awesomesauce

I received an email from my beloved fibery pen pal (and "twin") Kippiann the other day telling me I needed to change my blog title from "the mundane" to something more fitting.  She thinks I'm not very mundane.  Yay!  I have been meaning to change it as well and since I've been feeling so damn awesomesauce lately, I thought that would be perfect.

What is awesomesauce?  Well, according to urbandictionary.com:
awe·some·sauce
-adjective or noun
1. Sauce that is awesome.
2. Adjective for something extremely likable or undeniably awesome.  <---- me.  

Back to work! 

back to the happy

Alright, I'm back in a happier place now.  :)  

I'm really going to try to update this a bit more regularly.  I seem to be easily distracted by my spinning wheel as of late.  I love spinning so much, but when I finish a skein, I have no idea what to do with it.  My already huge yarn stash keeps growing, and my obsession with spinning fiber means I'm buying that too.   So, over the last month or so, I've been considering opening an etsy shop to sell my handspun.  I absolutely love knitting with handspun, and it seems that others do too, but don't have the patience to spin their own.

I talked to Brian about it, and he thinks it's a fun idea.  Today I spent waaaay too long trying to come up with an etsy banner for what I've been thinking is a good shop name.  But then I started having second thoughts - is this a dumb name?  Does it make sense?  Will it be memorable enough? I need help!  I'd love your opinion or suggestions.

Here were my initial ideas:

• with a twist handspun - there is a With a Twist etsy shop already, but it is not yarn/fiber related
• twist of lime handspun - again, there is Twist of Lime shop, but not yarn/fiber related.
• limejuicy - this is my etsy/ravelry/twitter name, so it would make sense to use it, but is it too boring? Or a variation of it like limejuicy handspun, LJ spun, etc.

Yup, that's all I have.  HELP.  Ha!  And no, it doesn't have to be lime related or anything, it's just an easily recognized "thing" of mine.  I just don't know where else to go for ideas. 

I also need a new camera.  Where is my tax refund??

ETA:  I'm NOT creative with words, just with yarn, so I really need help! please?  :) 
 

struggling

this is much harder than I ever thought it would be.  I am so torn up about Chopper being gone.  I just want him back.  I realize that is a completely irrational thought, but that's all I keep thinking about.   :(

saying goodbye

Chopper
Choppy
Chopstix
Bubba
Pigface
Snausage

Some of you may already know that yesterday, we had to say goodbye to Chopper, our beloved pitbull.  He was an amazing dog, and most people that met him said that he changed their minds about pitbulls.  He and I went through a lot together and had a special connection.  And when Brian and I found each other, Chopper loved him too - almost as much as me!  ;)

I won't go into the details of yesterday, but I will say that we knew it was time, and he let us know that he was ready.  We were with him through the end, and I know he is in a place without pain now.

I want to share some of the things that I will always remember about him.  

The GRIN!   Seriously, he had a smile that was a mile wide.  

He loooooved riding in the car.  

 

He got along with all of the other kids

Burrito dog!  He was always cold. 

His obsession with food ~  yep this is a 15 second clip of him!

 

sleeping - a lot!  and he loved to curl up like this, talk about flexible!

Those eyes.

Thank you for loving us Chopper, we will never forget about you.  I love you. ♥

lunch break update

Here I am on my lunch break (quite a bit late I'd say), and feeling the need to finally blog.  It has been a while, and a lot has happened.  I won't bore you with the details...at least not right now. 

The end of 2010 in a nutshell (I'm so glad 2010 is over, such a sad year):

• Christmas ~ I finished my knitted gifts and they were a hit.
• my 33rd birthday ~ ouch
• New Years ~ uh, we managed to stay awake until midnight!

2011:

• family drama
• started back at boot camp at my gym.  I absolutely love getting my butt kicked three times a week.  LOVE IT.  I'm seeing results and have signed up for another session, so I'll be continuing to go through the middle of March.
• training for a 10k ~ really, I am.  And it's all Yaz's fault.  :) Yaz(notthepill) is a friend that I met on twitter/Ravelry like....2 or 3 years ago?  We've never met in person, but we have both started running.  She is training for a 1/2 marathon later in the year, and suggested running a 10k together at the end of March.  My exercise schedule now looks like this:  MWF = boot camp, TThSat = running.  Whoa.  I'm committed!
• I'm a spinnin' fool.  After all of that Christmas knitting, I lost my knitting mojo.  Now all I want to do is spin yarn and shop for spinning fiber.  

Bad Sarah!

I have not been posting!  I have a few things to write about too - I WILL post later today.  Hopefully, someone is still reading?  :) 

shawl pins

Brian hasn't had much work in the last couple of weeks, so he has been out in the shop playing with metal.  He's decided to try his hand at shawl pins, because I mentioned that knitters can always use a pretty shawl pin.  Today, he created a beautiful damascus piece - which is layers upon layers of steel that create a beautiful pattern in the metal.  He makes his own damascus billets, and uses them to produce different pieces.  He's looking for feedback on this pin, as well as what other types, shapes, sizes of pins people would be interested in.  Hopefully, some of you have a few minutes to leave him some feedback on his blog post (or here!).  More photos are there as well.  ironstein forge