where do I begin?

This weekend was CRAZY!!!! So crazy, that I can't post about some of it because this is still the internet after all. I must protect the guilty.

I am now the extremely proud owner of a 1 GB HOT PINK IPOD SHUFFLE. I named her Meredith after my favorite character on Grey's Anatomy. She kept me company during this wacky weekend and will acompany me on my trips to come. I needed something small and portable that I could take when I am mini golfing and going on walks around the giant duck pond. I do still plan on getting the video ipod but that will be in July. My shuffle is the tiny square shaped one. It is like the size of a quarter, seriously.

Then there was the bachelorette party. wow. um, yeah, I can't go into details on the internet, but I did promise Sunshine that I would tell him all the stories when I come visit in a couple of weeks.

The next day, I got up at the o dark early to drive up to central Kansas for the Bachelorette Party. I got to M's apartment complex about 9 am. We left to go shopping with M grumbling all the way. We went to Super Target, World Market, Barnes and Noble, Gordman's and a novelty store. We also ate lunch at Taco Shop which is a local taco chain that makes crunchy tacos that are not greasy. We bought a wedding gift for S and JG and I did manage to find one book that I was looking for at BN.

You will just have to leave the rest of the details up to your imagination. I saw 6 cops on my three hour drive home and three different gas prices that had a 20 cent difference between each of them.

I really did have a decent weekend. There was a lot of highs and lows. Definitely some moments that I won't forget.

To save the best for last, I did start a mitered crochet dishcloth out of Sugar and Cream in turquoise and white. It is turning out pretty cool, I have never attempted a mitered pattern before, but I think it looks pretty good for my first attempt.I didn't bring the purse with me because it is wool and I didn't want to pick cat hair off of it for the next year. M still hasn't vaccumed.The cat hair was so bad I had to use nasal spray constantly and you would have thought ten cats were living in her apartmen instead of one.

I almost forgot. Martha Stewart has craft kits at Michaels. I about squeed in the store when I saw them on the end cap. I got her charm bracelet kit that I am going to make during arts and craft time with my mommy when I am there in a week or so. I wanted to buy them all, but I limited myself to just one. i don't know if other stores carry them, cause I found them by accident.

Song of the Day: Whiskey in the Jar performed by Metallica. I felt that I should choose a booze song for this post. It is fitting.

All of It

Is there no longer any happy endings? Does true love really exist? You would ask those questions if you had watched Ugly Betty and Grey's Anatomy tonight. That is all I am going to say about that.

I am on row 24 on the Slouchy Purse. There are 35 total. I am getting really close. I could possibly even finish the body this weekend. I'm not sure what my next project will be once I finish this.

I'm annoyed with work right now. everyone I work with except for one person is at least twenty years older than me and they are fighting amongst themselves over the most stupid things. I am working on some great projects but when you are surrounded by bitchfests, it makes you wish that you could just work from home.

This weekend is going to be very interesting. I don't remember the last time I went to a party. Lol...I"m just not a person that really likes big groups and I have no idea who is going to be at this bachelorette party except for S the bride and M. I am still considering bringing my crochet because since S taught me how to crochet, I could possibly get away with it. One time my friends through me a birthday party and some of them were mad because I read a book for the majority of the party. hey, i was having fun reading the book. I'm not a hermit, I'm just picky about who I socialize with. Speaking of books, I am going to BN this weekend. I am making M take me. That was one of my justifications for driving up there two weekends in a row when gas is like a million dollars a gallon.

I washed my new jeans tonight and stuck them in the dryer and I put them on and they are not tight!!! Perfect fit on day one of wearing them. Somehow, I have managed to loose a couple of pounds. I am not sure how other then I am drinking a lot less pop, and I walk more but I'm not really trying that hard.

Anyways, I am kind of tired. I probably won't post again until I get back from the big trip. I know I will have stories.

Song of the Day: Inside Out by Mighty Lemon Drops

Parts and Parties

Today I got to work at 5:30 am so I could assist in an inventory audit. We didn't finish until 10 am. On the plus, side I got to leave work earlier than I typically would because I am hourly.

I am going to a friend's wedding over Memorial Day weekend and this friend sent me an email last night inviting me to her bachlorette party this weekend. I am a little miffed because that is very last minute and it would require driving up there two weekends in a row, but the other part of me is like I don't have anything better going on. It's a hotel party, so I could just hang out and crochet. LOL...That would be awesome. I have major issues with just sitting still. I have to be doing something.

Sniff Sniff. Tonight is the Gilmore Girls Series Finale. i am really going to miss that show.

UPDATE: So the GG finale was probably the best episodes of the season. I am glad to see that the series finale actually did the characters some justice. I decided to drive up for the bachelorette party but I will drive up Saturday morning. M and I are going to get the wedding gift, bachelorette party gift and try to find me a damn dress to wear. That could be interesting.

I have made no progress on the Slouchy Purse. i bought Music and Lyrics on dvd (staring the lushcious and feisty Hugh Grant) and with this being season finale, there is just no way I can watch all of that and expect to have my rows turn correctly.

A-dolly received her afghan yesterday and absolutely loves it, so mission accomplished.

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!

The Finish Line

I am very happy to report that I finished the big afghan Wednesday night. Yay!!!! The border is complete and I wove the ends in as i went so I didn't have any finishing work to do. I took pics and tomorrow i will take it over to my friends at the UPS store so that they can send it up north for the birthday girl. It will be bittersweet because this is the largest project I've completed to date.

Grades posted and unfortunately I did not flunk out of school. In fact i got straight As. I have no idea how I pulled that off with all of the disasters and drama this semester. I got my summer tuition bill and it is not nearly as bad as I thought it would be.

Since I still have no social life until the end of this month, I am very excited to start working on The Slouchy Purse. This pattern is in Interweave Crochet Spring 2007 and was designed by the Crochet Dude. I am using two skeins of Lamb's Pride Worsted in Chianti and my new size H Addi hook. I am spoiled. I can't use the other hooks now that I have discovered the Addi ones. I started this project last night while watching Ugly Betty and I am already on row 7. It's basically a ribbing pattern and once I reminded myself to do stitches other than the half double I had been doing for the last two months, it took off fast. The color looks great and I am excited to be working with wool and not acrylic. Acrylic has a time and a place but I don't use it any more if it's a project for me. My goal is to finish the base so that I can have my Mom help me with attaching the handle and sewing the lining in. Sewing the lining in makes a great finished project but it is a bitch to do right with out having puckers in the fabric.

Ugly Betty and Grey's Anatomy were awesome last night. I would like the writers to cut my poor Meredith a break. The poor girl has been enough. This weekend I have three Gilmore Girls tapes that I missed to catch up before I watch the series finale on Tuesday. I am so sad about the series finale. There is nothing like that show out there and I can't wait until Season 7 comes out on dvd.

EVENING UPDATE:

My ex-boyfriend, the jackass from FOUR YEARS AGO that cheated on me with a seventeen year old when I was twenty two and he was twenty five messaged me on yahoo, wanting to catch up with me! THE NERVE!!! He did half ass apologize this evening but I made it pretty damn clear that I am a strong financially independent woman that doesn't want to reconnect with him. I tried to convey this in the most polite manner but I have this policy of not dating exes. I did that once and I learned my lesson. Generally speaking, there is a pretty damn good reason why it didn't work out the first time. I'm still really surprised about the whole thing because I just popped on my messenger to see if I had any e-mail.

Other than this minor disruption, I am having a nice evening. My sister and I went to Pizza Hut because that was always my reward growing up for getting good grades. Lol. Family traditions are nice sometimes. I talked to my parents. They celebrated thirty two years of marriage yesterday and had squid for dinner (cooked in calamari style). Yuck. they liked it though so that is what matters. I would celebrate with penne covered in tomato vodka sauce instead.

Boxes Galore

I received my last two purchases from ebay today. The first box contained the first five BSC specials books. Box two was the vintage Barbie Learn to Knit Kit from the 60s. Complete with plastic knitting needles, instructions and acrylic yarn (Paton's Canadiana). the yarn is really musty but that is typical of yarn from the 60s. Like almost knocks you over smell. I might have to consult my mom on what to do about the smell. I was mostly interested in the canister (original good condition) and the patterns.

I have one more row to complete on the border for A-dolly's afghan. There is three rows of half double crochet in the border, one for every year of her life. I'm really stoked that it's going to be done in plenty of time to mail it to Iowa for her birthday but I'm kind of sad in a way that it is done. I've been working on this since my half birthday which was March 25th.

there is still a lot of rain going on. I am getting totally crap gas mileage this week because of it too. Boo hoo. My short cut to work is washed out so bad right now that they had to put up road blocks at all the entrances from the highway.

I get to watch America's Next Top Model tonight and I'm stoked because there is supposed to be some cat fights going on tonight...LOL. My sister is to blame for getting me hooked on this show because they have marathons on the weekends a lot on VH1 and mTV.

Sweet, sappy song of the day: I'll Wait For You - Joe Nichols

Row Row Row Your Boat

Last night we had this massive thunderstorm and so much rain. I drove to work this morning and there was so much water on the highways. Driving 45 minutes in the pouring rain is not fun because I kept having to switch lanes to avoid standing water and then there was lots of lightening. When I got into town the parking lot of the local Wal-mart was flooded because it was kind of built on a flood plain. I'm really glad that the rain stopped mid morning because otherwise i would have had to rowed a boat home like Lewis and Clark style.

I attended two very extremely boring meetings today. Unfortunately, i wasn't running the meetings otherwise they would have been like 15 minutes each instead of an hour each.

I have no idea how much progress i made on the afghan tonight. The skein is almost empty and so I will probably put the last skein of the main color on tomorrow night. I think I'm going to make my deadline.

