Is it Friday yet?

So working 45-50 hours a week and taking 2 upper level accounting classes at night is kicking my butt in a good way. I am managing my time better (sort of) and it gives me something productive to do. I am very much looking forward to labor day weekend so that I can work on my crochet projects and work ahead on homework so it will be less of a burden during the week. It was a nice cool 77 degrees today and I truly thank God for the break from the sweltering heat that I am still not used to after all these years. I also plan on watching more Gilmore Girls (season three is my favorite). My sister and I also want to make Twinkie sushi (no fish involved) from the twinkies cookbook i bought last weekend. it is more my speed. i mailed my rachel ray cookbook to A this weekend. It was a nice cookbook, but i hate cooking and A likes to make homemade stuff all the time, so she will give it a good home.

i also need to find an outfit to wear to a commitment ceremony that i am attending on the 16th. it's a outdoorsy evening ceremony and i just have power suits and jeans because i swore off cute party clothes a long time ago. hopefully the Gap outlet will come through for me, although i look nasty in bohemian and jewel tone wear.

Sunshine, I miss you. i ordered a book for us and i will bring it with me to my birthday fiesta if you can wait that long.

anyhoo, i am dog tired, so i am going to crawl into my futon underneath my two denim and flannel super duty quilts that i love so much.

Counting, Counting, Counting

well, this past week I started my first cost accounting class. the professor seems nice so far. he attempts to be interesting anyways. yesterday was my sister's birthday, so we went to Owasso. The first stop was Hobby Lobby so I could get more colors of dish cloth yarn (i prefer Lily's Sugar and Cream) and some red with white polka dots ribbon for the Little Mouse Purse, that I just starting. then we went to Petsmart so that my sis could buy cute doggie toys for Daisy who is still in the puppy chews all the time stage. The Ty Beanie baby company has a line of dog toys that are just adorable, epecially the dog bone shaped ones. Next, we just HAD to go to Tar-jay. I ended up buying a TI-30 calculator so i wouldn't have to borrow my sister's all the time for night class. It was $12 bucks and has a two line display which is all I really needed. Then we ate lunch at Fuddruckers, cause we really like the chocolate shakes and the burgers taste pretty good too. i was really surprised that my sis picked Fudds over Chick-Fil-A, cause that is one of her top fives, but she was apparently in a hamburger mood. Then we came home and watched a whole bunch of Gilmore Girls Season three. Her big birthday present was a rebuilt HP laptop from my dad. Not bad for a PC, but i still heart my Mac.

On the hook, well i have another dishcloth half done. The color is "sunshine." I am starting the Little Mouse Purse and I would like to make the flip-flop coasters from The Crochet Dude's blog because they are soo cute and I have plenty of leftover dishcloth yarn to make them with.

I am waiting on my order from Mary Maxim, my intermediate accounting book and the Vonnegut books that my sister ordered, including his latest. No trips planned until my b-day probably. Owasso and Tulsa don't count as trips because they are less than 1 hour away. My Arbonne order came in this past week. It is really helping my poor face out.

work has taken a turn for the better. some procedures changed that will make my life less stressful. Did i mention that i actually cracked open my cost accounting text book this weekend? A new day has come....Lol.

Purses Galore

Tonight Mom and I finished lining the Ocean Waves purse and attaching the handles. I think it looks really great and I was able to fit all my junk in it. I went to Loops again this afternoon, after my sister went to a bunch of educational supply stores to get stuff for her new classroom. I bought the supplies to make the "Little Mouse Purse" by Billie Anne Griggs, who also designed the Ocean Waves purse. The Little Mouse Purse is so adorable that i am going to make one for A-dolly and probably myself, cause I think it would be fun to take to work (accounting clerks can have fun purses even in corporate America). I really like the feel of the yarn that the designer chose. It's a cotton blend, which is perfect for Oklahoma summers. I'm such a purse fanatic that it's no surprise to me that all my recent crochet projects have been purses.

hmm, not much else is going on. I'm going to cut out a bunch of sports articles to send to my cousin in Iraq. he really loves sports and newspaper articles are really easy to slip into a box and he enjoys reading them. I've been also rocking out to Def Leppard's greatest hits this evening (hey, i'm a child of the 80s) and I've been listening to R.E.M. during my work commute.

My classes start this week too. I just hope I can stay awake during my night classes...LOL.

FO (sort of)

So last night I finished crocheting the Ocean Waves purse. My mom is going to whipstitch it together and sew in the lining, but we are having a hell of a a time finding a color to go with fushia and dusty rose. We looked through our stash and everything we have is too red or too pink. I think I'm going to have to suck it up and go to Hobby Lobby.

Our darling neighbors informed us that our water main has been leaking onto their driveway for the last four days. what the hell? Back in Iowa, our neighbors would've told us right upon discovery of said leak. so my dad had to call one of those on call plumbers to fix it. we have water to the house, but we have to call a landscaper to fix the irrigation system line. lol.

Such is life. it is hot and i don't know what to craft next. does anyone know what to do with a whole massive hank of natural white bulky weight alpaca from ecuador?

One Skein Musings

So I had sent off my final package to Melinda, who I have been sending to in the One Skein swap all summer and forgot that I can actually reveal my identity in in this swap, cause I think all I said was my name. That is typical of me, head stuck in the clouds. So this post is for her, so that she can know more about me. Hmm, I will be 26 on the 25th of September and I am still infatuated with hello kitty and have been since like age 3. I love Grey's Anatomy and Gilmore Girls. I have an affinity for green and yellow tractors and love all kinds of music from Brad Paisley to Slipknot and everything in between. i am still learning how to hand knit but I can fly when it comes to machine knitting or crochet. In fact, I am like 15 rows from completing the Ocean Waves purse (crochet). I love, love, love yarn. My stash is crammed into a three foot deep plastic orange tub that I have to sit on to shut the lid and a Born shoebox that I have to put a giant rubber band around to shut the lid. I love blues, purples, and hot pink. i don't have kids but I have two little Yorkies that eat better than I do. I am also a bookworm in the midst of reading Mockingbird: A portrait of Harper Lee by Charles L. Shields, which is really good especially if you are a Harper Lee or Truman Capote fan like me.