I've been featured!

I was featured last week as the Reader of the Day on Pop Candy. Enjoy!

I totally missed my big day because I was cleaning up some work issues. We had a hacker break into our web server a week ago, and they wrecked everything. It was a lot of work and customer relations for two weeks. On top of that, our provider decided to pull our ip address (which was supposed to be permanent), therefore taking the log in pages of our website down several times. What a nightmare!

In other news, my knitting class will be starting in a few weeks. I'm really excited to get others hooked (can you get "hooked on knitting? I thought that was crochet...) on the knitting drug. Right now I have three projects running, two of which are killing me because they are lace knitting and I stink at lace. The other one is a sock, knitted from the most awesome yarn ever: Yarn Love's Joan of Arc. I bought this at Purls two weeks ago for half price, and I'm so glad I did. I've wanted this yarn for a long time, and now that the store is closed, it will be extra special to me.

One of my new year's resolutions is to blog more and post more photos. I haven't updated my Flickr site since summer, and there's little excuse for my laziness. There are a ton of things I've made that have not been documented yet (Monks Satchel!), so I've got to dust off the ol' camera and get to work on that.

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Today, I'm completely exhausted. We are doggie-sitting my dad's dog for a few days, and he is both fun and irritating. One of the main irritations is our fault: we do not have a fenced yard, and he being a Labrador needs to run free. I do not blame him for that. I do, however, blame him for not allowing us to sleep. I've found that he will not go to bed until both of us are in bed sleeping. If the boyfriend is in the office while I'm sleeping (which is the norm), Mr. Beau will cry and pace and drive us both nuts. Once we are both in bed, he climbs in between us (pushing one of us to the edge) and goes to "sleep". I put sleep in quotes because he really doesn't sleep, but pretends to sleep while keeping alert for burglars and other dangers, like a leaf falling off of a tree.

His other problem is that we have these Pergo laminate-style floors, which he is deathly afraid of, for they are slippery. He actually can walk on these floors just fine, but he slipped once, and now is terrified of attempting them alone. When you try to lead him across, he sticks his nails out like a cat, which makes him slide around like Bambi on ice, and we end up dragging him. If he'd just pad across calmly, he'd be fine. What this amounts to is him staying in whatever carpeted room he ends up in until one of us can coax him into another room. You can see how much fun that could be.

The other problem is that I started getting a tickle in my throat last night, so I kept waking myself up coughing all night. I woke up with an oncoming cold and not much sleep, so I'm doing great!

That's enough of my whining. It's almost a new year, and I get the day off tomorrow to do laundry. Whoopie! Happy New Year, everyone!