Annie

As you probably all know, the musical Annie Jr. that I was in is now over. I have mixed emotions about this: I'm happy that I can move on with my life and maybe play a different part in another play, but I'm disappointed that I might not see some of the people in the play again. I went to work again today and the rest of the days this week so far except yesterday. Today I ran the saw, which cuts off the butt end and the skinny end of the corn, and husked some. For whatever reason, we're now husking all of the husk, whereas before we were only removing the husk from one half of the ear.

Well, I'm kind of disappointed because I can't work today. No one is working because our employer doesn't have any corn to process. Nobody worked yesterday either. I'm hoping to be able to work at least a few more weeks because I have my eye on some stuff, and I need to save more money to get to the 'magical' 50/40/10 save/spend/tithe. I spent one weeks worth of my save money at Stitches.

Humongous post about everything imaginable...

Well, I obviously haven't blogged in a while. This is mostly due to the fact that I've been busy. My summer job working at the Severson's farm has been going well. I've been enjoying it as much as anyone can enjoy a pretty repetitive, on-your-feet-half-the-day job. However, the pay is good and I've been enjoying building up my fiber stash.
       My birthday was on August 3, which you probably all know already. I picked the meals, as usual, and chose pancakes for breakfast. Then I went to work from 9-2. Most people might not want to work on their birthdays, but I decided that would be my birthday present to myself. I couldn't really think of anything else in particular that I wanted to do, so I went on a shopping trip to Le Mouton Rouge and spent my own birthday money. I bought this for myself:

It's Polwarth, a breed of sheep, in the colorway 'Chipotle'. This is my first time spinning Polwarth, and I'm definitely enjoying it. I think I'm going to make a pair of socks for myself. I also added on to the order Rebekah placed on KnitPicks.com. I bought roving in the color 'Salsa Heather'.

I don't know yet what I'm going to make out of this. I also placed an order for some silk and sparkle, but the company emailed me to say that my order had been 'slightly' delayed and would ship in 6-8 weeks! I decided to cancel the order and keep the money. As it turned out, I didn't keep it for long... More about that later.
       As many of you know, last week I had opening night for Annie Jr. I made only one mistake: I sang the wrong line. Since then, I've messed up a couple times, but I haven't forgotten any lines yet. Interestingly enough, the part that I was most worried about was the costume change at the end. I was worried about not having enough time, because I am arrested by a secret service agent who takes me out the front, and then I have to run around to the back of the building to change back into my original costume in the amount of time it takes to sing two songs. So far, that has gone really well. I've decided that I really enjoy acting, and for whatever reason I don't get very nervous at all. I asked one of the directors who also directs at the high school if I could audition for high school plays, and she said that I'd have to ask the principal. Also, the Morris theatre guild is going to be performing The Miracle Worker, which is about the life of Helen Keller, early next year. I'm thinking about trying out for that. I forgot to mention that Rebekah and Mom went to my opening night. When they came out of the door to congratulate me etc., I noticed that Mom was carrying a tissue wrapped parcel. I was expecting it to be flowers, but when I looked inside... :

Fiber! I was super excited! Rebekah had gone to Le Mouton Rouge earlier that day, and while she was there Mom bought this for me. It's merino in the color 'Swamp Thing'.
 As I already mentioned, I've been buying and acquiring a lot of fiber. One of the biggest shopping sprees I went on you may have already read about on Rebekah's blog:
Stitches Midwest!

Stitches is a big event! There were lots of vendors there, including almost every fiber shop I've been to (i.e., Esther's Place and The Fold). I had researched thoroughly which vendors had the cheapest fiber, and so I went with a plan: a printed map of the booths with all the ones I wanted to go to named and a path drawn to each one.
I bought a russian supported spindle from Carolina Homespun (I didn't have one of those):

Merino/bamboo/silk roving and Blue-faced Leicester (another sheep breed) from Lisa Souza Dyeworks:

 A few sample braids of roving (Blue faced Leicester, Polwarth, and Merino), of which I already spun one and some of; and a full sized braid of BFL in Cider House (last picture).

 And last but not least, a big ball of Potluck Roving in 'Party Time'. I love the colors but I'm not sure what I want to make out of it since the colors aren't quite my type, there's too much pink and purple.

 I think that concludes the biggest blog post I've ever written, and I think in the future I shall try to split it up and blog as things happen!