Whee!-kend update
I had a really fabulous weekend.
Friday night.. we watched The Goonies, which I had only seen once before, last year or the year before.. so I enjoyed myself.
Saturday, Alan had to work and I had some plans. As usual I got up around 7 and took Bella to the dog park for a few hours. It’s really fun watching the dogs interact without human intervention. It’s like watching National Geographic. Afterwards, I showered and went to get a facial (the Lounge Spa is the best), then ran back home to get my spinning stuff and then head to Synergy for the Spin’n'Knit-In.
I ended up parking right behind Rain, which was good because she had my old Ashford to give back to me (damn it! it’s a dust and dog hair magnet!). I figured out what the wheel is good for:
Convincing you to buy a new wheel.
It’s worked on two people so far – if anyone else has been thinking about getting a wheel, borrow the Scholar for a week and you’ll be ready to drop your paycheck for a new one.
To be fair, the Scholar is approximately thirteen years old and hasn’t been used or well-kept for many of those years. The wheel is warped, and it doesn’t have a lot of ratio options, and it just goes. It’s like a really old sewing machine. Or a Kia (which probably doesn’t make sense to anyone except catdfox and capnlot, who were forced to rent a Kia and discovered it had two modes: Go and Stop. No easing to a stop. No speeding up slowly.).
Anyway at the spin-in, I spun and spun and learned to Andean ply and practiced Navajo plying (I need to slow down my treadling for that – when I don’t pay attention to my feet, they start going of their own accord). I forgot all my drop spindles I meant to bring, oh well, Rain had brought hers to teach so I was off the hook for the day. : )
So, I met a couple of other local crafter-folks, which was great, and we had such a good time we’ve already got another one scheduled for next month. Yay!
Saturday night was a Tacky Hawaiian Shirt Party, which I ended up not making it to because I was tired and I knew I had to drive to Monrovia on Sunday as well.. so we watched Pan’s Labyrinth which was sad and haunting and beautiful and gory. Would’ve made a great anime movie too.
Sunday, dog park again, showered, made breakfast, did some sewing, watched our weekly Ask This Old House episode, then headed down to Long Beach to pick up catdfox to go to Monrovia to get our hair done, and I got a hair cut. Lora as usual was a flippin’ RIOT and kept us entertained. It was actually pretty fast – my haircut and then curling my hair and deciding how it’ll be done for the wedding, plus a similar curling & styling for catdfox took less than two hours! Then we went to Joann’s to pick up some tulle and ribbon for my veil, and I went home and made dinner and Alan and I watched more movies until bedtime.
Now I’ve started my last week at work. I am a little sad, although most of my coworkers have been gone for months, there are still a few people I’ll really miss when I leave. I will also miss the paycheck, but I am not worrying about that until we’re back from the honeymoon.
Also, I have two more phone interviews tomorrow. Hee!
P.S. My eyeballs are perfect. My vision is awesome. Best investment I’ve ever made in myself.
