Gosh, I don’t even know where to begin. Its been such a busy past month! I think the best I can muster is a bullet-point, boring list.

*my business partner, Christina, had to go to Germany for a couple of weeks because her father has been really sick in the hospital. I wasn’t too worried about her leaving because i used to run the store all by myself before she came along. That was when our sales volume was way lower than it is now and needless to say, it was a terribly crazy few weeks. I’m thankful Tangle is so super busy, but there were days I wished for things to be slower, I wont lie.

*during that time Jim and I celebrated our 11th anniversary. We had a fun day of shopping and running around together, then dinner in Palisade before Jim’s show at The Livery, Palisade’s local bar. When I worked at Palisade Pharmacy in high school, I used to have to deliver prescriptions to that bar. My dad lives in Palisade so he’s got lots if friends there and he spent the night introducing me to all of them. It was an experience to say the least.

*speaking of my dad and Palisade. He managed to get the mayor recalled in this last election.

*Jim is currently on tour with the Pineapple Crackers. And I’ve been a single parent for seven days now. It’s been going pretty well without him, better than I expected, I’ve just had to be really organized. Jim will be gone for another two weeks. He’s currently in LA and has several shows planned there before he moves up the coast. I’m super jealous that he will be in Portland and Seattle, two places I’ve never been and really want to see. The tour schedule is on their website if you want to see if they will be in your neck of the woods.

*what else? I’m still working out with the trainer twice a week. She currently has me on a 24 day diet/14 day cleanse that hasn’t been setting with me very well. I’m still preserving a ton of food with my friend Amy. Our current obsession is apple sauce and apple cider cardamom butter. (more about our preserving efforts later.) All crafting has been set aside while I work on our holiday window decorations which need to be up by the 18th. I hate how Christmas comes earlier every year, but oh well…

And I think that’s about it!