Just a little quicky…

Andrew and I are going to Scottsdale Prescott, AZ next week for Christmas, so is there anything fun to do out there and if so can you please tell me about it?
Yarn stores, neat shops, art galleries, etc.
Thanks!

There Ain’t No Friggin Time!!

Or Things Lenore Wants/Needs to Get Done, but Her Day Job in a Dirty Warehouse is Stifling/ Interfering With Her Achieving

♥ I need time to read the cover letter book one of my good friends recommended I check out from the library, so that I can write really great cover letters to go with my new and improved resume, then send them both in to awesome, great paying jobs.

♥ Finishing my prototype knitting bag (I wanted this to be done before Arizona *sadface*)

♥ Christmas presents: Mittens, Fingerless-3 pair

Tie

Stuffed Animal- Bagman from Little Big Planet

Neck warmers- 2

♥ General Knitting- Lace ribbon scarf from knitty.com for myself:

Flip fingers for Andrew’s smoker gloves I made last year (since he doesn’t smoke anymore he doesn’t like his fingers getting frozen.)

Racoooon…..from crafty alien

All my other UFO’s

♥ Make mix cd’s for Andrew, Mum, Poppa and Michelle (and burn the damn Juno soundtrack for Michelle, I mean really it has only been a year since I offered…)

♥ Paint

♥ Read

♥ Start my bizniz…

♥ Take photo’s of interesting people/things

♥ Play as many hours of video games as I have been craving

♥ Write blogs everyday (helps my state of mind…)
♥ Nuzzling, Cuddling, loving on and generally enjoying Andrew’s presence

♥Get enough sleep while simultaneously getting all the above done (HA!)

So here is the thing. I have been late to work every day this week, because I have been staying up late to do one or more of these things. Then in the morning enjoying the warmth and cuddles Andrew gives me in bed so much that I can bring myself to get up and leave it to go to a craptastic warehouse. Which, with the economy being in such bad state, is risky business and I’d feel bad about it except that:

A) They don’t pay me enough to care (I mean come on, I’m not even able to pay all my bills, I have to pick and choose which ones are going to get paid.)

B) They don’t care as long as I am there eventually and when I am there I work hard. Which I do, I work my tail off when I am at work.

The later being what I thought last night. On my way to work I realized that they probably don’t care too much when I show up, because I don’t do the things in the company that are time sensitive. Then when I got to work received a “talkin to” for being late only because one of the girls that does the shipping was out sick and they needed me to fill in for her. I did it, very well and had finished that whole shipping job up by 1pm. This of course shocked my boss and made me laugh a little evilly internally (since the only reason he gave me a talkin to was because he thought I wasn’t going to be able to get it all done before the end of the day.) I then proceeded to finish filing all the indie 20 comic’s that needed filing and labeled a dozen boxes of magazines. If you ever hear someone say I am not a good little worker bee you should slap their face (because that my friends is a bold faced lie!)

Now onto secretly knitting that tie….err, not so secretly now, but he doesn’t read this often and you guys won’t tell, right?

P.S. Guess who learned how to format her blog….?

Lack of focus..

has been a problem of mine for a while now. And today my mind is running rampant.

It was -19° F here last night and -12° F when I was getting ready for work this morning. Finally ready (only an hour late…) and my car won’t start. We think it’s the battery…my brother has a car battery charger…we plug it in, the battery has a full charge. So why won’t my car start? Well it’s diesel, maybe that has something to do with it. In fact my dad (who has pretty good knowledge about diesel engines) is sure that this is the case. So I’m stuck.

I was thinking that maybe Andrew could give me a ride to work in the mornings, but he leaves and gets home from work way later than me and it wouldn’t be a problem, but the warehouse closes completely around 5:30 which would leave me waiting about 45 min’s outside in freezing weather. I’d take the bus, but I absolutely don’t have any money, not even change. We cashed it all in to get groceries last week.

I thought this would be a great opportunity for me to read through a book I checked out from the library about writing awesome cover letters. Making some cover letters and sendig my new and improved resume out to some good job postings we’ve found. But my focus is gone.

