USB Charged Batteries

Now I have seen it all: a battery that can be charged threw a usb port.* Doesn't that seem a little, well, far fetched? Granted I think it's way cool, but it doesn't seem like it will be that popular. What do you think?

Having the kids here is both great and challenging. Neil's and mine stress has skyrocketed because of things changing around us. But I have a feeling this will only help our relationship. Grated right now we're a bit on edge and snapping at each other but things are getting better.

I finally finished the hat I talked about in my January 5th post. I have a picture of the top of the hat where I (finally) did the graceful combining of the ribs. Err whatever they're called. I hope the picture makes sense.

The youngest child M essentially made the brownies- honestly. She's really awesome, they all are. We put most of the brownie mix into ice cream cones for fun.

*http://usbcell.com/, found on page 82 of the December/January 2009 Men's Vogue.

no pictures for you

Well... with the bulky red yarn I changed it to this "Mary Poppins" pattern for a bag... I want to try and make a good bag this time.

Things are hectic here as we clean up and move a ton of things in the basement and in my old room... which my honey and I have moved into. We're all a bit on edge because one will do things differently and "less efficient" then the other might think it may be done or someone can't do much because of pain. Blah.

Isabelle is doing okay; she went to the vet today to see why she's been kinda like dry heaving. It's terrible to listen to. The vet said to give her some medications which is what we're going to do. Things aren't bad, but they could be better for her.

Samuri has been very social lately. It's rather nice, but short lived I"m afraid since the three kids and two adults will be here (like tomorrow) he will be confined to the bedroom again. Poor guy.

Stash

I'm officially a knitter; I have a stash of yarn.

Watch as it magically fits into *ONE* drawer... okay, so it's not a big stash, but thanks to dad (dad dad, not step dad) for the tons of really nice wool yarns (as seen above in white, red, and light blue/grey) and mom for the 25$ gift card to the craftwarehouse (that is the big long ones). So I'm going to have fun.

Okay I lied, I already started on three new projects. The first one is the red scarf that I started while watching the movie Twilight. Not so fancy but still soft.

The second one is from mom's gift card, it's nice chunky soft yarn that I'm making into a thick scarf... another scarf, big surprise.

And thirdly is the wool hat I"ll be making out of the fine wool yarn dad sent me for Christmas. it's really thin (maybe for socks?) so I'm doubling it up and making it in the XL size. Yeah... we'll see how that turns out.

HOT Apple Cider

The New Year is here!

Let's see, finished the last posted knitting project in time for christmas day. Turned out rather nice, wish I had taken pictures though. Oh well, you'll just have to take my word for it. :P Not sure what my next project should be. Tried to start a funny (not funky) scarf while I went to see Twilight (alone). I'm just not feeling the scarf thing. I need to try something else.

For christmas, the family got a wii with the games included: wii Fit, and wii Sports. They are fun. I'm hoping that it will help our family to get into better shape, but dad and I are the only one's using it. I have TWO dads. One dad and one step dad that we currently live with. Dad we don't live with sent me a ton of wool fingering yarn (I'm assuming for socks). I want to make things but I have no idea what (aside from socks which I'm still pretty scared to try).

Aside from that, still trying to figure out how to get back to work...

Hol-ly

There is good news, bad news, sad news, great news, and astonishingly surprisingly odd news.

Good News: I finally finished my best friend N's Christmas gift... after how many months? I'm not going to put a picture up because it will ruin her surprise.

Bad News: My poor computer seems to have caught a bad winter cold and refuses to let me be n the Internet for more then a few minutes... and the cold effects it's ability to get better (aka: virus protection).

Sad News: My second scarf, the neon green one (pictures below) is only 55 inches (or like 140 cm). I was hoping to have it done in time for when (one of) my sister(s) comes to visit, but that's part two of sad news, she more then likely will not make it up for her birthday/Christmas.

Great News: I made brownies!

Astonishingly Surprisingly Odd News: That this post is actually posted and you're reading it.

