Firday

Well, another week finished.

Felt really tired this morning, so after the kids went to school I went back to bed. Got up and now have 40 minutes until I need to be to work. Gotta eat something.

I lied. I started a dishcloth before the thrummed mittens were finished. I do not enjoy the thrummed mittens right now! I WILL work on them tonight though. I needed something easy to work on while watching Katie curl yesterday.

Dan is on his way to the school. Troy has been having lots of his myclonic jerks today, they are worried that he may be working up to a bigger seizure. Although he's only had one big seizure in the daytime, and I don't expect him to have one, things can happen. Not sure if he'll be coming home or what they will decide.

We're supposed to be getting rain today. I was hoping it would have started by now, so that it would be an inside lunchtime. Then I was going to call in and say I wasn't coming in today. I want to go back to bed.

Must go to bed early tonight!

Sunday is SuperBowl day. I guess there are a couple of guys coming here to watch it. They'll set up a sheet to use as a big screen, and use a rear projector sort of thing to project it onto the screen. We're talking 1/2 life size (if not bigger)! I'll go to Jan's and the three wifes will watch a movie there. Troy will stay here with the guys; not sure about Katie, might get her a special movie to watch in her room. Right now I don't feel like going anywhere and doing anything.

Tired, not in the mood to do anything, time for the Feb. increase in anti-depressants.

Can't think of anything else for now.

Snow Day!

My kids are happy. There is no school today. We're getting a blizzard. Not really a lot of snow down, but the wind is blowing. Almost everything is closed, and only the main roads are being plowed. Katie, who is typically sooo sllooowww in the mornings, was up and out playing in the snow within 15 minutes of her alarm going off. Kids!

Yesterday was a friends b-day. His wife gave him a balloon bouquet. He had to pop some of the balloons in order to find his presents. Little notes stuck in some of the balloons told him what to do or where to look for a gift. What a neat idea. I'll have to try to remember it.

Made some tomatoe soup cake cupcakes yesterday. Really wanted to make a chocolate cake, but have no cocoa :(

Finished off the socks for Katie. Now to get some pictures of things taken. Got to find the camera first :) Not working on anything else till the thrummed mittens are done.

Donna, hope the snow isn't too bad down your way. And hope you don't need to go anywhere today.

Mary Anne, sorry that we're getting more snow - wish you would get some!

Monday - I can tell

I had a post all typed, and lost it! Arrrgghhhh

Yesterday I had a head cold, so sat and knit most of the day. Finished off a bucket hat and a pair of socks for me. Pics to come later. Also started a pair of socks for Katie. I'll be sending pics to That Logan Chick to put on the CanSock site as well.

So far today I've made a loaf of bread, a batch of chocolate chip muffins and a batch of Puppy Chow Still thinking of making some cookies too.

Now to get doing something, can't believe I lost my post!!!

Edited to add - I'm enjoying my new-found ability to use links :)
and to add - why is my "about me" and other stuff so far down on the page? What did I do now???

Monday again

Yesterday I woke up with a head cold, didn't feel like doing much of anything at all. So I sat and knit and watched TV. Well, listened to TV :)

I finished off a bucket hat for me. I finished off some socks for me. I started a pair of socks for Katie; did the leg/heel of one, and started the leg of the other. I'm doing the foot in a different yarn, because I don't think I have enough to do the whole sock in the same yarn. The toes will be the same as the leg. It's yarn that Mary Anne's bunny Sarah gave me for Christmas. I'll take pics of my socks later. I'll put them in my blog, as well as send them to That Logan Chick to post here

I know of 3 Logan's; 2 girls and my nephew.

Mary Anne, I made chocolate chip muffins, a loaf of bread, and a batch of Puppy Chow

It's Saturday

It's party day! Tonight is our Ladies Aux "Smoker". It's a party we have every January. All drinks and food are supplied by us (bought, not brought). We play some games, and have fun. It's our "kick off" to the new year. The firemen had their smoker last week, and some of the ladies had a pre-smoker at one of the members houses.

Katie had a fun curling tournament. The junior curlers from a nearby town came and they played against each other. Just for fun. She feel between games and hurt her leg, and then started to not feel well, so we left early. Got our groceries and came home.

We just got done doing some riding. I attempted to ride Dee down the road, but got scared and came home. Then hubby took her down the road. He's much braver than me! Katie rode Tiny. Then Troy got on and rode Tiny all my himself. He went 4 complete trips around our riding area with no help; and several part times around with help. This is a huge step for him; first time he rode without someone leading since he fell off almost 2 years ago. I'm so proud of him!

I did some knitting while Katie was curling. I started a chick-knits bucket hat for me. Not often I knit for me. But, at work on Thursday my head was really cold, and I decided that I needed a good hat. I'm ready to start the decreases soon.

Sorry Mary Anne, no baking yesterday. I ran out of flour. Had to buy more today. Hope to get some cookies made tomorrow though. (and our snow is melting)

It's Friday

Bet that title didn't surprise anyone :)

Troy is home again today. He probably could have gone to school, but he's still a tiny bit feverish, so I decided to keep him home.

And since Dan is out of town working today, that means I have no one to watch him at lunchtime today. Ahhh, means I need to miss a day of work. Boohoo. It's going to be an inside day today anyway; the windchill is too low for the kids to be outside playing. And inside days they can't do with less supervisors than outside days.

We're doing housework; he's been sweeping the floors for me.

This afternoon I've got a friend coming over to discuss me selling things on eBay for her. Been a while since I've listed anything, so I had to go online and see what all the fees were.

