Tired, must sleep now

"A watched pot never boils."

That's what my Gramama used to tell me, anyway. So, I figured I would quit obsessively checking my Ravelry wait-list status for a few days. Still not on the list yet. Now, there are 3,530 people ahead of me, so if they continued inviting 1,000 a day, I'll be in by Halloween. But, since there seems to be no rhyme nor reason to the number they invite on any given day, who knows how long it may take?

I did, however, score the most unbelievable find at the DAV the other day. I found a XXXL men's sized sweater for $2. It's in a gorgeous cranberry colour scheme, and it's in this fantastically soft and buttery 100% merino wool that's in incredible condition. No felting whatsoever, and remarkably little pilling. It really doesn't look like it was ever worn. Woot! I've begun the tedious reclamation process, and have reclaimed one sleeve and the ridiculously oversized cowl/turtleneck collar. I have 3 massive skeins of yarn already! This is going to be quite a haul, once the entire thing has been reclaimed. I can't even imagine how much it would cost to buy this much good merino right out. I still have all the work of soaking, hanging, re-shaping, and spooling to do, but in the end, it's going to be so fantastic! I have no idea what I'll do with it all. There will be enough, in the end, for a couple of pieces, to be sure.

Just wanted to whine and brag, and now I'm off to bed, as I have to be at work in 6 hours.

Birthday fun tomorrow!

I really wish that Ravelry had done personal invites, where friends would be allotted so many invites to give out to people they know, so that I would have my invite by now. Or at least that they'd take into consideration that it's my freaking birthday, and all I wanted for my birthday is to be on Ravelry with all my friends!!! But now, there's still 8,719 people ahead of me.

I'm pretty proud of dinner tonight. I made home-made chicken and dumplings, and mixed vegetables. David didn't seem too impressed, with sorta bothered me, but, whatever, I know it was good. It will actually be better tomorrow, 'cause that's just how dumplings work. They're better reheated.

Tomorrow is the day we're celebrating my birthday, although it's actually on Sunday. In the morning, we're going to the Southern Indiana Fiber Arts Festival in Corydon, where we will pet sheep and bunnies, touch delicious yarns and talk to other knitters! Whee! Around 8 o'clock we're meeting everyone at Tumbleweed for dinner (not my first choice, but inexpensive and vegetarian-friendly), and then heading to a 10 o'clock showing of 30 Days of Night.

I'm still trying to figure out how to get the pictures off of David's camera and onto my blog. When they sent his camera home from Malaysia, they only sent the camera, and not the cables or the instructions, so we don't really know how to do it. I think we can move them off the memory card without too much trouble, but David's currently on the PC playing a video game. (I'm on the couch with the laptop, as usual.) I guess I could just load the pics ontot the laptop, but it doens't have as much memory space.

Well, I've been babbling enough for tonight.

Birthday countdown and yarn!

First and foremost, I'm down to 9,012 on the Ravelry list! So, not too much longer now. I hope.

The work situation has been getting better. Or, at least, it will be getting better. I'm being moved to a new team next week. So, I'll have a whole new account list, and new clients, due times, and so on, and some poor schmuck will be saddled with my old list. It's part of a new, secretive shake-up that the higher-ups have decided to try, in the interest of weeding out the bad lists from the bad employees. More on this later.

I got one of the kids' Christmas presents done! It's a really cute (if I do say so myself) scarf with a dragon head at the end. It was inspired by a pattern I found online, but I didn't like everything about the way the original looked, so I changed it quite a bit. Once we figure out how to get pics off David's camera, I'll be posting them. I also got a big bag of yarn for my birthday from David's sister. There's two types; one is a fun fur, that I really don't know what to do with (I generally only use fun fur for trim, and this is enough to do an entire dress, if I were so inclined, which I'm not), and the other is a very pretty chenilly/boucly type yarn, that is enough for a hooded vest, which I've been craving.

It's late, and I'm tired, so I'll update more tomorrow. Just wanted to get something down tonight.

