Need a Laugh?

There. I have one for you.
Please ignore my double chins. It's not like that in real life.. I promise. :)

Check it!

Dude. That's my baby on the YouTube.

It's that Time again!

Time for the annual Tri-County Humane Society Fundraiser Walk!

Last year ya'll helped me raise over 150 dollars. Can we do it again this year?

Same deal as last year. Click that little box over to the left, (firstgiving) and donate something. Even a dollar! Put a little note that you're on the ravelry or knittyboard or even just your username and "knit" and I will put your name in a hat for yarn! Last year CPurl won a skein of Yarn Pirate. (Dude! I still have your yarn! Shoot me an email!) I'll pick out the yarn here this week, when I can hopefully get into my stash. :)

Thank you in advance for all your help! :)

I'm no Michael Phelps.

But, I still get a gold medal.


I finished it this morning at 10 am. I love it so very much. The colors are just lovely. And the little braid? Totally cool.

Also? I wear my pants way higher on the hips.

The fans are gone! Well, they were actually gone yesterday, but I'm been so enjoying listening to...well silence that I've been to lazy to blog. That and I'm surrounded by boxes. I'm trying to downsize and get rid of tings before they go back into the craft room. I already took 2 bags to goodwill (one was full of clothes) and I've got another box going soon.

I've been knitting! Because I can't vacuum or do laundry or really, anything except the dishes. :) So I've got one sleeve to go and I'm gone with the baby sweater. I'm planning to make a matching sweater for Osiris out of my leftovers. I've talked with a couple folks on Ravelry and they're going to send me their scrapes. I hope I have enough yarn!

I've got a wedding to attend on the 30th. If we go. It's in Madison. Which is a haul with a little baby. Anyway, I want to cast on a shrug for that. Maybe I'll get it done? Maybe we'll go? Who knows! I also plan on casting on some doggie sweaters for K9KittersUSA, which is a group that sells dog sweaters to raise money for dog charities. I can get on board with that.

That's pretty much it really. We looked at some paint and carpet samples on Sunday. The rebuild guys are coming tomorrow to do...something. I don't know. Measure?

Oh. Better go. Baby is waking up.

Why I did not Knit yesterday.

No. For once it wasn't because of the dog. I woke up at 6 am to feed Johnathan, and heard water running. Oh. Just the softener I thought. No... toilet running... no... what IS that? SO I went downstairs.....SQUISH! Oh FUCK! The hose on the washing machine broke, and was gushing water everywhere. I ran upstairs, grabbed my glasses and woke hubby. I had just happened to rent a steam cleaner, and I took out 8 buckets of water before he got a hold of his mother and we found out who to call. Turns out or basement was pretty much toast. Water had run down the hallway, into the guest room and HORROR! my craft room. Thankfully all my yarn is in totes and off the floor. So, we cleaned out that room and moved everything into the rest of the family room. Then, they found that the carpet was delaminateing in the living room, so everything went upstairs and into the garage. Carpet could only be saved in the guest room, the water only went a little bit in there. They had to tear out everything else. And part of the walls to. And the bathroom and laundry room floors. So pretty much, we get a new basement.

Looking down the stairs. That's where the TV used to sit. The dark? Water damage.
Looking down the hallway. That's the bathroom door on the left.
Craft room! The horror! That's a huge dehumidifier. There's 2 of them in my basement right now. See how the wall under the window is missing?
And this? This is the wall that had my shelves with all my yarn stored. You're looking into the laundry room now.
This is the guest bedroom. They've pulled up the carpet, and cut out the pads. There are fans like that in every room. The fans and dehumidifiers have to run for a full 3 days at least to dry everything out. It's so loud that I'm holed up in the bedroom with the dogs and baby with the doors closed.

Knitting update.

So. I am on the 4th color change on the baby sweater. I also frogged 15 or so rows of it. Also? Since I cast on at 9 am on Friday morning, I've taken the dog to the vet. Twice. Done several loads of laundry, mowed the lawn, tried to pick up the house, and gone on a date for the first time since Johnathan was born. We ate at a little Mexican restaurant and saw "The Dark Knight". All I have to say is, it sure is a shame Heath Ledger died in a pool of his own vomit. His Joker is awesome. Unhinged. Like the Joker *should* be. Oh. Did I get too nerdy for you there? Sorry. More knitting....

Here's hoping I'll be able to keep up the momentum and finish the baby sweater. and Hopefully, I'll not have to take the dog to the vet again before Wednesday.

Stuff.

So. Not much happening here. Same old same old. Feed baby, yell at dog to stop licking, repeat.

Have an interview today to work at a salon. Not sure if that's what I want to do or not, but I'm trying!

Will be knitting a Baby Sweater for the Ravelympics. Hopefully I have the right needles. I should go search them out I guess. I can cast on tomorrow at 7am. Yea, like I'm getting up that early! I'll probably be kicking myself at the end of it all, that I didn't get up! :)

Erm... That's it really. I must go get my things together for the interview. And find my needles. And clean the house so I can knit all day tomorrow.