Oh dear

I keep on meaning to write here, but I get distracted.  I am so busy these days. Work is utter, utter madness and it's doing it's best to totally send me a bit bonkers.  I have moved to Nottingham with the fella, but am still working in Nottingham as I didn't manage to get the transfer I wanted.  As work is thin on the ground, I couldn't just afford to jack in work, especially is the fella is a student nurse.  So, it's a case of commute to work and college while looking for work. 

I am keeping myself sane with a LOT of knitting and reading.  I've been rereading the Robin Hobb books that I have.  Only thing is, I left book 1 of The Liveship Traders at work on a Saturday and by the time I'd gone back in on a Wednesday after a bank holiday weekend, the book had gone and nobody claims to know where it is.  I reckon it's been binned 'cause I can't find it and the bit where I'd left it had been tidied.

Grrr.  I know it's my fault for leaving it there, but who would bin a book?  Madness.  I am taking a break from that while I figure out what happened to it and whether I'm going to get another copy, so am reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies instead.

I have visited a couple of yarn shops in Nottingham.  The first, I went to a few weeks ago.  It's less than a mile from my house and tiny.  The lady who owns it seems awesome though.  I may try and get to the knitting group she goes to once I've started work in Nottingham.  The second, I found by accident as we were visiting one of the larger Tesco Express stores - we needed to top the fella's phone up (he's on Tesco mobile and if I buy the top up at a Tesco store, I can use my staff discount - £9 will buy him £40 worth of credit!).  I spent a while chatting to the lady and it seems she's not long been open - 2 months or so.  She's slowly building up stock, but she has a lot of the luxury yarns there.  I ended up buying a skein of Fyberspates scrumptious laceweight in a dark blue / petrol colour.  It's gorgeous but expensive.  £15.95!, but then there are 1000 meters in the skein, so that's a really fabulous shawl.

I also have a mad idea to spin for a blanket.  A round blanket.  Using the exact same pattern that I'm using for my handspun shawl (Vortex, on Ravelry if you're interested).  I was thinking that I'll do 8 different colours and do a section in each colour.  We shall see though :)

I was also thinking that I seem to have this thing where I have at least 1 earworm a day and I thought it would be interesting to track them, so I am creating a playlist on Spotify that has all my earworms in for every month.  Obviously, this month will be a shorter one as I started late, but I have had at least 3 songs meander through my brain today so we'll see.  I note that I can share playlists via facebook and twitter, but I don't know if I can get a direct link for them so I can stick it here.  Would be interesting though!  I will share at the end of the month on Facebook and then see if I can get the direct link off there :)

In the meantime, I am off to make it up to the fella.  Apparently I was shouting at him in my sleep last night but I have no recollection of this.  Ooops.  In my defence, apparently I was telling him to stop snoring.  Seems legit to me though :)