Since it's Friday, one of the things that I look forward to all week happens today. Miss Woolly Knits updates her blog. I look forward to it all week, honestly.

It's Thursday

Troy is home sick again today. Poor kid, had a fever of 102 last night. Still feeling pretty tired and hot today. Wants me to sit beside him, so sit beside him I shall.
And work on thrummed mittens - or a 2nd sock. I'm more in the mood to work on the sock than the mittens. But the mittens are an order. Have to keep telling myself that!
We didn't get as much snow as they were predicting for us. But now they are saying we are supposed to have flurries all day today. Sorry Mary Anne! I'm trying to send it your way; honest!!
Off to tend to the boy.

Added this:
The socks won out. Started the second sock. I'm using some of the self-patterning sock yarn. And the two socks are not going to match. I was going to make them match, but had to "waste" about 3 miles of sock yarn to find the repeat where I cast one. Well, not quite 3 miles, but a lot. Couldn't see that much yarn not being used. So I decided to have non-matching socks.

Did I mention that I was looking for an inside rabbit cage for the bunny in one of the classes at the school? Well, I am. I'm helping the teacher try to track a cage down. And I think I found one; will be going to check it out tonight. Little Guchi spends his time, when he is not out hopping around the classroom, in a cardboard box. Standing on his hind feet trying to see what the kids are doing. He's such a cute little bunny. I am trying to rememer to take him a little bit of hay today.

It's Wednesday.

Anyone notice a trend here? Three days in a row that I've posted! That must be a record for me!

I had plans for today. This is my afternoon to volunteer in the school library. Nope. Son came home from school sick this morning. So he's flaked out on the sofa watching Hose Hounds. I usually knit on finger puppets in the library, so I've done a few of them this afternoon.

Last night I finished off the earwarmers. They are packaged up, ready to get put in the mail on Friday.

Now to get my fingers busy on the thrummed mittens. I need someone to make the thrumms for me; that is the part of the process that I don't like. And my kids are no help. One loses interest after he makes 3 thrumms, and the other makes them the right size, then they start getting thicker and thicker and thicker.

Thought of starting the sample poncho for the knitting class. Discovered that my 9mm round needle has somehow gotten broken. So have to wait for the craft shop to get the needles in. Besides, I really need to get those darn mittens finished!

At the risk of hearing Mary Anne's wrath - the weather man is calling for more snow for us again tonight. Sounds like we are supposed to get quite a bit, and some wind. Possibly a snow day tomorrow?? And that's all I'm going to say about snow.

I'm going to be knitting a pair of socks for Mary Anne. I'm so happy that she is going to let me do them for her. She's been such a great friend, and she deserves to have the yarn she wants to be socks to be made into socks for her.

This is what I am making for the Kniting Olympics. I'm not a fan of knitting baby things. Never done a blanket like this before. So it'll be a challenge to me.

It's Tuesday

And it's been "one of those days". I have known, and remembered, since last week that I had a dentist appt this morning at 10:30. So, at 10:35 why was the dentists office calling me to see where I was?? Cause I forgot! Despite telling someone at 9:45 that I had to go to the dentist! What a scatter brain I can be!! This is why I have a PDA, 2 calendars and a note book!!

Last night I knit on a pair of earwarmers that I am making. I should finish them tonight, then I'll have 2 pair of earwamers to mail out to two different folks at the end of the week. One pair going to BC, the other pair going to another part of NS. I did a contest on a bulletin board that I belong to, the winner gets earwarmers to wear when they go out horseback riding in the winter.

Noticed something 'unique' today. Kids are fussy! The school has a mitten box, and kids are welcome to take mittens out of the box to wear if they forget to bring some from home, or if theirs get wet. Well, kids won't take any two mittens; they HAVE to match. And there aren't that many matching pairs in the box. A small portion of my brain is telling me to knit mittens to put in the box; knit until next winter, then donate a whole bunch of mittens. Use a big ball of one color for the main color, and various colors for stripes, so that if at least the main color matches, they should be OK to wear.

We had our first real snow of the winter yesterday. Got about 10 inches of snow in about 10 hours. Nice wet packy snow. The kids had snowballs and snowmen all over the playground at lunchtime. They had fun! We have a big snowman in our front yard, but he has lost his head. Sadly it's calling for rain tonight.

guess that's it for now

It's Monday

You know how I can tell? It's quiet in my house, the kids have gone to school and hubby has gone to work :)

So far today I've gotten a load of laundry washed, and one coat of paint put on a door. All that and it's only 9:40! Oh of course I did all the regular stuff like breakfast, make lunches, feed the dog, get the kids out the door to get one the bus, have my breakfast, have some coffee, play a computer game for a bit, guess that's it.

I have a pair of thrummed mittens on the go. Ready to take the sts off for the thumb. My goal is to have this pair done by the end of the week. I'll take them to crafting night with me tonight; might get some work done on them there.

Tonight I go to shelf at the food bank. Can't remember for sure what time it is though; I'm thinking 6:30. I'll have to stop by later on and take a peek at the schedule. Today we get a delivery in from the food bank in the city; so that means there will be quite a bit for us to do tonight. Plus I have a laundry basket full of food from our church to take in.

Had to go out for a bit, I'm back now. Funny that I was typing about the food bank when the phone rang. I needed to go give my "emergency contact" keys to the people who are meeting the truck from the city; the two sets of keys that are supposed to be at a third office for them to use are both signed out and not returned. Guess what will be brought up at our next meeting?

Now, can I remember what I was going to type? Nope! So I guess I'll say "see ya" for now.