No Rest for the Weary

Quick update from the last post. The baby afghan looks really cute with the third set of colors picked out- so yea for that. Sometimes that is the hardest part of a project is picking the right yarn and colors. Now, I just need to find time to crochet my fingers off. That has been a bit challenging lately.

You see, planning season has started at work. What is planning season? Every year from mid July to the end of September it is my job to tell the accounting people at the corporate headquarters how much it will cost to run the plant the next year. That, in a nut shell is planning season. Being the only accountant in the plant, that is a lot of numbers to be budgeting. The silly thing about it is that I needed to have my "first pass" done yesterday before I left work. Then the corporate people will look at it, and declare that I need to go over the whole budget again, but with different assumptions, or hopefully, actual forecasts of the sales next year. I guess the biggest frustration is that we (the plant accountants) are given due dates for various parts of the budget, and we are to strictly adhere to them. However, much of the information is dependent on the information supplied from corporate - which has yet to really meet any deadlines they have set for themselves. Talk about frustrating.

Other than that, nothing much happening. Met some friends with their children, for a bonfire last weekend. It was drizzling, and slightly cool, but fun. Gunga had fun running up and down the hills, but I had to keep a close eye on him as he tended to get close to the fire. However, the S'mores were good. It wasn't a good weekend for painting - did I mention the rain? - so the porch painting project is still on hold - so maybe next weekend (did I mention that it is hot and humid this weekend). However, I am having about twenty people over to the house next Sunday morning for a parade. You see, the little town that I live in has the huge 2-hour parade every year and it goes right in front of my house. In the past, it was just a few friends, but this year I have asked brothers and friends and such. Now I need to plan party food, and drink. Any painting will have to be accomplished on Saturday.

Well, I better get back to Gunga, he is starting to get squirrelly, maybe we can get outside yet (it started raining during dinner). That and I hear the yarn calling my name.

Here it is - a few days later and I finally have the time and the motivation to try to compose another post. I am finding it a bit difficult knowing what to write about. Some blogs that I have read have very distinct and focused themes. However, when I think about me, there is very little that is focused or distinct. For example:
I have a brother and sister-in-law who are expecting their first child soon and I had decided to crochet the new little one an afghan to help keep him (yes, they are having a boy) warm in the coming fall/winter. I had gone to the local craft shop and found a cute and rather non-labor intensive patterns and picked out the yarn and bought the required amount (using ounces). After finishing the first half of the second strip I discover that I don't have enough yarn for the second of three colors. So, confused, I read the pattern again, only to then discover that I bought the wrong kind of yarn. The first solution that I try is to buy more of the wrong type of yarn and just keep going. But, I get to the store, and that color is gone. So, I decide on a new color, go home, try it, and decide it is too dark for a baby blanket. Now, for the second day in a row I go back to the store and pick out entirely new yarn, the correct type this time, and am in the process of seeing if I will like the choice I made. So, you see, not very focused - well at least with yarn choice. I suppose you could say that I was focused on making the afghan, but all you would need to is go rooting around my house to find a number of project that are "in the works".
Here is a list of what I can remember off the top of my head:

1. A needlepoint picture (4"x4") of a cat looking out a window (started when I was a teen)
2. A Christmas afghan.
3. A set of curtains-
4. for my son's room which still need floor boards and window trim installed.
5. and windows that need to be stained and sealed-
6. in addition to the windows in the dinning room that need to have trim installed-
7. after we rip down the tile ceiling to replace with dry wall which will then need to be-
8. primed and painted.
9. A few items of clothing that need repair (new buttons, re-hemmed, rips mended).
10. A warm winter baby hat which was for my two year old as a new-born.

I am sure that I am missing a bunch of things, and I didn't even get into the scrapbooking that I haven't touched since before my son was born. So, one could safely say that I lack a bit of focus in the creative arts, which I view blogging to be - well at least for the moment.

In any case, the boy is making a mess and I find that I need to go.