Thank God Its Friday!

Phew - got to Friday at long last! It's been a long horrible week. Work has been manic and frankly I am beginning to think I should have stayed in the job I was in and not moved! The department is in a total mess and I have to get it sorted by the end of April which will take a miracle! Sigh, oh well think I'll be keeping my eye out for something else, the only trouble is me and hundreds of others!

On a positive note, I have still managed to keep of the ciggies! It's been well over a week and I think the lack of nicotine is adding to my stress levels, I'm still a psycho bitch from hell and think I might be for a few more weeks - people beware! When I feel like having a cigarette I think about all the nice things I can buy with the money I'm saving not smoking - I intend to spend the money on frivolous purchases to make me happy and not letting it absorb into the pot!

Other news this week:
Roz has tendinitis and has her arm all bandaged up and a splint in place! She is off work next week on leave so hope she'll get better soon - she keeps me sane in all the madness that is the office!
Dawne has been made redundant. She was half expecting it but it has still come as a bit of a shock. I must ring her this weekend.
Ooo I was given a lovely bottle of Rose wine for knitting a scarf for one of the girls at work - so it's not all doom and gloom!
And finally I learned what "Happy Hump Day" means! It's, ahem, not what I first thought it meant, it means happy Wednesday! LOL

Losing the plot!

Well its been one of those weeks and I am now convinced I am losing the plot! I've had a cough over the last few days from a nasty bug and decided it would be a good time to give up smoking s it made my cough worse! This is where I lost the plot and found myself in a lose lose situation!! I stopped smoking Wednesday and was very grumpy to the point of getting to work Thursday morning and bursting into tears for no reason whatsoever! Oh the joys of nicotine withdrawal! Th trouble was that if a smoked a cigarette it made me cough worse which also made me grumpy - I don't envy my colleagues and family this week, I've been a bear with a sore head (or nasty cough and no nicotine!)

Anyway, I am over the worst now, the cough is slowly clearing up and I think I am just about free of needing nicotine, although its not the drug so much now as the habit I miss - I'll have to remedy that somehow! What has helped though is that every time I crave a cigarette, I think about what else I could spend my hard earned cash on - like those high end yarns I love so much, or a handbag, or some shoes - the list is endless! I have decided that any money I would have spent on cigarettes (and its a fair bit!) I am going to indulge myself with some of life's luxury goods! Well there has to be some incentive and I must TRY not to be too grumpy although I think I can be excused for being grumpy on a Monday so bear with sore head will be back tomorrow!

More finished objects....

I'm on a roll and finished two more small projects that have been sat on my needles for a while!

The first one is a small make-up bag I made using the free yarn that came with Lets Knit magazine the other month. I had been deciding what to do with it and in the end I just cast on a few stitiches and started knitting! It was going to be a needle roll but then I decided to line it and add some wire butterflies and a wire flower as a fastner and hey presto it turned into a make-up bag!

The other is a beanie hat I've been knitting since before Christmas. It seems to have taken me ages to knit this, I kept putting it down and picking it up not really getting into the flow, but today I decided enough was enough and it had to be completed and here is the finished result! That leaves me with only one UFO now but it will be sometime beofre that one gets done as it is another epic throw! I'm not sure what it will turn out like either so it may end up being ripped and turning into something completly different!

There is also that gorgeous silk top I can't wait to get started on but as its done on circulars I am going to start it when I have time to sit down and concentrate on it without any interuptions!

Well back to the shortlisting now, today is the closing date for those jobs we advertised but you always get a last minute flurry of applications and they have been flowing in all day!

It's here! It's here!

Yea! The silk yarn I ordered to knit my next project has arrived!

It took me ages to decide the colour there were so many to choose from and you don’t always get a good idea of what they will look like when you buy online, but I think I made the right choice! I loved the cream shades and the white shades and the gold colour shades and the blue shades, well all of the shades really (except “just thrown-up yellow”) In the end I decided to go for the “dark pink, and it’s gorgeous! Now I’m waiting for my nice new needles to arrive so I can start knitting it!

I have also FINALLY managed to get a couple of small project finished! The blue scarf I knit for a colleague who admired the one I had made for another colleague last Christmas! I didn’t mind knitting one up for her, but to be honest I did get fed up knitting it halfway through and it took me ages to get it done!

The phone sock I just whipped up quickly using some free yarn that came with a knitting mag. I wasn’t sure what to do with it and knitted and unpicked it several times before I decided on a phone sock! I used green organza ribbon as ties and added a couple of really pretty glass beads to jazz it up a bit! Pity the photography doesn’t do it justice!

Phew – that’s it for another day. I’ve finally got round to talking about knitting again! It seems ages since I’ve finished anything or got very far with anything!