Wonderful Saturday!

I spent a great day with my daughter. We started out with a trip to my co worker's house to see a 3 week old Chihuahua puppy that she wants to give to a good home. She has 2 Chihuahua's and they had puppies. My daughter wants a puppy and has for several months. So my friend from work let us come to her house to see the puppy. She is beautiful and at three weeks old so tiny. After the visit with the puppy we went to Kannpolis to Benjiman Franklin's Crafts and on to Concord Mall and lunch at Razzoo's my first time at the restaurant. I am almost finished with the baby bottle washcloth for my daughters friend. I am posting picture's of the puppy. She is so sweet and my daughter is already after one meeting in love with the puppy. She has already picked out a name CeCe.

I have my computer back!

This week I took my computer to this guy at work and he fixed all my problems. I love it! I brought it home today. I have access to the Internet so much faster, so now when I turn on the computer it does not take as long for the computer to come on or to get access to the Internet. I started a scarf for a fellow co-worker. I have the second baby washcloth started for my daughter's friend. The washcloths are my main focus. I need to get them read by next Thursday. I am working the baby bottle now this weekend I plan a big push to get them done and the end's weaved. I promise pictures on day soon. I am so happy tomorrow is Friday.

It's snowing again!

Okay we don't get several feet of snow like some people do. I am happy about that fact. We get a few inches at a time in this area of North Carolina. I has been snowing since around 11:00 am. The road in front of my house is a little slushy! In North Carolina a few inches is enough to get use excited. I am not complaining because this is nothing compared to what most people have are are receiving. I finished up the fourth book in the crochet mysteries by Betty Hechtman. The book is titled A Stitch in Crime. I loved it and of course the murder came as a great surprise to me, and the end was hilarious to me. I hope we don't have to wait for the next book in the series! I have all 4 of the books in the series and I love the fact that the books come out in paperback and they are very affordable. I am still on team Barry,even though I like Mason.I am also upset with Mollys' Son's, they don't seem to realize she has needs that they cannot fill and they just see her as a mother and not a person. If you enjoy a good cozy mystery give this book a try. I started knitting wash cloths for my daughter friend. She gave birth last week. My daughter and one of her friend's plan to go visit next weekend. So this is a rush job on the washcloths. I took my desktop to a coworker for repairs. I hope he can fixed the desktop. I have my daughter's old laptop and since I have wireless I can still access the Internet.

Why does the weekend pass by so fast?

Well I started my weekend on Thursday. I took Friday off to take my daughter to the oral surgeon. She had 7 wisdom teeth removed. She did great after the surgery. I brought her back to Asheboro. She slept for a few hours and got up for a while then went back to sleep. She did not swell as much as people told her she would and she said the pain was not that bad. On Saturday morning she felt good enough for a trip to Costco. I spent to much money, but I just had to get a leg of lamb and lamb chops. We spent most of the day in Greensboro. I went to A C Moore. I am looking for a dvd on how to knit socks. I did not find just what I was looking for but I did find The Art Of Knitting , and The Art Of Knitting & Crochet 2, if I read the back of the second dvd correctly I think it might have a sock Kit-A-Long. I was looking for Knitting Socks Techniques 1 & 2 a knitters's companion, by Lucy Neatby. I think I will give up and order Ebay, I was one on Amazon and they wanted $135.00 for one dvd. I can't afford to pay that amount. I know I took a class on how to knit socks but I did not come home and immediately start and finish the second sock so now I am lost. I suffered a great lost last week. The Stork washcloth that I was knitting suffered an attack by my cat, I forgot to put it away and left it on the table in the dining area. I had to rip it out and start again. So I am on row 35 and I learned not to leave my knitting out around this cat. Today we went to my daughter's church she joined one of the choirs and it was their Sunday to sing. We had a great time and a lovely afternoon. The A C Moore in Winston Salem is great, I think they have more yarn that the Greensboro A C Moore. Well almost time for Big Love.

Stork

Well we had a few inches of snow last night. I love to watch it snow. This snow did not have any sleet so by 11:00 am today the road was clear and no trouble driving. S0 I made a trip to two bookstores in Greensboro today I wanted to pick up a Simply Knitting magazine. I have the magazine and also brought the new book by Laurie Perry Crazy Aunt's Purl's Home Is Where the Wine Is. I am about to start row 31 of the Stork washcloth. I will post a picture of the half finished washcloth and afghan.