Music and Lyrics comes out tomorrow on DVD and I am very excited. Hugh Grant is naughty hot. He throws baked beans at the paparazzi. That takes a lot of gumption. Plus, it is a music movie and I really want to see it because i didn't get to see it in the theater because it was during the beginning of the semester and we were wrapping up our financial audit. I also want to see Spidey 3. Spidey and the original Wonder Woman are my favorite comic book characters.

Rockin in the Rain

Welcome to Spring/Summer in Oklahoma. We are in the midst of another severe thunderstorm and earlier we were under a tornado watch. My only problem with this weather is that I don't like hail because it can turn your car into cottage cheese and I have to park outside now. Knock on wood no hail yet. Sunshine, if you are reading this please stop doing your twister dance and send me a smoke signal instead.

On the plus side, I am moving full steam ahead on this afghan. I would really like to be able to put the border on this weekend and so I can finish it and ship it off to A-dolly in time for her birthday. I had to dust off my old school heavy metal cds and load them onto my ipod in preparation for this task. Yes, I love heavy metal and hard rock, I have a secret passion for 70s glam rock too. LOL...Anyways, the skein I am currently using is half empty. I have one more skein left and then I will have used up all the yarn accumulated for this project and it will be finished. Then I will do two to three rows of single crochet around the edge as a border using the colors in the variegated yarn. It will be cool. I can't believe I'm going to be finishing such a huge project. It's so big I have to take it to the UPS Store to have them professionally mail it. It's my first afghan so I want it to arrive in Iowa in one piece and I don't have any boxes big enough here to mail it.

I am actually in a pretty good mood today and I'm not sure why. I was thinking a lot this weekend about life in general. I'm a little lonely because I miss my family and my close friends but it's not a permanent thing. I would be more concerned if I didn't miss them. I'm trying to invent new forms of entertainment since my school and workload has now dropped now to normal levels. I went back to drinking water this weekend. I had a minor relapse during finals/closing week but I still drank way less Mountain Dew and other pop then I normally do. I have decided that Evian is my favorite bottled water cause it has a cool clean aftertaste. I have tried probably 15 different kinds in the last two weeks. It's on the expensive side, but if it makes me healthier and keeps me off the pop then I think it's worth it. The little bottled water drink mixes taste better with it too. i'm not really experiencing caffiene withdrawal which is great. I'm not cutting it completely out, I'm just turning it into a treat instead of a main course.

Book L*st

I did go to the library this morning and this is what I brought home:

1. Wendy Knits by Wendy D. Johnson
I really like reading her knitting blog
2. iwoz by Steve Wozniak
i heart apple and his autobiography is really good so far
3. KISS and Make-Up by Gene Simmons
Huge fan. love the music, love his persona, admire his business sense
4. Kaleidoscope by Suzanne Simanaitis
this book is really artsy and has a lot of things in it that will jump start my creativity
5. Knitting loves Crochet by Candy Jensen
i love her crochet books and i love the idea of taking the best of both worlds
6. Everyday Pasta - Giada de Laurentiis
i love watching her show and i love pasta and maybe someday I will learn to cook.

I think this goes to show that I will read just about anything. I finished KISS and Make-up already. I am working on the others. I like variety, so I usually have a few started at the same time.

My WEBS order arrived today. It came in the tiniest box, so I almost thought that they didn't ship it all together. I opened it up though and it was all there! The vickie Howell yarn that i purchased from her Love collection is so soft and slick. The Andi and Blane colorway is more of a coral pink then I thought it would be, but it is still really pretty. The Ennis and Jack colorway is a gray/lavender color and I think it's my favorite. My new addi hook size H was there along with my two skeins of Brown Sheep Worsted in Chianti. It really does look the color of Chianti and it is such a gorgeous deep burgundy/purple/red color. I love it. So, now that I have the yarn and the hook, I can start working on Slouchy. I just have to finish the big afghan first. I am almost done with my current skein so I am on the home stretch.

(you want to) Make a Memory

I thought the title of the lastest Bon Jovi single would be highly appropriate for today's post. June 19th baby!!! I have it on itunes pre-order...I heard them play this song on CMT and I was totally thrilled. It just stuck with me. It could possibly be a new theme song for me.

Today was J #1's last day at work. He was our G/L and he taught me probably more about accounting and finance then I've learned in accounting school. He is a huge baseball fanatic too so we would talk baseball a lot which is good cause I don't have a lot of friends that like baseball.

I got one row done on the afghan today. My right shoulder has a lot of psychic pain it or something cause it is just plain sore and crocheting irritates it because I can't crochet left handed at all. I have tried and it just doesn't work. I talked to my mommy tonight too, she is going to help me with my upcoming crochet projects when I go out there. I am going to do the Slouchy Purse and Lime and Violet's episode this week reminded me that I need to get around to making the Babette Blanket. It's so simple but I don't know what yarn I want to use, because I've donated most of my yarn scraps to knitting charities and I don't want to make it out of Red Heart, because that's what I had to use for A-dolly's afghan so that it would be washable and hold up to a toddler dragging it around everywhere.

I am done with finals. YAY!!! I am so tired of schoolwork. it will be nice to have a short break. I am taking two online classes this semester so I won't have to physically attend class which will work well for me.

I might go to the library tomorrow for kicks. It's free--that's the best part and they have lots of wonderful books there.

happy birthday daisy!! my little baby dog turns the big 2 today. Time flies by.

What a week.

I have survived 2 out of 3 finals this week. Final 3 is tomorrow night and it's the hardest one to study for because it is pretty broad, it is over a couple of cases.

My aunt D's yorkie Molly was mauled by two neighbor dogs Tuesday afternoon. My uncle was able to rush her to the emergency vet hospital and she is in the equivalent of doggie ICU right now. She has a leg injury that isn't as bad as they thought at first, but she has a punctured lung and stitches from nose to tail practically. She had surgery this morning and is now in an oxygen tent. She is on pain medication so she is not suffering. my aunt and my cousin visited her this afternoon and she moved her head when she heard their voices. My uncle called the sheriff after the accident and the owner of the dogs has agreed to pay for all of Molly's hospital expenses. Little Molly is quite the fighter. It breaks my heart though, because she is three months older than my yorkie Haley and their dog mothers are sisters.

Closing week sucked at work. People transitioning jobs slows down the process and our supervisor is sick with a bad cough and congestion and her 17 year old cat died Tuesday morning so it has been a rough week.

I gave in and drank a butload of Mountain Dew today. My head was so congested and mountain dew and tylenol were the only things that would make it quit. I am still only drinking 1/8th of the pop that I used to so I consider that to be a success.

On the upside, I will have much more time for Ugly Betty and crochet after my final tomorrow is done. I would really like to finish A-dolly's afghan before her birthday. I am impatiently waiting for my yarn order from WEBS. I just ordered this past Friday, so it's not late or anything, I just want to try out the Slouchy Purse.

favorite song of the day: Signal Fire by Snow Patrol from the Spidey 3 soundtrack

Hot Crochet

123 rows!!! Yay for me!!! I don't know how I added on so many considering how big and wide it is and it's like a bazillion degrees in the house. I am not putting a huge border on it. I am doing two rows of single crochet and that is it because it is as wide as the top of my double wide futon without a border. I made a chart for the Slouchy Purse pattern. I have problems counting and remembering what row I was on, so I write out what I am supposed to do on every single row and then i can check off the row upon completion. This was the system I developed for the Ocean Waves purse and it worked very well. Luckily there are only 35 rows total. After making this afghan, this purse is going to be a piece of cake. My goal is to have most of it done before I leave for SC so that I can have my mother the craft goddess do the piecing it together and making it look wonderful part.

My sister that weighs two pounds turned on the heater the other day when it dropped into the 40s at night and forgot to turn it off. I didn't realize what she did until it warmed up this weekend and it was ridiculously hot even with the ceiling fans. I go over to the thermostat and it's 85!!! She is having a bunch of ditzy moments this weekend. She lost the keys in wal mart and she drove so i didn't have my keys with me so if she hadn't been able to go back in and find them we would've been locked out of house and home.

I will be so relieved when finals/closing week is over. I hate studying for tests.Closing week will be interesting because our boss has been gone for 1/2 the month and our G/L's last day is Friday. I am trying to be positive but I am too much of a realist.

I am excited because I did catch up on Ugly Betty this weekend. I wish Henry the Accountant was my boyfriend. If i were to pick a dream guy that would be it. He wore an argyle sweater vest--a man after my own heart...My issue of W came in the mail and America Ferrera was on the cover. Her photos were beautiful, they were black and white and she was done up kind of like an old Hollywood starlet. You go girl!!!

Backyard Adventures

I actually sat down and read an entire book today. I finally bought the Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs and it was so good I couldn't put it down. Even if there was no talk about yarn or knitting this book would still be good. Like a muggle would enjoy this book. The ending really surprised me and so did some of the plot twists. That rarely happens to me because usually I figure out where the plot is going within the first chapter or so. anyways, I will read this book again.

I discovered the world's smallest Dooney and Burke purse today. seriously you can fit a tube of chapstick and a couple of credit cards and that's it. IT WAS SOOOO CUTE....I really wanted it especially because it has a rainbow colored metal zipper on it but it was freaking $65 bucks. No way. $65 should at least get you a bowling bag/mom purse sized bag.

It's getting hot again. I actually put shorts on to do laundry. this is bad because I never wear shorts which is obviously when you see my bright white legs. We actually had several ceiling fans going because my sister and I are holding out on turning on the air conditioner as long as possible.

I did make progress on the afghan today, but i don't know yet how much I actually got done because I was reading the book and committing acts of domestication. the heat factor is an issue, i have to sit in my big purple recliner so that i can prop my poor elbow up and be under a ceiling fan cause air circulation is could.

I have only drank one mountain dew this weekend. yay for me! i'm trying to drain myself to drink water with those little flavored packets--i like crystal lite and the cherry limeade stuff from wal-mart the best so far. My favorite bottled water is Evian but if i add in flavor then i'm fine with just the tap water. we will see how this goes. i'm not quitting pop or booze, i'm just trying to drink better stuff.

