The Arch Angel

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You scored 25 alien-ness, 65 mythical-ness, 42 angelic-ness, and 34 regal-ness!

Arch Angel, there are few who will make it to this catagory. As an Arch Angel you had the power to create and destroy anything anywhere in the universe, you answered prayers, took lives, brought the sun or the rain. It's a bit of a come down to be on the earth in human form. Why are you here? Is is to prove yourself after some disobedience or to accomplish some great and serious mission? You need to figure that out. At your best you were just, gentle, wise and majestic. At your worst you were arrogant, biased, destructive and oblivious. With love your fellow man and animal alike you can achieve miraculous things this lifetime. You just have tofgure out exactly what!

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 99% on alien-ness

You scored higher than 99% on mythical-ness

You scored higher than 99% on angelic-ness

You scored higher than 99% on regal-ness

Back in December I bought myself a digital camera... and I've been having lots and lots of fun using it...

Here is a link to the pix... I'll be adding more albums as time goes...

pix

Musings

Well...

It has been a while!!!

Lets see...

Faire started and I turned 55 in April... so far its be a grand faire... I am not "working" working... at faire... I 'work' with my guild... but this year ... for the first time in many years I am not working at a job job there! The only thing that I "have" to do is guild stuff... like sitting with my spinning wheel... or my Inkle Loom... or... walking in a parade!!!

Other things in my life...

I was gifted a gift that left me blathering... a friend gave me a Celtic lap harp... 25 strings... I can play... Mary had a little lamb... but have aspirations to play more...

May 2nd was my 1 year 'jobiversary' (as my daughter put it)... I made a year here at the scale... and I still am liking the job... its great 95% of the time... yes I have the drivers who I wonder how they got their liscenses... (can they read at all... can they see the exit sign... ) and the ones who getting information from them is interesting at best... but... I'm not dreading coming to work which is an important factor in any job!

Today... I had an aha moment! Being an obsessive knitter I tend to knit things that catch my eye... but... I've avoided toe-up socks, as I didn't want to do the heels... and tube socks just aren't my thing!! However... today in reading Wendy knits she had a link for a pair of socks that are done toe-up... and I could 'see' how it was done!!!

Your Life Path Number is 8

Your purpose in life is to help others succeed You are both a natural leader and a natural success. You are also a great judge of character. You have a head for business and finance. You know how to make money. A great visionary, you can see gold where other people see nothing. In love, you are very generous - with gifts, time, and guidance. You love to inspire people, but it can be frustrating when they don't understand your vision. Great success comes easily for you. But so does great failure, as you are very reckless. You are confident, and sometimes this confidence borders on arrogance.

What Is Your Life Path Number?

projects...

In February, I participated at the Dickens Festival, in Riverside, CA... a friend of mine had some beautiful bright yarn that she called "Rose Garden" that she had spun and dyed... I saw the yarn, and saw a pair of socks... These are the socks!! They were great fun to do, and I had several friends watching the progress as they 'grew'...

My next projects are...
a) a pair of gloves in handspun Merino, and
b) finishing a pair of California Mutant Red, and
c) a pair of socks from this pattern... probably in a burgandy (but I'm not sure yet...)

Work has been... work... I am still loving the job, after 10 1/2 months, and for the most part (97% of the time) it is great!

I am also gearing up for Faire this year again at Irwindale... We open April 7th at Santa Fe Dam... I will be demonstrating spinning with my guild, St. Cuthberts, and playing some with the mongers... I'm going to be the garlic lady...

Mercury

is in Retrograde....

And then some...
This week...

I had a driver decide to tell another driver that he needed to move... (instead of letting me deal with either having him move / or having him go ahead of the 1st driver...)

I have had a driver tell me that his container was full, then empty, and that he was going to Ft. Bragg, Calif... then no, to Ft. Bragg NC... 3 voided tix later...

I have gotten the...

are you sure you can do that...

are you sure about your scale...

are you sure that you know what you are doing ...

Yes I am sure that I can do that,

Yes my scale is correct,
yes you are overweight,
yes you need to remember ...

MY SCALE... MY RULES.

I have to remember that with Mercury in retrograde...

Mercury rules over the mind's processes, studying, communication, businesses, travels and the like. When Mercury reverses its direction, all these areas are affected as well...

Is it time to go home yet!?!

Anniversary!

Nine months ago the 2nd, I was hired at the scale... its been an interesting 9 months...

With other jobs, after a few months I have wondered... when are they going to wake up and realize what a huge mistake it was to hire me... with this job, I don't say that ... I say... I am so glad that they hired me because I AM an asset here!

Strange weather

here in So. Calif...

Friday morning... it snowed... in Colton where I work... it snowed... it wasn't cold enough where I work for the snow to stick, but there were fattyfat flakes, big fluffy fattyfat flakes... and from what I hear the snow leval was down to 1000 feet... by noon the snow had melted on the hill that is close to my work... (the picture was taken at work, of the hill...) and saturday dawned crisp, cold ... COLD... COLDER THAN COLD... and the winds were kicking up again... sigh... but then I could be in Denver...

