Christmas Eve Delight

So in recent years we have started a newer tradition of opening our presents on Christmas Eve. I am still in shock because I opened up this giant bag and inside of it was 19 SKEINS OF YARN!!!!!!!! It's a good thing that I didn't sign up for one of those stash busting programs. It's all in the colors I like too. So between all this yarn and the all the dvds I got for Christmas I might actually turn into a hermit over the rest of my vacation. We'll see. I don't like to be cooped inside all day.

Well I have made two hats this evening. I'm really glad that I did that since I have a lot of yarn to make projects with. The funny thing is that I ordered a skein of Rowan Summer Tweed Vanity the other day with some Addi hooks because I didn't think Santa was going to buy me any yarn for Christmas. See people, if you believe in Santa, even at age 26, he will listen to you and bring you cool stuff like yarn and a Hello Kitty stapler. Lol...I also got a Barnes and Noble gift card and a Hello Kitty toaster, more Hallmark ornaments and some other cool stuff little things. My little sis also bought me 4 new Eskimo Joe's cups. Hello, they put out new colors every year.

Seriously though, everybody wins with the yarn though because now I can make lots more hats for Dulaan and other things for my charity causes. I think the best part of this evening was watching my little doggies sleep under the tree after we had opened all the presents.

So what do we do on Christmas? Well, we go to morning mass and then we go to the movies. I'm sure I will also be knitting or crocheting something since I have no idea where in the heck I am going to put all my lovely yarn.

I must go now and watch my Boston Legal dvds way into the wee hours of the night.

Yarn Holiday!

Well, I am now officially on holiday and I don't even have to think about accounting at all until January 3rd. YAY!!!! I love accounting, but my brain needs a break.

I watched Rocky tonight while i was working on the red scarf and so now the Rocky theme is totally stuck in my head. Maybe it's supposed to motivate me. It must have because I did like 3 loads of laundry and sorted through some stuff in my room. I measured the red scarf and I have about 30 inches done so far and most scarves for adults are usually in the 60 range.

My little sister has gone cookie crazy. She bought real cookie sheets at a Pampered Chef party hosted by one of her fellow teachers and I think she made like 4 batches of cookies tonight. Homemade. Talk about craziness. Sometimes I wonder how we are even related.

Other movie purchases of note include some vintage Patrick Dempsey in Can't Buy Me Love and She-Ra on DVD (5 fan favorite episodes plus the feature length movie). Courtesy of my mother, I also have two grown-up table lamps. They are totally girly!!! They have dangly beads but in a subtle non-tacky way. The shades are a grey-beige with a silver base. They look way cooler than what I can describe. I just plugged one in and it's really cool. She thought I needed lamps because of all the needlework and computer/school stuff that I do. Subtle hint, eh? My favorite part is that they match and they will look really cool in a future living room.

Anyways, for the rest of the night since I can stay up as late as I wanna, I plan on reading/drooling over my new knitting and crochet books as well as my Andy Warhol books.

I hope everyone has a very happy and fruitcake free holiday weekend! Remember: If the relatives are driving you crazy, go hug a skein of yarn. It will make you feel better.

Shaked not Stirred

Well, Monday night on my way home from work a crazy lady in a big truck ran a stop sign and ran right into my car as I was driving my dad and I home from work. We are fine, not a scratch but my Subaru has $2500 worth of damage. We can't get it in until after the holidays because of parts and the holidays themselves. It will take a week in the shop but it is in driveable condition now. She hit the front left fender (the thingie over the wheel, cracked my headlights etc. The body shop dude had to pull my fender out of the door hinge so that I could open my car more than a foot. This was my first wreck so it has been a frustrating week. The lady was cited with failure to yield and she didn't have proof of insurance. the accident report isn't in yet either. At least I still have my good looks and my mighty Subaru will rise again like a phoenix from the ashes.

Tuesday night I finished my Veteran's scarf. I will send it off over break. I plan on starting the Red Scarf sometime tonight. I also want to make a scarf from the skein of Liza Souza's Violet's Pink Ribbon that arrived on Tuesday. I also need to make K's doink hat too. i also want to crochet a technicolor log cabin afghan. Lots of goals for 2007.

