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The fiber retreat really needed to be another day for me. I have been feeling off all week and sleeping like crap and I only got a good night's sleep on Saturday night due to beer and benedryl. Not sure what is up but I'm sure all of the travel, the climate changes, the smog of cali and other things have been affecting my sleep. I slept good last night and that was a good thing.

I took almost all of the classes I signed up for. I missed the basketry class and I'm okay with that. I would have spent the entire weekend working on a basket versus working on other things but I'm still intrigued by baskets. Gonna have to see what I can do to make one soonish. I also didn't get to take the Knitting 101 class from

mariamist having to run off. I'm okay with that. I can get some tips and tricks from books and

scribe_ari but everyone who took her class was doing marvelously.

I learned to make PLARN and I started to make a bag. I'll finish that up sometime soon. The girls at work are going to make their plarn and then I'm going to show them how to make the bags.

I made a felted eyeglasses case and its cool. I need to do some sewing on it but its pretty awesome and I want to make more things felted. I'll have to get some supplies. I also dyed all of my potholders and the left over string. They are pretty neato. I also finished a multi-colored potholder on the way home and a started making a Hyperbolic Sphere which I want to use as a scrubby but I think I need more rows. Its cool though and makes me squee.

I got taught to spin a bit by

cayswann and I bought a new spindle from Goshyarnit! and I bought some awesome fiber from The Dizzy Ewe called "gummi worms". I also got some optima from Chameleon Colorworks and that should be fun to spin as well. So, it was a good weekend and I'm glad I went, just wish I'd had a bit more time and I that I had slept better.

Not sure what this week will entail but I have a lot of work to do on the commission stuff and I need to get ready to teach on Sat/Sun. I might see if I can revamp my bead handout but we shall see. I also need to get my ass back in gear for the bike and the work outs and not let my asthma get me. Gonna clean house tonight and hopefully get the workout in before scribble. All good.

Oh, and

cayswann thinks my job at work is to, I quote, "Make people fear me! SNERK!!! I guess that is true-ish...its more along the lines of being the voice of reason and making people see the easier path in things. Dunno...I'll need to think on that a bit.