Naked Bacon

Right now I am watching TV in my hotel room in Connecticut. I woke up at 3:30am to catch a 6:30am flight up here, and got to work by 8:00am. Yeesh. Thankfully, my boss let me leave a little early, so I could explore the area. I found two yarn shops, each within a 10 minute drive from the office! They were both great, and I bought yarn without really thinking about how I would fit it all in my (already full) bag for the flight home.

I don't know why I ever thought I wouldn't like it here, but I think I might love Connecticut. There is no traffic. None. At least not around this part (near Bradley airport). The people are nice, it's clean, and the suburbs are not packed to capacity with apartments and townhouses. The office and lab here are awesome- the facility is top notch. I saw the plans for the new lab that will be built by next year, and it is going to be HUGE. And awesome.

Work lately is busy, but not busy enough to drive a girl crazy. I've started training a new winder (which is why I'm up here in CT), and my boss tells me he's hoping to move me up the ranks to a supervisor when I move here next year.

So that's work. In my not-work life, things are going well, too. I am all moved into my new apartment, thanks to some very wonderful friends. I had a lot of great help! We did it all in just 2 hours. All my boxes are unpacked, but I've been lazy about getting things organized. I have some super cool stuff, which I will post pictures of later, but never did get around to painting any pegboard pink. So far, living alone is pretty great for all the obvious reasons surrounding doing whatever the hell I want.

Scott and I met at our old bank last week to wrap up our finances, and it was definitely one of those moments that I will always look back on and think, "This is why I should be glad he asked for a divorce." He was demanding and impatient in his usual way. The whole time we sat there, I kept thinking about how I'd never have to listen to his "I'm irritated and I'm going to make sure everyone knows it" grumblings again. No more growling at the general public, or at me while I'm talking, driving, standing in the wrong spot ("hovering"), moving too much, not moving fast enough, or any of the other zillion things I didn't do right.

Perhaps I will create a list of things I love about my new start sometime soon. For now, I need to get to sleep so I can get to work in the morning. Hooray for overtime! Which I will need to pay for the yarn I just bought!


Top to bottom and left to right they are:
Ellen Cooper's Yarn Sonnets Zohar's Socks, color: Fern Gully; Liberty Fibers Fingering Weight Merino, color: Suede; Lobster Pot Yarns (omg cashmere!), color: Hydrangea; Malabrigo Rasta, color: Azules; Koigu KPPPM, color: P441; Kauni Effectgarn 8/2, color: EA; and Lang Jawoll Magic, color: 84.0065.