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I’ve started to get so damned frustrated with how little time I have to work on things. I know it’s a temporary condition, I know I should be sitting back and enjoying my last baby’s babyhood, but let’s face it: when I’m not in any state to relax, I’m not in any state to relax, and that I might one day regret not enjoying it more is no way to talk myself into enjoying it now.

Besides, I know from experience that I won’t remember any of it anyway. Sleep deprivation kills my memory.

Something has to give, though. I spent 2 1/2 hours this morning trying to write a new listing and never did finish. I’ve got a gang of other things to do for the shop, in terms of just shopkeeping and promoting and I really, really can’t keep up with it right now. Hell, I’ve hardly had time to poke around Ravelry, and the sweet folks who tested for me at the ‘Ville probably think I’ve fallen off the edge of the Earth.

We will not speak of my kitchen floor. *shudder*

I think for the moment I’m going to focus on getting things made. I have a bunch of ideas floating around in my head, and I’d like to capture them before they’re gone. The selling needs to come after I have things to offer for sale, you know? The shop definitely needs to be better stocked. I’d like to have the banner/avatar redone, too. I have absolutely no time to figure out how to make those just now.

Also, the house cleaned. Because really, that’s the other component of my “day job” and it’s got to get done.

So, priorities in order, I’m off to stumble through some more of my day. In the rain. That we need, but it’s so not helping me stay awake…

Between all of the car drama this week and a couple of good nights of sleep, I’ve got all I can do to stay awake today. You know how when you’ve been sleeping badly for a while and you get a night of really deep sleep it makes you feel really, really tired all over again? Oh, yeah. It cooled off quite a bit here and it’s just been awesome. I’m so ready for summer-summer to be over. I love summer-fall, and I think it’s here. Been able to feel it in the air for a few days now…the heat comes back, on and off, but you can tell it just came over for coffee and has no intention of spending the night.

Sheesh. What a mangled metaphor.

Work-wise, I just finished a custom order (which I really, really hope she likes), I’m within some computer tricks of having my first pattern complete and ready to sell, and I’ve got another item or two or so that can go up, and a couple of things to re-photograph for relisting later. I’d like to have a few things ready for when I go back to the shop after the birth. There’s another potential custom job pending, too. I can’t believe how busy I’ve become with all of this or how happy it’s making me. I am really, truly loving what I’m doing. And that might just be one of the best feelings there is.

Housework-wise, I need to abandon this post and go mop the kitchen floor before it gets any warmer today. Oh, yay. The living room is trashed at this point,too since we’ve been eating in here. The kitchen table has become a computer lab of sorts. Which is fine and dandy. I actually rather expected it…the husband’s got way, way more computer equipment than is going to fit even in a reconfigured version of his office. It’s just inconvenient. But inconvenient can move in if it pays the bills…

Midwife tomorrow. I always get nervous for these because I feel like they’re just looking for an excuse to evict the little one. Luckily, I’m seeing the calmest gal in the whole group. Then Friday morning it’s pre-op at the hospital, and Monday morning we’re having a baby.

So I’m off, I guess, to start blasting through the list of things that have to be done before then…

Must be time for a WIP/to do list. I don’t want to forget anything before my hands become too busy holding the baby to pick up a hook. 😀 I don’t think it’s going to be an overly long break, but so much will depend on the temperament of the little one…the first I held constantly for months, the second couldn’t wait to be put down. So who really knows what I’m getting myself into here? LOL. Anyway, to be finished:

—green/white cloth in progress
–pattern in progress
–photograph rest of finished projects
—daisy square Going in the mail in the morning! (Note to self, K, RHSS.)
–possibly make more cloths…I have lovely cotton for them already…
–custom order! Yay!

Hmm…I feel like I’m forgetting something. I suspect I’ll be adding to the list…but at least it’s here. Because my brain is like a steel, er, sieve right now…