Why the hell am I still awake? I've been so stinking exhausted all week. I don't know if it's all of the driving to and from work or what. I feel like I'm gone all day, I get home and I want to pass out. I think I fell asleep at 7 last night.
Tomorrow is my sister's baby shower -- I'm hoping she loves the baby blanket. Dang it! I still need to post pics. They are on my camera but I haven't uploaded them yet. After the baby shower I'm off to the knitting retreat. I hope it's a good weekend. I get anxious around a lot of people and people I don't know, but knitting is relaxing, so it should all be good. I think the project will make a nice gift for my mom.
Speaking of gifts, I've got tons of knitting to do for Christmas! Holy crap! Better get my ass in gear!
Friday, July 18, 2008
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
stress
Can life be anymore stressful?
I took Seth (my ferret) to the vet today because I noticed he is losing hair and he has lots of little scabs on his back from scratching/biting. He also has been drinking a lot and urinating a lot over the last several months as well as straining to urinate. I thought he probably has an adrenal tumor; most ferrets get them. He's 8 years old, so I'm not planning on putting him through anything if that's the case. Come on, he's elderly. But at the same time I'm thinking maybe they're little bites from mites or something. So I get to the vet and have to wait a LONG time. When I do see the vet she says he probably does have ear mites (again) but his other symptoms - including the hair loss and scratching - are consistent with adrenal gland tumors. She did an exam and felt a pretty good size growth in the left side of his abdomen. More than likely that is what's going on but the only way to confirm it is to do an ultrasound. i can't afford $130 for an ultrasound, to confirm a tumor that I'm not going to treat, on my 8-year old ferret. If we confirm the tumor, the only effective treatment is surgery, which I am not going to do. The average life span for ferrets is 9-10 years. So we gave him some medicine to treat mites and will see how he does with that. He's happy right now. I will let him live his life and if he becomes unhappy, I will go from there.
I am explaining this to my husband who freaks out and says "we are not going to do surgery on a 6 year old ferret!" I said "He's 8 and I said we aren't going to do surgery." He doesn't listen to me. I'm sick of him not listening to me. Fuck! He's so pissy and irritable. I just can't stand to be around him anymore. He says we're broke. Why? Well, maybe it has to do with how much money we spend on gas. I have to fill up about every 4 days. It's fucking ridiculous. He's also convinced we won't sell our house. I love his positive attitude. We just reduced the price of our house again. We need to sell it. I can't handle my husband being so miserable.
Some days I regret taking this job. I love my new job but the commute fucking sucks. Paying 4 fucking dollars a gallon for gas is unfuckingbelievable. I get about 30 miles to the gallon. It's 38 miles each way when I go to work. tom drives a Ford Ranger. He fills up about every 5 days; I'm not sure how much he pays. I put about $45 -$50 in my gas tank every 4 days. If I hadn't taken this job we wouldn't be going through this right now. we wouldn't be trying to sell our house.
I finished my Big Bad Baby Blanket and I'm working on my afghan square for the swap. Soon I'll need to start on Christmas presents!
I took Seth (my ferret) to the vet today because I noticed he is losing hair and he has lots of little scabs on his back from scratching/biting. He also has been drinking a lot and urinating a lot over the last several months as well as straining to urinate. I thought he probably has an adrenal tumor; most ferrets get them. He's 8 years old, so I'm not planning on putting him through anything if that's the case. Come on, he's elderly. But at the same time I'm thinking maybe they're little bites from mites or something. So I get to the vet and have to wait a LONG time. When I do see the vet she says he probably does have ear mites (again) but his other symptoms - including the hair loss and scratching - are consistent with adrenal gland tumors. She did an exam and felt a pretty good size growth in the left side of his abdomen. More than likely that is what's going on but the only way to confirm it is to do an ultrasound. i can't afford $130 for an ultrasound, to confirm a tumor that I'm not going to treat, on my 8-year old ferret. If we confirm the tumor, the only effective treatment is surgery, which I am not going to do. The average life span for ferrets is 9-10 years. So we gave him some medicine to treat mites and will see how he does with that. He's happy right now. I will let him live his life and if he becomes unhappy, I will go from there.
