I guess I'll just take a moment to update. I'm waiting for Jon to get home from work (it's already 12:40am) and he's 2 hours later than he said he'd be.
I finished Devan's short-sleeved sweater tonight. I'll take a picture or 2 tomorrow. I'm not completely happy with it yet. It needs a smaller, coordinated button in the back, and there is a spot on the front where my gauge got a little messed up (it's like 2 or 3 stitches) because I dropped a stitch. I'm not, under any circumstances, ripping back to fix it. I actually don't LIKE the weight of the yarn enough to care. I will try it again in 4ply soft or something. Or Lurex so it's fancy. I might embroider a flower over the spot so no one can tell it's there.
I woke up early this morning and caught Fox and Friends. I could NOT believe what I heard a representative from the Bush/Cheney camp out in Ohio say.
They were debating about the election intimidation and challenging, and the other guest - I think it was Jerry Springer, of all people, was saying that basically this intimidation and long lines it causes, lead to people not voting. The other guy says "These people don't seem to have a problem waiting in long lines for their welfare checks and foodstamps"
I found it completely insulting. I'm feeling intimidated to go to the booths, simply because I am shy and I can't stand confrontation. Oh and was that some kind of slip-up? Poor people are the ones that the republicans will be targeting? Oh well.
I didn't watch The Apprentice, ER, or The Daily Show tonight. Must be the full moon (which, unfortunately woke me up this morning at 5:45, because it was shining right in my eyes.)
For tonight, er, this morning (I can't believe it's 3:30 already) I will update you on knitting and knitting alone!
For the last few months I've been doing a row here and there on this sweater out of Simple Knits for Little Cherubs:
Tonight I finished the front. So now I've got a front and a back and no batteries in my camera to take a picture. I'm knitting this sweater in red merino wool that I recycled from a sweater I bought for $1.00 at Goodwill.
In other knitting news, I'm eying another pattern from the Simple Knits for Little Cherubs book as my introduction to fairisle.
I'm not going to make this in Devan's current size because it's all on size 1, 2, and 3 needles. It calls for Jaeger matchmaker. I'm still thinking about it but I know it would look darling on her.
Pooling scarf is ALMOST finished. It's almost as tall as me (I'm 5'4")Goodnight!
When I listen to George W. Bush speak, or when I read articles that quote him, I can't help but feel offended. Bush talks to the American people as though we are all morons. I am tired of hearing him say that John Kerry can run from his record but he cannot hide. Please, Mr. President. Please. What is it that he cannot run and hide from? his tax record? Check the facts. Being the most liberal person ever in the entire world (first of all who cares)? It's just not true.
I'm also sick and tired of hearing him say His administration is the party of hope. No. This administration has been nothing but the party of doom and gloom and terror alert levels to keep us all in line and so scared of terrorism that we don't want to pay attention to anything else. This administration is also, in the name of fighting terrorism, creating more terrorists! We are not making friends with this war.
another thing I am tired of is the way that el stupido can't seem to get it through his head that John Kerry DID see Sadam as a threat, and supported war with Iraq under the conditions that the president promised the American people. Can Kerry BE more clear on this subject. War should be fought as a last resort. Not as a pre-emptive measure. Maybe we should have let the inspectors finish the job, so the news of Iraq not having weapons of mass destruction wouldn't have come as such a surprise to the president. When Kerry says wrong war wrong place wrong time - He means that this war is wrong. It didn't have to be. It could have been handled the way the President promised, but it was not. Which is why people like kerry did NOT support the money for body armor (yea yea, he wanted to arm the troops with spitballs)
I seriously don't understand that I can sit here thinking to myself, they've not proven that there are weapons there so it doesn't make sense to 'shock and awe' them. But the president can't admit that they might have made a bit of a mistake. No, let's blame the faulty intelligence. Bullshit Bush. Blame yourself. Admit your mistakes. How do you sleep at night when you pass off the blame (kind of like Stacy on The Apprentice.)to everyone else but yourself. Am I completely nuts in thinking that if I were in a situation where something BAD happened, I would apologize even if it WERENT my fault. For no other reason than because I would FEEL guilt anyways. No, that's not how our president thinks. How can we expect the children of this country to grow up and be willing to admit and learn from mistakes when our president provides an awesome example of someone who never has to. Oh well, here's to hoping that like Stacy, who was fired by The Donald last week, the American people will wise up and fire this guy.
Gosh. Anyways. I am so sick of politics and lies on both sides I could just throw up. I keep having annoying dreams about elections. It's really getting to me. I worked on my pooling scarf tonight. I am almost finished with it. I still can't find my batteries. I want to start something new but If I do I won't ever finish this scarf and at this point It would be really sad not to finish it. Oh well. That's all for now.
