Every night since Jon's been on vacation we've been going to bed past 3 in the morning. It's getting a little out of hand, but it's cool - he lets me sleep in and he gets up with devan (which is still like sleeping in to him, since normally he gets up while it's still dark out.)
We've had a few busy days in a row. Christmas and Christmas Eve were a lot of fun. We did Christmas day over at Jon's parents and ate lasagna and other stuff that was really good. We also had really good cheesecake that Jon's grandmother made. It's my favorite dessert ever. I think all together, I ate a half of a cheesecake. We've been doing a lot of eating, christmas cookies, choco covered pretzels, turkey dinners yum...
The day after christmas we did some shopping I think. I can't exactly remember. Yea we did. I was also disappointed to find out that my dad IS NOT coming to visit me. I was actually more pissed than disappointed since he practically promised me during 3 different phone calls that he was coming out. Whatever. I'm still pissed. Nothing changes ever. So that night I went out and pampered myself by buying 2 knitting books, Vintage Knits and Weekend Knitting. I also got some bert's bees cuticle cream, jaqua marshmallow cocoa body whip (really awesome cocoa butter), and a few other things I can't remember. I also went to the Knitting Basket in Denville and bought some very luxurious chenille that I am knitting a face cloth with. It's this really great mossy green color and well yea it's just really great.
So apparently my pal sarah is coming out for a visit!!!! Next week!!!! I can't handle it i'm so excited.
Well it's just about my bedtime so I'd better clean up and get to sleep!
Merry Christmas. I'm waiting for Jon to get out of the downstairs bathroom so's I can go down and wrap his presents while he's up here wrapping mine. He's taking forever. I just finished cleaning up from dinner and my heels of my feet hurt bad. All in all dinner was ok. Here's my plus/minus list:
+garlic & onion green beans with ham - ACE!
+Christmas cookies, specifically the peanut butter kisses
- how much time it took to make said cookies
mashed red potatoes w/ butter & sour cream
really big pot made it impossible to mash all of the potatoes : (
- turkey not as beautiful and martha stewart-esque as last year
+turkey is turkey, bitches.
-boxed stuffing
+boxed stuffing
-didn't get the house cleaned all the way before guests arrived
+jon cleaned the bathrooms which ruled
-thin gravy
+tasted awesome even if there wasn't much to it
- hustling and bustling to get things done
-anti-climax, and inevitable disappointment that sets in once the party is over
+relaxing in the living room, listening to dean martin singing christmas songs
Welp, Jon is finally done. whew. Now I can go wrap his presents and go to bed! I'm so excited! ! !
Today is Christmas Eve, which has always been my most favorite day of the year. Devan's being a little rascal today. Right now she's taking a nap and Jon is cleaning the tub downstairs. Then I think he's going to the store to get rolls and green beans and some drinks or something. Our christmas dinner starts at 6:30. I'm making a turkey, which is in the oven right now, gravy, ooh I just reminded myself I have to start that stock, green beans, mashed potatoes, corn maybe, rolls, cranberry sauce, eh... I think that's it. I like my green beans when I don't burn them. they're really really good.
I am really tired and I would love to take a little nap, but unfortunately, we've not been preparing real well for this party tonight, so we've got a lot to do. We have to wrap gifts for people and get them under the tree. We have to clean our entire house and I have to put away all of the christmas cookie ingredients somewhere. I have no idea where to put them...
My stomache hurts. Probably ate too many pretzels.
I miss my family today. I wish I could have gone out for christmas or something this year. Later on before everyone gets here I'll probably go downstairs and watch my grandma & grampa's 50th anniversary tape and bawl my eyes out. That should get me in the holiday spirit.
Oh well it's time for me to get back to work. I still have to make a grocery list for Jon and start my gravy stock and clean the entire house and wrap presents..... yayy
Hello Stress! If I were a bottle of shampoo you could call me Stressume. whatever.
The past few days have blown big. Yesterday I was an idiot and didn't do anything at all because it was one of those things where you're too stressed, and have too much to do to even do anything correctly. So at about 5pm I decided to go christmas shopping for Jon. I bought him a few things. Nothing great.
