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sunday, 14 january 2007

It almost looks like time for an update...

Happy, wonderful, delicious, magical New Year to you all!

Gosh, I can't believe I've left it soooo late... it's mid Jan already!! A few of you have written to me personally, concerned about my absence, demanding to know what's been going on chez-annarella, exactly which rock I've crawled under... I appreciate your concern people, I really do, you knitters are the best... but just to put your minds at rest, I'm well..., well not, not quite, but I'm fine I should say... or just to be more accurate, I'm still alive although not quite kicking, but alive none the less...

Before you all worry (mum, I'm ok, really!), I haven't gone through anything as remotely exciting or as life threatening as the above paragraph might have implied... I have been all occupied by a few "my life has been thrown upside down and I've been left to pick up the pieces" occurrences of late which have taken those few spare neurons at ransom and totally kidnapped my mind forcing me to spend time on other, less mundane tasks than knitting or blogging... and boy, have I missed it! Missed you all to tell the truth... but there's some things I need to get through and deal with before I can pick up where I left off.

And I'll need some time to get myself organised around my new schedule... schedule you say? Well, yes... I went and landed myself brand new job, didn't I? Total and utter change of career... if I can call what I was doing before a career... I've always thought of it like the equivalent of a kid playing with crayons all day and, as a bonus, getting paid for it... and I'll always be a creative soul at heart, whatever life will decide to throw my way. But going and working for somebody other than yourself after years and years of being your own boss (one heck of a delusion that was, I've always made the worst boss ever, constantly giving into all sorts of whims and failing to comprehend the meaning of delegating... but oh... god bless that wonderful, useless thing called hindsight...), commuting day in day out for close to 3 hours a day, sitting in an office for another 8 hours a day... jeez... I don't think I immediately appreciated what a shock to the system that was going to be! And getting up at h.6:30 in the morning?? Every flipping morning? Leaving home and finding it's still dark outside and if the sun isn't completely out yet, then why should I? And realising that it's a time of the day you've previously ignored like it didn't exist as it was for being fast asleep, lulled by sweet dreams and hopes for the day to come...

But it'll be alright, everything will sort itself out, I just need time to get used to the new pace and I'll be fine. And I'll work on the rest of the stuff too, and hopefully everything will slot into place soon...

Till then my posts will be few and far between (or I might find I'll be here more often than not), so you'll have to bear with me. Hope your weekend is going well and you're having a blast, spk soon + much lurve to y'all xxx

monday, 01 january 2007

Knitted in 2006...