My 50 + year old neighbor was sitting in a kiddie pool in a speedo today. I hope he put on some suncreen. this was my view when i went outside to my garage to switch the laundry. I also saw two Morman boys on bicycles today. I am an indoorsy gal so I don't go outside much but when I do, I sure get an eyeful of interesting sites.

Music and Yarn

So the sewer problem is fixed with minimal yard damage and smell. I am now waiting on an 82 page annual report to print out because my INT II final is a series of questions about this company and we can use a copy of their annual report on the final. Lucky for me this company has a financials only version so i don't have to waste ink on a bunch of pretty pics.

I was naughty and ordered yarn from WEBS. I bought the addi h hook and two skeins of brown sheep worsted in Chianti so I could make the Crochet Dude's Slouchy bag that was featured in the new Interweave Crochet. Then I finally bought the Vickie Howell yarn from her Love line that I have been coveting for months--one skein of Andi and Blaine for me and one for my SP (cause she really likes pink too) and one skein of Ennis and Jack. I had to stock up though because come May 1st I have no allowance because I have to save up money for my trip to SC and my first summer tuition payment. I have money saved up already but I don't want to deplete my savings since i've worked harder lately to build it up.

there is a lot of good singles coming out. Never Again by Kelly Clarkson is awesome (you can totally rock out to this one) and I LOVE Carrie Underwood's cover of I'll Stand By You. She does the Pretenders justice. Kelly and Carrie are in heavy rotation in my Subaru. Slots 5 and 4 respectively. Incubus is in slot 3 and Rob thomas is in slot 6. Slots 1, 2, and 7 are mixed cds with the latest songs that i've downloaded from itunes. I also like Daughtry. My sister saw their video while channel surfing and i thought they sounded cool. I can really identify with their song called "Home."

On the movie front, i bought The Queen so that i would have something to watch while filling out studyguides for my dumb finals and for working on the big afghan. I managed to squeeze out two rows tonight. I might do some more before I go to bed. i'm in a strangely peppy mood this evening.

There's a Hole in My Yard!!!!

So my life has just been one little thing after the other lately. I"m almost home and I get this call from my sister saying that the owner of our house is coming over to look at the mysterious puddle of muck that is around the air conditioner. Well, it turns out that our air conditioner is fine but there is a leaking sewer pipe right by it that was producing the muck. So I am tired and frustrated and I pull into the driveway and the landlord is waiting for me to update me on the situation because my sister wasn't home yet. he takes me out back and shows me the big hole he dug. Holy shit literally. This whole is like two feet long. The sewer pipe problem explains why we've had funky plumbing since we moved in. See the previous renters had a bunch of unauthorized people living there, didn't maintain anything and paid late all the time. He likes us cause we keep things nice and we pay on time. he flat out told me that and I thought it was humourous. Anyhoo, the landlord is coming back tomorrow with mr. roto rooter guy to fix the problem. I am sure I will have some hilarious tales to tell about this.

My fun books arrived today. I had ordered Mix Tape--the art of cassette culture by thurston moore (sonic youth--hell yeah) and 150 Crochet Trims. Both books are way awesome. I also bought the 40th anniversary issue of Rolling Stone to take my mind of the whole in my backyard. I am definitely having a music and yarn therapy weekend in preparation for finals week. I might have to make a new mix tape.

I have been invited to go on a float trip in June. I am so indoorsy that I had to ask what that is. Apparently people get some canoes and float down the river with beer and snacks and have a bunch of fun. So I said yes, cause i need some adventure and I was promised that it was okay that i have no idea how to canoe or paddle. I don't have to sleep in a tent either cause it's a day trip. See in seventh grade i went on a two week camping trip out West and after sleeping in a tent for two weeks I said to hell with that. I only camp at Camp Hilton now.

Tomorrow is pay day. yay. money makes me happy.I need to buy my mom a mother's day present so that I can mail it to her in time. I also need to buy a present for M's birthday since she sent me one for mine this year. I am going to go hug my pillow now. I am sleep depraved to the 10th degree.

Maniac Monday

Yuck. I am tired. I stayed up really late all weekend except for last night. I have an estimated 108 rows. There might be a couple more than that because i didn't count until right before I went to bed so i might have spaced out and missed a couple. I am stuck going into work at 6 am tomorrow which really sucks because i have to observe the part counting in the quarterly audit. I find this to be very boring. I am leaving as soon as my eight hours are up because I have night class and finals are next week so it's kind of stressful. My goal is to make it to May 4th which is the last day of the semester, finals week and closing week.

I found grape flavored Big Chew Bubble gum today at a gas station. this makes me happy. I love Big Chew gum and grape is the best flavor but it's hard to find down here.

daddy bought my plane ticket to SC so i can visit my doggies (and my parents too. i am stoked about it because it will make it easier to pay summer tuition. the "online fee" at my school is as much as the tuition for the stupid class but i am willing to pay it so that I can graduate sooner. The pitfall to going to summer school at any university or college is that most of them don't offer very many upper-division classes. this is my rant about school for today. did i mention that i don't really like school i just like the social part of it. It sucks to be a grown up sometime.

A Green Day

Since it is finally not freezing or raining buckets, I was finally able to plant flowers in the front planter box on our front entrance. I have a little box of reddish pink and purple impatiens and the big planter box is full of marigolds. We will see how long they last, the punk neighbor kids have been pretty good so far about not disturbing our property so I think my biggest obstacle is the upcoming Oklahoma heat. Our lawnboys mowed the lawn today too so our yard looks really great.

I made a lot of progress on the afghan today but it is really hot today so I kept having to take breaks because the afghan is really big now so it puts out a ton of heat. I made a little bracelet today. it's cute and preppy kind of. I also bought the new issue of Craft magazine. it is really expensive, but I get so much more out of this magazine then most of them. I really want to make the white rabbit in The Cute Book but I am out of felt and i didn't really feel like going to wal mart tonight just to get two pieces of felt. My mom emailed me about her trip to the local yarn shop today. all i have to say is NO FAIR!!!! I wanna go!!!!

I finally received my copy of Budget Travel magazine complete with the Girlfriend Getaways issue. it had some really awesome tips and articles in it. I love to travel. yay.

On the music front, I now have Avril's new cd and tim mc graw's new cd. yay for me. Good tunes = better commutes. I must have magazines, yarn, music and mountain dew. seriously. that would all be in my disaster kit if I were responsible enough to have one. maybe some hello kitty band aids too.

Movie Night

So i drove straight to Owasso from work in the hopes of finding suitable clothing such as a dress to wear to the wedding, shoes for work, and new jeans. I think I found some non-hideous dresses but I didn't buy any because I need some female opinion or Sunshine's opinion so I know if they look okay. Summer is the worst time to buy new dress shoes because it is sandal strappy open toed season and we can't wear sandals or open toed shoes to work because it is a potential safety hazzard. There were some jeans at Old Navy I liked but they weren't really on sale and if I wanted to pay full price for jeans I could just buy my favorite kind at the Gap outlet in town because they aren't on sale yet there either.

I did find the Freedom Writers dvd at the low price at Target so I picked that up for my sister and we watched that tonight. It was good. It is one of those inspirational tear jerker movies like The Pursuit of happyness that you can't help but love. I did get several rows on the afghan in while watching the movie however it is really late at night so i won't do a row count until tomorrow morning. I finally received my new issue of Budget Travel magazine and it's really good. I got a card from my mom and A sent me L pictures so it was another good mail day.

I"m tired so I'm going to bed in the hopes of tricking my brain into sleeping for awhile.

Yay!

I received another package from my Secret Pal 10 today. She sent me Neutrogena Hand Cream (the best stuff in the world for my poor dry skin), a little embroidered sachet with holly on it and this really cool knitting book The Knitting Experience Book One: The Knit Stitch. I had heard about how great this series of books was but I hadn't looked at one before but I skimmed through it tonight and thought it was pretty awesome. I like how the book is laid out and the diagrams are real color pictures that you can actually see the stitch formation on!! I am definitely taking this book with me to SC this summer so that my Mom can read it too.

My accounting test tonight sucked major ass. Seriously. He told us to study a certain set of problems because they would be on the test and the problems we got on our test tonight were nothing like them. When the smarties leave the problems blank that is a baddd sign. To make up for this awful tragedy I went to Hastings and bought the world's cutest Chococat wallet that is gray. Sadly I missed Ugly Betty tonight but I made it home in the nick of time to catch grey's anatomy which was awesome. I was heavily distracted by the show but I did manage to get a couple of rows in on A-dolly's afghan.

My Yarn Stash

My Secret Pal 10 hostess has challenged us to talk about or display pictures of our yarn stash. I am way too lazy to take pictures so I will talk about it. Prior to the move, I did do a major de-stashing which was good. However, i have noticed my stash is steadliy climbing back up.

1. Stash 1 --- I have this huge orange plastic tub that is full to the brim with my standard yarns. these are the colors and types I use the most. This tub is full, so this leads us to Stash 2

2. Stash 2 -- I have one shelf on my bookcase as designated yarn overflow. This is where my newly acquired yarn goes.

3. Stash 3 -- This is an old picnic basket I got from my Mom. It's really sturdy and it is where I keep all my yarn for A-dolly's afghan.

This all sounds not so bad, but my true addiction is knitting and crochet books, leaflets and magazines. If they were all in one spot, I could easily fill an entire 5 shelf bookcase. These are all ones that I like and use for reference, because if I don't like them I give them to friends or charity knitting groups. I could also fill a couple of shoe boxes with knitting needles, crochet hooks, and accessories. I also have a hat box full of my circle knitting looms and one plastic box that has all of my barbie spool knitter sets. I think making hats for the Dulaan project is what keeps my yarn stash in check.

In my defense, this is my main hobby and top source of entertainment. it keeps me out of trouble and I can still buy groceries every week and afford gas for my commute. LOL...

