Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Edit This 0 Comments »
Here's a funny:    I buy gallons of hand sanitizer for my classroom because I don't have a sink. I'm thinking the germs  (sweet children) that are in the petrie dish (my classroom) can sanitize themselves, thus protecting us (really just me) from the FLU and other assorted germs.  WRONG. I'm the only one who's gotten sick! Going on my 2nd week of 'blah I'm sick'.  Doctor says, 'not the flu, here's a Z-pac, drink lots of fluids'. 

What is that blue yarn doing in my knitting, you ask? A life line. I highly recommend it. What you are looking at is my first shawl in a jumbled mess. People tell me it will block out nicely. If I ever get it done, I'll find out. The reason for the life line is self preservation. I have tinked and tinked and tinked enough to have made 2 of these. The line lets me rip out fast to a place I know. In this case, line 6 on my chart. I just put the line in, I
feel relief. 
BTY it's the Flower Basket Lace Shawl by Evelyn Clark, in Interweave Knits, Fall 2004 and 
Here's my progress on the Austin Sweater. Just need the sleeves and sewing up. The collar had 2 parts. The main flat part for 3 inches, then you bind off, go back and pick up double the stitches to make the ruffle. Very nice effect.

Sunday, October 18, 2009 Edit This 1 Comment »
So sick of being sick. Working in that large petri dish called Room 109, has caused many illnesses for me to overcome. This particular one is quite feisty. It's going on its 2nd week here in my vessel. I even had to give up a movie invitation by my Cutiepatootie. She is 5 now and we are kindred spirits. {If it's the last thing I do}

I've also gotten another bug. The Facebook Bug. It has taken me away from many of the things I love. To name a few: reading, knitting, cooking, sleeping. What a piece of work. Once one learns to control the urges, well, it is awesome for connecting with people you wouldn't ordinarily speak with, let alone share your life with. LOL. It's a way to keep track of your family in one click.  I am going back to the telephone for my litter.   Did I mention the games? These things get you by the back door. "Oh I'm not playing a game, it's just my virtual farm. I'm harvesting a friend's corn. At the same time I am shopping for a few new flowers to plant by the waterfall."

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 Edit This 0 Comments »
Must wean off Facebook.
September is over, thankfully. I do love the fall, but Sept. sends me into a tail spin. School starting up and back into the job-thing. Minime has been absent in my day-to-day. She is loving or at least liking college. I am so thankful for that, but a bit of me wished she missed it here more. 
We just spent the weekend together at my niece's wedding on Cape Cod. What a great time we had. Family can be so fun.    Here we are, 2 missing.
Still knitting the purple Austin Sweater. Had a few things in between that took me away. I'm knitting my first lace shawl. Flower Basket using Sock Pixie yarn. The pattern was in Interweave and is related to the popular free one on Ravelry, Swallow Tail.
Always a pair of socks in progress. I'm loving the short circs, wooden Hiya Hiya. 

Sunday, July 19, 2009 Edit This 4 Comments »

Here's the baby bunny sweater with the Peter Rabbit buttons. This is the softest thing I have ever knit. Really and truely it is scrumpdillyicious. Plymouth Baby Bunny. You can find it at WEBS. Speaking of WEBS:

I visited the place in North Hampton, MA this past week. WOW, really big and a big back room with cones and sale items. I bought a cone of Merino/Nylon sock yarn, another spindle, a few white cascade fixation and a shawl pattern.  You'd think I would have gone crazy, but no. Hub Mills has most of everything I need and my employee discount......no need to go anywhere else.  Hub Mills is the outlet store of Classic Elite Yarns in Lowell, MA.   One other thing I got was a pair of circs-with square needles and the most flexible/supple/lightweight cord ever.  Kollage Yarns makes them...I want more of them.

The reason for my trip 'out west' was not just for yarn. Minime had her college orientation! We went with a friend and her daughter who is also a friend of Minimes'. The adults stayed in the Campus Hotel and this was our view:
The weather was beautiful for the days we stayed...2 nights. So much to do there and the food was fabulous. Parents eat free all year! Suffice to say, the University employs an excesive amount people to make sure my baby will be safe, healthy and happy. That made me  less stressed considering the nicname of this prestigious place is: ZooMass...! We learned through research the reasons for the overindulgence;
1 NCAA athletics
2 Northeast location
3 Out in the sticks (literally) 
4 Predominantly  white students
5 Public University
All these things come together in a perfect storm.   Interesting, huh?  Gotta love research :)
UMASS  Amherst, here we come!
Here are the 2 lovies, raring to go. :(
The trip was so fun fun fun, until the Trooper stopped us on the way home, Minime was Going a little fast on a small 55mpg hway. She was not used to having to look out for the fuzz (apologies to anyone connected) and to SLOW DOWN when you see them....not speed up and don't ignore that flailing arm that means: pull your ass over right now!!!   Live and learn.  She didn't get a speeding ticket. The cop was feeling sorry for us because the registration had not been renewed since Feb. and he had to have us towed!  OMG!  After a few false starts, I was able to renew on-line with my laptop, but not before we told one of the guys to come fetch us all.  Yikes.  We did make it home that night, safe and sound, and completely stressed.