Another Friday Snow

It's Friday and it is snowing again. We have another snow here in Asheboro NC. I love to watch it snow. I love snow. This snow might no be so bad because so far no sleet. I hope will be able to get out tomorrow. I need a skein of cotton yarn from Hobby Lobby. I finished the lamb baby washcloth and cast on and knit the first seven rows of the stork baby wash cloth. I have decided to knit the stork also. I am reading Knit, Purl,Die, by Anne Canadeo only a few pages in to the book. I love light reads.

First February Post

Well finally got over my cold or what ever it was that I had last 2 weeks of January. I spent a long hard week getting to work because of the snow we had last weekend. Our office never closes so on Monday when I got to work I faced a very icy still covered in snow and Ice parking lot. I feel lucky I did not fall and bust my ass. If you are going to have a this office never closes for bad weather policy you could have the parking lots cleaned off. I have knit a few more rows on the baby washcloth, I am still working on the lamb. I need to finish it up and start the stork. The woman at work had her baby last week a little girl she weighed 8 pound and has a head full of hair. She came a few days early, both mom and baby are doing fine. This gives me a few extra days to get the washcloths done. The baby shower will have to wait a couple of weeks until mom feels up to getting out with the baby. I started an afghan crochet I found the pattern at www.projectlinus.org/patterns/ssba.html It is the Sideways Shell Baby Afghan(aka: Newbie Shell Afghan) by Donna Laing. I am using Baby Bee Sweet Delight Wrap the color crayons. It was on clearance at Hobby Lobby. After the foundation row you repeat row 2 until the afghan is 36" then you keep going with the pattern without breaking off the yarn all around the afghan in each space. I hope I can get the edge right. I have work tomorrow and I need to get back to the gym. I have not been the last 2 weeks. I am embarrassed to go back but I will go, it has been a bad keep to my no fried food and pasta week.

A Long Time Between Posts!

Well it has been a long time since my last post. I started getting a cold right after my last post and I have not felt very well since. The cough has been the worst part of the whole thing. A cough can keep you from getting a good night's sleep. Because I have been sick I missed working out all last week. I know the trainer's will think I am not serious about working out after this because I had just got started, and I have already missed over a week. It snowed yesterday in North Carolina and it has sleeted a little on and off today and at this moment we are getting what they said on the news tonight the last of the snow for our area. The ground is covered with snow and for our area this is saying something. I am not sure now many inches we got here today but it has remained below freezing all day today. So we will have this around for awhile. I am sure my trip to work will not be easy. I have spent the day watching t.v. and not knitting or crocheting. I have been looking for a pattern for a baby afghan. My daughter's best friend is having a baby in March and I want to make her an extra special afghan. Now I am listening to Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince on cd and on the Internet. I started the Little Lamb wash cloth it is from Leisure Arts #4352 baby washcloths To Knit, by Melissa Bergland Burnham. Once I am finished will knit the Stork and this will finish up the baby washcloths for my friend at work. I think I will knit them for my daughter's friend also. The washcloths knit up quickly and I love to the design develop row by row.

Middle of the week

Well this week seems to be passing by quickly. The office was closed on Monday. I meet a friend for lunch had a great time catching up. Then made my way to Hobby Lobby to pick up a few skeins of I Love This Cotton! to finish up the washcloths for my coworkers. I picked up 8 skeins of Baby Bee Sweet Delight Wrap I think they are discontinuing the color so it was on clearance. I was thinking maybe I could crochet a baby afghan for my friend at work. I am searching for a pattern. I want to do a ripple or a shell. We shall see what happens. I went to work out on Monday and again today. So no knitting today. Still reading On Strike for Christmas.

What a day!

Well I it was a long day . I did not get as much as I wanted done, but I can start again on Tuesday. We have a long weekend besides the mortgage it the long weekend gave me a reason to keep going. I cast off the butterfly washcloth yesterday and cast on the rubber ducky. I will pace myself and to get the washcloths done. I am still reading On Strike for Christmas, still a good read. I will post pictures of the washcloths because my friend does not read my blog. So I feel safe in the fact that she will not see the washcloths.

Monday workout!

