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August 09, 2007
Um... Hi!
Remember me? I used to post here occasionally, although I haven't been seen for a while. I am still alive, though - more than that, I'm doing really well!
The wedding quickly approaches - we're tying the knot at the courthouse on September 21, and then having a casual open-house style reception at my parents' place the following afternoon... then it's off to a private cabin in the San Juans for a week, stopping in Seattle to see a play on our way back home. We've also started condo-shopping, and are hoping to move in mid-to-late October. Yay!
As far as other life changes go, I took on the newly-created position of customer service manager at work this last March, and I'm finally getting a solid handle on all of my duties. I've been doing lots of traveling, because we have 9 offices scattered around OR and WA, and I have to visit all of them at least quarterly. I certainly have my rough days, and sometimes I feel a bit odd about doing a job that isn't particularly geeky, but overall I'm far far happier with my work now.
We also went on a cruise this July with a bunch of my family... it was a lot of fun - except for the part where my dad slipped and fractured a vertebra on our last port-day, and he and my mom had to stay in a hospital in Mexico for an extra few days - thank goodness for travel insurance! Anyway, you can check out this flickr set for more pics of the trip. I have to say, we both loved Roatán, Honduras - we'll be going back there, definitely!
In the knitting realm, I haven't been getting a whole lot done, which is part of why I haven't been posting, I think. I finished the Mango drop-stitch not-a-hoodie, except for blocking it and getting the zipper put in - and it's been sitting on the dryer waiting for me to wash and block it for a couple of months now. Sean wore through the bottoms of the Thuja socks I made for him last fall, so I made a new pair with higher-twist yarn and reinforcing thread, but I still need to duplicate-stitch the reinforcing thread into the soles, and it's navy blue thread with navy blue yarn, so I keep putting that off, too. I made a pair of socks out of brown and pink socks that rock, but I haven't taken pics of them, and I finished them in April or May but haven't warn them much yet, given that they are a bit warm for Summer.
I do have a picture of the socks I'm working on now - Mountain Colors Bearfoot in a really basic toe-up pattern, very fast knitting. I love the slight fuzziness of the yarn, and it's nice to get something completed in a shorter time frame - I should be binding off the first sock today. I've also been working on a clapotis in SWTC bamboo, but I'm not too thrilled with how it's turning out, so it's off to marinate with stash for a while as I debate frogging it.
Posted by Shannon at August 9, 2007 09:39 AM
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Hey! I do remember you! What have you been up to? Look forward to seeing you at knitting group again. Maybe we should do another girls movie night before you "tie the knot".
Posted by: Janet at August 22, 2007 09:07 PM