One bright spot is that grades came in the mail today and I totally passed my classes! It sounds silly but I always have this fear of failing classes somehow even though I know I totally aced them.

Scarves

So while I was at Sunshine's I made some massive progress on yarn projects. I made the scarf for A-dolly that matches the winter coat my mom made for this year. I am over half-way done crocheting the scarf for the Knit Your Bit campaign sponsored by the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. The address for the project is here: http://www.nationalww2museum.org/education/knitting.html

My next project is making a doink hat for K, the father of A-dolly. He named and designed the hat, I am just the person manufacturing it. When the doink hat is finished I will most certainly post it on my Flickr page. As soon as I finish the vet's scarf, i am casting on for the Red Scarf Project. This project is sooo awesome and it is near and dear to my heart because I am back in college again and this project sends encouragement and care packages to orphans/foster kids who have aged out of the system and are now going to college. Ironically, while I was at Sunshine's my mom bought me the perfect red yarn for the project, not even knowing I was planning on it. She just thought I would like the color. It is Autumn Red (Caron Simply Soft) and it is machine-washable which = college-student friendly and it is really soft. Info about The Red Scarf Project can be found here: http://www.interweave.com/knit/events/redscarf.asp

Anyways, this weekend went by way too fast. I had so much fun and I am so relaxed. Sunshine is like the best host ever (Thanks again for everything!!!). Sniff sniff, I wish we lived a tad bit closer together, but at least my mighty Subaru gets fantastic gas mileage. There is also a major aura of productivity at his house. I always finish tons of UFOs and I get tedious homework done faster there for some reason.

I am like seriously tired. I think my inability to sit still has finally caught up with me. So i am going to dive under my bazillion denim quilts on my bed and dream about piles of yarn. LOL!!!

O Hanukkah Tree

It's not really a Hanukkah tree, but I did find the perfect tree and we did put it up last night and it's the first weekend of Hanukkah. It's a 4ft prelit Indiana spruce, totally faux, but it is quite possibly the cutest little Christmas tree ever. I am dragging Sunshine out to Target today because he HAS NO CAFFEINE and we still need a tree topper and a little tree skirt to finish it off. The best part is that the cat is not trying to pounce the tree! I know this has to be a Christmas miracle.

Speaking of Christmas miracles, I got a big fat raise and vacation pay I didn't know I had. Unfortunately I have to be mostly responsible and stick a whole lot of it up my butt because I have a big scary tuition payment and some scary expensive accounting books to buy in January. I have only made one yarn purchase which was a skein of Miss Violet's Pink Ribbon made by Lisa Souza. It looks so beautiful and Liza Souza has the best customer service ever. I give her two hooks up for sure.

On the Christmas shopping front, I am pretty much down to stuff for Chinese gift exchanges at work and stocking stuffers. I bought my sister's final presents Thursday night after my cost accounting final.

If anyone has tricks to getting dried up super glue off your hands let me know. The cat doesn't really bother the tree but she thinks that the Christmas village is her personal toy box so when we magically found the superglue, I was able to repair the broken pile. Props to my mother for showing me the tricks to getting the super glue to bond before it gets too messy. I didn't glue my hands or fingers together so it was a successful project.

Sunshine also made some very fancy hot chocolate that looks like it walked out of the Martha Stewart Holiday issue. It tasted even better than Starbucks.

Happy Holidays!!!!!

Is it Christmas Vacation yet?

I know most people aren't fortunate enough to get a week off from work paid or unpaid, but i do get the week off between Christmas and New Year's due "factory shutdown." I am sooo ready for it too, because i will have a short break from school as well. I am just so tired. I haven't been to Wal-Mart in a full week and I have all these work parties and last minute Christmas shopping to do, but the only time I am motivated to do anything is on the weekends or after night class gets out, since I am already out and about.

