Hi all, Once again its been a while between posts. Work is, shall we say, back to its cruddy political normal self {sigh}. I worked really hard last week defending myself and my staff from my boss and in the evenings working late into the night to finish off Dogwood Square.
So ... surprise surprise ... this week I've come down with a really really bad viral flu! So I've been off work since Monday night coughing and hacking and mucus-ing the world.
I also got rung up and offered a job interview tomorrow morning. I am sooo sooo crossing my fingers that I get this job. I'm also sooo sooo crossing my fingers that I am well enough to actually get to the interview tomorrow and can answer their questions with something approaching coherence!
Well in amongst getting ready for that, I dragged my sorry arse off to the post office for the first time this week and in amongst all the bills I found a RAK from Debbie. She sent me three cat charts from Kappie Redeux that I absolutely adore !!!!!
THANK YOU SOOOO SOOOO MUCH DEBBIE !!!!!!!!
{I wonder if I could justify starting Party Cat after my job interview tomorrow - it *is* supposed to be The Castle week this week}
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Well, aren't these the coolest? Ummm, I can see how Party Cat would be entirely appropriate for post-interview, but who was banging the Castle motivational drum the other day, hmmm??? Unless you start Cat, then work on The Castle next week??? Don't make me get my Drill Instructor hat out...
Very cool designs, Debbie (yes, they're going on my lust list)! Mel, feel better, and wow them at your interview! Hot tea with lemon and/or honey does the trick! I don't know for sure, but I'm thinking Party Cat ate the canary....
Oh these are cute! I especially like the crouching one :-) - that could find a home in Cambridge when you have stitched it LOL
Best of luck with the interview Mlle La Goth!
They're all lovely - and wouldn't it be truly ironic that you end up with this job after going through the interview not feeling 100%? I still say if they're smart, they'll latch onto you on the spot! (Who, me? Biased? NO! How could you think that??? lol)
And whilst I *do* understand a new start in celebration of an interview, I do have to point out that SOMEONE was trying to incite the rest of us to actually work on our draggies this week....
Darn all you cat people, anyway!!! Now I want these too! And THEY'LL probably have snarky, weird stitches I don't know how to do.... Paula.. talked to Phil yet?
Hey, even though you were trying to incite us all to work on our dragons , start what ya want.. it's supposed to be fun, isn't it?
Well Teegs, just looking at the pattern for Party Cat its comprised of whole cross stitches and basic backstitching. The whole piece could easily be done on Aida with no worries.
I've done my 10 stitches on Faïence and quite frankly with my cold I think 10 stitches was a pretty darned good effort :) :) :) :) Yeah OK so I'm a hypocrite. Faïence just seems too darned hard this week with this flu. Especially as I spent all last week doing mindless fill in stitching.
In some illogical manner I am starting to this that this might be *the job*. I found out about it the day before applications had to be in and I was down the South Coast with mum. I wrote the whole application from scratch in five hours and got it in just before deadline. Then three weeks later they call me for an interview while I have a nasty head cold and its now 5am the morning of the interview and its cold and raining, so spending the morning on public transport and walking around the Uni campus and then home again will probably set me back to bed for a couple of more days. I just hope that I'm coherent at the interview. So given all these non-optimal conditions, I'm starting to wonder if this was the job I was destined for and Loki is just amusing himself with me, or whether by typing that out loud (so to speak) I'm jinxing myself .....
I think you're supposed to swing a dead chicken over your head in a counter-clockwise motion to deter the jinx; or is that clockwise since you are in the other hemisphere??? Crap. I guess nix the chicken-swinging... Maybe some well-timed sniffles & sneezes, just to add a couple of sympathy points? I'm sure you will do fine! WE have faith in you!
And 10 stitches is progress, and I wouldn't have been able to work on The Castle if my head was all messed up. Well done! Start the Cat!
OK I'll take that as an order !!! *If* I get home from the interview with a clear enough head not to go straight to bed, and *if* a certain book doesn't arrive in today's mail from Teegs, *then* I will drag out some white 28ct Cashel or Aida and get this puppy, I mean pussy, started !!!!
Hey lookie me - Basic If Then statements !!!!!
PS If I had enough money left on the credit card I'd be buying two copies of the Subversive Cross Stitch book right now - one for each of us - I *love* it !!!!! Not sure I'd be game to hang most on them, but I love the idea of them !!!!! Maybe with the first pay of the new job - too many bills right now .....
I might just design a couple of subversive ones myself - a couple of my standard replies could use a little immortalization :)
I always wanted a "Beam me up Scotty - there's no intelligent life down here"
I will keep that in mind... :)
One of my personal favorites: Let me drop EVERYTHING, and work on YOUR problem! that's kind of the theme song where I work. You know, where we let engineers make business decisions. Good plan! NOT!
Those are so cute and you know what I say.....start something new!!!! :)
My other favourite - and I used to have it on a mug was "Stress: that confusion created when the mind overrides the body's basic desire to kick the living s*it out of some a$$hole who really deserves it".
OK ladies its pouring down rain and I'm outa here! Wish me luck!
OK I'm home again - I feel really really positive about the interview. Water has been cut to the house due to water mains flushing so I can't do any housework (woe is me) and nothing arrived in the mail at all - so I'm going to get out of my fancy duds and sit and start Party Cat for the afternoon!
WooHoo!! No housework, good interview vibes, and a new design to start??? It doesn't get much better than that... Except maybe a couple of those cabana boys or Spartans around for the heavy work (you gotta eat, after all, and somebody's got to either cook it or pick it up!) Keeping the fingers & toes crossed! You must be feeling better...?
Love the cats! How fun!! Can't wait to see your progress on Party Cat. Have you heard about the interview yet? I've got my fingers and toes crossed for you!!
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