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Marginal
Weather: Cold, sunny. No snow yet. Current projects:
Projects on hold. I'm bored with these!: A lace scarf out of hand painted Merino. This is a test project for the business. I might start to sell this yarn. Haven't finished it. Not crazy about the colors. Maybe I'll make it into socks instead. Charcoal gray alpaca sweater. I have misplaced the instructions. Should be interesting to finish it without them. Also crocheting a never ending blanket. No quilts in progress
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New Year's Eve already. The time is simply flying for me. I
started an entry on Christmas but never had time to finish it.
This week has had ups and downs. Ryan broke up with Ryanne the day after Christmas. He had been acting very strange ever since he came back home. He was sleeping and not eating. When he would start to talk with me, he wasn't making sense. He was talking in circles almost. He was both exhausted and high strung at the same time. I had begun to believe that he was on some kind of drug. I had met with Ryanne on Wednesday night to try to soothe her. Poor girl's heart was broken. They had been dating for just over 2 years. It was breaking my heart too. He spent Wednesday, Thursday and Friday home here, doing almost nothing, but he did start eating again. Slowly, the dark rings around his eyes and the haggard look of his face started to fade. When I got home from work, he told me that he wanted to call her. They talked and fortunately for him, she took him back. It seems his problem was that he was burned out from this semester. He was exhausted both physically and mentally. He just needed a few days to himself to decompress, but he didn't know how to tell her that. So he broke up with her. Men, young and old, can be such idiots! So for now, we are back to normal. I'm so very glad. I felt as though I had lost a daughter. Christmas was quiet and small. Just the four of us opening presents. I made one of Ryan's comfort meals, meatloaf, mashed potatoes etc. We exchanged small items. Dennis and I have been pressed for cash as both of our cars needed work this month for a total of about $3,000. Neither Ryan nor Ryanne are working at the moment so their gifts were boxes of candy and such. Dennis and I don't really need anything so that was fine with us. I had bought Prudence this month and the only gift I had requested was a new umbrella as the cats had destroyed mine. I bought a couple of books for Dennis on antique bottles. He also surprised me with the 4th season of Monk on DVD. We love that show! We're having a Monk-a-thon this weekend. Ryan had requested specific books for Christmas so I had ordered them earlier in the month from Amazon. I made Ryanne the scarf and mittens. I also bought her some basic equipment such as a rotary cutter, ruler and cutting pad for quilting. She wants to learn how to quilt now. I also picked up bits of fabric from a store that was going out of business. She has enough to get her started now. I've went to two Christmas parties this month for work. The first was our department party and grab bag at a local Italian restaurant, followed by an evening around the bonfire at Darlene's house. She lives just down the street from both the office and the restaurant. I like short drives. The party this week was the Division party at an extremely fancy, exclusive banquet facility that sits high on a cliff over looking the CT river (St. Clemens in Portland if you must know) Both parties were free with the exception of drinks. I think back to when #1Boss would have his party and expect us to bring food as a pot luck dinner. How do you spell cheap? I still like the new job and I am ingraining myself with my coworkers in the unit. So far, so good. I finished the mittens that I was making for my supervisor. She loved them so much she wore them to the morning meeting to show them off. The folks in the department are getting used to seeing me walk around the building with my knitting. I think I'm viewed as a bit eccentric. That's okay. I've been called worse. Another person requested mittens and Darlene asked for a scarf. Since I knit because I enjoy the process, I told them I would do it. I also seem to prefer to knit small items. I need to finish quickly so I have immediate gratification. Someday I'll knit another sweater. Our orders for the business have picked up a little, but not as much as last year. I don't know if it's the sign of the economy or if it's just that we don't have enough variety of products. It's expensive to stock inventory and try to anticipate what will sell. Our yarns seem to be the slowest sellers. The needles and spinning fiber fly out the door. I like the Louet yarns but I think folks tend to go to actual yarn shops for yarn. The bunnies are doing well. I brushed them all and clipped some knots last evening. All the hutches are clean, water is fresh and they are reasonably warm. I have cardboard and an old blanket on top of Henry and George's cages for warmth. I also made Henry a little house out of a cardboard box. He seems to like it. I had to clip him way down last week as he closely resembled a Chia Pet. His head looked minute and he had a big puffy body. His fur was still the baby down so it had matted horribly. He seems much happier now, but I don't want him to be cold. Today we must go to the grocery store and the feed store. We need to stock up on food for all the critters and teenager. Tomorrow we may get freezing rain. The eastern sky at this moment is red. Something is headed our way. Stay safe and be careful if you go out tonight. Happy New Year!
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