Birthday Weekend

This year my birthday fell on a weekday.  I seem to have had a whole birthday WEEK, however, and I have really enjoyed it.  The evening before, we had a birthday dinner at the In-Laws'.  The day of, I had a cake.  It wasn't a great cake, but I didn't have to make it and everyone agreed that it was an awful cake.  Yesterday we delivered the munchkins to Grandma so she could keep them overnight and gave us money to see a movie/have dinner.  It turned out that outside work would take precedence, but we did eat out all day long and went browsing through used car lots for my next vehicle.  Got a lot of the outside work done and we're both pleased with the progress.  Played some WoW.  Today was spent doing more used car shopping, I got clothes, spent my Michael's gift card, and used up a Ruby Tuesday gift card.  Had a great lunch!  I ordered the lobster tail and petite sirloin with tomatoes and balsamic vinaigrette and grilled green beans.  YUM!  I was having a difficult day due to pain issues, so we called it a day after lunch and picked up the kids.  Finished binding off mom's socks in the truck on the way home.

Came home and played WoW.  I ran to get some minor groceries.    Used my brand new yardage counter to figure out how much of the Alligator Eats Black Pumpkin I really had (724 yards, not the 600 I had originally calculated).  It took me over two hours to get that number and wind the whole skein into a ball.

I'm off now to begin the cast on for Lazy Katy!

Hexipuffery

I had every intention of blogging yesterday, but never followed through.  It was boring around here anyway.  I ran a package out to the PO and that was the extent of my adventures out of the house.  It was a yarn swap that played in for a Rav group.  The hexipuff madness invaded and I was quick to succumb.  I have put the puffing on a back burner so that I can finish those socks but after that all bets are OFF.  I have a gallon-sized ziploc bag filled to almost bursting with mini skeins of sock yarns sitting right next to my chair.

There are Wollmeise minis and KP stroll tonal minis and Koigu KPPPM minis plus hand dyed, handspun, unknown sock yarns, etc.  I know there are people with MANY more minis than I but I don't care.  I really intend to USE rather more than I intend to STASH.  

Terrible lighting on the first but that's my first grouping of puffs.  I have more :D  The second pic is of my hand dyed that a Rav friend (PirateRed) spun.  She sent me a miniskein so that I could experience the awesome.

I have a full day planned for today, mostly relaxing and some shopping.  I have a gift card to spend, after all!

Happy 41st!

I ran errands.  Specifically, dropped a prescription by my pharmacy (please, let the insurance pay for it this time!), mailed a package, got lunch for Little Girl, and deposited a surprise! check from our county tax office.  I took a "Happy Birthday" phone call from my mom and received a pattern for the Lazy Katy shawl from my Rav friend, JuleeQue.  I looked through my handspun and I think I'm going to make it out of my Alligator Eats Black Pumpkin yarn.

Dinner last night at the In-Law's was ham, potatoes, corn, rolls, applesauce, and SIL brought a veggie pasta.  I graciously accepted (read; GIMME GIMME! hands) a gift card to the brand new Michael's store in Lakewood.  Scott promised me a half day for entertainment and shopping in Lakewood on Saturday after we get some more outside work done in the morning.  I'm excited!

I'm still working on mom's socks.  I'm still looking for Little Boy's glasses.  I'm still recovering from this darned cold thing I suffered through last week.  Thank all the good things that the week is almost over!

...and this is what Little Boy was doing while I was busy writing this post.

And So, My Fortieth Year Ends

Halloween 2011.  Munchkins went ToTing as cowpokes.  We went to the smaller town next to us and went down two streets.  They had a great time, she yelled "Trick or Treat!" at everyone and "Happy Halloween!" and "Look, Mom!  A Pirate!" or whatever the costume flavor was when one passed.  I had to prompt him to say "Trick or Treat" and "Thank you" to everyone.  He just wanted to see what people had in their candy bowls for him to take.

The last two weekends, we've torn out one of the plaster walls in the living room and repaired lathe and put up 1/2" shiplap foam for insulation purposes.  I put plastic on three of the dining room windows.  Doing that prompted me to move the mountain of computer parts off of the desk that was in front of one of the windows.  It all went up to the third floor and I swapped the elliptical machine and the desk that was in front of the window, so the whole room has opened up a bit.

I turned the heels on mom's socks yesterday.  Now to work up the leg!  I may actually get these out to her in time to mail by her birthday.  I can hope (and knit like a fiend!).  I'm also working on a wisp, an improvised cardi, and hexipuffs.  I broke down and bought the pattern from Tiny Owl Knits so that I could center out puffs AND the original puffs.

I also "got back into" BPAL.  I'm wearing Dancing with Death at the moment.  Love it.  I also LOVE Carnival Diabolique, The Robotic Scarab, Autumn Moon of the Mirror Stand, and Blood Kiss.  I still have about ten that I need to try ON, but I'm almost through all of my purchased imps.  Sigh.


Frack died yesterday morning.  I don't think she was egg-bound as we got an egg from her (at least, I'm pretty sure one of the three eggs we got was from her) just the day before...but she died, regardless.  I was moping about it all day.  Realistically, we are going to be EATING these birds before all is said and done, but it just felt weird to lose her so early and for an unknown reason.

Scott brought home my birthday gift early though-check it out!

So, I've been busy loading it up and figuring it out.  I love gadgets SO HARD.  Tonight we're going to his dad's for my birthday dinner.  Rose is going to keep the kids this weekend so that Scott can take me out.  They're both so good to us, I love having these wonderful people for my In-Laws!

Mom made me a quilt for my birthday/Christmas gift.  

I've been very blessed.  I have a great life and I appreciate everything that has brought me here and all the things that keep me here.