I had an awesome weekend in Kansas City. There is just something awesome about walking around the Plaza and the Crown Center, and we went to the Crown Center at night and got some really awesome pics. I made a visit to the BN on the Plaza which is one of my favorites. I bought Crochet Today magazine (it has really cool patterns that don't require a lot of technical skills) and Jennifer Stafford's book Domiknitrix (really good technique pictures and a heart shaped pillow that says Bite Me--i need that one in my cube at work) and Warhol by Klaus Honnef because it was the most affordable Warhol book they had. I got to carry A-dolly around everywhere and read her stories and do puzzles. she is sooo freaking smart for a two year old. I was amazed just sitting there watching her put together 24 piece puzzles without any help at all..She is a chatterbox, and she has the crazy curls like i did when i was a little girl. My aunt D also hooked us up with new Iowa Hawkeyes shirts. She even got me a bright pink one! yay! a-dolly is going through a pink phase too, and on saturday we both were wearing pink shirts and she danced around saying "pretty in pink! pretty in pink!" I also have to give a shout out to my favorite hotel chain Hampton Inns. They have free and fast wireless internet and the world's most comfortable pillow-top mattresses and comforters. I knew they were upgrading their beds but this is better than I expected!

This weekend I get to play Martha Stewart at Sunshine's this weekend. I am decorating a Christmas tree for him since it his first house that really has good display space for a tree and I found cool ornaments that were on sale so this tree is going to rock!

Gracias!

I came home from work tonigh and there was a Post Office extravaganza waiting in my room. I received, not one, but TWO boxes from my Secret Pal 9. YAY!! Thank-you so much! She sent me three skeins of Red Heart in Plum berries, a pair of size 13 circulars, a friendship cookie mix, starbursts, skittles, a poncho leaflet, and a stuffed Christmas Teddy Bear. Yay! I love presents, especially when it involves yarn. I also received a really nice thank-you note from Major Knitter for the donation of yarn and supplies for the PTA Knit-A-Thon contest that she was involved with. She included a handmade set of Knit Notes and a post-it note pad that says Knit Happens on it. I was really surprised. I sent off some stash yarn and extra looms and needles, because the premise behind the contest was to teach the elementary school kids how to knit so that they could knit hats for Caps to the Capitol, which will distribute hats to babies through the organization Save the Children. I even made twenty hats to send off to Caps to the Capitol. Anyways, it was a very impressive effort and I am just glad that I was able to help out in my own little way.


Anyways, I am super tired from work. I was doing double-duty trying to catch up for my snow day on Friday, so I think I am just going to lay on my bed, rest my eyes and listen to the new Incubus cd and do that thing otherwise known as relaxing.

Cabin Fever

Well, since the blizzard started Thursday afternoon, I have made five hats and embroidered another pillowcase for A-dolly. I cleaned out some more crap in my closet and I have all my Christmas cards ready to send. I finished reading The Innocent Man by John Grisham. I did three loads of laundry. I had chit chatted with the customer service rep at US Cellular who took my phone payment---I am people deprived!! He was friendly too and was asking me about the snow that we got. I watched a really good Hallmark movie on the Hallmark Channel called The Christmas Card...I can't help it...I am a hopeless romantic to the core. I also tagged all my hats to send to Caps for the Capitol, but I don't have a box the right size. Tomorrow I am pitching a fit and going to walmart. If my father can run off with my Forrester and go to the grocery store, walmart and a movie, it is plenty safe for me to drive to walmart. Did I mention the lady across the street that routinely backs into her daughter's Jeep Liberty was out driving today without incident? I need some Mountain Dew!!! My dad actually had the cajones to bring me back Diet Mountain Dew. HE KNOWS I HATE DIET MOUNTAIN DEW!!!!!! It doesn't have the caffeine or the sugar and I would rather drink 100 year old eggnog. He acted annoyed when I told him right to his face that it TASTES LIKE SHIT...Can you tell I'm getting a little cranky? i just want some decent pop and a small change of scenery. I like to have the option of getting out of the house. I would have gone today but my dad took my car without asking and took a 5 hour long hour trip to get milk. I would have been okay with the taking of my car but to tell me that I can go anywhere and then go joyriding all over town using up my gas really hacks me off. Did I mention I have Daddy issues??

