Knotty Mouse

Just a quick note that the move date has been pushed up by our current landlord and now we have to be completely out of our ‘former home’ THIS weekend instead of NEXT like we had previously thought. We’re in a panic, a tizzy, and whatever other word you can think of. My word lately for what we’re calling this has been “clusterf*ck”.  I’ve cried more than I can remember and been sick to my stomach every day for over 2 weeks now..  my stress level is through the roof, I’m yelling at everyone when I’m not crying, and I have a lovely skin rash from the stress.  My only point of sanity at the moment is my nightly “hanging out time” with Munchkin- I don’t know what I’d do without that kid. My husband has stepped up to the plate fantastically and has really held it together when I was coming apart at the seams.  I’m really grateful as well for the fact that my husband’s friends have come out of the woodwork with trucks and man-power to move us quickly at short notice… and I can’t wait for this to be over so that I can take my first calm breath in almost a month.

I miss you all (I haven’t had time to read or comment.. I’m sorry)  and I’ll be back as soon as I can.  It may take a week or two before I’m able to even respond to emails because I’m not sure about internet hookups or anything else of the matter. I’m just trying to get through this.. but thought everyone needed an update. I’m going to go back to packing now……….

–Mouse

G is for: The Grateful Dead. Now, I’m not the type of GD fan who has walls of recordings or even knows the names of the famous shows & I’ve never gone “on tour”.. but I do really enjoy their music because it never ceases to make me happy. My favorite Dead songs? Sugar Magnolia, Uncle John’s Band & Touch of Grey… I also really love the “Fire on the Mountain” Reggae tribute cds.

While I don’t have a huge collection of Dead related stuff.. I do have cds that I’ve bought to replace my worn out tapes, I still have a dancing bear sticker on my car & a large stuffed GD bear which is faded from the sun (he used to live in my car), and I even have two Dead Lot inspired cookbooks that I’ve actually made recipes out of. By far my favorite GD things are the shirts - my 3 favorites are pictured above (along with the cookbooks) and I have many more that I didn’t feel like unloading from the closet. The one on the far right is a long sleeve shirt and is the one with the most sentimental value… its the shirt I was wearing on the Wildwood NJ boardwalk the night (August 1995) that I was told that Jerry had died. *sigh*

My custom anti-spam words apparently stopped working when I upgraded WP…. I’m hoping to have them fixed shortly. Until then.. SORRY!!! I have no idea what sort of things are pre-programmed in and I can’t seem to make them change back to knitting words! *kicks blog*

Edited to add: Ok.. we’re back to my knitting words and no one should be getting “trout” as their spam word again anytime soon. hee hee.

I’m going to go back to spending the rest of my weekend searching for the floor of my office.. which I haven’t seen since sometime after we moved in. We’re not actually going to start packing until we’ve found a place to move because what we end up with (and whether it has storage on site or not..) depends on how we pack for moving.  I do have ‘donation pick up” scheduled from a local charity EVERY week until we move out and I’m just piling up the stuff in the garage.  That way it gives me a week to go down and retrieve anything that I feel I may have tossed by mistake. I’m already silently mourning a pair of boots that I feel like I shouldn’t have gotten rid of… even though I KNOW that I’ll never wear them anywhere again.

There’s a lot going on ‘behind the scenes’ here that I haven’t been talking about..  I was hoping to have good news to share along with the bad news but that post isn’t happening right this minute and I need to get this damned elephant out of the room so that I can speak freely again.  I’ve been avoiding talking about “the bad news” because I wasn’t sure how I felt about it.  I still don’t (other than it sucks)… but it impacts my life both online and reality as well as affecting both the shop & the blog so I knew I’d need to come clean shortly. So.. here it is.

(I’m putting the rest of this behind a cut because it has nothing to do with knitting or crafting…)

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