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All In One

2008-06-14T21:37:55-05:00

I have needed to blog for a bit, however time constraints have not allowed. Therefore I will knock it out all in one. I had a short break before classes resumed on the 9th so I took the time to delve into some projects that I had waiting for me. First off I started and finished a ripple baby blanket.

This was the beginning to the left. I began this on Monday and finished it last night. I was pretty impressed with how sweet it really turned out. I plan on putting it on ebay.

Then I decided to dye some yarn using pink lemonade. This acutally looks kind of good. Petty though I was making Pho...

Side note...I am allergic to lizards. They give me chills, panic attacks and nightmares. Dad brings home baby lizards to kill the spiders around the house. This is truly not an acceptable act. Eventually they are going to attack and kill me. I believe this...nobody can convince me otherwise. So the other night I stepped out on the deck for a moment to let the dogs out and when I came back in a lizard came in with me on the door. It's 3 o'clock in the morning, lizard is climbing on the wall, Petty is still at work, I want to pee my pants, what the hhhhheeeellll do I do? I tracked the lizard for the next 45 minutes while on the phone with Petty begging him to hurry home and standing on a bar stool.

Sorry, but I don't understand why anyone cannot see my side of why these things are horrific. Anyway, Petty got home climbed on a chair and caught the slimy looking thing. To my surprise, the tail fell off and starting wiggling on the ground...GGGAAAHHHRRROOOSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He let it back outside to be with his "friends" and I was able to go to bed in peace.

Okay back to creativity....I made homemade bread...now anyone who knows me knows very well I screw up most baked items very well....This time I rocked..I made foccacia from a recipe I found on a vegan website. It came out unbelievably perfect.

it looks kind of like brains in this photo. I used whole wheat flour instead of white all purpose so that's the funky color. Anyway...this bread was so soft so tasty and I was super proud of myself. I got pretty confident and the next day tried to bake my mom a world of warcraft cake. She got a flower one instead. I don't know what my problem is with cakes. I also have gotten pretty good at making tofu dishes. I still cannot for the life of me figure out how to make tasty curry. I have tried EVERYTHING!!! Jars, recipes, packages of mix...whatever...it just does not taste the way it needs to. I guess that will be continued practice along wtih cakes.

Another side note...boys have been with the grandparents in Indiana all week. Missed them terribly, but the day they come home I end up at a doc in the box clinic with a severe ear infection that was almost a severe ear drum rupture...SAWEETTT!!! It was very painful, but I got a steriod shot in my booty and meds and am feeling a bit better. So now I can hear all the stories of their trip.

Last bit of info...I wanted to share a picture that Jordan drew at school.

It's suppose to be a self-portrait.

Drawing on the far left...

Jordan with his Uncle Joey at Confirmation. I'm thinking my child should stick to abstract...lol...

Okay so I think I have covered most everything. If I left out anything I can always post manana!!!

Aberration

2008-06-02T23:14:17-05:00

Just when you think things are mundane someone comes along with kicker. My younger brothers Aaron and Joey and my sis-n-law decided to pack up and relocate themselves and my bros band to Brooklyn. WOW this has been a shocker for sure. I think I may even be jealous about all of this. I have always wanted to pack up and move away, but never had the nerve. I am definately sad beyond words that they all moved, but it was a choice that had I been subjected to would have made the same one. At least we have computers and cell phones to keep in touch. My family moved to Texas from Indiana when I was 4 and communication was pretty much sparatic due to the cost of long distance calls and travel. Well, on to other news....I finished my first back to school semester and I officially am not working anymore. I start a new semester soon so I am pretty stoked to get started again. I am still not eating meat. I guess I would be considered a full vegetarian by now. It has been awesome. I have had to think so much about what I am going to eat daily that I make wiser choices across the board. I am down about 13lbs since March. Petty is still trucking along right with me on my meatless journey.