I'm back from my trip. I feel awake now. It was such whirlwind trip and I was totally dragging ass at work on Friday. It probably didn't help that it rained buckets and so I was seriously congested.

i did get to talk to my mom Friday night for over an hour. That was great because she is my crafting buddy. As of Friday night there was a total of 76 rows on the mighty afghan but after today's marathon of America's Top Model on mTV, there is probably around 80. I wasn't seriously working on it. Last weekend, I wove in the ends on all of the 37 hats that I have made for the Dulaan Project. I am going to mail them off next weekend as soon as I find a big enough box.

I'm kind of restless. I'm tired of shopping at the same old stores. I'm looking forward to this summer because it will be a fresh start. I'm trying to work on a new routine for myself. I have a whole shitload of time because my parents and dogs moved away and apparently I spent more time with them then I thought I did. I think I'm mainly afraid of becoming a hermit.

I"m not sure how, but I did manage to underspend this week by a lot. Which is a good thing. I was mainly concerned because I was going on a business trip and even though I get reimbursed for it, that tends to eat up short term money. But I actually behaved myself.

By the way, since I was soo good, I allowed myself to buy 90210 SEASON ONE!!!!! Hell yeah, Luke Perry is still smokin hot! I think I have one of the most unusual DVD collections ever.

Leaving On a Jet Plane

I am so happy! I am in Illinois/Iowa depending on which side of the Mississippi river I cross. I can look out my hotel room window and see the mighty Miss and I just instantly feel at home. Until I moved to Oklahoma I had always lived in a town with a huge river running through it. My hotel room has this fancy sleep number bed in it and I'll be honest, I can't tell the difference between numbers when I am laying on it. There is a TGIF attached to the hotel and they will deliver to your room which is awesome.

i woke up at 4:30 this morning because it was raining and I kept checking the clock to make sure I didn't oversleep even through I had two alarms set. My flight up here was a breeze so I hope that my home is the same way. I went out to eat last night -with some co-workers last night and had the most enormous plate of spaghetti ever at the Brown Bottle. I love that place....

No progress on the afghan to report. It is too big to stuff in a carry on bag and i am afraid that an overzealous TSA would confiscate my precious Addi hooks which are harder to replace then my Susan Bates hooks. I did however read the new issue of Crochet! magazine while I was at the Dallas airport. I didn't buy it because i wasn't in love with any of the patterns. I liked the patterns in the new issues of Interweave Crochet ( i want to make the slouchy purse) and Crochet Today. I am trying to decide on what to make with the two skeins of Debbie Bliss I received from my secret pal. I might make a scarf just because the yarn is so soft.

I hope i can stay awake today since i am supposed to be training people. I woke up at 4:00 am yesterday so I could be up in enough time to drive down to the airport and make it through security. I don't like to feel rushed. I might have to make a caffeine pit stop on my way in. the hotel pop machine has CANS of mountain dew for a dollar. Rolls her eyes.

Easter Fun

So this is my only second Easter weekend where I have not been with my parents or relatives or dogs. Just me and my sister. Lol. We had easter lunch at the local McDonalds. We stood in line behind a lady purchasing NINETY CHEESEBURGER HAPPY MEALS. Thirty for boys and Sixty for girls. Wow. It was for some special event or something because she took a picture of the mc donalds worker helping her carry all of her stuff out to her old pick-up. Seriously, people I can't make this stuff up.

I did a little sorting. I've come to the conclusion that I have too much crap. Still. I could have sorted through more stuff but it was seriously still cold (like 40s). This would not be cold normally except for the fact that it's been in the upper seventies for the last few weeks and then bam it's cold.

My sister and I watched re-runs of America's Top Model (cycle 5). I didn't think I would like that show, but it's not bad for some mind-sucking reality tv. I remember back when we just had one major reality tv show, The Real World. I think I was in 7th grade when that show started. damn. can you tell I'm rapidly approaching 30? Now I am watching Gene Simmons Family Jewels. It is the big face lift episode. Whatever floats your boat. I think that I will just stick with the Ugly Betty method and carry around a pretty purse. That's what i do when i feel like the need to feel more glamourous or more pretty. I might also use the five dollar shampoo instead of my dollar shampoo. I'm pretty low key when it comes to beauty. I wear Burt's Bees chapstick and that is it. Everything else is a waste because I just don't have the desire to spend my time messing with it when i could be spending time doing fun stuff like crochet.

Speaking of crochet, i am almost done with skein 5. I don't have a row count except for that I know it is over sixty rows. i tried counting but lost track like three times, so no row count today. I think I am making a lot of progress. i've only been working on this since like march 25th. I'm not really sure if I will have enough yarn. lol. I have five skeins left in my stash but afghans are like big and suck up the yarn when you are using half-double crochet stitches. I just like the tight weave. i don't like afghans where your toe pokes through. We'll see how much yarn I end up using. I don't think I will be able to crochet with this colourway any more after this.

TGIF

well, it was in the thirties this morning! this is not cool when earlier this week it was 60 plus degrees at 6:30 am on my morning commute. Good friday was an official work holiday for me, but my little internal alarm said it's 6:30 why aren't you leaving for work, so I got out of bed at 7 am and was on the road for my little shopping trip. Well, I struck out in the clothes department. I am sorry. I can not wear shirts made out of paper thin fabric to work or cropped pants. Scary patterns do not work with my busty chest. I did find some pants ---basic black and khaki that might work in the LL Bean catalog, so I hope I can guess my LL Bean size. yeah, i'm like in between sizes right now and that sucks.

On the positive side, I did mail off some stuff to my secret pal 10. yay. I did get my Starbucks gum in the cute little tin that is just perfect for holding tiny crafty stuff. I did find the stuff A wanted me to look for Little L. A is a hermit living in the desert. I got a set of Chibi darning needles. YAY!!!!

I finished my fourth skein of yarn on A-dolly's afghan. It is as wide as the top of a double sized bed. My mom and I don't believe in tiny ass blankies, and I wanted to make something that would last forever. I have to prop two pillows up under my right elbow so that I don't have crochet elbow. I have five more skeins in my picnic basket, I hope that will be enough. I miss my little doggies so much. they used to lay next to me or in my lap while I was crocheting.

Tv was complete crap tonight. We ended up watching one hit wonders on VH1. It is going to be a weird weekend because it will be the first holiday weekend that we aren't with our parents or any one else for that matter. I'm not like sad, but it just feels very very strange. My sister and I are going to blow up some Peeps in my microwave on sunday to celebrate easter. It will be festive. i have pink and yellow bunnies. LOL....

Did I mention our GL accountant gave his two weeks notice on thursday? I can see why he did it because he got a really awesome job offer, but it means the capital accountant and myself will be covering the slack until the replacement gets here probably around end of may/early june. I love my company, just not the unit I work at.

The Postman Report

This update is brought to you by my new purple Peeps pen. It is covered in purple faux velvet and does have a stuffed purple rabbit shaped peeps at the top. Yes, people I proudly took this pen to work with me and signed off on every journal voucher with it. This is why I rock.

Anyways, I am really posting because I came home from a very dull day at work and there was this major pile of boxes on my front doorstep. Okay, so there was only two but that is a lot of packages to get in one day. Typically the only things I get are bills, earnings statements and come to Jesus mail addressed to the former renters. Package number one was the shipment of frosted sugar cookies decorated for Easter and a bonus container of various mini chocolate bars from my aunt D. She is awesome. Yay for chocolate!

I'm saving the best for last. The second box was from my Secret Pal 10. It contained a little book of knit stitches so I can finally figure out what I am really supposed to be doing with the point sticks. I only know like three stitches. there was also a Cadbury toffee bar, so I stuck that in the fridge with the rest of my candy stash. It stays better in the OK heat and I am less likely to eat it all at once. there was also a three pack of Orbit gum (one of my top 5 gum choices) and a three pack of fancy post its. Oh did I mention that my Secret Pal is a total rock star(major compliment in my book) because she included two balls of Debbie Bliss Alpaca silk in a pretty shade of pink! It is possibly the softest yarn my little hands have ever touched. My jaw dropped because I know how special this yarn is....Squeeeeeeee!!!!! What an awesome surprise!!! I have always wanted to try yarn like this before but I have never put it on a list because I didn't want to set the bar too high, plus, this yarn is the kind of yarn I would have to order online or else drive like three hours away to get. Anyways, thanks again Secret Pal 10 because that totally made my day.

Um it is really hot here today. Yuck. I start to melt at 75. But at least it is not raining that is a huge plus. I do not need my lawn to grow any more.

I smell Baseball

I have this itch to watch some baseball. Maybe it has to do with the fact that Opening Day is April 1st. I used to go to baseball games all the time when I lived in Iowa but I haven't been to one in a long time and I miss that. I have made it one of my goals for this summer to go to as many baseball games as I can. It doesn't matter to me what league or what level.

I have finished my 45th row on the afghan. YAY!! I have made it to a wrap level or a big dresser scarf size. This is definitely my largest project yet and if I can pull it off, A-dolly is just going to flip over it. I just truck away at it. It's a good project to work on while you are couch potato-ing like me.

Aunt D mailed me some of her infamous sugar cookies to me for Easter. I can't wait. they are probably my favorite cookie, with or without the decadent frosting. I did the dishes today. My kitchen is skank free.

Today was a sunshiney day today. that was nice. my sinuses appreciate it.

Weekend Update

My lawn looks like shit. It has rained hard almost every day this past week and the previous owners had never heard of weedkiller so my lawn looks like yuck. Every time I try calling the lawn service the line is busy because every one in town needs their lawn mowed. Seriously.

I took off work a couple hours early. Since everyone is out of town this week I needed to be able to make my last tuition payment of the semester. I don't mail them in because I spread the love over the month, because of commuting I have to have a very flexible gas budget. Things have been stressful the last few days, there was a glitch in my parent's moving process but everyone is fine now and back on track. Since I was downtown, i went to the library because i needed free entertainment. They actually had some new knitting and crafty books that I had been interested in but not enough to buy, so I checked all of them out. Then I came home and did laundry. tomorrow I have to tackle dishes. I can't stand dishes in the sink, even though my sister and i always rinse them off.

