Jeans and Sneakers

The internet is down here at work which leaves me with a whole lot of nothing to do. I’m already on edge with other multiple concerns, and this lack of distraction isn’t helping.
It didn’t take the german guy here long to ask if I have a sister. Funny, that.
I’ve decided that I’ve been dwelling too much on stupid negative things in my past, and its really dumb to be sad right now, when everythings going so well. I’m going to work on it.

Sold my RX-7 yesterday.  Rob handled it so when I came home from work it was gone.  It hit me harder than I expected it to, but I wasn’t really surprised.  I already wasn’t feeling well and when I saw the spot in the driveway where it used to be, it just made me feel worse.  I came inside and went straight to bed.

I had a lot of plans for today.  Cleaning, mostly, but also I had an idea for one of Rob’s friends, he’s putting up a website, and he’s never done it before, and boy. . .it needs a little helping hand.  But anwyay, I had an idea for it and I was all excited at the prospect of making another website, but I started playing around with it maybe an hour and a half ago, and I’m just not feeling it right now.  He didn’t even know that I was going to try to help, so it’s not like I’m letting him down.  Rob had said he was going to make up a page for him anyway, I just figured if I did it, I could add it to my “portfolio”.  Only, I really don’t feel like doing it anymore.

And now I don’t know what I’m going to do with myself today.  Rob’s over at a friend’s house helping with his car, and so I’ve got the place to myself, but something’s wrong with my hard drive or something, the oldest of my mp3’s are playing funny, so I can’t listen to music, I tried the radio, but I guess our receiver’s antenna isn’t hooked up, and I’m just frustrated from trying.

I guess I’ll put a movie on and knit some.  But now my mood is down, and Rob’s gonna come home and want to be all cuddly and I’m just going to be blah.

For the past two weeks or so, we were very worried about our chinchilla, Turbo.  He had one of the symptoms of malocclusion, a genetic rodent defect that causes their teeth to continuously grow faster than they can chew/file them down by eating or gnawing on things.  Usually chinchillas with this problem have to be euthanized.  You can probably understand our concerns.

Today Turbo had an appointment with the vet.  He’s going to be ok.  Some of his teeth had grown beyond their usual length, and he had irritated gums and an absess that was causing him trouble when he tried to eat.  The vet clipped down (or filed, I’m not sure, I wasn’t there) the problem teeth, and gave him some medicine for the pain.  They said he should be eating normally again tomorrow.  We’re so glad that we’re not losing our little turd.  :]

In knitting news, I’ve successfully knitted to row 42 (I think, it’s in my car so I can’t check right now) of the Hemlock blanket.  I’ve been knitting on my lunch hour so that I have no distractions.  Just me, the sun, my car, some music, and knitting.  It’s really relaxing.  Especially since with my now focused attention, the lace hasn’t given me any problems.

Also, someone on Ravelry mentioned making the Razor Lace Cami in Cascade fixation.  I’ve had my eye on that pattern for awhile, but I never thought of using fixation.  I have some!!  2008 is really turning out to be the year of the stash!! I’m going to try and make it till 2009 without buying any new yarn.  YAY for cute summer top!

Work is going.  Most of the novelty has worn off, but it’s still interesting.

Other than that, I’ve not much to report.

Normal creative people see things they like and get inspired. I see things I like, and feel guilty about not making things.

We finally got out this weekend, we went bike riding at a state park. It was a little bit more windy than I would have liked, but it was fun.

I found something else to obsess over, but I probably won’t do anything about it, it costs money, and right now, money is tight. I have ideas for stuff I want to do, but I’m having a hard time getting started. I had quiet time to paint yesterday, but I didn’t. I didn’t know what to paint, I didn’t feel like breaking everything out, and having to clean it up afterwards. I’m having thoughts about my room but I don’t know… There’s ideas I have for things I want, an when you come right down to it, its really not my house. Where if it was MY house, it wouldn’t be a question of if but when. :/

So sometimes Craig’s List is really awesome for deals.  I haven’t done but one load of laundry since I’ve moved.  The need for a washer and dryer were becoming dire.  The situation was even worse than it should have been, because I had my heart set on those awesome new washer dryer sets that you see in ads everywhere that look like a child’s drawing of rocket ships, and also because I had quit my job at the beginning of March.  My funds were limited, even though I’ve since acquired a new job (which is pretty awesome by the way.) , I haven’t yet gotten paid.  I don’t even know what my bi-monthly checks are going to look like yet.

Anyway, rather than dredge anyone reading this through my financial issues of the moment, suffice it to say that I had to settle, and quick.  I looked on Craig’s list, and found someone looking to sell their 1 year old washer dryer set for a really modest fee.  Sweet.  It took an entire evening to go pick them up, they were about an hour from our house, and we could only pick up one at a time with the cherokee.

