I had almost developed a fresh twitter habit. Thank heavens they went back to being down constantly just in time! Narrow escape, that was…

Today is devoted to the new dishcloth pattern. I’m really excited about this one…it’s a visual treat, IMHO. At the rate the kids are letting me play with yarn, it’ll be done in a couple of weeks instead of a couple of days, and that’s fine. I tend to get far too wrapped up in work and forget how different the world looks to them. They bring me back to their reality, and it’s a pretty cool place to hang out. Today we had a long discussion about mulberries and bird poop. My 3-year-old was delighted to fin out that birds poop. LOL. What’s crocheting next to that?

(Not that I can do without it, mind you, but seriously? The full-force cute is something to behold, truly.)

–Finish pattern pending.

–Finish design-yet-to-become-pattern-pending.

–Play. Because I’m exhausted and I need to play with yarn instead of *working* with it a bit.

–Housework. Ick.

–Figure out what to do with the HAP rectangles I can’t afford to mail. Thinking I’ll start a bigger box for them and mail them next round instead of this one, when I have a chance of affording it. Then again, maybe I’ll split them up and mail a bit now, a bit later. Not sure yet. I’ll divide them into two packages that can go first-class, and mail one this week and one in ten days or so. Assuming,t hat is, that I can get ‘hold of the address in time for this week’s post-office run.

–Figure out how to make the shop look like someone actually you know, runs it. Heheh. Poor thing has been terribly neglected while I get the working-all-day thing smoothed out.

–Go through my partially completed projects and figure out what needs to be finished and what needs to be frogged. Got them all into Ravelry, and decided not to frog anything at all. I did put the blankets into hibernation mode for the summer, though, so I wouldn’t be feeling bad every time I signed in and saw them glaring at me. It’s fine now, but before long it’s going to be way too hot to have that much yarn in my lap. Surprisingly few projects I’ve got outstanding at this point. That pleases me, since it gives me justification for starting more.

Test.

Hee!

It was worth trying, but my interest in using twitter has pretty much evaporated over the course of their problems the last week or so. I had faith that they’d get the thing fully operational again, but…well, not so much, and I doubt y’all want to read about my annoyance with it, which is about all I feel like tweeting. So I’m going to kill the cool plugin thingy for the time being. We’ll see where it all winds up in the end.

• Thinking it’s time to re-orient resume and search for admin work. I absolutely cannot continue to walk 8 hours a day. #
• @Ithildyn Thank you. #
• @jaysolo Never did get the hang of Thursdays? #
• Bedtime. Later than I’d like, earlier than I feared. #
• I hate the 7-4 after the 11-8. I am not as young as I was the last time I did this for a living. #
• Gah. When I get home I suppose it’ll be time to root out the spammers. I’d hate to lock this account, but I got really bored with it before. #
• Probably will be really bored with it again. Between that and the service problems, I’m seriously wondering about this thing. #
• @zura Yay! #
• Trying to work up the gumption to actually do the laundry that’s sitting here mocking me. #

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• Should I even bother trying to tweet again what I just said? Or just come back next century when they’ve fixed the thing? #
• In all of my years working with the public, I’ve never seen anything like the contempt folks have for… #
• The employees of the megalomart. #

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• It’s much easier to purl into yarnovers you actually made. D’oh. #
• I just invented them on the ws as I worked back, but still. #

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• Trying to work out what’s not working out with my current project. I think it’s inherent in the design and I need to rework. Sad, that. #
• Considering the wisdom of a snack before bed. #
• @Ninjababe If this one didn’t already have a home when it leaves me, I’d hide it in a corner and come back next year. Silly thing. #
• At loose ends. A dozen things I want to work on, 11 of them pointless. The 12th I haven’t figured out what to do about. Hmmm. #
• Fighting with the current project again. Think I know where I’m going with it now, at least. #

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• Consolidating down to the business account, because I am just too flipping busy to deal with multiple twitter-verses at this point. #
• There are drunk people playing with fire in my backyard. This cannot possibly end well. #
• I’m so glad I locked the door. One of them just tried to come in, presumably to make use of the facilities. Long summer ahead, I fear. #

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I’m a big twitter fan, but I’ve not used my neatlytangled account that much. I’ve decided to go back to it, though, and I’ve also installed Twitter Tools so that you’ll get a daily digest of my tweets here. This is more useful than it might seem, since it makes it possible for me to tweet from my lunch hour (which is when most of my fiber work is getting done at the moment) and have it show up here at the end of the day. So that bit about sock knitting not being my thing? You totally would have seen that. *g*

And of course, if you are on twitter, feel free to follow me.

Well then. I certainly wasn’t expecting to take quite that much of a break. Silly life, always getting in the way of my better intentions!

I’ve been absolutely blasting through my pile of UFOs, so there ought to be some yummy stuff in the shop in the next week or so. Mostly dishcloths of one variety or another, and at least one pattern that should be ready to list at Etsy and on Ravelry tomorrow. So it’s going to be quite an exciting week that way.

I’ve also been managing to finish off some little side projects of my own, mostly of the knitting-is-fun variety. Eventually I’ll have FO pics to share, but I’ve got to clean off the camera first.

Also? Tracie from Shade Tree Crochet has been pattern testing for me and I have to tell you all that she is absolutely the most fantastic person to work with! I almost don’t want to tell you how awesome she is because I want to keep her awesomeness all to myself, lol. Seriously, though, thank you, Tracie! You’re incredible.

And I think that’s about it for the moment. If you don’t hear from me for another little while, I’ve jumped on the looking-for-a-day-job wagon, so things are a little busy that way, too. If anybody needs an admin type virtually or in SE Mass, let me know!

See you soon.

Thought I’d give it a try, because I figure the best that can happen is that they bring in a little sorely needed cash, and the worst that can happen is that they are problematic enough in one way or another that I have to take them down. They’re set so that nothing “not safe for work” should show up. If you see anything objectionable, drop me a line (neatlytangled at gmail dot com). I’ve got the thing set to run without my interference, since I’m not at my computer all day to be able to babysit it.

We’ll see how it goes.