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March 26, 2007

Back at work

So here I am. Back at work. Feeling much better, but not particularly happy to be here.

It was nice being home for 4 days. I would really like to find a line of work where I can work from home. I'm just so much more at peace and productive there.

Now Carlos is sick, and sleeping in the guest room, because I am not catching this again.

I haven't been knitting, since the aforementioned Picovili disaster, but I have been spinning more. In case you didn't believe me that I have a LOT more wool that came with my wheel . ..I predrafted everything I have left yesterday.

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March 25, 2007

Weekend Spinning

I stayed sick on Friday and was home again, and did accomplish a lot of knitting (started and knit half of a Picovili sweater), but that has gone to the frog pond and will never be spoken of again.

So I decided to work on some spinning and finished a bobbin and plied more of the wool that came with my wheel. Am I the slowest spinner EVER?

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I still have a fair amount of this wool left which I'm determined to finish before I dip down into my fiber stash. Who knew I was a monogamous spinner?

March 22, 2007

Home Sick, Finish Sock

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This was my plane knitting for my trip to Seattle. Been putting off finishing it.

Feeling slightly better . . . debating whether to take another day to recover. I've never been good at deciding when is sick enough to stay home . . .especially since I've already been sick one day this month, and will have used up half of my sick days in March alone.

March 09, 2007

I need to make time

for the blog. I do enjoy it, but I need to get in the routine of taking photos and posting them. I have been knitting away on Thermal and have things to show you. I would like to get better at photographing (both my knitting and in general) and am thinking of upgrading my digital camera.

Anyone have any tips (or links) to better photography?

March 03, 2007

Frustrated

Yeah, so I've been back from Seattle for a while and I haven't posted anything. I suck.

Again, I had some trouble with re-entry. I did when I got back from London in August, from Philadelphia in November (which was only a 2-day trip), and now from Seattle which was only 4-5 days.

Now, Seattle was a wonderful place, but primarily, I was there to visit my friend Mika, and not the city.

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I wish I had taken photos of her neighborhood, Magnolia, which had the cutest little (which I gather are not ACTUALLY little once inside) Craftsman houses, and beautiful landscaping. However, in typical Jenny fashion, my battery died after taking my only photo in Seattle, on the drive from the airport.

However, I don't think it was Seattle's charm, that made my re-entry difficult. Nor was it returning to C, with whom I didn't speak to once on my trip, although living the single-girl life did make me regret I never had the chance to live alone (not that I'm looking for that chance now). I'm just not very happy with where my life is now. Literally. Where it is. I'm not happy with my job, which is fine, but I don't really like my line of work. I just hate living where we live, and it has hermited me in many ways. I'm pretty sure I just made up that word. I spend a lot of time at home (and my hobbies of knitting, spinning, and doing nothing make that easy) and don't get out there and live my life, or meet people, that may make living here easier. Major Catch-22.

Being stuck here, has made it difficult to deal with the second problem. I hate my career, and the fact that I'm good at it actually bothers me. Mika made a point to me on my trip that she found it ironic that she was at law school, and I was selling in corporate America and she felt that I was wasting my intelligence at my job. I thought about that on the whole flight home -- I truly feel like I am getting stupider every day. That being said, because I hope to move in the next year, I don't feel comfortable trying to make a career change or go back to school when I don't know when or where or with whom I am going.

Things have been getting better with C lately, and I think we are going to make it. Although I did just start a hormonally based fight with him, and he's downstairs watching soccer alone while I drink a beer upstairs before 2 in the afternoon. His contract at his awful job ended on the 28th, and he is free to seek other opportunities without having to pay his company back for our relocation.

Oh, you want to know about knitting (I haven't been spinning much lately). I finished one cabled sock, finished one Rosedale sleeve, have made some progress on Thermal and a stockinette sock I started for my trip. Unfortunately, no pictures though, because again, in typical Jenny fashion, I have yet to charge the damn battery for my camera or find my cable.

I'm planning on making some minor changes to the site in the next few weeks so look out for that!