Banana Bread

Here I am eating some banana bread that M and I made. It's pretty good, but when she does it it's better. Don't know what it is. Still pretty good though.

I talked to H just a minute ago! We haven't talked in months- it's amazing how much we can catch up on in 4 minutes and 26 seconds. It was like a weeks worth of talking into less then five minutes! I have to say she's one of my sisters.

Driving

Driving- while it is incredibly fun to drive (I enjoy it) it is also tiresome on the back after a bit.

I had so much fun visiting N! While it was only a few days and we didn't get to spend a tn of time together, it was fun to just visit with her!

So aside from that happening on Thursday and got back yesterday, just making sure that I have something every Saturday for the kids to do (ie. cupcakes, cookies, etc).

No current craft projects... thinking of things, but not really sure what to do.

Did not end up giving blood the other day.

This life is very uneventful and I apologize for the lack of postings. Hope you can forgive me.

Giving Blood

It would seem that my ability to give blood (or lack there of) will be tested today. I'm giving it another go- only a succseful once out of *counts* seven times... lucky number eight here I come!

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: