heck tick

The pressure in my life right now has nothing to do with the holidays. I'm concerned with getting through the work week and surviving the end of classes. Confessions confessions-- I've been taking a Spanish class to improve my language skills for those trips to Peru. I'm very glad I persevered, I was about to drop in October. All the same, it's time for a break. When I was told this morning that I didn't have to come to class on Wednesday, I practially skipped back to the office. Then there's the little matter of my writing class. Merely thinking about it is irritating. It's a long tale-- at this moment I'm evenly undecided between making a token effort to submit another draft of my story and blowing it off entirely. I work full time and-- what's that? Am I crazy for taking two courses on top of a full-time job? Probably so. At any rate, I'm not stressing over holiday menus and last-minute gifts. My long-suffering far flung family is used to receiving New Year's presents from me, when they get anything at all. (New Year's package = no way am I enduring the bedlam at the post office this week).

Speaking of packages, I finished the pair of socks for my stepmother! Hooray. They turned out quite nicely, and with typical efficiency I forgot to take a picture. So imagine here two lovely lacy socks in smoky blue alpaca. And now back to dreaming about indulging in long hours of creativity. A week off of work means time to clean the studio. Who knows what might be found! And, oh rapture, there will be time to warp the loom.

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[June]

I do the USPS click-n-ship (usps.com) - pay for shipping with a credit card, print the label and postage from my printer, and schedule a carrier pickup from my front door for the next day. I haven't visited a PO in months!