I am explaining this to my husband who freaks out and says "we are not going to do surgery on a 6 year old ferret!" I said "He's 8 and I said we aren't going to do surgery." He doesn't listen to me. I'm sick of him not listening to me. Fuck! He's so pissy and irritable. I just can't stand to be around him anymore. He says we're broke. Why? Well, maybe it has to do with how much money we spend on gas. I have to fill up about every 4 days. It's fucking ridiculous. He's also convinced we won't sell our house. I love his positive attitude. We just reduced the price of our house again. We need to sell it. I can't handle my husband being so miserable.
Some days I regret taking this job. I love my new job but the commute fucking sucks. Paying 4 fucking dollars a gallon for gas is unfuckingbelievable. I get about 30 miles to the gallon. It's 38 miles each way when I go to work. tom drives a Ford Ranger. He fills up about every 5 days; I'm not sure how much he pays. I put about $45 -$50 in my gas tank every 4 days. If I hadn't taken this job we wouldn't be going through this right now. we wouldn't be trying to sell our house.
I finished my Big Bad Baby Blanket and I'm working on my afghan square for the swap. Soon I'll need to start on Christmas presents!
Saturday, July 5, 2008
good vs. evil
pet peeves:
1) when people park on the line of the parking spot so that I have to squeeze in (especially when I have no option because the parking lot is full)
2) when my husband says "don't worry about it"
3) when people litter and/or leave their trash for other people to clean up
4) when my husband says "don't worry about it"
5) when people stand in the middle of the parking lot like morons with their heads up their asses while cars are trying to get by
6) when my husband says "don't worry about it"
7) when all of this happens at the same place in a half-hour period of time
How can some people really not care about what other people are doing? Or maybe the question is: why do I care so much? Just watching this moron out the window holding a child, standing in the middle of the parking lot while a car is trying to drive through just made me want to scream. Are people that ignorant? Apparently. But it doesn't bother my husband. And that bothers me too!
Yesterday my sister and my niece came over and we walked to the 4th of July parade. It was fun, except for the trashy mom who let her 5 kids steal candy from my niece. She 4 and petite. She's very easy-going. My sister is 8 months pregnant, so I was trying to help Isabel catch candy. I shit you not, I would bend over to pick up a piece of candy, and one of these little brats would run over and swipe it when my hand was not one inch away from it. Many times! And candy would get thrown in our direction and they'd come running from the 100 foot wide area they had taken over to the little spot we were sitting in and grab up all they could. It was pissing me off, and their mom was encouraging it! By the time the parade was over, they each had a Wal-Mart (for real) bag full of candy. Izzy did get her fair share, but they were extremely rude.
We then went to the car show at the park. Izzy got a balloon animal; an orange dog. Her favorite animal in her favorite color. After that we went to the library park where they had blow up bouncy things and a big blow up slide. Our day lasted until about 2 and then we were all beat. It was a great day. I love spending time with my sister; it's great! I wish we could spend more time together, but we live 20 miles apart (I know, it's not that much) and she's 8 months pregnant and has a husband and a 4 year old daughter. They have stuff to do. I used to have people around on the weekends, but not anymore. I'm making the baby blanket for her. I'm almost to the halfway point. I'm going to have plenty of yarn left over. I think I'll make some matching booties or socks or something.
This is her Big Bad Baby Blanket from Stitch n Bitch Nation
I wanted to buy some yarn bras for my balls of yarn. I bought a couple assorted packs at Hobby Lobby. I also found this tutorial online. I ran to Wal-Mart this morning and when I was grabbing some razors I happened to see a 2-pack of these shower puffs for 97 cents. So I made one yarn bra/yarn sleeve to try it out. It's not extremely snug. It would definitely work for another ball of yarn I have that is already wrapped.
