Yeah I know I post this every year...

but it makes me laugh everytime! ;-)
Lots of laughes and good cheer to all my friends on the interwebs. ;-)
Love you lots!!

Which Holiday am I?

Ripped from my cyber bud Grace.

You Are Halloween

You are a dramatic, wild, and even weird person. The dark side of life fascinates you, and you enjoy being a little terrified. You enjoy the hidden sides of life. You are interested in what lurks deep in people's hearts. You are playful and creative. You enjoy pretending you're someone else. What makes you celebrate: Anything bizarre, unusual, or freaky. At holiday get togethers, you do best as: The entertainer. You really like to get into the mood of the holidays. On a holiday, you're the one most likely to: Insist on a theme party of some sort.

What Holiday Are You?

Sorry I've been away for a bit. More blogging to come. The muses attack me in spurts. There has been knitting going on. Also I've read the entire Twilight Saga and I'm about to start the Merideth Gentry books a friend told me that I should read. So in a nut Shell.....
1. I've turned into a bookworm
2. I'm still knitting and have a completed project or 2
3. I can cook a turkey right all by my self without the aide of a red pop up thingy.
4. I am Halloween.

I hope ya'll had a wonderful Thanksgiving!!! I sure did. That will be blogged later as well

Attack of the Brain Slug

I was on Ravelry the other day. My new North Alabama Knitter pal Sarah on Ravelry has a brain slug as her prof pic. I found the pattern and went to town. The Slug must have taken over my brain at some point because I agreed to have a Root Canal and a crown installed on the same day. Yeah. So as the numbness has started to fade, I popped one of those bad boys! I feel nice now. Just waiting on my chili to cook then my night is set! Back to the Slug, Last night I made one and a half. I used Vanna's Choice yarn instead of Lion Suede. He's pretty cool except his eye looks like a nipple from the side. lol
I'm ready for my chili now so I leave you with the brain slug.

Look out folks! They are coming for you!!!

He got to Sym first.....



Then he hopped over to my head


I think I'm going to try to get Vogue involved. Let's start a new trend!!

Okay So I am being bad today....

Yes. Indeed.

After busting butt all week I've been doing knitting research on the internet. Thank you Daily Chum for helping me get side tracked at work. lol

Okay if you want to know what to get this lady for Christmas Continue to read. If not, you can go back to the other blogs. It's ok. I won't hold it against ya. I still love ya and thanks for stopping by.

A few Knitting Things in no particular order that you can get LesleyD for Christmas or what I may just get you!! ha ha!
@ TinkerandPo etsy shop has such geeky stitch markers that I'm all over it!!! You may see these as a gift from me my knitting friends. ;o) Twilight Stitch Markers OMG!! I've been into these books this fall and I'm all about the movie coming out next week. There's also Buffy Themed AND My other fave, Monty Python and the Holy Grail themed

@ Twist Collective Winter Issue has the most incredible patterns!! I'm droolin ya'll!!! Droolin over Sylvi OMG! I love it just not the point in the hood. I don't like for my hoods to have an erection. I'm sorry ya'll may but I just don't. Love Gnomes but just don't want to look like one. Also I was about busted by folks when I saw Vivian by Ysolda Teague. OMG!!! I so want those patterns!!!

@ BOOKS! Knitting books! This one! The AntiCraft Book!

@YARN or Gift card for any amout at these fine retailers Knit Picks, Fire Lizard, Little Knits, elann, webs, scout's swag
Any of these Etsy stores!!
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5324808
This Yarn

Okay all for now. I must refrain and get back to work. TGIF!!

Knitting Accomplishments

I did this meme a while ago like a year or so I guess. I totally ripped it from Jenger who nabbed it from Eslpeth's site.

The official rules are mark with bold the things you have knit at least once, with italics the ones you plan to do sometime, and leave the rest.

Afghan
I-cord
Garter stitch
Knitting with metal wire
Shawl (but not completed)
Stockinette stitch
Socks: top-down
Socks: toe-up
Knitting with camel yarn
Mittens: Cuff-up
Mittens: Tip-down
Hat
Knitting with silk
Moebius band knitting
Participating in a KAL
Sweater
Drop stitch patterns
Knitting with recycled/secondhand yarn
Slip stitch patterns
Knitting with banana fiber yarn
Domino knitting (modular knitting)
Twisted stitch patterns
Knitting with bamboo yarn
Two end knitting
Charity knitting
Knitting with soy yarn
Cardigan
Toy/doll clothing
Knitting with circular needles
Knitting with your own handspun yarn
Slippers
Graffiti knitting (knitting items on, or to be left on the street)
Continental knitting
Designing knitted garments
Cable stitch patterns
Lace patterns
Publishing a knitting book
Scarf
Teaching a child to knit
American/English knitting (as opposed to continental)
Knitting to make money
Button holes
Knitting with alpaca
Fair Isle knitting
Norwegian knitting
Dyeing with plant colors
Knitting items for a wedding
Household items
Knitting socks (or other small tubular items) on two circulars
Olympic knitting
Knitting with someone else’s handspun yarn
Knitting with DPNs
Holiday related knitting
Bobbles
Knitting for a living
Knitting with cotton
Knitting smocking
Dyeing yarn
Steeks
Knitting art
Fulling/felting
Knitting with wool
Textured knitting
Kitchener BO
Purses/bags
Knitting with beads
Swatching
Long Tail CO
Entrelac
Knitting and purling backwards
Machine knitting
Knitting with self-patterning/self-striping/variegating yarn
Stuffed toys
Baby items
Knitting with cashmere
Darning
Jewelry
Knitting with synthetic yarn
Writing a pattern
Gloves
Intarsia
Knitting with linen
Knitting for preemies
Tubular CO
Freeform knitting
Short rows
Cuffs/fingerless mitts/arm warmers
Pillows
Knitting a pattern from an online knitting magazine
Rug
Knitting on a loom
Thrummed knitting
Knitting a gift
Knitting for pets
Shrug/bolero/poncho
Knitting with dog/cat hair
Hair accessories
Knitting in public

Zombie Apocalypse..would Lesley Survive?