Frothing at the mouth

I just got home from the worst day ever! I'm starting to really feel like my supervisor has something against me. I've been telling him for some time that I have too many accounts in the 11-12 block. Yet, he continues to add more. He added yet another HUGE account today. Madonna. Do you have any idea how many times "Madonna" is spoken on news and entertainment shows during the day? About 500-600 times. And every one of those has to be edited and have video set. I don't know what I'm supposed to do. I've asked him to slim my accounts down, or split them up, but instead, he adds more accounts to me to make life easier for his friends. That's the worst part of it. It's not just that he's giving me new accounts; he's taking accounts off other people's workloads because they don't want them, and making me do them instead. I went into the group list after my last account today, and did some comparisons, and I have 20 more accounts than the next highest in our team. I review an average of 4,000 hits a day, where the office average is under 2,000. Seriously, I didn't get any breaks today, and I ate my lunch at my desk, and worked furiously, and still had several late accounts today. I didn't even have time to save my day's work, which just leaves me more trouble and work on Monday. Argh!!!

Oh, and to top off my angry and frustrated rant, it doesn't look like Ravelry invited anyone today. The number ahead of me is still 12,919.

At least it's Friday.

Waiting and plotting

12,919 ahead of me now on the Ravelry website. So, good news is that they're adding new members faster than I'd been told. I was told that they were adding 500 to 600 new people a day, which put me at about 24 days 'til my invite. At this rate, I may get on in close to two weeks. Two weeks. Sure, it's better than nearly a month, but two weeks still seems like way too long to be left out of all the knitting fun.

David just left for the weekend with the guys. They're all going down to a campsite near Atlanta to dress up in strange costumes and beat each other over the head with foam sticks. I miss the old LARP, and Michelle suggested that we go too, but I promised David that I would leave him alone woth the guys for one weekend. Guys need their guy time. So, Michelle and I (and maybe Nikki) are going to Covington to see some haunted houses and then doing the girly sleepover with scary movies thing.

Besides scaring myself silly, I really hope to get the apartment cleaned some this weekend. It's getting to the unbearable point again. I really don't want to be a total bitch about it, but I don't know what to do to get David to help me keep it up. He seems to leave a trail of mess behind him as fast I'm trying to pick up.

Well, I need to call Michelle and verify our plans for the weekend.

Come on Ravelry!!! Send me my invite!

Catching up

So, I haven't been blogging for a while, so I guess I should do some catching up. David's home from Malaysia, and has been for a few months now. They cut his grant period short, which made us happy and disappointed at the same time. He was looking forward to a lot of things he thought he was going to be doing, and I would have been glad to have had more time to work on myself (losing weight, learning the fiddle, etc.). But, neither of us can say for a second that we aren't glad to have our life back.

Since he's been home, things have really gotten right back to normal. Unfortunately, that includes our horrible eating habits and lack of exercise. We've both gained quite a bit of weight back, and really need to work at losing it again. Also, I haven't touched my fiddle, guitar or mandolin in months. I can't bring myself to sit here and squeak and squawk with David here to hear me. It's so embarrassing! He's being uber-supportive and hasn't done the first thing to make me feel bad about it, but I can't help it. I know it sounds awful, and I feel very self-conscious about it. It's my problem. I need to just go ahead and buy the electric fiddle with the silent practice mode so that I can practice without feeling like I'm bothering everyone. Maybe I'll get one for my birthday!

In other news, I signed up for a new, all-inclusive, really cool-looking knitting website called Ravelry.com. They're still in beta, so they're only adding a few hundred a day. I'm currently #40,279 in line, with 13,411 ahead of me in line. I can barely stand the waiting!! I keep obsessively checking my place in line, hoping that I'll jump forward in line dramatically overnight. Since they do a link-up to your blog and allow you to post photos, I'm working on getting my blog updated and I'll be signing up for Flickr too.

I'll do more updating of what's going on in my life tomorrow. David just got out of the tub, and he leaves town for the weekend tomorrow, so I'm going to hop offline and spend some time with him.

Ciao!