It only Tuesday :(

 That was an old Onion thing, a photo of a bunch of sad looking people standing in what looked like a subway station, and the caption "It only Tuesday"

A friend of mine posted it on Bluesky today and it is, as the kids say, a Mood. 

There was still noise from the scissor lift today and I just have to accept, I guess, that it will always be loud and chaotic, because that's just my life now. 

And my lab got changed to Thursday, which is the best solution I guess, except I didn't find out until midmorning today. I could have come home for lunch, but I already had a packed lunch.

 so it's gonna be four days straight this week of Sad Desk Lunches and while that's not the worst thing ever, it's just.....all the little unpleasant things loom larger in the face of all the bigger unpleasant things in the world. Like, Cant' I Have One Nice Thing Please?

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But anyway.

I guess there were nice things on Saturday. I ran down to Quixotic Fibers; they are closing out their Dream in Color (they got bought up by a big conglomerate and Quixotic's owners decided they wanted to feature smaller dyers, ideally more "local" (FSVO local) ones. So they had it marked down to $20 a skein, which is almost half off of what it was up to (like everything, inflation has hit yarn).

I did have some money that was a Christmas gift, so I figured: might as well spend it on yarn AND to help keep a small semi local business afloat:

 I don't remember any of the color names and I'm not going to get up and look. There's a variegated bright pink (the top one) and then a pink/red/orangey one that's more of a controlled color mix. And I bought 800 yards (2 skeins) of the yellow (it's actually more of a gold than it looks there) for either a scarf or a small shawl. 

I also went to the used book store. I bought a book of Conrad Aiken's poems (I read a couple of his short stories but never poems) and had a nice conversation with the owner, who knows me slightly (the shop used to be here in town, but she moved to Denison. Understandable: it's larger, clustered around a lot more shops, closer to Dallas so might get some of people from that area, and it's a more prosperous customer base. Still, it stinks to have to drive an hour's round trip rather than having a spur-of-the-moment trip downtown for fun.)

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I pulled the British School Slipover back out but it feels like I never get more than a round or two done on it. This first week has been brutal (and yes: "it only Tuesday") and I'm really tired. 

I'm probably about 10 rounds from dividing the fronts and backs, so I am perhaps close to half done with it, though.

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and over break, I finished the "Roadside Attraction" socks that are made out of a skein of hand dyed sockyarn of a colorway called "Griswold Christmas Tree" (I presume, since the main color is a dark "burnt" brown, that it's from AFTER Uncle Louis burned up the tree)

 

Maybe that knit-purl pattern wasn't the best for a dark and busy variegated skein; a lighter one that was more evenly self striping might have worked better. (I might try it again some day with one of the light colored String Theory self stripers I have to see how it goes).