Uh...

Today I am presenting a gavel and sounder to the new Wings of Freedom Society, NSC.A.R. and I am supposed to give a speech. Uh, I have no idea what I am going to say at this thing, I have drawn a complete blank. My mind is telling me that it has no clue what is going to happen, other than me stammering something out. So, what to do? Relax, breathe, and order a tequila shot, it might make me loquacious. I hope.

I need to take a picture of myself in all of my finery for this thing. I am decked out in my pearls and my emeralds. The emeralds are my birthday stone and I am wearing the bracelet Gary bought for me for my first Christmas with him. He knew to buy nice jewelry. :) Good boyfriend back then and good hubby now.

Button Making

Today I have spent most of the day working on the new buttons for the CAR kids. They have their organizing meeting tomorrow, I get to present at the meeting. I also have to say a few words about their new chapter. I have no idea what to say. I guess thinking on my feet will do the trick.

No knitting happening right now, no time for that. I took a little break from button making but, I have to get back to it.

Have a wonderful and safe weekend.

Breather

I have been working on skinny scarves with my hand painted yarns. I have my little machine, I crank by hand and it makes these wonders. I even made myself one. It is awesome in merino/silk. I use my hand painted yarns for this and I am telling you, amazing scarves, they are so nice.

I have to fill up the left front tire on Stewie, it has an issue, I can't decide if the valve stem is having issues or I ran over something. No telling.

It is finally cold here. It got down to 38 last night. Oooee! Talk about freezing my booty off...Gary actually turned on the heater for that one. Okay so, the heater is set on 68. We have to save money. Big time!

I told him last night that I have yet to find his Christmas gift and I need to find my family gift. We have a limit this year of $20. I usually spend over that amount. Not this year. I have limited the amount of kids I am buying for as well. I did manage to find a doll for each of the young nieces at a reasonable amount, it was under $20 for a very nice doll. It pays to know where to shop.

My limit this year for each kid was $20. No more, I can't afford it this year with that damn pay cut. It has been interesting in making ends meet but, we are doing it.

Good news...Melinda and Mike are keeping their house. It has been refinanced, I am guessing there are too many people in foreclosure so, the banks are willing to work with people. Thank you God for this! It has taken a lot of worry off of my mind. :)

Tonight is knitting night but, I am not going. I have no energy to go and knit with the ladies. I am antisocial right now. Big time. I will be out on Thursday night for my meeting. I figure one time a week is great for this!

Not much else going on. I have to get my sister to try on the mitten before I continue knitting on the second one. I want to make sure it fits on her hand before I start the second one intensely.

Have a wonderful week.

Dolls

Melinda mentioned to me that Maribeth wants a doll for Christmas. I started looking for one, I looked and then nearly fell out of my chair. Are you ready for this? A simple baby doll is $50! That doll better be able to talk, walk, eat and poop for that kind of money. I can't believe the price tag on them.

So, what to do? I am still searching and it looks like the one place that will have the best prices will get my business otherwise, forget it!

Back to looking.

Ta Da, One Done!

Here is the first mitten done. I finished it tonight. I love this design, I just wish it were bigger so, it would fit my hand. I really want to do another one of this pattern but, in a different color scheme.
I cast on for the second one and I am really cruising on it. I used KP Palette for my yarn choice, it works well and it is soft after washing it. It is very economical as well. Perfect for the tight budget. I generally buy two skeins of it since I always buy extra, just in case because nothing sucks more than running out of yarn in the middle of a project. Frogging is not an option in this house. I hate to frog.
I used my size 3 Addi turbo circulars on this project and they work great for all mittens. :)

Pus

Sounds disgusting but let me tell you, I am excited to see pus on my foot. It means it is finally healing! I asked Gary to please help me drain it and we were prepared or at least I thought I was, talk about freaking pain! I nearly came off of the bed. I had to get him to stop since it hurt so badly. So, I washed it right away with the hibiclenz and then we put neosporin on it and a bandage. I am hoping this will help it to ooze more of the infection out.