It started to pour rain this evening so I decided to stay in. I ended up watching an old favorite, Reality Bites. I really identify with that movie but in a positive way. When that was over, I was channel surfing and found Paula's Party. The theme was cheese. She started off with macaroni and cheese that had 6 DIFFERENT KINDS IN IT!!!! I love her. Some day I hope to make a pilgrimage down to Savannah and eat at Lady and Sons. Did i mention that mac and cheese is like my favorite? It's in my top 3 three foods that I will eat.

Somehow in the midst of this, I was able to add on a few rows to the afghan. I am now up to 42 rows I believe. Crocheting an afghan is the perfect project for yucky rainy weather. I also started work on my photo collage of my doggies. I need to print some pics off at Wal-mart before I can finish it. I am lazy with my digital camera. I also need to print off the pic cd of baby K that my aunt D sent me. The creative juices are flowing this weekend I guess.

The Thunder Rolls

So we are having massive thunderstorms. No tornados yet, Sunshine, so you better not be doing your tornado dance! My dad stopped by our house today and gave me money to hire someone to mow the lawn until we get the lawnmower situation resolved. he is coming back next weekend so we might work on that then.

My sister is at a convention so I am all by myself this weekend. This should be interesting. I would like to imagine one major fiesta, but I need to become very close to my accounting text books. I have this tendency not to become a serious student until after spring break (last week). LOL.

I have not made any more progress on the afghan. It has been a wild week, with school and closing the books at work, so I didn't have any more time to work on it. I plan on working on it a lot this weekend during my homework breaks.

April is National Poetry Month. yay! I can't wait. So, because of this, i leave you with a little quote from one of my all time favorite poets, Emily Dickinson:

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain"

One is the Lonliest Number

This is definitely a pity post. My parents pack up almost 9 years of their lives in Oklahoma and head out to their new place in the Carolinas. My sister is leaving tomorrow for a science teachers convention in St. Louis which is where my dad is from. she is going to stay with my dad's sister and our teenage boy cousins who are on spring break and have promised to teach her how to play guitar on their Wii when she is not at the convention. I think she's going to see our grandparents too while she's there because she doesn't come back until late Sunday night. So I am all by myself for the rest of the week + weekend. I'm hoping that I will see my parents one more time because I have scored the infamous push mower and we still have our garage door openers to their garage. My mom says not to worry, i don't need to come to the house because the moving vans will be all parked up that they will take care of it all and yes they know I have the night class that i can't skip on wednesdays. I just want to be able to check it off my mental list. I don't like the anticipation part especially when it concerns major life changing events. I'm worried about the doggies traveling on the plane too because they have never done that before. I'm a first born can't you tell? Classic Type A worrier.

On the plus side, I've scored some major victories at work and I am almost caught up with homework. I almost fell asleep in Governmental accounting because my teacher was rambling again about fiduciary funds and about how his son bought him the coolest blue tie for his birthday last week. randomness, eh?

On the yarn front, I am almost done with row 36 on the afghan. That is really awesome because I am using an H hook, and the stitches are all half double crochet. I'm really glad I didn't decide to use my F hook, that would've taken my until A-dolly was in kindergarten to finish.

I should go to bed. It sucks royal A getting up at 6 am and driving at least 40 minutes to work one way.

Sweetie darling!

I think I have finished at least two or three more rows since my last post but i'm not sure. I'm sleep and food deprived so I am making slow progress especially with the sore elbow thing going on. The Patternworks order finally came this week. I got my new addi hook, my first Koigu, the mitten loom and the book for my mom which she really likes.

I am glad it's the weekend. All the rain makes me sluggish and congested too so I feel like i'm in a little rain cloud. I did get the new issue of Bust and Marie Anoinette on dvd. I have to take my mom to Owasso this weekend so that we can go to Petsmart and find some airline approved pet carriers since my parents are taking the doggies on the plane with them for the first time and putting the outback on the moving truck. their house has a for sale sign in the yard now and the remodeling is done. it's all very strange. i don't want my little doggies to leave. stupid rental house.

My sister's eye muscle surgery went well. You can't really tell she had eye surgery unless you look in the corners of her eyes, then you see the redness. She can see but she can't really read yet because it strains her eyes and they are still adjusting. I bought her some Jackie O sunglasses.

ugly betty and grey's anatomy were good this week. henry the accountant is HOT. lol..My spring break is almost over and i'm not looking forward to going back to class but it will give me something to do.

14 Rows and a ton of Rain

It has been raining Seattle-style all of last night and today. This stinks when you have to go to work because it is cool/warm so my stupid windows try to fog up a bunch. At least it rained hard enough to wash the bird crap off my car. LOL. I made my travel arrangements for my trip to HQ next month. I get to stay a nice hotel in a room with two queen sized beds and I don't have to share!!!! -- because that's what the corporate travel people had to offer. I can dig that. This is one of the perks of corporate travel people. I am also earning frequent flyer miles too so that rocks. I am flying on a crop duster but it is one of my approved airlines and I don't connect through O'Hare so that is great.

I hung out at Mom's again tonight. I have completed row 14 on the Kiss afghan and now my right elbow is really tender because I think I have bad crochet posture.

Things are starting to calm down here and it's weird. I can't believe my "spring break" from school is almost over. All the heavy rain just makes me want to sleep and I think that has a lot to do with the fact that I am even more congested than usual.

My Favorite Project

So for Secret Pal 10 we have been challenged to post about our favorite current project. Lucky for me, I just started a new project. See, Sunday night my little sister and I were sitting in our living room and we came to the realization that our parents are really moving away to the Carolinas and we can do whatever we want and nobody is going to find out because our relatives all live in Iowa or St. Louis for the most part. This is how we ended up watching Gene Simmons Family Jewels. Surprisingly enough he has a really normal family life. His kids are normal and not messed up like The Osbournes. Gene is one of my secret favorite rockers of all time. How can you not love him? Hello, the tongue. Anyways, I was watching the show and I have major problems just sitting still so I decided since I have all this newfound free time, I should embark on an epic project. I decided to use all of the bazillion skeins of Red Heart Supersaver Plum Pudding yarn to make A-dolly her very own pink and purple afghan because those are her favorite colors. She will be three in May and already has good taste. I am using my Addi F hook and half double crochet (my favorite stitch). It is 185 stitches wide because I just chained my wingspan. I am working on my tenth row which is awesome, I think. When the body is done I am going to make some kind of wavy border. She just brings me so much joy in the short time that I have known her so far and so I want her to have something that she can just wrap around her and feel the love in every stitch.

i know it's Red Heart but she is still little and so it needs to be sturdy and washable and when she's 26 and a half like me i will make her a giant Koigu afghan or something out of soy silk maybe. It would be really cool if I could finish it in time for her birthday at the end of May but it might not be finished until my birthday in September. LOL. It's highly appropriate that I started this afghan while watching Gene Simmons Family Jewels because I am the person that taught her to stick her tongue out like he does and I taught her how to dance like a rock star. I'm sure her Mom just loves me for that but A-dolly is just sooo cute when she does that.

I should also mention that this is the first afghan that I have ever made. I originally thought it was going to be a throw she could grow into (hee hee) but seeing my ten rows stretched out, It is probably going to be closer to twin size, which is okay too. Anyways, that is the story of my favorite project, the KISS afghan for A-dolly.

Lucky Girl

Things I am grateful for on this St. Patrick's Day:

1. The two skeins of SWTC Karoke I purchase today
2. Rebecca magazine in German
3. My Bailey's
4. my new LL Bean carry on bag
5. Mountain Dew
6. Soft batch chocolate chip cookies
7. Burt's Bees chapstick, all flavors.

I knitted one more hat this morning before our big trip to T-Town. Barnes and Noble is my happy place. I like to hang out with the knitting and crochet books and the magazine aisle. I did find state maps for NC and SC so that I won't get lost when I visit my parents new digs later this summer. I found this quirky little book on making felt stuffed animals and a book that has dog sweater patterns it--my favorite is the little baseball raglan shirt. daisy would look so cute in that. Super Target is my home improvement friend. They have little picture frame hanging stuff kits that A my coworker and I used to hang up the bulletin boards and big picture frames at my new place. The house looks more put together and A has this uncanny knack for hanging stuff up that is level on the first try with just using a pencil and a measuring tape. I don't have a level yet.

I am saluting my Irish heritage by drinking some of my mint chocolate Bailey's Irish cream that I bought around v-day. It is still fresh. I didn't have any chocy syrup or reddi whip to put in it but it was nice even with just milk mixed in. That was my treat to myself because I just spent over three hours at my parents house helping them move crap out to the garage. Stupid real estate people are coming over to the house tomorrow afternoon.

Erin Go Bragh!!!

Tales of An Ipod

So I'm attached to my ipod. Ever since I talked my co-worker friend into buying the video ipod (which she completely loves!) I have been bringing my beloved 3rd generation ipod (named Spanky) to work with me. We can have radios at work so we decided ipods are okay. anyways, usually i have this old ashtray that I found one day while cleaning out an old filing cabinet that I use as the home for my ipod, but today, i had a little cardigan on so I had it in my pocket when i was walking into work and an older lady saw the little white cord and asked me if i was using an insulin pump! I about died! I was like no, it's my ipod and she was like oh....yeah. um, i know what insulin pumps look like and the cords are totally different. I don't know it happened at like 7:30 am so I don't think either one of us were awake.

I totally aced my governmental accounting test tonight so that was awesome. It sounds like I will be flying to corporate headquarters next month to train some people so that will be cool because i will get to test out my LL Bean carry-on bag and see if it really fits under the seat.

