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Not really, anyway. I need to find more mood/subject specific icons that don't have to do with the majority of the population being stupid. I'm a bit misanthropic, I guess.
I can haz a plan - I've been putting together things for a gift box for a friend for ages, was mostly just waiting for the afghan (that she knows about, but the rest is sooper seekrit, shh!) to be finished, but now I have a new idea. Heh. She's still getting most of the other stuff I planned for her, though some of it will go into the Switch Witch Box of Doom that's started growing since I took part in a shotgun round over at the BPAL forums. I have new ideas for things to put in her box because . . . well, because. Everyone needs cool presents that they're lusting after every now and then. And the idea of sending her this box when she's gifted me with quite a bit pleases me greatly. Now to ask my mom if she ever finished the afghan . . . because I'm not talented that way at all, despite my efforts and wishes. (Though I'm seriously considering making/buying a drop spindle and investing in an instruction book and learning to spin. I do so love textile, tactile things.)
In other news, the Gregory/workshop-piece is mostly self indulgent and, while I do love writing him in all his guises (and goodness knows, there are a few), it's likely going to stay that way. I'll still write him, but it's not a real project, per se, and will be sporadic. I have a new idea, though, and am researching for the possibility of starting it . . . I don't know, maybe this summer sitting at the park while the kids are in various classes/lessons. If and when this idea turns from bud to blossom, bits will be posted as I progress. I'm counting on people here to read and what not, and let me know what they think as they go because like everyone, I'm silly and insecure and need reassurance that I'm at least headed in the right direction. Input is always a good, welcome thing.
Baby stuff: nothing's new. Still don't know if it's a boy or a girl though names are picked out and what not - still need to get a lot of stuff. And clean the house, particularly our room since that's the only place we have for the baby to sleep currently and we need to get the crib in there. Or rather I need to do it (all but the actually putting things together part) because goodness knows if I wait to have help or for someone else to do it, it will just keep getting worse. Like it always does. Hell, even getting it done in the first place isn't a guarantee that it won't, not by any stretch of the imagination. Needless to say, this leads to a lot of frustration and irritation right now. Anyway! So far as anyone can tell, the baby and I are both healthy and well. I'd imagine (or can hope, at least) that this labor and delivery will go much the same way the other two did - which is to say about six hours after contractions start in earnest (and about a half an hour after I start pushing), there'll be a new baby. Yay for born breeders?
Less than two weeks of school left for Morgen, then a summer of swim team and diving classes and likely private swim lessons with one of the lifeguards, while Liana just has swim classes and then private lessons later in the summer, when the classes are done. She's only four, so I doubt she'll be heartbroken or anything - goodness knows, both of them love just being at the park. As do I , mostly, but man it gets old - talking to the same people, doing the same things, etc. It's as bad as going to work at an office job, really, and goodness knows I hated that. I will persevere, though, as I have every year since Morgen was Liana's age - despite lack of reliable way to get to and from the park (yep, as for years, no car despite the constant Big Plans to see to such) other than a bike which is fine when one isn't seven months pregnant, but not so much otherwise. We'll see what we see, I suppose.
A little more than a month before Half Blood Prince! Yay! I think I'll focus on that to chase away the blahs.
I can haz a plan - I've been putting together things for a gift box for a friend for ages, was mostly just waiting for the afghan (that she knows about, but the rest is sooper seekrit, shh!) to be finished, but now I have a new idea. Heh. She's still getting most of the other stuff I planned for her, though some of it will go into the Switch Witch Box of Doom that's started growing since I took part in a shotgun round over at the BPAL forums. I have new ideas for things to put in her box because . . . well, because. Everyone needs cool presents that they're lusting after every now and then. And the idea of sending her this box when she's gifted me with quite a bit pleases me greatly. Now to ask my mom if she ever finished the afghan . . . because I'm not talented that way at all, despite my efforts and wishes. (Though I'm seriously considering making/buying a drop spindle and investing in an instruction book and learning to spin. I do so love textile, tactile things.)
In other news, the Gregory/workshop-piece is mostly self indulgent and, while I do love writing him in all his guises (and goodness knows, there are a few), it's likely going to stay that way. I'll still write him, but it's not a real project, per se, and will be sporadic. I have a new idea, though, and am researching for the possibility of starting it . . . I don't know, maybe this summer sitting at the park while the kids are in various classes/lessons. If and when this idea turns from bud to blossom, bits will be posted as I progress. I'm counting on people here to read and what not, and let me know what they think as they go because like everyone, I'm silly and insecure and need reassurance that I'm at least headed in the right direction. Input is always a good, welcome thing.
Baby stuff: nothing's new. Still don't know if it's a boy or a girl though names are picked out and what not - still need to get a lot of stuff. And clean the house, particularly our room since that's the only place we have for the baby to sleep currently and we need to get the crib in there. Or rather I need to do it (all but the actually putting things together part) because goodness knows if I wait to have help or for someone else to do it, it will just keep getting worse. Like it always does. Hell, even getting it done in the first place isn't a guarantee that it won't, not by any stretch of the imagination. Needless to say, this leads to a lot of frustration and irritation right now. Anyway! So far as anyone can tell, the baby and I are both healthy and well. I'd imagine (or can hope, at least) that this labor and delivery will go much the same way the other two did - which is to say about six hours after contractions start in earnest (and about a half an hour after I start pushing), there'll be a new baby. Yay for born breeders?
Less than two weeks of school left for Morgen, then a summer of swim team and diving classes and likely private swim lessons with one of the lifeguards, while Liana just has swim classes and then private lessons later in the summer, when the classes are done. She's only four, so I doubt she'll be heartbroken or anything - goodness knows, both of them love just being at the park. As do I , mostly, but man it gets old - talking to the same people, doing the same things, etc. It's as bad as going to work at an office job, really, and goodness knows I hated that. I will persevere, though, as I have every year since Morgen was Liana's age - despite lack of reliable way to get to and from the park (yep, as for years, no car despite the constant Big Plans to see to such) other than a bike which is fine when one isn't seven months pregnant, but not so much otherwise. We'll see what we see, I suppose.
A little more than a month before Half Blood Prince! Yay! I think I'll focus on that to chase away the blahs.
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The Spinner's Flock spinning guild also holds twice-yearly (September and February) fleece fairs in Chelsea, which is fairly close to Ann Arbor. It's held in a school auditorium, so much smaller, but they also have a nice selection of fibers and yarns.
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