Happy Dance, Baby! Plus, Weekend Planning

Awwwww yeah! That’s right… I’m dancing. Go Jenna! Go Jenna! 🙂

I just finished my World Trade Center quilt panel and I’m so very excited, I can’t even tell you. It will go to the post office on Monday, along with the SBEBB Valentine Exchange gift that has been sitting in my craft room for weeks waiting to go out. With the WTC quilt, I’m happy to have been able to contribute to such an incredible effort and commemorate the lives of 18 people who died in the attacks. I’m also happy to be done with all of my obligation stitching for a little while so that I can finally get to stitching some of my own projects! WOOT! 😀

I ripped through this panel in exactly a week. I started last Thursday, spent my stitch-a-long weekend working on it and have done at least 1 name a night since. Despite being completely exhausted every night this week from the training. I’m amazed I didn’t make any huge mistakes!

Tomorrow night is computer game night at a friend’s house. We will be hunting down Diablo and giving his evil, demonic behind a sound thrashing; hopefully finishing the last act of the game (this has been an ongoing saga for 5 of us for over a year; we just don’t get together very often). Tomorrow promises to only be a half day of training, as we’ll need to let out early for those who have to catch flights home and we’re almost through all of the material on the agenda. Which means we get to come home and take a nap before sitting in front of computers all night and into the wee hours of the morning, stoked by pizza and soda (water for me, thanks) and me probably relieving my stress by yelling random obscenities at the monsters on the screen while I shoot arrows into their leathery hides. Woohoo! 😈

We came home to a message on our answering machine from good friends of ours who are going to be visiting this weekend with the mutual friends who recently had their first child, a son. So, we’ll probably be driving over there (in the new car; much better gas mileage and a little bit of show-off value if I can remember to run it through a car wash before we get there) on Saturday, after we drag our weary behinds out of bed… probably sometime after noon. I’ll take stitching and/or knitting with me in the car.

And, of course, after all of the excitement all week and on Saturday as well, we’ll most likely totally crash on Sunday. Hmmm… I’m having a premonition here… I see myself not getting out of my pajamas all day!

Oh, and by the way, all of this training has been a bit of a snore, but it has an up side. I’ve been finishing all of the labs before just about anyone else in the class, so I resorted to playing games on my cell phone this afternoon. BUT… the leader of the team has noticed how well I’ve been doing this week with the software we’re being trained on and wants to make me an official developer on the team. Of course, Terry is THE official primary developer and has been working with the stuff for years, so it’s not like I’ll hold a candle to him. But, recognition is everything in this company. The more people see of me and what I can do, the more valuable I am and the more I get paid. And this is going to be a huge, global project. Woot!

Sorry, too many woots in one post. And now that I’ve actually slowed down enough for my mind to start catching up with how tired my body is, I need to think about going to bed in a little while. *yawn*