Not yet…

No post and the shop is still on “vacation” mode.  The shop will wait, as I can’t ship anything until late next week anyway.  As for the post on Rhode Island, I’ll be making that from the road when I can.   No time!

And FYI – I am a knitterly stereotype.  3 weeks to plan my knitting for this trip, 10 minutes to pack my clothes and more yarn in my carry on than I could possibly knit in 5 days.

I’m off – I hear there’s good yarn hunting in San Francisco

My Name

Thanks to all of you who have been so supportive, once again.  A bit of sage, a few tears and a lot of hugs are slowly making things better.  And if there’s one lesson I’ve learned in the last few years, I have the power to turn this around – and that’s just what I’m working on.

As for the title of my post, this week’s crap has made one difficult decision much easier – the question of whether or not to change back to my maiden name when D-Day finally comes (maybe as early as August, though who knows how long this might drag out).  I really toyed with this one until Thursday, when it hit my like a brick – I’m going back!  Huge pain in the ass as it might be to change my name on everything and to come to be known by the “new again” last name, I want NO association/reminders/connection with that family (ETA – I just re-read that and it hit me how sad it is – it not Everett that I don’t want a connection to, its truly the family).   It really became an easy decision to make, that I feel really good about.  So, as I often do, I thought I’d say here it first.  The name, at least until the divorce is finalized and I drop the “married” name, is Kris Granatek Gonzales.  Get why I didn’t go with hyphenating when I got married, even though I wanted to?  Its a mouthful.  For those of you looking cross eyed at my maiden name, just sound it out – gran-uh-tech.  Not so hard.  I’m going to start adding Granatek to everything over the next couple of weeks, in hopes to make that transition easier and avoid some confusion in the long run.

Now, onward – I have 8000 things to do before I leave for San Francisco in a few hours, not least of which is getting the Etsy shop back up and one very long over due blog post about Rhode Island.  Time to return this blog to a fiber blog!