Every where hurts

because we've been doing inventory all day and the concrete floor hurts my back sometimes. Today was one of those days but I did achieve what I wanted to do. All the yarn and fiber is finished counting, updated the website now it's time to put together an order for all the un-dyed yarn for my next shows. It will take some time to get here since I tend to order about 1500 pounds of yarn and fiber at a time.

It's been a quiet week around her running around has become the norm around here. We had to go to our state capital for our state cross country meet all day on Saturday. The kids worked so hard since August and princess school came in 11th in all the high schools in SC. We're so proud of them.

Our puppy has to have his staples removed on Tuesday and I'm not looking forward to it. The doctor said he was supposed to be subdued after the surgery, NOT he's wide open. I better go because I want to get some more knitting done on my feather weight cardigan, tonight's picture is a sneak peak at the upper part of the pattern.

Yeah!!!! We're going to State Finals

and I'm already tired. Those kids race their heart out every day and I'm so proud of them.

Today was a very different day for me, I feel like something has broken. I was able to take princess to school, come home do a bunch of paper work for several state sales tax, dye the fiber for my fiber club, dye new yarn for next season, dye a sample skein for sock club, dye yarn for book, mail packages to test knitters...

I felt like the Dianne I knew 5 years ago before opening my shop, before losing myself to please people that we not worth all the effort I gave with none in return before I lost the Dianne I have slowly gotten back. Tomorrow I begin the first phase of my eating habit change and I'm not looking forward to it. I'm going to do a cleaning for 7 days before I begin writing down everything I eat. I'm not looking forward to it but I know that if I continue on this pace I will stay over weight. My kidneys, heart and lungs are working over time, I would love to be back to my size 6 I was for years.

I felt comfortable at that size not because that's what the said. It's just the way I felt and I know it's going to take me about 2 years of hard work to see the true me so I'm going to take the challenge. I know it's going to be tough or that I might fail one day but I have got to do it. I want to run the NY Marathon when I turn 40 so I better start training now.

I did the right thing

by stepping back for a little while and getting a massage then doing nothing but sleep, wake up, sleep and wake up. I woke up refreshed and ready to face a new day. I didn't get much done but I feel like I can conqueror the work I have ahead of me.

Friday morning started with me taking princess to school then straight to my massage. It was very cheap compared to other places because I went to the school that opened here about 1 year ago. They train students to become massage therapist with an associate degree. I went with every intention of getting a female to do massage but there was guy available and I didn't want to wait any longer. He was the best and in 2 years I pray that he has a successful practice. Then I came home and slept the rest of the day, sleep is something that I truly appreciate.

Today I went with princess to the semi finals and I lost my glasses somewhere. It was a very cold and rainy morning, our kids worked their tails off and as a parent I just wanted them not to fall in the grass. We don't know if made it to state, we're praying the news comes soon.

Oh the big news is that superman finished putting together my photo studio. I have quite a bit of dyeing to do and taking photos in the fall has always been a problem for me because of the light but now I have a permanent photo studio. Yeah!!! It looks great and has every thing I need to take beautiful pictures this fall.

I'm working hard on the release of my new line, it's beautiful and another new technique for my customers.

A day when nothing went right

I'm supposed to still be on my week off which by chance has not happened in any way shape or form. I want a day where I just close my bedroom door and lay around in my pjs but it has yet to happen since I came home. Between the papers, 2010 season, running around with princess and now we just had our puppy fixed today I'm feeling very stressed right now.

I had a good comment about taking things in groups so I don't feel as stressed. Unfortunately I don't have that luxury right now I've got to get things moving and shaking NOW. I wish I can say tomorrow will be the day but NOT more paperwork came today which will have me on the phone for most of the day. My CD player on my pc still doesn't work after spending time with tech support and I just want a hole to crawl into.

Saturday is out because princess in the semi finals for cross country which means I will be spending most of the day at the track. I so many emails and pms that need my attention but I just can't seem get to them fast enough before more comes in. I know that other dyers have 4 or 5 employees, they have book keepers who do the paperwork, someone who comes in and skein, someone who labels; just face it they have help.

I have no help and for the area I live I don't have anyone that I can think of trust worthy to help with all the work. My employee who took a lot of the calls and help buffer me now lives in another state. Superman says that since I'm not selling out of everything that means I'm doing great and I don't need help. He's full of junk and I know when I get stressed out enough when I can't sleep because of to many things going on I'll do what I have to do. But where do I begin looking? The people I trust live in states that takes me hours to drive to.

