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.

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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.

All the things that i have done

There are so many events today and so it might just be easier to make a list.

1. Since we get the house on Wednesday, my sister and i packed up a shitload of stuff. i am hoping that we are all situated by v-day but we will see.
2. THANKFULLY, we did not get the big nasty snow storm. it was too warm. we did get a little sleet that didn't really do anything.
3. Read the 4th Sisterhood of the traveling pants book. sooo good.
4.Made two funfetti cakes and one yellow cake in my easy bake oven and all three turned out really good.
5. finished winding the yarn for red scarf two.
6. mailed off a ton of stuff at the post office
7. watched a documentary segment on the discovery channel about the manufacturing of sanitary napkins. which was actually really interesting.
8. i don't like driving on slush, i prefer hard surfaces, so i really didn't go anywhere. plus we have house stuff to set up, so it was a good thing.
9. today is Baby L's first birthday. time flies by so fast.
10. i was naughty and bought three magazines at hastings friday night in preparation for the storm that didn't happen. lol.

things i need to do:
1. pack pack pack pack
2. make a list of house stuff that we will need to eventually procure
3. burn mixed cd
4. become friends with accounting textbooks. yuck
5. finish red scarf 2 so that i can start something new
6. watch how to eat fried worms.

Sunshine, i hope things are going better. i hope that you don't have any more yucky storms so that you don't have to worry about power outtages and falling trees. hopefully the weather will behave for the next month and we can see each other, cause I miss you!! i need you to help me pick out house stuff.

WE HAVE A HOUSE!!!!

In a total case of pure serendipity, my little sis found us a house to rent with a big back yard, a fence a one car garage, a black and white kitchen, bUILT iN BOOKCASES, a bathroom and some other stuff that is exciting for only $525!!! YAY!!! It's a brick house from the 50s but the owners maintain it and are really nice. We sign papers next Wednesday. Hopefully we won't get snow tomorrow so the ice crap can continue to melt off. it's on a cul-de-sac in a decent area. no psycho neighbors. my mom approves, so by god this place must be pretty special, because she is one of the pickiest people on earth.

Today was a long day at work. i did get a lot of things done, so that was nice. it is behind me now. i should be really pissed off but i've decided not to let it get to me because there are worse things in life.

i stocked up on pop. i have yarn, a spankin new easy bake oven and pop! i am disaster-prepared! tonight i shall dream of hello kitty curtains--my new bedroom is going to be phat! there will be pink and hello kitty and whatever the hell else i want in there. my red kitchen aid utensils are going to look beautiful in the kitchen. the third office/bedroom is covered with built in bookcases. totally drooling. i think this is going to be nice. the bathroom is in good condition. the carpet is newer--like a light beige/taupe and there are wood floors, so no disco shag.

anyways, i'm tired. but i will have more stuff to yak about this week. red scarf three is finished so i am winding the final skein so that i can finish red scarf number 2.

All Work and No School

I have made it into work every day this week which is nice because i need to continue to make money with the upcoming move and all. So far my tuesday and wednesday night classes have been cancelled. Most of my classmates and teachers don't necessarily live near by and a lot of them live in towns with no power due to our ice storm. I can't top the adventures that Sunshine has had during this storm. I will say this, I am busting out after work tomorrow. I need mountain dew and some other things.

Thursday, if the conditions improve, my sister is has appointments to look at a couple of rental houses for us in town. I gave her a list of things "for her consideration" since I can't be there in person to voice my opinion. My dad's promotion/transfer hasn't been announced at work yet, which is nice because i don't have people hounding me and asking me dumb questions all day. Did I mention that it was 71 degrees in Charlotte, NC when my dad talked to his new bosses down there? I don't mind cold weather but I get cranky when I can't shop.

My skein of Cascade 220 persimmion arrived in the mail today so I will be able to Red Scarf #2 this weekend. I am starting to become concerned that I will not have enough to finish Red Scarf #3. This is why I shouldn't be conservative in my yarn expenditures. I am still debating on what I will crochet for Little S' wedding present. I can't decide if I'm disciplined enough to make an afghan, and if I finished it, I would not want to give away my first one. So I am still looking at patterns.

Boston Legal was awesome tonight too. James Spader cracks me up still. Denny Crane.

Boxes Boxes Everywhere

You know when you get to the point in a major purge/house cleaning where the donation and trash bag piles are so big you don't have room to really sort any more? Well, we are nearing that point rapidly. Due to the lovely ice storm I couldn't go to the post office or Goodwill to send off some of this stuff. I just got my car back from the damage that crazy lady did, I really don't want another insurance claim. My sister and i don't really have that much stuff, just too much for our tiny rooms. A lot of it is dishes and household stuff from dorm life in college that we wanted to keep for this very time. We are getting a set of dishes and matching mixing bowls from my mom. We honestly really wanted her set with the avocado daisy-like flowers on it. They are retro cool. Most of my trinkets and picture frames are boxed up now. I kept some stuff on the walls because I HATE NAKED WALLS....My sister and i also went through my sock drawer and matched up all of my socks. I didn't have any orphan socks either!

