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.

Happy Halloween

Our wireless is really screwed up right now and my dad is in complete denial, so the internet only works on my mom's psycho computer and my dad's. SO until the weekend when I can secretly beat our router with a baseball bat, i am stuck using my mom's super slow computer. I am seriously considering going to the library and taking my laptop with me so i can use their wireless. I should have stayed at Sunshine's. I was having fun and life made more sense. It doesn't help that I spent 12 hours at work on monday and nine today plus class. fiscal year end is hell on earth.

On the positive side, i had an awesome weekend. I made four baby hats for caps to the capital. I will go into more details this weekend when my internet has improved.

Greetings from the Quad Cities

I am sitting at the airport and it is 1:55 and my flight does not leave until 4:45p.m. Most people would be annoyed but I have my Mackie and my cell phone so I am cool. So I thought I would send a shout out to everyone, especially Sunshine. See you soon darling! I would post more about my trip but it's company business related so I can't post about it on the internet. Other than things went really well (to the best of my knowledge). the wi-fi is free at the Quad Cities airport (not at the memphis one) and it was at the yucky hotel I stayed at. It was clean, but that was it. I am going to be flexible and not go on and on about why that hotel was yuck. But the company paid for so it's all good in the end. I got to have some ice creams at Whitey's ice cream. It's a famous ice cream place in the iowa/illinois area. The ice cream is dee-lish. I could really go for a big fat mountain dew right now. there seems to be a coke monopoly which is okay, but I really need a serious mountain dew fix right now. Can we say caffeine dependency? Nah...I didn't need my new wool coat either, but it would've probably snowed if i had left it at home.

While i've been away, my sis has informed me that J has sent me Chicago Cubs flip flops...How sweet is that? I can't wait to throw these dress shoes out the window and wear them. The dress shoes are pretty decent, but they don't compare to a nice pair of chucks or flip flops. My sis is jealous because she is an even bigger Cubs fan than me (and Daisy has chewed up most of her flip flops---i hide mine in the closet).

I am reading a biography about Marie Antoinette (the new movie is based on this book). It is pretty good so far. i discovered it at the airport in Memphis. At the QC airport I found a very rare special edition JD tractor (Ertl Premiere series) with muddy tires!!! I about squealed. They only put a very limited few with muddy tires in each tractor series and I have only seen them in collector's books. This is one tractor that I will have to leave in the plastic because typically take them out. . I can't wait to show my dad. LOL....

I have received several compliments on my hot pink adidas duffel bag that I have been traveling with. It makes things a lot easier to find especially in a luggage pile. People have also been checking out Mackie. Thank god I got a 12" because the 17" would not have fit on the airplane trays of the puddle jumpers I have been flying on for this trip. They are two seats by two seats. One time i flew from denver to palm springs on a one by one and that was tiny ass.

The Tease of Winter

It tried to frost this morning. Yesterday, it was a very cold 50 degrees and I could wear a coat (not buttoned of course). I managed to find a suit for the big trip this week and a pair of shoes I won't kill myself walking in. Surprisingly I found them at Target, the last place I looked. I can always find cute shoes there, but their clothing sizes are really odd and vary so much by brand that I can't usually find anything. But I did, which was great because I couldn't find anything at home, and I really really reaally really didn't want to go to T-town. The holiday season is trying to begin and it is getting more crowded and traffic and parking are bitches at the big mall. The whole day was kind of a blur actually. I feel like I have gotten nothing accomplished since all I really did was suit shopping yesterday. I just want to make it to November 1st and have fiscal year-end and the work trip over with. I did manage a quicky stop to Hobby Lobby. I got the new issue of Crochet Today which has some cute projects in it. I got two more balls of sugar and cream in colors I hadn't used before. LOL. Like I need more yarn.

Pop Quiz!

So this quiz has been floating around the Secret Pal 9 organizers, and i saw it on one of their blogs and thought it would be fun.

Actor - Don't have a particular favorite
Actress - Don't really have a favorite actress
Animal - My two little Yorkies, Daisy and Haley
Band - Um, see the attached 20 page file...Like there is that many. Aerosmith, Kenny Chesney, The Bangles, The GoGos, Bon Jovi, The Killers
Beverage - Mountain Dew, Mike's Hard Lemonade, Amish wine, straight Jack Daniels
Book - Too many favorites. i am currently reading Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
Bubble Bath - Green Apple Suave Shampoo...Lol...It is sooo cheap and it smells so good. I also love Victoria Secret's Love Spell
Candy - Skittles and Starbursts
Color -black, blues and dark purples
Flower - hot pink Gerbera daisies, unusually colored roses--hot pink, dark purple/black
Food - pepperoni pizza from Pizza Hut
Lip Balm - Bonne Bell Dr. Pepper (soooo yummmy)
Lotion - Victoria's Secret Love Spell
Movie - Fried Green Tomatoes and A Christmas Story ( i have the special edition dvd that i watch year round AND I watch the marathon every year on TV
Song -Way too many to even narrow down
TV Show - Gilmore Girls, Grey's Anatomy, QAF, Desperate Housewives, Wifeswap, Supernanny, Boston Legal
Yarn - Rowan Summer Tweed, Sugar and Cream, cheesy Christmas Holiday yarn
Vacation Spot - Chicago and Iowa City (vacation is wherever you have the most fun and i have a ton of fun in Iowa City). Dream Spots: Ireland, London, Berlin, Alaska, Vancouver, factory tours (I love those!)

