Sloth Sunday

So yesterday, with the help of my Mom, I finally finished the Slouchy Purse. this was my oldest WIP, and the pattern is in the Spring 2007 issue of Interweave Crochet magazine. I also finished the prayer shawl that I started on Friday with some Homespun from my mom's stash. I started a second one last night with some Homespun in Delft blue.
I might have to take pictures with my iphone since my camera is out of commission. I had the dumb idea of taking the memory card out of my camera and sticking it into my printer to print pictures. The card still works but now when i try to stick it back into my camera I get some weird error (not the card reading error) and so it won't take pictures with the memory card in. I need to find the manual so I can decode the error message but so far I've just found the manual for my previous digital camera.
Unfortunately, the Hurricanes lost last night, which is not good. We basically have to win all of the remaining four games to stay in the playoffs.
I don't really have anything planned for today. I've spent the whole weekend at my parent's house just hanging out. I am really not looking forward to the traffic on the roads tomorrow. The troopers will be out in full force and there is a big NASCAR race at Lowe's Motor Speedway tonight which means there will be lots of traffic around Concord and on I-85. I bought a mystery book called Southern Fried by Cathy Pickens. It takes place in a small town in South Carolina and she is a local author. This is the fourth book in the series. I have put the other books on the hold list at my library. There is a couple of books on my requested list that I am like 120th or so in line. I'm not sure that I will be able to read those this year. It doesn't seem as bad until I realized that there is only 52 weeks in a year.

Holiday Weekend

For some bizarre reason I woke up at 6am this morning which is way too early to wake up on a vacation day from work, but since I had to drive 3 hours down to my parents house, it worked to my advantage because I missed the majority of the traffic. I didn't really hit traffic until I got to Concord (which is home of Lowe's Motor Speedway). It's a race weekend and they have the world's largest grill set up on the track today.
This week has been a busy week. Two hockey losses (damn Penguins!!), two trips to the bar and one Flight of the Conchords viewing party last night. I've been so busy this week and tired that I forgot to bring all the graduation programs down with me and I forgot to burn a picture cd for my mom. That was a huge oops moment.
My iphone arrived on Tuesday and it was love at first sight. Thanks to Sunshine, i figured out how to do ringtones and now I have two ringtones on my phone. I also downloaded more free apps today. It's really fun to Shazam songs at the bar and to take goofy pics with your friends too. It doesn't have a flash, but it takes WAY better pics then my old piece of crap phone.
I didn't bring the Doctor Who scarf with me this weekend. It is all one piece and it's just too big to port around really and I'm getting low on yarn too. I need like a mini project to work on but i have no idea what that would be.

Late night

So it’s early Saturday morning and I am up for awhile because I’m 28 and still have ear problems. Flying last weekend screwed up my ears again and I broke down and bought some Claritin D after work in hopes of it helping and I took it too close to bedtime and now I’m wired. Of course it doesn’t help that all this stuff has been going on all week and so my mind is racing at a million miles an hour.
Last weekend I flew home to “home #2” to watch my baby sister graduate with her master’s degree in Educational Psychology with an option in gifted education. I’m really proud of her because I don’t have the motivation to get my master’s degree and she managed to get hers while teaching full time and working part time at Kumon. I also got to spend time with Sunshine and that was great because I hadn’t seen him since he came out here to visit right before Christmas. The weekend flew by so fast, I felt like I was hardly there and I really hate leaving them behind.
I am also eating a big piece of crow pie. I’ve said for months now that I was going to switch cell phone providers just to get an iphone but I found out last Friday that US Cellular will not renew my cell phone contract because I am no longer in a local calling area anymore, and since I will be moving a lot in my career, I made the switch today to AT&T and I bought a refurbed 16gb iphone. I was able to get a nice discount through work on the monthly rate, and AT &T had the best coverage, I get the work discount and getting to play with Sunshine’s iphone last weekend sealed the deal. With the iphone I get the app store, the synergy with my Mac and I already have compatible accessories. I will admit I did a pro-con spreadsheet on this and the iphone won. My iphone shipped today and hopefully I have it around Tuesday. Once it’s working, then I’m going to cancel my other phone.
I also got tickets to see Aerosmith in July and Def Leppard with Poison in August. Watching Aerosmith live has been on my bucket list for years and I’ve worshipped Steven Tyler officially since 1994. I also love Def Leppard and I have the sick joy of getting to see Bret Michaels and his hair extensions. I love hair bands! I am not ashamed to admit this. I have a weakness for 80s hair bands and 90s grunge bands because that’s what I listened to in middle school & high school. I am so stoked the new Green Day album came out this week.
I did not bring any crochet projects with me last weekend because I knew it would take up my precious carry on space and I didn’t think I would have time to work on anything, which was true. I came back and put in some serious time on the Doctor Who scarf this weekend. It is 114 inches long right now and as G likes to point out, she is only 62 inches tall. I totally want to hang it off my balcony to see how close it is to touching the ground. Did I mention that I am only a fourth of the way through section 2 of 4 sections? It is my magnum opus project. I can’t wait to take this to knitting group next weekend.
After I went to Target this evening, I stopped off at BN to get the rest of A-dolly’s birthday present. I can’t believe that my little god daughter is going to be FIVE! I also ended up buying Pygmy, the new Chuck Palahniuk book at 40% off. I love reading his books because they challenge my thinking and he is always pushing the envelope. When you read as many books as I do, you really appreciate those qualities in an author. Before I left, I finished Dead and Gone, which is the latest book in the Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood series by Charlaine Harris which was awesome. I love all of her books.
Tonight the girls and I will be going to see the Carolina Rollergirls play. I am really stoked because I have been wanting to go to a roller derby match ever since I moved out here but the timing was always bad. I think it will be lots of fun and full of girl power.
I also failed to mention how gross it is outside. 78 degrees and humidty equals gross. I went to Target straight from work, made a quick stop at BN and then I waited until dark to go to the Automatic Post Machine and grocery shopping at Whole Foods. I am proud to say that I have been doing so well at useable shopping bags that I really had to hunt for plastic bags to stuff the box I sent out to A-dolly.

Leaving on a Jet Plane

It's Sunday morning and I actually managed to sleep in until like 8ish which is good because Saturday morning I woke up at 6:30 am CT time. I feel a little bit like a time traveler. All I am coming back with luggage-wise is my half pipe Lesportsac carry-on bag and the shiny chrome colored reusable shopping bag from Eskimo Joe's. I probably wouldn't need to use the EJ bag but yesterday at Wal-Mart, I found the Baby Alive diaper bag set for my godchild whose birthday is in a couple of weeks and she is currently obsessed with the Baby Alive empire even though I think it is the world's ugliest baby doll. It comes in this big rectangular box, so that got shoved in the EJ bag. I really don't want to leave. I"ve had so much fun with my sister and Sunshine and I had the most amazing #1 Sonic burger and cherry limeade yesterday (not easily found in NC).

Adventures Included:
1. My sister's graduation from OSU with her master's degree and Hideaway/Eskimo Joe's/The Barn
2. the US Cellular incident (let's just saying I'm switching to AT &T and getting an iphone)
3. The storms and the shingle party
4. Applebee's
5. the massive clean-a-thon
6. Summerside Winery (i heart their blackberry wine)
7. Re-inacting The Boat Song

I will fill in this post more later, I just needed a little outline.