Knitting has taken over!

Sorry to have been absent for a while, but I have been knitting up a storm! I just finished my fingerless mittens, and they are a success! I still have one ball of yarn, so I am going to make another pair and will probably send them to my mother...I'll have to adjust the pattern a tiny bit as her hands are much narrower than mine...I definitely have the farmer hands in the family...thanks great grandmother Murell! Well, other than knitting, life has been pretty much the same... well, except that I am now addicted to Guitar Hero! I played it for the first time at Christmas, and got booed offstage a few times...made me want to do better! It's like crack I suppose....do it once, and you want to do it again and again. One of my best friends got it, and last weekend I went over and we played for HOURS....now, when I hear songs from the playlist, I mentally go to the "green" "red" "yellow" place (the colors of the buttons you push in Easy mode). See, I really do have a problem! And the first step is admitting it - LOL!

So, whether it's knitting, Guitar Hero, or whatever floats your boat...find something you feel passionate about and do it! Even if you never did it before...try it! Fear is only to be acknowledged and then overcome...don't let it stagnate you! "soapbox is now put away".

Crazy HoliDAZE!

The holidays are here, and I'm still trying to finish my secret santa gift, which is whay I haven't been blogging lately...I would have been done with the scarf sooner, except I began on what I thought were needles that would give me a lacy effect...nope. Tooo tight...made the item (not saying what as this person may read my blog)tooooo bulky, so I had to rip it out and start again. On Sunday. I have to have it done and wrapped Wed. nite, so I don't have much time left. The hats I knitted are all so cute...decided against the long stocking caps and just made cute hats with pom poms on top. Last night I made gingerbread cookies, tonight I have to bake the sugar cookies and the choc. dipped butter cookies. Oh, and I still have to pack for our trip to Asheville tomorrow. So, if I have no posts until Xmas day, you know why! Have a wonderful Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa or whatever moves and grooves you!

The week done gone...

I had a complete and total meltdown on Monday night...against my better judgement, I downloaded a game last weekend onto my laptop. Sunday night, after I finished playing, I turned my computer off and went to bed. Inagine my surprise, when on Monday night, I turn on my computer to find that NO programs can be accessed. I reboot. And reboot. Repeat 4 more times...nada. Ok, so this isn't good (voice in head is repeating this, over and over). Well, to make a long story short, I had to reformat my hard drive, which resulted in the computer still not working...and now it just shows a grey screen. By the way, didn't I mention in an earlier post about my PMS status? Now you can have a little window into how this went down...at that point (grey screen) I just lost it. I was SO mad at myself, because I know NEVER to mess on game sites, because you can get trojans and other spyware from them, but I did it anyway. SO, after several minutes of freaking out, crying and chastizing myself, I called Lenovo and had them walk me thru fixing everything. So, it's all fixed now and the only games I will play are ones that I purchase from a known site with the CD. After it was all over, I ealized that all the animals were in here with me, and it was really sweet how concerned Maisy and Lucky seemed to be. Maisy sat and kept her paw on me, and Lucky made herself into a little ball in my lap; she's not a lap cat, she's a "I'll lay next to you and you rub my neck and back" cat. So their concern touched me!
Another reason this week went by quickly is HATS! I have 2 knitted and working on the third, which the way it looks, I shuld finish tomorrow. Then it's one more hat and 2 scarves. My car is beiing repaired right now, so I can't do anything at home (yeah, I COULD clean, but knitting has a stronger allure-I like knitting...hate cleaning!) I do need to pull out the lights and decorations at some point this weekend...see what lights need replacing, etc. Why is it when you put holiday lights away for the next year they work, and when you pull out the same friggin lights a year later they don't work? They've only been sitting in a box for dog's sake! WTF!!!
Ok, that was just a tiny rant, It's just always bugged me. I'm off to refresh my coffee and get to 2x2 rib knitting!

Video Bar

The videos posted on the video bar are from my brother in law Josh. The videos star my sister Meredith, and my nieces, Murell and Avery (aka Noodle). In case you were wondering who these people are.....

PMS makes me crazy!

ok, well maybe not certifiable crazy, but my emotions have been all over the map for the last couple of days. I know for sure it's PMS and not just generally being bitchy, when I can be totally pissed one second and then sobbing at a Pedigree dog food commercial the next (they are usually touching commercials). I have been pretty pissy this week anyway, as I was doing an overnight dog sitting job, and returned home after 4 days to find the house in a wreck: laundry piled up, clutter and piles of Ken's stuff all over the house. Now, I admit I am not the neatest person in the world, but it seems to me, that the person who WAS home should have taken some initiative to straighten up, even just a little. Instead, he was off for 3 days and did nothing except sit on his butt. So, I have been doing laundry, cleaning litter boxes, washing the dishes ( he SUCKS at washing dishes-can't get it thru his head that all dishes, glasses and pots & pans have TWO sides and you need HOT water to get them clean) and getting all the clutter picked up. So, that's my rant for now!

and another thing....

Trying to make sweet potato pie again tomorrow. the one from last weekend still had the soggy crust issue...gotta fix it...prebaking the crust, maybe? Not part of the instructions, but I have learned alot of my old family recipes seem to miss something...guess those old country cooks just knew what to do! Off to research this issue!

Truly Thankful!

This is why I am thankful at Thanksgiving....
I have a dog. Her name is Maisy. She's got a problem with staying in the yard (she needs lessons from Lucky-my cat who comes to the door when she accidentally gets outside to be let back in!). I know her moves, so rarely does she escape on my watch, but Ken is a different story. Maisy knows she can outrun him, so she will slip under the fence and she's gone! So, today Ken takes her out, and she makes a run for it, but instead of going to the abandoned housing un-development behind our street, where she normally goes (lots to smell and chase)she went up the road and crossed a VERY busy strret and went to the Kroger. Maybe she wanted to pick up a few things...I have no idea. when Ken called me and said she had been out and that she was found at Kroger, it just freaked me out! It terrifies me that she went on a road where the speed limit is 45 mph, and many people go faster than that. Thank goodness some kind soul took the time to call our house to let us know she was there. But Ken was out looking for her for quite some time, so when noone came to get Maisy, someone from Kroger called to say they had contacted animal control and we could get her there. Thank goodness, whoever it was looked at her rabies tag and realized her vet was across the street, so they took her there and that's where Ken picked her up. So, I am thankful Maisy is home safe and sound! She's now not allowed out except on a leash, and I may be learning how to make my own doggie hobbles..anyone got a concrete block I can use?