Tale of a Shooting Star…

To quote the chorus of a song by Napoleon XIV that I really like:

And they’re coming to take me away ha-haaa
They’re coming to take me away ho ho hee hee ha haaa
To the funny farm
Where life is beautiful all the time
And I’ll be happy to see those nice young men
In their clean white coats
And they’re coming to take me away ha haaa

Have you ever had one of those days where you feel like if one more person walks in your office and asks you to do something for them that your head is just going to pop clean off? Welcome to my Tuesday! I was only at my desk for less than an hour when I already felt so overwhelmed that my intestines were in a knot and I almost wanted to vomit.

I worked from home yesterday. I prefer that so much to actually coming into the office. It’s harder for people to track you down when you work from home. They have to try harder than to just pick up the phone or walk down the hall, so they tend to not bother. I like that. If it’s not important enough for you to actively find me, then it’s not important enough for you to be bothering me.

Aren’t I a pleasant person? Don’t you just want to be one of my coworkers? I just sound so warm and cuddly… Really, I’m not like this. And I would never cop an attitude with you in person. I just have a lot on my plate right now. So much so that I had to pull out a memo pad in the car on the way to work this morning so that I could organize and record all of the thoughts that were swirling around my head as to what I need to accomplish this week. Yikes!

I feel like I am trying to juggle too many balls at once. There are too many in the air for me to possible catch and they are all starting to drop to the floor. Both on the professional and personal fronts.

Gosh, am I whiney or what?

But enough of that! On the flip side, I’ve been trying to really treat myself lately. This month was one of those “extra paycheck” months for those of us who budget on two paychecks a month. This means it was a freebie, for me to do whatever I feel like. I put half of it into savings right away. The other half I’ve been frittering away. It started as a couple of small purchases – an order with Stitching Bits & Bobs during her St. Patrick’s Day sale (no, I don’t have it yet) and some Silkweaver fabrics. Then Silkweaver decided to pare down for their move, so I’ve been picking up some of the standard fabrics as they are released onto their Odds & Ends page. Plus, I had to buy some of the colors that they are going to discontinue in their hand dyed fabric lines. Then, over the weekend, I was talking to Terry and he’s been telling me for a while now that I need to slow down and stitch something for myself. So, after some encouragement from him, I decided to not only join the Stitching Leporello class from Chatelaine Designs, but I also ordered the full kit (with silks!) from European Cross Stitch. And then, finally, I ordered a new, higher end dance mat (this is mat #3; actually #4 since I ordered two “deluxe” mats from another manufacturer the last time) so that I can get back to working out with Dance Dance Revolution.

Once Silkweaver finishes their fabric expunging, I’ll stop spending. 😉 In the meantime, I’m having fun! For those of you who know me, this is a very unusual run of splurging on my myself. Normally, that extra paycheck would get tucked safely into my savings. And since I’m the only one in my household who contributes to savings , it’s a necessity that some money get socked away by someone! however, this time around, I’m throwing caution to the wind.

We couldn’t have planned it better if we tried. Terry and I had already planned to take a vacation day today because we needed to take the Honda in for its state inspection (yes, we’ve had it since January; yes, we’re very lucky we didn’t get pulled over!). And it just happened to be a gorgeous day, full of sunshine, with temps in the 70’s! It is absolutely glorious outside!! 😀

It started off with me stitching for a little bit on my square for Laura’s memorial quilt. As some of you may know, I’m stitching a cameo of the face and arms of Mirabilia’s Titania, Queen of Fairies design. I actually charted it on my computer so that I could better see what I was doing and to remove the wings because in that small area, it’s not obvious that they are wings, so I focused on the body of the fairy. I need to get moving on this to get it in the mail within a week. I just arranged to stitch a model for a new designer (new in the sense that I haven’t stitched for her before) and it should be arriving sometime this week, I expect.

Otherwise, on a stitching-related topic, I finished charting up a design today that I’ve been putting off. Actually, I’ve nearly finished two. The first is a customization of one of Thea’s free angels. This is for a specific, secret round robin that I’m going to be stitching on sometime over the next few months or year, whenever it comes to me. The other is an completely original design for a hornbook. I’m almost done. The basics are there, but I need to add some decoration to it.

I’ll post more tomorrow. In the meantime, I started this hours ago, it’s now late and we need to get up tomorrow morning to go to a naming ceremony. Tah!