300!?!?!?!

Nick says his momma is crazy for doing this stuff. lol I took that picture a few days ago before giving the kid a hair cut. He looks much better now. lol

And yes, this is my 300th post! More details on that at the bottom along with the crappy contest info.

Here is the bright ass yarn that I'm going to make a scarf with. Believe me, in person, this yarn is much brighter. Almost neon looking. I've got a black coat, so I'm not worried about matching colors. I'm pretty sure that it's from Fearless Fibers. She does some really amazing colors.

Now a bit of advice. There is an eBay store called Knittems. You might be tempted to buy one of their huge 2 lb "skeins" of yarn. Don't do it!!! Well not unless you have a huge, I mean huge, swift to hold the yarn. Otherwise you are going to end up with this.

Yes, that is all the same skein of yarn. This is after winding off a huge ball of yarn already. I'm not sure where I packed it away in the closet or I would have taken a picture of it too. Anyways, the yarn turns into a total mess of a knot no matter what I have tried to do. It started out as a nicely tied skein, but once it was untied, the "fun" began. Did I mention that I've been winding yarn off of this for at least 6 months? It's probably been closer to a year. I had to pack it away for awhile there. Someday, I'm hoping that this will turn into a sweater or even a twin set. I'm not going to hold my breath though. hehe

And now for the fun stuff. The contest.

The first person to comment on this here post, will receive this lovely skein of sock yarn.

It's from RubySapphire Yarns and handpainted by Lauri in Lavender Rose. I've bought several skeins of their yarn and it is yummy and very soft. This skein is approximately 4oz/420 yards of sport weight Merino.

I tell ya, I'm half tempted to keep this skein and dig out one of the big name brands and give that away. Goodness knows I've got lots of that hidden away too. hehe Contrary to the amount of pink and purple yarn I seem to buy, I really don't wear those colors much. I need to stick to the blues and greens. For some reason lately though, I've been really attracted to autumn colors though. Not sure why though. I'm not a big fan of brown or orange. heh

Anyways, I'm gonna go pass out now. I carbed out at dinner and I'm pooped now. Ok, now someone please leave me a nice comment and make sure you have an email address included. If I can't contact you, I can't send ya the yarn now can I? hehe Toodles!

Is it me?

Or is the blogging world a little quiet right now?

Not a whole lot to report here. I ripped back the purple baby hat because I forgot I wasn't making a preemie hat and boy howdy was it short. hehe I'm about halfway done with the decreases. Maybe I'll have pictures later.

I would have had the hat done, but I decided to work on the pink sweater. I do believe I've managed to teach myself how to knit backwards with a bit of speed and accuracy. I would have gotten more done on the darn thing if I the yarn wasn't so splitty. I keep finding spots where the yarn has split and there is a stitch made only with part of the strand. So, I had to keep dropping stitches back and fixing them. I've actually gotten pretty good at that too. hehe

I know I mentioned a contest the other day. Not that anyone asked me for details or anything. :OP This here post makes 299 posts. I'm thinking that if someone, anyone, comments on my next post, I'll just have to give the first person something. That is assuming someone actually comments. I think I'll have to get the big tote out from under the bed and see what pretty sock yarn I can come up with.

I'm thinking I need to make myself another scarf. This time out of wool. I've been wearing an old acrylic scarf I made a few years back and I'm really just loving it. It is super long and I can wrap it around my head twice, but it just isn't very soft. I think I have some bright yellow and bright green sock yarn in the tote. Maybe I can combine the two and get a bright ass funky scarf out of it. hmmm

Lots to do, lots to do.

Bout time

The laundry job is finally done!! I'm going to miss the ladies that I was working with, but I will NOT miss the job itself. The job was hell on my back.

Turns out I may not have to miss a few of the ladies too much. I've got a line on a part time job at the medical facility that is attached to the hospital. It is 2 or 3 nine hour days a week helping patients sign in and get to their appointments. I've got to call the lady at the temp agency and see about doing orientation. Hopefully, if I do get the job, I'll be able to have lunch with a couple of the ladies that I really got along with. :O)

In knitting news, I've started a baby hat in Caron Sayelle in Spring Blossoms Ombre (0391). A distant cousin is having a baby and they are pretty sure they are having a girl. The mom's favorite color is purple, so hopefully she will like the hat. I want to make a pair of booties too, but I'm not sure if I have a pattern that uses worsted weight yarn. I may just wing it with a toe up generic sock. Cross your fingers that the little dear will be able to wear them before she is 2 years old. hehe

I got out the nifty knitter and I'm working on a hat for myself. I've got a huge head, so I'm using the burgundy loom and 2 strands of white acrylic. It's left over yarn from Nick's sweater that I got off of eBay. Hopefully it will fit. If not, then Nick will just have another hat to wear. If it doesn't fit him, I'll just have to save it for donation at some point or another.

I still haven't gotten my other hard drive all set up. I can't seem to get it to see my modem. It works just fine on this hard drive tyvm. heh I think I'll reformat it again since I haven't actually installed much of anything on there yet. I finally got rid of the viruses on this darn drive, so I think I'll just use this one for my craft stuff. I'll move all the graphics programs and such onto the larger hard drive. If I can't get the internet working, I'll see if I can't find a 40gb or less external hard drive that I can transfer files on.

Once again my mail at Yahoo is locked up. I can't open anything received since yesterday afternoon. Why is it that this only happens on the account I pay for?? I've got a couple free accounts that I've never had a problem with. If my isp account would actually download with any sort of speed, I would go back to having this account be a free one. But unfortunately, my isp mail is twice as slow to download as my Yahoo account. sigh I swear I need to get out of this one horse town and get a cable connection. heh

Ok, I'm off to work on my hats.

OH BOY! OH BOY! OH BOY!

I am in nerd girl heaven here!!!! take a peak I'm a huge huge fan and this would make me so so so so happy!!!!

Knitting?

Yup, I've still been knitting. Not as much as I would like though. I'm starting to think I just need to cut back on the number of groups I'm in or switch them all to digest form.

I put a few rows on the pink sweater tonight. I'm thinking the pattern is in Big Knits or More Big Knits. I'm at the boring stockinette part, so I haven't actually looked at the pattern in a bit. hehe

This part was much more fun. I'm looking forward to getting to the front so I can do it again.

Although, I do have another cone of this yarn and I'm sure I can find another pair of circs to work with. hehe Who am I kidding? I would get the fun part done and then have two parts halfway done. hehe One piece at a time, sweet Jesus. heh

Got my hard drive back from my bro, but I won't be trying to connect it until tomorrow. In fact I'm bout ready to fall asleep right now. Better toss the wash in the dryer first or there will be no work pants for tomorrow. hehe

Talk about scary

I was sitting here reading email when I heard a strange beeping. I asked Nick if he knew what it was. He had no clue. I went out in the living room and couldn't hear it out there.

When I came back in my room I could hear it again. I shrugged it off assuming that it was my neighbor's alarm clock.

Then it hit me. It sounded just like our smoke alarms!! So I got dressed and went over and banged on her door.

Turns out that she was warming up her car in the garage and didn't open the door up all the way. The carbon monoxide detector was going off and she couldn't turn it off. She ended up having to call the maintenance guy. He is a nice guy and came over to check to make sure mine hadn't gone off too.

