It's January...wait, what happened to January?

Seriously folks. Did I fall into a coma for the past month? I swear it feels like January is just begining and now it's over. I think the month went by too fast to even make an attempt at New Year resolutions....

Actually I think part of the madness is largely due to the extended time I'm putting in at my office. I've been on the road a bit, and on way too many conference calls and net meetings this month alone. Seriously I'm on a first name basis with the entire extensive IT deparment. Hopefully, not in vain.

I'm calming down a bit at work, which is excellent. Although it's definately a double edge, because I'm putting in mad hours to make things work. I don't see my husband or my bed for long these days, but I don't feel the ulcer eating away at my entire body any more. It may be good that I'm not seeing my husband too much these past few months, because he informed me that I have been difficult lately. Yup. So much for the newlywed bliss.

Coincidentally, he's been bring up, with greater frequency, me taking a new job. There is this misconception that I hate my job... I don't actually hate my job, per say. I like my job, actually, it's just more and more responsibilty is dumped into my lap, with the expectation that I will wave my magic wand and make everything better. I'm sorry to say, but my warrior goddess (thanks Helen) yeah, she says go fuck off, double my pay, and get me an assistant.

Non work related (as I see this is becoming a norm here lately) Soon we will celebrate Anna's first birthday! I can't believe she is almost a year old. She is doing great, with increased time out of her brace, and although a little delayed (damn cast!), is working on crawling. I'm always in awe of how happy a baby she is, especially given all the braces, cast and more braces she's already had to deal with.

I've still not uploaded the pictures of her other sweater.... but evidently she wears them both frequently. The most frequent one I was working on, was clearly too small for her, so I capped the sleeves and made it a vest... perhaps for the new addition in September. I have to say, that I've not been knitting much (again, read above rant). I'd like to get another sweater whipped up for her birthday, but honestly, I don't think it's going to happen. Instead of putting myself into a panic about it, I might just start on some lighter summer wear for her, like this Katja top.

After knitting my first baby sweater, and saying how baby stuff was almost instant gratification, my father made a comment that continues to cycle thru my head. "What are you going to do when she grows up?" My first thought was, she's just been born, I have plenty of time. It's dawning on me that that may not be so true. So now my response is, I'll become a more patient knitter as she grows.... yeah.

We'll see how that works out. But luckily, there is another baby on the way. So my plan is to encourage those around to me to keep pumping out babies, just so I won't have to commit to knitting any full size sweaters. :-)

Remember the Polly* Think Pink Radio-athon I volunteered for? Pauline, who had breast cancer, and was the motivation for the fundraising, passed away Monday.


**e/n- there are two links

Babies 'R Us

Hippy brother and wife are expecting :-)!! Brother wants a boy, wife doesn't care, just healthy. Only a month into it, so it's too soon to find out.
Baby excitement continues.

Christmas came again

The postman left me a present today, my Harmony Needles.

Suh-weeeet!!
I can't wait to go home and try these babies out.

Knitting? Oh yeah. I finished another baby sweater, this one came out perfecto, and is in the mail to my favorite little one. I'm working on another one, but with a made up pattern in my head. We'll see how well that goes. I almost think it's going to be too small, but I don't want to start it for the 3rd time. If it's too small, it's being donated. If it fits, than rock on with your cabled self Anna. If by chance it's too big, I am going to be amazed and happy. (The first attempt I cast on enough for a 8 year old.... who wants to wait that long for her to wear it when she's not even a year?) I got an email from a friend asking if I wasn't knitting, because there were no pictures... um, I'm knitting, just not posting pictures. Not posting pictures, not because I'm knitting poorly, but because I get easily distracted :-) I will try to load some up soon.

Yesterday? The best day at work ever. OK, I lied, it's not the best day ever, but it's the best day I've had in months. I almost feel human. Almost.

At the bank, had deposits for our new joint account... signed both my last names.
Angela Everyday Rookie. Actually, this is almost as long as what I did sign. Perhaps my hand cramping up from signing this way, will encourage me to make a decision ;-p

Hiatus.....over, I am back

I would love to be working a three day week, every week. I already miss the short work weeks, and we have no more holidays for a couple months... bummer.

Work still hasn't calmed, I did have my boss in my office (first time ever) as she's located a few hours south of me. All went well, but nothing really was resolved and all the "progressive steps" she's pushing for a "problem child" feel like we are going backwards. Moving from electronic files to paper is not something I'm voting for but then I'm the tech mindset as opposed to her old skool style of multiple filing cabinets.
We will see how things go. I know hubby is mixed on all the time I'm putting in at the office, he likes it because it gives him uninterrupted PS3 playing time, but the flip is that I'm tired, grouchy and hungry when I get home.

I got a 'call' from the past recently. A friend from over 12 years ago found me on one of my other pages and sent me a message. When I first saw the name, nothing rang, but once I saw the picture it was instant recall. The emails back and forth reminded me very quickly of the old days, it's been nice catching up. I also had some other school friends dropping me a few emails, although they are from about 5 years ago, still it's great to "run" into old friends.

Hubby and I spent yesterday taking all the holiday decorations (including tree) down, and getting our place back into some semblance of normal. I'm very grateful. I sat in our den just relaxing, not fussing about what was where, or moving things, just relaxing.

On the newlywed scene:
We finally opened up a joint checking account, and I was more freaked about that then getting married. It was a bit weird, and I'm not sure that I completely understand why. HG was fine about it all, could care less really, and didn't have a problem with his accounts being added to our joint online banking account. I, on the other hand, felt my stomach tighten when I was signing for joint access. I also haven't changed my name on any of my accounts or id's. While initially HG "said" he didn't care if I took his last name, it's become evident that he does care and would prefer that I did. I on the other hand, am a little hesitant to. It's been my identity for the past 20 something years, it's part of me, and now I will no longer be. I always thought that hyphenated names were silly (how I judged!) but I'm almost considering it. What's even more funny is that one of my uncles whom I've had no contact with for about 6 years sent me a letter with my name hyphenated yesterday. Coincidence?
Plus, it's a bitch to get everything changed, License, soc sec#, passport, banking accounts, online accounts, etc.

Did you/ would you take your spouses name? Did you/ would you have any after thoughts/ hesitation on it?