I am stoked because this thursday there is a new episode of Grey's Anatomy and I have a test that night so I will get out early enough to see it live!! YAY! this is another reason why i can't wait until i can buy a video ipod. I think i will be able to fit it into May's budget since I won't have to make a tuition payment and my summer tuition will be super cheap since there is only one class that is offered this summer that I need. Grr...but i seriously need a break from class.

My sister and I are going to Tulsa this Saturday and I am totally conning her into letting me go to the fancy knitting store. Even though it is in the mid 70s now I still want to pet the wool!

Fun Times

I am still helping my parents out with the moving stuff on the weekends. I did make two more hats. I went shopping in owasso Saturday morning and it was a dud. I was hoping to find some khakis and new work shirts but there isn't really anything at Old Navy right now that says classic on it. I really need to order from like Eddie Bauer or a store like that but I would have to try on stuff first to see what my EB size and I didn't feel like dealing with Sat. traffic in tulsa. next weekend, my sister wants me to go to tulsa with her. She likes driving in Tulsa. More power to her. You don't have to ask me twice to go to Barnes and Noble with you.

Work is a ball of frustration. Job transitions and your controller getting fired aren't pleasant. I love the company I work for and I like the people I work with but things just kind of suck right now.

I have two accounting tests this week. that isn't fun either. Memorizing journal entries is hard. I don't memorize stuff very well unless it's like song lyrics or brands of yarn.

I did order a really handy carry-on bag from L.L.Bean this weekend as a present to myself. I needed something more practical since I will be doing a lot of airplane travel between my parent's move and the internship. Plus, the strap on my Adidas bag is going to crap and I've had it for almost three years, so I'm tired of it. The LL Bean bag has a padded strap and a little zipper pocket on top that i can stick my snacks and ticket in so i don't have to dig through my bag while sitting in the tiny airplane seat.

I am looking forward to my order from Patternworks arriving. I ordered the mitten loom, a new Addi hook size F, a knitting book as part of my mom's b-day present and a skein of KOIGU!!!!! How cool is that! Ever since I saw the episode of Shay Pendray's NeedleArts studio where she visits the Koigu shop and I saw how they hand dye the hanks of yarn, I fell in love with the coolness of it all. Now I understand why knitters go ape shit for it.

I know it sounds like I went on a shopping-palooza, but I did spend less then average for this paycheck. AND I PUT MORE MONEY IN SAVINGS!!! Reading Suze Orman's new book and seeing the special she made for it on PBS this week really helped me out a lot. Gold star for me.

We are supposed to get our Secret Pal 10 matches sometime this week. I am stoked because I had a really good experience with Secret Pal 9.

Hmm...Maybe the light at the end of the tunnel is coming back out. I just have to be patient. I suck at that. I am a total instant gratification girl.

Shout out to Sunshine. I am going to teleport you to my house so you can see all my little home improvement projects. I did gardening this weekend...Eewww dirrtyyy....And you can see my special neighbors that have a couch in their front yard that they sit on in lieu of lawn furniture. Lol...My neighborhood is nice and safe, it just has some weirdos.

Today's Special

just when life was stuck in a rut, Pearl Jam comes out with a new single that is on the soundtrack to Reign Over Me, the new Adam Sandler movie. Pearl Jam and I go way back to the teenage angst years. Eddie can emote.

They have also released old school Strawberry shortcake on DVD!!!! YIPPEEEEEE!!!!! the Pieman is still naughty! Um. what's up for this weekend? Studying for tests, helping with the move and some yarn time. I have a new Addi hook in size F on the way---i found a place that has it in stock and so i ordered it with the rest of my mom's b-day present. I also bought her Celtic Woman's dvd. My mom loves all things Irish, especially their music.

I also bought Suze Orman's latest book "Woman and Money". I have been waiting for her to write a book like this and I am really excited about it and will probably stay up all night reading it (or most of the night anyways). powerful women rock! She presents financial terms in a useful way that can easily be applied without having to really have any money.

This is a very random post of sorts. i just can't wait to make more hats. I have made this same design hundreds of times, but I never know what I am going to end up with depending on the yarn type and colors that I use.

A little Bit of Sunshine

Yesterday in the midst of all the chaos that composes my life right now, I had the pleasure of briefly talking to Sunshine. So I just wanted to give a little shout out to Sunshine, talking to you did make my day seem less frustrating. I'm still going to be stressed out and be congested from my allergies going haywire, but somehow that didn't seem to matter much after talking to you for a little bit. That's the best part of having a close friend like you, cause close friends make the messy parts of life seem better, even if they can't really do much, sometimes just knowing that someone is there to listen is enough.


I would also like to give a quick shout out to Becky in Iowa who sent me some really awesome yarn that arrived in the mail today just for leaving a comment on her blog. The yarn is even prettier then it was in the picture.

Boxing Up My Life

So my parents came back from the Carolinas yesterday and so today we went through more crap and moved more stuff out to the garage. My dad brought down the mystery boxes from the attic. We had not see some of this stuff since 1999!!!
The highlights include:

1. My black suede Adidas Superstars still in excellent condition, the leather stripes just need some polish. And I still can wear them!!! That just shows how little my feet have changed. Seriously, I think I have had the same shoe size since 7th grade. Too bad I can say that for my jean size or especially my bra size.
2. My silver Barbie corvette
3. My rainbow brite dolls
4. A box of Danielle Steel hardcovers which had been chewed up by the infamous squirrel that finally died in our garage the while the rest of my family was in Ireland for ten days!
5. A king size feather mattress/comforter from Eddie Bauer Home. It just needs fluffed up other than that it is mint condition. I scored this for Sunshine cause I think that he would like it and my bed is way too small for his.
6. My little purple Smurfs duffel bag
7. My Rose Petals Board Game

Can you tell yet that I was born in 1980? I have gone through two of the boxes that I brought over. Tomorrow when I get up, I am going to go through the rest of the stuff that I piled in the garage and try to consolidate a little. I'm sure my sister will love that. She is experiencing eternal PMS. She is just in a constant bad mood and totally avoiding anyting to do with family. I think I'm just chronically tired.

My mom's 55th birthday is on Tuesday. I told her that we need to start lying about my age cause I'm going to be 27 in september. 30 is a dirty number to me. I just can not believe that I am almost 30. What the hell happened? Everyone at work tells me to shut up cause I'm so young but hell they are all 50 or over in my department practically. When those ladies were my age they were on their 3rd kids and second husbands. Major moves and family changes seem to make me really think about shit like that.

My parents did get the house. This is the first time ever that I wasn't involved in the process. There will be a guest room, but my sister and I won't have rooms there. There is a pool for the families living in their subdivision. Target is less than 1 mile from their new house and my mom says that it's closer than the grocery stores and wal-mart. A part of me is really struggling with this transition because I feel like my family is being ripped away from me. For the last eight years in exile, we stuck together pretty close. It is going to be so strange not spending Saturday mornings sitting in the living room with my mom and the dogs, the two of us working on some craft projects or debating types of yarn or fabrics. I really hate the idea of not having our dogs around. It sounds stupid, but I spent a lot of time with them, and even though they don't talk to you they do provide significant companionship.

I am really happy for them and I know I will have many fun times and adventures going out to visit them. I just wish I wasn't going through school, major job transitions and this whole move all at the same time. It's kind of a lonely time right now.

Oh gag. I just realized this whole post is like watching Oprah or one of those Barbara Walters where she makes the person cry and sometimes cries with them. I really am okay, I am just have a lot of emotions running through me. I think the theme song for today's episode would be "Come Undone" by Duran Duran.

IT'S A GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My cousin A-dolly had baby K this afternoon at 3:05 pm. She is beautiful and healthy and she's wearing the pink camo hat I knitted for her. How awesome is that!!!! I feel really honored. Seriously. You can not slap the grin off my face. My aunt D called like literally five minutes after Baby K was born. when I got back from night class there was pictures waiting for me and I got all misty eyed. Babies are really precious and A-dolly and I grew up together and she really is like my own sister and I'm godmother to her first child. I wish I could just get in the ol Subaru and drive right home to Iowa to be there with them all. That is the shitty part about being down here. Maybe I can talk my mom into going up for weekend before they move to NC. Who knows.

Now I have a shopping excuse. there are girly outfits at Baby Gap waiting for me to purchase them. It's just a huge relief knowing that Baby K is here now and healthy.

SQUEEEEEEEE!!!! Insert cheesy-ass grin here. For today, I am Little Miss Sunshine. I will savor the beautiful moments.

Twenty Hours in Two Days

Since I have worked twenty hours in the last two business days, this will be one of my listy posts.

1. The parents made an offer on a house but we won't know for two days
2. I bought Little Miss Sunshine on dvd when I got out of night class tonight
3. I really hope that a second storm doesn't slam Iowa this week because A-dolly will be having baby number 2 tomorrow. i am anxiously awaiting.
4. I won a skein of yarn from Becky for commenting on her blog. How cool is that?
5. It is hard to sleep at night when you have two yorkies that both want to sleep on your chest and you are sleeping with them on a standard sized couch.
6. I loved all of Ellen's tuxes at the Oscars. yay for al and melissa E. too. Liberals rock!!!!
7. I survived closing the books for the month. barely. hence, twenty hours in two days and there wasn't enough caffeine in the world. A my co-worker and I have been secretly listening to music on our ipods in order to maintain some shred of sanity while making hundreds of journal entries. Thank god for cardigans!!!
8. Praise the Lord for the warm weather in Oklahoma. Please send some to my people in Iowa.
9. i am going to go now and have a glass of Bailey's con leche so that my anxious little brain will slow down. i feel like a two year old with severe ADHD.
10. I did make two hats while watching the Oscars. yay!

Sunshine, if you read this you need to send me a smoke signal that you are still alive!! You are one of my precious few sane friends and I have some interesting things to tell you that can't be said on the internet. And I miss you, like seriously.

All the Pretty Dresses

So I'm dog sitting at my parents house and so I'm watching the pre-shows for the Oscars. Personally, I would rather wear a tailored tux myself, but I like to look at the pretty dresses and the sparklies and the purses.

