Work was dull. The drawing reviews I'm doing are tedious but necessary. I found the most ubiquitous note ever that had us laughing "Soldering shall be in accordance with applicable specification." So if the Barnam and Bailey Circus has a solder spec we could use that. Seriously. LOL. But by the time quitting time came I was toasty and my brain was soup.

Fought traffic to the knit shop, we had weather moving in again and while we were there the first pass blew through which took out power poles etc around town. Didn't loose power there or at home but things flickered. I got to show off my TDFleece spinning and the cat. I worked on the Chevron scarf that I blogged about Rule Number 3 breaking and its still effed up. But I'm making do. The comments from people on Ravelry also show that its effed up and the pattern writer is still being rude. I have about 2/3 of a second ball left and then will be done with it. I'm all about finishing old UFO's (unfinished objects).

Got done there and headed home. Mel was watching Minecraft stuff on youtube. I headed back to the studio and managed in 2 hours to get the second sleeve on the jacket, the armscye hem turned, the neckline tack stitched and all of the last of the fabric for the skirt ruffles cut out. I have no idea why I was so scared to cut into the sheer fabric. It was easy, just goes to show I don't trust my own abilities with things at times to the point of nerfing myself. Put everything away and stacked the fabric up for sewing tonight.


The trim is just laid around the neckline...not sure I will use that or something else yet.

Pile of fabrics for the ruffle booty!!!!


Weather was also nuts last night. I guess there were 61 mph winds at the base (1/2 mile from my house. crazy.

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So, at the end of the day lferion commented that Benton stole all of the awesome.  And I agree. He had a perfect day at school and I, Mel and Ari all suffered.

To start...Monday at work I had a feeling after looking at some data that a supplier was not doing what they were supposed to do.  Its not my hardware, i.e. I'm not responsible for it, but I do look over it a bit since it gets used in one of my assemblies. Things just looked odd and the more I dug into the data the more I was convinced I was right. I wrote up a summary, put people who actually know the hardware and the supplier on distro and waited while they walked through my thoughts.  Yesterday it came to a head and yes, I'm completely and utterly right. And its sucky. Like, can't ship hardware sucky. Now, its not like the stuff will break...what the supplier did was a better than for us but its not what they were contracted to do for us.  So now its a papertrail, paperwork nightmare and we have to figure it out with the supplier who has been silent to our questions.  Sigh.  Left work for the gym and wanted to knock things out and then hit food/knit night and then do some shopping.

The gym was okay but I had folks trying to flip sets with me on squats so they could use teh deadlift area and the pull up bar. They really could have waited. I do quick sets with about 30sec-60sec between and they slowed me down considerablly. It was kinda rude. I should have said no but oh, well.  Then my phone started blowing up with phone calls and its hard to answer your phone when its in an arm thingy for running.  I need to remember that I think I can talk through it and just use the headphones to hear the convo but I didn't think of that since I was in the middle of 350lb calf raises.  Sighs.  Mel needed to pick up the kiddos from school for Ari since her work went to hell and it was a bit of a cluster due to this and that and I need to just make sure they have each other's cell numbers so I'm not the messenger. Sighs.  Got back onto my work out and hit the deck for some core work.  I need to remind Bob the gym manager to pump up the fitness balls they are geting squishy.  I've started doing my planks using the Bosun and I think its much easier for me to do in some ways and way harder in others. Its just more comfy for my hands and they were bothering me after having to snatch/grab the bar with my squat weights over and over to switch the setup with that one guy.  Sheesh.  I ran/walked for 15 mins and then got changed for my awesome night out.

Yeah, not so much.  I took a different route and shouldn't have...too much traffic and stoopid people. Realize that the store I needed to hit closed at 8pm which means I needed to skip knit night. My coupons at the store after I FINALLY found something to buy were not as good as I had hoped. Sighs.  Then I picked up cat litter since Mel had said we were almost out.  Then I hit Chipotle and while standing in line Mel asked if I could pick up cat food.  Sighs.  I waited for a busy line and got my chicken bowl to find out that they were out of iced tea?  WTF?  I dont' drink soda and it was crowded and loud and I was just done so I asked for it to do. I guess my face was distraught enough I got my food for free. WTF?  Okay. I heade back to petco to get the cat food and then ate my dinner at Target, in the quiet of the starbucks area.  I got things for food stuffs and first aid supplies (mel had exhausted the guaze and tape due to his elbow) and I found a work out slip on coverup for when I get done with the gym and want to stay warm.  I got home from my errands at 909pm. Mel and Wander were busy prepping food for Estrella Tuesday Night dinner and I was exhausted and grumpy.

So, I check my calorie intake for the day and realized that I had ate clean and good and worked out and got 7k steps in that day so I had a beer and knit.  I needed it.  The cats were exstatic that I was sitting on the couch and all was well.

Today, hopefully not as crazy.  I've already hosted an impromptu international telecon and well, yeah. I have a report to slam out today and other tasks to clean up.  Hoping for good and not staying too late today.

The last 48 hours have been a bit stressful. Mel's dad is in the hospital in Washington state. Mel and fibergeek are traveling today to see him and the BIL and I are holding down our respective homes waiting for the call that we need to make flight arrangements etc. I actually hope I don't have to make those arrangements and we are currently in a holding pattern.

For everything else that means that SCA plans for event attendance is in flux dependent on our travel plans. I am just looking for folks to spend time with this week if people want to hang out in the evenings. I'm working on court planning and taxes (way exciting no?) but company will make the time go by quicker.

Benton's birthday is Thursday. I need to see about bringing something in for him to celebrate with his class and I still plan on our quiet dinner on Friday but this is all dependent on the other situation. I know he probably won't remember it but keeping things normal would be good. We shall see.

So, its FRIDAY!!!!

I get to have a date of lunch and a movie with dear posadnik_ivan and then I can also hopefully get my toes pedicured....its been a really, really long time since I did that.

This weekend brings us Kingdom 12th Night and then War Practice. I'm anxious to get my but back into my armor again. Though I have a feeling its gonna be too loose again since the boy is almost weaned. Oh, well, I know of one project in my future will be to re-lace my strapping to get it to work and recovering my war shield and getting my new tourney shield ready to go. Plus I also need to get more boy clothes. So I can look cute out of armor.

So, I'm hoping the weekend will be good. I have a bunch of SCA business to take care of but I think that will go well and get things off of my plate of worry & aggravation. Me annoyed is not a good thing. Me pissed off enough I'm gonna talk to your peer about your behavior is something else entirely especially if this behavior would eventually make my barony; I'm a Bannthegn after all, its still mine in some respects; look bad.

So, there has been a massive storm here in Tucson on the southside. The power has flickered here at work and our wonderful building (that was designed to take a 10 foot snow load) is leaking like a sieve. They shut down lots of hallways in it due to ceilings collapsing (not the full ceiling just the tiles etc and lots of water everywhere. My desk is okay. We had marble sized hail hit for quite a while and its basically been raining since around lunch time. The roads are flooded so badly around the plant we are advised to to stay put until the rain clears. Whoa!

The cell phone repeaters in the building are down and our outside phone system just came back up. So things are interesting. We shall see how things go.