05/15/2006: "Weekend Update"

It's been quiet around these parts lately as we wind down towards the summer vacation. I found out that I'm going to be hired back next year and I should have my offer letter in hand next week. This is very good news, as I'm still a temporary employee and it would have been very easy for the district to cut my position from the staffing roster. However, I definitely have a job! Yay! The other wonderful news about that is that I know that I have this job now instead of 3 days before school starts, which is basically what happened last year. So I can go into summer with a deep sigh and know that I have a job to go back to. Huzzah!

In fiber news, I haven't added to the stash but my aunt told me yesterday that her friend who is the Ag teacher in Anderson Valley is going to get me a fleece! She wasn't sure what kind but said it was some special breed... a Columbian or something. So I did a bit of research and I think it's from a Columbia sheep, which, if true, will mean a good deal of wool! Those babies yield fleeces from 9-15 pounds! Of course up to 50% of that weight can be dirt, grease and vegetable matter but still. It'll keep me busy! I'm very psyched!

I did spend $$ on yarn, though it wasn't for me. For Mother's Day I took Mom out to a new shop I found in Pleasanton. She found the perfect yarn for a sweater for 40% off and was really hemming and hawing about whether or not to buy it (40% off, people! She's mad!) Anyway, I let her go through her sweater patterns for a while and do gauge math and try to figure out which sweater she might could make with this yarn she wasn't sure she was going to buy and then, when she'd figured out which sweater and which yarn and was just worrying about whether or not to actually buy the stuff... I picked it all up, plunked it down at the cash register and bought it for her. Happy Mother's Day, Mom!

Needless to say she loved it.

It's a good thing Mother's Day fell when it did, since I got the unwelcome news this afternoon that my car needs about $600 of work. The master cylinder is leaking and needs to be replaced and one of the axles as well... I don't even pretend to understand it all. I'm actually relieved to be spending this much because the initial estimate, given to Dave by a desk jockey who didn't know what the estimate meant, was almost $2300. I almost fainted when I heard that but when we went in to talk to someone who had seen the car and knew what he was talking about, it turned out that the stuff that actually needed to be done was a much lower price.

You know it's sad when you're happy to only have shell out six hundred bucks. Sigh.

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05/15/2006: "Weekend Update"