| what do you get when Camille spends an entire day doing nothing but knitting? |
[Jan. 4th, 2010|05:21 pm] |
( Knitting pics. )
Meanwhile, I'm so tired. I woke up way too early today and could not get back to sleep. :( Knit a bunch this morning, then went out and shoveled the lower half of the driveway. Some jerkwad in a truck used my driveway as a turnaround point and packed down tracks. Bastard. I have no idea if I'm going to be able to get up the driveway when I get home. I wish this crap would melt already so I could put my parents' car in the yard and go back to driving Urgo. I miss Urgo.
Got work done for the first part of my shift, yay. Now it's time to knit. Purple Haze, babies.
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| grey skies so far |
[Jan. 3rd, 2010|01:51 pm] |
Yesterday was awful. Got called in to work *three times*. Thankfully everything went smoothly when it came to the actual work. And I made it home before the snow really started coming down.
Today I'm just holding my breath, hoping the pager stays quiet. I do have a driveway to clear, but the snow just stopped, and there might be more. And it's freakin' cold out there... so I'm playing avoidance.
Meanwhile, I've been knitting. You all voted for purple haze, so I started knitting with grey skies and I finished the first mitt today.
( cut for pics )
Randomly, I made egg salad today. Used too much relish. Oops. Or maybe it was using sweet relish instead of dill relish. Dunno. Was still tasty.
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| knitting update |
[Dec. 28th, 2009|11:59 am] |
Since I do most of my pics with the webcam, I haven't been sharing anything done since Wednesday...
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First day shift in forever is going reasonably well. Busier, but not bad. Though I was tired enough in the shower to forget to rinse the conditioner out of my hair. Thankfully doesn't look too bad... just kinda flat and like I used too much product.
Two hours left, still have stuff I need to do and ought to be doing instead of updating dw/lj. I swear I'll do it as soon as I'm done. And. I'm done now.
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| housebound |
[Dec. 27th, 2009|10:15 pm] |
Well, not anymore.
I got home from work Wednesday evening and did not leave the house until around 2pm today. Well, I was outside the house Friday to clear the driveway, and again today to clear the driveway, but I did not leave the property. Urgo stayed in the garage from Wednesday night until Sunday afternoon.
Driveway managed to fill itself completely back in with snow over the holiday. Couldn't even tell where it was. Got it clear and there was sunshine today, so I was able to get back up the driveway this evening. Yay!
Spent the afternoon with Karita. We ate and shopped. Nothing terribly exciting. Though I did basically get stuck on her street when time came to leave. I have the driveway from hell, she has the street from hell.
I effectively lost my phone today. Panic ensued. It was eventually found out in the snow on Karita's driveway.
I've spent the past few days knitting and watching tv mostly. Rewatched all of Community again, and I started in on Firefly yesterday. Trying to find my vidding mojo. I got a terrible crack Community vid idea (B-52's Song for a Future Generation), but I think I'd like to do the Firefly vid bunny I've had for quite a while. A Nickel Creek song.
My first day shift rotation is tomorrow. Gotta be up at oh-dark-thirty and there's work waiting for me when I get there at 6am.
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| You'd think five knitting icons would be enough... |
[Dec. 21st, 2009|04:51 pm] |
Although I think I've only got four on lj.
Just finished a mitt that I'm particularly pleased with. The colours really don't translate well on the webcam. It's totally the Atlantis gateroom colour scheme.
( cut for pics )
I think these will go to the Escapade art show. :) Now to start in on the second one.
Oh, work is work. Too much going on and not enough time, really. Though it could be argued that if I've got time enough to knit and post pictures, I've got enough time. I think the increased xanax is doing its job; I'm concerned, but not in a tizzy about everything that's got to get done this week. :)
Oh, and we've actually got a white Christmas in the forecast!
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| Topeka, KS |
[Dec. 18th, 2009|04:48 pm] |
Same old, same old.
Only this time I knit.
Why, yes, I am going to be subjecting you to every little knitted thing I finished. Why do you ask? I'm actually behind on pics because of my camera situation. This particular pic was taken with Chuck's webcam, which I am disappointed to discover isn't as good as George's.
Visit with the psychiatrist today. Got my meds upped again. Rah.
Still have another hour to kill. Think I'll start another socklet.
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[Nov. 6th, 2009|02:39 pm] |
What I need is a new job. So much easier said than done, even in a good economy.
I've been here almost two and a half years. Sadly, that's one of my longest stretches at any job.
Schedule change is on the horizon. I'm hoping that will help some.
And it just registered this afternoon...I have to leave my house tomorrow at 5:30am to make my flight. Leave the house at 5-freaking-30. Ouch. I had thought I would read some while on the plane. I think I'll be sleeping instead. And I haven't packed yet. Oops.
I need to stop *thinking* now.
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| Springfield, MO |
[Oct. 29th, 2009|10:54 pm] |
Oh, look. Springfield again.
If not for the spectacularly crappy weather, I'd be on my way home. Instead, I'm at my usual hotel until a reasonable hour in the morning when the rain should be done. And then I get to go to work. *facepalms*
Oh, and I get to be on-call Saturday as well.
I'm tired and really close to overwhelmed right now. Think I'll knit for a bit then go to bed.