I'm off my venting while I'm sitting under this hair dryer for the next 2 hours because the beauty school I went to get my grays out didn't have time for me to dry my hair. Then we had to go pick up the dog which took 1 hour instead of the 20 minutes I thought it would, then I had to sit through almost 2 hours of superman picking the right running shows while princess is blowing up my phone asking where I am. Do they really expect that I will be sane after all of this?

I'm going lock my bedroom door and try to get some of the state sales taxes sent out tonight. Then it's time to handle the IRS, Social Security and the list of items my family just can't do without that I have to go to walmart an costco so like I said in my last post so much on the one person me and I need just one day just one for ME. Then princess just came in with pictures that have to be mailed all over the world (it seems like) to every family member who has been calling asking for pictures. Request from customers needing my help on choosing yarn, orders to ship, I need a twin of me.

Tonight's picture is princess with her friends at the final regular season's race yesterday. It was crazy hat day.

Resisting the Temptation

of getting out of bed to do all the things that needs my attention. I'm so swamped right now that I want to find a very small hole and go to sleep. But I can't crawl up in that hole because if I do my 2010 will not be very successful. Here are somethings I have to do.






1. Dye yarn for the 2 designers who will be putting my hand dyes in their books to be released in 2010.
2. Fill out what seems like hundreds of paper work for sales tax or show applications.
3. Empty the trailers
4. Do inventory
5. Ship orders
6. Order more yarn for the 2010 season
7. Dye for the fiber and sock club
8. Begin exercising
9. Empty my suitcase
10. Get my photo studio together
11. Get my sample knitting yarn and pattern
12..... And so much more that I'm getting tired just writing the info

Then there are all the things that I have to do here at home. Thanks for letting me wine a little and I hope I will not have to add any cheese to my saga.

Today's picture is my Koolhaas Hat that I've wanted to do for years. I know what it is but every fall I get on this hat kick and make lots of hats that I can't find the next season when I want to wear them.

Who do I kill first

because I arrived home and my house looks HELL. The puppy has eaten up every corner off our area rug, he brought a tree bark in and the carpet is a mess, superman has 4 pairs of shoes in my bedroom and princess oh I could just scream. If you haven't really gotten to know me is that I love things organized everything in our house has a place but I live with the 2 unorganized people. They leave stuff everywhere and when I come home after 2 weeks on the road to a messy house, let's just say I AIN'T HAPPY. When I come home I always walk through the house because I love our home also to see what mess they know will drive me crazy. Killing someone was very much in sight tonight. Now they're trying to run around doing the things they should have done while I'm gone.

I drove to PA last night and home today. Not as much traffic on I95 like I thought it would be only problem was the $22 toll I had to pay because of the 4 axles I had. I made so many phone calls as I drove and one of them was to have the puppy nurtured and a find home chip implanted in him. If someone would have told me that a less than 15 pound dog would come in and change our entire life I would have said no way. But yes way he's so cute but boy can he get in trouble.

I also brought a Wii for my birthday present to myself which is a miracle because I don't like video games nor do I want princess playing them. We have a older game I brought for superman about 15 years ago it's so old and slow no one has used it in years. I need to do something about all this weight that I'm caring around especially in the stomach area. When I was a teenage I never thought I would look in the mirror and see a reflection of my mother in the mirror. In my country no one cares what you weight so most of my family members are over weight but I can't keep all this weight because other parts of my body are being affected. So tomorrow the Dianne who has to watch and write down everything she eats put exercise at least 30 minutes everyday.

I'm taking this week off to catch up on paper work, mail and empty both trailers. But most of all I'm going to sleep wake up sleep wake up because my time is already being stretched, we've entertaining this Saturday and next week we've been invited to a birthday party. Plus answer the 250 emails that I have and 75 pm's that have been calling my attention.

I'm lucky that this is my last show because I40 where I usually have to drive through is closed because of a major rock slide, it's going to be closed for months. I hope it opens in time for our trip to California.

Time to go home

and take 1 week to myself to get things back on track at home. It's raining cats and dogs so I can't load my trailer like I hoped to tonight. I was able to do a lot of knitting this weekend so my Koolhaas.

I've got a list a mile long of things I need to do but I'm going to take it safely. I better go to bed now