What to do... What to do....

So here's the dilema, I love my kids but kinda want to get back out into the work force. My kids are 4 (soon to be 5), 3.5, 3.5, and 2. One is in preschool right now, the other two are gearing up for it next school year and then it will just be the boy and I until the year after that pre-school for him and then school for him, in what thats 2 school years, 3 year years away. But here's the thing, there is a position well suited to my strengths in business and its a very limited chance to get it, I want it but at what expense. I want my kids to go to a certain pre-school, but I also wouldnt mind working, especially with the current economy. Of course, this would all depend on if the pay was right and I could find a day care with in a certain budget. But if we do day care then it would be no pre-school where I want them to go. UGH. I'm so confused. I'm going to call tomorrow and find out about the job, maybe right there this will all end, but then again it could be that I'm even more tempted to leave the home. Why couldnt this have waited one more year, things would have worked out much better then.

Happy

Samhain and Halloween

May your candy be sweet and your gathering fun.

We're not going to be home this year to hand out candy because T and I both want to take the kids out. Should be interesting with all of us sick. I guess we just wont be out for long.

Had knit night last night, good times for the most part. Hopefully all that didn't show are well. I wasn't going to but ended up at WallyWorld and bought a pattern and some electric orange fleece to make the pup a coat for hunting/going outside at the in laws during hunting season. Bonus I'll be able to see her when it snows too.

So the colds continue in the house, Se started coughing, Ju is still running her nose, T is getting up in the middle of the night to cough which in turn makes it hard for me to go to sleep when I'm coming to bed at 2am. Ugh, now I just need some food and caffeine (black tea, I'm to lazy to make coffee) And today is a holiday so I was planning to carve our pumpkins and roast seeds and make some kind of pie or whatever. We'll see what happens.

Everyone please be safe tonight.

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 4... Good times...

So good times with entrelac, I finally figured it out, just a little bit left to do for day 1. Still a bit frustrated, I'm supposed to be test knitting and it's been tough. I don't have the second clue yet and it's only 3 more days until its supposed to be released. Argh.

Kids were way better today. A lot less whining went on, now to take care of the hubby. It was fight night tonight and he's got a bunch of bruises from the swinging of swords. Good times, good times.

Well you all have a great evening, I'll try to be more entertaining tomorrow.

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.

Day 2... totally sucking it.

Time to blog again, i'm starting off to a shaky start this time. Not much to say. Hung out with the guys today, roleplaying. Started the enterlac part of the sock but not sure what to do next. 1/2 finished another dice bag for sale. And hung out with friends. I'm tired now and just need to sleep, I'll post tomorrow with hopefully some pics.

Day 1

The start of the blog all month, time to party.

Late to the bridal party I was due at and then had a good time roleplaying.

Did some knitting, test knit, just taking a short break on the shawl, I made a promise and I need to keep it.

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.

Will you be My Valentine? :P

I'm still kind of in a funk, I think it's all the weather and lack of funds to do anything outside the house. We have our last shire meeting tonight, it's sad but hopefully we can get things going again after some time away to breath. We still have a yahoo group for if we ever want to get back together for anything. The webpage is officially down, but I have everything saved on the external HD so if we want to begin again we haven't lost everything.

I've got over 8000 stitches done on the shawl but that's barely 10% and that really sucks. So I'm off to go do some more knitting, I'm hoping to be done with chart A by tomorrow evening, we'll see what fate brings my way before then.

Oh yeah, and Happy Valentine's Day to all of you, I don't expect much on today because our anniversary for when we started dating is on the 18th and I always figured that was more important (12 years can you believe it, I can't) so Happy V day to all of you.


Here's a little romance music...

I love this song

I'm still Alive.....

So I'm still around, just been uber busy. After the all the holiday hub-bub, I'm still not done with all my holiday knitting. I got into the cold weather post holiday blues and haven't felt like doing much other than playing my new Nintendo DS and doing a little knitting. I had a birthday come and go, I'm now 27. On the weekends we've been RPGing which has been great fun, we plan to play again on Super Bowl Sunday, since the Packers won't be playing.

