And This Is Not What I Wanted To Have Happen

So, absences. Indeed, Internets, this past week has been a not very fun one.
It's been full of work and work stresses. House stresses - more about that in a bit. Headaches on the regular. Strange week-long cases of the munchies for no apparent reason. And no, we are not pregnant in the DAMnation household, thank you very much.

There has been no creativity, sadly, no happy moments (except for today, which we will also get to later), and nothing exciting really.
I've scoured Pinterest a few times,and kept up on the blogs, just to be trying to find something. But, not much has come up really. Lots of things that are lovely, to be sure, but nothing that has set fire to my little creative bits.

It's rather depressing, yes, I know, and I don't mean to be a downer, just the brain has been on other subjects, and I'm not rather fond of it.

We've had house stresses. With tax returns coming back, and the hope of saving more money, we get to the ideas that it's going to be house-buying in the near future. Not very near, but near enough we finally need to get down to what we need to do.
We're not sure, at this point, which is correct. To get a loan first. Or to find a house to buy first. But at this point, we can do neither, so we are going to be calling upon family with houses for advice.

And today's excitement was that of D buying computer parts to build (another) computer. He has a laptop and a desktop (and a non-working server-ish thing), and now has the parts to build another. Since his old desktop is going to be a server. No clue what to be done with the non-working one, but that's his story not mine. But it's rather exciting, for sure.
This is something I would like to do, also (build a computer, that is), but it's not in the financial cards right now. So, it won't happen yet. I will be content with my old laptops, and wish for a money tree.

There are such things as money trees, right?!

xoxo, Jess (who really just needs to start something, and see where she gets with it, failure or not)

Hopefully Back To Regularly Scheduled Programming Shortly!

Dear Internets.
This week has been rough. Heck, the past few weeks have been. It's a tough battle. It's just everything is terrible all at once, when really it's the same situations it's always been. I don't really want to get into the details, but let's suffice to say I haven't been feeling my jolly creative colourful self as of late.
I'm fairly certain it has been showing.
My major goal here, is to keep a happy place, to share happy things. And that only. Because there has to be something that is all good, somewhere, right? Well, other than D, because he is good, but you know what I mean.
However, today I'm taking a break from that, to just say that life is not happy yarn hearts and blankets and vintage Pyrex.
Not lately it hasn't been.
Which is why I'm going to leave you all with this Pinterest link and image, something lovely I found today thanks to the very lovely people I follow over there. I swear, I check Pinterest at least 4 times a day, if not more, and it really is worth it.

Pinterest Link

If only it were that easy...

xoxo, Jess (who's off to enjoy a Mike's Hard Strawberry Lemonade - because she deserves it, dammit!)

Plottings and Such

Dear Internets. You and I, we have a funny relationship. You give me hours of entertainment when I don't want it, and when I can't think of anything to do and what to find awesome things, there's not much.
Such is how it goes, I suppose.

Today is the last day of our vacation. And for that, I am very depressed. Yes, not just sad, but depressed. I don't like my job, very much so dislike it, and there's always so many things else-wise I would like to be doing! How much I would enjoy to be able to do creative things and still have a place to live! But right now, that is out of the question. We are tying, D and I, to save up money to buy a house, and that requires a regular income, which terrible-job gives me (sort of). So, tomorrow, I will be back, and it will be sad, and I'll be plotting all the things I would rather be doing the whole day long.

However, there is some hope. If I take all of my plottings, and finally finally finally get down to doing them...well, let's just start there and see where we end up.

First things first, though. The blanket I started for one of my coworkers, that needs to be done. It's slow going. Not because it's a slow pattern, but because I haven't done much with it since I started.

It's 28 inches square at the moment. I plan on making it standard throw size, 40x60, so I'm almost done with the square part. After it gets to be 40 inches square, I'm going to continue up for the next 20 inches, and then do a border to go around, to hide all the pesky ends (that you can see hanging off the left side in the second picture).

This ought to be first priority, it will be a quick job. Just need to get to it. And that's that.

xoxo, Jess (penguin & polar bear sheets and all)