Just started this new little project on the eve of Canada Day 2008. I think my coffee press needs a bright red warmer. Maybe not today, one of the hottest days in Vancouver so far this year, but coffee can always stay a wee bit warmer.
Tracking this test pattern on ravelry:
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/tex-trix/canada-day-coffee-press-cozy
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Love the wardrobe regulations!
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So, apparently the calendar today says that it’s June 10th. The weather outside says it’s November 30th. My last “daily blog posting for NaBloPoMo” says it is supposed to be June 2nd today.
uh, yeah. I don’t think that “I’ll do it for real this time, so let’s jump in with both feet and not a plan in sight” thing worked too well. All the best of intentions for posting… been thinking about my home, and doing stuff around my home (especially if sorting through and filing the past 3 years of ’sedimentarily filed’ paperwork counts and doing stuff in my home - which it must even though it’s not making much obvious progress…) but nary a blog post in sight.
I tip my hat to all youse who are posting - I’ve barely even spending that much time READING blogs. Yikes! something must be amiss! - but right now, I’ve got to go put my umbrella and winter coat away, as a very dusty pile of bank chits awaits.
Thank god for scotch.
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My new thing yesterday - or well, since I’m posting today, it counts for today too, says me, is a blog entry I very quickly jotted down in an email to myself while ruminating on some stuff at work. And just to poke a stick at my inner-editrix [don't even ask about how I edited my first ever love-note at age 13 and gave it back to the boy. yes, true story. and I used red pen. gawd.] I’m just posting it as is….
I’ve always worked in small business. Even when I worked for a larger
company (a whopping 50 employees!), it was out on sites for events, and we
were in small teams of 3 - 10. Less chance from troublemaking - but little
did they know… :P
Now that I’m working developing systems for a small business, the systems
and procedures for a large corporation are increasingly alluring… I would
love to always know: when I (or my other 3 colleagues) have A, one must do
B, and C and F with it. With this whole small business thing, I’m having a
hard time remembering, even when I made up the systems!! Is it because I
have A, G, 8, and ^ in my hand at the same time, or just that there is too
much for a single person to learn the stuff by rote.
How does one apply the principles of franchises to a small business
successfully? And is that really the best way?
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This past weekend, May 3 & 4, my new things were ALL ABOUT ME!! yippee, fun, fun, fun. la, la, la…. A fabulous shopping day and new haircut and colour in the salon, all to get ready for a wedding next weekend (not mine!). It was a luxuriously pampering-filled weekend. (well, also a sit on ass, drink beer, and watch copious amounts of CSI weekend, which is a kind of pampering in its own right. but with lots of dead bodies.)
I had a plan to write up a post all ’bout my experiences with all shopping and pampering stuff. I’m not normally a girlie-girl. Shopping and visits to the salon are not regular fare for me. There were a few revelations, and I enjoyed them, for many reasons. ONLY… my new thing today has overshadowed the joy and lah-di-dahs.
Tonight I worked out my personal budget. [cue oboe]
(Much like using the word diet to describe the eating habits of the three-toed sloth rather than its elaborate plan to fit into new jeans this bikini season, this budget is a record of what was actually spend and brought in during the course of one month.)
Sobering is not just for the day after beer anymore…
I’ve heard from a number of friends about “‘Til Debt Do Us Part” and I checked out a couple of episodes online, and http://www.gailvazoxlade.com, the host’s website. I love that she says “Frikkin right!” and gives the uber-fab tough love, combined with knowledge and caring support in the face of this emotionally charged subject. The site has lots of great tools for clearly figuring out exactly where you stand. (ooh! that was a pun - totally not intended, but always welcome.)
I’m looking forward to tackling my own financial issues this weekend, and getting things in order.
And, of course, showing off last weekend’s new hair and dress!
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Tagged: 31 Flavours of May, budget, shopping, three-toed sloth
Friday, the day of the week that is so close to the relaxation of the weekend, but still so attached to the work-a-day week. The day where one might, hypothetically, wake up at exactly the time one is supposed to leave for work, scramble frantically to get everything done for the multitude of deadlines, spend spend an hour constructing a beautiful custom built cardboard box, then find out at the end of the day that the office supply store doesn’t carry the printer toner needed for the big presentation on Monday. You know, if one could imagine such a day.
