Monthly Archive for October, 2008

Happy Halloween!

Yeah, I’m at home on Halloween. I have to work our maintenance window and defragment some Exchange databases and do an install of RPC over HTTP. Oh yeah, I’m a rockin!

I did however stay home from work today as I am going to be working tonight and in addition to my window stuff I’m going to take the time to do other work stuff since I won’t be interrupted. This afternoon I went to Devon to check out a house she wants to rent then to Olive Garden for lunch and a little shopping. The house is super cool so it will be nice if Devon moves there.

You may also see that I changed up the theme a little bit. I toyed around with the idea of hiring someone to do a logo, but in the end made something myself. This will be part of the new SewPixie Designs shop.

Oh yes, and happy 3rd birthday to my little ferret Napoleon! Yay!

My Fert Baby!

Finished Object!

YAY! I finished the glitter shrug and this alpaca triangle shawl. I used nearly 3 skeins of Misti Alpaca. The pattern (from Lion Brand) calls for a crochet edging that you work as you bind off. Problem is…I crochet left handed so I could not for the life of my figure out how the hell to follow the instructions. See, when you crochet left handed you work left to right and I assume that right handers work right to left.

Despite the crochet difficulties I love the shawl. I blocked it and everything. It is a little on the small side but I think it will work nice to warm up a little at work. Really, why do they insist on keeping offices so cold? I can understand a little on the cool side as there are a lot of people, but should my nose be cold?

How about you? Is the temperature of your workplace way out of whack? If you work at home, do you fight over temperature with other inhabitants?

Well Crap

Do you recall how I thought about relaunching the Etsy shop with my brand name rather than rjbenefiel? Well, I was too slow! There is a SewPixie shop from California that does something totally different that opened about 2 weeks ago. *sigh* So I registered SewPixieDesigns instead. Meh.

I still need to set a relaunch date. November 1, 2007 was my goal last year and I opened just a little earlier than that. I do have to work in the wee hours of Saturday so who knows maybe I will get it done for November 1, 2008. I want to restock though so probably more like 01.01.09.

Oh yes…and at lunch today I spilled a whole glass of Diet Dr. Pepper on my lap. Pttttt

Leave us the steak and no one will get hurt

Pixel and KoKo actually teamed up tonight to try and take my dinner. I know better now that if I have a steak to hold on to the plate. Once, I went into another room and left a steak unattended. I had already started on it so there was a large piece and then a couple of small pieces that had been cut. I come back to just the small pieces. Pixel was down the hall with this huge piece in the bottom part of his cat condo. Seriously!

Good Day

I actually have very little to whine about for once. Yesterday was pretty darn good.

I bought a few more accessories for my guest bath at Ikea. The kelly green bath mat, a bath towel, and a couple of frames. Last time I bought washcloths in the green for countertop towel stand (the ‘hand towels’ were way too big), a new shower curtain, and a set little baskets. I have one piece embroidered in baragello that is in one frame (a little crooked..need to fix that) and I think I will make another for the 2nd frame. Now the guest bath yellow is not the yellow of the living room..it is crazy bright you blind you yellow. The natural color of the frames doesn’t look so great on that so I am thinking of maybe painting a green rectangle on the wall as a ‘frame’ for the frames. And yes, I am too lazy to just repaint the whole bathroom like I want to. :P Maybe later.

So on to the good day! So after Ikea I went to the yarn shop. Lots of people there which was nice and I also took a class about the Cat Bordhi Moebius Cast On. Terry at TYF taught the class and it went very well. As part of the class we tried on different moebius shawls, hoods, and scarves to see what we wanted to make for our first project and then calculate what size diameter would work for us and the amount to cast on. Moebius is that loop shape that has a half turn in the middle of it. Very cool. Also in class Terry gave me a ton of ideas to improve the glitter shrug from hell. I just may wind up being able to wear it without feeling like I borrowed something form a 10 year old. :P

Man I’m being detailed today! I’m just glad it was a good day so I want to capture it all me thinks. Anywho, while at the yarn shop I got a surprise call from a friend in Portland. YAY! It was very unexpected and really awesome. I totally suck talking on the phone. I mumble at the best of times in person so on the phone it is all mumbles and ‘uhhhh’ hehehe. This can have hilarious consequences I found. I told Megan that I was at ‘le yarn store’….if came out and was heard in Portland as ‘Le Orange Door’. :) We’ve decided it is a supah fancy French cafe. Oh yes, I am part of the jetset and ph so exclusive knitting in my fancy cafes. I’m such a dork being so estatic and shocked that someone would call me. Heehee.

After the yarn shop I went over to a yarn shop pal’s house (again…I have a friend…in person…omg!) to play Spore. OMG have you played this? We talked and hung out (she is working on some amazing Blythe clothes) and I wound up on that game for 7 hours!!!! Dude it was like 1.5 hours, 2 hours tops I swear! Oh no…it is available as a direct download…I’m in trouble. I haven’t even played WoW in a week so how can I add another game? Eeek! Maybe the cats can play WoW for me and finish leveling my character.

So yep, it was a good day and I’m really grateful for that.