These Chucks were Made for Walkin

Wow. So it is Sunday night and I am pooped. Yesterday was a craft store marathon in T-Town. We went to two non-craft stores at the mall, Jo-Ann's, Babies R Us, Hancock Fabrics, a quilt store and Barnes and Noble. My heels are really sore now for some reason. Maybe I have grown accustomed to sitting in a cubicle all day. I try to get up and walk a lot but there aren't too many places I can go. I finished the camo family of hats--one for A-dolly and her mom, one for her dad and a baby girl and a baby boy one since we don't know if A-dolly is going to have a little sister or a little brother yet because her parents want to be surprised. My aunt D and my mom had two sewing machines constantly going when we weren't shopping. They were making clothes for all the babies that we know that have been recently born or will be born soon. They were also making lots of doll clothes for A-dolly. She is going to be Cindy-relly for Halloween and she looks beautiful in her costume. I still prefer my role as the fairy godmother. I have also made two other hats for charity, since it is that time of year again. I am getting closer on the rainbow dish cloth. I also got almost two yards of Hello Kitty pink Rock and Roll polar fleece that is soooo warm and soft. Like I really needed a new blankie but it was 40% off!!! That stuff can be between $10 and $14 a yard depending on what is printed on it and the grade of fleece used.

It rained a lot this weekend so my allergies are screwed up again. And my car is in the shop. Through a sick twist of fate, somehow a rock flew up in the undercarriage of my beloved 03 Subaru Forrester and ruined the air conditioner, radiator and something else related that is expensive. So it is at the dealership, awaiting parts and a $2000.00 repair bill. I am now officially indebted to my father for all eternity now for bailing me out on this one. did i mention the rental car is in his name so i can't technically drive it? He took the car to the dealership in Tulsa on Friday while I was at work. Lets hope the parts get here super fast. it really sucks having to bum rides off of people and driving unfamiliar cars. Did I mention I left my good cds and my sunglass clips in since I didn't know it was going to have to have a shitload of repair work done? we just thought the air conditioner was having problems and needed more juice or something...Sniff sniff....Some random mechanic gets to listen to my Justin Timberlake and the new Killers cds!!! I miss my car!!!

Work and school are insane as usual.My goal is to make it until Nov. That is when things should calm down except for the school part maybe. Honestly, though, I thrive on insanity. I like challenges and having things to do. I get bored very easily.

I think those are all the stories that I can tell on the internets.

Taco Tuesday

I had to share this because i am an accountant in training and a Mac freak:

"http://www.apple.com/business/profiles/cowen/"

Yay! That is like the coolest thing ever. I wish I could use a Mac at my job...Gilmore Girls was awesome tonight. Props to Rory for learning the joy of dirty text-messaging. I got a b-day present from Watergirl today. She sent me vintage copies of The Workbasket from the 50s and two ADORABLE cutesy doggie bandanas. There is an opening for their collars to slide through and I damn near squealed when I pulled them out of the envelope. I am going to make sure that the doggies are wearing their bandanas when Aunt D arrives. She will crack up. Yes, I am a dog freak and I dress my dogs up when they will allow it. I have finished 4.5 out of 5 camo hats. lol...The things I do for family. At least three of them are pink camo, that makes me feel better. My car is still sick, the temp outside dropped like 20 almost today and my pos front defroster is even more of a pos since the air conditioning quit. But we HAVE to drive my car and not my dad's. I had to drive today cause he felt like sleeping on the commute. Must be nice. Honestly, I'm just severely sleep and fun deprived and college + 50 or more hours of work a week really bites ass. But I know when I'm finally an accountant, it will be all worth it. The change in weather is also messing with my allergies, hence the sinus and ear pain that makes me bitchier. LOL...At least I am honest. Speaking of pain, I hope you feel better Sunshine. I promise there will be plenty of ice cream and adult beverages for your birthday fiesta.

I also got a really nice note from F.I.R.E., the organization that runs the Dulaan Project. this past Spring ( i think) I sent them 40 knitted hats, because that's what i like to do. i like to crochet dish cloths and knit hats on my looms because it is repetitive and I don't have to think to much. I just thought it was cool that they actual sent me a formal thank-you, it was completely unexpected. I also got a voice mail while I was in class from my friend E. She was the first person I became friends with my senior year in OK and she has moved back to town. Very random, but so is our friendship. The last couple of weeks I have heard from all kinds of people that I hadn't heard from in awhile, with the expection of N. People still talk about him at work even though none of us have heard from him since July (i was the last one he talked to). It's almost like he has achieved mythic status. Just like he wanted.

anyhoo, I am really rambling, I will blame all of this on the massive amount of claritin-d that I must take so that I will be able to breathe and hear in the morning.

