Getting on with it.
I have been neglecting the blog. This, I believe is due to two things. Let me enlighten you.
1.) The To-Do list on my dry erase board is getting longer every hour. The list is breeding, and there is nothing I can do about it. Where last week there was just normal, christmas related chores, now there the list has extended to the kind of mind-nummingly menial tasks that I would prefer to ignore and hope that they do themselves. Examples of things in this category are mending my clothes and writing my college applications. But really, I should get on that last one.
2.) The past two weeks have been that busy that I have barely had time to breathe, eat and stroke yarn. This is not healthy, and I'm working on getting that in check.
edit: I wrote this on Sunday morning. It's Thursday afternoon now. That's how things are going. I did have the last two days off work, and managed to get the to do list down to mending clothes. I even even pulled out all the clothes with problems and made them into a nice neat pile in the sewing room. I'll get around to them on the weekend.
College applications are done and just need to be signed by a justice of the peace before I can send them off on monday. I'll know in 10 days whether or not I'm in. I have high hopes.
I am not doing any christmas knitting this year. I am rationalizing this by telling myself that nobody wants to recieve wooly gifts in 110 degree heat, even though I know that this is not true. My gift reciepiants love my knitting, no matter the season.
My dad came home on monday and it's absoloutely fabulous to have him home. I forgot what wonderful comfort it was to know that there are two parents there. Today we had lunch together and then he came with me to the electronics store where I'm trying to sort out the ipod cable deliema.
Let me fill you in on the rest of this saga.
All the cables and devices and pretty much everything with wires in it that was in my checked luggage when I came home from the USA is broken. No longer works. Gone. Luckily, my camera and ipod were in my carry on and are fine. I can't explain this, and neither can the airline. My travel insurance doesn't cover it and it's just a giant pain in the ass.
So when I got home (this is six weeks ago) I went into the local apple retailer to get a replacement cable. They don't stock them. They have to order it from Sydney. They'll call me when it gets there.
6 weeks go by and no call. I've been to busy to stop in and see about it.
I go in on my way home from guitar lessons and the punk ass kid behind the counter tells me that becasue I don't come and get it in time that they sold it to somebody else. They can get me a new one. It'll be there at noon on tuesday, but I have to pick it up by 1pm or else they'll sell it to somebody else.
I go in at 12.30 on tuesday to find that they ordered the wrong one. They'll sned it back and have the new one here on thursday (that's today).
I went in today on my lunch break and its not there. They say they'll call when it gets there, which should be later this afternoon. I tell them that I'm at work so they can't call. Then, and this is the best bit..
punkass kid(from now will be shortened to PAK): "do you have an answering service"
me: "yes, but I didn't turn it on today"
PAK: "well, can you turn it on?"
me: "no. because im at work. and if i wasn't at work, then there would be no need for the answering service anyway."
PAK: "ummmmmmm..what?"
me: "do you speak english?"
PAK: "uhhhhhhhh.. I'll get the manager"
me: "dont bother. If I wanted to see the whole primate family, I'd go to the zoo"
well, not that last line. I just told him that I'll come in and check again tomorrow. I wish I could have thought of something good to zing him with. All I can say is that if I dont have my cable that I paid $15 for six weeks ago tomorrow, some ass will be kicked. Any suggestions of best ways to handle this will be more that welcome.
In knitting news, I have discovered the most wonderful mail-order yarn company ever. It's called bendigo woollen mills, and you can email them at sales@bendigowoollenmills.com
They'll send you a lovely little envelope filled with color cards and order forms and they'll give you a 10% discount for your first order.
And it's incredibly cheap.
Superwash 100% wool is $10 for 200 grams! thats $2.50 per 50g!!! I'd been paying $6.50 for cleckheaton, and this is as good as, if not better quality.
Shipping is free on orders over $30 and it came in just 3 days!! Incredible!
I don't know if they ship outside australia, but it would be worth emailing them and asking.
Look at what I got for $66!
Theres 600g of 100% cotton to make this
and 1kg of superwash merino to make this
The colors in this photo are more true-to-life than the other pictures
I know thats alot of blue, but I like wearing it, and it looks good on me, so I figures, why not?
These are next in line after the socks and the edmund barton cardi which will look like this when it is done
I'm excited.
ps. i promise near to daily bloggage from now on. I'm getting organised!! woo!
