work and not much else.

This happens every year - summer is always always the most busy season, when I really least want to work. Unless you count Thanksgiving through New Years, I'm generally slammed then too... The movie industry really does not take in to consideration the lives and schedules of people (unless they are actors), but this is not complaining, merely observing. There are many good things which balance out the less good things. For example, I get to build really cool things all day, and I do not have to sit still or stay clean or primp in the morning. And Zoe loves to tell her friends that her mom is a carpenter - very fun when having career day at school - and that I worked on Lemony Snicket(and some other fun stuff).

On a knitting note, remember that yarn I bought? Well, I started a pair of socks - or at least the first one.

I've never knit socks before - it has always seemed like a lot of work for the payoff, and once you knit one, well you've kind of done it already, you know? So this is a challenge for me. I will finish the pair. And maybe next time I'll do both socks at once.

oh, right...

did I mention I bought yarn in Santa Cruz? oh, um, yeah... we stopped at the Golden Fleece - what a great shop - and I picked up some organic alpaca yarn and started working on this great little shawl. Here is is on the needles -

- and here it is finished.

It is fantastically soft and warm, and now suddenly it is summer and 95 degrees... hmmm. But I also made this little headband for my girl who always has her hair in her face, and her food, and - well you get the picture. I thought it was very cute on her but apparently it itches. WTF?! It's Alchemy alpaca, and it does. not. itch. So it's mine now, I guess.

I've been working too much to do anything else - 60 work hours this week (plus about and hour and a half commute time per day) makes Jack a dull girl. I'm going to bed.

i'm back...

We had a perfect weekend. Every time we leave L.A. we wonder why we live here... other than the need for gainful employment. I do wonder if there are just as many great things here, but we just don't have time to notice them? Anyway, Santa Cruz was fantastic - we were only there for a day, but it was long enough to go to most of the places we love. Where else is there a college campus that looks like this?

And in the morning on Saturday we went to Emily's for coffee and pastries and went out to West
Cliff to sit by the water and have breakfast...

...and then on up the coast

through San Francisco

and finally to Mendocino, where we spent Saturday and Sunday. It was great to see Margie, the woman who runs the Farmhouse, and also Margie's daughter Karin and her boyfriend Rogelio who were up for the weekend from Oakland. Sunday night(our anniversary) we went for dinner at the Moosse Cafe where the food was fantastic, and the people there were even better - as we were leaving, the hostess ran out after us with flowers from their garden. It was crazy - never, never would that happen in L.A...

And now we are home, very home and I am back at work, long long hours, building the sets for some movie(which I doubt seriously that I will ever see), and so I will probably fall off the face of the earth for a while. At least I don't have to paint the house?

I'm off to the post office, to mail out my pal's package - this is what I am sending -

I know it is only supposed to be one skein, but I'm tempted to send this little skein of my handspun also... just for fun.