Day 20... Well that started real well...

I set my alarm for 6.30am thinking I could get a better start on a school day, except of course I hit snooze and then off and fell back to sleep until 8, urgh. Ju had an accident, my fault, but at least she was only 5 minutes late to school. We did a military style get up and move today, type thing with no tv and milk in the van instead of right away, we may be changing our regular schedule from now on.

Well errands were run after drop off and then we picked up Ju and ran a few more errands and then home and naps. Ra poot on the potty with asking and everything, awesome. Maybe the potty training thing will happen soon.

Well I have to go get tested for allergies and then off to knit night. Everyone have a great evening.

Day 13... Stupid van...

Eye appointment tonight and then knitting, I have a feeling their going to tell me I need glasses, gut feeling and all that.

Earlier today I went to pick up Ju and the van decided that when I wanted to leave that it decided it didn't want to start, argh. Fortunately my father-in-law was available to give the van a jump. It worked, were going to investigate further.

I'll expand on the post late I just wanted to get in something before I left.

Day 6... Why me...

So I've lost my keys, I can't find them anywhere, I have a spare set but of course there wasn't a house key on them so I ended up being locked out of the house in the rain with four kids. I then had a good idea and called my sister, she has a spare for our house thank goodness. She dropped it off and hid it and I now have it, still havent found the missing keys though, ugh. I wish I knew what I did with them its not like there hard to see, they have a ton of keys and other stuff and a long 4 stranded round braid of red and green leather, ugh.

Now it's almost time for knit night, I still have a wicked sinus/head cold thing going on but what can I do but suck it up and go. Somedays life is just difficult, at least Saturday I get to go out and enjoy myself, and I might get to go to an after party.

Well, I'm off so you all have a great evening if that is your timetable.

Day 7...I'm tired.

My tattoo meeting went well. I'm getting very excited. Knitting was good, I was sneezing a lot last night every time I would smell a strong scent. Very odd. This morning I'm congested, I don't know if it's allergies or sickness, I'm hoping the former for everyone else's sake. Se also has a cold going on so it should be great times this weekend.

I'm so tired right now, I don't even want to knit. I didn't go to bed until 2:30 am and when I laid down I couldn't fall asleep. I had done the grocery shopping after knitting and ran to the w*mart, because Target isn't open all night (i wish), for diapers. Got home, unloaded it all and after getting all the fridge/freezer stuff put away, tried to lay down and go to sleep but it just wasn't happening. I think I'm going to eat my lunch, grab a movie Ju likes and take a nap while she watches the video next to me. I never sleep very heavy when I do this and know if she even attempts to move, but it's some rest. We'll see what happens. Food first and I've already typed way more than I thought I would, so see ya tomorrow.

Day 6... Knit Night

It's my get out of the house free card night. I'm going to run over and have a chat with my tat artist Paully and then I'm off to grab a light (on the pocket book that is) dinner and than relaxation and knitting and coffee. I'm very excited to just go out and not worry about the children (at least not as much) and recharge my burning out batteries.

I made my appointment to go get a massage for the 22nd and I'm very excited to just get pampered. Thank you Mom & Dad and Mom-i-l & Dad-i-l for a great birthday gift, oh and hubby too. :) Very excited!!

Last night My Fair Lady with Rex and Audrey was on TMC with no commercial interruptions, it was awesome. I knit on the shawl and I'm 3 very long rows away from chart A being finished. After that I'll have to pay even more attention to the charts, I hope I get done soon.

Well I got clue 2 to test out so I'm going to go do that.
Chat at y'all soon

Day 3...It's a whiney good time .. argh

So the day start off with a whiny oldest in my face to get up way too early. Now normally she's happy to come cuddle in bed with me but this morning nope no interest. Then all morning she has been progressively naughty, I don't know what it is but she is all attitude and a pain in the ass, so right now its quite time in the house. Normally we hang out and play some games or watch a few tv shows or something just her and I, today she's laying down in my bed because she needs some time to herself in a relatively quite dark place to just chill. I can really only take so much.

