Its wednesday already??? Holy Carp!

Yes, I did mean to use a fish versus excrement...so sue me.

Well, I accomplished quite a lot last night even though my sinuses are making my forehead look like I'm getting horns coming through. (Seriously, ask Mel, my front sinus swells and you can physically see it...its creepy). Anyhoo, I got all of the sekrit squirrel project done (picture on Monday, I promise) and then made myself a pretty cause I was inspired and such...heck, unlike me, I left all of the beading stuff out so I can play some more later...tee hee..we shall see what I come up with next. I'm excited....but also getting distracted which I shouldn't do. Sighs. I took a shower after my last post, took the benedryl and snuggled in with PP&Z and read until mel got home. He was all bouncing from the practice and his exuberance couldn't keep me awake for long. He was kind and brought me more pain meds and I was out. I woke up with the alarm this morning and fell kinda bright eyed and bushy tailed...course I got a full nights worth of sleep and I took almost a 2 hour nap yesterday...so not too bad.

I preempted my headache with drugs this morning and I can tell the sinuses are unhappy but they are coping and I'm not searching my desk for an ice pick...oh, I'd be trepanning myself, not lobotomizing myself...I want the euphoric release of pressure, not the mind numbing dumbing of my psyche. (wow, that was poetic...hmm, more drugs might be good for me). Anyhoo..I'm feeling much better than yesterday and I've been hitting things with full force at work. I have lots to do and now two days to do it before I leave for travel. Wow, lots to do...so I best get cracking.

After work I do plan to fun home, dinner and then head to grandmas for some knit night. I guess a big group of folks is coming and that is good. I need to get to the edging on the baby blanket so I can get that done and start the other one before I leave so I have plane projects. All good.

Well, that just clinches it...we need this class!!!!

So, talking with one of our "really smart dudes" somehow we got onto fabric and his comment was "well, everyone wore burlap until the italians learned to pound fabric in the Renaissance!" and I lost it....Seriously, boggles my mind that a guy with a PHD could be so out of wack...now if anyone knows about the fabric technique he was talking about, I'd like to know but I ejumacated him a bit on the finer points (ha, ha FINER as in THREAD!!) of textiles and prehistoric/medieval context. Then I sent him on to look at books...cause he asked.

Women's Work: The First 20, 000 Years Women, Cloth and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber.
5,000 Years of Textiles by J. Harris
Prehistoric Textiles by EJW Barber

Yeah, need to start working on this class and I do think Estrella would be a great place for this to preview at....yup.

A day in the life of me at work....

Meetings, and a few other meetings...random encounters in the hallways that end up talking about textiles, endless phone calls about the same subject from 5 different people who if they all read their email they could understand the issue together, realizing that going back east to a vendor means I should probably wear a skirt and then I realize that all of my summer dress shoes are strappy and non-factory safe...think, well, I could buy another pair of shoes or just bring some to wear on the floor and switch back to sandals...hmmmm...that has merit..I hate shoe shopping when I'm looking for specifics. maybe when I run out to get my toes done tomorrow I can get look at DSW...hmmm. Then I also think..can I fit all of my documents for the trip and the next afghan in my bag??? hmmm...then we get into a discussion on weird EE stuff we don't understand and have issues with the printer and then its time to go home....what did I accomplish today??? A lot of phone calls, a lot of emails, 5 drawings printed and one chart...I call lame.