sometimes life gets analog and getting on here to make entries seems like something to do later. that's kinda what it's been. i haven't been reading blogs much either. i try, but what it boils down to isn't so much needing "me time" (cross reference horrid woman on tv - wife swap) as needing analog time.

and my analog life has been pretty darned busy lately. which i like. making stuff, knitting, felting, reading about knitting and felting... haha... the dog park, etc. i find that making things that don't live on the computer is really theraputic for me. so, that's where i've been. still here, just doing other stuff. and getting really excited about even more projects.

side note to not working over the summer: it was great, and MEG you'll be proud of me. i actually use the library now. granted, for the stuff i want i'm something like 68th place in the queue, but i haven't gone out and bought *any* of the $25-60 books i want.

anyway. freelance stuff is going well, and i'm hoping that will settle into a good constant thing with the company i just started with. it would be a dream job on so many levels.

and after a couple of drinks and dinner last night brian and i came up with a book idea. i can't tell you anything about it because i haven't seen anyone do anything like it and y'all know that once you verbalize an idea it's out in the universe and someone else will think of the same thing within a month. so i have to get busy writing sample chapters and outlines and stuff, and get it off to a publisher (fingers crossed on having a contact at said publisher).

barbara i will mail your package soon, maybe today. shelley, i have not forgotten you, and you too will be rewarded.

in an amazing feat of self-restraint i only spent $8 and change at the yarn store yesterday. there were SO MANY YARNS i wanted. my rule is that i have to have a project for any yarn, but i'm quickly sliding off that horse. so, for the moment, i just picked up felting needles and some roving to play with.

and that's really sort of how life is going. well, that and we played the closet cleaning drinking game last weekend. it involved tequilla and big bags of stuff to go to the thrift store.