I'm trying to do this entrelac thing but so far I'm sucking. This is also supposed to be a test knit but I'm finding out everything as everyone else is because this was all started way too late in the month for a proper test knit. I'm a bit frustrated, lack of communication is also a pisser. argh. I don't know what to do, but I guess I'll just go along with whatever and hope for the best.

I'm also in the process of finishing a second dice bag for my etsy shop and someone on ravelry suggested maybe I sell the pattern for those that want to make their own. I'm mulling that over while I try to get a few more up for sale. So if you have a gamer in you're life please go take a look.

Update...

So to let you know, we had the "plague" last week, which is why I didn't even try to post. I did feel better by Thursday but didn't feel like sitting anymore so I went to Knit Night and stayed away from mostly everyone by at least a foot.

On Sunday, I went out for a few hours because T was gone most of Saturday. I went to The Yarnery and bought a couple discount books, a notion card for my knit bag and some yarn (finally) for my S-i-l and Hubby's (hand knit) (belated) Christmas gifts. Now after I finish the current dice bag I'm making (I'm thinking of selling them), I'll knit those and have them to them hopefully soon, and don't worry I'm still working on the shawl (ravelry link) and will get around to posting pictures one of these days, I'm almost done with chart A, Yippie! It's only a small victory because I still have a lot to do and with the kids jumping all over me all the time it makes it difficult. Speaking of the shawl, I think I'll go work on it now and let the girls watch a movie at the same time, that should keep them entranced for a little bit. I'm thinking The Last Unicorn, it was on sale at Target and I couldn't miss getting it.

Also, one more thing, Nablopomo is doing it again and again, the person that runs this in November every year is now going to do a contest for every month and I signed up. So March will be a heavy post month, with lots of babbling and maybe some random lists, being that's the theme for March.

I'm sleepy...

Well, I'm going to post now because it is technically tomorrow, even though I don't count it as a new day until I sleep. (Residual from working overnights at the casino)

I finished my 2nd thumbless mitten tonight, except for the end weaving, everyone oohed and ahhed over the mittens. No one looked at the inside though to see how well I stranded. Ah well.

You know I think I'm going to rethink this blogging tonight thing and try again in the morning. Sleep well all, sleep fast.

Babble, Babble, ** Sniffle **, Babble...

Well my timing couldn't be any better. I needed to finish a book before tomorrow since it's overdue. And I finished just before midnight, so I can now get my post in. I frogged back and re-charted the thumbless mitts for Ruby, I had screwed up and decided it may be easier if I actually chart it out instead of just guessing, and now I just realized that I need to make another change to get it right, oye. I guess better now than later when I find out too late and get frustrated.

We're still all sick but the ickiness seems to be letting up some. The kids and I still have runny noses but the sneezing is way less and they seem to be in better spirits. Hopefully tomorrow is better, they are still very whiny and it can really grate on the nervous some days especially when I'm sick too.

T seems to be feeling better but this working second shift thing is messing with his internal clock. So I think he would be feeling much better sooner if he was just working his normal schedule. At least I won't miss knit night this week and I'm also hoping to go to the SnB thing on Friday but I'm not sure if it would be the best idea right now. Financially speaking. We'll see what the rest of the week brings.

I plan to get some serious knitting done tomorrow, but it's hard to say because just as much as T's schedule is messed up, so is mine and the kids. I hate it when our schedules get this much disruption, it really messes with things. Especially right after the whole upset of the gone hunting for a week, it can really affect the kids.

Well the months almost done and I'm hoping to keep up posting but I'm not planning on worrying about being before the time of the end of the day. And I'm not going to fret if I may not have enough time on a weekend or weekday, to where I'm down to the wire at 11:59pm hoping the computer will gear up fast enough so that I'm not late. It's been a little stressful making sure I'm here in time.

Also no more shows on after this next week, so I'm hoping that maybe I'll be able to start doing fiber night on Mondays with G1 and G2, hope their still meeting.

Ooo, yarn...

