Don’t drink and blog

…okay, so I won’t. But let’s just say I’m considerably more mellow and approachable than I was half an hour ago when I got home from work.

It’s been and insane week or two, starting last Friday. (Yes, it’s been two weeks since this past Friday, or at least it’s felt like two weeks). Thursday was nice – I had the day off and went down to Huntsville for a day trip. There’s a yarn store there – the kind of yarn store that sells real wool, and many different varieties of it, too – along with two (count ‘em – two!) bead stores and several other neat little shops. Then Friday and Saturday were spent wrestling with the staff schedule, Saturday night, Sunday and Monday night there were parties, and this coming Friday I head home for almost a week. My dishes are stacking up, my laundry isn’t done, and there is a considerable amount of dust on my stairs. The bathroom? Let’s not speak of it for now.

Other things not worth speaking about – the Christmas presents I still need to buy, and the Christmas baking I need to do before Friday morning.

Monday night’s party was actually the Christmas gathering of the North Bay Knitter’s Guild, which I attended at the invitation of two women I met last month at a craft tour. We had started talking about knitting, and I expressed a desire to join a knitter’s group (nothing like a group of knitters to motivate you to get off your duff and finish a few projects), and they told me about the guild. I emailed back and forth with one of them, which is how I got out on Monday night – they’re a lovely bunch and I can’t wait for the January meeting. Also, I may have volunteered to make a pair of handwarmers like the ones I made for the Knitting Olympics for someone, as long as she supplied the wool. The best part was getting a pattern for a pair of mittens one of the other managers at work had been telling me about – someone at the gathering was making a pair of shadow box (or Newfie) mittens, and I asked if she could send me the pattern. Lo and behold, they actually had multiple copies with them!

I haven’t forgotten about my NaNo story. The bad news is that I’m not going to post the whole thing – only excerpts. The good news is that I’ll post excerpts from 2006 AND 2005! It’s just a matter of having a free evening to do so, which might not be until after the holidays. But I will post them! I promise!

Other not-so-interesting news.

* I am officially sick to death of Roger Whitaker. Not just Roger Whitaker, but the two Christmas songs of his that keep being played over and over and over and over and over and… you get the picture.
* Christmas songs I am not sick of – the John Denver and the Muppets CD my mom sent me!
* After watching the library copy of season 1 of Veronica Mars, I went out and bought myself season 1 AND season 2 for Christmas, and watched all of them last week. That show is awesome.
* There is no day so wretched that it can’t be made better by the liberal application of white wine. This is not a recent discovery – a friend of my mother’s told me this when she found me in her kitchen one day after school, when my car had broken down for the 51st time that day (luckily, in front of her house) for no obvious reason, and I was on the phone with a parent (I can’t remember which one) who was asking, “Did you leave the car lights on and kill the battery AGAIN?” She handed me a glass of white wine and said, “Here – this is medicinal.” Truer words were never spoken.