I have so many things I want to do. Not just for Thanksgiving, but for Christmas too! For Thanksgiving I wanted to make a cheesecake (maybe) and some little tiny bite-sized muffins in chocolate chip, chocolate, and blueberry. I have to work Tomorrow until 11:30pm and I have to work Thanksgiving night :( I'd make the muffins and the cheesecake tomorrow morning, but I have a dentist appointment (and I'm really really nervous.)
For Christmas I want to do a handmade advent calender. I had thought about knitting tiny little stockings, but then I saw on Loobylu a couple of ideas that would probably come together more quickly. I had also wanted to make myself cute little sweater garland for the small tree that I will be putting upstairs on the buffet in my dining room. I probably will still do that. I want to get a REAL christmas tree this year. Not that old fake thing. I think a real one will be more annoying but will smell really nice and be a lot prettier, and more festive. This year has been really tough on all of us and I feel like really LIVING IT UP and having a great time and trying to put some of the pain and hurt feelings behind us.
Well, now it's time for me to shut off my computer, lay down in my bed, cuddle up next to my warm, snoring husband and think about all of my holiday plans until I fall asleep.
I've been pretty busy this past week. Jon, Devan and I have all had bad colds. I have to take Devan to the doctor tomorrow because she can't seem to shake hers. I couldn't take a day off work because I had a lot of art work to do at work and no one else really knew how or what to do with my projects.
Basically this guy I'm friends with in Sports asked me to make a poster for him, basically something that people could take out of the paper and tape into their car and business windows, or take with them to the playoff games (sussex county high school playoffs) so I made one and my bosses liked it, but I had no idea whether they'd use them or not because we had to sell ads for them to run. One day I was sick at home in bed and my boss calls me, asking me to come in early because we were going to run two of my posters that night, two the next night and one the following night. (I'd only gotten one completed so this was kind of a surprise to me)
I got quite a few hours of overtime this week working on these things... and my cold has not gone away either because I didn't get much needed rest.
Well, Anyways, I'm happy because alot of people have been calling in to work praising my posters and that's always nice. We've even had some people from out of state calling in to tell us how neat they thought the posters were. Here's what the posters look like, you can click them to make them a bit larger, or you can search through last week's newspaper archives at njherald.com (full pdf versions of my posters are located on either page B-6 or C-4 throughout the week.):
I had to stop knitting Mary Jane slipper number 2 because I lost one of my dpn's and can't find it. I'll go to the store sometime this week to buy a replacement set. In the meantime I've begun giftknitting, and I completed the 3rd wedge, and started the 4th wedge of my pie shawl.
I might call in sick to work tomorrow if I don't feel any better, and I'll work a little more on my shawl and perhaps I'll finish it.
I got a new coat this weekend. It's a nice black wool walking coat. Goes just past my knees and it looks adorable on me (because I'm cute) and I have a brown jacket (about the same length) coming in the mail sometime this week. Basically A-line LONG-ish tailored coats look really good on me. Now if only I could find some jeans that didn't hang off my butt. OH mama, why was I born with humongous boobs and no butt? Where is the justice in this world?
-(12-08) LIKING:
burritos, knitting for babies, dr. pepper, little potatoes, mitered squares, my bed, the ocean, travel, sleeping in my bed, Jonathan Safran Foer, tenament museums, linen, Air (the french band), Hugh Laurie, Intervention, babies, Iron & Wine, Clive Owen, letterpress, Yeats,
gray, mini-pigs, hotel chevalier, tea, pigs, Quebec, being anywhere but here (nj), modern simple quilts, autumn leaves, white on white, paper, lily snoring