Knitting is going well...and i say well as in I don't have words to describe the pickles I have been getting myself in. I for the life of me cannot pick up dropped stitches. I am working on a sock and am to the heel flap...going top down....dropped a stitch and just put down my needles. .....blahhhhh...so I started ripping out an afghan that I made 5 times to big and started on a new ripple afghan. I also need to finish my mom's scarf. So maybe when that is all done I will go back to the sock and see if I can fix it. It is such a pretty sock too....I am even excited about making the second one....At least with crochet when I mess up I can easily fix.

I tried to destash some of my yarn, but I figure I have a few days before school starts....maybe I can mess some more projects up lol!!

For us ladies with nothing else going on in our lives...

2008-05-19T18:45:46-05:00

It has been a week today that I started back to school. So far so good. Maymesters go by so incredibly fast. Next Tuesday is my final..already had a mid-term and the homework hasn't killed me yet...yet....I repeat..cause knowing me tomorrow we will be bombarded...but so far everything seems really doable. Only problem is now i need to figure out how to make extra money without going to work full time. Ebay is going okay but I need to come up with some more products to satisfy the outgoing yarn. I also need to find someone to build my website for me. I have learned that no matter how many html books Petty buys me I can't seem to want to wrap my brain around it. Trying to recruit a son to figure it out but that's pulling teeth. haha... So yesterday I was at the nail salon getting a pedicure with my mom and I was working on a scarf for her. Yes I do know that it is 100 degrees here in Texas, but I promised her a scarf in this luscious Jaeger. So I figured it would be easy enough to finish it as a weekend project and she will have it just in time for next winter. What winters we have here anyway. That's a whole other world of hurt right there. Anyhooo we were in the salon and I was waiting for my turn. This loud mouth old hag was talking and talking and gossiping and annoying the peeeee out of me. I was trying to drown her out when I heard the lady that was doing her nails say..." I have always wanted to knit or crochet since I came to America". This sparked my interest.....I have taught a lot of people lately the basics of both so I figured I would offer to teach her when loud mouth old hag says....." Oh dear you don't want to knit or crochet...there is toooooooo much involved. You have to use different needles for crochet and different needles for knitting..(ummmm they are called hooks for crochet) there are loops and rows you have to memorize. It's just too much dear." Okay so i'm thinking to myself this lady just doesn't have the knack for the craft or doesn't think that the nail lady can handle it. I start to open my mouth when the 2x4 hit my head....."besides dear, women that crochet or knit have nothing else going on in their lives. There just isn't enough time in a day for that nonsense." WHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! seriously!!!!! I work, go to school, raise two boys, have a social life and still manage (LORD ONLY KNOWS HOW) to get some yarny goodness mixed in it all....I sooooo wanted to slap the hag. Instead I smiled and kept on knitting....(cause I'm a wuss). I do plan on going back sometime soon and offer to teach the salon lady. Why should anyone be deprived of knowing something as enjoyable as playing with yarn? Maybe I will take the sock I am working on...4 dpn's flying at once would've shut up the old hag :)

My first day of school

2008-05-12T19:17:46-05:00

So I returned to yet another attempt at finishing school. Yeppers...today was my first day of class. I only have about 3 more semesters left then I will finally be done. It has only taken me 16 years. In class today the professor decided she wanted everyone to go around the room and introduce themselves. Okay fine...i'll introduce myself....then she puts up a power point of a list of questions everyone is required to answer after introducing themselves. Why are you taking a maymester, what do you want to do when you graduate, family life...yada yada yada..... All this is all good excpet for the fact that I HATE talking in front of people I do not know. This stems a problem. Maybe she will start on the other side of the room, in the front row and will not manage to get to me because these 18 year olds out of high school recently will be so consumed with talking about themselves taht we will run out of time. UMMMM plan did not work...I was first. Sitting in the back of the room is not advisable when you have such a bubbly 20 year old professor who thinks it will be cute to pick on you. My face turned 80 shades of red and I as calmly as I could began the quest. When I got to the family part and mentioned taht I have children the room turned to me. Then when I preceded to tell them the ages of my children (14 and 11) jaws fell. I'm not quite sure how to take the jaws falling. I am going to chalk it up to I am so extremely young for my 33 years...haha...yep that's what i'm telling myself. Anyhoo...the rest of the kids (seriously kids) went on to talk about their club scenes and they are head starting their careers at the ripe old age of 12...I FELT SO ANCIENT!!!! I keep asking myself what I am doing here. My oldest will be in college in 4 years. This is so backwards. This is my last go. It will be victory over education once and for all. Unless my precious little Akai doesnt let me study. It used to be babies that held my attention...now I have puppies.

