31 October 2010
27 October 2010
Drive by blogging
Labels: 7 Small Shawls, general insanity
25 October 2010
Monday's Musing
“I'm already wet. The rain doesn't make a difference.” - Justin Wong, 7 (it made the paper)
Labels: Monday's Musing
23 October 2010
Doing the parent thing
Labels: general insanity, kids, swimming
21 October 2010
Firsts
Labels: food, general, yarn gluttony
19 October 2010
Sneaky peek
Labels: 7 Small Shawls, Elektra
18 October 2010
Monday's Musing
If your time of life is at hand;
Well, don't be the rule, be the exception;
A good way to start is to stand.
"Put one foot in front of the other
And soon you'll be walking cross the floor.
Put one foot in front of the other
And soon you'll be walking out the door."
Labels: Monday's Musing
17 October 2010
Simple pleasures
Labels: general
16 October 2010
Have graph paper, will travel
Labels: swimming
15 October 2010
Retail therapy
Labels: 7 Small Shawls, Elektra
14 October 2010
One of Those Days
1. I awoke this morning to The Bear watching videos on the school computer at 6:30 a.m. He has been forbidden to do this. Several times.
2. I set up the computer with a password (see above) which, instead of coming up when the computer is turned on, logs itself into the parent/administrator account. When I switch users, it keeps logging itself out and requiring a password to get back into the student area. I have it on good authority that it is not supposed to work this way.
3. I keep looking at things and not finding them. Case in point: my current audiobook (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) and CD player. Which was right in front of me as I pitched a fit about not being able to find it.
4. While I'm having a mini nervous breakdown, friends from out of town (way out of town) call and say they are in town and wanting to come over. While the house is not a disaster of Biblical proportions, it is a mess. We are also trying to get The Bear caught up in his school since he's been lying about doing a lot of his class work. Mr. Romi is behind on two projects. I am behind on everything having to do with anything. And then some. We decide to meet our friends at swim practice. Mr. Romi is taking the kids; I'm picking them up.
5. Meanwhile, I need to get some copies of patterns made for Cast Away. I rush down to Healdsburg (15 minutes) since we don't have a copy shop in my town. On the way, I take back a morbidly overdue book found in #1 Son's room under a pile of dirty clothes. Usually, they can do copies immediately, but not today. Even when I whine. I leave and it occurs to me that I want it double sided and I don't know if the paper I'm using will be thick enough. I call them as soon as I am back in my studio; she has started the job. I go back, whining a little to myself that I could have just stayed there, but feeling really guilty about whining because she's doing it sooner than I expected. I get there and it looks good. Thankfully, I have brought my knitting, because she tells me to come back in an hour. I walk over to the library and sit down to knit outside. I knock over my beads. As I am finishing picking them up, the copy shop calls to say my order is done. I have just wasted an hour and a half.
6. I rush home to get my pin orders out. In my haste to get things packaged, I rip two envelopes, destroy the tape dispenser and lose half of the stuff I'm packing.
7. It occurs to me that I won't be able to make it to Cast Away and get over to practice on time to see my friends. I re-double my efforts to get things packed. I also have to stop by Karen's to pick up some yarn. Thankfully, she is close to swim practice. I decide to leave Cast Away until tomorrow.
8. I rush off to the local Post Office. There is a line. There is never a line at our Post Office. But today is Special. I get out late and start driving down to swim practice (usually about 30 minutes). I call and re-arrange everything I was going to do before practice so I can see our friends. I get caught in traffic. I call Mr. Romi, who has been hanging with our friends. They are leaving in 5 minutes. There is no way I can possibly make it and still be in this dimension. Since I'm not sure how to get to another dimension, I resign myself to the unpleasant fact that I will not see them.
9. I go to Karen's to pick up yarn. They are resurfacing the parking lot for her building and I park down the street and have to walk through wet asphalt to get to her door.
10. I finally get myself to swim practice. I'm late. Mr. Romi is leaving. He forgets to leave the snacks with me. I don't realize this until after practice when I have two ravenous kids. The vending machine won't take my only dollar bill. I go digging for change on the floor of the car. I find enough and go back to get Fritos (the only thing Bear can eat in the machine). They stick. I buy the Cheetos behind in order to get the Fritos. I wonder why they can't just have a whole line of Fritos. My older son refuses to eat Cheetos. I go back out to dig for more change. I find some in the ash tray. We are finally underway after buying more Fritos.
11. We get home. While I'm heating leftovers, I go upstairs to check emails. Someone has written to me that they joined my club. I haven't gotten PayPal notification. I go check PayPal and find that at least two club purchases have not shown up in my email. I resign myself to going through pages and pages to make sure that I have every club member accounted for. PayPal crashes. And then crashes again.
12. I give up and go downstairs. There are moths flying around the house.
13. And while all this is going on? I'm not at Rhinebeck.
I rest my case.
Tomorrow: the name of Shawl #4 and the winner!
Labels: general insanity
12 October 2010
How to make a peanut butter sandwich
Labels: 7 Small Shawls
11 October 2010
Monday's Musing
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." - Eleanor Roosevelt
What an amazing woman she was. I would love to take a trip back in time and have tea with her.
Have a great week!
Labels: Monday's Musing
08 October 2010
Back where I started
Labels: 7 Small Shawls
07 October 2010
A ripping good time
Labels: 7 Small Shawls, general, tutorials
06 October 2010
Way leads onto way...
Labels: general
05 October 2010
October's Bright Blue Weather
O suns and skies and clouds of June,
And flowers of June together,
Ye cannot rival for one hour
October's bright blue weather;
When loud the bumble-bee makes haste,
Belated, thriftless vagrant,
And Golden-Rod is dying fast,
And lanes with grapes are fragrant;
When Gentians roll their fringes tight
To save them for the morning,
And chestnuts fall from satin burrs
Without a sound of warning;
When on the ground red apples lie
In piles like jewels shining,
And redder still on old stone walls
Are leaves of woodbine twining;
When all the lovely wayside things
Their white-winged seeds are sowing,
And in the fields, still green and fair,
Late aftermaths are growing;
When springs run low, and on the brooks,
In idle golden freighting,
Bright leaves sink noiseless in the hush
Of woods, for winter waiting;
When comrades seek sweet country haunts,
By twos and twos together,
And count like misers, hour by hour,
October's bright blue weather.
O suns and skies and flowers of June,
Count all your boasts together,
Love loveth best of all the year
October's bright blue weather.
Labels: general
04 October 2010
Monday's Musing
Labels: Monday's Musing
03 October 2010
Moving along
Labels: 7 Small Shawls