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Well so last night I posted pictures of a big event we had at work. First a little scarey adventure story for you about that.

On the way home I wouldn't say I was tired per say. I mean not like, eyes closing, slap yourself tired. Just sort of tired from the day, it was past 10pm when we left. About 4 miles from my house I stopped at a red light. THere was a police officer behind me. I did not know, it was dark out anways, and it would not have changed anything that I did I don't think.

I was deep in thought, and I continued down the road after the light. Suddenly there was sirens and lights and two cop cars pulled me over. I wondered what I had done wrong.

Well apparently, after I stopped at the red light, I then on auto pilot while deep in thought, just simply went through the light, as tho it has turned green.

I have no memory of this at all. The cop told me I needed "to get my head out of my butt" and pay attention. And said I was lucky he was on his way home and didn't want to deal with a ticket, because he LIKES to write tickets.

I think he didn't give me one cause I think he believed me, and was on his way home. At first he had this flashlight in my face asking me if I was drinking. I was fairly alert really, like I said I wasn't falling asleep or anything. I could kind of tell the point where he chose to believe me, his face went from anger to like.. bewelderment like WTF!

So no ticket for this sad little girl who could have killed herself and possible someone else!! DOH!! I cried a tad when he yelled at me. I hate driving at night. Now I can tell people this story if they try to get me to... I am going to be smart and not drive late!!

So in other news, about my Job. I havn't done much knitting the last 2 or 3 weeks because of work. I worked about 2 or 3, 12 hour weeks this month. I also was dealing with applying for a new job in my company. We have this jacked up un-spoken rule where you have to tell your manager BEFORE you interview for a job you ma not even get! If it's internal I mean... so I had to tell my boss, who wasn't happy because our team has lost one person a month for about 6 months. Loosing me was just going to make it that much worse.

Then I had the interview, then I had to wait over a whole weekend for the offer, and then I accepted before we discussed my raise lol. Luckily that all worked out fine and as I wanted it to.

So then I had to kind of wait to see when my current boss would let me go. I finally have a end date. Nov 11th.

I am excited, it's a promotion for me which I have wanted for about a year now. I am going to be an "Information Architect / Visual Designer". Right now I am more of a "User Interface Designer" which basically means I don't do as much wireframe work as I would like, but I am still active in the usability side of things.

So well I won't bore you much more with all that technical talk, but I am very excited and I know pretty much everyone I am going to work with. I am moving from the IT side, to the Business side. The type of work I do will remain fairly much the same.

So as for knitting... I havn't had the time I have wanted, and I am stuck on several things.

On fitz I need someone to help mee seam it so I can pick up the neck.

On the baby cardi I royalled screwed up the top of the back cause the directions STINK, but I saved it and put it onto some string. I am going to just go ahead and make all the pieces that way until I can find some help.

That solid sock, I think I am knitting on too small a needle, the fabric is very tight. It is the correct needle size, well it said 2.5mm to 3mm, I am using a 2.5mm. So I could go up one needle size. It's a mater of, do I want to frog?? The yarn didn't seem that bad, so I think it's just the needle size.

I hope I get some good knitting done this weekend!!

Comments

Well thank goodness you're okay! And I'm glad the cops were understanding. I think they can tell the bullshit, and you probably looked *really* tired.

Congratulations on your new job! But it always struck me that UI and Visual Design were two different departments. You must be good in both!

Don't ya HATE it when that happens? All of the bad stuff, I mean. You're right though, it could have been SO much worse. eek - don't give up on the sock yet, sometimes it looks too small, mine did, but then it fit me just fine. Making progrss on 2 by 2 method with DH's dress socks, also solid, to add to knit along =)

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