and to all a good night.
I hope all my friends out there had a great Christmas.
Slugbo and I kept it really low key this year. Thanks to a really sweet neighbor we actually had gifts under the ceramic tree. Thankfully I have a full queue of planned knit items for said neighbors ready to work on so I can reciprocate, albeit a little late.
Yup, that's right. Given that we are trying to get expenses down and get our debt down, the Slug and I opted not to exchange gifts this year. With everything else going on, it would have just been too much to try to figure out what to get each other.
Plus he had a gottne a game he wanted just over a month ago and I just bought myself a new watch, after talking to Slug about it, which I can hook to my iPhone via Bluetooth and it vibrates when a call comes in and tells me via caller id display who's calling.
It's cool, it's huge (same width as my wrist), but I love it already. I was playing with the band today (which needs to be replaced for one that FITS me) and the phone went off and I look at the number on it and went "Oh look Mom's calling. Where's my phone?"
Slugbo, our friend Shane and two of the mutt boys, Oscar and Cliff, headed up to the camp ground tonight to get the rig in place before the storm that is supposed to move in tomorrow. It's a four hour drive. I expect they'll get to bed around midnight and have tomorrow morning to figure out what I forgot to pack, so they can buzz me and tell me to pick it up on my way there. We have peeps in place to take care of the cats and watch the house.
Scrat the Brat - who is sick, poor pup has a cold - and I are about to head into the house for back meds for me, heating pad for me, blanket for the two of us and curl up in the living room recliner with some knitting, a peanut butter sandwich and a movie.
Since I probably won't blog again till we get home after the new year, I hope you all have a happy and safe New Years. I for one am looking forward to 2010. How about you?
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Friday, December 25, 2009
Thursday, December 25, 2008
A New Tradition
Wake up at 11 and see that all the kitties are snug on your lap (you're sick so you're sleeping in the recliner in the living room).
Turn on the TV and start finishing the Buck Rogers DVD set you borrowed over a year ago so you can give it back.
Hubby wakes up and joins you (he's sick too and hacking up a storm at night).
You open presents around noon and love all the yarn you've been given:
2 skeins of Sport Weight Blue Sky Alpaca - a pretty cornflower blue
1 skein of Melange Blue Sky Alpaca - a pretty blue green
3 skeins of Suri Merino Blue Sky Alpaca in Natural
The Blue Sky Alpaca Arm Warmer pattern to go with the first two yarns.
Hubby got a book and a video game (Left 4 Dead) and a board game.
Continue watching Buck Rogers for the rest of the entire day while Hubby vegs on the couch playing his game and you knit.
Try to find your RE doc since you are spotting and have to start the IVF drugs on Sunday.
Call your mother.
Wish you had family closer.
Say hi to your friends online.
Blog.
Go back in and spend rest of evening with hubby.
Merry Christmas Everyone.
Turn on the TV and start finishing the Buck Rogers DVD set you borrowed over a year ago so you can give it back.
Hubby wakes up and joins you (he's sick too and hacking up a storm at night).
You open presents around noon and love all the yarn you've been given:
2 skeins of Sport Weight Blue Sky Alpaca - a pretty cornflower blue
1 skein of Melange Blue Sky Alpaca - a pretty blue green
3 skeins of Suri Merino Blue Sky Alpaca in Natural
The Blue Sky Alpaca Arm Warmer pattern to go with the first two yarns.
Hubby got a book and a video game (Left 4 Dead) and a board game.
Continue watching Buck Rogers for the rest of the entire day while Hubby vegs on the couch playing his game and you knit.
Try to find your RE doc since you are spotting and have to start the IVF drugs on Sunday.
Call your mother.
Wish you had family closer.
Say hi to your friends online.
Blog.
Go back in and spend rest of evening with hubby.
Merry Christmas Everyone.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Monday, December 22, 2008
MMM.... Softness....
A good friend of Hubster and I happens to really likes my knitting.
She has a daughter. She's a tiny little thing that is almost always cold.
So this friend asked me if I'd make something for the daughter to help her out this winter.
So I hit the stash and the web. This is what I can up with:
That would be Misti Alpaca Chunky in color 1321 (that would be cornflower blue in my mind maybe).
