Coming up for air

I didn’t intend to let 10 whole days go by before I wrote again, but the past week has been a whirlwind of various hardware hiccups and frustration. Somehow though I’ve managed to get all of my pattern orders from TNNA printed out and boxed up and ready to go. Most of them went out early this week, and the last 10 boxes are stacked on the floor beside me right now, awaiting pickup by the USPS tomorrow. Now Eric won’t have to listen to me whining that I need a shipping department! (At least until next year….)

I didn’t make it to my knitting group again tonight, and I’m really missing the girls a lot lately. Now that my workload should calm down a bit, I hope to be able to make it more often.   I’ve found that since our meeting place moved about 8 miles further away from my house it’s all too easy to say I don’t feel like going “all the way over there” at the end of a long day…. But I’m paying a price for that laziness, because I miss my friends!

Oh, did I mention that the newest Knitting Matters design is done? It’s called Mandy — what do you think? I have yet to get a good picture of it for the pattern, but I really like it.  The yarn is Tranquility by South West Trading Company, a blend of bamboo and wool that’s really nice to work with.  (I’d like to do more designs in it actually.)  The pattern isn’t written yet, although I took orders for it in Columbus.  So I’ve got to get busy and get it done so I can ship it to the shops that are waiting patiently.

Now I also need to take care of some follow up stuff from TNNA too though.  There are website updates (adding the new retailers to my shops page), writing my 2 newsletters for July, and getting busy with lots of new designs.  And I know there’s more…where is that “to do” list?

Before I go I have to say that the sudden death of Michael Jackson today is shocking and very sad.  I know his life has been controversial over the past decade or so, but that doesn’t detract from the 35 years of awesome-ness he gave the world before that.   When he was great, he was fantastic!  Just watch some of the clips of his performances they’re showing on tv now and you’ll remember the MJ we all loved.  I’ll always remember him as the sweet little boy he was before all the surgeries and tabloid insanity.  It’s such a shame that someone so gifted ended up the way he did.

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