Sometimes I Wake Up Grumpy... Sometimes I Let Him Sleep

Today was a very gray day for both Tom (my dear husband) and me. The weather outside was off-and-on cloudy, and neither of our offices have windows, so we were both tired all day long. We went to an art exhibit opening at PJC, but we were both too tired to really enjoy it, so we came home early. Right now I'm trying to be quiet while he naps. I was going to work on some beadwork, but I feel like my wrists have been encased in concrete, so I'm going to slack off again tonight.

There is a meeting on Sunday for people that like to make jewelry and other things using metalworking techniques, and I've been invited to go. I've actually been invited for months, but this is the first time I've actually had time in my schedule to do it. I'm very anxious about it, though, even though I know the ladies I know in the group are friendly. Most of the people involved are/were in the night jewelry class at the college when I worked as the night gallery guard, so they would see me working on stuff and vice versa. I haven't really worked in metal in a couple of years, though, and I can't find the pieces I did create. I'm determined to go to this meeting on Sunday and be friendly, but really I'm scared to death.

I have to make an important phone call now; I will try to write more in a little bit.

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

Tell me if you do this... You take pictures with your digital camera, and then don't bother to rename them when you move the images to your hard drive; you just leave the images with numbers instead of names. Then you organize them into folders called "Camera Dec 07" or "Spring PA Trip," even though some of the pictures in the folder have absolutely nothing to do with that (you just downloaded all the pictures on the chip). Okay, so maybe you don't do that last part- maybe it's just me. I've been looking for three days for the 60 or so pictures of the hats I've made, and I'm about to give up. Having said that, I will find them tomorrow, no doubt.

So, what have I been doing the last few days? Coughing until I felt like my chest was going to turn inside out, working, and trying to drag myself up out of a depressive cycle. I still managed to make a few things, like a couple more hats, more afghan pieces, and dinner. I ran out of yarn, so I spelunked in my craft room for a bit and tried to find some of the necklaces I've made. I found about fifteen necklaces, still in perfect shape, so that gave me a little bit of hope. I found a few more I need to fix, but that will at least keep me busy, until I get some more yarn. When I think about trying to photograph everything I feel a little panicky, but I'm trying to break things down into little steps so I won't get overwhelmed and quit entirely. (Anybody else do that?)

A Matter of Hat

For the past couple of days I've been home sick with a stomach virus, so I haven't accomplished as much as I'd like. I did make a few hats, so that's something.

I make hats for Covenant Hospice clients and others using the Knifty Knitter by Provocraft. When I began making them three years ago I could crank out as many as five a day, but once I started taking more classes at PJC I had to cut back on my production. I normally don't make that many during the summer months, since, after all, I do live in Florida, but someone donated a lot of yarn to Covenant and a lot of it was perfect for hats. Tonight I was feeling blue, and hat making is something I can do while on auto-pilot, so I finished three. They're quite pretty- shades of purple, lavendar, and pinks. I'll have to get some more yarn so I can make hats for the male clients; the hats I made tonight are decidedly feminine.

Tomorrow my dear husband, Tom, is taking me thrift shopping in the morning, and while he's hanging with his friends in the afternoon I get to stay home and work on whatever I want. I'll probably finish the hat I have on the loom now, and then I might make some yo-yo's or something. I'll keep you posted.

Have a great weekend,
G