Brianna's Blurbs

Thursday, October 22, 2009

What I'm Up To

Enjoying: My new necklace! She's got some cool new stuff she did that isn't in the shop yet that you can see here.

Listening To: The Murder of King Tut by James Patterson

Looking Forward To: Working all weekend to get caught up. (Sarcasm doesn't translate well to text.) Though we might take off early tomorrow and go to a movie.

Reading: Frankenstein Book Two City of Night by Dean Koontz

Watching: Whip It

Working On: The November auction. Vehicles, vehicles, vehicles. I just physically inspected about 100 of them. So far there's about 225 listed and they're still taking consignments for another week. Now I need to spend the next three days doing paperwork to get caught up with the 100 that are already here. Washington keeps changing the rules on me this year. In the last six months they've implemented the federal DOT Number form requirement AND the new automatic $5 donation to the state parks and rec program unless "opted" out on the Title Application (ANOTHER new form). There they go making my job even more complicated than it already was! I haven't even touched a crochet hook in over a week.

Ohhhh but the good news...I finally found a program (Synergy - it's FREE) and figured out how to get one keyboard and one mouse to work with both my desktop and laptop. Now I don't have to physically disconnect the keyboard and mouse from the desktop and plug them into the laptop. The keyboard and mouse stay plugged into my desktop and I just scroll the mouse across the desktop screen over to the laptop screen and the keyboard types on whichever computer the mouse has active. Now I just need to figure out if it works with a configuration like Mom has, i.e. two monitors hooked up to a desktop and one monitor hooked up to a laptop. ~~~ Oh no I'm turning into a computer geek! I'll take whatever makes my job easier though!

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Dust Storm

Interesting view of the dust storm I was in on Sunday.

Friday, October 2, 2009

2016 Olympics & Other Ramblings

Ok, so maybe I'm not patriotic enough but could we just be happy for Rio?!?!?! What's with this sense of entitlement? Seems to me the US has had the games here quite a few times in recent years and there ARE a lot of other countries out there who participate!

Very, very happy that one of my favorite sites A Bunny A Day is back! Loving her latest painting as seen here. She has a new fashion blog where she also sells some of her jewelry at Scarlet Buffalo. (I will not mention how much of my day can disappear while browsing these two inspiring sites. - You never know when the boss will stumble upon your blog. )

This seems to be the week of blast from the past people. Giz stopped by the office today and so ok we've seen him within the last few years but he is from life about 20 years ago. And the one that really surprised me...I answered the phone (again here at the office) and who should be there but Aunt Joan?!?!? For those of you not in the know this is my ex-aunt who I haven't seen for at least twenty years. She's coming to visit the weekend of the 16th, so to my sisters...get ready because Mom will want to have a get together!

Current mood: Feeling a shopping accident at the local yarn store coming on! I really should stick to the cheaper yarns...the $15 a skein silk yarn makes a $60 scarf. (Makes for an expensive "hobby.") Ahh well have to spoil myself sometimes. :)

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Rose Bud Scarf

Laines Du Nord Cashsilk

50% Merino Extrafine Unshrinkable Wool

25% Silk

25% Cashmere

Rose Bud

72" Long by 3.25" Wide

Driftwood Scarf

Sirdar Just Bamboo

100% Bamboo

Driftwood

74" Long by 4.5" Wide

The first images on these posts are web images that show the color of the yarn as my photo skills are not that great. This yarn is very hard to photograph well and is even more "shimmery" than the first image shows. I'm really not happy with the way the pictures of this one turned out so I may try again tomorrow in the sun.