Honestly, though, I am having a good time. i just need to get out of the house for a few minutes, have some caffiene, buy a couple of magazines and then I will be all happy again. Online shopping is just not the same. it is great for hard to find items, but I miss the people interaction, good or bad. Plus, I hate waiting for packages in the mail. speaking of this, I did order a new purse online. LOL. I was soooo bored that I was looking at Delia's.com and Urban Outfitters online. They both had these Factory Girl Andy Warhol totes with the giant banana on them (like the velvet underground album cover). I wanted to get it from Urban Outfitters but the banana tote was on back order from them so I had to suck it up and order it from Delia's (home of the teenyboppers). Lol. I just totally ruined my rep by admitting to purchasing from Delia's but that's okay. I will repent by listening to the new Incubus album tonight. Snow makes people goofy.

Snowed In!

I had to e-mail in to work today. Those that can are working from home today. I don't have a company laptop, so I logged into my email log enough to email my boss and turn on my out of office reply. Lol...My section of Oklahoma got 10 + inches, my town officially had a blizzard, a power outage, and a reported 15 inches. I don't feel like shoveling a path to the yard stick I stuck out in the middle of my yard last night, but the view from my patio says you can only see the top two feet or so of the stick. I should've buried a ruler just for shits and giggles.

besides running around in the snow taking pictures this morning, I have been downloading some fresh songs from Itunes. I plan on busting out the dvd collection later on. I'm not sure I will be going to tulsa this weekend. Lol...I'm not one for digging cars out of the roads and such. I plan on making some hats today.

I heart SNOW!!!

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Check out my Flickr page to see all my first hand pictures of the snow fall. I have not seen snow like this in at least 6 years. Parts of our town lost power for over two hours and we have ten plus inches of snow on top on the pile of sleet we started off with this morning. I did go into work for about 5 hours today with my dad but we said to hell with it and came home before we got stuck at the plant overnight. School was closed for today and has been canceled for tomorrow. It feels very little house on the prairie-esque. I've been taking the dogs out on their leashes even in the back yard so i have something to fish them out of the snow with. For some odd reason my little Yorkies are snow lovers just like me. :) Of course, they have their doggie sweaters on and their super duty doggie jackets from Lands End with the reflective strips on them too. I am excited that I was able to capture the action with my camera. I will have to read the manual this weekend so i can learn the special settings.

So what do you do when you can't go anywhere? Well, you make some hot cocoa from Starby's with a shot of Hershey's chocky syrup. Mom ate all the leftover cool whip from thanksgiving otherwise i would have dumped some of that in. Then you put on your big snow skiing thick socks and fight over the good spot on the couch with your younger sister so that you can watch episodes of Ugly Betty, Grey's Anatomy, and Men in Trees. All were very good. I am also 3/4 of the way through the book, The Innocent Man by John Grisham, a sad but compelling read. I think I will make some more embroidered pillow cases tomorrow. I finished the unicorn pillowcase for A-dolly this past weekend, and I have two more pillow cases that I can decorate. I also plan on cranking out some serious hats this weekend.

Also, for some random reason, I got an issue of Golf Digest for Women in the mail. I didn't subscribe to this at all. ya'll, I lived across the street from a public golf course for 18 years. I know how to pop wheelies in a golf course but I can't put to save my life. In fact, I'm not even sure how to swing. That's why it was so hilarious, when I got this magazine in the mail. it is very nicely put together, so if you do like to golf and you are female, I recommend this magazine. I think I am going to tear out the travel article on Savannah and then I will recycle the rest of the magazine...LOL...

Anyways, ya'll try to stay warm, I"m crawling under my ten layers of denim quilts and pillows and plan to finish reading my book tonight.

