No pics or knitting :(

The camera battery died the other day and I have not gotten a chance to buy another. I've been working, a lot, this week. My boss is on vacation and our other receiver moved to the shipping side. We had a temp start last Monday to replace her and then the buyer trainee finished his 8 weeks of warehouse time. A new trainee started this Monday. And then there's me trying to receive and train. We've had a couple folks come out and help (which I feel guilty about even though I appreciate it tremendously!) and the newbies are catching on some so it eased up a little on me today. I think I only worked 9.5 hours, down from 12+ yesterday. I'm thinking I need to have the boss pick a day for me to play hooky next week, what do you think?!?!?

I've been accepted to 2 stash swaps which I am pretty excited about. There is an international yarn swap and then a swap where I make something out of my stash and send it. I'm really looking forward to participating in both. I got an email today from one of my partners and it sounds like we were matched pretty well since we have a several similarities in our answers to the questionairre. I have some ideas, this weekend I'll have to make the final decisions and get down to business!

Maybe by then I'll decide on my next pair of socks also. I was really looking forward to making another pair from a ball of Tofutsies yarn I have (my first Tofutsies are one of my all time favorite pairs). I also really wanted to make the Interweave Seduction socks. Thought they would go well together. Until I knit an inch plus. This colorway is too tweedy and was obscuring the stitchwork. RIIIIIIIPPPPPPP....

Searched and pondered. So many patterns but what will be the best for this tofutsies? Finally I cast on for a different pattern and got started. OOPS. K2tog 3x, P2tog 2x around. I worked K2 tog 3x, P2tog 1x over 120 stitches. RIIIIIIIPPPPPP once again.

I've cast on again but have yet to join the round. Was about to till I heard something not right with one of our birds. Went to check on her. It does not look good. She is a Mourning Dove that the boys brought home a couple of years ago. She had broken her wing and could not get away from any of the neighborhood cats or the other boys that were threatening to torture her. I bought a cage, etc. and she healed. I also bought her a companion Diamond Dove since they are supposedly social birds (there is a lonely diamond down at the petstore again waiting to be adopted and given a friend - poor thing). Angel (the Mourning) and Teddy (the Diamond) have done well together and Angel has even learned to accept me some. She is wild after all! For some reason, lately, I have been wondering how old she is and how much more time we would have. She was an adult when she was found, in the springtime, so she has to be at least 3 years old. I think they have a 5-7 year lifespan but I could be off on that. My gut says she may not be with us come morning. :(

Well, hate to leave on that note but the alarm is going to ring way too soon!