Well, the answer for how long it takes a letter to get to Afghanistan, is: a little over a week! Not bad :)
We heard from our soldier this morning, via email. I am so excited, already making a list of stuff to send! Fortunately I've been making good progress on the cool ties, 63 finished, with another 48 in progress. Hoping to get them finished up tonight or tomorrow night.
He gave me a few ideas of things that they need, so the Russian and I are already brainstorming over this. He says he doesn't know what cool ties are, won't he be surprised! Haha! :)
I woke up this morning with a raging headache, I'm sure it's weather related. 40% chance of storms this afternoon, so maybe it'll ease up some by then.
I had my network consultation last night, which was interesting. I'm going to see about making some hats, scarves and mittens for Feitshans, once I know more about that, there'll be an opportunity for everybody to get involved with it. I'm thinking simple fleece stuff unless somebody wants to knit.
I'm also maybe going to get involved with the library at church. I'd really like to see it expand, it's nice now but really could use some sprucing up. I don't think it's going to have a very big space in the new building, either. Hopefully when they start building phase 2, we can have a nice big area for lots of books and videos.
Otherwise, all I worked on last night were cool ties. I worked until 11pm, and wasn't tired then until my head hit the pillow. Sewing is like that, though...I've noticed that if I'm watching tv, I'll be dead tired by 10pm, but if I'm sewing, I could go all night and never get tired until I stop. Weird.
BTW, the advent calendar finally found a new home. Yay! Now I can start on the kitty calendar. Hopefully I can get that finished up by Thanksgiving!
Ok, off to take some ibuprofen or something.
Posted by tomiandc at July 26, 2006 09:17 AM