My dad's baby is born! and she's home from the hospital!
I just talked to him. Her name is Abby. She was a month early, due to being in distress @ the last dr. visit. She's completely healthy and weighs 5 lbs. My dad called her a little bag of sugar. Which brings me to my next topic: Baby Knitting!
I thought I'd give my dad the heirloom dress with some booties. Now I am thinking of doing a blanket with an intarsia design of the Domino's sugar logo or maybe a blanket meant to look like a bag of sugar or something...
*yawn* that's it for now. I need to find batteries for my camera. I have some progress pics to take of the pooling scarf and devan's red sweater and the perfect pie shawl.
I do NOT know what planet Karen Hughes is on! If George W. Bush won a 'decisive victory' tonight, then slap my ass and call me Sally.
I've tried to be objective... but my 3 year old daughter has better grammar and pronounciation skills than the president. Is it so much to ask that he be able to speak english? That you do not cringe every time he speaks? My husband covers his eyes and makes whiny little noises when Bush speaks. It is insane that we even NEED to have an election. He doesn't even NEED Kerry to make him look bad. All he has to do is open his mouth and jibberjabber about something.
In other news, I did some seaming today. I attached the front left panel, left arm and back of my unspun jacket. I've concluded that I'll probably never wear it. It's called 'from the hip' for a reason, and I should've ordered an extra cake of the white buffalo unspun and added like 5 more inches to the fronts and back in order to make it longer.
I also worked on my Perfect Pie Shawl (weekend knitting) The color I chose is gorgeous, the pattern is fun and easy, and it's going quite well.
Jon, Dev, and I are probably heading over to Rhinebeck this weekend. I convinced them it will be a fun ride and we can see all the pretty leaves. Who am I kidding? I just want to buy yarn and do some knit-blogger spotting.
Well that's it for tonight. I'll leave you with a photo of my beautiful view outside of my home.
I never thought my husband's hairy legs would make an appearance in it.
Tonight I was a woman on a mission. After playing a fun game of catch with Devan and Jon, I snuck out (that's the way it has to be with little miss 'don't leave without me!') and got some sustinence* and came back to watch the HBO special Alexandra Pelosi's Diary of a Political Tourist (follows the Democratic campaign trail for 2 years) and finish that damned sock. I had about 4 inches to go and I just whipped the hell out of it. At 1am I woke up my beloved, who was passed out on the couch, and told him to go to bed. Before He left I forced him to pose in his new socks.
Yesterday was, in my opinion, the first "fall" day. We sat around for awhile, and Devan and Jon played Dora the Explorer on the computer. Then went to Barnes & Noble so I could check out Knit Wit. I didn't buy it because the only patterns I liked were already free on Knitty.com. I also checked out Scarf Style and Simple Crochet. I want both of those.
After we went to B&N, we hurried over to the Knitting Basket. I held back and only bought 1 skein of yarn : Goddess Yarns Emmanuella. Remember my BLUE SURPRISE project? Well, I don't like the drape of the yarn I substituted with, so I might just go ahead and buy the 22 skeins of Emmanuella to knit the blue surprise (except it will be pink) and be done with it. I love knitting with this yarn. It was funny, we took a drive to Morristown so I could find Accent on Knits (it's where the closest s n' b is) and I knit up a swatch with some addi's (16" #8's, the other thing I bought)and I kept raving to Jon about how wonderful the yarn was and well.. he didn't care and it was funny.
When we got home, Jon and Jason played video games and watched Mad Max and I sewed the buttons and pockets on Dev's seed stitch jacket. Jon chose the buttons and I'm not sure I like them, but for now, until I find something better, they're staying.
Today I tried to convince my daughter that it's OK for her to be away from me. I think I may have mentioned this before - She's been EXTREMELY clingly lately. Normally I wouldn't mind in the least, because I love being around her, but it has gotten to the point where I can't even go out to get the mail without her yelling and screaming because she thinks I've abandoned her. I don't know where she got this idea that I'm going to leave her. She refuses to go over to my mother-in-law's tonight, since she understands that her Daddy and I might be going to a movie or something. Well that wasn't the plan. Basically I wanted to make a nice dinner at home and relax and watch a movie here, with him. + candles and champagne. No, no reason really. I just haven't seen him much lately and it's a real downer. So I thought we could use some time away, and since we can't afford to go on a little weekend adventure, I thought the next best thing would be to get a babysitter. Well it's a no-go. She refuses. I don't get it. So we're not doing anything, except maybe ordering chinese take-out.