Random Thoughts Sunday

I was able to finish two hats today. One was a camo colored hat for K (he wanted one in time for hunting season) and then I found this girly camo yarn that looks really pretty, so I made a little girly camo colored hat for his daughter (my god-daughter) A-dolly. She's daddy's little girl. Aunt D promised me that she would bring me loads of pics of A-dolly when she comes down on Thursday.

I am currently taking a break from doing all my accounting homework. Because of the insanity of this week and visitors this coming weekend I won't really have time to do it otherwise without losing mass amounts of sleep. The only other major thing i really did today was the dishes and massive amounts of laundry. I live with complete slobs. I love my family but they are total slobs. I've pared down my stuff to the point where i can't really get rid of anything else, otherwise i would just end up re-buying it later. I did find another stash of sucky cds buried in my closet. lol..I really had no idea what was in my closet other than it was neatly packed away.

Anyways, I promise to have more newsy stuff to report next Sunday. If i don't go insane by then (insert sarcastic smile here).

It's Crafty Saturday....

So much going on really. I am participating in a new swap on Craftster and I am soooo stoked because I am a member of Secret Pal 9! So this means, I need to get it together and get my craft on. Hmmm what else. Well, now that I am 26 i got this idea in my head that I should start wearing mascara. It looks great once it's all done, but it takes me like a good ten minutes to do it right and I end up poking my poor left eye out because I am not good at using the wand. LOL. I am a mess sometimes. I had a 40 % coupon for Hobby Lobby so I was going to finally buy some fancy rosewood crochet hooks and that stuff was on sale! I stocked up on some crochet and knitting implements (they were on sale and you can't have enough of them) So lucky for me, I found a hello kitty scrapbook paper (it is SO COOL) set to use the coupon because they haven't updated the knit and crochet books at that store in like three years or else they get one copy and someone buys it right away. that's what you get for living far from a big city. i would talk in more detail about specific crafts i will be making today, but since the people i am making them for could potentially read this blog, my lips are zipped.

In the book world, my current bed time stories are Son of a Witch (sequel to Wicked) and the Fight Club. Did I mention I am a Type A - ? I am not counting my accounting books as pleasure reading since that's homework and homework is not fun even if you like the subject.

The cleaning project is going well. the feminist magazines and yarn porn are now stashed in nifty martha stewart regulation magazine holders. My dvds have an actual home (well the ones that are kept in room and not with the family stash do). My cds are organized still. The dust bunnies have been banished to OZ.

Secret Pal 9 Questionnaire

1. What is/are your favorite yarn/s to knit with? What fibers do you absolutely *not* like?
I love Sugar and Cream dishcloth yarn (bright colors) and Rowan Summer Tweed (i really love the blues and purples). I am a wool freak even though I live in a very warm place right now. I don't like fuzzy yarns cause they are a pain to work with. Acrylic is okay as long as it doesn't feel like plastic. lol.. I use a lot of Caron's Simply Soft for charity projects.

2. What do you use to store your needles/hooks in?

I store my needles in an Eskimo Joe's cup and my hooks in a celestial print roll-up case that my mommy made me. I am a purse freak so I am always buying little pouches to carry my supplies in cause i get bored easily.

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?
No, but I should...

5. What's your favorite scent? (for candles, bath products, etc.)

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?

Hershey's milk chocolate, skittles, starburst, Orbit gum

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, 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.

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 just started crocheting another dishcloth

14. Do you like to receive handmade gifts?

of course!!!

15. Do you prefer straight or circular needles? Bamboo, aluminum, plastic?

I prefer metal hooks or heavy woods. I am starting to learn on circulars, so some lonely orphaned addi turbos would be awesome. I have a tendency to break plastic and cheap bamboo stuff.

16. Do you own a yarn winder and/or swift?

No, that is on my list of things to get when I win the lotto.

17. How old is your oldest UFO?

usually they get frogged or they don't get started. so i don't think i really have one.

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?

Hookorama by Rachael Matthews, I don't think it's out yet and I have banned myself from buying crafty books until January. Like I mentioned earlier, I would love some addis or Rowan summer tweed (really anything from Rowan) I don't subscribe to anything but I would really like to have a copy of Rebecca in the German edition but the English edition would be cool. I don't live near any actual yarn stores so I am very deprived.

21. Are there any new techniques you'd like to learn?

Not any that I can think of other than I would like to be profient at knitting someday.

22. Are you a sock knitter? What are your foot measurements?

Yeah, I'm not that great at knitting yet, so I can't make those. I am a size 8 US.

23. When is your birthday? (mm/dd)

Lol...I just had it. Sept 25th.