The Movie Test

2008-05-04T11:29:54-05:00

So I found this list on another blog about which movies you have seen....I was bored and decided to take the test myself to see how many of these I have actually seen....I have no life...not only did I actually take the test, but I have seen almost all of these....and pretty much own all of these...I need a hobby :) However in my defense I am usually watching a movie while crocheting or knitting. So I can justify the amount of filmage I asorb. I am intrigued however to check out the flicks that I have yet to view. Why have I not ever seen Rocky Horror or Princess Bride? I think I always associated the two with "cult" followings. There have been a few movies like that though that I evenutally watched and fell in love with...so they are surely on my list to watch soon.

( ) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(X) Grease
(X) Pirates of the Caribbean
(X) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest
(x) Boondock Saints
(X) Fight Club
(X) Starsky and Hutch
(X) Neverending Story
(x) Blazing Saddles
(X) Airplane
( ) The Princess Bride
(x) AnchorMan
(X) Napoleon Dynamite
( ) Labyrinth
(X) Saw
(X) Saw II
(X) White Noise
(X) White Oleander
(x) Anger Management
(X) 50 First Dates
(X) The Princess Diaries
(X) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
(X) Scream
(X) Scream 2
(x) Scream 3
(X) Scary Movie
(X) Scary Movie 2
(X) Scary Movie 3
(X) Scary Movie 4
(X) American Pie
(X) American Pie 2
(X) American Wedding
( ) American Pie Band Camp
(X) Harry Potter 1
(X) Harry Potter 2
(X) Harry Potter 3
(X) Harry Potter 4
(X) Resident Evil 1
( ) Resident Evil 2
(X) The Wedding Singer
(X) Little Black Book
(X) The Village
( ) Lilo & Stitch
(X) Finding Nemo
(X) Finding Neverland
(X) Signs
(X) The Grinch
(X) Texas Chainsaw Massacre
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
(x) White Chicks
(X) Butterfly Effect
(X)13 Going on 30
(X) I, Robot
(x) Robots
(X) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
( ) Universal Soldier
(X) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
(X) Along Came Polly
(X) Deep Impact
(X) KingPin
(X) Never Been Kissed
(X) Meet The Parents
(X) Meet the Fockers
(X) Eight Crazy Nights
(x) Joe Dirt
(X ) King Kong
( ) A Cinderella Story
(X) The Terminal
( ) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
( ) Passport to Paris
(X) Dumb & Dumber
(x) Dumber & Dumberer
(X) Final Destination
( ) Final Destination 2
( ) Final Destination 3
(X) Halloween
(X)The Ring
(X )The Ring 2
(x)Surviving Christmas
(x) Flubber
(X) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
(X) Practical Magic
(X) Chicago
(x) Ghost Ship
( ) From Hell
(X) Hellboy
(X ) Secret Window
(x) I Am Sam
(X) The Whole Nine Yards
(x) The Whole Ten Yards
(X) The Day After Tomorrow
(x) Child’s Play
(x) Seed of Chucky
(X) Bride of Chucky
(X) Ten Things I Hate About You
(X) Just Married
(X) Gothika
(X) Nightmare on Elm Street
(X) Sixteen Candles
(x) Remember the Titans
( ) Coach Carter
(X) The Grudge
(X) The Grudge 2
(X) The Mask
(x) Son Of The Mask
(X) Bad Boys
(X) Bad Boys 2
(x) Joy Ride
(X) Lucky Number SlevIn
(X) Ocean’s Eleven
(x) Ocean’s Twelve
(X) Bourne Identity
(X) Bourne Supremecy
(x) Lone Star
(X) Bedazzled
(X) Predator I
(X) Predator II
(x) The Fog
(X) Ice Age
(X ) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
( ) Curious George
(X) Independence Day
