Ahh the struggle is real

I am pumping myself up to start looking for a new job. Oh my goodness I thought selling myself to an employer was hard in normal times. How the heck am I going to do this three years into a pandemic?

Sigh, want to see how fierce I look on the trail?

Pretty darn fierce with my sunscreen not rubbed in, three non-matching hand knits and my new big sunglasses! You should see me in my sun hat! Rawr!!!

Now for a sneak peak into a MKAL, that as always I am late joining. What all my excuses were really good for starting late. Hard to start when you don't have the yarn! (And a bunch of other things, like time.)

Hmm I wonder how I ever managed to pick my colors for this... yep when you don't know what colors to choose look at what you're wearing and get some inspiration. I was wearing this lap quilt that a friend's mom made. Are those not fantastic colors?! I feel better now talking about knitting.

Back to the idea of selling my skill set to an employer. Seriously how to people get excited about interviewing and typing up who you are into one sheet of paper? Oh my goodness I am such an introvert. But hey that is one of my positive traits too. I like to focus in on a situation and work it till it is done. I am an excellent worker bee I just need to find the right hive for me. 

No really I need to value myself as much as I would tell anyone else to value themselves. I deserve to work in a good place for a good wage. Someplace will be lucky to have me working for them. I just have to do the not fun stuff of matching us up in the meantime. 

OK that was a good pep talk now can I go knit some? I am only three colors away from being finished with baby blanket for my friend's 2.5 year old grandchild. Hey I got the project when the kid was 1.75 years old I'm doing pretty darn good considering.

No really I am going to go knit now, for real.

Petroglyph National Monument

We have been enjoying getting to know our new area in New Mexico. The other day we took a little trip to find Petroglyph National Monument. We do truly live in the land of enchantment. 

You could think of petroglyphs as ancient road signs or ancient graffiti. But they are cultural carvings in volcanic stone. They are a migration map of cultures on the move. They have been defaced, used for target practice, and stolen. When development threatened the area a group started taking a study of them. They expected to find and catalog hundreds and instead found thousands. Monument status was given quickly to reduce further damage but we did see some defacement. Unless class of 98 meant class of 1898. (No I didn't take a picture of that one.)

I should have taken more petroglyph pictures but do you see that sky. I don't think I will ever fall out of love with the New Mexico sky.

Those are the Sandia Mountains in the distance. I'm falling as much in love with them as I am the beautiful sky. Yes I know that is a lot of brown and I will always miss the lush greenness of Oregon, but you gotta love the one you're with. Brown is a beautiful color in its own way.

The volcanic rock starts out light and oxidizes to that beautiful deep grey color.

Our friend J of previous sock worthiness posts came to get a sunshine fix, boy do I think we fixed her up good with sunshine that day. Never leave the back of your neck exposed.

 One of the first things we did here was get sunglasses. It is a far more comfortable beauty with sunglasses. We were over dressed for the day but that sun sneaks up on you. At least my knitwear is getting a workout here. But that is another post for another day. I love that shawl it is easy to wrap up in and get cozy and unwrap and get cool with.