Starting to feel a bit better

Its been a rough couple of weeks! I will get into that more tomorrow. Yess, I'm gonna try writing tomorrow too.

Tomorrow I get to to trick or treating with my seestor's boys for the first time! Yay!! *claps!*

Emrick is going as Boba Fett, and PJ is going as . . . . wait, get this: Yoda! He's SOOO cute as yoda too! The Yoda costume comes with a little soft had with Yoda ears and a wrinkly forehead. I do have a scary picture of me wearing said hat. . . . But it is disturbing:

I'm done and I won!!

Very very good day yesterday and today!
First off: I FINISHED THE WEDDING SHAWL!
*does obnoxious happy dance!*

Ok ok! I found the pattern here for a Pinecone shawl And I used less than 1000 yards of silk lace weight from Claudia's handpaints on a size 3 needles. . . and I almost went CRAZY. (I'm knitting the shawl in my profile picture)

I'm going to try and get pictures tonight, that's when I'm blocking it. It's going to be all ready to go for Saturday's wedding! Only thing is that I wish I would have made it slightly larger. The bride is very tall and willowly and I would have liked a deeper point. (longer point?) But my mental health wasn't worth it. And I don't think I would have gotten it done in time.

And I'm also getting sock yarn from Jaci!! Check out her blog at Confessions of a Knitting Diva (not like your going to get a ton of hits from my site, Jaci. :-D ) So now I can go back to working on everything else people want me to make for them. . . Keep wishing guys! Who knows when I will finish something else. Oh, wait. . . I also finished a hat for my nephew Wyatt from Shelly's quilt stich pattern hat. I will try and get a picture of that too. . . with him wearing it! He's so cute! So I guess I can't say that I don't finish anything. . . I just don't finish much!
Like that Print-O-the waves stole I put on hold to finish this shawl, I think that's next on the finishing list.

Cheers!

Another car accident

This time I'm the one who hit someone. Darn it!!! I rear-ended a 2007 Infinity with my good 'ol Buick yesterday at about 6:30am when I was trying to get from 94 east bound to 494 south bound in Woodbury, MN. They stopped really fast. I couldn't. My car stalled as soon as I hit them and I had to push my car witht the help of the other driver to the sholder past the bridge we were under. My airbag didn't go off, so I must not have been going that fast. I smashed their back bumper all up, and I do feel really bad because the guy I hit had two other car-poolers with him and we had to wait for an hour for the state patrol to get to us. . . . even though the nearest weight station is less than 7 miles away and we were causing a traffic jam on one of the busiest intersections in the cities. . . .

After the trooper arrived and left, I got to wait for the tow truck. That was another 40 minutes. Then the tow truck had to pick up another van and drop it off before he could tow me alllll the way back to New Richmond. I got home at 11 am.

Funny thing is. . . my car is running just fine. (knock on lots and lots-o-wood) I only have a bend license plate in the front of my car. I waited to start it at home just in case the engine stalled again. I am sooooooo lucky. Now I just have to wait and see how much my insurance goes up. This is only my second accident that I have caused. (I backed into someone 10 years ago. . . )

Now I get to see if I can learn from my mistakes and quit driving like an idiot!

Weight Watches and stuff. . .

So. My Mom is a lifetimer at weight watchers. She has dropped about 60 lbs over the past several years. Me? I could stand to loose about . . . well let's be brutally honest here, about 100 lbs. I spend 2 nights a week at my parents house now while I'm working in Minnetonka, and WW night just happens to be one of the nights I stay over. Mom hasn't gone for a while, but she has been wanting to start up again. So I went with. I know I need to do it. This is of course different than wanting to do this, but if I wait until I want to do this it could be too late in regards to some health issues. I'm so picky about my food that I don't like the idea of lists showing "good" foods and limiting portions. But I also know enough that food should not be a comfort, and that's what I use it for. (Like most other people who like to eat!!)

Le Sigh. It will probably do me a lot of good though. I have recorded my eating habits in the past, I'm not really afraid to do it. I'm afraid of the system they use. I don't like limits(aka the point system and core foods system). I'm also aware that I don't eat consistently enough through out the day, I usually have a huge meal towards the end of the day and don't eat much in the morning or early afternoon. But I do like making detailed lists and being anal retentive and sticking to a pattern! In this way I think I will do very well on the program. I also really like the support system.