Today was all about the christmas cookies. I made chocolate chip, peanut butter kisses, sugar cookies, kolachkies-threw them away cuz they were too doughy. And I made dough for gingerbread men but normally I have more patience because gingerbread dough is probably the stickiest stuff on earth. I'm not terribly thrilled with any of my cookies this year, but in a few minutes I'll be melting chocolate to make some chocolate covered pretzels, which are awesome. They should make up for everything that I screw up.
Tomorrow is Christmas Eve. I'm going to be making a turkey and that's always fun. Jon's going to have to go to the store for some rolls, beans, and I don't know what else. I am not going to think about it until tomorrow.
We're inviting some of Jon's family over, and also Joe.
Oh man am I going to be tired tomorrow. Stress... ughhh.... i better make sure my turkey is thawing properly. Sometimes my fridge is almost as cold as my freezer so who knows.
I forgot the other thing I was going to say here but it's not important I'm sure.
I finally finished the stupid scarf I was working on, and you know what? I hate it. I still have to wash it and put fringe on it, but i absolutely hate it.
Today I hope to make some cookies with Devan (not the homemade kind, but the kind you buy at the grocery store and just break apart and put in the oven). Last night Dev, Jon, and I went to the store. Dev had a miniature cart and was running all through the store (there weren't many customers) putting things in her cart, and the cookies happened to be one of those things. She looked hilarious running through the store.
I want to go to the knitting store today. I want to buy this:
to make myself a scarf. I don't have much time though. Party is tonight, my sweater is red and my peacoat is black, so I am virtually screwed. I also wanted brown shoes, but that didn't turn out so good either.
I'm having a bad week. School's over and naturally, I'm thrilled about that. However, Christmas is rapidly approaching, and poised to gobble me whole. I had grand designs of knitting some presents for a few people this year, and the only thing I've been working on, when I get a spare second, is my stupid scarf. I don't even like the thing anymore, and will probably never wear it. I've actually been working on 3 or 4 things so none are getting done. The first is the scarf I just mentioned. The second is a bag. I think the pattern is called Zeeby's bag, but personally i'm not crazy about it. When I had more energy I had the idea to take off the handles and extend the gusset and one of the side panels, do a skull and crossbones design and make myself a cute little messenger bag. I ran out of energy just thinking about the possibilities, so I'm going by the pattern just to get something accomplished. The third thing I am working on is a present for someone so I'm not saying what it is. The fourth is a pair of navy blue 2x2 ribbed socks. I have no idea when I'll get done with any of this. I probably won't. I have all this thick, beautiful, expensive Rowan yarn but I am terrified to use it on something dumb , so I keep going back to wool/acrylic blends because I'm afraid I'll mess something up.
I should just take pictures. I'm sure my entries are confusing and boring without them.
Ok. I'm in a bad mood now. I've had this pair of jeans that I bought, probably about the same week I got pregnant with Devan. I have worn them just about every day, minus the last two months of my pregnancy(I started showing finally at 7 months).Anyways, I washed them everytime I wore them because they only fit great for the first 2 or so hours of wearing, and then they stretch out. So they used to be dark blue and now they're really light blue. Totally comfortable. A Littttle thin through the front of the thighs, and they've been slowly wearing at the knees. Well I just ripped em. Ok I just made an entire paragraph about my jeans. This is outta control!
Jon's gonna be home soon and we're eating at the diner. I like going to the diner on Thursday nights. Then I like to watch ER. Ok he's here now! Bye!
I know I said I wasn't going to hold my breath about my dad coming out to visit for Christmas, but, I kind of was anyways because I guess my dad just brings out the 6 year old in me. So anyways, I don't think he's going to come so I am kind of bummed.
I still refuse to look at my gray on gray scarf. It's seriously like 10 inches from being finished and I just can't even bring myself to look at it. Instead I've started this cute black bag. I'm not sure what color yarn I want for the detailing but that doesn't even matter because I'm only finished with the gusset and one of the panels.
I'm kind of in a funk right now. I know finals are monday (unless we have snow) and that I should be thrilled, but I've got a lot going on and there's a lot on my mind. I am completely conflicted about this. Jon would get mad if I talked about it here so I won't.
I think I am roasting a turkey on Christmas eve. Hopefully I will be able to print out this amazing idea for an apron by that time so I can wear it while I roast it. That would be sweet.
