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Spinners

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Guess what?

OK, I’ll tell you.

I’m retiring on June 30.

Screen shot of the countdown calendar that I took this morning while eating breakfast:

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Yup, only 90 more days to go.

Mr. Aitch and I have discussed this change in our lives and have come up with a very lucrative business to give us more income in our Golden Years.

We are in the process of setting up a silk spinning company.  Using spiders to spin webs that we will harvest and turn into very strong and beautiful yarn.

During my Spring cleaning, I discovered several places that are full of these beautiful silken threads.  I didn’t want to stop the silk production so I left the spiders where they were and just took the webs.

Now to clean, card, and spin my findings into beautiful yarn.  Any spinners out there who want to help?

Do you know what day it is?

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It’s Friday.  Not Saturday.

Yeah.  Well, I took today and Monday off for a nice project packed four-day weekend of finishing sewing project (gifts), wrapping said gifts, baking cookies, attending Mr. Aitch’s Christmas Cantata, and the mundane housework I have put off.

I knew that today would be Friday when I went to bed last night.

But totally forgot that today was Friday when I woke up.

I received these texts this morning from my assistant director.  His texts are on the left and mine are on the right (in green).  Please excuse the typos.

Brain-farts-001Now at this point I’m still thinking that it is Saturday and this box of pears from Harry & David was delivered to his house.  I figured he and his wife, Courtney, sent some Harry & David gifts and this was their gift-with-purchase.

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Then it finally dawns on me that today is Friday.  I ordered gifts for our executive board members so the box of pears was sent to OUR office (TCC) from Harry & David.

Duh!

Merry Christmas…in case I forget what day it is again.

 

 

Do you or don’t you?

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black-fridayDo you take part in Black Friday shopping?

Do you do this voluntarily?

Or do you stay home and enjoy the day?

I don’t recall voluntarily shopping on Black Friday.  When I worked at a department store, I had to be there at 7:00 a.m. for the onslaught of shoppers.  Of course no one then would believe people would actually get up that early and go shopping. But they came in droves.  Now Black Friday begins at 12:01 a.m. the day after Thanksgiving and from what I’ve heard shopping takes a military strategist to plan the attack.

No thank you.  There is nothing I want that badly to risk life and limb.

So do you don your armor and shop-till-you-drop?

Budding artists

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When I was visiting our daughter last month, the twins each drew pictures for me.  I told them I would take them to my office and put them on the wall.

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Which I did.

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E’s picture was of her Lalaloopsy doll, Jewel.  I love the detail on her dress, the big button eyes, and the stitching for the mouth.

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Z’s picture is of her (on the left) and me (on the right).  She asked me what I love and instead of picking one thing, I told her I loved knitting.  That’s my knitting in the big heart on the right.  The sky reminds me of Vincent van Gogh’s “Starry Night” painting with the different swirls of blue.

Do you take your kid’s grandkids’ art to work?  How do you display their art?