One Crazy Fiber Lady

It was a busy week, followed by a long busy weekend and now another very busy week. Not too busy to have a very enjoyable lunch with a good friend today. Ignoring the whole train derailment that had me arriving late to the office, I took a much needed break and later reluctantly went back to the office. We definitely have to do that more often!

Work is definitely nuts. I thankfully don’t have a lack of things to do, which we know is a bad thing, but does interfere with the whole blogging business. I honestly can’t remember the last time I was able to make it through my bloglines subscriptions. I might be going off and learning a new programming language, Java, courtesy of the employer. Nothing is in stone yet, I have a couple of projects to finish up before the decision is made but it does look like I’m going to be spending some time converting applications from one platform to another while rewriting them. Gives me a good chance to clean up alot of the mess that I inherited from my predecessor. Not to mention learning another language is never a bad thing. Still, been a lot of change over the last year that has had me a tad unsettled.

There are some things that are settling down nicely. Other than the custom glass shower doors in the folks’ bathroom, everything else is done. D O N E done. Saturday, mom and I took the monkeys for a trip to Ikea (which isn’t all that much of a trip as the Paramus store is 5 minutes from home) where I needed to buy a throw rug or two, a new dresser and some other doo-dads for the new room.

Sunday, Dad and I went to visit one of my storage units to pick up some much wanted items. Look what came home!

My beloved Lendrum Saxony is back! I missed her terribly. I so totally forgot what a lovely spin she is. You can also see the new red throw rug that I bought for my room. I also got my 27″ tv out of storage, as well as the Tina wheel. Dad surprised me in allowing the Tina to live in the entry foyer as the wood looked good against all the other natural wood in that area of the house. Cool. I was wondering what corner of my room I’d have to tuck it as the two lendrums are already there.

The return of the wheels kicked off a two day spinathon. I FINALLY finished up the Pink Cadillac roving from Crown Mountain that I’ve seemingly been spinning forever. I know it hasn’t been quite that long as I bought it after moving into the house last April, but geez, I can’t remotely remember when I started spinning it. Good news though, after 5 hours of plying, and thank goodness for the Majacraft winder, I now have a massive skein of sockweight. I have no idea of the yardage as I just couldn’t face counting the loops I’m planning on some knee socks with a pair of socks for the girl monkey in the leftover. I really don’t doubt that I have enough in this 8oz skein to accomplish this. Now the question is where in the sock knitting queue does this fall?

I’ll leave you with some kitty zen. This was naptime on Sunday. I quietly spun some lovely blend of corrie/alpaca/angora in a champagne color from Chris while the little ones slept next to me on my bed. Aren’t they cute?

Craft on!