checking in....and a surprise

Sorry for dropping off the face of the earth...school and work, we're in the home stretch for the year, i've just to got survive until next thursday and I'm done with work until 2008 and the first draft of the final paper is due that night as well.  Its going to be undergoing some major revisions during the break before the official revision after its review just because..speaking of which if anyone of you have some good insight on Shirley Jackson's Haunting of Hill House and the female gothic drop me a line....

this is the state of my desk...the work box is off to the side.

articles and books for the papers, one of J's xmas presents, my application for matriculation shoved along side, can we say a bit chaotic.

Any who, I have a surprise to show you.  I treated myself to something, something that was a once in a life time 'you've got to be kidding me' double take. 

its a box, kinda big right?  It got here wednesday ahead of the snow storm.

look what it says on the box....spin wheel.  That's pretty obvious right, well here's the surprise...

Can you guess who made the wheel...

its not made by  a mass wheel producer, and not made by someone who I owned a wheel from up to now...

Here's my surprise, I am now the ecstatic owner of a Magnus Drudik Wheel!  She's made out of solid myrtle wood and has ratios of 5.8: all the way to 30:1. She's used, but in perfect condition, someone needed to part with her and I just happened to be paying attention on the spin-sales list at the right moment.  The general consensus is that Magnus has stopped making wheels, or the wait list is so long (even though I "think" my name is on it) that it would never happen.

She's been named Priscilla by my MIL and FIL (because she came a similar way that Elvis the dining room set came).  That huge box, my FIL made for her to be shipped to me in.  Here's santa's helper at work...

They sent me this picture to show me how they were putting the crate together after I explained to them what needed to be done.  Thanks Guys!

And she spins like a dream...I have to hand it to Magnus, he knows what he's doing.  Aside from my Wyatt Wheel, this the only other wheel I've ever been able within five minutes of setting it up to get lace weight on.

I'm just itching to sit and play with it more than this, but work and that friggin paper come first....December 21st can' get here quick enough.

Comments

[Margaret]

Wow! What a beautiful wheel! If I were you I'd be dying to finish work/school so I could play with her!

And I love the photo of FIL building the crate, he looks like he was really enjoying himself with the project.

Have a great time spinning . . . . just don't forget to eat ;)

[Kimberly]

Beautiful! Just the thing to reward yourself with for all your hard work. Pace yourself, do what you need to and enjoy your break.
I can't spin right know - vertigo and things going round and round do not mix. But vertigo is a great motivator to get out UFO's and make them into FO's.