Jon's in bed, which is good. What's bad is that I came upstairs to pout after I said something to the effect of " well I'm glad we got to have a nice discussion about ____(insert issue from two paragraphs up)." and he was like "JESUS PEGGY" because he was half asleep. So i told him to go to bed or something and he said no so I came upstairs. There's nothing like being well adjusted.
Nighty night.
Oh man, did I mention that I am getting sick again? I'm not sure if I have complained here yet and I'm too exhausted to read old entries. So yea, I am getting sick again. I was sick last week or the week before, I can't remember. Then Jon got sick, and then Devan got sick. This weekend Jon said he was getting a new sore throat, and then I started getting it again on Saturday or Sunday. I feel like hell. I came home early from class today. I missed math, but made sure to give this guy Ed my e-mail address so he could let me know what the homework is. He still has not e-mailed me, but big whoop, I can ask him wed. morning in Spanish.
This is my last real week of school. I am so excited! Monday (15th) is finals day and I will be finished !!!
I'm actually doing pretty well for not putting forth any effort at all. I am sure it comes across through my journal like I stress out about everything and study hard and stuff, but to be completely honest, OK:
History: I haven't gotten my grade back for my paper, but I did the bulk of the work back in September at like 3am on a Saturday morning. I typed it and proofread it the night before it was due. Every quiz and test in my class has been pretty much unprepared, like, I cram for it the night before. The reading, well, the reading is ridiculous. I keep finding myself 100 pages behind, but I mean whatever, I've been doing just fine on the tests.
Spanish: If I gave any effort at all to studying and making sure I understand things, I'd be doing much better. As of right now, I barely try. For example, I have really bombed a couple things. I completely forgot about a vocabulary quiz and got 3 right out of 10. Horrible. And I did horribly on a test because I was watching Carnivale while I was trying to take it. I made the same stupid mistake, forgetting indirect object pronouns throughout the entire test, giving me a 75%, which was boosted by my 100% on the oral test. So it really wasn't THAT bad. This is no effort at all, so if I wanna be pissed, I can be pissed at myself because I'm the one who's blowing my good grades by not trying. At the time that I bombed both of those things, I was seriously considering dropping all of my courses for the semester, so I kind of gave up for a few days...
Math: I have a horrible brain for math. I really enjoy algebra. I am a good problem solver when I understand the formula, in fact I love doing it. I am not a good problem solver when it comes to like, "here's the problem, figure out a way to solve it even if you aready know the answer" I suck at that. Also, because stuff sometimes seems simple, I tend to hurry through it and not want to go against my instincts, and I end up making really stupid mistakes, like I'll forget a negative sign or something dumb like that. So I haven't been doing that well in math.
Child Psych: my crowning glory. Just for the record, I've not read a single sentance in this book and use it more as a writing surface than as a tool to do well in this class. Ok, I've gotten A's on both exams and a 100% on my writing assignment about Joey and the red shoes. Also, I got my grade back on my research paper. I got an A-. Ok, here's the thing. The paper was complete BS. The research was totally weak. I wrote, proofread, printed, proofread again, and reprinted the paper in 3.5 hours the day before it was due. I will admit that the instructor wrote on comments on my paper, such as " your research is a little weak" but seriously, why the A- then?
This really annoying girl apparently did horribly on her paper and took it really personally and cried and then stormed out of the classroom. IT WAS HILARIOUS. Ok, not the bad grade part, cuz I felt bad for her about that, but she's really irritating and a complete moron, and she is constantly being rude and having conversations while the instructor is lecturing. She also is grossed out by little kids with toilet training issues. Here is me quoting her " I just want to teach them, I don't want to potty train them ! GROSS!" Wow. Yea, I am hoping she changes her mind about being an elementary school teacher. Basically she was throwing a fit tonight, first she was tapping on her desk being rude mumbling about 'when is our break?' she's also the girl who wants to leave at 8:50 even though the class doesn't end til 9:10. I seriously can't stand her, and even worse, everyone keeps mistaking me for her because we had similar hair before I got mine cut and we're both constantly wearing gray hoodies.