(X) Cujo
(x) A Bronx Tale
( ) Darkness Falls
(X ) Christine
(X) E.T
(X) Children of the Corn
(X) My Bosses Daughter
(X) Maid in Manhattan
(X) War of the Worlds
(X) Rush Hour
(x) Rush Hour 2
( ) Best Bet
(X) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
(X) She’s All That
(x) Calendar Girls
(x) Sideways
(X) Mars Attacks
( ) Event Horizon
(x) Ever After
(X) Wizard of Oz
(X) Forrest Gump
(x) Big Trouble in Little China
(X)The Terminator
(X) The Terminator 2
(X) The Terminator 3
(X) X-Men
( ) X-2
( ) X3
(X) Spider-Man
(X) Spider-Man 2
( ) Sky High
(X) Jeepers Creepers
(X) Jeepers Creepers 2
(X) Catch Me If You Can
(X) The Little Mermaid
(X) Freaky Friday
(X) Reign of Fire
(x) The Skulls
(X) Cruel Intentions
(x) Cruel Intentions 2
(X ) The Hot Chick
(X) Shrek
(X) Shrek 2
(x) Swimfan
(X) Miracle on 34th street
(X) Old School
(x) The Notebook
(x) K-Pax
( ) Krippendorf’s Tribe
(X) A Walk to Remember
( ) Ice Castles
(x) Boogeyman
(X) The 40-year-old Virgin
(X) Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
(X) Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
(X) Lord of the Rings: Return Of the King
(X) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
(X) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
(X) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
(x) Base-ketball
(x) Hostel
(x) Waiting for Guffman
(x) House of 1000 Corpses
(x) Devils Rejects
(X) Elf
(x) Highlander
(X) Mothman Prophecies
(X ) American History X
( ) Three
(x) The Jacket
(x) Kung Fu Hustle
( ) Shaolin Soccer
(x) Night Watch
(X) Monsters Inc.
(X) Titanic
(x) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(X ) Shaun Of the Dead
(x) Willard
( ) High Tension
(x ) Club Dread
(X ) Hulk
(X) Dawn Of the Dead
(X) Hook
(X ) Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
(X) 28 days later
( ) Orgazmo
( ) Phantasm
(X) Waterworld
(X) Kill Bill Vol. 1
(X) Kill Bill Vol. 2
(x) Mortal Kombat
(x) Wolf Creek
( ) Kingdom of Heaven
(x) the Hills Have Eyes
( ) I Spit on Your Grave
( ) The Last House on the Left
( ) Re-Animator
(X ) Army of Darkness
(X) Star Wars Ep. I The Phantom Menace
(X) Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones
(X) Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith
(X) Star Wars Ep. IV A New Hope
(X) Star Wars Ep. V The Empire Strikes Back
(X) Star Wars Ep. VI Return of the Jedi
( ) Ewoks: Caravan Of Courage
( ) Ewoks: The Battle For Endor
(X) The Matrix
(X) The Matrix: Reloaded
(X) The Matrix: Revolutions
( ) Animatrix
(X) Evil Dead
(x) Evil Dead 2
(X) Team America: World Police
(x) Red Dragon
(X) Silence of the Lambs
(X) Hannibal

Changes

2008-04-04T12:46:43-05:00

So.....it is almost kinda springtime here and that means it is time for changes. Time for spring cleaning so to speak. I have officially quit my job...THANK GOD!!! I am going to pursue school and finally finish it. (My transcripts go back to 1992). As pathetic as that is, I will prevail and earn a degree. Hopefully a really laid back job will come along, but in the interim school will be my focus. Oh and knitting...and crocheting....of course :). I have finally come to the conclusion that the only way to avoid the kindergartenesque behavior of others is to remove myself from positions of mediocrity and improve my chances in the work force. So.....3 weeks from today I will be parachuteless and flapping my arms to survive. It seems worth it though :).

