At this time last year, I was driving through a giant snowstorm in Missouri, on my way back to Iowa.  I remember being in Kansas City, being completely unable to see the road, and thinking that if I was just living in North Carolina, I wouldn’t have to try and navigate that godawful storm.

A year later, and we’re here.

Life is strange and wonderous, isn’t it?

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It’s Christmas Eve!  Merry Christmas, everybody.  2010 is shaping up to be a freakin’ milestone year from the looks of it.  Huge new launches, a whole new place to explore, and considering how huge this year was (for better or worse), I can’t even imagine what’s going to happen next year.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer them.  2009 answered a whole lot of questions, and asked a whole lot more, and if 2010 answers the rest, we’re golden. :)

Just a few of the things on the plate for next year:

1.  L&V is getting a whole new face and a brand-new playground.  Now that we’re back to having 100% pure Lime (yay!), the old site and stuff just weren’t cutting it.  We love our listeners, even the ones that say they don’t listen (WE ARE TALKING TO YOU, LA.), and this year, we’re hoping to give back a little.  It’s sinking in that we’ve got one of the biggest listening audiences in knitcastland, and while it still boggles us both a little, we’re working on figuring out how to make sure y’all are recognized for being the coolest knitters ever.

2.  Recaf is going interactive.  Check back after about March.  You’ll see what I mean.  It’s freakin’ cool.

3.  Oak River Township’s finally on the front burner after mid-April.  Until then, there are collections being blended, stories being written, and a team being assembled to help with one of the most awesome concepts we’ve ever attempted.  Every scent tells a story already….just wait until you’re writing them, too.

4.  KnitLife should know about the Smithsonian thing in June.  Which is about the same time as Mountain Sole will be gearing up to launch with patterns and much music and travel journally goodness.

5.  The Gaiman Project, Fates Three, is restructuring the way we’re delivering patterns, and the three of us are talking about when would be a good time to launch that, too.  And there *may* be another author in the works.  I’m getting together with him after the holidays and will know more then, but hooboy…it’d be awesome.

6.  Personally, when I’m not working on all of that stuff (which isn’t often), I’ve got the Chroma thing, inspired by 500 Pencils, that is really freakin’ intriguing.  (See the previous entry for more on that.)  A couple of people with other talents (I’ve got scent and socks covered….) are talking about doing something similar, and while it’s a sporadic/when-you-have-time type thing now, it inspires the living daylights out of me when other people grok the concept and want to play along.  (Wait until you see GoddessJoy’s jewelry on the same themes.  You. Will. Plotz.)

I’m kind of hoping that some scientist somewhere will invent the 40-hour-day in 2010.

I might need it.

Hooboy.

:)

Merry Christmas again, everybody!  Have an extra sugar cookie for me.