The pattern would be a take on Envy over at Yarn Ball Boogie.
I screwed up the seed stitch in the first 6 rows, so it's ribbed. So I carried that over to the end of it.
I did 20 cable crosses for the length of it, because I only had one skein to work with since the other was allocated. I used size 13 needles.
No button holes. The buttons I chose and the give of the openness of my knitting mean the buttons go through just fine.
There are two on either end place opposite of the other end diagonally. So she can button it either way she decides to wrap it.
I hope she likes it. It's super soft. I'm tempted to put it in the dryer for about 2 minutes (ONLY) to fluff it up a little bit.
****Ignore the model. She doesn't photograph well. Neither does she wear makeup on a regular basis (ok ever).
She has a daughter. She's a tiny little thing that is almost always cold.
So this friend asked me if I'd make something for the daughter to help her out this winter.
So I hit the stash and the web. This is what I can up with:That would be Misti Alpaca Chunky in color 1321 (that would be cornflower blue in my mind maybe).
The pattern would be a take on Envy over at Yarn Ball Boogie.
I screwed up the seed stitch in the first 6 rows, so it's ribbed. So I carried that over to the end of it.
I did 20 cable crosses for the length of it, because I only had one skein to work with since the other was allocated. I used size 13 needles.
No button holes. The buttons I chose and the give of the openness of my knitting mean the buttons go through just fine.There are two on either end place opposite of the other end diagonally. So she can button it either way she decides to wrap it.
I hope she likes it. It's super soft. I'm tempted to put it in the dryer for about 2 minutes (ONLY) to fluff it up a little bit.
****Ignore the model. She doesn't photograph well. Neither does she wear makeup on a regular basis (ok ever).
Thursday, December 27, 2007
What day is it again
and why am I at work?
Oh right, work = money = yarn
Well Christmas has come and gone for another year and I have no idea where that year went.
I made one gift this year:
This would be my take on our favorite Harlot's Unoriginal Hat.
This is what happens when I first got to the last three rows and
The yarn is Lion Brand Jiffy Thick n' Quick. I chose it because the recipient made an afghan in the same yarn.
I used size 10.5 US (6.5mm ?) because I didn't have any 10.75 US (7mm) DPNs (heck couldn't find any in the shops till AFTER I finished the frakking thing).
In the end it looks like a schizo gumdrop, but the recipient likes it and it fits. Doesn't get much better than that.
We had a busy four day weekend, which started Friday night with the company Christmas party down in South SF.
Nobody bothered to tell me that dark colors were the choice du jour, so boy do I stand out. But I love that dress. It was my wedding dress for wedding to current (lol) hubby.
A good time was had by all.
Saturday started bright and late. Then we tore up the work surfaces in hubby's side of the new office so we could expand his side to give him more desk space. He is much happier now and spent most of the rest of the weekend organizing everything, while I ventured out amongst the lunatic consumers.
Sunday was shopping, shopping, and more shopping. Mostly for food. Hubby was leaving on a quad riding trip the day after Christmas and it's my job to make sure he has way more food than he and Shane could ever eat in 6 days. They might run out of propane on the rig, but they won't run out of food.
Monday was a day of doctor appointments (a friend is sick and I'm morale support), more shopping and last minute gift buying (happens every year sigh) and more organization on hubby's office. I prepped teriyaki pineapple meatball and pineapple chunk shish kabobs for his trip. Loaded a ton of food. We went to a friend's house for dinner and had a lovely time.
Tuesday was the marathon cooking day from h*. Please note that I am not a chef. I do not want to be a chef. I don't even really like food. I eat because I have to. However I will state that I am getting better in the kitchen, which hubby likes.
Here is how Christmas went
Just me, my knitting, my dogs, my cats, and as many chick flicks as I can stomach between now and Tuesday night. Maybe a quilt thrown in for good measure.
If any of you want to stop by for a chick knit night feel free. My door is open. Just be warned about the dogs and the cats and the anti cooking protest I have going on right now.
I will leave you with a picture of my darling Smokey Cat. Yes he is all fur and no cat. He weights a whopping 7 pounds soaking wet and no that's not a bad thing. FYI, his front feet are as soft as they look as long as he keeps all the pokey ends in.