I'm going to be in my first swap. It's an afghan square swap. I've found a pattern that I think will be perfect for my first swap partner. I just need to alter it to the correct size. I'm so excited about this! Then I was on Ravelry and I saw some other afghan squares that were so cool. I found the book they were in and I ordered it from Amazon. I'll make one from it and depending on what I think of it, the rest of my sqaures might be from that pattern. Even though it's one pattern, the yarn you use can make them look quite different.
OK, I should be knitting.
1) when people park on the line of the parking spot so that I have to squeeze in (especially when I have no option because the parking lot is full)
2) when my husband says "don't worry about it"
3) when people litter and/or leave their trash for other people to clean up
4) when my husband says "don't worry about it"
5) when people stand in the middle of the parking lot like morons with their heads up their asses while cars are trying to get by
6) when my husband says "don't worry about it"
7) when all of this happens at the same place in a half-hour period of time
How can some people really not care about what other people are doing? Or maybe the question is: why do I care so much? Just watching this moron out the window holding a child, standing in the middle of the parking lot while a car is trying to drive through just made me want to scream. Are people that ignorant? Apparently. But it doesn't bother my husband. And that bothers me too!
Yesterday my sister and my niece came over and we walked to the 4th of July parade. It was fun, except for the trashy mom who let her 5 kids steal candy from my niece. She 4 and petite. She's very easy-going. My sister is 8 months pregnant, so I was trying to help Isabel catch candy. I shit you not, I would bend over to pick up a piece of candy, and one of these little brats would run over and swipe it when my hand was not one inch away from it. Many times! And candy would get thrown in our direction and they'd come running from the 100 foot wide area they had taken over to the little spot we were sitting in and grab up all they could. It was pissing me off, and their mom was encouraging it! By the time the parade was over, they each had a Wal-Mart (for real) bag full of candy. Izzy did get her fair share, but they were extremely rude.
We then went to the car show at the park. Izzy got a balloon animal; an orange dog. Her favorite animal in her favorite color. After that we went to the library park where they had blow up bouncy things and a big blow up slide. Our day lasted until about 2 and then we were all beat. It was a great day. I love spending time with my sister; it's great! I wish we could spend more time together, but we live 20 miles apart (I know, it's not that much) and she's 8 months pregnant and has a husband and a 4 year old daughter. They have stuff to do. I used to have people around on the weekends, but not anymore. I'm making the baby blanket for her. I'm almost to the halfway point. I'm going to have plenty of yarn left over. I think I'll make some matching booties or socks or something.
This is her Big Bad Baby Blanket from Stitch n Bitch Nation
I wanted to buy some yarn bras for my balls of yarn. I bought a couple assorted packs at Hobby Lobby. I also found this tutorial online. I ran to Wal-Mart this morning and when I was grabbing some razors I happened to see a 2-pack of these shower puffs for 97 cents. So I made one yarn bra/yarn sleeve to try it out. It's not extremely snug. It would definitely work for another ball of yarn I have that is already wrapped.
I'm going to be in my first swap. It's an afghan square swap. I've found a pattern that I think will be perfect for my first swap partner. I just need to alter it to the correct size. I'm so excited about this! Then I was on Ravelry and I saw some other afghan squares that were so cool. I found the book they were in and I ordered it from Amazon. I'll make one from it and depending on what I think of it, the rest of my sqaures might be from that pattern. Even though it's one pattern, the yarn you use can make them look quite different.
OK, I should be knitting.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Saturday
I've come to dislike Saturdays. I spend the weekends by myself since I am off and my husband works. This is a new development since his son got out of school for the summer. I'm sure I'll get used to it though. I used to have every weekend to myself and loved it. This is my second Saturday alone and I'm very lonely. My LYS opens in an hour and I plan on going there to knit since I haven't been able to do that in ages. We have an open house tomorrow, but I can get ready for that later.
