Talents I didn't know

I just discovered that I am "bi-stitchual".  Is that not the coolest thing.  I didn't even knbow this word existed.  It means I can knit and crochet both.  That's like being double-jointed which I am that too, but I was born that way and I had to learn how to be bistitchual. 

I like to make up new words.  For example lupper is when you have a meal in the middle of the afternoon instead of lunch and supper.  Lupper.  One can eat only two meals a day if they have brunch and lupper instead of breakfast, lunch and dinner.  Oddly enough I can't think of other words I've made up.  I suspect that I use them often enough that they no longer seem made up to me!  I know there's a web site where you can see new words made up by other people but I've lost it.  If anyone knows what it is let me know.  It was really fun to read. 

Still knitting on "Spring is in the Air".  I've got to pay better attention to my pattern.  I leave out yo's or drop stitches and have to tink back and re-knit.  I guess I've only been working on it for about a month but it seems like forever. 

And doing a little wedding planning.  They're doing most of their own planning but I get to help a little bit.

just out of my mind...

Today I was driving down I-235 and a car getting on just barged over into my lane--not staying in her own lane at all and not looking.  If I hadn't been watching carefully, I would have hit her.  I slammed on the brakes and hit the horn and she flipped me off!!!  I couldn't believe it--she  cut me off nearly caused a wreck and blamed me!!  I swear.

Well guys are finally coming by to look at my roof.  That terrible hail storm we had in May totaled my roof which was only 3 months old. All the roofers have been so busy that they are just now making it by to give me estimates.  I have to get new siding too.  I really could use some down time.  My brain is exhausted with all the thnking and decision making I have to do these days. 

Rich seems to have settled in pretty well-did I already tell you that?  He's always happy to see me but it's okay when I leave too.  Sad...the long slow death. 

I'm knitting a "Spring is in the Air" shawlette.  It's crescent shaped, I like those better than triangles.  I'm using pink Lorna's Laces sock yarn and clear beads with a pink cast.  It's really going to be pretty and I'm enjoying the project too.  I'm really hooked on lace and the beads just add so much.

Did I mention that Kacie and Jimmy are getting married? In October.  I'm glad for them. 

I'm reading "Skein of the Crime" by Maggie Sefton.  It's okay, very light.  Her first few books weren't all that good but it's a knitting mystery and it fills a niche.  She's getting much better--has progressed to hardbacks from the paperbacks.  Monica Ferris also writes a needlework series and I really like her.  So many books, so little time.  I'm listening to James Pattrerson in  the car and I've got Debbie Macomber waiting on me.  Also Earlene Fowler, Carolyn Hart, and Susan Wittig Albert.   Like I said....

Well just thought I'd ramble on a bit, pretty quiet around here, stay tuned.....toodles, Anita

It's very white

It's very white outside and very cold and very windy. So much of all these things that basically all Christmas Eve Services in town nhave been cancelled. And that just doesn't happen in the Bible Belt. We personally have been in all day snug as a bug in a (knitted of course) rug. And also of course the tv stations were ecstatic 'cause they got to do "Blizzard 2009" coverage all. day. long. B o r i n g. The malls are going to be screaming cause they all had to shut down early although I heard some newscast person suggesting they stay open and let people who are stranded come in for warmth and sleeping. Not a completely bad idea I guess.

I finally decided to put up a tree and bought a really cute little 4 ft. artificial tree that I think will do me for the rest of our lives with lights already on it. White lights aren't my favorite but I'm planning to replace them with colored bulbs. (bulbettes? they're so tiny) However the Christmas are in storage in the shed out back and I can't get to it cause the snow has drifted up again the door, so...the lights may be the only decorations on it! There is one lone crocheted snowflake on it that I found on the floor and am really not sure where it came from?

I won some more of the lottery. Yesterday while grocery shopping I cashed in the previous winning ticket and bought another one (thereby reducing my previous winnings to $8) and glory be I won another $12. I may just win a whole million $12 at a time!! Stranger things have happened....maybe.

I'm working diligently on Mom's red shawl in hopes of having it finished by Monday to give to her when we go up for my aunt's funeral but I don't know if I will.

Okay think I'll go now. Sweet dreams of reindeers and a fat man in a red suit and world peace and sugarplums. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.....

Relaxed and calm....

I had a really wonderful relaxing weekend. Some shopping, some knitting, some hotel time (kids were staying at the house and I needed to get away), some time with close friends, and had I known the hotel had a swimming pool and a hot tub I would have stuck in a bathing suit. I figured they probably frowned on skinny dipping. Not that I would have done that but....which brings me to the realization that I'm going to be over 59 in a few months and there's a whole list of things I haven't done yet. Probably most of them aren't good for me but shucky-darn you never know. Oh well perhaps a subject for another post. Back to my week-end--it could not have been better. And Richard had a great time at Bryan's so we were both in a contented stupor Sunday afternoon!

I've got to take some pictures of FO's, I've finished a couple things lately, the scarf and the Heartbeat Sweater.

Just two more weeks in the boot then I hope I'm well. I decided a few days ago I was tired of having a broken leg and it was time for it to heal. So I put down the crutches and started walking on it-in the boot of course. It gets tired and I rest and I've become good at asking total strangers to hold my hand and help me down steps! Actually I've always talked to strangers. One can develop lasting friendships while standing in long lines--post office, UPS, voting, entry competition place at State Fair, etc.

I got home from work about 5:00pm and Rich wasn't here. By 6:30 I was worried and had called a couple people looking for him and I decided to get in the car and go look for him. He likes to walk and he's not getting lost (yet) but he's going farther and farther away. Last week he walked the 5 miles from our house to my office downtown. I'd just put the key in the ignition when a van honking loudly pulled up in front of the house and the driver yelled "I've got something that belongs to you" and he got out. I'm looking at some adult day care places to put him. They are expensive and it's scary and I also feel like I'm taking away his freedom and reducing his quality of life, but who knows? he might love it there?! It's going to reduce the quality of my life too now that I think about it. Have you ever wondered why you were born? In the Bible it says that we were "knit" in our mother's womb for a specific purpose and you just gotta think "hmmmm?". toodles