For about a minute there I was pretty damn scared. I've got tons of stuff in this house and if there was a fire it would go up like a tinderbox. shiver

hmmmmm

I've done a bit of cleanup on the ole blog. I removed my digital pets. I've saved the code or them and I'll make a little page for them later. I can't put them in a post because blogger doesn't allow javascript in a post. In the template is fine but not in a post. Ummmm ok whatever. heh

I also went back through to count up how many comments I've gotten on this crappin blog. Turns out I've had 211 comments on 293 posts. Doesn't sound too bad until I realized that most of my comments occurred in 2005. I would get 3 or 4 comments on each post. Any more I'm lucky if I get 1 comment on 1 out of every 5 posts. lol I guess I'm slipping.

Nobody loves me any more!!!! wwwwwhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaa

hehehehehehe

Well the major thing that has cut into my comments is that my biggest 2 commenters aren't in the blog world any more. Jon has gone and gotten him a man and deleted his blog. I can't even express how much I miss that boy. Anyone heard from him?? Laura still has a blog, but she hasn't posted in months and months. But, she has found a new calling in life with the Preemie Project.

Oh well. I'm just gonna have to start commenting on all the blogs that I read a little more often. Maybe they will come visit me too. hehe I read a lot of blogs, but I don't comment nearly as much as I should.

Btw, I wasn't able to find a dentist to see me today. I'll give my regular guy a call on Monday, but he isn't going to be happy with me. It has been far too long since I've visited him. He is a sweet guy but I have a phobia about dentists. Just have to be careful to chew on the left until I can get in to see him.

Well, I'm gonna go work on my gloves and then hit the sack. I'm pooped. I'm still thinking on which yarn to pony up to one of the few people who stop by here. Definately going to be sock yarn. Most likely something I got off of eBay or Etsy. We shall see. We shall see.

Someone up there hates me

I was sitting here a few minutes ago eating an ice cream cone and the fates smacked me in the head. Yes I admit, I didn't need the ice cream, but I was hungry for something sweet. I shouldn't have touched it because it was the last one and I should have left it for my son.

But nnooooooooo I had to eat it.

And now I have a broken tooth.

About 9 years ago, I had 2 root canals done but I never had the money to have the crowns put on. I hadn't had one single problem with them in all this time.

Until now....

The back of one of the teeth is loose and wiggling all over.

I have no clue if there are any dentist's offices open tomorrow. None of the dentists in the yellow pages says that they are available on an emergency basis or are open on the weekend. I haven't seen my regular dentist in quite some time. I wouldn't doubt it if he wouldn't see me. I know one time I got hurt and knocked my front teeth backwards and he just was sick that he didn't get my call.

gaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I need to get my shit together and figure out what I have left after my bills are paid off and file my damn taxes. I have another tooth that is broken and I know he will insist on fixing that one too.

Excuse me while I go and have another drink and thank God that I don't grind my teeth.

One more day???

HA!!!

I suppose I should be flattered that I'm in such demand. Somehow, it doesn't make me all warm and fuzzy. Seriously, I think she just doesn't want to train someone for just one week of work.


The good news is that I won't be going in until 8:30. The bad news is that I'll be working until at least 3:30. I'm glad I'll have more time with the ladies at work. I do really like several of them.

Just a taste of the chill here in Iowa.

The neighbor lady finally decided to shovel part of her side of the driveway. I say part, because there is still a large portion full of snow near our garage doors. Something is better than nothing.

No new knitting pictures. I just haven't added much length to the scarf and I haven't worked on anything else. I do need to make a baby hat and some booties for a cousin. Her favorite color is purple and so far they are pretty sure they are having a girl. No sight of a winkie in any of the ultrasounds. I've got some variegated Caron Sayelle in a purple and cream color.

Nothing else of interest to report. Hopefully this weekend I'll be rebuilding my computer and I really need to get some housework done. Mom will be bringing the kid home after school all this week and as the house is now, she would freakin kill me. She is a total neatnik. I am not. hehe

Ok, I'm off to watch the news and eat a little dinner.

One

more

day

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Give me strength to survive it.

2 days

2 more stinking days. Then it is freedom!!!!

Finally got the whole kid getting to school problem. Not before I had a total freak out.

Turns out my mom didn't actually get permission to take the kid to school each morning.

I found this out at 5:30 this morning while driving to work.

Turns out Dad is working the overnight shift and will be home before Mom has to leave for work. So, the kid is spending the night at my folks house. Dad will be taking the kid to school.

I have no clue what I'll be doing next week. I'm actually hoping for a few days off. I need to recover from all this 4am shit.

I'm gonna miss the gals that I've been working with. I intend to give at least one of them my email address. I'm trying to infect her with the fiber love. hehehe She knows how to crochet and has knit in the past. I gave her two skeins of silver fun fur shit to make a scarf with along with a scarf that I knit up for my sister in law but never gave her. I've been trying to show her again how to cast on. She has a baby blanket she wants to get finished for a friend of hers first though.

Susie just had a contest on her blog. I jokingly asked if that was how people got all the comments, running contests. She told me I should run a contest on here. lol It might happen. This is post 291. Maybe I'll give something away when I hit 300 posts. I'm sure any comments I might actually get would be from someone who's blog I read since only about 5 people actually read my blather. lol All I know, is that whoever does win better like sock yarn. I've got more sock yarn than I could ever knit up.

Anyways, it's time to hit the sack. Might leave the tv on so I can watch LOST. Love that show.

Night, night.

pictures

Decided to play around with the new camera a little bit.

First my finished green socks.

The heel on the left one does fit. I just didn't pull the sock on all the way I guess.

The foot detail.

Instep/heal area.



And the blue scarf I'm working on. Skein included to show scale.


Close up.


I only did a little editing on the brightness and contrast. I didn't touch the hue and it is pretty true for both the socks and the scarf. And yes, I crocheted the afghan in the background. It is done in the afghan stitch with Lion Brand Homespun. The stuff pills like shit but it is soft and warm and that is the only thing that really matters.

So, is this camera a lil better than the old one? lmao

Excuse me while I cry

Life is trying to kick my ass.

For starters, it is freaking freezing here in Iowa. -10 before you add in the windchill. They delayed school 2 hours today and it looks like it will be delayed 2 hours again tomorrow.

The babysitter's car has died. She snuck the kid onto the school bus this morning, but we have no clue if they will let him ride the rest of the week. Mom has to be to work by 7:30, so she can't take him to school. Soooooo if they won't let him ride the bus, I have to say see ya to the job I've got right now. Well that is unless they don't mind me coming in at 8:30. Yeah right!!

Speaking of cars, my blower motor is going out. About 70% of the time, I have no heat in the car. Did I mention that it is -10 here??? bbbbbbbrrrrrrrrrrrrrr I really need to call my lil bro and find out if he is able to replace it for me. I would rather give him some money than a garage that will take me for all they can get.

To top it off, Nick just called me into the living room. There is no picture on the tv. There is sound, but no picture. uuunnnnnggggghhhhhhhhh It's about 7 years old. The tv in Nick's room is about 15 yrs old and still works just fine. I do believe his tv is gonna be going into the living room for awhile.

