Finished Items

I have been neglectful of my blog. In an effort to push myself to post more, I linked myself on Rav, LSG to be exact. Hi peeps!

Here is a photo of my "A Stole" made from one skein of Noro Sock

And another

This is Photography Hat. Free patternon Rav, I made it in just a few hours (and that includes the random YO I threw in to practice my detective skills)

ON the needles now is Nina Shawl, and nothing else. I am toying with a few ideas but have not settled on anything yet.

Started my summer job today, and volunteered to go home early since our enrollment was so low. I should be cleaning house but decided to do nothing instead.

Hair cuts text messages and homework

I went from shoulder length hair to this last weekend. I love it! Totally and completely love it.  Most of my friends love it as well. But there is always one, am I right?  The one who says it looks really good but I have a thing for long hair.  I have one of those in my life. However as I told him it is just hair, it will grow again.

I am spending far too much time today texting a friend who is out of town for the day.  I should be getting things done around the house, but my phone and the internet have swallowed me whole.  

Thursday night starts my homestretch at college, 8 classes over the next five weeks.  and then I am DONE! DONE! DONE!  With graduation set for Mother's Day.  I can't wait.  And even though I am perusing master's programs I will have the summer off from classes and possibly fall semester as well.

I have finished the squirrel body and arms and I am working on the tail now.  I want to get this done and felted today for drying and stuffing before Easter. It is good to have a goal.

I am alive!

I have been busy and feeling like the internet was pulling me away from life.  So I took a break from blogging.  But I do have some things to share.  So here goes.

I have made a few hats recently, and I am almost done with the most boring pair of socks ever.  (3x2 rib). My BFF has jsut started knitting and it is so fun to watch her excitement and ability grow.

Today I am home sick from work due to a three hour coughing jag in the middle of the night.  I am also on some cold medicine so excuse me if I ramble. I find that the medicine makes me slightly scatterbrained.

I am making a fiber trends squirrel for my son for Easter, he loves squirrels.  And he will be so thrilled with it.  I am trying to keep it a secret; luckily he is so used to seeing me knit that he does not question it.

I just received a swap package that included some gorgeous roving so I can continue to learn how to spin.  It is hard to learn by myself I really need some one on one instruction!!

Perhaps I will put together some photos to post later. 

Slainte

The letter L

Ten things, L

1. Lemons, I love lemon pie, lemonade, lemon cake, lemon bread.

2. Little... as in the things that mean a lot.

3. Licking, lollipops, what could be better?

4. Lace, the one type of knitting that still kicks my ass

5. Limes, see number one.

6. Leaning, on someone else, that I trust, what a great feeling.

7.Lying, I hate it.

8. Lakes, the best place to swim.  A clean crisp lake on a hot summer day.

9. Lying awake at night, something I do often, and I have come to love.

10. Lessons, I love to learn, and excel at being a student.

Vomit Night From Hell

Cindy's night:

• Out dinner and vodka and three glasses of champagne
• Bring friend home,
• GO home
• Lie in bed awake until 11
• 12:30 projectile vomiting from the top bunk
• strip top bunk, strip bottom bunk, pile nine million loads of puke covered laundry in laundry room
• step in puke with bare feet
• stomach rolls
• settle child on couch
• go back to bed
• ten minutes later
• vomiting
• clean child's mouth reassure him he is not poisoned
• back to bed
• twenty minutes later
• child vomits, clean face, reassure, try to sleep, repeat every twenty minutes until 5 am
• at four am insert phone calls to school
• sleep from 5 to seven, call daycare, send email with sub plans
• sleep more,
• throw in load of laundry

More than one way

Saturday morning, six am.  Husband asleep, child asleep.  Me wide awake, I need to go to the grocery store, but I have decided to wait until it is light out.  I just want to get it over with.  Laundry, dishes, cooking, all of it.  I cast on for the fish hat last night and finished the mouth shaping, going for the first color change now.  

I made a pair of garter stitch mitts for a friend, i love the pattern it is so quick and I love the way they fit snug on the wrist, and the thumb gusset is so easy and quick.

I am going to work on fish hat most of the day today as it is cold out and hubby is off to a party this afternoon and I will be alone with kidlet, tv, music, and no where to go, nowhere to be, and nothing too pressing to get done.  

The Ipod thing

1. What's my mood like right now?

My Wish by Rascall Flatts

2. How's tomorrow going to be for me?

Back 2 Good by Matchbox 20

3. What kind of person am I?

How Do You Like Me Know? By Toby Keith

4. Am I loved?

THe Best Is Yet to Come by Nancy Wilson

5. How can I achieve my highest potential? Hold On Loosely by 38 Special

6. What should I do with my life? Cheeseburger in Paradise, Jimmy Buffett

7. Is everything really going to be alright in the end? Fever by Michael Buble

8. What is my best quality?  French Shore GBS

9. How does my sex life look? Chicaquita ABBA

10. What's the meaning of life? Seasons OF Love Rent Soundtrack

11. What do people think of me? Helmet Head GBS (it's a hockey song!)

12. Would I make a good catch? Hard to Love you The Wreckers

13. How crazy am I?   Perfect by Alanis Morrissette

14. Will I have a good life in general? Magic Carpet Ride Steppenwolf


15. What's going to happen to me this week? The First Cut is The Deepest by Sheryl Crow

16. Where will I be a year from now? Mrs. Robinson by Simon and garfunkel

17. What is my biggest wish? I would Do Anything for Love by Meatloaf


18. What is the love of my life doing at this very moment?.  Be My Luck Oysterband

21. How do my friends feel about me? You were meant for Me, by Jewel

22. Where will I go on vacation? Train in the Distance Paul Simon

23. What am I getting for Christmas? Lucky Town Bruce Springsteen

24. What happened to me yesterday?  All I see IS Red Ceann

25. What would be my part in a movie?  Mari Mac GBS

26. Who knows everything about me? Margarita GBS

27. Who is my idol?  Bobby Kennedy Black 47

28. What will I be when I grow up? Mony Mony Billy Idol

SIX SIX

Although I was not tagged for this, I figured why not.  Sixth folder of pictures, picture number six.  This was taken two years ago at my summer job, at the top of Deer's Leap, Vermont.

Command Performance

Friday is a family dinner, a command performance one might say. Ten of us, a table that sits four comfortably, six in a pinch, and my mom has silverware for eight. Should be a scream.

The occasion is my nephew's 18th birthday. I don't really know my nephew at all. He lives with my brother's ex, his mom. And he has very little to do with the rest of the family.

I got him money for his birthday. The color and size are always right, no one ever tries to return it.

Now I am off to tackle my history final.