work stuff

So, the public announcement happened and I got moved at work. 

I'm finding that although I am excited about learning something new, I'm not as okay as I had thought I'd be.  My previous position was dealing with specific accounts and a particular set of products.  I've worked with them for a few years now, and I had to say good-bye to them this morning. 

I know I'm handing them off to a very technical engineer.  I know that they will be well cared for and that their environment is in good hands.  But we were a team, and I know them as individuals with real lives and families instead of just people who I talk with on the phone sometimes when things go wrong.

I will miss them.

better late than under the weather

Today, I had the distinct pleasure of giving my Dad his first Serious Scarf.  It ended up being a little bit bigger than he had asked for, but he was pleased enough with it to offer to model it outright.  I didn't even have to ask.

The photos are going to be a little off because I was on uneven ground, as was he, and the background is misleading due to the interesting architeture of the backyard vs the house there.  Plus it was waaaay too cold for me to want him outside long, even with the wool to wrap in.

This photo is a fair idea of how the simple pattern repeat looks overall

A little more red than real life, but not too bad color wise.

This shows the length.  It was way too cold to have him out without a jacket... or cardigan maybe....

But I think that this photo pretty well sums it up

In his chair in front of the bookshelf, menaced by my youngest.

My Mom calls it a half an afghan, and it is actually not a bad description.  It's for those times when you don't want a whole cover up, but you want a bit of extra snuggly warmth.  He seemed really pleased, and I'm already contemplating his next one in peacoat blue.

This would be the other thing that made taking pictures difficult.

I'd be mad, but he's cute.  He gets away with a lot for that grin.

I'm looking forward to tomorrow!  Tonight is the last night to enter the giveaway.  I unfortunately found out that I am stuck in training all morning every morning this week so the winners will be posted after I get home (around 3PM Eastern).  I apologize for the lag, but I know there's no way I can possibly get the post done before I drive to work, attend the training, and then drive back.  I work out of a home office right now, and sometime later I'll get into what I had to do in order to get the ability to do that.  But at the moment, I'm just sadly contemplating the lost knitting time.

Until tomorrow!

Once again, life confounds

I'm sensing a trend where roughly every other post is a non-picture post.  I did take some pictures, and I've almost finished typing up my Quince & Co yarn review.  In the not as fortunate column, my husband has started classes on Tuesday nights, so I go direct from work to mama time. 

Ordinarily, that wouldn't bother me.  But I've discovered through recent experience that I mistype links or screw up sizing my pictures (meaning I am saavy enough to re-size them, but not saavy enough to keep from, say, saving them someplace I will never ever find again until I reformat.) if I have to put off posting until after shorty is asleep.

I've entered the 3/4ths done stage of the first Serious Scarf.  This is usually the point in knitting where I end up putting in my time and wondering why the end of the knitting never seems to get any closer.  I've knit up 6 skeins out of 8 and will wind the next two tomorrow morning.  Additionally, I need to find a spot in my house that is a good backdrop for finished object shots.  The perpetual rain we've been having is just not condusive.  I know re-blocking won't hurt the shawls but, really?  I don't think I desire needing to block them in the middle of taking pictures.

Tomorrow is going to stink.  My husband has an all day work class, and then he's off for Man Night (another rousing game of D&D).  So I'll be alone pretty early until really late.  I'm hoping to get the editing done and have a nice, shiny picture post for the morning.  Until then, I leave you with little man's artistic endeavors.

Mixed media by 4 year old

Not a bad use for a "battle-axe"/ propeller

Until then, ta muchly.

that's always fun

So, this weekend we found out that my husband and I are going to have days off in common for the first time in almost 5 years.  This is exciting.

It also means that our income is going to be cut by 10 % and our child-care costs will double!  This is also exciting.  But not the same way.

I did do knitting this weekend, and I have some things I will take pictures of tonight for posting either tonight or tomorrow morning.  I need to take a little time to figure out the long-range consequences of the changes and how we'll be dealing with them.