Cross your fingers that the kid can get to school tomorrow. So long as he can get to school, I can work the rest of the week. Now, I'm gonna go take a shower so the kid won't hear me throwing a hissy fit. sigh

Wheeee!!!

Bought myself a new camera finally. I haven't played with it much yet, so no pictures to show. It was already dark before I got home. I'll have to play with it tomorrow. I know I owe y'all a picture of the finished green socks.

No new knitting news. I just lazed around today. I might play around with the gloves idea in a bit. Or i just might head to bed. hehe Someday I'll be able to stay awake past 9:30 without turning into a zombie. lol

well crud

Turns out the laundry job isn't done. The boss asked me to come back next week. The kid is not happy with me. I promised him this morning that he wouldn't have to get up so early any more.

Whooops!

The other temps are not coming back. I'm the lucky one. That is because they trained me on a bunch of the jobs there. They gave up on trying to train the guys on how to do anything. Talk about some slow pokes. Neither one could find his own ass with a map and a flashlight.

It's also looking like the one chick that I can't stand at the laundry might just get her ornery ass fired. She has been getting yelled at a whole lot the last week. When I left today she was in the office again getting her ass chewed out. bwaaahhhaahhhhaaahhhhaaaaa Who knows, maybe they will offer me her job since they have me more than half trained to do it. hehe

Nothing much new in the knitting news. I finally spliced on a second skein of the blue alpaca and added a few inches to the blue scarf before taking my usual nap during the news. lol I'm also seriously thinking about making myself a pair of gloves. I'm not thinking about something real thick, maybe just something to wear under my leather work gloves that I wear for driving. I've got some rainbow Hot Sox sock yarn that I'm putzing with. I had half a sock done in it and I ripped it out last night. I know I would never ever wear the rainbow socks. hehe

Out of curiosity, do any of y'all have a paid Yahoo email account? It seems like every 4 months or so I'm unable to open new emails for about 4 or 5 days. Doesn't matter if I restart my computer and clear out the temp files. Doesn't matter if I use a different browser. I can open up the new spam mail but not my regular mail. Pisses me off. Plus, I have other free accounts with Yahoo and I can read the mail just fine. It's just the paid account that is fubar. sigh

Oh well, time to hit the sheets. Need to hit the stores tomorrow. Found out I've got almost $300 on my food stamps card that is about to expire. I had no clue at all that it was on there. I haven't gotten any food stamps in a year. Gonna stock up on spaghetti o's and chicken nuggets for the kid. heh

good news ... bad news

Ok, so the good news is kinda bad too but I think the good outweighs the bad. The laundry job is done tomorrow. :O) Yes, I'll be out of a job, but I also won't have to be getting up at 4 in the freaking morning.

Nick has NOT been dealing well with being woke up at quarter after 5 every day. Each morning this week he has complained about still being tired when I get him dressed. He has also been acting up at school. Not getting his work done. Sticking his tongue out at his teacher. Still trying to kill himself. hehe He came in from playing yesterday with a freaking fat lip!! I swear I can't take him out in public for fear the cops will question me about abusing him. I don't even spank the boy.

He isn't the only complete klutz in the house either. I've got the cuts and bruises to prove it. :P

When I went to get out of bed this morning, I completely lost my balance. I wasn't dizzy or anything but I didn't even make it standing straight up before I fell over. I've got a large scrap/cut on my left shoulder from hitting my small dresser. I also pulled a muscle in my back. I didn't realize until later that I bruised my hand up too. As if my left hand isn't usually painful enough without adding a bruise into the mix.

Plus, I'm getting a damn cold. sigh I keep saying it is some sort of sinus deal. I'm all stuffed up and my sinuses are killing me. I've had a huge headache all day. So either I have a sinus infection, or a cold. Not sure which one is worse. heh

I was hoping to get my other hard drive back this weekend. My brother is saying I'll get it next weekend. :O( The one I'm using has viruses on it and I can't seem to get rid of them. Not all of my programs will work. I was able to reinstall some of them, but not all will work. It's just drivin me bonkers.

Anyways, I figure I'm just going to enjoy having a few days off of work. Hopefully the temp agency will have me back to work sometime next week, but frankly at the moment, I wouldn't care if I had a week off and could sleep in until 7am. hehehe

cool

Yeah baby!!

I found the light blue alpaca!!

Now I can actually work on my scarf again.

I also found some baby yarn hiding in a few spots I hadn't looked in in a while. hehe More hats and booties on the way. wheeeee!!

whaaaa

What does an 84 yr old need with 254 million??? Hope he intends to share with his kids.

Wonder if he wants to adopt a daughter? hehehe

bbppppppllllllllllllllttttttttt

No pictures yet. No, I didn't ask Mom to borrow the camera. Frankly, I think she is mad at me about something or other. I'm not really sure what though.

She just seems annoyed with me whenever I'm around her. When I try to talk to her, she cuts me off. If I make small talk, she tells me she isn't interested. Tonight we were watching Funny Home Videos and I made a comment about a clip. Her response was to tell me that she wasn't watching the show. Hard to do when you are sitting on a couch that faces the tv and you are turned towards the tv itself. shrug

I did see a camera on sale in the KMart ad. Once I get the bills paid, I'll see if I have enough left over to pick it up. I'm sure that as cheap as it is, it won't take great pictures, but anything is better than that pos I have. I won't even bother to try and take pictures with it any more. They just aren't clear enough to bother with.

I did rip out the utilitarian shawl and started over again. I'm almost back to where I was. It's worsted weight acrylic worked up on size 10 needles. I'm sure that if I sat down and worked on it for any length of time that I could finish it quickly. I usually just work on it while sitting at the pc waiting for pages to load. Have I mentioned lately how much dial-up sucks? I did? Oh, ok. But seriously, it does suck. A lot.

Ok, I'm off to read more e-mail. Since I can't download any of it, I have to try and keep the darn volume down a little bit. The new hard drive is formatted, but my brother didn't bring it home this weekend. So, it will be next weekend before I can install it. Oh joy.

My life is a mess

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I HATE getting up at 4am for work. It is just wearing on me. Every night I fall asleep during the 5:30 news. I'm almost always asleep by 9pm. I swear I feel like I'm 85 yrs old lately.

Ok, work rant is over. Now it is time for the child rant.

He is trying to kill me. He wants my head to explode. I swear it is true.

Last Friday he came home with a huge scrape under his right eye. When he got in the car he refused to let me look at him. He wouldn't tell me what happened cause he said I would laugh at him. Turns out his chair fell off of his desk and hit him in the head and the leg smacked his cheek. By the next morning, he looked like someone beat him up.

Flash ahead to Thursday night. We had only gotten home from my folk's house a half hour before hand. I was tired as hell because it was about 8pm. Nick came running into my room screaming and there was blood in his left eye. Once again, he refused to tell me what happened to him. He said I would be mad and spank him. He was playing with the attachment tubes for the vacume cleaner and smacked himself in the eye. So, he has a black eye and a nice sized scab on his eyelid. He didn't need stitches but he scared the living shit out of me.

No doubt about it, he is my child. He has inherited my total lack of coordination. sigh

To make things even more fun, my step mother found me having lunch at work on Thursday. I haven't spoken to the woman in over a year. I liked it that way. hehe She did manage to give me a bunch of cute pics of my niece and nephew.

