Whee!
A lot can happen in a month. I got a new license plate for my car, started trying to lose weight, failed to get invited to any job interviews, and started playing World of Warcraft. We finally started “spring cleaning” our house and got rid of the fleas. I got a down wool fleece from the local 4-H kids that needed immediate washing, so I washed it and the alpaca fleece I bought last year. I finished spinning up the silk cap I dyed at Easter and the plying is not going they way I expected but it’s still pretty. Ooo! And I finally got around to making a chain with the rubber rings I bought last year, and I love it! Stretchy chain maille is awesome. I’d post pictures but another thing that happened over the last month is that I lost my camera. Thoroughly. I really thought it was in my car or this pile of craft stuff by my end of the couch, but it isn’t. Waaaaaah! I miss it. Cell phones do not take the quality of photo I desire. However…an $80 digital camera these days has better resolution than my camera, even if I can’t adjust the shutter speed or anything. I may buy one of those to tide me over.
Noodle Girl is only going to school one day a week for the summer and has rediscovered swimming with great enthusiasm, even in the lake. She may even learn to go underwater – goggles seem to be really good motivation to put her face in! Pillow and sheet “houses” are her favorite thing to make and play in right now; her flat sheet is tied to her bed posts and her Granny and I are plotting a PVC-pipe framed bed tent. She’s been away for six days, at Papa’s farm with her cousins and then with her JoJo and Big Daddy, which are the Mr.’s parents. I feel a little guilty saying it, but it’s been a relaxing break from parenting. I am starting to miss her, though, and I’ll be glad when she gets back tomorrow.
The most important thing that has happened over the past month? The Mr. got a new job! He starts Monday, and after a couple of weeks training during the day, he’ll be back on third shift (overnight). It’s a shift he likes, and very similar work to his old job at a similar pay scale. The best part, to me, is that he is working four 10-hour days and will have three day weekends! Now if I could just find a job with similar time off. Well, one that didn’t also make me homicidal. That’s the trick, really. 