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I can't stop.

Yesterday I had to take the car in to "the guys". I felt like such a girl. Over the weekend it started making very very scary noises and shuddery spasms under the hood. I was terrified to drive it, and on Sunday left them a quavery voiced message trying to describe the problem and asking if I could come in Monday to have it looked at.

So 5 hours at TOS yesterday for diagnosing the problem (I needed new spark plugs and spark plug related wires and whatnot), and fixing of said problem, gave me some time to knit up some more pillow bits (and also read the entire Dec. 3rd issue of People magazine which filled my head with all sorts of shallow useless information like why Celine Dion's kid's hair is so long, how Leanne Rimes lost 10 pounds doing "hot yoga", how poor Marie Osmond is having such a hard time with the divorce and her dad dying and the fainting on Dancing with the Stars, and what all the celebs are giving for gifts, etc.).

And in case you wanted to know, a loose spark plug wire results in the sending of approximately 30,000 volts of electricity willy-nilly beneath the hood of your car, and NOT into the spark plug where its supposed to go, hence the scary jolts and noises and shudders I was experiencing. Yowza! 30,000, that's a lot.

Real illustration work is calling (which is financially a good thing) so these pillows will have to take their turn in the que of current projects and tasks that's beginning to feel like an avalanche waiting to let go. I'm hoping I can maybe at least get 2 more finished tonight. Maybe. We'll see... Read the rest of this post