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I honestly wish I could be more creative and just post all the things I "make" so that people can see I"m not wasting my time. But I'm not actually making all these great things, just in my head. I'm trying to knit more and more, but my only desire seems to be knitting scarfs. Maybe it's because they are the "easiest" thing to knit. I say "easiest" because I"m trying different patterns and what not. I love scarfs! Well, that and socks... and tea, and Sammy, and... well a lot of things really.

Money...

Money money money. We're tightening out belts yet again. I had to get a new phone (the cheapest one I could get, it's $4 (US) after the mail-in rebate... but still. My old phone, though wonderful for the past two years, has bit the dust, you had to hold it only on the sides of the upper part of it when talking (if you even touched the bottom part of the flip phone it went to instant static), not to mention that it was terrible for the ear-pieces... Blah. SO if you know me personally and would like to be one of the few people to cal me first on my new phone, go for it! I hate calling others because I'm so worried that they are busy, or that they don't want to talk to me; even though often times I'm just "yelled" at for not calling them and they tell me to call them, I still feel like I'm going to interrupt something.



Anyways, I do have a great news! I finished my step-sisters john deer hat:

Internet Junkyard

Internet Junkyard is what I like to call it when people send you those "little" chain letters or some with those adorable pictures of cute fuzzies that make you just hiccup with glee. Therefor to replace my posts that would normally would just be me whining about stuff that's rather boring and honestly annoying I'm going to put up some of my favorite internet junkyard emails. ^_^ Hope you enjoy them as much as I have!

20 Ways To Maintain A Healthy Level Of Insanity

1. At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.
2. Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice.
3. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask If they want fries with that.
4. Put your garbage can on your desk and label it "In".
5. Put Decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to Espresso.
6. In the Memo field of all your checks, write "For Smuggling Diamonds".
7. Finish all your sentences with "In accordance with the prophecy."
8. Don't use any punctuation.
9. As often as possible, skip rather than walk.
10. Order diet water whenever you go out to eat with a serious face.
11. Specify that your drive-through order is "To go."
12. Sing along at the opera.
13. Go to a poetry recital and ask why the poems don't rhyme.
14. Put Mosquito Netting around your work area and play tropical sounds all day.
15. Five days in advance, tell your friends you can't attend their party because you're not in the mood.
16. Have your co-workers address you by your wrestling name, Rock Bottom.
17. When the money comes out of the ATM, scream "I Won!, I Won!"
18. When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot, yelling "Run for your lives, they're loose!"
19. Tell your children over dinner. "Due to the economy, we are going to have to let one of you go."
20. And the final way to keep a healthy level of insanity...send this e-mail to someone to make them smile.

...Its Called therapy.

This is a classic in the internet junkyards! Now if you have done one of these... like me, then you are awesome. And if you send this off to everyone on your email contact list just because, you need to be taken to Dan for a week. Yah, at least a week.

cold sores suck

I have had this cold sore for about a week... it was one, then it had four offspring... THEN it became a mutant ugly hurty thing!

Now on to the good stuff...

I finished the hat... BUUUUT it's too big... and Blackie has pretty much claimed it (no worries, it's clean).

Iabelle decided that she wanted my yarn for herself... that and play with it:

Safe to Say

I think it's safe to say that it's been WELL over a month since I made my last appearance. In that time, nothing major has happened.

Ive been making bread pretty much every other day (to save money).

Cooking dinners, except on certain days when M and my honey get to cook on their days off from work.

I really need help from you guys: I am having a very hard time getting motivated to do my necessary strengthening exercises and stretches that are needed to help me get stronger and better. But I hurt afterwords often time and I'm, as my doc says, afraid of the pain that may or may not come.

Sammy has attached my knitting bag again... this time I"m making a neat scarf. nothing special, just a little something to do while watching movies and trying to figure out what I'm going to do as far as income is concerned.

So I guess it's safe to say I need help.