I've been really very good to myself these last few weeks. I knew that my tax return would bring me a new ipod, and Spa would probably bring me a wheel. My tax return came the Friday before Spa. So, I get to hit the breaks for awhile. This is going to be an exersize for me, as I'm really seeing a lot more money with my new job. Well, the next big purchase will be the wedding dress. Promise.
It is nice being back home. Chris is close, the cats are everywhere, and the wheel is right there. We've arrived at an agreement regarding housework that isn't an immediate fix, but I do believe that it will become a greater lifestyle improvement. 30 minutes of house work must be done before the wheel or the Wii are approached. So far, so good. You can really get a large amount done in 30 minutes. It's gratifying, and you don't end up hating everything around you. It's more of a Flylady approach.
So, the wheel. The spinning I did with the Turkish spindle this week really did help. If anyone wanted to invest in a Turkish spindle, I'd point them to the illustrious Jenkin's Woodworking. Wanda and Ed are fantastic. Wanda got me back into spinning when I was certain that I was done, done, done. Because of my time with the spindle the yarn coming from my wheel is really more consistent and not nearly as forced as it was. I'm pretty proud of my second batch. (Crap, I just saw the WPI tool on their site. I need one of those, now that I'm spinning. Oh well, I haven't chatted with Wanda for awhile ;)
And soap. This is pretty cool. It saved my Thursday. Thursday sucked. Thursday almost broke me down. I called Chris and he told me that Heather had some good news. She has sold all of the soap that she had. That's a lot of soap. I don't remember the exact numbers, but that's a lot of soap to be hare today and goon tomorrow. It found a great home at Yarn and Fiber in Windham, NH, and I really can't thank Heather or Cyndi (the shop's owner) enough. I'm a little blown away by it all. Honestly. I celebrated by buying some more essential and fragrance oils, and I've finally got some little sheep molds coming. I'm really quite excited.
I've got so much to talk about, and it's really hard to do it chronologically, so I guess I'll just have to do it quickly and hope you don't notice! Maybe next I'll go over the 5 yarn stores in three states that I've recently visited. Yeah. Expect that one tonight. And then, shortly after, I'll post my questionnaire for the Secret Pal Swap. You've got til the end of the month to sign up, so maybe that will be what pushes you over the edge!
OK, I'm going to go do my 30 minutes ;)
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