1.) The To-Do list on my dry erase board is getting longer every hour. The list is breeding, and there is nothing I can do about it. Where last week there was just normal, christmas related chores, now there the list has extended to the kind of mind-nummingly menial tasks that I would prefer to ignore and hope that they do themselves. Examples of things in this category are mending my clothes and writing my college applications. But really, I should get on that last one.
2.) The past two weeks have been that busy that I have barely had time to breathe, eat and stroke yarn. This is not healthy, and I'm working on getting that in check.
edit: I wrote this on Sunday morning. It's Thursday afternoon now. That's how things are going. I did have the last two days off work, and managed to get the to do list down to mending clothes. I even even pulled out all the clothes with problems and made them into a nice neat pile in the sewing room. I'll get around to them on the weekend.
College applications are done and just need to be signed by a justice of the peace before I can send them off on monday. I'll know in 10 days whether or not I'm in. I have high hopes.
I am not doing any christmas knitting this year. I am rationalizing this by telling myself that nobody wants to recieve wooly gifts in 110 degree heat, even though I know that this is not true. My gift reciepiants love my knitting, no matter the season.
My dad came home on monday and it's absoloutely fabulous to have him home. I forgot what wonderful comfort it was to know that there are two parents there. Today we had lunch together and then he came with me to the electronics store where I'm trying to sort out the ipod cable deliema.
Let me fill you in on the rest of this saga.
All the cables and devices and pretty much everything with wires in it that was in my checked luggage when I came home from the USA is broken. No longer works. Gone. Luckily, my camera and ipod were in my carry on and are fine. I can't explain this, and neither can the airline. My travel insurance doesn't cover it and it's just a giant pain in the ass.
So when I got home (this is six weeks ago) I went into the local apple retailer to get a replacement cable. They don't stock them. They have to order it from Sydney. They'll call me when it gets there.
6 weeks go by and no call. I've been to busy to stop in and see about it.
I go in on my way home from guitar lessons and the punk ass kid behind the counter tells me that becasue I don't come and get it in time that they sold it to somebody else. They can get me a new one. It'll be there at noon on tuesday, but I have to pick it up by 1pm or else they'll sell it to somebody else.
I go in at 12.30 on tuesday to find that they ordered the wrong one. They'll sned it back and have the new one here on thursday (that's today).
I went in today on my lunch break and its not there. They say they'll call when it gets there, which should be later this afternoon. I tell them that I'm at work so they can't call. Then, and this is the best bit..
punkass kid(from now will be shortened to PAK): "do you have an answering service"
me: "yes, but I didn't turn it on today"
PAK: "well, can you turn it on?"
me: "no. because im at work. and if i wasn't at work, then there would be no need for the answering service anyway."
PAK: "ummmmmmm..what?"
me: "do you speak english?"
PAK: "uhhhhhhhh.. I'll get the manager"
me: "dont bother. If I wanted to see the whole primate family, I'd go to the zoo"
well, not that last line. I just told him that I'll come in and check again tomorrow. I wish I could have thought of something good to zing him with. All I can say is that if I dont have my cable that I paid $15 for six weeks ago tomorrow, some ass will be kicked. Any suggestions of best ways to handle this will be more that welcome.
In knitting news, I have discovered the most wonderful mail-order yarn company ever. It's called bendigo woollen mills, and you can email them at sales@bendigowoollenmills.com
They'll send you a lovely little envelope filled with color cards and order forms and they'll give you a 10% discount for your first order.
And it's incredibly cheap.
Superwash 100% wool is $10 for 200 grams! thats $2.50 per 50g!!! I'd been paying $6.50 for cleckheaton, and this is as good as, if not better quality.
Shipping is free on orders over $30 and it came in just 3 days!! Incredible!
I don't know if they ship outside australia, but it would be worth emailing them and asking.
Look at what I got for $66!
Theres 600g of 100% cotton to make this
and 1kg of superwash merino to make this
The colors in this photo are more true-to-life than the other pictures
I know thats alot of blue, but I like wearing it, and it looks good on me, so I figures, why not?
These are next in line after the socks and the edmund barton cardi which will look like this when it is done
I'm excited.
ps. i promise near to daily bloggage from now on. I'm getting organised!! woo!