fabulous fabulous weekend!
last night i dreamed i was exorcising fire demons!
they wanted to go into a tractor, but i wouldn't let them. too dangerous.
also i have officially begun the process of migrating over to dreamwidth. i am 2eclipse over there as well. what's amazing is that they allow you to import all your lj-settings (though it does take a while). so i hope to figure out how to maintain both journals. mainly i just agree with the ethical policies and censorship policies of dreamwidth and don't approve of lj's. so i will be (eventually) _paying_ for that service instead of this one.
(thanks for your generous offer, dybbuk67), but i got a code from someone who got them sooner than you did).
this weekend was as amazing as i thought it would be!
friday i went to the grocery and mostly took it easy. i was really tired after the long week.
saturday myra came over and did some gardening for us, for which we are very grateful. i got up and went to the butcher so ross would have steaks, etc. for grilling on sunday, and then headed out to shepherd's harvest.
the fairgrounds are only about 15 minutes from my house. i spent about 6 hours there on saturday got to see so many people! selkie_b, and elise and john, and renee and heather kieweg and amy were all there, plus i met some new people! i spent WAY too much money.
i got the hand-made combs ross wanted to give me as a belated xmas gift. and they are amazing! i also got a skein of gorgeous alpaca yarn, split a rose-grey alpaca blanket (what would be called a fleece on a sheep) with heather($18), and picked up the 3rd prize winning corriedale fleece (which was only $35 for about 5 lbs of fleece!!!!). it is a lovely charcoal grey and renee swapped me about 2 lbs of her white corriedale fleece with a longer staple length for about the equivelent amount of mine....so i have SO many new options. all of them amazing to touch. i actually went home and asked ross if i needed to take the combs back because really they were a lot more than i figured they'd be....more than regular mini-combs anyway. regular full combs tend to cost more like $300 which is a LOT more than i spent. i got a great deal. renee bought a new angora bunny from my friend amy, who is perhaps the smartest marketer i've met. nothing like walking around a fiber fair with two baby fiber bunnies to get them sold! renee came back and had dinner with me and we knit/spun for a while in the evening.
there will be pictures when i can get around to it.
sunday i spent about 5 hours at the fair but discipline held for the day except the materials fee for my lace-knitting class. which was an excercise in pure frustration. my wheel was acting up. it kept pulling the fiber in before i could get any twist into it, and i couldn't get the tensions right. i didn't want to waste the lovely fiber from the class on wheel adjustments when i paid to LEARN from it. i did get to take the fiber home and take good notes and i will work on it there. i did learn a lot just by watching and listening.
i also spent time with some amazing people, victoria and kerry and darla and renee were all there and it was great to see them.
it felt like it ended too soon.
susan came over and we had dinner together and watched spirited away, which she had never seen. she crashed at our place. it was really nice to have the company.
monday i woke up with a love note from ross on my computer inviting me to play hooky and spend the day with him.
twist my arm, why don't ya!
susan hung out with us in the morning, but we had all afternoon to ourselves before we went to john and darla's for dinner. they are so easy to be with.
i feel so refreshed!
c is still giving me problems, however.
get this.
a couple weeks ago i get a phone message saying she needs to tell me something bad. i get the message about 12 hours after she called. so i talk to her online later that day and tell her i got the message late.
she says "okay" so i figure things are fine. we talk about other things and she never brings anything up.
then last night i came home and i see that she called - but there is no message at all.
today she tells me she's never calling me again because she's called me twice when she needed me and i wasn't there.
okay, so i DO have a problem with leaving my phone in my pants pocket or my purse and not getting my calls promptly. and when i am with company, i tend not to answer until later because i consider it to be rude. but i do check my messages once i get them and call people back when i can. i did have my phone on me and was answering it the whole time i was at the fiber festival this weekend. i explain this. but she says something to the effect of, "no worries. i understand my level now."
i'm inclined to just let this go, but i'm seriously pissed at her. it is not fair to hold me accountable for HER not leaving a message and HER not following through when i try and contact her back. it is not my fault. i'm so done with the unnecessary drama. i have better things to do with my time.
they wanted to go into a tractor, but i wouldn't let them. too dangerous.
also i have officially begun the process of migrating over to dreamwidth. i am 2eclipse over there as well. what's amazing is that they allow you to import all your lj-settings (though it does take a while). so i hope to figure out how to maintain both journals. mainly i just agree with the ethical policies and censorship policies of dreamwidth and don't approve of lj's. so i will be (eventually) _paying_ for that service instead of this one.
