Hello.. Is there anybody there?
Yes, I’m still here.
I haven’t started building an Ark. Yet…
Rain continues (over .8″ since this morning), temperatures are unseasonably high, mud deepens, basement floods. 200 years ago, Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1805/1806 in Oregon and I’m beginning to believe we are seeing the kind of winter they encountered. Seemingly constant, miserable rain.
I’m working on recreating the Willy Warmer pattern. Since it was partly out of my head and partly from two different patterns, and I don’t have the article in my hands anymore, I’m trying to remember all the little details. More later.
Work. Good and Bad. Good — Pay raise, more hours, more responsibility. Bad — Pay raise, more hours, more responsiblity. I now own Monday open and lunch – the owner’s only weekday day off. Except for the mad 1/2 hour crush at 11:30 of the high school kids for pizza slices and bread sticks, it’s a fairly easy 7 hours. Unfortunately, the rest of the week is kind up in the air. Yesterday was a 9 hour day, I’m closing most Fridays and weekend evenings, but the rest of week seems to change each week and there’s no hope of planning. Some close shifts, some short shifts (3-8:30/9:00). Still, I’m constantly pushing 70+ hours for a two week period (nearly 80 hours over the Christmas/New Years week) and the money is too nice to pass up. And I love cooking and I love working in the kitchen. I love the heat, I love the smells, I love it when I get complements and I even love it when we’ve got a stack of tickets and two or three of us are pushing pizzas into the oven as fast as we can (*and not making any mistakes*). I sometimes wish I had pursued a cooking career instead of an electronic one.
Knitting… Not much. And it’s unfortunate too. I love knitting, but I just can seem to find the time right now. Late nights, later mornings, weather, lack of focus. I think I need to put the shawl aside and find something new and exciting. Of course that usually means buying more yarn and I really can’t afford *that* right now. Sigh…
I’m hoping that as the weather warms and life returns to our nursery, I’ll start feeling more like working on something beautiful again.
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