On sick leave

I haven't been feeling particularly well, and having all my stuff in boxes stuffed into the spaces between assorted furniture isn't really encouraging of a super-creative feeling, so I'm falling behind on some things ... wheeee. Add to that the fact that I no longer have a printer due to the move (it went with the No Longer Significant Other), which means I have to find some other way to print my clues for the Mystery Stole 3 KAL, and the fact that there hasn't been a place to hook my computer up, which means I don't have easy access to the files that make swapping and arting and writing go smoothly ... No surprise I haven't been very creatively productive. ;) I'm starting to feel better, though, and the darling Brian got a bunch of things moved around yesterday, which made a little more space (and uncovered more arbitrarily-placed palmetto bugs; I don't understand where the things are coming from and why they like this place so much more than any other house I've ever lived in -- maybe Brian attracts them?). Now, if only we can figure out a way to make the in-progress craft room smell less like a storage room which formerly contained a cat-marked leather chair...

Pasta machines are evil.

Or maybe it should be fun to have a giant hunk of clay stuck behind the rollers so I have to take apart the machine for the second time, suffering the excitement of loose washers maddeningly running around inside the half of the machine that I can't figure out how to get off because the screw holding the side on is underneath the thickness adjustment knob, which isn't coming off in any logical fashion. (Unless the logical fashion is "pull really hard," a method I almost never use unless I first see it used without harm to the thing being pulled on. ;))

Oysh. Why didn't Troy have the sanity to show me how he got the machine apart and then back together? Silly boys. ;)

I should have known...

I've managed to finish one project on this hairpin lace loom and now it's acting funky. You'd think two pieces of metal and two bits of plastic with holes in them would be simple enough to manage, but the metal sticks keep wanting to warp even when I take some of the loops off the end of the loom. It's probably my tension, but I don't know how to fix this short of frogging the entire strip and starting over, and that's pretty disheartening considering how short on time I am today, and the fact that the swap this is for is already late. (Not that I'd be able to get it done today even if the loom weren't acting funky, but it'd be nice to feel I made progress. That's not too much to ask, is it?) I was so enjoying the feeling of actually getting something done quickly, too. Grumble.

Maybe this is why I never do anything easy. ;)