Another Day, Another Frozen Dinner

Gee, I haven't written in a few days. I guess I've been busy. My daughter came home for the weekend. I took her shopping for a new winter coat. Got that accomplished. Bought her a couple of tops and 2 for myself. Used the stupid credit card, ughhhhh. Oh well. Life goes on.


Here are some hats I made for the grandkids for Christmas:








The blue one is for my grandson, he's 4. It's Bernat cotton handicrafter. The pink and yellow one is for my granddaughter. It's called squiggles or something like that. It's an acrylic with these weird little squiggly things in the yarn. I double stranded it. I actually got the yarn at a dollar store up north. I still have a lot left.

I have a frozen Stouffer's French bread pizza in the oven. Dinner will be served soon. Tomorrow is my granddaughter's birthday. She will be 11. I'm going out to dinner with my son and his family to celebrate. Chinese food! No frozen stuff here tomorrow.

Thrift Store Finds

I went to the Salvation Army thrift store yesterday. I got two sweaters. The one on the left is 100 percent cotton, the one on the right is a cotton ramie mix. That one has a little loose yarn on the side seam which I'm going to fix, then into the washing machine they will go. Since we don't have a coffee maker at work any more I've been on the hunt for a thermos. I found one yesterday at Target, it wasn't very large, and it was $19.99. I wasn't about to spend that much on a thermos. Lo and behold, I found a thermos at the thrift store too, only $1.99. And I found that Detroit Lions insulated cup. Now, I'm not crazy about the Lions, I don't even like football, but I love this kind of cup. They are real hard to find any more, so for $1.99 I couldn't pass it up. The sweaters were on sale, buy a sweater, get one free! I love free! I didn't realize until I got home that I bought so much pink stuff. I must have breast cancer awareness month on the mind.

Speaking of that, I finished the breast cancer ribbon dishcloth, it's drying and blocking at the moment. I started a jack-o-lantern dishcloth last night from a free pattern I found on line. It's turning out cute so far, can actually tell what the picture is. I think I may take the pattern to work and run off a few copies for anyone who wants one at Tuesday night knitting.

I'm off to the store in a while. I want to get some tulip and/or daffodil bulbs to plant so my yard looks pretty next spring. I also want a storage container for all my cotton yarn, that way I can see what I have at a glance, a very big glance I might add. I have a lot of cotton! I also want to dig up a picker bush in the back yard today too. If I don't melt in the humidity.

Upside down?

I read somewhere that this is a fireman's hat and axe. What do you think? I had it upside down. Usually they are knit from the bottom up and you see your pic that way. This one was knit upside down, to me anyways. I'm still having a hard time marking it out.

Mystery Dishcloth

What is it? I can't tell. I feel really stupid, but I can't make it out. I'm so sorry I wasted my time on this. I think this is the last one I'll make from this KAL group. If you have any ideas what it is, please let me know.

It sure is muggy this morning. I can't stand it. I refuse to put the AC on in October, so I guess I'll have the windows open and fans going all day.

I think I'll take a little field trip to the thrift store today, haven't done that in a while, it's time to go get my fix. You never know what you'll find. But first, going to clean up the house a bit and get some things done around here. I rented the movie Knocked Up last night. It was OK. I thought it would be a lot funnier than it was. And tonight, I hope to get the breast cancer ribbon dishcloth done. I just can't touch the wool scarf in this muggy weather, can't stand the feel of it when it's this humid. I did find a pattern for a pumpkin dishcloth, maybe I'll start that and work on it until it cools down.

Is anyone else as sick of Britney as I am? Why do we have to know every movement that she makes. I'm sure there has to be other news these media people can report.

Warm October

Two dishcloths I'm working on at the moment. One is the breast cancer ribbon, and the other one is still a mystery. I can't tell what it is. Maybe some kind of bird? We'll find out in a day or two.

It's really warm here for October. I won't complain since I won't have to pay heating bills yet. But my hands were sweating while working on the mystery dishcloth. The leaves are barely starting to turn, it gets dark early, yet the damn grass continues to grow. I'll be glad when lawn mowing season is done. More money in my pocket! I won't have to pay the service until next spring.

Did you ever forget to turn off your ice maker in the freezer? I totally forgot. I usually turn it off when I get a certain amount of ice in the bin. I haven't been away on vacation either, just didn't turn it off. I have lots of ice, lol!

Time to go make something to eat. I have some bacon in the fridge still, so I think it will be a breakfast night, bacon, eggs, toast. Yummy! I'm so hungry I could eat 5 Denny's Grand Slams, lol!

Tired

I wish I was a cat. Just lay around all day and stare out the window. And puke. That's Pixie on the left and Katie on the right. It's amazing that they are by each other like that, my cats usually don't lay by each other. But when you want a window, I guess you do whatever it takes.

This move at work is killing me. I'm so tired. I think I'm done with my share, now I have to learn some new stuff. Tomorrow I can go in and just work. At this point, that sounds so relaxing, lol!

I had a great time at knitting last night. We had so many laughs. It was a lot of fun! I didn't want to leave but I was so tired, mostly physically, I had to get home and veg out on the couch. I did manage to start yet another dishcloth. This is for one of the girls at knit night for the breast cancer research. It's a pink dishcloth with the breast cancer ribbon on it. She had a request for more, so I'll help out. Any excuse to knit!

Now it's time to go sit on the couch and pet my yarns and throw a few stitches before I make something to eat. Real hungry today. All this physical labor is giving me a workout and making me eat and eat and eat. Bring on the food!

Downsizing

Just a little potholder I made over the weekend. I used two strands of Bernat cotton handicrafter. I'm going to wash it before using it so it shrinks up and becomes tighter. It's nice and thick.

My employer is now a new employer. New job, kind of. The lawyers split up and our part of the office moved out over the weekend. What a nasty job. I was told I didn't have to go in over the weekend, so I didn't. I stayed home and knit and played, lol! Went in this morning to complete chaos. It's so small. I have no idea where I'm supposed to keep all the stuff I had at my desk, not junk, stuff I need to use. I'm just crammed into a corner, but right out in the open, if that makes sense. I ache from head to toe from moving boxes, unloading boxes, moving heavy files around, unloading more boxes, and on and on and on. We'll see how this works out. I've got the same benefits, pay, vacation time. And in January, I'll still be eligible for another week of vacation, woo hoo, that will be four weeks a year plus my 10 personal/sick days. I've still got a bunch of days to use yet this year. I better get busy soon taking days off!

So I came home and sat on the couch and started the monthly dishcloth KAL. Got my rows done, now it's back to the scarf I started yesterday. The first scarf I didn't like. It just didn't look good with the yarn I was using. Ripped it out. This was after I went through starting it and the pattern was wrong and finding the corrections. I started another scarf, and so far it's coming along. It's on size 15 needles though, boy those make my index finger sore. But it's knitting, and I'm happy. I've got my knitting mood back, yay.

Bruce Springsteen's new CD comes out tomorrow. Just might have to go buy it. It's going to be on sale at Target, for around $10. He was on the Today Show yesterday. Ummmm, talk about a bad hair day. It looked horrid. You'd think with all his money he could get a decent hair style. Oh well, he still sounded good when he performed.