Good Things

1. This week's TWO ALL NEW episodes of Boston Legal. I loooovee you James Spader.
2. The Knit-A-Thon on Gilmore Girls
3. The digi cam that arrived in the mail for me today, I ended up getting the pink Fujifilm Finepix tiny cam.
4. the cold weather that is on the way
5.My books that arrived from Amazon.com
6. My vintage long sleeved Gap tee that I bought on Black Friday that is sooo soft.
7. The new snowflake stamps
8. Light Grenades, the new cd by Incubus
9. 24 hour Claritin D that is making it still possible to function in all this wet weather that is soo bad for my allergies
10. L Word season 3 on dvd

Anyways, these are a few things that have made me smile lately while work and school have been draggging on and I'm tired, etc. The trip to KC is all planned, I just hope we don't have any freaky weather cause I need an excuse to take pictures with my camera with. I am glad that it is Wednesday because my alleriges have really been bothering me and that makes me tired and cranky-poo. My sis and I might go to t-town on saturday if we don't get the alleged blizzard to end all blizzards like everyone says we are supposed. There is a book that BN ordered for me so we would go there if it comes in and the usually trip to tar-jay and Starby's trips. Since it is now like 33 and dropping my doggies have their matching green doggie sweaters on. I took pictures and it was cute.

The Aftermath

It appears that I have managed to have survived Black Friday. Hmm...I dragged my little sister at 5:30 am to go to the mall to people watch and experience insanity at its best. I skipped Staples because when we were pulling up to the mall, there was a line wrapping around staples and going to the edge of the highway. to hell with that. We walked into the mall and waiting because there was a crowd waiting for the 250 gift bags to be dispersed at 6 am. Through dumb luck, I managed to grab one and received a free George Stait cd and a ten dollar mall gift card. It was funny because we were totally at the end of the group too and we didn't really care if we got one or not. We made a mad dash for the Gap and we were like the first couple of people in the store. I scored two new pairs of jeans and a sweater hoodie, and three shirts all 50 % off. I also got baby high tops for Baby L. SCORE!!! Gap = Happyness. We made the obligatory visit to JC Penney's to visit S who just started working there. He has to wear a tie and button upped shirts. It was worth it to see that. He wears sloppy Ts and shorts year rounds, stains or no stains. He is a hoot to be around but definitely not a fashionista. We peaked in at Bath and Body Works but that store was full of middle aged woman rooting around in bins so we didn't venture far in. Plus, they had a mega line at the counter and i hate waiting in lines in tiny stores. then we went to Waldenbooks, i got the new John grishman for 50 % off, and some books to finish off A-dolly's christmas gift. We headed over to Big Lots so my sis could pick up some $5 barbies for her friends' little girls. Our final stop in the spree was Hastings where I finally found the L Word Season 3. I was happy and i didn't give a shit that I had to pay full price. I also reserved the new sisterhood of the traveling pants book that comes out in january.


Then we got home only to find out that my dad had this INSANE idea for us to go see that penguin movie Happy Feet in Tulsa and then eat at Cracker Barrel. We had to take two cars and it was insane cause Tulsa is very bad on Black Friday and there was a couple of times when I thought my sister and I were going to be scrambled eggs on the BA expressway because people down here really suck at driving. We ended up having to see Happy feet on the imax screen because it wasn't showing on the regular screen. It was a cute movie, but I am not really the cutesy animated movie type. I would have been a lot better seeing something like Bobby or The Queen or The Pursuit of Happyness. I like dramas. we made it to cracker barrel and because it was such an odd time to be eating we only waited 30 mins for a table. we had to ask three times for silverware and all our side orders got screwed up. How we did not kill each other, I don't know. I am finally starting to recover, after two mountain dews, three rapid release extra strength tylenols and a whole shit load of orajel because apparently i have been chewing on the inside of my cheek while i sleep at night and so i have a really raw spot on the dominant side of my mouth. i know, i'm a mess.

I did make at least two more hats today. I have made 9 so far over thanksgiving break. Still depleting my stash yarn which is good because i need to make room in my tiny ass closet for my sexy ass Gap jeans.