Devan's finally taking a nap, due to the fact that we both slept extremely late. I cannot believe that I went to bed at midnight last night and got up so late. Do you know how GOOD it feels to get more than 4 hours of sleep? Jon woke me up at 6:30 because he couldn't find his jogging shorts, and I thought I'd have trouble going back to sleep, but as it turns out I didn't.
I just taught myself the magic loop method, or whatever, to knit socks. I actually have no problem using DPN's, but I did this out of necessity. I need my US #2's for finishing up the teaparty stuff. I actually don't WANT to finish the teaparty stuff, but I'm so close to the end that I might as well. Devan's already traipsed off with the rest of the set, so there will probably not be any finished pictures, unless I can track them all down. I just need to make a couple saucers and lids (and if I'm feeling ambitious, I'll go ahead and make 2 pink teacups so that the set is 'cohesive' (i hate that word. When Jon and I were first living together, we were sitting at the diner where these 2 young people were having a heated debate of some sort, and this nerdy fellow kept saying how things needed to be cohesive and it drove Jon and I completely nuts. We still joke about it.)
I dont' think I've got anything else to report today. Hmm... My tiny felt animals book has still not arrived. Much to my chagrin. It's the best book I bought, and it's the last to arrive. I have to make a visit to patternworks.com, and buy some lopi-lite, and maybe some brown sheep naturespun for a few different christmas presents. In fact, I also want to run to the Knitting Basket for some addi's and some Goddess Yarns Emmanuella, but not until my check arrives from Debbie SToller (if I made it into the book *fingers crossed*) and I need to buy some bulky yarn from Elann to make the Tartan Jacket from the fall IWK. I have so much to do that I will end up not doing. Oh well. Little by little.
I turned on Amelie while working on my pooling scarf, just for some background noise... I always need something going on in the background while working on this scarf. Now that the colors are lining up and the lace pattern is established.... it's painfully boring. I wish I could pay someone to finish it for me.
Back to Amelie. DO you know how muchhhh I love this movie? From the scene where Amelie turns into a puddle, until she and Nino are riding on the bike through the streets, I am all teary and choked up. I have seen it about a million times and it still gets to me every time.
And Mathieu Kassovitz... He's so beautiful it hurts.
Last night I went to bed at MIDNIGHT. Can you believe that?!?!?
It's amazing. I woke up at 6:55, and Jon was still in bed, so I nudged him. Turns out he was oversleeping and got to work late. Then Devan came down to my bed (her favorite thing to do) and we laid there watching cartoons (I fell asleep and she ate cereal and got crumbs in my bed). It's nice laying there with her cuz she's so cuddly.
Jon's asleep on the middle of the couch, all curled up. He's so cute like a little boy. He looks amazing though (smokin' even!). Since June he's lost about 50 lbs, from eating right, drinking lots of water, and jogging with Lily every morning (except not today, due to lateness). I wish his energy would motivate me to do SOMETHING and get active, but as I've complained in every post lately... it's the meds not me. (there's always a scapegoat. always).
Inspired by Alison's post about the pool-along, I've been working on mine again. I made some good progress and no mistakes (knock on wood) during CSI NY and of course, The Daily Show.
I hate this feeling I get at night - it's bedtime, people! So why do I feel inspired to sew?
Jon surprised me by buying me Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind tonight on the way home from the office. Isn't he the sweetest?
i am so exhausted. I feel like I never sleep, knowing full well that I DO, indeed, sleep. But my sleep consists of me dosing off, having a very vivid bad dream (one where I must ease my jaws apart because they are so clenched- to the point of being afraid I'm going to break a tooth or something) and not being able to divorce the feelings in my dreams from reality, and waking up feeling helpless and miserable.
My dreams are usually not about anything. I mean, yes, there's a storyline. Usually it makes sense except for a few weird details that I overlook because they make sense once I've reasoned them out. But what I mean is that I the FEELING I get from the dream is usually the only thing I remember. Lately it's been just extreme sadness and dispair. Or hopelessness and disappointment. They all have the same feeling but with very different storylines. From me accidentally voting for Bush, to me being an Afghan woman horribly abused by the local authority, to witnessing hatecrimes but being unable to do anything to stop them, to Jon loving someone else (which is bad enough) but the complete lack of compassion at my devestation is what really gets me in the dreams.
I am so embarrassed. Last night I was reading the silliest book (a Jane Green novel if you must know *blushing*) and I just could not seperate myself & jon from the story. When the man seemed so, gosh, heartwrenchingly sad, I just started crying and crying. I NEVER cry at books. EVER. and it ruined the rest of the book for me. I could barely stand to finish the book. I shouldn't have because it was a waste of time and I couldn't get over the first part.
