August 8, 2006:
Ta da!
Hooray! All my grousing and whining is finally over! Wait, wait–let me be clearer, because that’s just an out-and-out lie. All my grousing and whining about my book is finally over! Yippeee!!!
I just sent off my last chance edits. I scrutinized that fucking thing, and yet, every time I looked again, I’d find another typo, another this, another that. It was unnerving. But after much hand-wringing and uppity righteous outrage, and a stern finger-wagging from my editor, and a little there-there reassurance from my agent (I have an agent! I love saying that!), I finally just called it a day and gave up. So hopefully, they’ll catch everything I missed. Although…I really hated catching typos the copyeditor missed–but that was probably just someone looking at a specific issue, not overall typos and such, right? I’ll bet there will be one more copyediting pass on their end, right? Well, either way, it’s out of my hands now, and I’m giddy as a schoolgirl. Hurrah!
Now my pressing issues are money, getting some; and Renegade Craft Fair and Yarn School, preparing for; and new book proposals (so I get a chance to learn from my mistakes), writing them.
Aside from money, yuck, the other pressing issues are all about the fun! Yay! And my parents are coming to visit this weekend, yay! How lucky am I to have parents I like seeing? Hardly anyone wants their parents to visit, but I’m delighted. Of course, I can put them in the other wing, so…
I think I’m going to do a big fat destash in the next couple of days. I hate having so much yarn I couldn’t possibly use it all. It makes me feel like a creepy hoarder (which I am, but who wants to accept that?) It also gives me moth anxiety, yuck. I spent hours on the Internet reading about clothes moths last week (very mythbusting).
And I met Jan on a fiber list, who will be trading me knitting for yarn! I give her yarn, she knits me something & keeps the rest. So I’m probably going to get her to knit a bunch of my Naughty Needles project variations & bonus patterns (the ones that wouldn’t fit in the book), because I have a surplus of yarn for most of them. Isn’t that exciting!
And later in the month, I’m going to visit Tina a Ewephoria Farms and meet her sheepies and other critters and maybe get a little notion of what keeping a few myself would entail. Pretty soon, I’ll be ready to quit envying Sarah’s homestead and work up a little setup of my own. I also have visions of renewable energy. In this smothering heat, you can’t help but curse not having solar. Anyone out there an expert?
And I’ve got some delicious black Polwarth and Cormo on the way, and some merino laps! All’s right with the world.
Tonight, I’m going to spin and craftblot and crochet and feast on some more of the tomatoes my neighbor gave me (I’ve been killing myself with patience, letting them ripen more) with mozzarella and the basil from my garden, and drink the beer I’ve been avoiding while I’ve been trying to TCB, and maybe make some batts from that plush chocolate Rambouillet fleece (from a spoiled ram called Munchie, which is the cutest name since Gobbles), I just washed (look at me! city girl, washing fleece like a freakin’ pioneer! Though I still look at farm animals like they’re in a zoo…) and figure out what do do with that weird yarn experiment I made last night and the Cormo fleece I ruined last weekend, and maybe dye some locks and write up my plan for world domination. I was going to throw in a shower, but nah. Who cares if I stink up the place? I get to play!