I am sneezing like crazy too. I had to dust stuff as I was packing it up. We ran out of bubble wrap so all those t-shirts I saved for sentimental purposes are great for wrapping up picture frames and other breakables.

I have started Red Scarf #3 but progress is slow because I have been cleaning like a mad woman. Thank god we taped Ugly Betty and Grey's Anatomy. I need something to entertain me while I am sorting.

Packed Ice

Well, my area got close to two inches of ice pellets. I went out to the mailbox and the grass was frozen so hard you could walk on top of it. Any concrete is solid snow packed ice. It all stopped some time last night but until we make it above 30 degrees it will be a hockey rink outisde.

This weather makes it perfect for packing. Gee Shoegirl, why do you have to pack? Well, my dad accepted a promotion/transfer to Charlotte, North Carolina. He starts February 1st and will be flying back and forth the next couple of months. My parents have to hear back from the relocation specialist first, but it looks like april and may will be house selling time. My sis and I have jobs here and i'm so close to finishing school that we are going to get a cute little rental house here. My sister's friend S is going to be our realtor because she has mega knowledge of the decent rental houses in town. S's husband is an assistant manager at a local liquor store in town so he is going to set aside boxes from their shipment on Tuesday for us. Liqour boxes are small and sturdy and are awesome for moving your shit with out breaking your back. Our goal is to be moved out by March so that we can be settled in and it will make it easier to show the house and clean carpets and stuff. It was our idea, our parents aren't kicking us out or anything like that.

My mom, my sister and I went through all the movies and split them apart. Holy cow! I could operate my own video store. We have at least two plastic tubs full to donate to the library sales and three huge bags of books too. We don't believe in garage sales, we think that they are tortuous to put on. At some point I need to empty out my dresser so that mom and i can glue the drawers back together, some of them have really loose joints (it was my mom's first dresser when she moved out of her parent's house in the 70s).

Let's just say I could use a week long stay at a knitting spa. I have my Annie smile on though. Change is good.

Random Thoughts Tuesday

I forgot to mention that in the blur of it all, the "Gulf of Mexico" scarf was finished. It's made out of two of the other skeins of SWTC Karaoke that my little sis bought me for Christmas. I love soy/silk/wool blends. They are awesome. I went to my first class tonight of the semester. believe, there is nothing exciting about NFP/GOVT accounting. Yuck. But the professor is one of my favorites so I know he will do his best to make it entertaining. I stayed up very late last night to read Without You by Anthony Rapp. It was so good. He starred in a lot of my favorite movies growing up and hello, he played Mark in RENT. That's like cool points times infinity. anyways, his autobiography was awesome and parts of it moved me to tears. It has been awhile since I have read a decent autobiography. I will definitely be re-reading it over and over. I also starting reading the Al Gore book, An Inconvient Truth. Also very good from a environmental science-y standpoint. Al Gore makes environmental issues accessible and breaks them down in a way that the average person can understand. I have not started any new crochet projects yet because I am waiting for pay day so I can order yarn to finish red scarf #2 and I am trying to figure out what to make for the celebration discussed below.

I also received a save the date card from Little S. She is marrying J on May 26th. I am excited about this wedding because I think the two of them are good together and have an equal relationship. Since she is the one who taught me how to crochet, and founded "crochet sweatshop (this is meant in a positive light)" I think it would be fitting if I crocheted an afghan for them. M thinks that is crazy. If she devoted 1/4 of the time she spent on lousy sex to things like career, crochet or friends I think she would be a much happier person. I think this is possible because I have realized that if you just do a few rows everyday while watching tv, or while you are waiting on carpool, you can make a lot of progress. That's how I've been able to make so many hats and scarves recently. So I thought, hell if I can do that surely I could finish a nice afghan by May 26th. Anyways, i had no intentions of talking to M tonight, but she calls me after class and is all like how come you haven't called me. I was just like you have a phone too. Why should I have to use all my minutes on someone who doesn't even act interested half the time in conversation because she is either getting ready for one of her hook ups or watching tv while on the phone. If you don't really want to have a conversation, then don't call me.

Anyways, I didn't talk too long cause she was just making me annoyed and I was not about to miss one second of the new boston legal tonight. so I gave her a taste of her own medicine and told her that i had to go because boston legal was going to be on in five minutes. Seriously, people that show is one of the current highlights of my week. Plus, William Shatner was playing a trombone shaped kazoo! It had a moveable slide! How freaking cool is that!!!????

By the way, I am an awful musical afficiando. I forgot to wish Elvis a Happy Birthday yesterday. Happy Belated Birthday Elvis! You still rock!

Anyways, those are my rants and raves for the day. I am going to take some allegra-d so that i can peacefully sleep and be able to breathe out of my congested nose in the morning. I am also going to read some more since i have purchased several books over the holidays and reading more frequently is on my "Be the Change" list of resolutions.