I finally finished my moms felted slippers. Today I'm going to do the puffy paint on the soles for some traction. Here are some pictures. The colors of the slippers are periwinkle and khaki.
We are going to my parents' house for dinner tonight, so I'll be taking her slippers as well as the socks I made for my niece. I don't think I've posted pictures of the finished product! Well, here they are!
I found this new great blog with some super cute knitting patterns. I'll be adding her blog to my list of blogs to read. She has some really cute ice cream cone patterns. Check her out here.
Well, I should put some real clothes on so I can go spend some time knitting with my friends!
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
felting
Right now I am felting for the first time without adult supervision. I have done this before with supervision. These are my mother's day slippers that I have finally finished. With everything else that's been going on in my life I haven't had as much time to knit as I'd like to. I also haven't been to my favorite hangout, Nanytutu's, in ages! So, as I sit here, my washer runs and the slippers are on their second cycle. I'm sure I can't do it wrong. Right? Pictures will be posted when they are done.
Saturday, June 14, 2008
the end of the week
It's finally over! My first week on the new job. That always sucks. It's a great job, don't get me wrong, but the first week at any new job is stressful. It's been over 10 years since I have worked for this doctor's office, but I have worked there before so that gives me a great advantage over the other couple of medical staff who started a few weeks ago. By then end of my first day I was doing things on my own because it was all coming back to me, but I do still have a lot of questions. And we are pretty spoiled by the doctors at this job! It's pretty great. The downside: the drive. 35 miles each way; a 45 minute drive. I know a lot of people do this everyday, but when you are not used to it, it sucks!
We listed our house and we are having an open house next Saturday. We started looking at houses this week. We may need to change our minds about where we move to because moving where my hubby wants to move to still leaves me with a 25 mile each way commute. But he will have no commute, and he has had to commute about 25 miles each way every day for the last 4 years, so it is a better option. Moving even closer to my job than he has been willing to look will only be about 15 miles for him to drive to work and about 5 miles for me. The houses are also less expensive. With gas at $4 a gallon now, we're going to have to choose the lesser of 2 evils I guess. And I honestly don't know what that is.
Yesterday I worked in a satellite clinic, so I rode with the doctor, another nurse and front desk staff to the clinic 2 hours each way. I am almost done with Isabel's socks. I decided to make them anklets; I think they will be very cute that way. That's the nice thing about working toe-up -- you can stop when you want!
We listed our house and we are having an open house next Saturday. We started looking at houses this week. We may need to change our minds about where we move to because moving where my hubby wants to move to still leaves me with a 25 mile each way commute. But he will have no commute, and he has had to commute about 25 miles each way every day for the last 4 years, so it is a better option. Moving even closer to my job than he has been willing to look will only be about 15 miles for him to drive to work and about 5 miles for me. The houses are also less expensive. With gas at $4 a gallon now, we're going to have to choose the lesser of 2 evils I guess. And I honestly don't know what that is.
Yesterday I worked in a satellite clinic, so I rode with the doctor, another nurse and front desk staff to the clinic 2 hours each way. I am almost done with Isabel's socks. I decided to make them anklets; I think they will be very cute that way. That's the nice thing about working toe-up -- you can stop when you want!
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
socks
I'm thinking about making a pair of Jaywalkers. I have so much sock yarn that I want to use and I'd love to try that pattern. I have a few sock projects going right now that I need to finish first. I wanted my niece's socks to be done for her birthday (June 1). No such luck. I'm at the heel now.
My sister's birthday was yesterday and I wanted to make her a pair of felted slippers....not even started. Heck, I haven't started the second slipper of the pair I made my mom for mother's day.
I'm working on socks for my husband and myself. Another pair for my other sister. I need a few days away from this house stuff and time to just knit!