This is Bree. Isn't she just the cutest?
Or is Isaiah cuter? hehe I can't tell.
I do know they look more like brother and sister than cousins.

Bree is my brother Nick's daughter and Isaiah is my sister's lil boy. They both just make me grin ear to ear when I see pictures of them.

Speaking of something to make you grin. Or outright laugh. Did you see the new LionBrand newsletter? OMG too funny!!!

Lion coat

Ruffle coat

Mink coat

I feel so darn sorry for this dog. He looks so sad. It's like he is begging for someone to come and save him. hehehe

Ok, I am feeling a little better now. :OP BTW, I finished the green socks. I need to borrow Mom's camera and get some shot of them. I've been working on the red and blue sweater, but after about one row, I'm sound asleep. I just have no energy. I'm also working on a utility shawl to wear around the house. I do believe I'm going to frog it all and start over. I'm not liking the rate of increases. Oh well, we shall see.

Time to go make some dinner. The kid made some popcorn and now I'm starving. hehe

Christ in heaven!!

I swear every day my child does something to make me wonder if I dropped him on his head one too many times.

He came in here about a half hour ago complaining that his hair was sticking up and it wouldn't lay down flat.

Ummmmmm, Helloooooo??? It's after 10 pm. What the hell are you still doing awake in the first place?

So I did that disgusting mom thing. I licked my hand real good and slapped his hair down. It still didn't lay flat. So being the dip shit weirdo I am, I took a piece of scotch tape and taped it down. After giggling and saying I was just kidding, I took the tape off. I told him that he would be taking a shower in the morning and all would be fine.

Couple minutes later he came back in whining. He had taken another piece of tape with a bit more grip and put it on his hair. When he tried to remove the tape, it wouldn't come right off like the scotch tape did. So I held onto his hair and pulled the tape off.

That's when I noticed what else he did.

He freaking took the scissors to his hair and cut off the part that was sticking up!!!!!

He got a good swat for that one.

He is 7 1/2 yrs old. Why the hell is he so concerned about if his hair is sticking up??? And who the hell is going to be sneaking in his room to see said hair sticking up??? You would think he would be old enough to know better than to just hack off a bunch of hair because it was sticking up. Especially since last year I accidentally gave him a nice bald spot on the front of his head when I forgot to put the comb back on the clippers one time. ooooppss!

I'm just so damned peeved with him. He just got a haircut about 2 weeks ago, but I'm going to have to cut it again tomorrow. And it is too damn cold here to be running around with real short hair. sigh

So tired

Oh so so tired I can barely keep my eyes open and it is not yet 5:30. sigh

For a little bit today, I thought that this job was done. Not so much. I have no clue when this job will be finished and I can get up at a more normal hour.

There is a lady that works in the laundry that I've worked with before. She was the reason that I was asked to leave a former employer. Today she got me so upset I was shaking. I thought my head was going to clean fly off my shoulders. I went to our boss and asked her to please please do something. I figured that since I'm only a temp, I would be told not to come back next week because this lady makes all drama out to be the problem of her victim and not herself. When I left today my boss said she would see me next week. Damn, I thought I would get to sleep in. hehe

Knitting is being done when I can keep my eyes open. Last night I was working on my sweater and fell asleep in front of the tv. I got one round done at least. The green socks are ready to be bound off. I just have to figure out which bind off I want to use. Not sure if I want to do the sewn bind off or maybe the crocheted one.

I'm in no hurry. I have too much on my plate for the weekend ahead to worry about the socks. It would seem that my pc has decided to be a complete pain in my ass yet again. I must have gotten a virus or trojan or something. None of the programs that used to sit in my system tray will show up. I can't get IncrediMail to start or Yahoo messenger. So, I can't download my email and I can't chat on YM with my friends. grrrrr

My bro will be home this weekend. I'm gonna give him the new hard drive and see if he can format it for me. I need to burn off all my saved patterns and psp tubes. Along with all the install files for my games and stuff. Yes I do save the install files for programs I download. Never know if you are gonna have to reinstall them at some point and with my connection is sucks to have to download them again. Hopefully, I'll be able to save all the emails I have sitting in IncrediMail. There are loads of psp tubes in there. Thankfully, I had emptied most of the emails out last week. There were around 2000 and I think it is down to about 200. Can't be sure as I can't freaking open up the program to see.

I have no clue how long it will take me to save off all my crap. I've got SimCity 3000 and The Sims stuff saved on here. Can't lose that stuff. I love those games. hehe

God I need a vacation.

Road Rage!!

OK, it was more like a road hissy fit. But man I woulda loved to smack that bitch upside the head once.

How do you get road rage on a rural highway in freakin Iowa???

I swear with only one other car on the damn road this lady cut in front of me as I was going to pass her. She then slammed on her breaks when I got close to her. As I passed her on the left, she freakin has the balls to flip ME off.

She is the one who cut me off. She is the one that slammed on her breaks trying to make me hit her. And I'm the one getting flipped off????

And she wasn't even getting over into the right lane to get off on the overpass. She passed it right up. I was needing to be in the right lane to get off the highway. I just didn't feel like slamming on my breaks and following a moron.

GAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Someone pass the beer.

I feel so old

My son is getting way way too grown up.

His class is planning to go to see Charlotte's Web on the 17th. The permission slip, along with the $9 fee, was due today. I had sent a check yesterday along with the slip, but I didn't mention it to Nick. Today I got a note from his teacher. Turns out that Mr. Nick emptied out his piggy bank and took nine one dollar bills to school today. He gave the money to his teacher and said it was for the movie. He never said one word to me about whether his fee had been paid. He just took it upon himself to pay for it himself.

How many 7 yr olds out there think about that sort of thing. He wanted to go to the movie so badly, he decided to pay for it himself. I had a nice long conversation with him tonight. I let him know that I would pay for anything that has to do with school. He doesn't have to worry about any of it. I made him put his money all back in his piggy bank. I also told him that we would see what other movies are playing this weekend and maybe we would go see one. I have no clue what is playing right now. I haven't been to the movies in a couple months.

On a completely different note, I went looking for the light blue alpaca because I'm just about to run out and the scarf is far from finished. I still have no clue where it is at. I have an underbed storage tote full of yarn and thought maybe I had stashed it in there. I was just a tad bit shocked when I opened it up. Y'all, I have some really nice yarn in there. I tell ya, I forgot how much yarn I've bought in the last year. I really need to borrow mom's camera and do a little inventorying. I'm not even sure what all of it is other than to say that it is most likely wool sock yarn for the most part. hehe Maybe I should buy into this stash knitting deal. Or maybe I should get busy and actually knit a little more and stay off the pc so much. That way more yarn would be used up so I could buy even more yarn. hehe

And now, I'm off to bed. I swear I need to win the lottery so that I can stop getting up at 4am. hehe

Knitting content

Yup, I've actually been knitting. I found a cute little preemie hat pattern yesterday. I probably would have had it done last night, but it isn't easy to knit and type at the same time. hehe

Since I no longer have the excuse of not having time to get to the hospital to drop off baby thing, I figured I might as well make some things up with all the baby yarn I have laying around. The hat is made with Red Heart Baby Soft sport weight yarn. The color is 8001 White Twinkle. In person it has a kind of pink tinge to it. I figure they will use it for a girl. I think I have some blueish baby yarn somewhere.

