Kiss My Knits!

Look what my cousin made for me. Hee hee!



ETA: My cousin’s wife has a LJ now, as .

So I was up early this morning because I had a nightmare. I had been working in The Office, yes the one from TV with Michael Scott as my boss. In my dream it was a radio station, and I managed to get a job interview at CNN.

I had arrived at their office and had learned all the details of the sample story they wanted me to write and was just about to start, when I heard Emily wailing from the other room. Seems her new child care person had refused to let her go to the bathroom and she had peed on herself. They’d brought her to CNN to wait for me, but she was getting more and more upset. I had to cancel the interview and take Em home because she was so unhappy.

I’m sure there was no symbolism whatsoever involved in that dream.

On the up side, Emily is totally on board with going to the zoo today! It’s unbelievable, considering what a homebody she’s turned into. Plus she’s still in her jammies and is playing her favorite computer game, so those are other factors which might make her say no. Her favorite phrase is “maybe later” but she’s going for this. Yay!

We’ve gone to the NC Zoo many times, but never the Riverbanks Zoo, so I think we’ll try that one. After I get some coffee. Not to jinx, but it looks like a good day after all!

One more. Man, you can always tell when I’ve had my coffee, can’t you?

Things I wish I had a picture of:

My daughter in her swimsuit, walking back to the hotel room. Her left arm is crabbed, her fingers curled into a claw. She’s got her left foot turned to the side and is dragging her leg. Her head is tilted at a 45 degree angle.

Me: What are you doing?

Her: I’m a zombie!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!! That’s mommy’s little weirdo.

Landscaping irritation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDaszN9ByxM

I… I…

Nope, I got nothing.

One thing that I wanted to be sure I did this weekend was to take time for a walk on the beach. My life gets very busy, and it’s easy to let my thoughts be filled with nothing but what I have to do. I stopped and stood for a long time, looking at the waves and letting my feet sink into the sand. It took a while for my brain to stop buzzing and become more calm.

Oddly, one thing I kept thinking was that I’d like to dye a yarn to match the color of the sand around my feet. And I realized that I really, really like dyeing. I’d like to explore it more. I’d like to try more techniques and experiment with self-striping and develop new methods for achieving the results I want. I’d like to do all the mental work involved in figuring out ways to get consistent results from batch to batch, and to produce in larger quantities.

In short, I want to sell. I actually like selling on the internet. The trick now is acquiring the expertise, and finding the time, money, and space to make it happen. I don’t know if this is something that I can do within even a year. My life is busy as it is, and there’s not a whole lot that I can or want to let fall away.

It may be a while, but I’m glad that I had the time to be still enough to learn this.