Generic Update
I'm wearing my brown, cabled, hand-knit sweater this morning. My favorite part of it is the hood. I plan to put a hood on the purple sweater, too, which is coming along very nicely. I have completed everything up to the point of rounding off the sleeve cap. I should finish that part tonight and build up the back neck portion. After that, all I'll have left will be weaving the shoulders together, knitting up the hood, and (gasp) cutting open the steek.
As for finishing the front, I plan to knit a long, narrow strip of cabling and attach it to the front, including going around the hood. All told, I should be able to finish this weekend. Thank goodness, because I never want to see it again.
Tomorrow is payday, and we will be completely done with Mark's student loan. It's a measure of how hard we've worked that I'm more excited about making this payment than I am about Christmas.
After the first payday in December, I'll be free to quit my job if I want. Our agreement was that I would be able to quit after we had less than twenty grand to pay off, and we'll be there after December 12. However, if I work an additional three weeks, turning the corner into 2009, the company will deposit $1000 into our HAS, which is mine to keep. Also, I'll receive five full days of paid time off. So those three weeks are gravy. I can work three weeks, half of which will be spent on Christmas break, for an extra thousand in cash and week of leave.
Meanwhile, we figured out we can pay off everything by July at our current rate. If I'm working through January anyway, doesn't it make sense to work the extra six months to just be done?
What's really tearing at my heart is that I would end up working through the last half-year of Burgundy's Junior High year. I'd really like to be able to get involved at the school and focus on Burgundy for that time before she heads off into high school. Over the summer kind of doesn't count. She'll already be in high school through the German language course and the band stuff. This is a very tough call for me. I'm glad I don't have to make it for a couple of months.
I'm in another meeting that should be over right now, and I am ravenous. I've already demolished a box of raisins, and I'm ready to eat my badge.
As for finishing the front, I plan to knit a long, narrow strip of cabling and attach it to the front, including going around the hood. All told, I should be able to finish this weekend. Thank goodness, because I never want to see it again.
Tomorrow is payday, and we will be completely done with Mark's student loan. It's a measure of how hard we've worked that I'm more excited about making this payment than I am about Christmas.
After the first payday in December, I'll be free to quit my job if I want. Our agreement was that I would be able to quit after we had less than twenty grand to pay off, and we'll be there after December 12. However, if I work an additional three weeks, turning the corner into 2009, the company will deposit $1000 into our HAS, which is mine to keep. Also, I'll receive five full days of paid time off. So those three weeks are gravy. I can work three weeks, half of which will be spent on Christmas break, for an extra thousand in cash and week of leave.
Meanwhile, we figured out we can pay off everything by July at our current rate. If I'm working through January anyway, doesn't it make sense to work the extra six months to just be done?
What's really tearing at my heart is that I would end up working through the last half-year of Burgundy's Junior High year. I'd really like to be able to get involved at the school and focus on Burgundy for that time before she heads off into high school. Over the summer kind of doesn't count. She'll already be in high school through the German language course and the band stuff. This is a very tough call for me. I'm glad I don't have to make it for a couple of months.
I'm in another meeting that should be over right now, and I am ravenous. I've already demolished a box of raisins, and I'm ready to eat my badge.