Sunshine, I brought home a little surprise for you from the Cracker Barrel. Hint: A breakfast condiment.

have a great holiday, and remember girls, if you are feeling stressed out, go hug your yarn. You will feel a lot better! :)

Hats and hats

Well, it is thanksgiving evening and I have made 7 hats since last night. I should get a gold star cause these hats were all made from STASH YARN. YAY!!! I could make more, but I have to stop periodically cause my elbow will hurt if i don't and i can't knit/crochet as a lefty. I took my grandma k to kmart on today after we had finished watching the parade and stuffing face with turkey. She doesn't have one nearby her anymore and she can only really do one store at a time and it's the only thing open on thanksgiving day. they weren't really having any useful to me sales, but i did get the new keith urban cd for only 7.99 so that was like a steal. cause keith urban makes good commuting cds. my dad and grandpa put up the xmas lights and no one fell off the ladder so that was good. i did wrap some xmas presents last night. my sis got presents for mom and dad on behalf of us both so i'm off the hook there. A-dolly is the hardest to buy for because my aunt d (her grandma) buys her the sun, the moon and the stars. I'm tempted to start a mutual fund for her or something useful like that. I love A-dolly to pieces but a 2 year old does not need $100+ American Girl dolls. LOL. I got new pictures of Baby L. She will be one in January and she is starting to toddle around and is growing up way too fast. I am going to order her some baby converses for Christmas. I wish my girls would stay little forever. It's just easier that way.

Out of boredom and the inability to sleep more than like 7 hours, I am going to get up early and go shopping. just for shits and giggles. I want to go to Gap Outlet and see if they have any good deals. I am debating about Staples. They have $7 flash drives but I don't want to go there and find out they only had like 2 in stock and you had to be like there waiting in line at 3am to get one. Lol...I just don't have the will to be a stealth shopper...I like to dawdle around too much. I do need more Mountain Dew. i am drinking my last can, and I can't be caffiene free on a holiday weekend. That would just be bad news.

happy thanksgiving ya'll!!! Especially Sunshine. I ordered us some entertainment and it should be arriving early this coming week.

Yarn and Pirates, Oh My!

Well, busy weekend so far. What did I do on Friday night? I think I just watched tv and started working on another hat for charity. Saturday morning, I took A's box to the post office and I went to Hobby Lobby just to see if they had received anything new. Nope. Then my mom, my sister and I went to Owasso/Tulsa. We started out in Owasso and went Christmas present shopping for the dogs at Petsmart. Then we went to Tar-jay to get Christmas presents for my sister's best friend's little girl. It is a lot of fun buying Barbies and my little ponies and having a legitimate excuse to. I mostly bought ornaments at Tar-jay. Then we went to Hancock Fabrics in Tulsa so that my mom could get a certain pattern and some sewing supplies that she couldn't get in town. Then we came home. I went to Hastings to look at magazines and long-lost E finally called me back. She wanted to go to the 9:45 showing of Pirates of the Caribbean 2 at the two-dollar theatre. I didn't really like the movie. I prefer Johnny Depp in non pirate outfits. We missed the first twenty minutes because she was late and she told me some scary drama stories about her life now. Why do good people do stupid things? I just felt really really old, while i was listening to her talk on the way home.

I have finished the crochet scarf by the way, in fact I think that is what i did on Friday night before I started the hat. I only purchased one skein of Bernat Cotton Tots this weekend to make more infant hats for charity. My swap partner for the Teeny Little dog swap on Craftster sent me some really ADORABLE doggie hats. They were crocheted and had little openings for their ears to poke out. Daisy kept trying to eat the pom poms and Haley was like "why am I wearing a hat? It is 50 degrees outside!" I was able to take some pictures before the batteries died on my digital.

My digital camera is going to heaven soon. It eats batteries like crazy and just doesn't work like it used to. So since I need a decent digital for the holidays I am going to order one next week with my video ipod fund. Sniff sniff...I will have a video ipod in 2007. It is sooo going to happen. This is the camera that I want:

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I just want a point and shoot pretty much. I don't feel that I need a Canon Rebel to take pictures of my dogs or yarn stash. The main reason I like this camera is the 56 MB internal memory and the fact that it is really slim because my current one is very bulky. If they sell out of the pink then I will get it in silver. The white version looks too much like my ipod.