Who am I watching for?

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
Al Gore and An Inconvient Truth
Little Miss Sunshine cast (i love movies about dysfunctional families)
the gyllenhaals--Maggie and Jake
Melissa Etheridge and Tammy Michaels
and Ellen (i'm most excited about her hosting the show)

I took a visitor from the company to Catholic mass today at my mom's church. She's two years younger than me and actually practices and asked if I would go with her. It was special event day and it ended up being over an 1 1/2 hours!!!! The things I do for the company.

Then I went to Wal-mart on a mountain dew run and ended up buying An Inconvient Truth. I loved the book and all the sciency stuff. Al Gore presents it in a way that is accessible to the general public. I watched it this afternoon and I plan on watching it again. It was that good.

Tonight I plan on calculating financial ratios for my class and working on knitting another hat with my loom. it's royal purple. i might actually end up making two hats

By the way Ben and Jerry's latest ice cream Stephen Colbert's an Americone Dream is the best ice cream I have tasted in a long time. It's vanilla with caramel swirls and chocolate covered waffle cone bits. OH YUM!!!! the perfect thing to eat while watching the oscars.

A-dolly is about to have baby #2 any day now and they just had a big ice/snow storm near them in Iowa. My parents looked at a bunch of houses this weekend but i really haven't talked to them --my sister did. i hope they find one while they are out there this week. the moving process really stinks.

Zombie Girl

The last couple of weeks have been a whirlwind. We start closing the books on monday. I took test 3 tonight and had two others last week plus three sets of homework due. Turned in my taxes. My parents fly out very early on friday morning to NC for house hunting. They are having the cabinets refinished this week, new carpet has already been installed as well as the new oven and microwave/hood. My sis and I will be doggie sitting while they are gone for the week. I plan on enjoying the big screen, the oven with a working thermometer and doing my laundry indoors instead of in the garage. I will admit that laundry here is more pleasant since it has been in the 60s for most of the week. the farmer's almanac can take it's bad weather predictions and shove it. nasty winters aren't fun in a place that is totally unprepared for it. I thought I was starting to develop SAD because i have adapted to the glaring sun down here.

I did make 4 hats last weekend. i don't even remember now if I posted about that or not. LOL. Hence, the Zombie Girl. I even forgot that today was Ash Wednesday. Don't tell my devout mother that. I still believe in the Faith but I refuse to regularly attend until the Pope accepts my people and our ways.

I have a pint of choco haagan daz in my freezer and I have been rationing it because this week at work has super sucked. March will be a better month. I did catch Boston Legal on tuesday night. YAY! James Spader is on my list.

I am super tired so I am going to go to bed now and fantasize about all the yarn and supplies I could buy if i didn't have to pay rent and taxes.

Holy Cow

So I came back from my disasterous test tonight with enough time to see Grey's Anatomy. MEREDITH MUST SURVIVE. She is my dark and twisty sister. I don't think the show works without her. and besides, hasn't Derek suffered enough on this show?

I took the afternoon off work and went to the doctor and paid a twenty dollar co-pay to find out that i'm congested and have allergies. NO KIDDING????? The sinus drainage is the culprit for my sore raw throat but I don't have an expensive ear infection so that is good. I thought that i would go to wal-mart and buy some claritin -d 24 hour because when my allergies are bad the 24 hour part helps. well stupid walmart wouldn't sell any to me because the idiot girl was working back in pharmacy and she couldn't type in my DL correctly. So I was pissed off so i went to albertson's. My DL was fine there. I know this because the last time I bought any claritin d was in freaking december. It's just reason 2500 why wal-mart sucks balls.

I started another hat while watching grey's anatomy. I am burnt out and congested so therefore I must create. I am also freezing. I must cover myself in yarn until the sunny weather comes back. warm weather and mild winters are one of the few perks of living here. if i am going to freeze my ass off i might as well go back to Iowa.

I watched the Ellen show today. Billy Blanks JR was doing cardioke which is some exercise i think i could do. it's singing and dancing in an aerobic way that isn't scary like jazzercise. I really liked Ellen's shoes today. Serious I want to tour her shoe closet and see how many different pairs of Converses that she has.

V-Day Yuck

V-Day this year was uneventful. I am working on getting an ear infection. Works sucks monkey balls. My love song for the day the MTV Unplugged version of Korn's Freak on a Leash sung acoustically with Amy Lee. I love itunes. I have discovered so many cool songs and neat versions of songs I love by just searching through their site and their playlists, etc.

i love the idea of V-day because I am a hopeless romantic at heart. But when you are single and all the old biddies at work are getting flowers and candy and leaving early to get ready for their special dinner it kind of sucks a little. I couldn't even hang out with friends because I have Entrepreneurship class on Wednesday nights. At least I have Korn.

Is it the weekend yet? I have two tests this week and work was especially brutal and I just am tired. Just really tired of all the crap. Plus we are having an abnormally cold winter for Oklahoma. It would be nice to have a few days of 40 degree weather and some sun. I am tired of freezing my butt to the seat when I leave for work in the morning and when I get out of night class. Maybe I need to sit under one of those grow bulbs like people with SAD do. Either that or I need about twenty skeins of some bulky weight wool to hide under.

Maybe I should have labeled this post V is for Venting. I am planning on crocheting a lot and working on stupid homework and eating lots of macaroni and cheese and hanging out with my little dogs.

Me Me Me Me

Well I had an exciting weekend away from the craziness.

1. I finally got the oil change
2.I found hot pink John Deere fabric!!! I about squeed in the fabric aisle. 1 yard each of 4 different kinds
3. i ate some really nasty Taco Bell
4. Bought a spanking new microwave at Target
5. Watched Sleepless in Seattle
6. Was able to see the Grey's Anatomy cliffhanger and catch up on Ugly Betty (my guilty pleasure).
7. I completed 4 hats and an afghan square...YAY FOR ME!!! Sunshine picked out this really cute yarn and I made two of the hats from it.
8. Sunshine and i successfully made spaghetti and garlic toast. No pans were tossed in the yarn.
9. I am in love with the heated seats and the remote start and the 9 speakers that are in sunshine's new Grand Prix. It's just sooo cool.

Anyways, i spent the weekend with Sunshine and it was very relaxing. This is good because today is a Maniac Monday. I really wish that I had some Starbucks and a nice barista to add extra chocolate to my hot cocoa. Unfortunately I live like 40 mins away from one.

Crap!! I almost forgot that I drank some awesome booze this weekend. Bailey's Irish Cream Mint Chocolate is my new favorite liquor and we had some Jacob's Creek Merlot circa 2005 that didn't make me completely gag. I am not really a wine drinker. I like my booze from Kentucky or Ireland or Russia.

Have a great Weekend Sunshine! Thanks again for everything, I had a really great time. I am planning The Big Trip. My Budget Travel magazine came in the mail today so that was cool.

Secret Pal 10 Questionnarire

1. What is/are your favorite yarn/s to knit with? What fibers do you absolutely *not* like?
I like SWTC Karoke, Noro Silk Garden, Cascade 220, Brown Sheep. I don't really have a fiber that I don't like but I did receive 19 skeins of Caron Simply Soft and Red Heart, so I really don't need any more than that. I also love Rowan Summer Tweed

2. What do you use to store your needles/hooks in?
I am a hooker. I'm learning how to hand knit--I learned to machine knit and spool knit first. I have little pencil cases, cups and a hook roll that I attempt to store it all in.

3. How long have you been knitting & how did you learn? Would you consider your skill level to be beginner, intermediate or advanced?
I am a rebel crocheter since 2003. I have been knitting on and off but I am really awful at hand knitting but I love to loom or machine knit. So I would say very much beginner on the knitting front and intermediate on the crochet side.

4. Do you have an Amazon or other online wish list?
Yes, I do and I have recently updated it.


I also have a catalog of all my craft books at LibraryThing.com -- My user name is Shoegirl

5. What's your favorite scent?
Lime, cherries, green apple. I don't like spices or anything that smells like old lady.

6. Do you have a sweet tooth? Favorite candy?
Orbit gum, starburts, tropical skittles

7. What other crafts or Do-It-Yourself things do you like to do? Do you spin?
embroidery, cross stitch, i make bottle cap magnets. I don't spin but I think it's really cool.

8. What kind of music do you like? Can your computer/stereo play MP3s? (if your buddy wants to make you a CD)
The Killers, Justin Timberlake, Kenny Chesney, Incubus, The Bangles, marching band music, really I am a music lover. I am in the process of upgrading from a 3rd generation ipod to a video ipod. Ooh, I like Sleater-Kinney too...Alternative rock is probably the genre I listen to the most. I am an Itunes fanatic, i download music all the time. I just bought a mac powerbook this year (12''), so I am definitely tech savvy.

9. What's your favorite color(s)? Any colors you just can't stand?
I love blues, purples, hot pink, aqua, black, rainbow colors, i look nasty in yellows and oranges. yeah, I am very pale, my skin doesn't see the sun ever.

10. What is your family situation? Do you have any pets?
single and lovin' it. I have a very close friendboy and some best friends that are scattered everywhere and two Yorkies, Haley and Daisy, and a mom and a dad that have been married forever, and my sister and I share a rental house together

11. Do you wear scarves, hats, mittens or ponchos?
I have a big head so I like hats, but they can't be tight. I don't do ponchos, but I love scarves and mittens. I would really like a pair of black fingerless gloves...that would be really cool.

12. What is/are your favorite item/s to knit?
I like to crochet hats, scarves, dishcloths/washclothes, squares for charity, little baby sweaters cause they are quick.

13. What are you knitting right now?
I am between projects so I have been making hats and afghan squares

14. Do you like to receive handmade gifts?
Of course!!!! I love it!!!

15. Do you prefer straight or circular needles? Bamboo, aluminum, plastic?
For knitting, I prefer Addi turbos, and my favorite crochet hooks are Addi hooks which I recently discovered. I only have two Addi hooks and i love them so much that I want to get some more eventually.

