Waiting...

Well, the day has finally arrived! Laurie is on a plane right now, flying home from her 2 week cohort in Washington D.C.!!!! Yay! I've missed her lots and I'm (hopefully) staying up until she gets home, which should be some time around midnight.

I went for the first time and spun for Le Tour de Fleece at Tempe Yarn and Fiber with the group. It was fun to be part of the "spinning circle". Mandy came over for dinner tonight and we when to TYF for our normal friday nights, which was fun. We made root beer floats from the root beer that we didn't drink on retreat and that was very yummy :). Hmmmm... we still have lots of vanilla ice cream and root beer, I'm sure that another will be made before long.

In the bad news category, my scooter is broken. :( Good thing Laurie's coming home tonight because I'll need her to get me around the house - the scooter is on it's last wheels. I don't know how it happened but one of the back wheels is beyond flat. I'm literally riding on the rim of that wheel. It makes an awful noise and doesn't go very fast (and we're worried about scratching the floor). The earliest they can come and look at it is Monday, so we'll see what happens.

The first picture is of the yarn that I'm using for my hedgehog project for our charity knitting at TYF. I'm excited about it, it will be my first felting project! My hedgehog's name is Woolflower. The second pic is of some luscious Barbara's buns that I picked up at the yarn store. They are Polworth and merino/silk, about 2 oz. I also got some Codswold locks but they haven't been photographed yet.

Retreat weekend

This past weekend, I spent a the retreat our little yarn store puts on in the summer. It was nice to spend the weekend that I would have spent home alone while Laurie's away with a bunch of wonderful knitting/spinning/crocheting people in a very nice air conditioned hotel. I shared a room with my friend Mandy, and we had a great time! I mostly spun between naps and food breaks, for the TdF I really want to get my "canyon" yarn done. I'm just over half way through it before I ply the two bobbins together. It was cool to hang out with all the spinning people, especially because I haven't made it to the store yet to spin with the Tour group officially.

Well, when I got home this afternoon, I had a package waiting for me! My mom bought me some beautiful alpaca/silk top in the colorway Whispers from a shop on etsy.com. It's beautiful and soooo soft and wonderful to touch... Also pictured is my brand new Bosworth spindle that I got shortly before the retreat. It's .56oz (16g) and the whorl is Sapele Mahogany and the shaft Cochin rosewood. It's a lovely thing to behold. I spun up the little pouf of fiber that came with it and I'm excited to try it out with the purple batts I got for my bday.

This last picture is of a skein that I got from the retreat during a game. It's Cascade Valencia, merino and silk. :)

It's all thundery outside now :) Poor Laurie is missing her favorite AZ season... But alas, I'm really exhausted from the weekend out so I think I'm going to call it an early night and maybe crawl in bed and watch a movie. :)

HP and a very warm evening

I'm so excited that I was able to go to the midnight showing of the new Harry Potter movie on Tuesday night (well, ok, wednesday morning...) It was an overall good movie - they did leave out some parts and added some in that weren't really true to the book, but when are movies ever really true to the novels? I was too hot to wear my Hogwarts robes but I did bring them to the movie theater with me :)

I've had some crazy goings on starting last night. Our air conditioner stopped working last night. I noticed that it was super warm around one am and went out to check the thermostat and it was reading 86 degrees - ick! So I called my mom and she came and rescued me from the heat. Went back today to collect things so I could stay with my mom for tonight, too, and it was still very hot in there. It was a very uncomfortable hour for me while I packed up all my things. I'm not planning on being home until Sunday night because I'm going to a knitting retreat! Poor Eileen had to haul me and all my stuff into my mom's house and I feel bad because she'll have to do it again tomorrow when I leave here for the retreat! They are coming out today to look at the AC unit - I hope they can fix it fast!

I was able to check the mail when I stopped to pick up my stuff - my birthday Bosworth spindle finally came in the mail! I don't have a camera with me besides my iphone so I'll have to wait to post a pic! Now for a nap in the nice cool guest bedroom in my mom's house...

When the cat's away...

