California!

I got here yesterday – woohoo! The friend I’m staying with is so kind, and her daughter is so lovely! This place is beautiful – as soon as I arrived yesterday I got a cup of coffee, went to the beach and just sat for a bit and regrouped.

Yesterday I had the nicest time at L’atelier in Redondo Beach – great knitting and really kind folks to help you out.

Today I’ll wander up to Wildfiber and scope it out – it’s where I’m teaching tomorrow. I also have a ‘rehearsal’ at 2:00 with the Knitty Gritty folks, so it will be good to get to meet them.

And I wore make up today. I feel like I’m playing a part in a movie, not myself. Hopefully over the next few days I’ll settle down more and feel at ease and more ‘myself’

I’m at Kinkos again – I could have used my friends computer but I wanted to get some business stuff done and it just seems better to keep it together in one spot. They have free laptop use here, but the only ethernet cable had been “borrowed” by some guy who set up his computer, then went across the street to get coffee! Annoying. At twenty cents a minute I’m typing fas