Knit, Knit, Knit

So Brigitta is now tenured! Hip Hip Hooray for her. And, believe it or not, I mailed her her Christmas present and it got there on the day she received her letter! Yay Dr. Brig!

Here was her present:

In other knitting news...
Here is what is on the needles right now:


That is my first square from the "Learn to knit Afghan book" by Barbara Walker. It is called the Rose Fabric. I think it is a tremendous book for beginners or intermediate people - or people like me that are in between!! (also apologies to colorblind people, those colors will probably be hard to distinguish. I should have used more contrasting yarn shades)

Also - great to use up some of your leftover yarns laying around! Harland's sister kindly bought it for me for Christmas. I'd been eye-ing it for several months before Christmas. It's my new thing to do in between projects. Right now I am trying to learn how to do stripy things better before I start my cousin's scarf.

Once the scarf is done - I am seriously considering joining the Salina-along if I can get my hands on the book in time. It'd be my very first sweater! Check it out!! Salina-along

until the last flick of the hockey stick....

Well I just got back from my Christmas present - which was tickets to a Washington Capital's game!!
WHOOOT!!
Lucky for me they won 7-3. Oh, I love hockey games!! This time I didn't even have my favorite combo - beer and cotton candy. In fact I totally went crazy and had soda and soft pretzel instead.

Anyway it was really fun and taking the metro worked out really well. It was a really good day - the loud crazy neighbor upstairs was gone so it was sooo quiet and we got to sleep in until 8:30!!! And then we had a really yummy breakfast and then we walked to the library and then we watched some taped episodes of "The Office" that Dad sent to me (thanks Dad we got them today!). And I had the chance to mail out the hat I finished and I started my second to last Christmas present I have yet to make.

So all is well!! I am excited because after I finish my Christmas presents I think I will try to make a sweater.

Cheers!
And Go CAPS!

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Enough with the blood and saliva already

So my hubster had his wisdom teeth out this morning - and he's still got one place that is still bleeding, poor guy. We even tried the teabag trick and it's still bleeding a tiny bit. Let's hope before bedtime it stops.

Me? I am officially one of the world's worst nurses because I can't look at his "spitoon" without gagging when I wash it out. Yuck. But then we did have a "spillage" episode and I didn't gag then so maybe I am getting better. I don't know how I'll have kids. They create all kinds of bodily messes...

In other news the exterminator came and looked at our floor and was like "um... in the middle of the floor, huh. Haven't seen that. I'll talk with the apt people right away and see if they can tear up the carpet."

Needless to say hours passed and I had to call the apt people up - only to learn that all the stuff I cleared out of our closet now has to be put back in because no one is coming for an entire week.

I've knitted today to keep my head out of thinking about old blood n' guts on the couch. I have about 3/4 of a hat finished from the book Last-minute Knitted Gifts by Joelle Hoverson . This is the first thing I have actually knitted from this book even though it was one of my first books. I love the pictures in it and often flip through it just to see the colors. There are a lot of complaints that all of these projects take longer than you think they will (the projects are divided into projects that take a certain amount of time, for example the hat is in the "4-6 hour" category) but she does state that the smallest size of the project is what they based on time. And we all know a baby hat takes less time than a grown-up one. I can't finish it tonight anyway - I need to get some double pointed needles in size 9. And I'm almost to the point of using the DPNs.... so.... maybe if I have time tomorrow night after work I can go get some.




Harland looks like he is finally taking a nap. I guess I better stop typing and go read quietly in the other room. Cheers!

What I have been up to

So it was pointed out to me yesterday (Hi Dad!) that I haven't posted in a while. Sorry. Last week was really busy. I had some volunteering stuff to do with the Red Cross and then I had to work overtime and I went to Auburn to close out bank accounts and to get the stuff out our safety deposit box.

A HUGE fringe benefit is I got to see Tyler, Eric, John, Brigitta, Troy and Susan. Had I seen one more person I think my head would have exploded from too much fun. One day and a half was WAY too short and I wish I could have stayed a week or more.

I'll share some pictures through-out the week. The best part was Susan liked her mittens! I was worried they weren't her style but she said she liked them. Now I just have to finish my other zillions of late Christmas presents.

If you want to read some finance stuff and hear about our termite saga - go check out the Hubby's blog -by clicking here.

And it is pretty unfair that two hours after I got home it started to do this:


And it ended up with about 2 inches and sleet on top of that - it made commuting this morning really no fun at all.

Anyway, I think I'll leave you with the two cutest cats on the planet that just happen to live with the best person on earth.

accents...

Don't have much to post today - back from my business trip! Whee!

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Inland North   You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."
The Midland
The Northeast
Philadelphia
The South
The West
Boston
North Central
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100 by April 1st

So Kristina over at Yarnsticks gets me involved in all kinds of internet goodies. There is a movement to get knitters out there and moving a little so we don't sit on the couch knitting all day (knitting potatoes). You can read all about his challenge over Here at her blog

It's good because I wanted to get started running/walking/hiking anyway and so any extra motivation will help.

So, Today, my first cold free day of the new year (just a tiny cough now!!) I went to our tiny apt. gym and did the elliptical for 20 minutes.

1.16 miles so far! I'm a little behind because I didn;t walk at all last week or hike or run because I was laid up with my cold! But I'll catch up I am sure. I did walk on Saturday at the capital but I have no idea how far that was.

So here is a little ticker. Poor little thing still looks like it is on 0.



Well, I have a business trip this week so I am not sure when I'll post again!!
cheers!