shiny grabs me!

Western Sky Knits Twinkle Sock in Rainbow Bright & Greenwood Fiberworks Star Dust in Watercolor

Both are destined to become socks for the daughter ;)

Friday, April 17, 2015

Spring in the Rockies!

Yesterday it snowed in the morning, we got at least an inch out of it, but it was warm enough that it never stuck to the pavement. By afternoon it was rain mixed with snow. It rained all night, and finally stopped a little bit ago. Just in time to go to the Interweave Yarn Fest! I've been on a yarn fast since January, but I think I may fall off the wagon today. Looking at pictures, I have already spied some tempting sock yarn... :)

Wednesday, April 01, 2015

Er, Ummm

Oops. Somewhere along the way I wrote a big long post. I never posted it.

So what's been going on? Well, nearly 4 months ago I decided I was fed up with being taken for granted and given the same old promises to change things by my boss, over and over again, only to have him do nothing, just like the previous time. I walked out. They can Make More Happen with less, just like they expected me to.

Frankly, I gave 6 years of my life to that P.O.S. company and they never really gave a crap. My husband on the other hand, was hired by a new company. His starting rate was higher than mine after SIX f-ing years. He's now gotten a raise, and a chance at even more $ come July in a new position with the same company. So I am taking my time looking for a job that I will hopefully be happy at. And hopefully, they will appreciate me.

So now I find myself gaining back all the weight that I never actually meant to lose, but lost anyway through pure stress and constantly missing lunch because no one even noticed I was still stuck in the freaking corner. Time to stop being such a couch potato, hahaha. The weather this winter has mostly been unseasonably mild, so I have no excuse but pure laziness!

I have managed to get a lot of my TBR list read, and multiple squares worked on my knit crazy quilt. It's honestly been nice to not have to be anywhere at any given time, to do any given thing. Low on milk? No problem. Kiddo needs to be somewhere as soon as school is out? Okey dokey. New book in at the library? Off I go. The one place I am avoiding like the plague at the moment though, the yarn shop! I have quite a bit of sock yarn bits and bobs, so I am knitting up a storm. Maybe, some day, my crazy quilt will be done, haha.

Anyhoo, back to my book.

For me.

It's been a long winter. Mentally, I feel even worse off than I was before, though things are finally looking up. I abandoned the gym. I...