Annie's Blog

TGIF.

I say again–TGIF.

Between staying up too late reading or working on projects and getting up way too early with Baby Luke, aka The Paperweight, I am about ready to hit the sack right now for the rest of the weekend. But I won’t…besides, I stopped at the video store on my way back to the office after a meeting this morning and got The Black Stallion for Hannah and I to watch this evening while Eric is at his Boy Scout meeting. I really want Hannah to like horses (self-serving interest here, especially if we end up getting a bigger house with some acreage).

In fact, the realtor sent me some links yesterday afternoon. The first is a house I really like the looks of (and the square footage doesn’t hurt, either). It also has an attached two-car garage, which I kind of like the idea of because it will keep DH within reasonably easy reach (whew, that sounds bad, doesn’t it?). But for right now, when the kids both enjoy spending time with both parents, it’s nice to be able to pass them back and forth easily without having to go hiking across a yard. Anyway, here’s the link for the first house.

These next few houses are also pretty cool, and more intriguing because at least two of them come with more than four acres. Not that we’d be doing any serious animal raising on less than ten, but the extra space is nice to think about. Here’s the link to some other houses we’re looking at HERE .

I can just imagine spinning on the porches or decks of these houses…especially the modular-looking house with the view of the valley–not sure exactly what the view is like on this particular house, but in this area, the valleys truly are beautiful.

My event yesterday went really well, and ought to get some coverage in the Louisville Courier-Journal, as well as in the Governor’s Office for Technology “Techlines” newsletter. There’s a chance there’ll be some other minor coverage as well, but we’ll see. Keep your fingers crossed for me, especially for the Courier-Journal coverage (look in Wednesday’s “Neighborhoods” section).

OK, time to go back to work. And the sooner I finish work, the sooner I can get home and pick up the scramble project…wouldn’t it be nice to finish the rest of the six inches this weekend and start on the fringe???

–Annie

Well, the great fiber weekend I never posted about was just that–a fantastic fiber weekend. Friends and family from the Center of the Fiber Universe came to picnic and party at my house on July 12, and between the margaritas, hurricanes, food, and fiber from my MIL, I think I can honestly say that a good time was had by all. And the kids were truly impressed by the humongous television and Harry Potter in surround sound…

And now I’m getting ready to go on another trip to Mom and Dad’s–a whole week this time of nothing but fun, sun, sand, fishing, crabbing and sailing. I can’t wait. I’m bringing yet another pair of self-patterning socks to knit (still the ones for DH listed below, although I already finished the matching little pair for DS Luke), as well as a catspaw shawl that I’ve been working on in alpaca from Peru for two forevers. Wouldn’t it be nice to finish it in time to wear this winter/fall? Sigh. I just hope I have the sticktoittiveness this time. And let’s not mention that other shawl Viki and I were working on…

In the meantime, I’ve gotten the godforsaken Friendship Spinners newsletter finished…I think Sandy Topy (the program chair) is more than a little miffed at me…oh well. She finally sent me her materials on July 28, and the newsletter is going out today (August 8). I think that’s pretty good, considering I didn’t get the stuff until a MONTH after the deadline. I don’t mind writing stuff for the newsletter, but I’m just not privy to the discussions about what and where things will happen with the “guild,” and so I couldn’t just “make it up.” Plus I think she was a little perturbed that I’d tried to verify where the August meeting was going to take place…but since I didn’t have the info from her, I was trying to get it on my own. Anyway, it’s out now (at least over e-mail), and the print copies will go out tonight or even this afternoon, assuming I can sneak the copying in.

I still don’t much like the “guild.” I think there’s too much of an “in” group that runs things, and they don’t seem to be very welcoming of new members. But hey–the best way to subvert is from within and by example…so in September (which will be the first gathering I’ll get to go to in a while) I’ll bring nametags for everyone and lead an introduction exercise…

Grumble. Don’t want to go back to work. But work I must.

–Annie (dreaming of socks from handspun…)