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| brief update |
[Oct. 23rd, 2009|05:28 pm] |
Okay, so coming up with questions is a bazillion times harder than I thought. I'm thinking I'll be dealing with those over the weekend. Sorry.
Meanwhile, work is work. Getting some knitting done in between preventive maintenance slogging.
( cut for not-overly-large pic... )
Moving right along on the next knitting project. I haven't worked on size 2 needles in about forever, and this is really trying my patience. Not in a bad way, I think. No pics of this one yet.
I keep slogging along. Days kinda blending into one another.
I'm trying something new at work. Every couple of hours I'm getting up and walking the terminal all the way up and back. It's over a third of a mile long, so it's *something*. Better than sitting on my ass in the office.
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[Oct. 20th, 2009|12:24 am] |
I just want this day to be over.
Ruined a shirt and pair of khakis today. Had a machine fail to come back up properly after preventive maintenance.
It's 12:30 and I'm still at work and I just want to go home and cry and crawl into bed for a week.
edit - home by 1:30 or so. Shirt and pants went out to the curb with the rest of the trash. My hands feel like they're never going to be clean again.
There was one bright spot ---> A postcard. I think it was ![[info - livejournal.com]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif) elayna88 (judging from the handwriting and the postmark). Jack O'Neill *and* Michael Westen. How could I not smile? And then want to cry because I really don't feel I've done a damn thing to earn the fucking awesome friends I've got.
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| *Monday* |
[Sep. 22nd, 2009|12:31 am] |
OMG. Can I please not have another work day like that for a while, please? Nick's sick, so I had to hit the ground running a half hour early... and didn't stop running until a half hour after my shift should have been over.
I got all kinds of filthy and sweaty. Really gross. Ew. Oddly enough, I'm not feeling it in my joints. Probably will tomorrow.
Did I mention I had to work Saturday night?
Oh, I didn't mention going to the Renaissance Festival with Karita Saturday afternoon. Quotage! "Nothing says Renaissance like Dumbledore and a steak sandwich." And then there was the kilted swish. And, of course, the half-naked Gypsy dancing boys.
Ah, thinking about Saturday afternoon has helped my mood. :)
Now it's time to take out the trash.
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| week from hell |
[Jul. 30th, 2009|04:56 am] |
And I swear it feels like it's never going to end.
And right here in the middle-ish, I woke up at 3am for no reason. Boom, I'm awake and can't get back to sleep. I eventually gave up and did some laundry and played a smidge with the wii.
But work hell. Xray generator on Monday. Only one covering Tuesday, and of course *two* xrays had to go down then. Yesterday, everything that needed to be done couldn't be done early, I had to wait. Today I'm the only one covering again. Tomorrow is the "easy" day, finally, when I do the monthly maintenance in Topeka.
My meds are in the process of being adjusted. And I took them early last night. I'd imagine both things combined to have me awake entirely too early.
I guess it's a good thing I just happened to pick up a couple sugar-free Rockstars yesterday.
OH. And I was supposed to have a furniture delivery Tuesday, but I had to cancel when the xrays went down. Rescheduled for Friday, so Topeka has to wait until my chifforobe arrives. *facepalms*
Still no vidding. I'm blaming depression.
Have I mentioned that my living room is almost all unpacked and put together? Well, the bookcases are merely loaded, not organized, and I still need a chair in there, and a tv stand. But! Relatively speaking, it's almost done. I even got rid of the huge pile of broken down moving boxes (Love craigslist). There's curtains even!
Okay. Going to try the sleep thing yet again. :P
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| Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! |
[Jul. 19th, 2009|09:15 pm] |
With much help from my parents, I actually got stuff done today!
More boxes unpacked - the bookshelves are starting to look closer to right.
Curtain rods and curtains hung in the living room. So close to done in there. It's really shaping up.
Got a table cleared off. I have a habit of covering any available horizontal surface with crap.
Got the dishes done yesterday. Still need to unload the dishwasher.
No vidding accomplished, but I did rip my Leverage dvds.
Okay, listing it all out makes it feel like *less*. Weird.
edit - and now there's the possibility of a trip to Sioux City, IA, tomorrow. Good ol' SUX. Won't know until morning.
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| nogoodverybadhorribleday |
[Jun. 20th, 2009|04:15 pm] |
No, really.
Didn't sleep worth a damn last night. On a plane at 6:55am. Stuck in a bulkhead seat where I promptly had a panic attack. A low-level one that pretty much lasted until I panicked myself to sleep. Then resumed when I woke up. Second leg of the trip was cake.
Since my work is at the airport, I set to work as soon as I got here. Much to my chagrin, the problem turned out to be the last thing in the world I wanted it to be. And I"m still working on it. and it's totally kicking my ass. No big insecurity here, not really. But. Kinda.
Anyhow. Also while I was here another unit went down. Got a part on order for it.
Bright spot of the day was a lunch break I took. Turns out there's a Texas Roadhouse nearby (practically next door to my hotel). And I had a nummy petite sirloin that gave me foodgasms. Fortification by steak. Only now I'm pissed off at this stupid stupid stupid pulley and waiting for tech support to support me goddammit.
And this airport is the first not-big airport I've seen actually *charge* for wifi. Bastards.
I suppose I just need to keep reminding myself of the money. It's regular overtime today. Tomorrow is double time.
Okay. Break's over. Time to wrestle with the damn conveyor roller and pulley again. |
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