Farewell my Router

My router that we have only had since early February when we moved into the little house died yesterday afternoon. The cable guy thinks that all the recent storms probably fried it but it has been sunny since Friday so we didn't think that. However when the little power light won't light up irregardless of what you reset, un plug or turn off, that's your sign. So this afternoon, we headed south to the geek mecca of Best Buy. We have to get the special router that is wireless and hooks up directly into the cable because we didn't want to mess with 500 devices to hook together. Anyways, $162 later and one phone call to the cable company we were back on the internet. It is my connection to the world, my friends, my songs, my shows, and I will not give it up. It is my one thing. Besides, my sister and I have online classes starting soon so we needed to fix this problem fast. I saved the receipt so if this one dies we are taking the damn thing back to the store. the receipt for the one that died is probably somewhere out East with my parents.

Anyhoo, since I was disconnected half the weekend, I made lots of progress on Slouchy Purse. I completed row 19 today. YAY!!!! I will certainly have this ready for my mommy to help assemble when I fly out to see her. Today is her 27th Mother's Day. Yay for the lady that taught me how to be crafty and that I can be anyone I want to be and do anything I want to (within the boundaries of the law that is).

A feral cat crapped in our front flower planter thing by our front door and tore up a couple of marigold sprouts. Cat shit really smells bad in 90 degree weather.

I checked out some more books from the Libary. One of them is really exciting, it's called Music Lust and is the Music version of the Book Lust series. I am also reading Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook. It is so neat. I am going to order a copy of this book this summer cause it tells you how to do everything house related and Martha is my homegirl. The last book I checked out was The Knitting Experience: The Purl Stitch. My SP 10 had sent me a copy of the first one in the series and I liked it so much that I decided I checked out the next one in the series. The Purl Stitch book is just as awesome and there are little Yorkies featured in the pictures of the knit wear so this book gets extra brownie points.

I also bought the new issues of Knit 1 (the green issue) and Interweave Knits. Good issues but Craft magazine and Interweave Crochet have probably been my most useful magazine purchases this year. I will admit that I bought the summer issue of Seventeen. They have good music playlists and the clothes and accessories that they feature in their magazine are affordable stuff you could actually find at a regular mall. Lol. did I mention that I watched the season 8 marathon of America's Next Top Model yesterday?

Song of the day: The Story by Brandi Carlile. This song is so awesome. I love her vocal range. i discovered her because I was watching the VH1 Top twenty countdown this morning. This song was also on a recent episode of Grey's Anatomy, but I didn't really feel the full impact of the song until I heard the full song on VH1.

Hooks up!