I made it through another Monday at work. It was a very busy day. I did not get half the things I wanted to do done. Well I will start again tomorrow. Today was my third training session and I did the lower body workout and 30 minutes on the treadmill. Today I increased to 30 of all the exercises and I made it 30 seconds squatting with the exercise ball behind my back. I guess I choose a very busy time to join because it seems really hard to get an early appointment time. I have one more training session on Wednesday but could not get it until 6:30 I don't want to go home before my workout. So this is why I need to come up with something to do for over an hour. I will think of something, maybe I will go to the library and knit. I am really upset with myself, late on Saturday I cast on a baby washcloth, and yesterday I spent worked on the scarf on and off and made it to row 41 and then it happened a mistake. I tried to correct it but dropped some stitches while trying to repair the mistake. These washcloths do not have difficult stitches but you have to do a lot of counting! So for my this means I should not try and watch Big Love! I was caught up in the last few minutes of Big Love lost count and could not repair. So I have ripped it out and will start over not tonight I don't have the heart. I will tomorrow because I really intend to give my friend something for her baby due in February. Tonight I am going to continue reading On Strike for Christmas, by Sheila Roberts. It is shaping up to be another great cozy ready. It is not a mystery. Yes it does have a knitting theme. A group of women in a knitting group go on strike for Christmas to teach their husband a lesson. Long weekend ahead no work on Monday, MLK jr. Holiday! I will keep you posted on the exercise thing.

Another Cold Saturday Night.

It's cold and I have the house to myself. My Mother went to Greensboro with my Sister to celebrate my Nieces birthday. My nieces likes this little Chinese place in the food court at the Four Season's Mall. I am not a fan of mall food court's. I have had Chinese at this food court but I don't care enough for it to make a special trip to eat at this place. My sister does thing to late for me I don't like to wait all day to do things. she did not call my Mother until after 6:00pm to about going. I know 6:00 is not late, but by the time she had called I already had a pot of chili half way finished. It is cold and I did not feel like taking a 30 minute ride to it in a mall food court. I went to my second session at the workout center today and did upper body training, then I did the treadmill for 35 minutes. I am not as sore as I thought. Then went to my local library to pick up a book on hold for me and turn in books I had check out last month. When I turned onto the street to my house, I was shocked to find the aftermath of a car accident. I don't think anyone died in the accident but it looked bad to me. One car had flipped over and the other looked pretty smashed up front. I think I will cast on a baby washcloth tonight.

Tonight was the Night!

I went to my first exercise session today. I got off work and made a trip to the grocery store because my appointment with the personal trainer was at 6:30, I got there a little early. I started with the lower body and I felt muscles tonight that forgot about a long time ago. Saturday I have a session to work on the upper body. I want to go workout at least 3-4 times per week. I hope I will be able to get out of the bed tomorrow morning. So no knitting so far tonight. I am watching The Real Housewives of Orange County. I need to start the baby washcloths for my friend at work February will be here all to soon. I will start this weekend. I will use I Love This Cotton! from Hobby Lobby for a few I wish they had more baby colors. It is so soft, I have the yellow, pink, and light blue. I wish they had lavender. I will have to research and find another soft yarn. I love Peaches n Creame, and Sugar n Cream but they don't feel as soft as the I Love This Yarn! . This is a picture from my last beach trip in December 2006! I love Seagulls!

First Tuesday January 2010

Well I made it through the day. It is Tuesday the first Lionbrand Podcast for the new year. It was relaxing to knit and listen to the podcast. Trying to get my computer to download the podcast was not relaxing. I don't know what happened but all of a sudden, I can't just go to the site and click on the little megaphone. I knit a few rows on a dishcloth, I have been working on for the last few days. My friend at work loved her scarf and dishcloths. I was very pleased. Just 3 more days until the weekend. Tomorrow is the day after work I will go this workout facility and join, so that I can start working out. I really need to lose weight.

Happy New Year!!!!

Happy New Year !!!!! I have done nothing today. I watched t.v. a The Next Iron Chef Marathon. I have Day After Tomorrow I love that movie. No knitting or crochet today. My sister and her husband came over for dinner and we watched of course The Next Iron Chef Marathon. Happy New Year!!!!