Obviously this is being caused by my medication. Right?! !!It's so wierd how taking a tiny pill every day can upset normal routines. As time goes on, I think the cons are starting to outweigh the pros and I'll have to speak to my dr. about this. I saw the light at the end of the tunnel for what, a month? And now it's back into the belljar.
I'm not feeling particularly crafty today. In fact, I feel like shit.
I started the perfect pie shawl. and ripped. and started. and ripped. and threw it down in frustration. and went to the store. and stared at it from across the room. and went to sleep. and worked on it again. and ripped. and restarted. and ripped and finally got the hang of it but dropped a stitch somewhere. and ripped. and got the hang of it and didn't drop a stitch and then realized, horrified, that I'd totally misinterpretted the 'repeat' part of the pattern. and ripped... and now there's a sad blue ball of mohair sitting on the couch by itself. (and there's fuzz all over my pajamas and inside of my lungs.) Well, now I know what to do. Knowledge is power.
I can't believe it's fall. It's still in the 60's here, even in the evening. It still looks summery outside.
I haven't put the face on my tiny lab yet. She's still waiting on smaller eyeballs. Maybe I'll just embroider it. I went to Ben Franklin over in Sussex, and bought 5 or 6 big peices of fur and fleece and felt. I'm excited about making all kinds of puppies. What I'm really excited about is my felt animal book, which has not yet arrived.
I really have to start treating this stuff like it is a job. I need to get up in the morning and force myself to open my sketchbook and work on ideas. I need to get a sewing table set up, and get busy on my blanket ideas... I have so many ideas for lovely blankets.ahhh...... And I really need to get busy with knitting. With as much money as I have spent on this craft, I need to really start finishing things. I still haven't sewn the buttons on Devan's jacket or the heirloom dress. I fear completion.
Oh well. It's either bedtime or showertime. I haven't decided what I'm doing tonight.
My amazon.jp order came today!!! What fast service! I wasn't expecting it until the middle of the month. I'm totally in love with all of the books. 2 were not what I expected but I was pleasantly surprised at how ADORABLE they were (one even had stickers in it). I can wholeheartedly say that I am in love with Mame Wanko! I got 2 books and I'm smitten. Earlier this afternoon (like right after I got the mail) I began working on a chihuahua out of cotton remnants I had laying around. Just to test the patterns, you know? Well I had a hard time with the fraying ends, so I got discouraged. So Tonight at around 11:30 or so, I grabbed some dark brown felt and got to work, and here's as far as I got:
This photo was photoshop lightened, to show detail. Unfortunately you can't see the slouchy lab ears very well. I haven't had time to make the collar or face. I'm trying to locate some beads that the patterns call for - can't find them at the craft store. All in all, I'm pleased. It's the tiniest little dog. I really liked sewing it.
Jons car died tonight in parsippany so we spent all night getting towed, and finding each other. Not too fun. We didn't get home until 10:30 or so. I worked on the perfect pie shawl for a few minutes. I was having trouble concentrating on the lace pattern though, so I'll have to deal with the nightmare of frogging MOHAIR. wonderfuL!
I played the Sims 2 last night for awhile. Unfortunately, the nanny I hired wouldn't leave, and we were afraid to kick her out (in the game, I mean) and she eventually went nuts and kept screaming and wouldn't leave the baby's room. She also smelled really bad and kept peeing on the floor and falling asleep standing up. Fortunately my computer froze and the game didn't save.
Disregard my previous post - I've been kind of down because I can't sleep and I hardly have seen my husband lately. He's been working so much, and I've been kind of lonely and feeling neglected. I'm better now, though. I still can't sleep, but I'm getting used to it and making progress in other areas.
I've got a pretty decent design for the new website, and I'm happy about that. I've been doing LOTS of drawing lately. I've also been consumed by my mac. It's totally nice and I can't believe we got it free. I downloaded almost 6000 fonts today. I also downloaded photoshop, macromedia flash & dreamweaver, microsoft office, umm... lots of songs by the 5678's (who played in hoboken tonight, darnit)
Oh, just for clarifications sake, I haven't gone to bed yet, so I'm still thinking friday is 'today' and thursday was 'yesterday'. I don't feel like going back and fixing that.
(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.
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(Nov 22)
There. I finally did it. Now go buy me stuff:)
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(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.
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(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.
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(June
1) Here is a little picture. Obviously, these are BF5 lyrics.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(Jan 10) Today is the
anniversary of my Grampa's death. We still miss you so
much.
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(Jan 4) Congratulations
Michael & Tiffany!!
Welcome to the family,
Tif!
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(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.
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(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
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
