Getting back to Blogging

Here I am again, I am not sure if it is a distraction activity or just feeling settled but I felt the need for more blog :-)

I bought a new hook and am back, I shall take pics of it finished when I get a chance!

Oh I did finish some nice ones at christmas,

I got some yarn from Ripplescrafts and made a hat from some ola yarn, and this is it done! The pattern is from woollywormhead :-)

I think it looks fab! was supposed to me my one ball christmas gift but I knitted too slowly and wanted to keep it!

I also made some slippers but havent photoed them yet!

I found on cafepress you can get things made for you so I ordered a travel mug with 'librarian the original search engine' It was such a success I then ordered a bag which is amazing, bad week for ordering as I also ordered a book of knitting angels to make for the next craft day in november, and an order for a Graze box! which is just being daft but I cant wait!

Off for my lunch and the rest of my day.

ups and downs, Life normal!

I was successful in adopting the Timespan Museum in Helmsdale this week and have a plan of action for the next month or so that is doable, I have had some good meetings and learnt loads of new things in the last week or so. All in all it has been a fab week.

Some friends have been off walking and I so wanted to go, but they go during the week which works for them and I work... never mind I can go at weekends and may take daughter some time or son, either one... can't see Tom happy walking tough, not his thing, he does like sailing so it works. They did a walk from Tain to Dornoch, bus form here to Tain then walk to Dornoch via the sea side and then bus back from Dornoch. I am green with envy, and stuffed with cold so may be it was just as well I couldn't go.

I am still working on my weather scarf, and planning, I am keeping a note of the weather and will knit up the start as soon as I have decided the colours, not happy with choices yet! but at one row a day it shouldn't take me long to catch up!

I have lost my crochet hook as I walked in form the car this morning! I hate that I shall go and have a look later, Tom did go then but didn't find it! Grrrr

Just had my own look and its gone!

I heard yesterday that a friend of mine I knew was ill and wouldn't be getting better has died. She was my age and had 3 young kids! life isn't fair at times, my thoughts are with her friends and family.

So my world is full of ups and downs, I must remember this when it seems very down and to enjoy when its up :-) though unlike when i was a child and you were up or down, life comes in mixed now, I can be up and down! Being an adult isn't always fun but being in nominal charge of my own life compensates for the worst.

I have just taken some new pictures of my library, hope you like them :-)

new year, new energy

I have spent a good holidays with my mum and am now ready for the new year, I know its the 18th but I haven't got my head round being in 2012 yet.
I have a new school line manager, new challenges, new projects (with some old still going) and hopefully I am still moving forwards. I am finding new limits to my work remits but I know how to deal with that, spent a few days worrying and then passed a problem to the person who needed to make the choice and happier now.
I am reading 'And still I rise' by Doreen Lawrence, I realise that I am only 6 years older than Stephen and he died when I was carrying Traylan! hes been dead longer than he lived, and his family are still broken, but while this is sad, it also is a sign of strength and of change. Hope comes in odd forms and odd places...
I am also signed up to do book binding, basket making, jumper to jumper and writers groups on the new castlehill workshops for this year. so plans to get my own world more fun, as well as plans to get to see my people I manage more often. I have so many plans I need to keep a diary for my self (forget work) and am wondering if I took on too much again, but if I have I shall have to let some drop. I wont worry now about what may happen and if it happens I shall deal with it. I can only do so much :-) and I plan to have fun doing it.
Having so much fun on twitter @bibliosuk and like how it runs, I plan to post this up on it when I am done :-D.
I started a scarf today, I don't have the time and have other things on the go but I so wanted to do ti and so I did, I wont force myself to wait for no reason... It may stave off some of my more fanciful projects.
I will be picking up the end of CPD23 as not finishing because I shall miss it is just daft, but not this week, next week I shall try it ;-)

