Is the week over yet?

This is how I should have spent this week - sleeping!

Lots of character building experiences at work and in general.

On the home front the Cat of cats had to be secured twice due to pest control & apartment repair issues.

The weather has been awful. I am bummed out about my lack of financial health.

The price of gas is making me consider walking to work.

But than weather issues & my lack of fitness makes that plan laughable.

To top off the joy, I am now frogging my mermaid gloves due to a knitting meltdown.

The one bright spot is an upcoming knitting retreat in Rockport and the dark chocolate I have stashed away a kitchen cupboard.

I hope everyone has a peaceful and restful weekend.

P.S. I am trying to focus on pleasant thoughts today. To share the happy thoughts here is where you can finally see my Nashville vacation photos - http://picasaweb.google.com/purlpaw/MyNashvilleVacation

Come one come all !

Tuesday was the day for various student clubs to push for membership. I was given a table to promote the quarterly Book Club. The selection this quarter is "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by Philip Dick. The thought being that with the popularity of the Blade Runner movie, a few students might want to give the book a chance. After 2 hours I felt like Charlie Brown on Halloween. Other clubs has signed up lots of student, but I only got 3 names and one did not count because it was a staff member. At least it wasn't a total bomb. I brought along my knitting and got a few inches done on a new sock. (Can you spot the yarn behind the candy dish?) I also took advantage of having my needles in my hands and hawked the club to passing students by telling them to check out the dangerous books and pointy sticks.

Two sided January

January is becoming very busy and rather annoying.

The new quarter started this Monday and all of our students are back in force.
I am trying to get the last 2 textbooks added to the reserve collection. One of which I discovered won't even be published till next month. My poor sweet reference librarians are being swamped with orientation tours. And big surprise some were asked for at the last minute. Currently my most pressing projects are yearly job evaluations. One is due this month and two more next month. This is not my favorite activity as it always results in sleepless nights and lots of anxiety.

I all fitting in some knitting. I only have to work on a thumb hole to finish a pair of hand warmers, and I am attacking scarf production once more. I hope to have enough scarves finished to have a pre-Valentine's Day sale to rise money for the school's herb garden.

My other distraction was going to see the Houston Charity Cat Show last Sunday. Sweet and cuddly bundles of fuzz were everywhere. The show is no longer the massive production that it was a few decades when I was active, but it's great fun. It is still one of the few cat shows that is dedicated solely to charity. Best of all I was able to snag a new feather toy for the Cat of cats. It is the one with a detachable clump of feather that you can whirl around by a string. The dear girl needs the activity. Compared to the others of her breed I saw at the show, my gal is a chunky monkey.