Trying to Improve

Okay -- so it has been more than a week, but I am trying to improve on my posting. Not quite caught up yet from all that has been going on, but now feel like I can at least imagine what being caught up would be like!! This week I am going to be revamping my blog page some so that should provide ample opportunity to for to post again (before another entire week has passed).

Not much knitting has been done in the midst of trying to get caught up, but I see much knitting in the future. I also still owe you a picture of the cool gift from my Secret Pal! Stay Tuned!

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Back to Real Life

So -- has anyone noticed that I haven't posted in 6 weeks. Well, probably not since I haven't been that great about posting prior, but this is an extremely long dry spell. This time, however, I have a real excuse -- drum roll....

The beginning of February was Stitches West and preparing for a show is always insane, but then one of the booth workers came down sick. Next my Dad was taken to the hospital for "unknown" reasons -- changing my Mom's priorities (another booth worker down). Then the day before my friend from KC who is going to run the booth is supposed to fly out to CA -- huge storm!! She makes it, my new helper gives up her weekend to help and my husband pitches end for the weekend. Helper and husband don't know much about knitting! So the first day of the show the KC friend comes down sick -- I can't be in the booth -- I am teaching. In the end -- we all get home safely and the show went find albeit a bit strange, but I will save that for another post.

Now, the following morning from returning from the show, Mom requests that I pack an overnight bag and come up to the hospital -- she has gotten a hotel there.....Two weeks later, Dad is finally coming home which means that I can finally come home and try to get caught and back to real life.

So for the past 6 weeks -- here are the highlights

Prep for Stitches West
Teach and Vendor at Stitches West
Move into the hotel
Train a new employee via the phone
Learn way more about how the body works than I ever wanted to
Know the entire nursing staff on a first name basis
Teach my husband how to process checks for the company
Manage doctors and hospital staff to make sure Dad is taken care of
Process CC charges and orders from Stitches
Spend more time managing doctors
Re-work office space to make it efficient for two
Bring Dad home
Continue to move office space and clean (a lot)!
Begin to see the possibility of getting caught up

In the mean time, my secret pal sent me a great gift which I will get photographed soon and up on the next post. I am going to try and be good (again).

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SP4 is Here!

Secret Pal 4 is started and I promised to post some pertinent information about myself. So for starters -- 10 things you would want to know if you were my secret pal:

1. I am generally a yarn snob preferring natural fibers -- but it is really all about how it looks and feels regardless of the material.

2. I own a mail order yarn company -- so look for manufacturers I don't offer on my web site!

3. I have no favorite colors. However, I look very good in that ugly "Army Green" color, I generally collect black yarn and when I am drawn to something, it is usually in the purple family.

4. I have no food allergies that I am aware of, but I would probably be better off if I was allergic to sugar and fat because I am in need of loosing about 20 - 30 pounds.

5. If I could have the ULTIMATE gift, it would be a complete set (read all sizes, all lengths in both circular and DPN) of both ebony and rosewood needles.

6. I can not remember the last time I knit from a pattern that I wasn't test knitting.

7. Although I still find knitting to be very fun, I cannot remember the last time that I actually knit just for fun -- there is always an alterior motive.

8. Entrelac is my favorite technique.

9. I love jazz music and have it on often.

10. I am turning 40 this year, and although it really doesn't seem like much of a deal to me, my younger husband keeps freaking out that his wife is so old -- but I love him anyway!

So there is a start! More later -- I am in the middle of getting ready for Stitches West in 10 days!

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Miss Me?

My guess is you didn't. I am really not that exciting to read. But my actual life on the other hand is fairly exciting. Things are really starting to move for me. So much so, I am trying to figure out how I can hire someone to help out with the business side of the business a couple of days a week.

She has already started helping and I can see with a bit more time, she could really make a huge difference, but exactly how I pay for her is a fairly significant issue -- to both of us!!!

I really am going to try and start bloggin regularly again, but in the mean time, be patient with me. Stitches West is coming up in a few weeks -- and it is going to be a bit insane until then!

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Not So You Would Notice

Not that anyone would actually notice since I have been so bad about updating, but I will be off-line until after the first of the year. We are off to PA to vist Arlis' family for the holidays. It has been several years since we have been out -- so it will be good to see everyone!

Happy Holidays!

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