bleh

I'm tired, and not feeling too wonderfully great from working all day in the heat. I probably didn't drink enough water, as is typical for me. And being outside all day, in a physically demanding job, well...it's not such a great idea to not drink enough water. I know this, but I've also always been pretty bad about keeping myself hydrated.

It also has been a somewhat rough, stressful week which just adds to my exhaustion. They changed the routes, added onto mine, but refuse to acknowledge that the changes they made means they've sucked up any downtime i may have had. So i keep arguing the point, they keep pushing ,and i keep pushing back. Meanwhile I'm waiting for my involuntary transfer to occur; we're overstaffed currently, and even though i have an assignment currently, it isn't permanent, and i am movable. Because it is being forced though, if something opens back up for me here in the next two years after i get pushed out, i can come back if i want to.

With all the stress and craziness, I'm sure some people would wonder, "why would she want to go back"--well, fact is, i know what I'm doing here, it is conveniently close to where i live, and i really don't want to have to start over somewhere new. Even though I'd be doing the same job, it would be in a completely different area, and one i am likely to be unfamiliar with, as well as it being a much further commute for me daily. And for all the stupid stuff that happens here on a daily basis, i know what i am doing and where i am going from day to day, week to week.

But, it is the weekend, and a holiday weekend at that! And thanks to a change in scheduling, next week will be an exceptionally short one for me; i have tomorrow and Monday off, work Tuesday through Thursday, and then have off Friday through Sunday. Of course, next week will be another long one, working Monday through Saturday, but it's worth the price for the relaxation time.

Enough about work.

Knitting: still working on Silvie; yes i know, I'm slow. The two sides are done, however, and the strap is past the halfway point. So far, I've used almost five of the balls of evergreen Wool of the Andes i bought, and only one of the cloud. I do still need to seam the bag halves together, and make the drawstring, but i am getting closer to those steps. Sorry, no pictures right now--I'm feeling lazy, and not particularly willing to dig out the camera, wherever it is.

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Once i have Silvie finished, i have two (or five) other projects i want to start; there's the little Sheldon ® turtle for our friends' little boy-beast-child; they've moved out to Texas, so we sadly will not be seeing them often anymore. There's the Vernal Equinox Surprise ® shawl i want to make, and bought seven balls of Kroy sock yarn ("Winter Eclipse") to use making it (the swatch came out looking good), and there is also the Veil of Isis ® , which i bought more knitpicks yarn (shimmer hand dyed lace in "spice") to use when making it.

Yeah, that's only three projects there. I do have more in my mental queue, from a pair of fingerless mitts using stranded knitting to create a winter forest at night scene, a little knitted sheep with removable fleece, and the Reverie beret because although i made it once already, i learned that trying to finish a project (and weave in ends) while under the influence of NyQuil is a very bad idea. I was in the process of soaking the hat for blocking, when it began unraveling in my hands. And i was too out of it to be able to salvage it. So, i frogged it right then and there, and hung the yarn out to dry.