This weekend, Saturday, was awesome. I went to an SCA event by myself and had a great time. I bought a new simple tunic dress for $2.00 at a rumble sale and bought T a t-shirt for $10 (I think) and the best thing of all. I got a new card weaving inkle loom from a gentleman that makes them. When I was at the event, I finally after almost a year of carring my loom from gulf wars around, I got someone to show me how to use my loom and how to warp it. Of course, my loom is not as nice as I thought it was going to be, it's falling apart, **tear**, and the gentleman that makes them felt bad for me and gave a much finer piece of equipment. I also learned that the yarn I had purchased for a belt wasn't the best, when I got home it broke right next to the weaving and was unrepairable as far as I know. I may try that yarn again when I've got this whole thing figured out, but until them kitchen cotton and wool-ease should work well, I have tons of both. My next search is for some patterns I know how to read, I have the Card Weaving book by Interweave press but I'm not sure how it works with the loom I have, so I'm going to be asking about that soon, but for now an internet search should find me something simple enough. I very excited, I warped on my own yesterday morning some red and blue kitchen cotton and made a belt by last night. It's a little short for me and T but I'm sure a kid could use it or even a thin adult, but I'm really thinking it might make a great handle for a bag, since the ends aren't real pretty. I don't want to give it away because it's my first official card weaving finished project, so we'll see what happens, pictures soon I promise :D.

Well the tweedles are about to make a huge mess, so see you soon.

No more every day, but I'll try to do better...

I'll have some finished project posts for you in the next couple of days. I started Se's mittens before the Debbie Stoller thing friday night and finished them this evening. I actually did the 2nd mitten in one day. Pretty awesome.

Well I didn't win in the contest for NaBloPoMo, but that's nothing new, I used all of that kind of luck up when I was a kid. It was still a great experience, and quite the challenge. I'm going to try to post more than I used to, but I'm not going to do that everyday thing, no way. I have way to much knitting to do.

Speaking of knitting to be done, I was going to do a toe up design for my m-i-l for the holidays but I changed my mind and I'm going to do a top down instead. I just don't have the time to commit to a new technique right now with all the holiday knits that need to be done.

Well I'm off to bed, see ya all real soon.

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.

I hate being Th*ick...

Man, I hate being sick, it gets old real fast. I only knit a few rows tonight, I really need to get my knit on. And I need to ask the hubby about Friday night and going to the Maplewood Mall to go see Debbie Stoller. I hope I can go.

Not much happening on the sickly front, the kids still feel lousy and so do mommy and daddy. Se has learned how to say "NO" quite well and also "Stop", which his sisters say to him quite regularly. Silly boy.

I'm hoping to feel well enough tomorrow to get some knitting done and get some pictures taken. I have some yarns that aren't shown with a pic on Ravelry and I would like to remedy that and my project photos.

Oh Man, I can not get the sneezes to go away, I hate sneezing. I think I blew out part of my back from sneezing so much, argh. Well I'm falling asleep typing this so I'm going to go finish cleaning the dining room and go to bed. Night all.

Quarantine Zone...

Wow, squeaking this one right on the wire. I've been sick all day and feel absolutely lousy, the kids aren't feeling well either so it's been real fun. T came home and he's still feeling yucky, so we're a fun bunch to be around. I'm thinking the house needs to be on quarantine. The kids and I, watched the Hallmark channel all afternoon and had a nap earlier on.

No knitting to speak of today, I'm feeling so achy that I just didn't want to pick up the needles. I'm hoping I'll feel better tomorrow and that this cold will kick it before Thursday. I had a dentist appointment on Wednesday, but I'm feeling lousy enough that I'm going to move the appointment again so I don't get anyone at the dentist office sick as well.

Hope everyone had a lovely weekend, may you all feel better than I and my family. I'm off to bed to hopefully kick this cold.

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ETA: I just noticed that Blogger offers down to seconds of when your blog is posted but doesn't actually add/account for the seconds at all. So it show the time as 11:45:**, ** being whenever the seconds would be but only ever shows no matter how many seconds, 11:45:00, very odd.

...Cheeckan Good...

Today we had oatmeal again, the kids love it, and I didn't over salt this time so things were good. The monkeys played their hearts out this morning and all laid down for naps at their regular times, it was great. I cleaned up my desk and the kitchen (some more) and started another holiday gift. This one is the scarf for my Gran, I wanted to get it started and the pattern figured out so I could have it as a take along knit. And if I don't think it's long enough, I found some places that sell the yarn and colorway.