Now on the knitting front. After reaching 361 stitches per row, I have finally started working on the edging on the wedding shawl!! HOORAY! I have 16 days to finish and block the f*#ker. Then I. Will. Be. Done.

Then back to socks! Just in time for Socktoberfest!!

Come on people!! It's a '93 buick for chirssakes!!!

So I get up this morning at my sister's in Coon Rapids MN to go to work and head out to my car at 6am. . . . Why can I not get my key into the door of my car?!?!?! I'm in a darker corner right by the entrance so I can't see the lock. I try to open the door. . . yep. It opens. Someone broke my lock and busted into my car.
Great.
Nothing is missing (I have my garment bag in there and a grocery bag full of used clothes that need to be washed. No electronics in the car what so ever. I even still have the original tape deck!) Doesn't even look like they rummaged through anything.
I go back to the apartment and buzz my sister to let me back in. I knew this could take a couple of minutes because she is sleeping, and her husband has a hearing loss, so he can't here the buzzer without his hearing aids in.
I buzz.
I call.
I buzz. I buzz some more.
I call. Cell phones, home phone.
Even my nephew isn't waking up!!!
After 15 minutes of buzzing and calling, the door unlocks.
You think with three home phones she would put ONE in her bedroom!! (no, that one's turn off because she gets so many wrong numbers at 3 am. . . )
So the police come, and they go, and I go back down to leave. . . .
My steering wheel casing has been broken. I didn't notice it before.
*SIGH*
Call the police again to add to the report. Turns out it looks like someone was not trying to steal stuff from my car, they were trying to steal the CAR.
Oy people!!! Get a life! There are better cars out there than my POS Buick with 100,000 miles on it, no CD player, and its not even clean anyway!!! I don't even carry comprehensive insurance on my car because its not worth it! (I DO have liability on my car. . . I'm not stupid!)

Thank god I do take out all the yarn out of my car. I mean, what if somebody was stupid enough to try and break in?!?!?!

I have been chastized

I ran into Jaci this weekend at the Eau Claire International Festival while knitting out front of Yellow Dog Knitting.

"Why haven't you blogged!?!?!"

Cause I'm lazy? . . . Maybe.

Cause I don't have an easy way to put pictures up on my blog?. . . Probably!

Here's a picture of me I lifted off my sister! We were at Faith's wedding (that's Jessie's best friend.) Faith is totally anti-knitting (yet she wants me to make her stuff. . . go figure) So of course I brought knitting! Here is me knitting at her wedding recieption:

This is a wedding shawl for a very good friend that is getting married on Oct 13th. I'm up to 325 stiches per row, and I'm going inszane. Yes, inszane. I still have to knit the edging, and that means right now if I stopped I would have 650 rows of edging to do between 7 - 15 stiches. . . I'm not sure what's going to be worse: trying to get to about 400 stiches, or knitting the edging. . . I'm going to get a better picture when I'm finished with it. No way I'm not recording this for postarity!!

Well! Gotta go! Work is demanding my attention. Boo.

Knitting? Knitting!!

No way! I'm knitting again! It's dangerous working in the cities. There are so many yarn shops to go to. I've been checking out the local shops one at a time for the past couple of weeks. So far I've found totally awesome sock yarn at Borealis Yarn in St. Paul, that I can't find the label for to save my life. I know the colorway is call BahamaMamma, and it's a gorgeous yellow to green to teal to blue to purple and back again. Reminds me of tropical fish! I'm doing a sideways sock out of it. I'm also curing my lack of camera. Maybe I can con my cousin into using hers tonight.

I also bought some of Claudia's Handpaints at The Yarnery and also Shelly's Slip-Stich Quilted Baby Hat pattern. It's really cool! Again, I will try and shanghai someone's camera to show awesome pictures of nummy projects that I don't have time to work on because I actually get to work overtime this week.

I love run on sentences! Just an FYI.

Oo! Oooo! Shelly is also having a contest. You should go to her blog and check it out!

I better go. I shall rrrreturn.