NOT the time I want to be home sick….

Posted on February 27, 2010. Filed under: General 'rambling" |

I WAS going to be at Stitches West last night (Thursday, 2/25/10), helping one of the Crochet Guild chapters I’m a member of (Men Who Crochet of Oakland, CA, see my blog roll) staff the Warm Up America booth (#115). I ALSO was scheduled to work that booth tomorrow afternoon (Sat 2/27). But there’s a problem. I’m home sick. No voice. Would have to “play charades” to communicate with people. As for work (I was off Thursday and am off today) I would have to install closed captioning for anyone to understand me talking, either over the phone or in person face to face. NOT an option at this time.

Stitches West, for those who don’t know, is the annual knitting convention (classes and vendor marketplace) run by Knitter’s Magazine the last four days of February every year (http://www.knittinguniverse.com) there are OTHER Stitches in other areas of the country, Stitches West is the ONLY one that is local to me.

The ONE TIME my federal tax refund would direct deposit in time for me to ENJOY Stitches West (the last two years, it posted later in March) and I CAN’T because I’m sick (off work, which isn’t the end of the world, but unable to attend Stitches like I’d really prefer to do.)