I also invested in a multi-vitamin and let me tell you, I woke up feeling great this morning, no tiredness, nothing. I am thinking this vitamin thing is going to work for me. I have my Monday chores almost done and here it is Sunday. I remember the vitamin lady who used to stock the Centrum for Randalls tell me that vitamins should be taken in the evening as this will help them absorb better and to refresh your body as you sleep. She was right!

I am also working on a pomegranite. Gary isn't a fan but, I attack that thing each night. It is coming along slowly. It is very refreshing, I can tell you that.

Watching the Sun Set

Here I sit on my little computer watching the sun set. I think this day went by too fast for me. I remember waking up to the annoying sound of Gary's alarm clock. Nothing pisses me off faster than something waking me up when I am not ready. Grr.

I spent the day washing sheets and quilts. I broke out the vinegar and baking soda to clean out some of the residue in the fabrics. It makes the quilt and sheets so soft and fresh smelling. I will have to add vinegar to the shopping list.


No knitting has happened. Instead, I baked cookies. The weather called for it. I made Gary's favorite, white chocolate macadamia. I opened the tub and popped them onto the cookie sheet. This is one fund raiser item I really adore, no mess, just pop open that tub of Otis Spunkmeyer dough and pop it onto a clean cookie sheet. Bake for 16-18 minutes on 325. Instant gratification.

I have no idea what dinner is going to be tonight, we met Melinda and Maribeth for lunch at the new burger place and they really loved the burgers. Yep, they are cardiac arrest on a bun but, they are damn good.

I might work on the mittens tonight. I would love to get the one finished and cast on for the second one.

We planted the trees into pots since they are still small. We figure that they can get bigger before we transplant them. I hope they thrive and are healthy. :)

Now, time for supper.

Knitting and Planting

Today I have plans to sit and knit. I also have plans to help Gary plant the persimmon trees. They arrived yesterday. Woohoo! I let him know that today is planting day. We are supposed to get rain on Monday which will be timing it just right with those two trees.

Yesterday I did dishes, Gary has been so busy with work that he comes home exhausted and since I have been out of the game for so long, he has been dealing with most everything. So, I decided to get up and use the foot. I did dishes for him. He was happy.

Last night we watched, Up and I can't believe they said it was a comedy...uh, no. I cried over the beginning. It was so sad.

I also cleaned the washing machine last night. It needed it. I love that little feature on this new machine. No more funky smelling washing machine. :)

Update: The bone scan came out clean. I was told by my doctor's office that if the foot should still have issues, they will refer me to a podatrist. My thought on that...F-it! I have had it. I am going to take this into my own hands and use my knowledge with no antibiotics to deal with this foot. Since staph is so nasty and will be with me for the rest of my life, I am going to do preventative medicine. Vitamin aisle here I come. While it is dormant, I can do things to discourage it from waking back up and deciding to take over.

Mexican Soap Opera Continues

If you have been following my blog then you know about the Mexican soap opera. Well, here I was thinking I would finally change my answering machine message and take off the part about no one by the last name of R___ living here. It happened today, a call for that same damn man. I don't know who this cat is but, when these women catch up to him, he is a dead man!

Today's woman was Juana from Puerta Vallarta. She wasn't happy when I explained about Connie and her brother in Mexico City and Gloria in Vera Cruz. She rattled something off too fast for me to understand. I told her my Spanish was extremely rusty since I hadn't had to use it in so long. So, she starts telling me about her man, or rather the man that all of these women claim. I told her he is a Don Juan and that he apparently has women all over Mexico. I have to honestly say I am thinking he must have some women here in the states with his track record. He gets around.

She wasn't happy about this information I gave her at all. I told her to try the 713 prefix before the number and she might get him. If she did, I asked her to tell the rat to quit giving out my number to his whores. I am so tired of this, it isn't fun having to tell women in a really bad accent, El Numero de telephono es malo. I am tired of this already. It has been going on now for 3 long years.

I have to wonder who else is going to call for this man. I bet it is going to be another woman from another part of Mexico. The list is growing.