I’m worried about my car, getting knitted things done for Christmas, now worried about being able to pay bills since I’m missing a full 8 hours I hadn’t anticipated missing (in addition to 4 days of work next week) and my brain feels all fuzzy. Darn snow/freezing weather throwing everything off course. Maybe I should take a little nap, clear my head. Maybe I didn’t get enough sleep last night.

One of these things is not like the others,

one of these things does not belong.

Can you guess which it is?

This photo is of some of the cookies Andrew and I made for Halloween and I finally got to uploading them. I hope it gave you guys a laugh.

Ack! What is with this year?

So today they laid off another 6 people at work today, a few of them people who had been with the company for at least 12 years…and they gathered the rest of us up to let us know that they may have to lay off another 7 on Monday if their Thanksgiving sale doesn’t do well this weekend. I’m next to positive I’m on that list of 7.

It feels like everything is falling apart. At times literally. Our sheet got a hole in it last week, which became a giant hole that ate Andrew nightly. So we had to throw those away (well I stashed it for fabric), and we’re using our other set. What appeared last night? Another hole in the exact same area! Arrgggg.

I took the news that Pushing Daisies has been canceled pretty hard too. I mean I know it’s just a stupid tv show and all that nonsense, but it was not stupid. It was intelligent, interesting, creative with a great plot and characters. It was incredibly unique and got me watching a series after not watching television for about 4 years.

I’m going to try and forget all this bad shit for the weekend and try to be productive and have fun. We’re going out dancing at Lipgloss tonight. Tomorrow during the day I’m going to hang out with my best friends and in the evening we’re going to celebrate another good friends’ birthday. I have to go get ready. I’ll keep all 4 of you updated as things come my way. You all let me know if there are any good job opportunities you hear about!

Gotta love yahoo news!

Go here, now…

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081119/ap_on_bi_ge/piracy

Pirates, real live pirates…in this day.

Andrew is laughing at my excitement and curiosity (and I’m laughing that there are still pirates)…well he would be if the poor little dear wasn’t sick.

He’s so sweet. I love him so much. That’s why I stayed home from knitting tonight to take care of him. We watched Pushing Daisies and we’ve been watching Spaced from our Netflix. It’s a pretty ridiculous show, but it makes us both laugh.

I’m knitting on my Christmas presents and making plans for an etsy shop. I need to make extra money very quickly. If you know anyone that wants a giant headboard with built in dressers and secret compartments, send them my way! I’m also considering selling my table and chair set and old clothes.

These are some scary times…

and I’m trying to keep my chin up. They’ve started to lay people off at my work. I’ve been reassured by Andrew (who spoke to one of the boss folk from my work, when he went to Andrew’s store) that I have nothing to worry about, since I’m such a good worker. But I was sort of forshadowingly warned by my boss today. It was just a “keep working hard so I won’t have to lay you off” sort of thing, I guess. It really kind of freaked me out to see so many people handed their paychecks and sent on their way. I feel like crying. It’s so terrible for them.

I think these feelings are made worse by how much I really dislike working there. I have been telling myself all week to be glad in these tough times that I even have a job. This made it all too real. So I’m still a little worried, because I have “issues” getting to work on time every day. I never had them at other jobs, but this at this one they are so relaxed about things I guess I felt like it didn’t really matter. But now I know I need to start getting there on time everyday and working a full 40 hours every week.

Andrew and I got the internet connected again (different company though, earthlink can bite a big one), so I’m going to be able to post with more regularity. Yay!

I started my Christmas Knitting last night. I know what you’re thinking: “You sad silly girl, you just started your Christmas Knitting? HA!” And to that I say: “Why yes, yes I did.” See I don’t have that many people I need to knit things for. My immediate family doesn’t celebrate it, my extended family doesn’t include me in it, so that really only leaves Andrew’s family (with whom I’ll be spending it) and some of my friends. I figure I knit fast enough and if I make them small enough projects (believe you me I have) then I won’t have any problems getting the presents done. I was going to write about what I’m making, but I don’t know who all reads this blog.

That’s all I can write for now. It’s dinner time! Bye.