I'm very close to finishing the first skein of the blue alpaca on the scarf. I would have finished the skein today, but I had to frog about 5 rows. I forgot a decrease and didn't notice the extra stitch for a while. I figure I'll need to use at least one more skein. That will leave me enough for a shawl. No clue which one I'll do. Lord knows I have tons of shawl patterns saved. hehe

I really need to do a rectangular shawl that I can wear around. Something kind of plain in a dk weight yarn. I want something warm but not heavy. I can always crochet on a nice lacy edge on a plain garter stitch rectangle. Not sure what yarn I would use though. I do have some light yellow yarn I got from Goodwill. I'm thinking it might be cotton. I'm not sure really what weight it is.

The whole shawl thing is just contemplation of course. I still have a shawl sitting in a bag with the edge not even half done yet. It is way too bright and lacy for every day wear. Plus there is the matter of the 3 sweaters I'm still trying to work on. hehe I have been working on Alishar. I think I got 5 or 6 rows done today. I'm not sure if I've posted a picture of it yet. I'll have to take a scan of it one of these days.

Anyways, it's about time for me to get to bed. I so hate getting up at 4am. sigh

hehehe

Y'all need to go over and visit with JenLa, they are both such hoots. They know how to make a girl feel better about not being able to write clearly. hehe

I am so not in a good mood

After work, Nick and I stopped over to my folk's house this afternoon. I figured a short visit would hold them over until at least Sunday.

While we were there my mom got a disturbing phone call. My dad's cousin Jimmy died of a massive heart attack today. He was the same age as my dad. I went through a few years of school with Jimmy's oldest daughter. The two families actually spent a lot of time together when I was growing up.

I feel really bad for his kids. Their family is a really close one. My dad isn't taking the news very well. I'm sure he is feeling very mortal right now. sigh

I'm just too tired to deal right now. I will not be sad when this job is over and I can actually sleep past 5am.

Resolution

In the year 2007 I resolve to: Getting myself admitted to a mental institution. Get your resolution here.

Damn it Elizabeth, I spent a good part of the end of 1993 trying to stay out of one of those. lmao I sure could use a vacation though and they get to wear such comfy looking jammies all day.

The year is done

And I feel like I haven't done a damn thing I don't think I've finished anything other than a few hats. I've got a couple socks on the needles that are nearly done. At least 3 sweaters are on the needles and only one is even halfway close to being done.

I suppose I did knit the kid a sweater. It sits in my room though. I'm not sure why I haven't given it to him. Not like he can do much damage to it seeing as it is made of ack.

I finally took a really bad scan of the alpaca scarf I'm working on.



I used the main repeat from the Sun Ray Shawl on Elann.com. I started with 5 rows of seed stitch. The next row is 5 stitches of seed stitch, 5 repeats of the sun ray and then 5 more stitches in seed stitch. It's going to be kind of wide and I'm not sure how long I'll make it. Blocked, I think it will end up being about 10 inches wide. I'm at 16 inches long right now. I have quite a bit to go yet.

There has been a lot of talk about Wendy's yarn diet on the various knitting and crochet lists I'm on. While I'm not going to be jumping on the bandwagon per se, I won't be buying much yarn in the near future. That has more to do with my being broke than anything else. :OP Plus, I do have an awful lot of yarn that I could use up. Plus, I just got a gorgeous hank of sock yarn in the mail from Mystical Creations Yarn. I can't find the colorway on their website, but it is called Arrowhead. It's yummy yummy stuff. I think the Eagles Flight socks might just be the ticket for this yarn. We shall see.

I have no plans for tonight. I may have a few drinks. Then again, I may be asleep by 9pm like most nights lately. hehe I really should just sit and knit on something.

I won't be making any new years resolutions. I never keep them, so why make them? I do still need to work on loosing some more weight. Eating breakfast at work every day is NOT helping with this. I can't seem to pass up the scrambled eggs and toast though.

I'm thinking I need to get back on some of my medications too. It's very hard to keep up with the house when you're depressed. Mom thinks I'm depressed cause the house is a mess. Ummmm no. The house is a mess because I'm depressed. heh Sort of like when I argued with the psychologist about my being tired all the time. She insisted I was tired because I was depressed. Wrong, I was depressed cause I was tired all the damn time. Right now I'm depressed cause I hate being broke and I hate this time of year. And there is that nasty lonely part. But, when one is broke, it is hard to go anywhere and be sociable. Not that I've ever been the social butterfly. Attending 10 schools before graduating high school tends to turn one inward. blahhhhhh

I think it's time to go watch Queen of the Damned again. I so love the music from that movie. I think I'm going to have to pick up a copy of the soundtrack. I think in a past life I must have been a vampire. hehe

Anyways, Happy New Year y'all!! Hope you party hearty to make up for us party poopers at home.

No, I'm not dead

Yet... heh

Actually, I'm feeling much better. The cold is finally gone. I just have a slight cough but I think I'll live.

I'm dead ass tired though. Getting up at 4:20 AM just sucks ass. I've been in bed before 9:30 the last couple of days. Hell it's only 8:30 now and I'm ready to go to bed. The kid is at my folk's house since I have to work tomorrow. I do believe I'll be in bed by 9. hehe

The doily for my bro will not be done by Christmas. Oh well, he didn't know about it in the first place. It will get done eventually. This way at least, I'll have time to get the money together to put it in a frame for him.

All the Christmas shopping is done. All that is left is to wrap stuff. I really should wrap up a present for Nick, but well, I'm beat. I'll just wait until he is asleep tomorrow night. Well that is assuming that I will be awake when he is asleep. :OP

Hope y'all have a safe and happy holiday weekend. Eat some sweets for me.

Damn it's cold

It's finally getting cold again here in Iowa. I still don't think we will have any snow by Christmas though.

I had intended to spend yesterday afternoon working on my brother's doily. One small problem. There was a rather loud woofing noise waiting for us when we got to my folk's house. My lil doggie/niece Dakota greeted my son at the door and damn near knocked him on his ass. Dakota is a 6 month old Labradoodle. Just imagine Chewbacka on all fours. She is a damn moose.

Well miss Dakota doesn't visit unless she is with her parents. Seeing as I want the doily to be a surprise, I didn't work on it. To make matters worse, I didn't have another project with me. Thankfully, I had a skein of alpaca with me and some dpns. I downloaded a chart off of Elann.com and cast on for a scarf. It's actually kind of cute. Pictures? hahahahaha You're funny!

The day actually went fairly well. I finally got to watch Clerks2. Very freakin funny. The kid actually sat and had dinner with the rest of the family. He had spaghetti o's, but at least he was at the table with us. hehe Trust it to my mother to make sure I was grumpy by the time I left though. She got all over my ass about applying for the job at the hospital that I now have through the temp agency. But now that I have it, she is pissed. Last night she kept telling me how hard of a job it was. That I probably wouldn't be able to keep up with it. I was in a traumatic car accident 13 yrs ago. I have loads of nerve damage from it, but I am far from totally disabled. She was acting like I have one foot in the grave.

