Its all true, the boogie girl is real, and you've found her. She knits, sews, spins, does pottery and writes it all down in this blog.
Friday, January 02, 2004
Taxes Schmaxes
I feel accomplished today
I feel accomplished today
Since I'm self employed and make my money at my own business, I have a lot of gathering and docmenting at the end of the year and 3 states to pay sales taxes to. Just thinking about it usually gives me a headache. This year I was so good. On December 31st - yes that's right, one day early, I spent until about 1pm getting my taxes in order. 2 states sales taxes are in their envelopes ready to mail, Maine sales tax is written out for my reference and ready to file online. The rest of the documentation is in order and almost ready to send off to my accountant. One nasty dreaded task done *marks check mark in the air*. So to reward myself I took the rest of the day off and spun yarn on my little drop spindle. Here are some finished little mini skeins. The green is mohair, the white is really cheep stuff but good to learn on. The tan-ish cone looking thing was just removed from the spindle and is waiting to be plied with the brown in the top right corner that I'm working on spinning (both are really nice) and the lower right shows another one that is waiting to be spun and I'm going to ply it with black, it is prettier in real life. 
I'm new to this so all I have been working on is small samples that I have. I have a bit of Superwash roving and a bit more on the way. I ordered some stuff that should make a really gaudy yarn that I want to ply with something soft and silky, maybe tencel, and knit into a tank top/vest. Jay and I have been talking about my insane desire for a spinning wheel and he's almost convinced me to get one. I have a hard time spending that much money on myself when its not a business investment. Sure, maybe I could spin yarn for people but would I? At this moment its a pleasure item for me and If I save up enough money and quit buying yarn, I just might do it.
My shoulder started to ache a bit after a while of spinning so I switched to knitting and finished the first sock for Moira 
I also completed another task that I procrastinate on. Cleaning and organizing. I had bought these things meant for shoes to hang in the closet and on the closet door thinking they might work good for just such an organizing task. So I spent about an hour playing with yarn stash (ok so organizing and playing with yarn really isn't that rough of a task). This is what I did. 
The door shoe holder is only good for small bunches of yarn, the shelf like thing is good for projects but I've got roving all in the bottom sections and 2 projects in the top 2. The last 2 (one is almost unseen) holds sock yarn. I have a thing for sock yarn. Its irresistable and since I'm always knitting socks for someone its good to have. I think only 1 skein in there is yarn for me. My bigger bunches of stash (full sweaters) are in boxes and bins in groups waiting for some attention.
I picked out a pattern for mom's socks. Its a new free pattern on Elann here I plan on doing the ladies sock version for her. AND I HAVE EXCITING NEWS ok exciting for me. I found enough yarn to do one more slipper. So I don't have to make mom a whole new pair. I can make one to replace the eaten one. Yippeeeeee. I was pretty happy when I found it. I found it thanks to my organizing. All in all it was a good couple of days. Tomorrow my uncle is having a party/ open house for my grams 90th birthday at my grams house. Tons of people are invited and its gonna be a mob scene. I'll go but I know gram would rather just have her family and screw the rest of the pomp and circumstance. I hope she feels loved.
And on debt elimination. I think I need some sort of tazer device to shock me every time I try to buy yarn online. I'm much safer in a store but online I can definitely get myself into some trouble. Ok, no, I'm not safer in a store, I just don't go to my LYS all that often. I need to remember to take my tazer with me. I'm bidding on a few things at the moment and once that's done I will only buy yarn if its needed for a gift item and my little stash doesn't have anything that would work, yep, you heard me. Now where can I get a tazer from?