Chaos

2008-03-11T12:47:57-05:00

I don't even remember the last time I logged in to my blog...I guess I could check the last post, however that would take away from the time that I have forced myself to allot for blogging. I have been really busy lately trying to get an Ebay store up and running...dedicated to crafty goodness such as yarn and supplies. It really is A LOT of work trying to maintain a stock of supplies, shipping and dealing with customers all the while working a full time job and raising two boys. UUUUUGGGGHHHH exhausted. I haven't had time to read much, but I was able to get a quick read in recently during lunch that has changed my life.... The book is called "Skinny Bitch". It can be found here http://www.skinnybitch.net/. This book gave me a totally different perspective when it comes to food. I am currently 1 week meatless. I use to love meat and am not swearing it off forever, but the thought of meat right now makes me want to vomit in my mouth. I guess I never really stopped to think of everything that is pumped into animals and the way meat is handled until this book and I don't now that I can ever go back to "just eating it" without thinking of all the junk and nastiness that is being consumed with it. I have made a life change that has been quite easy to be honest and am truly excited about opening my world up to trying new healthy foods. I have always been a "meat" eater and am not a never say never type of person, but this just really works. My puppy however will be sad because that means no more fat scraps for her little belly....

A great big knot on the noggin...

2007-10-22T13:08:32-05:00

So....Saturday after much whining and moaning I convinced Petty to spend the day with me...It started off great..we went to the carwash...waited for his car to get wash....drove to his office waited for him to speak with some co-workers, then had to rush back home because the youngest child had fallen on his noggin...How you ask?? Running...just running...fell and tripped and hit his head and then we spent the rest of the day in the E.R. waiting...and waiting...and waiting....He is okay thankfully...just has a huge knot the size of a softball, but he will live...and to my horror I realized I didn't have any yarn with me at all Saturday...with all the waiting I just twiddled...my thumbs...I cannot believe how I was not prepared...will not happen again...at least I didn't have yarn and I didn't have needles or a hook....it could have been worse...I could have had one or the other...haha..sorry Kasi!! The pic below is Petty playing doctor and trying to tie the bonnet ice pack on to MA's head...

Update

2007-10-15T22:10:51-05:00

I have ohh so much to post...So I will start off with saying I no longer quit my job....(long story)....however I am still keeping my eye out for something better....I finally got in to ravelry...Heatherann...although as of yet have added absolutely nothing to it...And I threw Petty a "semi" surprise 40th birthday dinner...It was really cool... So here is a pic from that evening and I will be updating my knitted items soon...

How do you spell R.E.L.I.E.F.??

2007-10-03T22:23:45-05:00

I spell it by finally turning in my two week notice...YIPPEEE...I am free...I have nothing lined up to replace this job, yet I feel unbelievably calm about this. Maybe it is because I will no longer have to deal with rude wenches and people making me feel inferior on a daily basis. I was actually told today by my soon to be ex-boss that after a year and a half she feels I might actually know what I am doing...RRREEEAAALLLYYY???? I told her that I know more about what I am doing than her and everyone else in the office put together...That felt awesome!!! So....I will fulfill my obligatory two week sentence....while searching for a job and maybe take a few days to relax and knit...I want to start a new blanket (crochet) imagine that...hmmm...OH and my Ravelry invite is near...I think I am about 545 in line...so I will get to see the hype any day now...So wish me luck on not caving and staying at the ghetto vortex I am currently employed and luck on finding an amazing job...(one where I can play with yarn all day preferably)...