Cut to this afternoon. Mom immed me a little bit ago asking how work was. What did I do, did I keep up, am I tired. Swear she acted pissed when I said I was fine. It isn't any harder a job than I've had before. The only sucky part was the chill from the steel door I was standing near. lol I was sweating cause I was trying to keep working fast and I was freezing thanks to the door. Such is life.

Anyways, time to go make some dinner. Then I better get my ass in gear on the doily. How the HELL did it get to be a week before Christmas??????

hehehehe

Is it me, or do these guys look totally stoned??? They are so damned ugly that they are cuter than hell. I swear, some day, I'm gonna have a couple of these ugly buggers.

Overreaction

OK, so maybe my life isn't quite as shitty as I thought it was.

After many, many phone calls yesterday, I found a babysitter a block from me. She has 3 boys at my son's school, so hopefully he will actually go outside and play once in awhile now. hehe Nick takes after his homebody momma. My mom isn't real thrilled about my choice of sitter and she has warned me not to tell my dad who will be watching Nick.

What's the hub bub about? She is black. Mom didn't get upset with me but immediately made it clear I better not tell dad cause he would have a fit. I told her that it was his problem not mine. I didn't go into it more because I didn't want to argue with her in front of Nick. Not that he was paying attention to what we were talking about. He was staring at the game that Mom was playing on the computer.

Frankly, I couldn't care less what color my son's sitter is. I've been to her house and it is neat and clean. Much more organized than my house. hehe I've met her 3 boys. They were well dressed and displayed way more manners than my son usually displays. Of course that is the advantage of having more than one child. They have to learn to share not only their belongings but their mother's attention. Nick has never had to share me with anyone.

On to other things. I've been working on the doily. I really need to spend more time on it though and get the hell away from the pc. Is it wrong that I can put SimCity 3000 in the pc and spend 4 hours staring at the screen?? Don't answer that. hehe

I'm already planning projects for next year. Yes, I know I have loads of projects to work on right now, but I didn't say I was casting on for anything new did I??

Berroco has some really cute felted Christmas tree ornaments that were just released. I do have some crocheted angels that normally go on the tree, but I really think I need more. I could really go for the instant gratification of making some mini socks and scarves for the tree. Lord knows I have tons of patterns saved on disk. I really need to finish one of my sweaters before I start a new project.

Well, I'm off to rest for a little before heading to the hospital. I need to get the results of my TB test confirmed and take the paper to the temp agency. I'm really hoping that I won't have to buy a uniform to work at the hospital. I really doubt I'll get out of the laundry room and I really can't afford to buy new clothes right now. sigh

edit: Test was fine and I start on Monday. More good news, I don't have to buy a uniform or anything. Yeahhh!!

More proof

that my life must remain one big steaming pile of shit.

It never fails that when things are starting to look up, someone decides to shit on me.

I got a call the other day that there was an opening for a temp position at a local hospital in the laundry. The hours are 6am until 2. OK, first problem, daycare at school doesn't start until 6:30. So I talk to my mom. She isn't able to watch Nick because she has to be to work early. Dad has to be to work at 6 some mornings.

Mom calls a lady she works with who just so happens to be a friend of my brother. She has two little girls that go to my son's school and she lives like 2 blocks away from it. She was all cool about it and said sure no problem. I was just to let her know when I would be starting so she could meet Nick before hand.

I gave the temp agency the go ahead and the hospital said OK but first a TB test needs to be done. I spent an hour yesterday at the hospital getting the stupid test done. The results will be read sometime after 11am tomorrow. I should pass no problem so I would be able to start work on Monday. I tried calling the babysitter yesterday morning to let her know but her phone isn't working. As of last night she was telling my mom that she would get a hold of me this morning about meeting Nick.

An hour ago, I got a call from her that she can't watch him. She has enough stress dealing with her own kids. (THEN WHY THE FUCK SAY YOU WILL DO IT IN THE FIRST PLACE?????) She gave me the number of another lady in town that does before school daycare. With a sinking feeling in my gut, I called the number. She has no openings at all. She gave me the number of a child care referral service. So I call that number. No answer but they give an 800 number to call if it is an emergency. So I call yet another number. No answer but you can leave a message. I'm sure they will be able to tell that I was tearing up and fighting back a full blown crying fit when I left the message.

So pretty much I'm once again screwed. The warehouse I was working at is slowing down and I doubt that the supervisor will call me back cause I called in sick yesterday after telling him I would be all right to work. I woke up with a temp of 103 and I couldn't swallow. I wasn't up to doing anything yesterday. Just going to the hospital kicked my ass.

I would like very much to lay down right now. I'm beat, but I keep breaking down crying and frankly I need something to distract me and not let me think about how my life freakin sucks.

More of me????

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 3,096 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Frankly I'm not that surprised. I know of at least 3 other people while my same full name within 20 miles of me. In fact, I share a dentist with 2 of them and work for the same temp agency as another. hehe

Groan

Don't ask me how, but it is possible to pass biological viruses through blogs.

For the last couple of days I've been reading the blogs of some really nice knitterly ladies with colds and/or the flu. They are in all parts of the country and in various states of sickness.

And now, damn it, I've got a freakin cold!!!! I am so dang sore and chilled it isn't funny. I don't think it is the flu cause I did get a flu shot last month. Oh God, please tell me it isn't the flu. heh

I'm gettin in bed. I need to be able to go to work tomorrow. sigh

Oh so tired

I damn near fell asleep watching tv at Mom's house tonight. Hell I was having a conversation with my dad and almost fell asleep on him too.

I'll be going to bed very very soon. God, I'm a whimp. hehe

We finally got the tree up last night. I managed not to yell at Nick while we were actually putting it up. I was a screaming lunatic while putting the plastic up on the patio doors though. I thought the distress would continue during the assembly of the tree, but I think I only sniped at him once. He was hold ing up a branch and as I went to grab it he was moving it away frome me.

If it wasn't for Nick, the tree wouldn't have gone up or been decorated. I am anal about putting the tree away in the right order so that all I have to do it work from the top of the box and start putting it together the next time. So basically, Nick just took out a branch and handed it to me and I didn't have to think about where it went.

I usually put strings of beads on the tree but this year I didn't feel like it. There are strings of multi colored lights around the "trunk" of the tree that dance. The tree itself has white lights. I only put the lights and decorations on the front and sides of the tree since it sits in a corner. Yeah I'm lazy. :OP The deocrations are red, cream and gold bulbs with gold glitter on them. Plus some plain red and green bulbs. The of course there are the Avon collector decorations. Most of them are Disney types. The Avon ones all came from my mom when she decided to go with all santa decorations and red bows.

Nick put all of the bulbs on the tree. I moved some up higher where he couldn't reach. But he did the rest of it himself. He put 2 or 3 bulbs per branch in some areas. He used enough bulbs to deocrate the whole tree on just one side. hehehe It looks really pretty though. I've told him a couple times that he did a really good job.

The only bad part about putting up the tree was the question I got at bed time. "Is it Christmas tomorrow?" sigh

It's soon enough dang it. I still have to buy for the rest of the family. I so hate shopping for anything other than yarn. Somehow I don't think yarn will cut it though. hehehe

sigh

Well as luck would have it, the post office is open from 9am until 4:30pm. I had to work today from 9am until 5pm. Guess who didn't get to go to the post office today. I don't work tomorrow, so my one eBay package and the hats for Rabbitch will be mailed out sometime after the kid goes to school.