Oh right, work = money = yarn
Well Christmas has come and gone for another year and I have no idea where that year went.
I made one gift this year:This would be my take on our favorite Harlot's Unoriginal Hat.
This is what happens when I first got to the last three rows and
- Ran out of yarn
- Realized I TOTALLY cannot read and missed the cable cross on the first big cable
- Ripped all the way back and realized I'd have to do my own mod if I wanted to finish it without running out of yarn again.
The yarn is Lion Brand Jiffy Thick n' Quick. I chose it because the recipient made an afghan in the same yarn.
I used size 10.5 US (6.5mm ?) because I didn't have any 10.75 US (7mm) DPNs (heck couldn't find any in the shops till AFTER I finished the frakking thing).
In the end it looks like a schizo gumdrop, but the recipient likes it and it fits. Doesn't get much better than that.
We had a busy four day weekend, which started Friday night with the company Christmas party down in South SF.Nobody bothered to tell me that dark colors were the choice du jour, so boy do I stand out. But I love that dress. It was my wedding dress for wedding to current (lol) hubby.
A good time was had by all.
Saturday started bright and late. Then we tore up the work surfaces in hubby's side of the new office so we could expand his side to give him more desk space. He is much happier now and spent most of the rest of the weekend organizing everything, while I ventured out amongst the lunatic consumers.
Sunday was shopping, shopping, and more shopping. Mostly for food. Hubby was leaving on a quad riding trip the day after Christmas and it's my job to make sure he has way more food than he and Shane could ever eat in 6 days. They might run out of propane on the rig, but they won't run out of food.
Monday was a day of doctor appointments (a friend is sick and I'm morale support), more shopping and last minute gift buying (happens every year sigh) and more organization on hubby's office. I prepped teriyaki pineapple meatball and pineapple chunk shish kabobs for his trip. Loaded a ton of food. We went to a friend's house for dinner and had a lovely time.
Tuesday was the marathon cooking day from h*. Please note that I am not a chef. I do not want to be a chef. I don't even really like food. I eat because I have to. However I will state that I am getting better in the kitchen, which hubby likes.
Here is how Christmas went
- Pancakes
- Bacon
- Toast
- Gaming briefly
- Find an open grocery store because I'm out of sugar for the lemonade and he won't camp without S'more fixings and I forgot the chocolate - I know the blasphemy - I'm female, I knit, I crochet, I quilt and I cross stitch, how in all that's holey did I forget the chocolate?
- Start prep work for homemade mac n cheese - onions, macaroni cooked, destroy cuisinart grating 2 pounds of Cabot's extra sharp white cheddar (man is that stuff good)
- Call MIL and have her talk me through the roux
- Fill two pyrex dishes with Mac n Cheese
- Start the ham
- Forget about the ham (thank goodness for glaze)
- Start the tri-tip
- Make mashed potatoes
- Carmelize pineapple slices for the the glaze
- Drag hubby in for dinner - which was the ham and potatoes and pineapple
- Stuff hubby to gills then have him carve the tri tip
- Shrink wrap the tri-tip in it's juices in sandwich sizes for his trip
- Do same thing with left over ham
- Make lemonade
- Figure out how I'm getting two batches of lemonade in the RV fridge with 2 gallons of milk, a tri tip, two buckets of crab and corn chowder, a 9 x 12 mac n cheese, one giant tub of macaroni salad, oodles of TJ's Maui Ribs, the shish kabobs, left over ham. Thank goodness for left over canning jars from the apple butter marathon of July.
- Pack all the warm clothes hubby owns plus some
- Load his quilt
- Load extra blankets (they are totally going to freeze)
- Collapse into bed
Just me, my knitting, my dogs, my cats, and as many chick flicks as I can stomach between now and Tuesday night. Maybe a quilt thrown in for good measure.
If any of you want to stop by for a chick knit night feel free. My door is open. Just be warned about the dogs and the cats and the anti cooking protest I have going on right now.I will leave you with a picture of my darling Smokey Cat. Yes he is all fur and no cat. He weights a whopping 7 pounds soaking wet and no that's not a bad thing. FYI, his front feet are as soft as they look as long as he keeps all the pokey ends in.
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