It’s been a long, interesting weekend. We left early because Eddie needed to work all day, and left a note on the stairs letting Comrade know rent was going to be late. I got to Mom’s house early on Saturday morning, armed with a box of yarn and my 4 new pattern books. I started by making a kitten from some pinkish/purple yarn that I bought around Easter. All the old ladies at the shop thought it was the cutest thing around. By the time we’d left the shop, the only thing left to make on it was the white cheeks/nose/whiskers.

I ended up working on the kitten’s face later in the afternoon, and then starting a puppy after dinner. I picked up Eddie from work, and we went back to Mom’s for some dinner and to watch A History of Violence. No one but me liked the ending, and I firmly believe that both sex-scenes were excruciatingly painful to watch and completely pointless. Normally, I’d have nothing bad to say about any movie scene that ends up showing Vigo Mortenson’s ass, but neither scene did anything for the movie. By the time the movie was over, I had most of the puppy finished, and was happy. We went home, let Pickle out for a while, showered, and went to snuggle in bed and watch SNL. I thought Tom Hanks was pretty good, the digital short wasn’t anywhere near as good as some of the others they’ve done (I think they’re trying too hard to create the next big Lazy Sunday), and RHCP weren’t bad. It’s good to see that Flea is just as… um…. Flea-ish as he’s always been.

Sunday we were back over at Mom’s house because we were going to the flea market. Only Mom found anything good, the rest of us just got more sunburn. When we got home we watched some TV, had some chicken wings, and Eddie grilled some ham steaks for dinner. I finished my lteeny puppy, which Mom is still threatening to steal. We hung out for a bit after dinner, then made our way up to Walmart to grab some oil for the car. Another shower and then more snuggling to watch TV and then get some sleep.

Today Eddie is taking a load of paperwork to Kinko’s to get copied and mailed about to various parts of Canada (I won’t get into the details at the moment). I think he’s bringing home some little $1 frozen pizzas for dinner. Yummy. I’ve got my hot sauce ready and waiting. He should also be grabbing a phone card for my phone, because as Nanny said, I can’t get a job without being able to get phone calls.

So, guess who received 4 new pattern books in the mail the other day and whipped up a pig in a couple of hours? He’s for sale at the moment.

Eddie and I have had a near-perfect day home today. He got to sleep in; I got up early because he was snoring. We showered and headed down to Warwick to the store I was in because I needed to get my final evaluation picked up. Of course, the pharmacist who was doing the eval hadn’t done it yet, which may as well just completely fuck me over. She tells me she only heard about it on Wednesday. That’s all well and good, but seeing how this is Friday, it just goes to show how seriously they took this whole experience.

From Warwick we drive up to Lincoln, where I sit around for 15 minutes waiting for the coordinator to finish up with the student she had in her office. I’m thinking I’ll just hand over the timesheets, explain the eval is on its way, and be done with the whole thing. No, unfortunately I’ve got a 3-page survey to fill out detailing my thoughts on the course and the externship, and then sitting for another 15 minutes while she tried to straighten out several other students’ problems. I finish, give it to her, and she’s on her way out to do something else, and shuffles me off to one of the women who handles all the job placement assistance, who wants to update my resume with the externship.

“Now, what sort of skills did you learn while on the job?” she asks while openning up my resume.

“I ran a register and counted pills.”

“You can’t put ‘counted pills’ on the resume. There must be a technical term for it. Prescription processing? Dosage calculation?”

“It’s not processing because that might imply data entry, which I did for a whole 90 minutes over the course of 6 weeks. And it’s not calculation because I get the label, look at the number printed beside ‘Quantity’ and just count the right amount.” We ended up leaving about an hour after we got there, got lunch, and came home.

Tomorrow Eddie is going to work, and I’m going to Mom’s house, because the women-folk are heading to Riverside to get our hair done. The woman who cuts mine said that she might dye it for free as a graduation gift, so we’ll see what happens.

Today is Survior night. No idea what we’re going to have for dinner tonight, but it will have to be something fast since we don’t get home until around 7pm.

I’m thinking Taco Bell. Or Subway, but Eddie won’t want it.

I finished most of my animals for the big Easter order, and managed to get all but 2 posted online. There’s still 1 that needs eyes and a tail, but aside from that, they’re all set. I’m going to get a group picture of all 8 this weekend, but here’s a picture of the Bunny Baby.

I’ve got an hour or so before I have to get ready for work. Bleh.

I’ve been rather busy this week or so. I spent the weekend crocheting another llamma for a girl in class who requested a llamma and a sheep for her kids’ Easter baskets. Well, the llamma turned out absolutely adorable, and coincidentally I received my book of amigurumi patterns on Friday afternoon, so I asked the girl if she wanted me to continue on with the sheep, or if she wanted to pick something out of the book instead.

And that was how a a simple commission of a llamma and a sheep turned into “I need one for each basket, could you just pick out 7 of these to make up the rest?” So guess what I’m doing until Easter? That’s right. Making a wide assortment of animals - 5 for girls, 3 for boys.

I guess that it’s a good thing I picked up 4.5lbs of chenille yarn yesterday - for free. That’s a lion and a cat with 4lbs to spare.

The exception to the crochet spree over the weekend was the FFXI marathon on Sunday. Very fun, even if we did have to play with morons for a while. I got called a dumbass, which amused everyone in the group.

I’ve got a final tomorrow. I’m not worried about it. We discovered today that there’s really only 10 more days of class left for me. Holy shit things went by fast, eh? After that I have a couple of days off and then I start my externship, which has me scared shitless.

My teacher’s daughter loved her llamma. One of my classmates has commissioned me to make a small llamma and a lamb for her kids for Easter, so I’ll be doing that this weekend and next week. The good thing? I don’t need to buy much yarn (just something for the lamb’s fleece), so it’s almost all profit this time around.