Wow what a busy week!!

It's been busy this week. Seriously busy this week. I've started working out at the gym and have lost 2 pounds already. I've been working out in the mornings and the evenings. I didn't realize how out of shape I've been. Since the wedding is in like 58 days and I have to get measured for my dress altering on 3/30. So I want at least 15-20 lbs off my body so I can look HAUT for my wedding. I'm determined. It will happen even though friends have just looked at me like I'm crazy. HA!

Also Sym has been apart of the JV Winter Guard. What is it you ask? It is like color guard except no marching band and add more dancing. So yeah she is a flag twirler. :-) Just like her momma was at one time. She loves it too. This is the first time the Middle School has had a winter guard and these girls man they've rocked it seriously! I'm excited for their competition today. They've all worked so hard.

Wedding invitations have gone out this week and last. I am hoping Johnny's addresses come in so that we can get them all out. I've ordered Napkins and a killer guest book. Also have the cake topper on the way, the venue is booked and all we gotta do now is the cake. Which is tough because there's not an online bakery in Vburg and there's not a publix there either. That sucks. But we do plan to go back out there in the next few weeks and check that out in person.

And last but not least knitting!!!
Yes I'm knitting when I can. I've started another Loving Comfort Shawl. I was going to do the Dai Teiru by Grace the incredible but I didn't' like the weight of it. I want the shawl to be airy.
So here's your peak at it.

I'm knitting it in Vanna's Choice. It is going to be huge and I'm psyched about it! Hopefully I'll get some major knitting time in today as I wait on Sym's team to start.

Alrighty folks!
I hope ya'll have a great weekend!! :-)

Take and Replace Knit Swap Red Team A go!

here's what I took!!


Now the box is on it's way to Maryland to Cheryl!
Keep your eye out for it lady!!
Lesley

NCIS I really need you to take out my cats before I do

I get a call from Sym. She got home 5 minutes b4 me.
Sym: Mom I think the cats got into your yarn
Me: (I start crying inside and get all panicky) OMG! What does the yarn look like? Is is itchy or thin?
Sym: It's multi colored thick and scratchy.
Me: Ok that's the patons' wool. I finished that project a while back. I can forgive them.
Sym: There's also some light blue multi yarn out too.
Me: (sinking feeling coming back) Crap Ok I'll look at it when I get home.

Prime Suspect: Knitting Terrorist Izzy

I get here and I find my loving comfort shawl that was stored in a gallon sized zip lock bag in the hallway and NOT in my yarn bag where I left it this morning
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Me: F&@K!!!!! Where is he? I'm going to kill that fucking cat! (sorry folks bad bad words  fly from these lips when yarn is involved)
Sym: I don't think he did it
Me: Oh really? So you those other times that knitting fucking terrorist cat chewed through my bags didn't count?
Sym: Oh yeah. Yeah Izzy really does like plastic.

F*@K F*@K F@*K F@*K
I I can't talk about it any more. I'll let the pictures tell you.


He was determined to snap and eat my yarn. So determined that he pulled the end of my knit picks options needle join. SERIOUS determination to piss me off.


And of course the infamous yarn snap


At this point in the game (I was knitting the edging) I don't know what the hell to do.
Should I try to salvage it or do I say fuck it and trash the whole thing? I'm all about character in my knitting but this jus reminds me of how much I hate my damn cat now.

He's scared and hiding in Sym's room. Johnny came home and was wondering why there wasn't any cat blood splattered everywhere. yeah. I'm just waiting to catch that little fucker in the act.
yeah.
sighs.......

Update 2/10/11: Sighs... I can't kill them. Neither one no matter what the hell they may do to my knitting. Just look at how Izzy is tickling his nose with his tail and Darky is covering her eyes with her paws. No way. They are too cute. And I love them too much even if they seek to ruin my knitting or piss me off.

They are too f-ing cute!
I was able to salvage the shawl and I'm knitting on. It's not too bad. He didn't damage the actual knitting. He just snapped the feed line which is common Izzy behavior.
I'm brining it to work with me just in case though.

Don't leave me high don't leave me dry

Don't you hate it when you get a melancholy-ish type song stuck in your head? I do. So I shall make you all suffer the radio head with me. Blah ha ha ha


I do have some good things going on.
Wedding Plans:
__X__ Dress
__X__ Someone to marry us (my Uncle)
__X__ Location (They Do the food too)
__X__ Invitations (Ordered awaiting arrival)
__X__ Photographer (http://melissagay.wordpress.com/)
All that's left on my todo list is
_____ Wedding Favors
_____ Marriage License
_____ All the bazillion forms collected for name changing (ugh!!)
_____ Maid of Honor Dresses
_____ Registering for stuff is at 50%

Ugh it's still too much to do!

Beware Knitting in Progress:
Loving Comfort Shawl - 85% completed! I'm working the edging on it now. I'm loving it! However I think after I'm finished knitting it I may attempt to redye it. I'm just not loving the colors of the yarn. I'm thinking I may use some really dark wine color to saturate it before I go through the dreaded blocking process.

Beware Crochet in Progress:
Threads of Love Baby Blanket - 85%
I ended up Crocheting during the super bowl because the pattern for that blanket is sooooo easy that I can still watch TV. Unfortunately I couldn't do that with the shawl. I really love the superbowl and I'm a big Green Bay fan so I was VERY VERY happy to see them win it for the first time since 1997, wow! That's like 13 years ago!

Brings back memories....
So I had a birthday a couple of weeks ago. My man bought me a bouquet of beautiful flowers and had them delivered to me at work on Tuesday (2 days b4 birthday). It was the first time anyone had sent me flowers at work in my whole 33 years. It was cool and the few women around here were oooing over them. I love my man!

The night of my birthday (1/27) I took the day off. Johnny took half a day. He took me to In The Making my LYS and he bought me yarn!! He suffered through 45 min with me in the store. God bless him! Sorry didn't take pics of the yarn. :-(
Then that evening we went to City Vineyard for a Blind Wine Tasting! We actually got 4 out of 6 right! I was impressed with out pallets. The ones I missed he got right and vise versa. Put us together and we are unstoppable! Love that shop! The owner rocks and the folks that frequent are really cool.
One of the wines that I loved at the tasting is this lovely chardonnay.


Alright folks! I'll get some pics of knitting and crochets this afternoon. Until then. Ta-Ta for now!