Well, the time for Laurie's trip to Washington DC has arrived, she left on Saturday night to fly off to do her 2nd cohort for graduate school. Our neighbor, Eileen, is helping me out while Laurie is away. The bad news is that I miss Laurie, but the good is that I have lots to keep me busy. Tonight is the only night this week that I'm not really doing anything. My mom came over and had pizza with me last night and I have Harry Potter, knitting, yoga, and knitting retreat respectively for the rest of the week. And I have Le Tour de Fleece to keep me busy as well. The one thing that I did that I regret was that I watched a slightly scary movie the night that Laurie left and had a hard time falling asleep that night. I don't think I'll be doing that again! So, I'm off to entertain myself, I'm trying to finish the sixth HP book before the movie tomorrow night. Hopefully, I'll be posting pictures of my new Bosworth spindle soon, I had my hopes up that it would come today, but not so. :(

Busy, busy!

Well, I've managed to do a little spinning every day for Le tour de fleece, but I've been pretty busy so far this week!  The party for Matt and Monica was very nice, mostly it was people I didn't know, but the ones I did know were good to see :).  We've spent the last few nights at Laurie's sister and brother in law's house about 45 minutes from her parent's house.  William and JP are so big, (we haven't seen William since Thanksgiving, I believe; JP came to Chile with Christy).  They are both really cute.  JP has to be the cuddliest baby I've ever known - he's always ready for a snuggle.  And William is so smart for a two year old, he's into everything, but so polite!  The boys have been doing some really cute things while we're here.  JP dances for us if we sing him the "dancing" song - basically he bobs his body up and down to the beat - it is adorable and it cheers him up (or distracts him).  Really though, he's a smiley baby but he's cutting a tooth or something now so he's not his normal self.  William loves to read and can sit by himself for a really long time reading to himself.

We brought out Laurie's spinning wheel for Christy to see and for the boys to play with a little.  Both love it.  William likes to steer it like a ship or to jog on the treadles.  JP is happy to sit on the treadles as they go up and down.  Pretty cute!  Both like the spindle.  William comes up to me and says "spinning in circles?" and watches for awhile, JP watches but more often makes a grab at it :).

Anyways, we're headed up to the cabin tomorrow, so we'll be doing some baby free spinning.  I hope to get a lot done.  I've kind of been spinning in the in-between times of playing with the baby, hanging out with Christy and Laurie and all of the family visits, meals and nap time.  I've carded more to spin a couple of times now, but my spindle could still take some more!

Happy news!

Just a quick post, the party is starting in about an hour for Matt and Monica's US reception and I want to spin for the Tour de Fleece before everyone gets here.  We're in a contract for a house!!!!!  Yay!  It's in a great neighborhood and great house!  Really close to my mom!  Now for some spinning...

MRIs, new offers, and some knitting and spinnning

This week seems to be going by very fast.  I had a new MRI on Monday.  We managed to forget to do the blood work required before the test and were worried that we'd have to reschedule it.  We were up early, so we figured we'd go into the hospital now, with extra time and see what we could do about it.  It all worked out fine, except they stuck me 4 times...  Once for the blood draw, 3 times to put the IV in to do the contrast portion of the MRI.  It'll be interesting pretty soon here to see the results of the MRI and the results of the genetic testing.

My friend, Mandy came over and hung out and knitted with me on Tuesday.  :)  It was a nice little visit.  I'm planning on rooming with her for the knitting retreat and I'm excited about it!  The retreat was fun last year, and this year it falls on the only weekend that I would be home by myself while Laurie is in Washington D.C.

Lastly, we put a new offer on a new house today.  Laurie's out right now with our agent filling out the paperwork.  I really hope that this goes through.  It was a really nice house with a great floor plan, great location and so we've got our fingers crossed.  It'll be interesting to be buying a house from out of town...  (Well, Laurie will be out of town, not me mostly.)  Well, she just got home so I'm going to go - we're leaving for CA either tomorrow night or on Friday, so my next post will probably be from there.  I'm really looking forward to going and spending some time at the cabin spinning!

Oh!  One last thing!  Laurie started a new blog.  You can access it from the links on the left hand column on this page under favorite places.  It's all about me :) and what she likes to do with my hair!