I am on the last part of my scarf. I have to do a couple more stripes and then it's finished. I can't even look at it right now though because i am so sick of it. I started a black and pink bag today instead, to keep me busy. Maybe I'll give it away as a present, because I want a bag like it, but I think I want to modify the pattern so that instead of two handles it has one long strap and a flap like a messenger bag. I also might make a design on the flap . I have no idea. Basically I am really tired and I am having a lot of anxiety about somethign right now so it's making it hard for me to sleep soundly.
I need to go to the yarn shop in sparta. also they started the bear hunt. I saw a pic on the internet of a dead bear here in vernon. How sad. Oh well, hey now we can build even more condos where the bears live! yay! Also, snow stinks. I hate winter.
I cannot believe that it's already the 5th of December! There are only 20 days til Christmas and I am never going to be ready for it. I have some great ideas for stuff, but no real funds to make it happen. I would do some knitting projects for a few people but I've been working on my own scarf for a month now whenever I get a chance and I still have 20 inches or so left to knit.
I'm making chili in preperation for the snow. I wish I'd gone to the store and bought a couple things like hot chocolate and some more tea bags. I have some crappy ones but yuck. I also wish I'd taken my turkey out of the freezer the other day so I could make it tomorrow or something. Durnit!
I was planning to spend the evening with Jon, he was gonna come home at 3 or so, and i haven't heard from him so who knows... Man I am tired and I want to fall asleep on the couch.
Thursday was thanksgiving. I went to the store at about 8 am and bought stuff to bake mini muffins to take over to Jon's grandmother's house. I made chocolate, blueberry, and chocolate chip. We watched some parade on tv and made fun of it, and then we all got dressed and to grandmother's house we went. When we got home, I think time went by really really fast. I can't even remember what happened.
Friday we were laying in bed and Jon's phone started ringing like 4 times in a row and he had to go into work to do some junk for someone. I stayed home and I think I knitted and cleaned, I can't remember. He picked up paint for our family room on the way home, and also some chinese food! After dinner we peeled off the creepy porno mirrors from the family room walls and primed them, and then I watched Conan O'Brian.
Saturday morning we woke up early and put a coat of paint on the walls and I started cleaning and taking a shower and drying my hair and that kind of stuff. Then After my shower I got really angry at Jon for not getting up because we were supposed to go to Ikea in Paramus but he was laying on the couch watching Rugrats with Devan so I got really mad and refused to get off the couch, and I fell asleep in the paint fumes.
Well finally I woke up and we went to Ikea and we had burger king. We got some tables and a couple little candles and stuff. The tables are kind of expensive for Ikea, but I refuse to go cheap in that store, because when you buy cheap things from Ikea, you end up with crap. (exhibit a. kitchen table). So we brought our stuff home and then we put it together. These tables are sturdy mofo's. I like them a lot. I'm actually pretty happy w/ my purchases.
I saw a bunch of stuff I wanted from there for my bedroom. We have yet to touch our bedroom. I kind of want to finish our upstairs and downstairs paint jobs before we move on to the bedroom. I already know what we're doing in there. We're putting up some sort of a divider between the staircase and our bed. The walls are going to be white. White sheets, 2 tan colored pillow shams, white down comfortor, tan colored throw. Window coverings will be white roman shades, and possibly heavy white drapes. I want shelving around the room, I think in white. I'm not sure about that. On the other side of my bedroom I will have a wall unit that I design myself for all of my craft/art materials, a desk large enough for writing/laptop use. I need long flat drawers for watercolor paper and canvases. I need deep shelves for baskets of yarn and a shelf on wheels for my sewing machine. I want the wall unit to at least be half the length of the wall, probably situated in the middle. We need a new ceiling fan in there also. and I'd like to hang some of those big bulbous pendand lamps of varying sizes in clusters in my room. Yea..I'm being boring right now...
My brother came over today! I didn't think he actually would but he did!
(Nov 19)
I've been asked to make a Christmas wish list, so here it is. Click on
Santa to view it!
(Dec 11)
I am unable to sleep, so I took time to make the blog archives work. of course, images that were on old yahoo server do not work anymore (read: anything before April 2005) so you'll have to use your imagination. Check the sidebar for a link if you're interested.
.......................
(Nov 22)
There. I finally did it. Now go buy me stuff:)
.......................