* Orange Crayon, * Green Crayon, * Yellow Crayon, Pink Crayon, Red Crayon, Purple Crayon, Blue Crayon, Lily Pad Multi Essential, Pumpkin Gloss, Nickel Plated 16in Circular Needle Size 0 (2.0mm), Peat Cadena, Wood Needle Tips Size 8 (5.0mm)

* indicates they are discontinuing


This would be the order that is hopefully coming from KnitPicks soon. I plan to knit a blanket as a gift with the crayon; the Lily Pad Essential is for a gift for my dad; the Peat Cadena is for my f-i-l for a gift; and the needles are always needed (the 8s were to try out the wood, and the 0s were an accident :D); and the Gloss is for my hopefully stranded pair of fingerless mitts.

Knit Night was good, I met a new person, Marge, very cool. And we talked about everything under the sun. I got one repeat done on one sock and almost done with one repeat on the other than I'll do the rest of my repeats on one than the other. After that its the heel flaps and I'll be all caught up. No knit night next week and after that holiday party decisions need to be made.

Well I'm off, in more ways than one.

It's very loud today.....

So today has been a day, lots of yelling and screaming (not all bad) but very loud. The tweedels are extra whiny today, I'm figuring they may be growing. Last night I think, no I swear, Se said "Whasthat" just like that. it was awesome and T missed it.

I'm nervous about doing the next part of my Mystery Sock there seems to be a lot of confusion, I'm going to be sure to put in a life line for the cuff. I'm going to switch to magic loop for the leg of the sock because I have the needles for it and I can actually do both socks on their own needles. Should be interesting :D.

I also want to knit another project but I have so many to do that I'm a bit overwhelmed as to where to start. I think I may dig out my calorimetry, although I could also start the mitts for my mom. I still don't know what socks to knit for my m-i-l, I'm going to have to measure her this weekend. Of course, getting her to stay still long enough to do this is near impossible but fingers crossed.

Tonight is my Shire's Business Meeting, and than off to knitting and I'm going to bring my spinning wheel and maybe even get a lesson. We'll see if I do this or not but I'll try. I also need to get the ingredients for a pie, of course I have no idea what I'm making yet, that's my next goal before I leave. So I'm off to do that and listen to my tweedles whiny away, oye I've got a headache.

Day 2... almost missed it.

So I'm downstairs watching Scrubs and realized its 11:15pm and I haven't blogged yet, so here I am.

Today was one of those days, the kids testing their limits, T home but not able to really help because he was busy getting ready for the hunting season and getting the truck fixed. And me with a headache and a dead phone so I over slept and had to deal with that aftermath, fortunately the kids were still kind of sleepy when I got up, so I guess we all slept in.

I took a bunch of photos today of current projects for Ravelry and to do a needle recovery operation. I didn't get any knitting done, but I will for surely be knitting on Sunday. That's the day that I get to get out of the house on my own cause hubby feels bad that I was cooped up with the kids for most of the weekend for the third weekend in a row. I figure its just par for the season and I appreciate that he tries.

Knit night was good last night, lots of conversation and lots of me not shutting my mouth even when I know I should. I just crave the verbal communication that I tend to get a little overzealous sometimes. It's something that needs work and I've broken it down to something that really only happens every couple of months, so I seem to be improving, at least from my end I think I am. Other than that Knit Night was good, tomorrow I'm writing up the info for our Holiday get together, we have a lot more people in the group this year so it should really be fun.

Well I'm going to go veg some more and I'll be seen you tomorrow.

Dios de los Muertos

So I'm going to attempt to do the National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo) this month. I'm hoping to really do well, I saved some FOs to blog on days that feel like there will be nothing to blog.

Also today is Day of the Dead, so please stop and give a thought to all those that have passed on and hope they are in a better place, or at the very least no where at all (if you don't believe in that kind of thing). The dead live in our memory, so maybe share a tale of a beloved passed family member, it may just feel like they are with you again, even if it's just for the moment.

The monkeys went out last night, they did real well but it was pretty chilly. Se came home before the rest finished, he kept trying to abandon ship and T got frustrated. The kids hit a few more blocks/houses and than came home with their little hands and cheeks chilly. We had way less trick or treaters this year and of course over bought the candy, oye. Guess I'll have some sweets to eat.

Well not much else is happening here, it's Knit Night tonight and I'll be tired tomorrow but I'll be sure to post. Maybe this will become a habit and I'll actually keep it up.

AON: Fingerless Mitts for a friend and Scarves for the twins