And one year later...

Wow, I haven't been out this way in awhile. Not that anyone missed me.

So I'm a little over a year into the job referenced in the last post and I love every minute of it. It's a crazy crazy store but there's always something fun and exciting to do and it makes me happy. My staff is great, my fellow managers are awesome. It just makes me really happy to be there.

I've also decided to start working on a book. It's going to be fun!

New Job

Starts tomorrow...

I'm nervous and excited all at once. It's a new project... kind of like knitting only with less wrist damage.

I'll be an Assistant Store Manager at a different BN. I have to get to know a whole new staff. It's kind of freaky, but cool too. I'm trying not to let my nerves get to me but I don't think I'll be able to help it for much longer.

Viveka's coming along. I posted a new picture of it over in Ravelry.

Slowly... but surely

I have a tragic relationship with knitting. I would love to be able to knit every day and have all of my projects done in a timely fashion. That luck does not belong to me, as I am saddled with wrist that sucks.

This fact means that a sweater takes forever.

I've been working on Viveka for the better part of 6 months now, and I still haven't finished the back.

Although the upside is that it makes the reward all that much sweeter.

Reading

I've taken to reading more of late. I think it's a product of the need to expand my brain. I feel like I haven't learned anything in awhile. I think this is why I'm gravitating towards non-fiction, where in the past I would read fiction almost exclusively.

I wonder if this happens to everyone when their formal education stops - eventually they turn toward new ways of learning.

In a Funk

And I hate people right now. A lot.

2 days

I'm composing this blog while my computer (lovingly named "Mack the Knife") hums noisily under my fingertips, presumeably tired from all the work I'm making it do for me right now.

I'm coming to the conclusion of two incredibly restfull days off from work, which gave me time for several things, including the casting off of not one but two knit items on the needles (one half of a pair of pedicure socks, and the sash of a kimono style sweater which appears will be a gift as it doesn't look as though it will fit me), and catching up on some DVD watching that I've fallen way behind on.

I've spent the better part of these 48 hours by myself, which sometimes leaves me lonely and wondering if my friends are really mine, and sometimes leaves me glad to have the time where I don't have to deal with people and their baggage.

I wonder what 2007 has in store for me. Changes, I know, but what?

Pontification

So with Christmas approaching ever faster, I get to thinking.

Someone told me a story today about a woman who came into my store today to return some books. This story left me in so much pain, and at the same time made me wonder about humanity.

The lady was so upset that she couldn't get her cash back (because it had been too long - store policy), that she cried.

Now, this time of year, that tears my heart up, because it makes me wonder if maybe she needed that cash to do her Christmas shopping. And I hurt for her if that was her situation.

But the growing cynic inside me (this is what happens when you work in retail), wonders if she knew the policy and just used that as a tactic to try and get the young man to just give her the money.

And that depresses me further, that I've begun to think that way...