So after all this, I’m supposed to figure out something new to do today? For my DAY TWO of Thirty One Flavours? Day Two and already I’m out? I was feeling pretty skeptical as the clock kept ticking towards a 12 hour day. “I gotta get this done, otherwise I’ll be here Saturday AND Sunday, and then my weekend will be toast.” And I did stay the whole 12 hours, partly knowing there was beer and friends waiting at the bar for me afterwards, but mostly knowing that I wanted my weekend time for me. Which, unexpectedly, turned out to be my new thing for the day. I have a tendency to procrastinate… um, just a wee bit… and have been known start things but then not finish them, so that they need to be done at the last minute on the weekend. But this time I told myself that I knew the weekend would be better, and would be MINE, if I finished the work tonight. Pretty big incentive.
Plus, when I got to the bar, my friends helped me find a TON of wicked new things I can do in May. Just check out that envelope… there’s an interesting month coming up!
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Tagged: 31 Flavours of May, lists
For some reason, I thought that textrix.wordpress.com had been taken already. Well, colour me tickled (that’s about as close to pink as I’ll ever be) that tonight I found it available for me to snatch up. I’ve started twittering for real this week, and it’s inspiring me to really jump in with the blogging. Besides just posting my pictures and some minor blogging at textrix.blogspot.com. [marketing 101 note - see the link to my flickr set for images of my drawings and textiles] And, well, this has led to all kinds of fears and apprehensions about this whole internet thing.
One way twittering is kinda creepy… it has such a voyeuristic quality to it. As well as an “outside-looking-in” quality, being a newbie. I don’t know anyone yet on twitter. My tweets are flying out there into the ether, not directed at anyone. So, how excited was I when one of the 12 people that I am following actually responded by following me back! And how fab was it that it was Penelope Trunk, the very one who inspired me to get back on the Twitter horse… (I flirted with it briefly sometime in the last year, but it didn’t stick.) This is better, a bit of a two way street. Not so much feeling like the quiet high school girl listening to everyone talk, but not getting a peep in edgewise.
I tell myself that it takes time to develop relationships online, even “online relationships,” which, as the word out there reminds us, are not always all that personal. As with the “real world,” it takes an effort to get out there. The blogging/twittering/internetland is not a place to hide from the “me” stuff I deal with in the real world. It’s a place to deal with it and talk about it, and hopefully, it’s a slightly less scary venue to get “ME” all out there.
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from Sarcomical
If you get something out of a vending machine, it’s most likely the: Sunchips
A word you sometimes catch yourself misspelling: dictionary
You least want people to see you as: ditsy
You’re a little scared of: people
The least attractive thing you do in your sleep: drool
The number of contacts in your cell phone: 34
How many of them are restaurants: 0
You lose your cool when someone: judges
When you go to the drugstore, you often can’t leave without buying: tissues
Your dance moves can best be described as: varying
The majority of your underwear is: stretched
Something you eat even though you hate how bad it is for you: ramen
You think you’re really not a great: cook
How much cash is in your wallet right now: $25.31
The majority of your shoes are this color: Black
You don’t think you’ll ever be able to get rid of your: Indecision
If your breath is bad, it’s most likely because you had the: Garlic
You feel embarrassed when you: trip
The last public place where you used the restroom: cafe
Something you don’t like to debate in mixed company: “toys”
You don’t think you can pull off wearing: hoops
Something you own entirely too much of: dishes
Someone you would love to see in concert who might bring down your street cred: Shaggy
The last thing that you spilled on yourself: Ramen
If you were on a reality show, the producers would likely portray/characterize you as the: Peacemaker
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SO not impressed with the whole being sick thing.
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The start of a hemp stretchy grocery bag, in a Lanaknits hemp for knitting in grey (from the lovely folks at Three Bags Full). I found this free pattern via brainylady. I’m super excited to finish it and see how much it stretches. Might have to have a contest to see how much can fit in there…
I never thought I’d be crocheting hemp reusable grocery bag.
damn hippies…
…for bringing back the popularity of good quality, pretty coloured hemp products, tempting my inner thrifty gal into a tryst with my inner eco gal, which lead to a triad with my inner fibre-lovin’ style maven, which became all tangled up in a net of slipstiches. and bears, oh my!
no offense to hippies, of course.
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