For dinner the kids and I had chicken pre stuffed with wild rice stuffing, white rice (there wasn't a ton of stuffing and the kids aren't big fans of it either) and mixed veggies. Se's teeth were hurting so bad he didn't want to eat dinner, so he ended up with baby food, he was hungry, he just didn't want the dinner I made.

Before dinner and after naps, Courtney stopped by again with her Peanut, and the babes had a bawl playing and running around. I showed Courtney the wonders of Ravelry and we talked about some books we both like. Good times, I love it when people visit, it's a definite sanity break.

T is home from hunting, no deer yet. Hope he gets some soon. I missed him and so did the kids, Ju even told him so on her own. She's such a smart girl, I sure do love those kids. And I love T, too.

Not much knitting got done but if you look to your right side of the screen, you will see I've added a new section called Patterns. These are patterns I've created that you all can share, just don't claim them as your own, Thanks.

Of course, it would help if I knew how to add pdf files. Anyone??


ETA: Figured it out, googled it and found the answer I was looking for. :D

Another late night talk with me...

So I'm definately on a late night strike, I just seem to have trouble sleeping lately, don't know if it's the moon or my coming period or just day to day craziness but it helped get some knitting done tonight.

I worked on my Nov Mystery Socks, both cuffs are done and the first row of the second clue (leg of the sock), I plan to work on the pattern tomorrow, doing one repeat on one sock and than doing the same to the other. I'm now knitting them both on separate magic loop needles, I did the cuff on dpns. I'm loving the look of this pattern and can't wait to get them done so I can wear them. This is great fun, and my first time hopefully finishing a pair for the sock-a-long.

I also want to make myself a couple of sets of these. They are so cool, I just need to figure out a knitted version, but it shouldn't be too tough. I have some ideas I'm going to try out real soon.

I was also surfing the web and found some really neat needle holders and thought, I could make those, shoot I have a bunch of fat quarters I originally was going to make into a quilt that would work great. Now I just need to do it. I also found these really cool dpn holders that I'm now going to have to sew up.

Well off to bed I go, see you all tomorrow.

PS I officially finished my Calorimetry, I sewed on the button today.

FO :: Calorimetry and one Crazy day...

Well I finished my Calorimetry other than sewing on a button, this evening during Heroes. It fits a little better than the last one, now to find just the right button.

I'm posting uber late tonight because I got sucked into tv land, damn time sucking vortex. I really need to learn to just turn it off earlier. I would have knit more after I finished the Calorimetry but my hands were hurting last night and tonight when I knit, I think it was the yarn.

The children were insane again this evening, Ra was being extra naughty all day today. She was pushing every button she could, figuratively and literally. I love my children but they can some days really know how to push, fortunately when they get like that I don't overreact I tend to more often get calm and just send them to the coroner and than call my hubby and tell him they are driving me nutty. Or I go and knit and calm down before I have a talk with her. I know she's only 2 and some change so I try not to be unreasonable, but no means no and she has enough chances to stop that she should at least get the whole stop doing it thing. I count and that usually works but not today with her, she is a stubborn one just like her daddy and mommy. I'm just happy I can look back and laugh now. I sure do love those goofy kids.

Se is learning to push now too, he loves to pull all the pans off their shelf when I'm in the kitchen cooking, oye.

Well tomorrow I plan to work on my socks and hopefully find the large amount of missing yarn that is all for one project, argh.

Night all.

If I could be sweet.....

So I'll do a couple photos today for my post. Later I'm going shopping with my mom, we're just going to get out of the house together with the kids. It should be nice, now that I no longer live there, we fight way less. That's not to say that we don't fight, but it's like a once a year thing instead of 30 times a day thing (just so you know that was an exaggeration), I guess were a lot a like, I just like to think I'm cooler and way less annoying. Which means that I have the same view every child has of their parents, they are so not cool and they embarrass us, not that she does that anymore. But on another tangent, I'm going to show you some pics and explain them as the month goes by:


Or Not, the server is down and the kids are being insane so I'll try again later for the pics.

AOTN: Fetching for a Friend, November Mystery Socks, and a bunch of UFOs that should be.

(AOTN = Actively On The Needles)

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.