I spent most of this morning cleaning the house. My grandparents are coming from St. Louis on Wednesday and my dad comes back from a week long trip in Mexico so the laundry needed to be done before he brought all his dirty clothes home. I just have thursday and friday off but I plan out getting a lot of charity hat making done while my grandparents snooze in front of the tree.

I also made an excel spreadsheet for the holiday season. It lists all the people that I am either buying a present for or sending a card to. It has a check list feature as well. I even found Christmas cards with green and yellow tractors on them. YAY!!!! I need a list this year so I stay on track and don't forget stuff or buy too much. I am starting to like this whole saving my money thing a tad. I think it's because I don't want to be like the people on Big Spender (it's on A&E, he helps people get out of financial holes).

Happy Birthday, Sunshine!!!

On this day, a mere twenty-four years ago, my best friend was born. Even though we just met in college, I feel like I have known him my entire lifetime. I think that he knows more about me than I know about myself. I am very fortunate to have three very best friends, to walk beside me on this twisted journey through known as Life. I think it's important to let the people in your life know how much you care about them and how much you value their friendship, because friendship is a choice. There are sooo many great things about Sunshine. I knew right when I met him that we were going to have many adventures together.

Sunshine is probably my favorite person to travel with. We have been on the best road trips together, and his sense of direction is better which is good because my internal compass is broke. He knows that I like to get up early, and that I am much happier when I have five minutes to check my e-mail. He has really good taste in music. I had no idea who Incubus was until he played their cd for me in his little red car. He has this way of coaxing me to try new things without being forceful. He patiently stands next to me when i am debating over what colors of flip flops at Old Navy to buy or whether or not I really need all three skeins of yarn. he opens car doors and asks if you need a drink or an extra blanket.

When your world falls apart and you feel like total shit, he is there to listen to your sob story. He is really smart and creative. He can get high schoolers to march in unison. I had a couple of opportunities to watch him direct the band this fall, and it was so awesome to sit up in the bleachers and look out over the field at the band playing. I just sat there watching, with my eyes wide open, and it was so awesome seeing my best friend out on the field living his dream. He's actually doing something that he loves, and not too many people get to say that about their jobs. I know that he is going to go even farther in life, and I'm just glad that I get to be along for the ride. He respects me and that is a nice feeling. We don't always agree on everything, but we can agree to disagree. He makes crappy parties bearable. It's the little things really. the little everyday tiny kinds of things that make people incredible.

Happy birthday, my friend. You deserve all the happiness and pancakes with maple syrup in the world and a Broadway chorus to sing the birthday song in three part harmony with spirit fingers and tap shoes. Are you smirking yet?

What a Weekend

The haul from My trip to T-town:

1.really hot laptop bag/purse from Swiss Army...yes it's black but it has lots of pockets and real purse handles. It is not your average black laptop bag...and it is big enough for my intermediate accounting book and my laptop and two skeins of noro to fit inside...lol...plus all my other crap.

2.mini hello kitty christmas ornaments

3. The haul from Loops: one pair of addi turbos!!!!, two skeins of noro silk garden, one skein of Blue sky cotton in Thistle and one skein in black. I have already made a hat for myself last night out of the thistle...so pretty...and the scarf I am crocheting out of the Noro is almost done and it is sooo pretty...

4. Starbucks hot cocoa and peppermint sticks. I need something soothing while my office area is being re carpeted and I am stuck out in god knows where with a loaner craptop. Hopefully my cubicle walls don't fall apart when they jack it up three to six inches to slide the new carpet underneath...LOL....soooo Office Space

5. I bought a used copy of the movie Lake House with Keanu and Sandra in it....It is sooo awesome and the story is set in Chicago. What's not to love about that? It was sooo awesome I watched it three times already.

I made one baby hat on my way to T-town, but I was really tired from getting up too early.. That was all the damage I did to my wallet this weekend. I hid my debit card. It is only coming out of it's hidey-hole to be depleted by my gas tank until after Thanksgiving and then it can come back to my wallet again. I am really great at saving other people's money, but I suck saving my own money sometimes. I have seriously gotten better at it though. there is actually money in my savings account...holy crap, huh. I got a lot done this weekend, but it never feels like enough. I just don't have any time during the week to get time intensive things done because of my insane work and school schedule.