New project alert. Why not start a new project when you have at least (I lost count) a gazillion projects in a gazillion project bags that are not finished. That wasn't really a "?".
This will be a short sleeve sweater for my K, my almost daughter-in-law. It's called a Jane Austin something.  She loves purple, and saw the pattern hanging around one day....so I'm pretty sure she will like it. 

Any Facebook addicts out there??? Ugh, can't help myself. 

Saturday, July 04, 2009 Edit This 1 Comment »
Happy Birthday USA! 
My duty is done so now it's time for relaxing, eating, and knitting. I walked in a parade with my sister-in-law. There were many of us walking today. The weather was good, but that route is long no matter the cool breezes. 7,000 steps later and I get to keep the t-shirt. 
For those of you wondering.....my sister-in-law is a congresswoman. She won the seat my brother had many years ago. 
I finished the little white baby sweater by ripping out and knitting from it to finish. After the Peter Rabbit buttons, I'll post a picture.

Monday, June 29, 2009 Edit This 1 Comment »
Another 'last' in our house. Minime's graduation party. That makes 4 in all. Good friends, family, food. 
I've been working on a baby sweater in Plymouth Baby Bunny. I have made this sweater many times so I don't know why I'm running out of yarn. I even cut down on the stiches...ugh. I got the yarn from Dizzy Sheep, and being so cheap, I don't want to order it full price from somewhere else. If you haven't visited Dizzy, it runs one item every day on sale. Just one item. Sometimes yarn, fiber, needles, kits. 
My real first day of vacation! Ahhh, let's see.....shopping, relaxing, reading, soaps in real time, some facebook, cooking dinner and dessert, did I say shopping??? No cleaning, already did a herculean job for the party. 

Thursday, June 25, 2009 Edit This 5 Comments »
The end of the school year can make you brain dead. Today I left the popsicles out on a table in the Teacher's Room.....I think that's where I left them. I was putting them away after the kids got one and stopped at the bathroom first.  Somewhere there is a huge root beer (no one wanted root beer) smelling puddle. 
One more day. 

Thursday, June 18, 2009 Edit This 3 Comments »
Yes, It's Facebook. I'm going nuts over bejeweled, scramble, and others. Friends tell me it will pass and I won't need a daily dose. I hope it comes soon. The last thing I want is to be bonkers this summer. Speaking of summer,  6 days and counting. 
For the first time I might be able to finish Charlotte's Web. I've never finished it with a class. It's so funny how they love it. Just proves that good literature will prevail. Some just sit there staring at me, others like to follow along with their own copy, and still others stare at the transparency I put up of the illustrations.  I do love 2nd grade. 
Just started knitting with Plymouth Baby Bunny. 60% Pima Cotton, 30% Modal, 10% Angora.
It is so soft. I can't help smooshing it over my face. It's for A's friend whose wife is having a baby this summer. Ironically, this friend was Minime's teacher this past year. So, yes, I'll be whipping up 2 gifts.

Monday, June 15, 2009 Edit This 1 Comment »
I'm here to tell you that there is an addicting force on the social network circuit. It lures you in with hopes of connecting with family and non-knitting friends who tell you to get out more. Did I mention the endless challenging games and virtual worlds. Yes, all right there a click away to entice the weak.  
Know what it is?
Hmmmm, how long will it take to guess?

Monday, June 08, 2009 Edit This 2 Comments »
Tag, I'm it. A few days late.
8 things I am looking forward to: (in no particular order)
1. being out of school for the summer
2. my yard being cleaned up
3. seeing Cutiepatootie
4. going away with Minimee  for orientation
5. loosing weight for 
6. A&K's wedding
7. having time to cook and sew, knit too
8. going shopping

8 things I did yesterday:
1. took care of Dander
2. wrote lesson plans
3. played a bazillion games of bejeweled
4. did laundry
5. dishes
6. read The Globe with out anyone bothering me
7. cleaned up after Dander
8. said goodbye to Dander

8 things I wish I could do:
1. play tennis
2. go ice skating
3. clean my own yard
4. loose weight for the wedding
5. go to the Cape
6. have a clean house
7. keep my children safe
8. finish more projects

8 shows I watch:
1. General Hospital
2. Days of Our Lives
3. 24
4. Bones
5. Harper's Island
6. Smallville
7. Supernatural
8. NCIS

8 people tagged:
I need to think about this.


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