(Nov 7)Take note of the changes along the right sidebar. I've been reading blogs, and that, of course, means joining knitalongs!
However my next task (which will be my next announcement)
is to create a holiday wishlist, as there have been several people asking for one.
.......................
(Aug 6) Hi guys, How cute is this: I have a new little niece!! Bryan and Mandie's little girl was born last Sunday (I think)
and in the spirit of utter ridiculousness, I give you, Madelyn dancing.
.......................
(June
1) Here is a little picture. Obviously, these are BF5 lyrics.
.......................
(May
23) Sup dudes? I was kinda bored last night, so I made a picture.
again. only tell me if you like it. I have a fragile ego.
.......................
(May
14) Going through a wave of depression. Don't feel like
doing anything except artwork. Here are a couple
pictures I made. You may have seen them, since they're
meant for my websites. If you've seen them as background
images, excuse the tiling, I'm fixing it when I feel
like it.
if you like them, let me know. if you don't, keep it to
yourself.
.......................
(April 28) Ok... I've been on hiatus. Bear with me and
my broken links and pictures while I move all my junk
around.
Life is good and I'm glad my site is working again.
.......................
(Jan 11) Due to real life
pals/family complaining about how little real life
content there is in this journal, I'm going to make a
real effort to include that stuff, and not just knitting
stuff. I hope this pleases you guys.
.......................
(Jan 10) Today is the
anniversary of my Grampa's death. We still miss you so
much.
.......................
(Jan 4) Congratulations
Michael & Tiffany!!
Welcome to the family,
Tif!
.......................
(Dec 30) Just two quick
notes today:
1. We've got another
completed Casey's Coat.
click to see Vito!
2. I'll be out of town
for about 3 weeks. My brother, Mike, is getting married!
After that I'm going to be house sitting for my mom
while she is out of town. This will not have an affect
on you or my blogging, I just felt like sharing.
.......................
(Dec 2) My brother has
been making me some pretty cool knitting charts. I think
they're mighty awesome and I'm trying to figure out a
project I can use them for. They're pdf files, except
the first one (which is actually not his design, it's
the work of someone on myspace.com) so go ahead and have
at them. If he makes many more charts, I'll disable the
links and offer the chart patterns for a small fee via
paypal, because, after all, it is his art work and he
deserves compensation!
click the images to view full sized charts: 2nd & 3rd images ?2004 R. Wuebker
.......................
(Nov 28)My little sister is a knittin' fool. We shopped
all over for some good needles for her. She's been using
these kids plastic-y needles that I find to be really
uncomfortable and annoying. We tried some aluminum
needles but they were too slick and long. We finally
settled on some Clover Bamboo needles and from what I
have heard, she likes them the best. She's working on a
lavender scarf. I'll have my mom take a pic so I can
post it here.
.......................
(Nov 28) I'm back! Christmas Knitting and yarn stash
enhancement is in full effect in this house. There's a
new(?) Knitting/Fabric store in the town my mom lives
in. It's called Sew Krazy. image is property of sew-krazy.com
They are currently squeezed in a tiny location just
chock full of amazing stuff! They have a whole shelf of
Kaffe Fasset fabrics, which you know I loved. They
had lots of yarn by Rowan and Brown Sheep. They didn't
have any Debbie Bliss. The shop is working on expanding
in a new location, equipped with a beautiful fireplace
(My mom and I peeked through a hole in the door) and
it's HUGE. This place was great and there's a cafe
called Muddy Waters next door. So this place will be
perfect to sit down, relax, drink coffee, and knit by
the fireplace when I go out to visit for 3 weeks in
January. The building is also really beautiful and
contains many other interesting shops. Check it out if
you're ever nearby.
.....................
(Nov 18)Last year for Christmas, Mr. Handsome gave me an
EZ Stir. If you haven't got a clue what an easy-stir
is, (consider yourself lucky) it's a device that
attaches to your pots and pans and stirs your sauces for
you! Ingenious! I have still not taken the EZ Stir out
of its package. This year, I thought I'd make it easy on
my husband and anyone else who wishes to shower me with
gifts.
......................
(Nov 17)Looking for unique cards to send out this
Holiday season?
Check out
Loobylu
and Darling
Studio for some fabulous and unique holiday cards.