Got some cool news from Mom today. She is getting cable internet real soon. I shall be bogarting her connection as often as possible. hehehe It will be nice to slap my tags onto a disk and upload them in like 5 minutes instead of over a half hour. Plus, I might actually get all my mail downloaded for once. hehehe

I'm not feeling real great. Think I'll go work on the doily and watch Medium before heading to bed.

hehehe

Go check out JenLa. I dang near peed my pants laughing.

grumpy

I'm feelin a little grumpy. We got sent home about 2 hours early today. They are only calling back 10 temps tomorrow. Thankfully, I'm one of the 10.

It did give me the time to head to the dollar tree. I picked up some coloring books, colors and puzzles for the kid. I also got him a couple of those guns that shoot plastic balls. Yes I'm one of those weird parents that likes to play shoot em up games with her kid. hehe

I'm also grumpy cause it doesn't look like anyone is interested in buying my knitting needles. There is someone watching two of them, but no bids. It sucks.

I kept having the idea about getting Nick some books off of Amazon and having them here in time. Well I'm a dumbass. We have a Borders here in town. You can search for books online and have them reserve them for you. Ya see I had been avoiding actually going in to Borders so I wouldn't be tempted to look for knitting magazines or books. hehehe

So last night I did a search and put 4 books on reserve for Nick. This way I can go in after work tomorrow and just go to the counter and get them. Cross your fingers that I can resist the temptation to go all the way in to the store. hehehe


Hopefully the kid will like these books. Maybe I'll even be able to get a discount on them with my Borders Rewards card. hehe

I've been working on my brother's doily again. I've got the second letter about half done. I should be working on it now but I'm a lil tired. I woke up a lil too early this morning. Maybe I'll work on it for a lil while before going to bed.

Well I'm off to search for my box of disks from my mom's old computer and for the address to send these damn hats to Rabbitch.

I'm on eBay

Well ok, not me but my crap stuff. hehe

Take pity on my poor broke ass and buy some of my extra knitting needles.

I haven't gone through my crochet and cross stitch stuff yet.

Anything I make this month on eBay will be going towards buying the kid some books off of Amazon for Christmas.

If you have a kid in your life, you really should buy them books for Christmas. Expand those minds. Don't rot them with video games. (Sorry Snow) hehehehe



Nick loves the Junie B. First Grader books. I think I'll order him a few later. I've got too much of a headache right now to do a proper search for the right ones.

The price of knitting

On the knit list, there has been a big discussion going on about how much to charge people for knitting projects for them.

I no longer sell any of my projects. I have crocheted a few afghans for people I worked with. They were fairly simple afghans and I was paid about $120 each for them. They were made using good old Red Heart yarn. Yeah I know. hehe But in my defense, I live in the armpit of Iowa. 90 miles away from the nearest store that carries wool yarn. Hell this was back before we had a Michael's or Hobby Lobby even.

I had tried to sell refridgerator towels at garage sales for $6 a set. No one would pay that much because it was a garage sale and they wanted their shit cheap. I only make these for my mom now. I don't have anywhere to hang them in my kitchen. hehe My fridge doesn't have a handle on it, just a groove in the side of the door.

I crocheted an afghan for my father using the afghan stitch. I designed the blanket myself and had a friend graph the image for me. It is huge and very heavy. It has Jeff Gordon's name on it, his number 24 and the nascar logo. I detest Gordon, so every minute of making this blanket sucked the soul right out of me. hehe

My dad keeps trying to get me to put the blanket up on eBay. I've told him that no one would ever pay how much I would charge for it. He says to start the bidding at $200. Yeah, whatever. I wouldn't sell if for less than $350. And I'm sorry, no one is payin that much for a blanket that I made like 2 yrs ago and that has been washed at least 10 times. If he keeps it up, I'm taking the blanket away and giving it to my son.

Now I need to go take a shower and take a nap. I'm one pooped chicky.

Holy stupidity batman!

Sometimes I wonder about the sanity of some people.

story

Please someone explain to me how the peace sign is satanic or anti-christ. How do people with such fucked up ideas get into positions of power??? Ok it may only be a home owner's association but power is power. I personally think that it is home owner's associations that are evil. I would never live in a neighborhood where some yahoo could tell me what I could or could not do with my own house and yard. It's bad enough to have a pita landlord bitching at me.

grumble grumble

I'm off to knit. Yarn is less likely to raid my blood pressure right now. hehe

Very cool

If only this would work everywhere.

A special thank you

to the person who invented power steering. TYTYTYTYTYTYTYTYTY

Have you tried to drive a car without power steering lately???

My arms are sooooo sore. I was so tired last night that I completely forgot to mention that my power steering died just as I was getting off the highway. I had to stop and back up and try twice to get the dang car into the driveway.

More than once my car has acted stupid and then been just fine and dandy. So this morning, I went about my business and took the kid to school. Still no power steering. It's only a 5 or 6 block drive but OMG it sucked.

So I figured that maybe the power steering fluid just leaked out. It's happened to me before. I took the car over to Wal-Mart for a delayed oil change and told the guy to check the PS fluid for me. I did some Christmas shopping while I waited.

When the car was done, I asked one of the guys in the garage to show me where the PS fluid was at so I could check it should the check gauges light come back on. Well the dipshit couldn't find the PS fluid at all. Makes me wonder if the other guy checked it like I had asked. Well, while he was looking for the resivoir, he discovers that a very large belt was hanging off my engine. Makes me wonder if they even changed the damn oil or just parked the car in back and charged me for it.

So, long story short, I spent the next 4 hours sitting at the dealership while a real mechanic fixed my car. Turns out that a tensioner pulley on the serpentine belt went bad. The bearing inside it froze up and started to melt. This caused the belt to fall off. Which is why I had no power steering.

So now I'm pretty much broke. It cost me $237 bucks to fix the car. There goes all the money I had saved for Christmas presents. I had just officially started shopping this morning too. Spent about $50 on the kid. I'm not so sure I'll be spending much more than that on his this year. I guess I better finish his blanket that has been hiding for the last 2 years waiting for the ends to be woven in and edge to be crocheted on.

I've got some Susan Bates sock needles sets that I'm gonna put up on eBay this week. And I've got some other circulars that are doubles. Maybe I'll list those too. Plus I really should dig out my old cross stitch books and get rid of them. I haven't picked up any cross stitching since I was preggers. hehe I'm not quite desperate enough to list any of my knitting books. They look way too pretty sitting on my shelf to part with them yet. Maybe some of my crochet afghan books can go. Only problem with listing things on eBay is that I actually have to dig it out of storage, which means cleaning of some sort. Man I hate cleaning. heh

Sorry

I've become a bit of a bore as a blogger.

The last week or so hasn't been very pleasant. Nick decided to throw an absolute fit on Thanksgiving. For some reason he has it in his head that if something looks different then it must be poisonous even though his family is eating it. I spent most of the evening sitting in the family room by myself crying. I don't deal well with stress right now.

Nick and I have been fighting about food a lot lately. There are only a few things he will eat and anything else is total evil. I'm the one who ends up feeling sick and fighting to keep from throwing up. IBS just sucks!

