Yarnification

Okay, no quiz results today! The other day I was getting caught up on reading blogs and one of the many, many things I hadn’t checked for quite a while was the Blogthings feed. You all can consider yourselves lucky I only posted the results for two of the quizzes; I took about ten of them. Some of them with embarrassing results. The “How extroverted are you?” quiz more or less implied that I hate all other humans. Which is not true at all. It is true, though, that I tend to get all shy and weird and twitchy around people I don’t know well. Years ago, when I was working in a bookstore (yep, I am morbidly shy yet have spent most of my working life in retail, go figure), a book about finding a career suited to your personality came into the store. I took the test in it, and among the long list of results for my personality type were lighthouse keeper and shepherd. No kidding. It really said that. (Can you really still get a job as a lighthouse keeper? I kinda thought that was done by computers now.)

I finished the fourth pineapple square last night. They’re all joined, just need to weave in the blessedly few ends, then starch and block it. That might happen Sunday night, maybe not until Monday though. This has been the week from hell here at work; the guy who works part-time for us is on vacation this week so Don and I have been working 12+ hours a day every day since last Friday (apart from Sunday—we close early on Sundays). Today is the last twelve-hour day, then there’s eight hours tomorrow and then (hooray!) Monday we have only have to work till around four or six o’clock.

I am exhausted, let me tell you. Not really from lack of sleep; I’ve been getting about as much sleep as usual. But every day for the past week now (apart from Sunday, that is) I’ve gotten up, gotten ready for work, gone to work, worked about twelve and a half hours (we’re using the word worked a little loosely here, since I’ve taken plenty of down time, but I’ve had to be here all that time), gone home, had about an hour to wind down, then gone to bed. Since we’ve spent practically no time at home this week the house is a mess, the cat box hasn’t been getting scooped as often as it should be and is stinky, there are a ton of dishes in the sink (Where did they come from? It’s not like we’ve had time to cook!) and so Sunday evening will probably be spent cleaning the house, even though I very much need some time to relax and unwind and not be at work.

On the plus side, I did get out of the store yesterday long enough to go to the library. I meant to go on the way to work but forgot to stop, and since they’re only open three days a week due to incredibly poor funding, if I didn’t go yesterday afternoon I wasn’t going to be able to get the books they had on hold for me until Monday. I hit the jackpot; I have a bunch of books that I’ve requested on interlibrary loan (again with the funding; they never get new books apart from a rotating collection that gets shuffled from one library to another around the county) and three books by my very favorite authors came in: Eleven on Top by Janet Evanovich, Oh My Stars by Lorna Landvik, and Killing Time by Linda Howard. Yay, stuff to read!

Oh, and recently I did an update to the Blogs I Read page, so it’s a lot closer now to being the same as my actual Bloglines blogroll. While I was updating it, I thought really hard once again about just replacing it with the automatic blogroll you can do through them, but I really do like all the pretty link buttons, so I’ve decided to keep it this way until it gets to be too hard to maintain.

Anyway, there are a bunch of links on there without buttons; if you happen to see yourself there and have a button I can use, please let me know where I can find a copy of it…