New Years's Eve

Well it's New Year's Eve 2009 is about to come to an end. It is foggy tonight and I am really disappointed because tonight is a blue moon. We won't have another blue moon for 19 years! I keep checking outside to see if the Sykes have cleared but no such luck. I am trying not to become depressed because I am still in the same shape financially as I was last year, my hope was to change that circumstance. It did not happen and my finances are in the same dismal shape. I am trying to keep hope alive. I am thankful for a job and a place to lay my head. I did not get my second sock done, I need to make it my New Year's Resolution to finish the socks. I did get 3 crocheted afghans , 4 scarves 1 crocheted and 3 knit, 16 dishcloths. My best year so far for finished projects. I need to move beyond the basics. I have read 16 books, most of them knit or crochet related. I finished up the knitted items I plan to give my friend at work today. I might try to finish another dishcloth by Sunday to add to the gift. I have a bottle of pink champagne in the refrigerator waiting on the stroke of 12:00!

Wednesday already!

It is the middle of the week already. If I was working this week this would be Monday at 10:00am. I could really get use to not working. I love not getting up until I want to every morning and doing just what I want to even if that is nothing. My daughter arrived on Monday after work and spent Monday and Tuesday night. Today day was the day she had planned to have oral surgery but she went to the Dr on Monday because she was not feeling well and she has bronchitis and could not have the surgery. So yesterday we took my mother to the doctor went to visit our cousin and my grandmother my daughter's great grandmother, went out for lunch at Olive Garden. Today my mother and I went to Piggly Wiggly in Siler City. It has been years since I have been to a Piggly Wiggly, when I was a little girl we had a Piggly Wiggly. I found out Siler City had a Piggly Wiggly but I could not figure out where the store was located. The store is about 30 minutes away from us, we had a mission in mind, looking for a certain pork product. We found that product and at this time it is cooking in preparation for the New Year's Day meal. I knit the last few row's of the Magic Scarf last night while watching the movie that started the Ma and Pa Kettle movie series The Egg and I. I did not get to watch the whole movie got sleepy. So my plan is to watch again tonight. While I cast on another dishcloth to give my friend at work. Yesterday I paid another visit to BellaFilati Luxury Yarns located at 275 NE Broad St Southern Pines, NC 910-692-3538 , www.bellafilati.com . Great shop, with very helpful and nice people. I was able to find just the right yarn to start a scarf for my youngest niece.

The Last Sunday of the Year!

I can hardly believe it is the last Sunday of the year! Time passes by so quickly. I have spent the day knitting, watching t.v. , and browsing the Internet. I visit all my favorite sites. Crochetville and Ravelry. The scarf I am knitting for my friend at work is coming along, I can't decide where to stop. I think I will add another 30 rows. I want it to be long enough to wrap around her neck twice. It feels so good to know that I have the week off and tomorrow morning I can sleep late. I am listening to Breaking Dawn on cd again. I find it very relaxing to listen to a book on cd while I knit. Only 5 days until the first of the year, new year's eve is Thursday. Happy crafting!

Why It's Christmas Day!!!

I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!!!. I have had a pretty good day. My daughter and her boyfriend came by for a few hours, and my sister and her children stopped by for about an hour. The turkey breast and ham was great, and of course the yeast rolls my mother made are always great. I finished the scarf my daughter plans to give her boyfriend's mother before my daughter arrived today. I am still working in the scarf to give my friend at work. I could not get it finished by Wednesday and she was out of work sick on Wednesday so even if I had finished I would not be able to give the scarf to her before Christmas. I will have it ready for our return to work on January 4th. She took those days off too! . Sherlock Holmes is about to come on on TMC I like the old school Sherlock Holmes. I want to see the new Sherlock which I think started today. Happy Crafting!

Vacation

My vacation has started I know it will pass by so fast but for now I am so happy!. I will return to work 01/04/2010. I have spent most of the evening working on the scarf my daughter wanted me to knit for her boyfriends mother. My mother,niece and I made a trip to walmart after I got off work today. It was a mad house at walmart but that is to be expected. We made a quick trip to pick up a few things, then made our way to the checkout lane. We made the wrong choice in lanes. A woman in front of us wanted to buy gift cards, well she tried to pay for all $440+ dollars in gift card and came up with insufficient fund, proceed to call her bank in line and try to resolve the situation. So we waited, and waited in line until she finally decided to give up. I think she was trying to run a scam and but she left the store without the gift cards after we stood in line a very long time. So once I got back home I have spent time knitting and browsing the Internet.