By the way, today is my last day of work and I start my new job on June 9. The realtor came by last night and we signed paperwork and everything is ready to get the house on the market on Monday! Yikes! The carpets are getting cleaned tomorrow, the woman is coming to stage the house Friday and they are coming to take pictures for the listing on Saturday. Monday, the sign goes up!
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
too cute
If this isn't the cutest thing, I don't know what is:
OK, I waited for half an hour for the video to upload and it wouldn't, so here is a link to it:
I also got this gorgeous sock yarn yesterday from "Vormer" on eBay. She was so nice and the hand dyed yarn was so affordable. She even offered to hand dye custom colorways. I think that this brown with a nice rosey pink would look great, too! (Yes, I need to take a better picture)
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
stress
So my husband and I are arguing about selling the house. Not whether or not to sell it, but what to list it at. He thinks the realtor and I are crazy with the price we came up with (like we just pulled it out of the air) and that we'll never get that much. I tried to explain that you ask for more because a buyer is going to offer less. He's so pessimistic and negative, talking about this being a terrible time to sell a house, saying it will be on the market for 3-6 months. I may choose to divorce him instead of buying another house!
Monday, May 26, 2008
a new start
Today I took a drive to where my new job will be. It’s 35 miles from my house and it took about 40-45 minutes to get there. One great thing about this new job is it’s one block away from the Human Bean!
Getting this house on the market, selling it and moving will be a very good thing! It will get me closer to my new job and get Tom closer to his job. I am just hoping the process doesn’t take long. We’ve been cleaning and disposing of stuff for over a week now and I feel like we still haven’t gotten anywhere. I’ve packed up all of my extra clothes, shoes, purses (because I’m a girl), movies, books and put aside things for Goodwill and there is still stuff coming out of closets and bookcases! WTF? We need to get rid of all of this crap before we can clean!
On our way home we drove through Windsor to look at some of the tornado damage. It is amazing all of the devastation it caused! I couldn’t believe the things we saw. We stopped at my sister’s house for a while -- her house had only hail damage and she didn’t have power for about 3 days. I consider us very lucky that the worst we had was no power for maybe 8-10 hours. Speaking of which, we have no power now! So, I’m typing away on my laptop.
My niece’s birthday is on Sunday and I need to finish the socks I started knitting for her! My sister’s birthday is 2 days later. I’m planning on making her felted slippers, but I haven’t even finished the second one I was making my mom for mother’s day. I’m slacking! Wait! I have a great idea! I won’t go to work my last few days and I’ll stay home and knit! That won’t go over well with the husband. If I played hooky from work, 1) he’d be pissed, 2) he’d expect me to clean.
Getting this house on the market, selling it and moving will be a very good thing! It will get me closer to my new job and get Tom closer to his job. I am just hoping the process doesn’t take long. We’ve been cleaning and disposing of stuff for over a week now and I feel like we still haven’t gotten anywhere. I’ve packed up all of my extra clothes, shoes, purses (because I’m a girl), movies, books and put aside things for Goodwill and there is still stuff coming out of closets and bookcases! WTF? We need to get rid of all of this crap before we can clean!
On our way home we drove through Windsor to look at some of the tornado damage. It is amazing all of the devastation it caused! I couldn’t believe the things we saw. We stopped at my sister’s house for a while -- her house had only hail damage and she didn’t have power for about 3 days. I consider us very lucky that the worst we had was no power for maybe 8-10 hours. Speaking of which, we have no power now! So, I’m typing away on my laptop.
My niece’s birthday is on Sunday and I need to finish the socks I started knitting for her! My sister’s birthday is 2 days later. I’m planning on making her felted slippers, but I haven’t even finished the second one I was making my mom for mother’s day. I’m slacking! Wait! I have a great idea! I won’t go to work my last few days and I’ll stay home and knit! That won’t go over well with the husband. If I played hooky from work, 1) he’d be pissed, 2) he’d expect me to clean.
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