It's been absolutely silly in my life over the last couple of weeks, I'm not entirely sure why, but since I turned 24 I haven't had five minutes to do anything!
I popped down to Wokingham to celebrate my birthday, and 20 people came out to celebrate with me, some of whom I hadn't seen for years, so that was suitably gorgeous! :) Then stayed with my dear friend Lou of Contrariety Rose for a few days, which was wonderful - we did a day trip to Brighton for market research, inspiration and a daft amount of yummy food, and spent a day sorting out our websites & Facebook fan pages (for our shops, not for ourselves, lol) and also got to drive around in Poppy with the top down, and take some completely gratuitous photos of her at California Country Park, heehee!
It's always lovely to be around Lou, but especially so this time as we're both at similar stages with the trying to convert a hobby we love into something that makes money - I'm nowhere near an actual business yet and neither is she, as even when I sell it barely covers my materials, but it's so indescribably nice to sit and do essentially boring admin stuff like website editing and Facebook setup next to someone doing the same, so you can bounce ideas off each other, instead of having to make a special phone call when you think of something big that you need to discuss. But was lovely to do creative admin instead of boring admin, and saved me trekking my entire jewellery kit down south in my very lacking-in-storage-space car!
I also think, while my parents have been incredibly supportive, that it's rather lovely to have someone my own age around who has dreams & ambitions which are just as wild and big, rather than ones that have been numbed by the realities of life.
Oh dear, I'm in waffle mode, aren't I? I'm not sure I dare to update the Almost-Librarian, because I've been in such a stonkingly bad mood for the last day or so that I might just hurl abuse at customers through it! (Mind you, that's better than hurling abuse at them in person, I suppose).
More craft-related, I have joined a knitting group! It's called Kitsch, and it meets in a pub in the evenings, which can't be bad! Was a bit nervous about going, but turned out Wednesday was the inaugural meeting, and it's very informal, just sit and knit and chat :) and the girls that came were all different ages, but all absolutely lovely. So hopefully I'll be able to carry that on even after I move to Colchester - I could always bring the car to work twice a month, couldn't I?
And now I must go and type up my notes from yesterday's training, and see if I can make it short enough so I don't bore the other EOs to death...
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