I haven't been getting much knitting done. I don't know if it is how I've been sleeping or if I actually pulled something, but my left arm has been sore for a couple weeks now. It makes it real hard to knit when I can barely hold the needle. I think I'll try sleeping with the hot pad on it.

Sorry for no pictures yet. Yeah I'm lazy that way. Someday I'll get my shit together.

The job gods have smiled

Ok, so maybe they have just sighed a little bit.

The temp agency called and I've got a 2 day gig.

Over the summer I worked for a place that cleans up after fires and other such disasters. It would seem that the gods frowned upon some unfortunate soul and now I get to help clean up the mess.

Is it bad of me to hope that the mess is large enough that I'll be needed on Friday? Oh well, I'm probably going to hell anyway. lmao

There has been knitting. I just don't have pictures to share right now.

I did finally finish the hat for Rabbitch. In fact I've finished another one that should be good for a child. I've even started another one in red. Once that one is done, probably by the end of the week, I'll mail them off.

I also knit a hat for Nick. He was wearing a store bought hat and well it got a nasty run in it that I just didn't have the heart to fix. lol

I've also made a pretty dang good start on the fair isle sweater. Guessed which one yet? I've finished the first repeat of the second and third charts already.

The green socks are now the same length but I need to find my other size 1 addis cause 32" just isn't long enough for me to work two socks on. So, when I find it, I'll get back to those.

I'm gonna see if I can't snag Mom's other camera again. If I can, there will be pics this weekend.

Sanity

has finally prevailed.

Creativity

I haven't been feeling much when it comes to knitting. I have been slowly working on the second green sock. I can't seem to do more than a couple repeats at a time though. I've also cast on for another sweater. Yes, I know I have 2 sitting here that need to be worked on but well I'm a pita. hehe

I've been playing around a lot the last couple days with some graphics. As some of you may know, I make signature tags for people to use in e-mails. Well this afternoon I found a tutorial on making wallpapers for MSN Messenger. I had to do loads of tweaking to get a finished product that works right though. I uploaded a couple of my finished wallpapers to my tag site.

Check them out



I really like the kitty one. It is making me want to make some new Incredimail stationary. I don't have any of my stats uploaded yet. Maybe soon.

OH for Christ's sake

I swear the people in one of the Yahoo groups I belong to have all gone insane.

One of the women has a signature line that includes:

January 20, 2009

America, please hold on!

The Bush Nightmare is almost over!

The list mom actually asked her in a group email to remove it. And a bunch of freakin hyenas pounced on it.

No politics, oh no, no politics here. None Keep it away Gahhhhh!!!

She hadn't posted about politics. I have no clue what the heck she originally posted about. No one would have noticed her signature line or said a damn thing until the owner decided to take her to task in front of the whole group.

This is a fairly quiet group that puts out maybe 2 digests a day. I think I've gotten about 9 of them today and roughly half of the posts have been out those 3 lines.

Over the years I've found quite a few things in this group to be a total pain in the ass. I've gotten in arguments with the owner over a few things too. But it is also the first fiber related Yahoo group I joined when I got back into crocheting.

I have no clue why some people feel the need to attack anyone that doesn't believe exactly what they do. God forbid they stand up for their beliefs. I say live and let live. sheesh

And now my friends I say:

January 20, 2009

America, please hold on!

The Bush Nightmare is almost over!

Unemployed again

Went into work tonight and promptly got walked out the door.

They gave no reason. When pressed I was told it was a "management decision". Yeah whatever.

I made sure that I let as many people still out in the parking lot know that I got fired. My little brother, who works there, is not happy. As if I am.

At least Mom said I don't have to pay on the car for right now. Cause ya see, I haven't bought the kid any Christmas presents yet. Good thing I was planning on a small Christmas this year anyway.

Oh well, cross your fingers that they don't give me too much trouble getting unemployment. I've already called the temp agency.

the kid

I got back Nick's school pictures the other day. I can't believe I haven't posted them yet. lol


He was so proud of himself for not squinting or grimacing. The last few times his picture was taken he looked like he was constipated or something. hehehe


My little brother Nick gave me a picture of my nieces and nephew. They are all just too cute.


Left to right we have Breelle Lavina, Abigail and Isaiah Frazier. Bre is Nick's 10 week old daughter. Abigail is about 2 1/2. She is my oldest brother Russ's daughter. Isaiah is about 9 months old and the son of my lil sister Kelly. I have yet to see any of them in person. Unless you count seeing Russ carry Abigail across a parking lot while I was driving through. lol

Still no luck in getting my new hard drive to work. I may have to bribe Nick into visiting and having a look at it.

Now I need to go puke up my pizza and pass out.

sniffle sniffle

I put the hard drive in Nick's computer. Device manager could see it. "My Computer" couldn't.

I downloaded the fdisk utilities and put it on a floppy. Later on I'm going to disconnect my good hard drive and put the new one back in here. Then I'm going to try and format the damn thing.

This is just making me nuts because I'm normally so good with computers. I've taken umpteen classes on building and fixing computers. Hell at one point I could even program in C++. Somewhere along the line my brain is fried.

I blame it on the fiber. lmao

God I'm a dork

Well, I filched my son's computer from my folk's house.

I had to pick the kid up after work because Mom has an early morning appointment. Yes that means my child stayed up past midnight tonight. He was sound asleep 5 minutes after we got home.

I basically told Mom that either she lets me borrow the computer for a couple days or we would be visiting tomorrow afternoon. She gave in. hehehe

So I quick went in the basement and disconnected the PC and stuffed the power cord into my coat pocket. I had to practically climb over my son's tent that is set up down there. I have no clue why the heck this thing is still set up. It's been down there for over a week. Anyways, I tossed the PC in the back seat and hit the road home.

When we got home one important thing was missing. The power cord. It was not in my pocket. It wasn't on the back seat with the PC. It wasn't on the front seat either.

Sooooo the power cord is somewhere in my folk's house. Either it fell out when I was crawling over the tent and trying not to bang into the church pew (don't ask) or it fell out when we were getting in the car.

So if I can't get the damn hard drive to format right and then work in my PC, I'm gonna have to run over to my folk's house and find the dang cord. sigh

In actual knitting news, all I have to do is weave in the ends and the hat is done for Rabbitch. It will go in the mail on Monday. There is no way I'll be at the post office before 9am. I don't intend to be awake before 9am. lol

Ok, now I need to get my ass to bed.

Grumble

Well I finally got the hard drive installed. It took me a while to get my dang pc to boot with the new drive attached.

Device manager sees the drive and says it is working just peachy.

Unfortunately, My Computer can NOT see the new hard drive.

So I have a beautiful but empty 80gb hard drive installed on my computer that I can't do a damn thing with.

Anybody out there have any advice on how to fix this problem? I really do not want to have to burn all my crap off of my computer before reformatting. I so love drag and drop and move on. heh

Gotta love

TigerDirect.com

I ordered a new hard drive for my pc on Saturday night. It was here this afternoon.

So tomorrow morning I'll get gusy moving all my crap off of this hard drive onto the new one.

I really wasn't expecting to get the new hard drive until Thursday. I'll definately have all my stuff moved by the weekend so I can reformat this dumbass pc. I've been having loads of problems with this damn thing for the last month.

Hopefully by Sunday it will be like having a brand new pc. :O)