Bah!

So I've been fighting a cold for a week now. It just won't go away. And, I think my poor hubby finally caught it too. Stupid cold.

Because I don't have enough to do, I've joined the Sockdown! 2008-2009 on Ravelry in the Sock Knitters Anonymous group. The Challenge for September is Cookie A patterns, Mystery Sock, or Orange. And, I don't have any yarn that's Orange enough. (can you believe it?) So I grabbed Mona and a skein of Fearless Fibers I had lying around and I cast on Saturday afternoon. And after a quiet Sunday afternoon, and an evening of watching Dexter (season 2 on DVD) I am working on the heel flap! Now, if I can keep up the steam, I shall get this done with the time frame.

In other news, Um.... yeah. Not much going on really. Baby is teething. I have a cold. Oh! The housing development is having a garage sale this Friday/Saturday, and I'm totally going to have one. I have so. much. crap. Plus, my hubby said if I get rid of all the random fabric I have, I can have more yarn. Got to love that! So, I think I shall spend this week going thru stuff in my garage and in the crawl space and hopefully come Friday, I have enough junk to put out for the sale! :) Okay... not junk... you know what I mean.

Yay! and Stuff.

So, we did it! We beat my goal! 280 bucks! Thank you all who helped out. We did the walk and missed the ran. It was grand. And Carrie gets to take home some Vesper sock yarn! Woot woot!

And! I have walls! They FINALLY started work on my basement yesterday. Now if was can decide on a paint colors and carpet/tile samples, we'll be set. :)

Also, I finished my hat. To match my mittens. It's lovely. I put it on last night as asked my husband if I looked like a spy. He said I looked like an Art Chick. Hehe.. he's silly.
It's Gretel by Ysolda. I made the medium/regular size.
Here it is hanging out on a plate. I'll get it blocked and then snap a modeled shot.

One last request!

Dudes, do you see that little box over on the right hand side? It says 82 % !! Woot woot! So close.
Thank you all that donated so far! If you haven't and can spare a buck or two, you have until Friday evening to do so.

Oh! I never posted the prizes! Either 4 hanks of Alpaca Cloud in peppermint, or a skein of Vesper in Neapolitan.

So, go Help the animals. Please? :)

Shiny!

I made a baby hat. Cunning no? I know it's not exactly like the show, but it's cute and that's all that matters.

Next up? A hat for me! To match my mittens. And if blogger would work, I'd post a picture.....no dice.

Next time folks!

All is right again.

The yarn was found. Things are good. The little skeins are safely tucked away in rubber maid tubs waiting for me to finish a project or two before I cast on something new.

Speaking of finished projects, look! I finished something!
Osiris is now ready for some fall weather. He has a jaunty new sweater.

Other that that, we're still in a holding pattern. Waiting for insurance to get their butts in gear and fix out basement. it's been 3 freaking weeks since the adjuster came out, and apparently we're just waiting on him. Yes. I am calling him today to chew his butt.

Dude.

Where is my yarn?

Tracking number says it was delievered yesterday at 4:27 pm. I have no yarn. I have no notice of yarn. I was home at 4:27 pm. No yarm!

arrrggh!

Okay. I'm better now. I've called the post office and someone put in a request to figure out where my yarn went. Knitpicks (bless them) said they'd send out a new box if my yarn went *poof*

Osiris Update

Since it's been almost 2 months since the attack, I thought I'd update ya'll.
This is what he looks like as on Monday.
The scab is about as big as my thumb to the first knuckle. Which is a damn big improvement let me tell you. It was the whole leg, what with the cleaning of the dead tissue and the part that got left in the yard and all that. He even got clearance to walk in the Humane Society walk. Which means, I'll most likely carry him. Because he did not make the distance last year, and he's out of shape because we've been A)afraid to walk (dogs still in neighborhood-lady had court today) B)Babying him.

He's back to his old self really. Jumping on the counter for food, and racing around the house leaping over me from couch to couch. We're all very happy here, and again thank everyone for there wishes.

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.

The one where we all cry.

So. Johnathan got his first set of shots today. 6 shots! And one in the mouth. He cried, I cried. It was awful.

So we're home now, and I'm trying to gingerly snuggle him, and his little thighs are covered with 4 band-aids.

Poor Monkey.

Happy Baby!

So, here's Johnathan. He'll be 2 months old tomorrow. He's such a cute little peanut! Just talking to him can get him smiling and even laughing a little.

A quick puppy update...

So, they bandaged Siris up and he came home on Wed. Thursday morning had us rushing over to the vet to replace the bandage, as it had slipped and you could see a big gaping wound. Friday morning? A repeat of Thursday. Friday they kept him during the day to watch him, and stapled the bandage to his leg. Brought him in today, and they changed his bandage, and stapled it it two places thankfully, as we have to make it to Monday. And, a couple of the stitches on the top row have already come loose. So, we're watching it like a hawk. We're heading over to a friends house tonight, and have to bring him with. Ack! He's just like having another baby!

But, he's healing well. It's just a lot of running to the vet. I was there EVERY day last week. And, they keep reminding me it's going to be a long road yet.

Teal!

This is what they had to do to make sure he didn't eat his stitches. So much easier to look at!

:(

I'm sad. I miss my dog.

I feel like I failed him.