A new year...

The ending of 2006...

I went to see a friend of mine in Long Beach CA, to see if
a) he would invite me in or...
b) he would shut the door in my face...

He had been extremely depressed for many months, and didn't let any one into his life at all... and I finally said... either he lets me into the house, or he shuts the door... but he has to make the decision... and went to the house... (we had a wonderful 3 hours)

I also went to another friends for the weekend, spent Saturday evening, Sunday day and evening, and Monday with him... we went and had Sushi early Sunday evening, then went to a party with his room-mate, and friends... and welcomed in the new year... not watching the ball drop on t.v.

beginning of 2007...

We went to see Eragon... Interesting movie... I need to read the book tho... I have a feeling that allot was left out! And we went to see Night at the Museum... excellent (in my Opinion) movie!

And I started yet another pair of socks, these are toe-up, knitted with some California Red yarn that that 'J' had given me... It is a courser wool, reminds me almost of Dorset, or Karakul definitely not the merino that I have been working with from royalehare.com, but it is nice... and finished sock one of some socks started with Windsor Denim Chocolate I'll post pix 'later'

A bit of silliness...

Your results:
You are Malcolm Reynolds (Captain)

Malcolm Reynolds (Captain) 95% Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command) 70% Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic) 60% Derrial Book (Shepherd) 60% River (Stowaway) 55% Wash (Ship Pilot) 55% Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic) 50% Inara Serra (Companion) 35% Alliance 25% Jayne Cobb (Mercenary) 10% A Reaver (Cannibal) 0%

Honest and a defender of the innocent. You sometimes make mistakes in judgment but you are generally good and would protect your crew from harm.

Click here to take the Serenity Firefly Personality Test

Time keeps on slippin...

Sooooooooooo Life has been ... life... hectic, and slow at the same time... to catch up a bit...

I was 'finally' paid for the glove that I had done finished, in September... and it is doubtful that I will take on commission work again, unless I get 1/2 up front, to cover costs... etc...

Work has been both busy and slow, yesterday was painfully slow, I did 12 tickets... which yes paid for me being here, but at the same point...

I was in a knitting slump, so much so, that several friends said... hey where's the knitting... stopped by a Local Yarn shop (LYS), and found some great sock yarn and saw the socks that it needed to be, and started a pair, then a friend of mine sent me some updates for the page that I have been working on for her, and she had some beautiful yarns... and she sent me some new yarn... and... I found a counterpane pattern that I have been looking for for several years... and it can be found here... (soon)

I went to the Dickens Festival in San Francisco this past weekend, and was able to see friends there, that I don't get to see more than a few times a year... and had a wonderful time... showed a friend of mine how to purl when knitting continental style, plus brought some baby booties to another friend for her daughter, who just had a daughter... the friend was teasing us, about being obsessive knitters... but she also appreciates the work...


word of wisdom...

If you have to win by bullying, you haven't won, you are just a bully

Obsessions...

I have been making fingerless gloves, and mitts for a couple of years now... and have found some cool patterns...

http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~kfairchi/fingerless%20gloves.html

and...

a pattern generator!

http://www.thedietdiary.com/knittingfiend/mitten/HKGloves.html

Other bright Notes

On a brighter note...

The commission gloves are done!!!!!!!!!!!!! And the person loved the work... I am taking 2 different skeins of yarn up to him this weekend to have him choose for the 2nd pair of gloves, which should be done by the 1st weekend of October... (actually NEED to be done by then as I won't see him again until spring time...)

And................ I am hopefully getting a new to me spinning wheel this weekend...




word of wisdom...

If you have to win by being a bully, you haven't won, you are just a bully!

Fraud...

Asking a weighmaster for a false certificate is unlawful. Conviction can result in a $1,000.00 fine and / or 6 months in jail.

Weighmasters who issue false weighmaster certificates are subject to the same penalty, plus loss of their license

Weighmasters are asked to report such request to Weights and Measures

Stare of California
Department of Food and Agriculture
8500 Fruitridge Rd
Sacramento, CA 95826
916-366-5119


I had a driver come in who works for a used auto dealership... he brought in paperwork, and asked me to do 2 different weights... "its a caddy, they all weight the same... " I told him that I could only do 1, and he handed me a cert for what he said was a 2003 caddy... I took him at his word that it was the correct paperwork... but something just kept tickling the back of my brain so I went out and looked at the vin number... yeppers the vin was entirely different than either of the 2 certificates that he had brought in... when I called him on it.. the quote was.. whats the big deal... my quote back to him was the question of... are you going to support me? ... guess what the answer was. . .

newest project...

I picked up the latest interweave knits magazine (fall 2006) this past Sunday... it is always so very dangerous for me to get knitting magazines... I see fantastic stuff, and want to run out and buy yarns and needles and... nevermind that I have 7 clear storage boxes filled with various types of yarns, and multiple baskets filled... and multiple bags ... yea filled, but...

