The moment I keep promising but am too embarrassed to deliver!
The other day I needed to go to the bank to pay off a loan. I decided I would do that during my lunch hour. There is a branch close by so I thought I would take a quick trip there. When [...]
Archive for August, 2007
30 Aug
My personal bonehead car moment
30 Aug
First day back to school
In 10 years!
and what a change!
I had my first evening of classes yesterday. I had gotten myself into a major panic over absolutely silly things. I couldn’t find my student ID # so I couldn’t print out my schedule so I didn’t know what books I needed or where to go for class. I got [...]
29 Aug
Weight Loss, or how I did it.
I had contemplated losing weight for awhile before I started actively trying. My thought process was unless I was truly committed I was not even going to try. I figured for me it was all or nothing. Then I had some major upheavals in my life and I guess I was just [...]
28 Aug
Before and After
Let’s just compare shall we? First picture taken in November of 2005.
And now? Let’s revisit the latest picture:
27 Aug
Shopping
So, some of you who know me well, already know that I have been seeing someone for a couple of months. I don’t talk about him here. Not because I don’t want to, it would be fun sometimes, but because I get the distinct impression he would not appreciate it. But for [...]
24 Aug
A friend sent me this in an email. Figured it would work well here.
This is kind of fun, I’ll look forward to hearing back from you.
Four jobs I have had in my life:
You name it, I’ve done it.
1. Catering Manager/Event Planner
2. Bartender
3. Planter in a greenhouse which sold wholesale clematis (42 pots planted a [...]
23 Aug
MS3
It is DONE!!!! After whining about it earlier, I decided it must be finished tonight. It is currently blocking on my bed. I am apparently relegated to the couch tonight. Small price to pay for something this beautiful if you ask me:
I cannot wait to wear it tomorrow, pictures to come. [...]
23 Aug
MS3 update
No pictures, at least not yet. All I have to say is that I will never ever ever finish! And my goal is to get it done before labor day weekend. I am about halfway through the last clue, and knitting it in every spare moment including at work where I usually [...]
23 Aug
Ocean
Perhaps her face just tells us how she felt about the ocean! Every wave that came in she just giggled and giggled. Very cute! There is a dock quite a ways out that I love to swim out to and back a couple times for good exercise while I am there. I went out [...]
21 Aug
Sailing
Weaver Aunt has a lovely sailboat. One of my “musts” when I go to visit is to go sailing. The problem is that I seem to bring rain and still weather. The second full day of vacation in New England we were able to get out on the boat. It was Weaver Aunt, PopPop, and [...]
20 Aug
Trip Home
Well I need to start blogging about my trip bit by bit so that I don’t forget it all completely. I’ll start with the airline issues, of which there are many as usual.
Trip out went relatively well. No huge issues or delays. Daughter was great, she worked hard to be a little angel. She got [...]
18 Aug
For Nick, an explanation
A hank, as it generally looks when bought:
Unwound, this is what would go on the yarn swift:
This is what it would look like after using the swift with the ball winder:
16 Aug
Is this really a common problem?
I received an email from my professor today. (No, not the one I am seeing, the one who is teaching my class!) He was basically trying to get the point across that the first class was crucial, and that if we missed the first class then we should drop the class entirely and retake it [...]
15 Aug
Meeting new people!
Yesterday evening I went to a knitting group at a local Borders and met up with 7 other lovely knitting women. (they were lovely and their knitting was lovely!) It is so nice to meet people here with similar interests and whom you feel comfortable with quickly. I can’t wait until next month when we [...]
12 Aug
To tide you over until I have a chance to write…
I give you progress and newly acquired yarn.
You all remember creatures of the reef? Which I have set aside for MS3? Well vacation has been good for the creatures.
You can now see starfish and one school of fish completed. That was plane and car knitting.
MS3 has progressed as well, I am halfway through clue 4 [...]
2 Aug
Vacation
I am off for a bit of vacation starting tomorrow morning. I am sure posting will be light, if I post at all. I will try to take some pictures, and I am sure much knitting shall be accomplished. So there will be good posts once I get back.
My daughter has let me know that [...]
1 Aug
Some things to remember….
Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.
Except when you don’t.
Because sometimes you won’t.
I’m sorry to say so
but, sadly, it’s true
that Bang-ups
and Hang-ups
can happen to you.
You can get all hung up
in a prickle-ly perch.
And your gang will fly on.
You’ll be left in a Lurch.
You’ll come down from the Lurch
with an unpleasent bump.
And the chances [...]
1 Aug
Selling the shirt off my back
Sorta,
About a month ago I came across wisp from knitty and just fell in love.
http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEsummer07/PATTwisp.html
I had just managed to come across some lovely yarn on sale at Tuesday Mornings, which was a totally unexpected find! Trendsetters yarn and it was more than half off. I was so thrilled with the color combo, [...]
