Here is today's story...if you are looking for some great hand-dyed yarn, here you go. I think it's SO cool that she runs this operation out of her three-bedroom apartment:
http://www.examiner.com/article/the-wool-dispensary-is-small-square-footage-big-on-potential?cid=db_articles
And then, remember a few days ago, when I thought maybe I'd send my Malabrigo cowl pattern to the company? Well, I did. Six hours later, I got a message from them which read, "Your pattern is now available from our website. Thank you." So I ran like I was in a timewarp to a device with internet access that's larger than my new iPhone, and found this:
http://malabrigoyarn.com/patterns.php?pattern=pattern_free
How cool is THAT?
THEN...I got two more subscribers in the past two days. Might not sound like much, but I have upgraded from dozens of readers to scores of readers...ha ha ha. Maybe one day I'll be able to do this for a living...it seems so silly to say out loud, but writers on knitting DO exist, and they DO make a living. Why can't it be me? Maybe five years down the line I'll be doing this 100% of the time. If it's sooner, then that just means I'll be as pleasantly surprised as I have ever been.
On a separate note, I was eating a Honeycrisp apple today and of course thinking of CJ, who once rolled his eyes at me and said, "Jonagold?!?! I wouldn't eat anything but Honeycrisp." As if my apple weren't worth the twenty cents less per pound that I was paying. Anyway, I was knitting up December's pattern, which I STILL haven't finished but have made a ton of progress on in the past three days. I realized something...next Thursday is the anniversary of his death, and for the past two years, this is right around the time he starts speaking to me on a regular basis.
For those of you who are freaked out or think I'm nuts, I'm fine with that. Believe what you believe, and I will do the same. Respect, please.
So no sooner had I thought that when I received a text message from someone that said, "You just needed to get beyond my bullshit." I just found that horrendously funny (for those of you who know the situation with CJ and my gift with the angels and guides, you will also find that horrendously funny). I went back to knitting the December pattern...here it is so far (and I have apologized about a hundred times to my subscribers for being so late, but I think they get it):
All in all, these past few days have been pretty darn productive. I'm getting there, albeit slowly. But dammit as long as my life is in at LEAST first gear, instead of Park, Neutral, or Reverse, I'm good.
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