Silliness

Today I spent half an hour dressed like a twit, acting like a numpty, having my picture taken for a fundraising calendar, (yes I know Sharon) I have liberated a copy of one to put up here!
I was Professor Umbridge, in pink! of course, Mari Matthews was fab as Minerva mcgonagall behind me, Carole Darmady as Trelawney was scary! poor Daniel could see nothing as Dumbeldore with all that hair, Anne was a fine Mrs Weasley, and Jonny as Hagrid was a tour De force! the 'youngsters' were Siony as Ginny, Norma as Hermione and of course our own Management bod as Harry Potter.
Very silly and much fun was had by all!

wind and rain

What an odd few weeks, and an odder couple of days, I must do more cpd23, but the end in sight has had me procrastinating, I don't want to end it.
Work has been hard and full of quandary's, I hope I dealt with them all okay, only time will tell.
Today Tom's aunt was buried, and sadly my uncle died, double whammy. Both old and in very poor health, Kathleen didn't know who was who at a family get together 7 years ago and had got worse. While Peter had suffered a series of strokes leaving less and less of him there.
I am getting through my secret Santa knit and have a promotion possible, so like the weather wind and rain but potential clear skies to come.
Mind you we do have a bit of snow due Sunday :-) may have to look out the sledge again...

Autumns here!

I have had an odd few days, a web chat I follow had a lass on who had lost her friend to suicide, most sent comments to help, but it brought up all my own memories of Tracey and how devastated I was when she took her own life. I still miss her every week and still think 'Tracey would laugh at this...' before remembering she has gone. But the chat and comments brought back the raw pain and the sense of confusion, the why, the what if's, the ideas of, was it me? I sent my own note in and she thanked me personally as I hadn't sent 'don't worries' and other nice but unhelpful comments.

Later I heard about a friends who was very ill had passed away, which on top of the first left me a bit like a damp sponge, I woke in the night crying (again) and ran out of tissues in the house. I havent come to any sense of understanding about that yet but I will. Just need shares in paper goods :-).

Final issue of the weekend has been our little cat Smudge, she was sick Friday, and still not good Saturday, She seemed to rally this morning but by afternoon we rang the vets and she went in, and she has gastroenteritis, and needs fluids! so she is at the vets and we shall get her tomorrow, but we thought we would lose her too. She was a very poorly cat and even though she is safe we worry until shes home again. It was something she has eaten, but short of locking them in all day we cant stop them foraging, of course the kittens have been shut in since lunchtime to keep Tom happy! :-D Now hes worrying still but at least at the vets all will be done for her, better than with us and getting worse.

I sound sad in all this but oddly I am not, I knew my friend was just waiting on death, Tracey was such a shock but time passing had helped me as have good friends around me. Smudge is safe even if not home.

Autumn is here, the days are cold and the nights sharp and frozen, the leaves are gone and the garden dormant, I have my Christmas cards and some of my gifts, and plans for more soon... and odd time of year,

November

No sun - no moon!
No morn - no noon -
No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day.
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member -
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds! -
November!

Thomas Hood

and to quote Coca Cola "The Holidays are coming"

Home time

I am having a kitchen day, no work, no other stuff, just fun, and baking.

Have done a wash load and dried one, made sponge cake and bread and making Christmas cake!

Have the makings out for a casserole and doing apple crumble with the last of our own apples for tea! Must go and move clothes to get more washing going, but as you see a nice baking day!

I refuse to get dressed and after my nice bath (early afternoon when I have a new book to read in my kindle) I shall make the next bits of food and tidy up, and Hubby is finally doing the window! but now has run out of wood so tomorrow will include a trip to Thurso to get more!

Kittens are under foot begging for food and, well, more food!

Kids are either up and on the computer, up and out with mates or not yet up! depending on their own worlds...

Saw the new calendars yesterday and I need some, so I must get money sorted and go buy some from the northern loops bods! And had good day out at the Dunnet Brittania hall car boot sale!

I would upload pics but the sponge cake is gone the bread is almost gone and the big cake is still cooking, and the rest is just ideas... so just trust me it was good :-)