16. Do you own a yarn winder and/or swift?
No..sniff sniff..

17. How old is your oldest UFO?
Usually i frog them or i just collect the yarn, so they don't even get started.

18. What is your favorite holiday?
Halloween and Valentine's Day. I like Christmas when it snows. I like random holidays too.

19. Is there anything that you collect?
John Deere stuff, huge Hello Kitty fan, love Converse Chuck Taylors

20. Any books, yarns, needles or patterns out there you are dying to get your hands on? What knitting magazine subscriptions do you have?
I would like an issue of Rebecca in German. I don't have any subscriptions, but if i were to subscribe it would be to either Vogue Knitting or Crochet Today

21. Are there any new techniques you'd like to learn?
I would like to become better at hand knitting

22. Are you a sock knitter? What are your foot measurements?
No, but I would totally wear hand knit socks if I knew someone who would knit them for me. My feet are US 8, regular width.

23. When is your birthday?

My half-birthday is March 25th and My REAL birthday is Sept. 25th.

My Own Little Library

So I found out about this awesome website called LibraryThing.com where you can set up an account and catalog up to 200 of your books for free or you can have a paid account where you have unlimited books listed. I was able to catalog all of my crafty books tonight. I have 42 crafty books. These are actual books, this count excludes leaflets and magazines. I plan on eventually adding all my other books too as I have the time because I think that this is the coolest thing ever. I started with my crafty books so I can share this list with my secret pals and buddies, etc. You can add your own tags too, like you could label them sucks or great, basically whatever you want to. I labled my crafty books by catagory: crochet, knitting, quilting and cross stitch.
My user name is Shoegirl if anyone wants to peek at my list.

Anyhoo, I just had to share this. Life is crazy as usual.

Super Bowl Knit-a-thon!

Well, I crocheted squares for Warm Up America, but my Mom did actually knit on her garter stitch scarf which is now 44 inches long. She can garter stitch perfect rows like people can breathe. I hope some day I can channel some of her ways. I finished two and 1/2 squares (7 by 9), so i consider that to be an accomplishment. Da Bears lost, but Peyton one the big one finally so it evens out. If my man Brett Favre isn't playing, i don't really care who is. The best part was the halftime show. Prince rocked my face off!!!!! All of sudden, I was a little girl back in the 80s with pigtails belting out Purple Rain to my Barbie dolls lined in a row. See, back in the day before I knew I was tone deaf, i used to rock out big time, cause i grew up during the days of 80s punk, pop and arena rock. those were the days baby. Prince was even better tonight, he did James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, the Foo Fighters before closing out with his ultimate make out song Purple Rain. There was even a marching band with glow in the dark trim on their uniforms! Sunshine, I think your marching band needs some of that! That was flippin sweet! Lol, can you tell I was even watching a football game.

Yuck, I am not really looking forward to going back to work. Our department needs to sit in a circle and hold hands for awhile. Things would be a lot better if I could listen to Prince on my ipod. Which I could, but then I would want to rock out and that is a little embarassing to do in a cubicle farm with a bunch of old ladies that listen to classic country and some nerdy dudes that only listen to really bad jazz. I really like jazz but they listen to the worst jazz music ever. It is so bad that I don't even think they wouldn't even play it on NPR at 3 am.

Little House in the Snow Bowl

So I was originally going to call this post "little house in the dust bowl" since that describes my current dwellings, but then we started getting snow/sleet crap again, so i thought that snow bowl was better. My night class wasn't cancelled tonight but my instructor was very nice and let us out early after our test so that we could go home before it got really cold and froze everything to pieces. I don't mind driving in inclement weather but i despise idiots who zoom past people when they are going 60 miles an hour on snow packed roads and black ice! Seriously people. It took me almost two hours to make it home tonight ( i work just over the KS border) because of the road conditions and bad accidents that caused traffic to be diverted and backed up for miles.

I was able to go to QT on my way home and stock up on skittles and chips and mountain dew. that is true sustance in bad weather. did i mention daddy left for charlotte today? I have to be the man of the house now, so because they haven't called off school (Yet--which is unlikely because of all the days we have already missed) I will be taking my baby sister into work because she has a little Honda Civic that I really don't want her sliding around in. So I will put on my Spidey suit and drive her into school in my almightly Subaru. Plus, she is my little baby sister and it is my job as the older sister to protect her. My mom is still in town but I don't want her to have to drive all the way across town so early in the morning. I have to protect her too. So, my mom will pick my sister up from school so that I can have a few more hours hopefully at work. Seriously, I hope this shit melts off. I forgot to mention that since my dad left today, my co-workers give me Little Orphan Annie looks in the hallway. Am I that helpless?

Sunshine, you would have laughed so hard this afternoon. At three thirty I said screw this and left to go home and when I was knocking the snow off my windshield, I popped off one of my windshield wipers and it went airborne. I'm not sure how, but I was able to snap it back on and thank god the stupid thing stayed on for the rest of my driving time today. Congratulations on your new car. It sounds totally kick ass. You definitely deserve to have a pimp-worthy automobile. I"m working on a special mixed cd to celebrate the occasion.

Spidey Girl!

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Come Together

Box by Box, it's starting to look a lot better. We can see the office floor and my bedroom floor (of course). I can even compute at my desk now. I think my favorite spot is in front of the window in the bookcase because there is a spot between the bookshelves where you could actually make a cushion and sit there, but for now it's my favorite spot to sit in front of with mackie my mac. I know. Totally unoriginal name.

So far i have survived Day one of closing week. This is a good sign because all my deadlines are on monday. Goal number two: survive night class. LOL.

I have been purusing allposters.com for art prints to hang up in my bedroom and possibly my living room. I know I want some andy warhol prints in my bedroom. I also want some buildings, sort of like my print that shows the stages of building the Eiffel Tower. As for anything else, I'm not sure, but we have a whole ton of cream colored walls to cover up.

It's kinda of weird not hanging out with my mom and the dogs as much. I have a feeling I am going to wrack a load of frequent flier miles. I am already marking things in my guidebooks.

I am reading a really awesome book by Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone writer. called Love is a Mix Tape. It is such an awesome book. I first read about it on the Pop Candy blog and liked it so much i ordered it right away from Amazon.com. Some of the playlists are pretty good, so I might download the songs. There was also some good Gilmore Girls characters playlists on cwtv.com. I just wish that they would put GG episodes on the web. I would even download from Itunes if I had to.

I am still a chick without a crochet project. I have this obscenely large pink/purple multi-colored skein from Wal-Mart that i could probably make an entire baby afghan from and I'm not sure what to do with it. I'm still kind of tired/recooperating from last week's hell week of moving/work/class/catchup, so when I'm extremely tired, I tend to read more then I crochet or knit.

Finally

We are finally moved into the new house. We are 75% unpacked. I really have no idea where all my stuff is, I just know that it is here somewhere. While I in Owasso with A my co-worker and MP my other co-worker, my dad locked both sets of keys in the house and i had the other set. I ended up coming home and not going to the community college basketball game in Coffeyville because I was just too tired to go back. I had been up since 6:30 am so that I could take some stuff over to the house before I met my co-workers in Coffeyville. My dad is voicing his opinion every five seconds so that is getting old very fast. Did I mention that I absolutely hate moving and that is why I try not to very much? Buying all that little house crap and cleaning supplies gets expensive too. It cuts into my yarn budget. LOL...

Other than the fact that I am tired and feel like a zombie things are going well, just at warp speed. It doesn't help when you work out of town and have three night classes in town.I feel like I have been moving at warp speed all week. This is the first time in weeks that I don't have a crochet project on the hook.Our internet here is super fast too. My sister and I hate slow internet so that was more imporant to us then having 6 million tv channels. We have encrypted too so people can't mooch off us.

Sunshine, you will not believe how bare our walls are. It is an ecru palace. We will have to look for wall art when I come visit and some curtains. We have COLORED MINI-BLINDS...Yikes...I haven't seen any scary neighbors yet but I think it's in the upper 20s so I might not see them for awhile.

Our House

My sister and I ended up acquiring a washer, dryer, and a fridge today at sears. It was scary spending that much money. appliances tend to last longer than boyfriends, you see. they will be delivered on friday and dad is supposed to make arrangements for the cable company to come out that day too. mom is going to stay at the house that day and wait for the people because they never come at the precise time they say they will and this is the worst week in the world for me to take time off. january always seems to be a wicked month for me. sometimes i wish all that i did was crochet and go to class, but i know i would be tired of that after the first week. i forgot to mention that gas has dropped down to 1.87 in town. that is really nice because it means i can fill up my tank for twenty bucks instead of $30 +. while i was going though my stuff and trying to pack this weekend, i found some really gems. i found my aerosmith scrapbook circa 1994. i was 14 and thought Steven Tyler was the sexiest man alive. I also thought I was bad ass. Those were the days. I also found a stack of journals from college. i might re-read some of them tonight just to see how cheesy i was.

Red scarf #2 is almost finished. i should be able to finish it monday night if i'm not stuck at work late waiting on stupid people. I would like to say that I really do love my addi hook. When this moving stuff calms down I am going to order some more.

The funny thing was that we ran into the controller at sears. he was buying a washer and dryer for his son! LOL...He's my boss' boss. What a hoot. I'm not sure that he knows about my dad's transfer yet but i bet he will monday morning during the exec staff meeting. Although, he is the type that wouldn't let on about it if he did. He is the silent observer.

So Desperate Housewives was awesome tonight. Bree totally rocked! I don't really like this whole Orson storyline but spunky Bree was shining in full glory. Brothers and Sisters was really awesome too. i would go shoe shopping any day with the senator. I am really looking forward to the return of Gilmore Girls. Grey's and Betty will be good this week too. I heart ABC.

i don't want to go to bed but i should because this week is going to totally kick my ass. one day at a time. one day at a time.