But they’re here, and after a slight wiring debacle, they’re working, and I’ve already got some fresh-smelling clothes.  Sweet.  And I got a cute comfy laundry basket from Target. While we were there, we saw a new product. . .laundry detergent for dark clothes.  Rob picked some up, as most of his clothes are black.  I wonder if it’ll work.

In other news, my job is pretty cool.  I’m working with things I enjoy working with, graphics, text layouts, websites, projects with actual finished products that make you feel accomplished, it’s good.  I come home feeling good.  Even the people are pretty awesome, you can joke with them and stuff.  It’s nice.  Hopefully it lasts!!  This week I have a Marketing seminar to go to, during work hours.  I wonder if my business cards will arrive before then.

I’ve given up on the crosswalker socks for now.  I wanted a longer cuff, but the pattern is like the jaywalkers in that, the zig zag stitch is not very stretchy, and if you make the cuff longer, you have a hell of a time getting your foot in past the heel.  That’s the second time something’s gone wrong with this yarn/sock pattern combo, and I just decided to put it away.  I’ll come back to it later when I’m feeling more patient with the yarn.  In the meantime, I figured I’d get some stashbusting done, and use the rest of the navy Cascade 220 Heathers from my dad’s sweater on a Hemlock Ring Blanket.  The only problem is that I keep running into a problem on row 35, and can’t seem to figure out WTF is going wrong.  I’ve even joined a knitalong to try and help me figure it out.  (Note the knitalong link in the sidebar.  I wonder if this’ll start a trend, I’m usually a pretty solitary knitter.)

Sooo, I ripped it out for the second time yesterday, and reknit the whole thing, only this time I put in a lifeline on row 26, before the leaf separation begins.  I was chugging along, knitting the pattern, and BAM!!  hit the same problem at row 35.  For the third time.  I did get some hopefully helpful insights from some people on the knitalong, so I’m going to try again today.

I have to admit, this problem is making me pretty crazy.  For me, there’s nothing like a little lace not working out properly to make me feel like a complete imbecile.  Especially when seemingly everyone else in the knitting world has no problems with it, or at least, not where you’re having problems.

Damn I’m craving some bacon or corned beef hash or something.  That’s slightly weird.

Anyway, I’m going to try again today.  I’m pretty much stuck at home anyway, between the laundry, and the fact that this guy is supposed to be calling me to come out and see my RX-7.  I still really don’t want to sell it, but it’s not worth the effort to fix, when I can get another one with power windows and locks for pretty cheap.  Hell, I might even get a different generation eventually (but the 1st gens will always have my heart, seriously, I think to me, these are one of the hottest cars in existence.)

I know this is running really long, but it’s MY blog, and I don’t think anyone really reads it anyway, so screw it, I was looking for old friends from middle school on Myspace last night.  While doing that, I found a friend from high school who I’d been in contact with last year, but then we lost touch.  She’s back on long island now, and she’s a spinner!!  I’m trying to not get my hopes up, but I miss having people to hang out with, and stuff.  We’ll see if anything comes of it.

Waiting for the warm weather to STAY, I want to get some use out of those rollerskates!!

The first week at the new job successfully completed.  All in all I feel pretty good about working there.  I can only hope that the job and I continue to agree with eachother.

Tomorrow I’m going to ICON, a sci-fi/anime/all-things-geeky convention near here.  Looking forward to it.  :]  Possibly might get an autograph from one of my favorite authors.

I’m looking forward to getting a good night’s sleep.  I haven’t really gotten the hang of my new sleep schedule yet, so I’m much anticipating sleeping in.

Wow. The day is over already.

I got there and they had me fill out paperwork, and begin working immediately. I’m a little overwhelmed, but only because I wasn’t expecting them to throw several projects at me at once on my first day. Nothing I can’t handle, I think, it was just surprising.

I love my desk, there’s even a little under-desk space heater. My computer is new, and I have permissions to install stuff.

I can’t tell you the last time I was up and ready before work long enough to sit down at my computer and hope that someone else was cracked out enough to have already sat down at their computers and blogged or something. I have about 40 minutes until I have to leave for my first day at the new job, and I’m a wreck.

My plan was to wake up super early so that I could make myself breakfast. But now that I’m here, I’m not really sure that I want to eat anything. Feeling kind of naseous, an egg sandwich might just tip the precarious balance of my stomach. I fully plan on picking up a cup of coffee on the way in. I really should eat something.

Here’s to feeling sick on the first day of a new job!