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My house is so full of stuff right now that we just have little aisles allowing us to travel room to room, and 2 seats and 2 sleeping spots cleared. That’s it!

Must clean, the dust bunnies are going to eat me.

Must clean, the dust bunnies are going to eat me.

Must clean, the dust bunnies are going to eat me.

(On a saner note, still banned from video game controllers/handhelds, knitting, crocheting, etc. Also, I have to rearrange crafting area. When I can reach it again…)

So, life was sort of derailed around here between job application/interview (didn’t get it), US presidential election, and pets/the boy trying to get sick. -_-

I fell off the bandwagon a few weeks ago and picked up several pieces of fabric from the $1-3/yard fabric from an area WalMart. Several of them will go towards Christmas gifts, I think, so that’s my “get out of jail” card. ^^

Now I just need to get my crafting area cleaned up and to pull myself away from the computer long enough to actually create those Christmas gifts, eek.

Oh! I almost forgot to add… Yesterday we went to our local RenFest. In addition to a couple of Christmas gifts for my parents and the spending of my birthday money (thanks Tammy!), I picked up about $30 worth of polished stones and sliced geodes for jewelry making. This, thankfully, is an once-a-year expense, so I’m not counting it either. ;)

Little Dee : The Sea Shanty

Ohemgee.

Columbus Day? What’s that? >.> (pogle and I both forgot about today’s holiday and tried to mail my mother’s belated birthday gifts…oops!)

Have a list. We like lists here:

1. Thumbs/hands are pretty painful right now, although I keep trying to play with yarn. I’m not so bright sometimes. >.> I need to clean my crafting area so that I can sew instead. I’m looking forward to playing with the patterns I purchased with the credit from Sew, Mama, Sew!

2. Root canal today! Yay! And another in my future, plus potential surgery, fillings, and caps. Oh, and wisdom teeth removed eventually. Awesome sauce.

Maybe they’ll do front surgery and wisdom teeth all at once…then I wouldn’t have to go back to OMG SCARY oral surgeon again! I would just have a mouth full of misery. :P

3. I think this “stash diet” is going to be a bit permanent for awhile. Oh well, at least I’ve still got lots to do! If push comes to shove, I’ve got several cross stitch kits around. Those are like lace when it comes to money spent per hour investment (ie low amount of money for the amount of time it takes you to finish the thing!).

Wooo! :P

The silver lining is, of course, that I can do anything at all to expell some of this artistic energy. I’m grateful for what movement I have in my hands, my stash, my gadgets (Hello PC, MP3 player, and DS Lite! I love you!), and a husband who lets me stay home and play while we figure out what’s going on with my hands.

And a little corner (here) where I can go to whinge, because I refuse to whinge in real life. I hate burdening other people with my problems, since ultimately my problems aren’t that bad (I have a very happy marriage, health & dental insurance, an emergency fund, etc). Especially with the world (not just the US) going a bit wonky economically–I’ve totally got it good. And now I’ve been reminded of why.

Little vents like this are just necessary once in awhile to help me keep my perspective. :)

Now for more podcasts and gentle playing with yarn.

P.S. More scarf pictures are still forthcoming, they just got delayed by my teeth trying to secede from my head. :P

Woo! It rocks to be me at the moment. I’ve got several more scarves to photograph, but probably won’t feel up to it for several more days (aka when the antibiotics kick in). Currently occupying myself with a squishy Malabrigo single crochet scarf, though. I love that yarn, and I think its nature (single ply) applies itself well to crochet.

If it ever comes to the point where I’m only able to do a couple of knitting/crochet projects a year, I’d do them in this yarn! Definitely top of my list for refilling my stash once I burn through its current contents. Unless I learn to spin, which is a whole ‘nother pony. >.>;

Okay, so maybe not *fun*, but I found it fascinating enough that I continued to do it way beyond my original intentions (finding out how much it costs to travel to our nearest Post Office):

The terms nearmart and farmart are my husband’s way of identifying the WalMarts in our area, because for some reason he does not know/refuses to accept “downtown” as a term. :P

This makes me very glad that we’re good at combining trips, and that pog is willing to do errands after work sometimes.

I have been cleaning and rearranging things as it is raining outside. I have quite a collection of craft books. Shame on me for having too many- NOT!