O Dark Thirty

So it is o dark thirty am on Saturday morning and I am awake because I have to take Daddy to the aeuropuerto so he can catch an 8:30 flight to Mexico (for business). Since we have to take him to the airport we are going to to go shopping in Tulsa afterwords. Tar-jay, BN and Loops are all involved in this ploy. My twisted peppermint lotion from B&B arrived yestgerday but my Sublime Stitching patterns that I ordered on Oct 16th still haven't yet. Oh cool, they included a free sample of PIna Colada Shower syrup. I like this! Screw going to the store, I'm going to have to order more stuff from them online since they gave me freebies.

Anyhoo, while I am on a shopping spree, I hope to get some cool yarn and some gadgets and maybe a book or too. I need to get some stuff for my Secret Pals, since i will be going to a non-acrylic real yarn store. I mean hello, they have Addi Turbos! That makes me excited because you can't just buy those at Wal-Mart. In the end the 12 hours of overtime I racked up during fiscal year end was a positive thing because reward is guilt free shopping in Tulsa! YAY!!!!

I would also like to thank my musical hero of the week, Ben Folds, for releasing his cover of Dr. Dre's song, B****** Ain't S***. It is just beautiful and the perfect song to listen to when you are frustrated with the world.

I would also like to give a quick shout-out to Sunshine, whose birthday is on Monday. I plan on a big cheesy happy birthday post for him then, but for now, I hope he is having an awesome birthday weekend.

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Presents

I received a really awesome package from my Secret Pal 9 buddy today. It is SOOO COOL and I love it: It was full of the following:

one pair of circular knitting needles
1 skein of purple Caron Simply Soft (one of my faves)
1 skein of really bright Peaches and Cream dishcloth yarn (love the colors)
1 Waterfall scented candle (it is blue and it smells like really good)
1 set of Pomegrante scented soap/lotion/shower gel
1 cross stitch kit


Yay! I love it all and I was totally surprised and that is very hard to do. It was waiting for me when I came back from running errands this afternoon. Since it is November, I must get into gear on my holiday shopping/decorating/crafting. I finished another hat this morning. Last night I was at the Hallmark store and they have ornaments from A Christmas Story. I am now the proud owner of the Ralphie wearing the infamous pink bunny suit ornament. It is even fuzzy! I let out a little squeal in the store. I even ended up watching the movie this afternoon. It is one of my comfort movies. I'm just kind of lounging around and recovering from the fun week I had at work during fiscal year end.

I have Internet again!

Daddy fixed our screwed up wireless. YAY! Mackie is happy again. I am currently downloading all my podcasts and my homework. I have just caught up on reading blogs.

So the hell week of fiscal year end is basically over with. I did over 66 account reconciliations, with some accounts having over 7000 lines. My eye balls are shot. I had to get eye drops so I could keep them open, because they are drier than the Sahara desert. Wal-mart and others have started putting out their Christmas ornaments. I found tiny tractor and mini sweater ornaments. How perfect is that!

This wekend I plan on working on more hats for my holiday knitting. My stash is starting to multiply so I need to use it up. I have been also going through my Martha Stewart holiday magazines so I can figure out what kind of holiday stuff I want to make.

I'm in the middle of watching Grey's Anatomy tonight and it is sooo good.

I would like to say that the Barnes and Noble in Springfield has the best magazines and the largest selection of knitting and crochet books of any BN that i have been to. Total drool worthy. I survived spending a mere $26. Seriously, I spent like maybe 1/4 of what I typically do on a "shopping weekend." I must be getting sick or something. I had loads of fun with Sunshine this weekend. We drank some nasty wine (it started out sweet but it has a really bitter after taste). We also so did some rearranging in the living room, hence the bookcase project. So it was a good thing I spent a nice relaxing weekend with Sunshine, otherwise I would have ran screaming from my cubicle this week. Co-worker A thinks I should decorate my cubicle a little, to make my environment more pleasant. I told her I didn't have anything "workplace appropriate." LOL...I just tend to be a really private person at work.