(thanks for your generous offer, dybbuk67), but i got a code from someone who got them sooner than you did).
this weekend was as amazing as i thought it would be!
friday i went to the grocery and mostly took it easy. i was really tired after the long week.
saturday myra came over and did some gardening for us, for which we are very grateful. i got up and went to the butcher so ross would have steaks, etc. for grilling on sunday, and then headed out to shepherd's harvest.
the fairgrounds are only about 15 minutes from my house. i spent about 6 hours there on saturday got to see so many people! selkie_b, and elise and john, and renee and heather kieweg and amy were all there, plus i met some new people! i spent WAY too much money.
i got the hand-made combs ross wanted to give me as a belated xmas gift. and they are amazing! i also got a skein of gorgeous alpaca yarn, split a rose-grey alpaca blanket (what would be called a fleece on a sheep) with heather($18), and picked up the 3rd prize winning corriedale fleece (which was only $35 for about 5 lbs of fleece!!!!). it is a lovely charcoal grey and renee swapped me about 2 lbs of her white corriedale fleece with a longer staple length for about the equivelent amount of mine....so i have SO many new options. all of them amazing to touch. i actually went home and asked ross if i needed to take the combs back because really they were a lot more than i figured they'd be....more than regular mini-combs anyway. regular full combs tend to cost more like $300 which is a LOT more than i spent. i got a great deal. renee bought a new angora bunny from my friend amy, who is perhaps the smartest marketer i've met. nothing like walking around a fiber fair with two baby fiber bunnies to get them sold! renee came back and had dinner with me and we knit/spun for a while in the evening.
there will be pictures when i can get around to it.
sunday i spent about 5 hours at the fair but discipline held for the day except the materials fee for my lace-knitting class. which was an excercise in pure frustration. my wheel was acting up. it kept pulling the fiber in before i could get any twist into it, and i couldn't get the tensions right. i didn't want to waste the lovely fiber from the class on wheel adjustments when i paid to LEARN from it. i did get to take the fiber home and take good notes and i will work on it there. i did learn a lot just by watching and listening.
i also spent time with some amazing people, victoria and kerry and darla and renee were all there and it was great to see them.
it felt like it ended too soon.
susan came over and we had dinner together and watched spirited away, which she had never seen. she crashed at our place. it was really nice to have the company.
monday i woke up with a love note from ross on my computer inviting me to play hooky and spend the day with him.
twist my arm, why don't ya!
susan hung out with us in the morning, but we had all afternoon to ourselves before we went to john and darla's for dinner. they are so easy to be with.
i feel so refreshed!
c is still giving me problems, however.
get this.
a couple weeks ago i get a phone message saying she needs to tell me something bad. i get the message about 12 hours after she called. so i talk to her online later that day and tell her i got the message late.
she says "okay" so i figure things are fine. we talk about other things and she never brings anything up.
then last night i came home and i see that she called - but there is no message at all.
today she tells me she's never calling me again because she's called me twice when she needed me and i wasn't there.
okay, so i DO have a problem with leaving my phone in my pants pocket or my purse and not getting my calls promptly. and when i am with company, i tend not to answer until later because i consider it to be rude. but i do check my messages once i get them and call people back when i can. i did have my phone on me and was answering it the whole time i was at the fiber festival this weekend. i explain this. but she says something to the effect of, "no worries. i understand my level now."
i'm inclined to just let this go, but i'm seriously pissed at her. it is not fair to hold me accountable for HER not leaving a message and HER not following through when i try and contact her back. it is not my fault. i'm so done with the unnecessary drama. i have better things to do with my time.