Any way my newest project is "Bianca's Jacket" and I am doing it Lionbrand woolease Chestnut... as soon as I have one of the front panels done, I'll post a pix...

Commission!

Back in April I made a pair of fingerless gloves for myself, as I was having problems with my hands, with cold... (I broke my right hand 1 1/2 years ago... and when it gets cold... I definatley know about it... ) and a friend of mine saw them and wanted a pair, so I made her a pair... he boyfriend finally noticed them this last weekend and to quote... "He put them on. He said "wow, these are awesome"..." so... I have been commissiond to do 2 pair of gloves for him...

I lost a friend this week...

From: Themaccolin

(Original Message8/8/06)

This afternoon, at a little after 3pm. Our friend and kinsman Ian Abramovitch passed away with as much dignity and ease as a human being is allowed. He was surrounded by his family, friends and co-workers as he slipped away, taking ship into the West.

Brightest Blessings to you Ian... I will miss you greatly

Inspection time...

So... today we (the scale) had an inspection... and I got to meet the head cheese for San Bernardino County Weights and Measures...

We got a conditional "A"

another month bites the dust!

So... Here in So Calif it has been painfully hot... until this weekend... Sunday I awoke being (gasp) cold... to the sound of drippy drippy drippy... and at 4 a.m. I didn't have to get up until 6:30, so I pulled a sheet over me, and a blanket over my feet and went back to sleep until 6:15 when I re-awoke to the sound of drippy drippy drippy... I poked my head out the door and said... hmmmmm the sky is falling, the sky is falling, and my cats looked at me and said so what, we are hungry... feed us... Earlier this month the keyboard on the computer that I use at work died... the down arrow key for what ever reason had decided to stop functioning... fortunately there was anothe board here, so I used it for a time, but it wasn't an ergonomic board... several years ago, I was gifted with an ergonomic board by a friend that I was working with, and boy howdy did I get spoiled by it! Sunday I was able to find one at a computer swap meet for not much $$ and so my hands are having to adjust to the ergnomic board ... again!

I've been making lots of baby sockies... several friends have had or are going to have babies... and super fast and easy baby pressie... sockies!

Work... work is for the most part still great. Last Monday we had a power outage, which tripped the printer for the scale, and I had to reset the date on it... Tuesday I thought checked the date, and had to reset it - again - then we had another black out... then Wednesday, I went looking for any kind of instruction manual on the scale printer, only to find nothing... Hurray for google... I did a search, and found a site that walked me thru resetting the printer... of course I printed up the directions, and stowing them in the employee training manual, so that the next person after me doesn't have as steep a learning curve... There are days... as is expected, and then there are ... DAYS... again as is expected! Today I had a guy come in with a hummer wanting to know what each of the wheels were supporting weight wise... so I did what is called a '4 corners' weight... and ... got tipped a dollar, and told that I was doing an excellent job...

updating...

Well...

I started my 2nd month 'alone' at the truck scale on today

And..........

I can truely say that I am enjoying the job for the most part... I have had some folks that are truely 'blond'... and some that are fantastic and I also have had the inbetweens... 98% of the guys understand that you don't bounce the container on the scale... I still have the very occasional... and had one person glow when I thanked him for not bouncing... (this all began last month when I had a guy not drop his landing gear - the legs that are at the front of a container - all the way onto the scale... plus when he pulled out from under the container he hadn't released his air bag all the way... my building literally shook... and one of the others in the building came in to see what had happened... ) since then most every one has been excellent! I am also finding that I am enjoying the interaction with most of the folks, yes there are the occasional that I want to throttle... but they are few and far between... and I have had only one person who I have told that if they don't like the prices that the company charges, they are welcome to go anyplace else... We charge $8.00 for a certified weight, $7.00 for an axle weight, and if we have to do a re-weigh on an axle weight, then it is an additional $3.00. The quote that I was given when I told him the prices was 'You are killing us lady'... at that point I politely told them that they were welcome to go any where else to have it weighed, and re-weighed... and got the look of disbelief...

but... thats o.k. because for every one of 'him' I have 10 (at least) of guys who's attitude is 'I would rather pay the $3.00 for a re-weigh or 2, and be safe, rather than complain about it, and get hit with a huge fine... '

I have participated in a 2nd sock exchange... I was working on some self striping yarn, doing the embossed leaf pattern that is in Interweave knits... and a friend of mine was oohing and ahing over it... and she was working on some RED alpaca socks that were velvety soft... and both of us were going hmmmmmm why am I working on this, and who is it for... viola... mini exchange!

And as I have told my daughter, that I have realized how introverted I had become from the former job ... I miss working on the microfilm, the fact that I was looking at history every day... yea... way cool... micromanagement... not cool... and I know that I was definately escaping with faire... and using it as an escape from work... (which is good and bad) but I am definately enjoying this job!