More Thread to Drool Over

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Mom sent me the link to a tour of Marie Osmond's craft room. She warned me in particular to look for the wall of thread but my head still exploded when I saw it! And thank goodness it's arranged by color, or I'd have to email Marie with an offer to straighten it out for her. This, I can - and could, live with!

Bonnie sent me this link to Peter Callesen's website. I think I've seen his work before but even so, I had to look at pretty much every image on his site. My head can barely comprehend how he does this work.

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So much for my optimism about system upgrade testing at work not lasting 4 hours. It did. It went relatively well. There will be a few bugs left to work out on Monday, I'm sure, but mostly that's over. Good thing - because the Illinois sales tax auditor shows up Monday for the whole week. And of course, I'm not at all prepared, as usual.

Steve and I picked up dinner from Applebee's last night, using their curbside service. We went in our sweats and slippers so we prayed we wouldn't have a car accident. I got the bruschetta burger with onion rings and Steve got a different burger with French Fries. When we do that, we split each side. There were, I counted them, FOUR onion rings. Small to medium sized too, not large by any means. Of course we didn't see that until we got home. We used to like Applebees quite a bit but not lately - and that sort of became a deal breaker for me.

I remember once Simon and I went to Friendly's for dinner. He was very little - 3 or 4. I ordered some chicken tenders dinner thing - that came with 7 French Fries. I'm not in the habit of counting my food under normal circumstances, but clearly this stuck in my mind if I'm blogging about it 18 years later. Me, bitter? Nah.

As I'm writing this, I can't believe I didn't complain either time - I just stopped going there. Must be some dumb kid in the kitchen that doesn't care - and I've let them get away with it. Kind of makes me part of the problem, I guess. Need to rethink this so I'll be prepared for next time to speak up.

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I want one of these in my studio!

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I'm not going to waste another entry whining about work but just a quick update in case anyone saw my Facebook update yesterday that I hated my life - - - life is good again, just like I knew it would be. I used to say that I really like the work I do and the people I work with, but it just feels like I can say that less and less. That has become more true over the past few months. I hope it's an aberration and things turn around. I don't think it's just me - I think a lot of my co-workers would say that and a lot of my fellow human beings would say that too. Very seriously, I'm happy to have a job I don't hate (all the time).

I must say I'm looking forward to President Obama's address to Congress next Tuesday night. Listening to that man speak always cheers me up and gives me hope. Even just Generic General Hope is good.

I've been IMing the programmers at work this morning and the system upgrade is going well so we're on schedule to begin testing at 1:00, after our take-out from PF Chang's of course. Everyone was very receptive to that idea so I'm happy to make them happy. I have 4 hours blocked out in my head for this work thing, but I'm confident it will take way less time. And Steve has already agreed to either go out to dinner or maybe we'll pick up something to bring home.

Off I go to craft for a while before heading out.
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