Oo I need to change these odds. Maybe buy a sword? (don't like guns) Hmm also need to stash some food. hmmmm.. I'll take it again after the elections. That's if the zombie apocalypse doen't happen before we get the results. Yikes! Okay gotta hit wal-mart. Anyone have a Sam's or Costco Card? ~Thanks Jenger!

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Franklin posted a summary of his 1000 Knitterstrip to Huntsville on his blog. See if you recognize anyone in the group. ;-) (I'm the second one in case you were gettin a little lost.)

Okay Today I'm on cloud 9! Not even work is gonna take me off this cloud. ;-)

Happy Thursday ya'll!!!

Sym's Sweater Progress

Last night I finished the back panel while watching Sex and the City online until 1:30 am. Yeah I know it sucks doing that when you have to get the kid up by 6:20 at the latest to get her on the bus. I'm proud though. I don't know which one I'm currently more obsessed with, Sym's Sweater or Sex and the City. ;-)

Pattern notes:
So far this is an incredibly easy sweater to knit. The only complexity is changing colors at the end of each row. I think tonight I'll go ahead and weave my ends in. I wish I had done it along the way but I was a little obsessed with completing this portion. I want to finish it before Sym out grows it. Hopefully I'll have it completed by November. That's my goal. Let's see what happens. ;-)

The colors are so Sym. She picked them out herself. On the ravelry, I had a darker pink color, but she didn't like it so we switched to a pale pink. The colors in the sweater are so her it is scary. As I'm knitting along, I think of only here even if she is only in the other room sleeping. I'm constantly thinking of things about Sym that I just adore.
5 things about Sym that I adore...
~ She always has a silly song to sing. (This week it is the Chicken Dance)
~ She has to match her earrings to her shirt of the day. (totally cool!)
~ She is a future Craft Diva (She started her first Cross-Stitch project yesterday.)
~ She says some of the wildest things when you least expect it. (you never know what she'll say publicly or privately. Almost always guarentees you to laugh)
~ She is thoughtful and helpful to others. (My grandmother called and bragged about her behavior last weekend)

Thanks for reading! I'll keep ya posted on the sweater as I have details to report.
XOXOXO

My Weekend, yeah I know it is Tuesday

In the wee early morning hours of 6:30 AM on a SATURDAY, my butt was up and getting ready for a nice drive to Huntsville Alabama.
I know you Birmingham folks are saying in your heads right now "Why the hell is Lesley going to Huntsville at 6:30 AM on a SATURDAY?"

The Franklin Habit!! Yep came all the way down her from Chicago to take pix of the lovely Alabama knitters for his 1000 knitter Project. Not only did he take pics but a special pre-release on his book "It Itches!" kicked off! Too freakin cool! For the record this lady is one of 1000, and now owns an autographed copy of It Itches! ;o) Ya'll look for me when the 1000 knitters is published. ;-) Promise? I'll be like knitter number 96?-97?. (no clue which number but it will be toward the end.)

I was the second person in line to get my pic though. yeah cause leaving the house at 7 am on a 2 hour drive gets you there by 9 am instead of 10am when the event begins. Yeah. Can you tell I was excited? No not me.

I got to meet some super groovie folks!! By the way, thank you Meg at Yarn Expressions for hosting the 1000 knitters project and lettin all us knitters overrun your store all day Saturday!!

I met SEVERAL super cool folks from North Alabama. I wish I lived up that way. Just so I could hang out with these amazing folks again. :-(
One of which CraftMonkey Took pictures. Needless to say, awaking so early and still having problems with the brain after 2 hours of driving, I alas forgot to take pics to commemorate the moment. Not even with my camera phone. I suck like that. ;-)

I met a few of the Skanky Knitters Ravelry Group! Those folks Rule!! Also met some of the North Alabama Knitters too. Ya'll Rule! So does Franklin, and Delores! Ah fun Saturday!!

I left at 3. I wish now I could have hung out a little longer but I really needed to head back to the Ham (Birmingham that is). On the way I saw a sign for Ave Maria Grotto so I decided to stop on by and see it since my friend Gary whose website is down otherwise I'd link ya'll to him.

My brain had stopped farting so I was able to think to take some pics with the ol camera phone that works better than my digital cam anyways.
Here are some pics of Ave Maria Grotto. Ya'll enjoy!

Don't Vote

Maybe you should sleep

Welcome one and all to the ever impressive life of one LesleyD. Watch in amazement while LesleyD not only attempts to knit (2 sweaters, and a scarf), play with her daughter, clean her apartment, work 2 jobs, begin to build a new business, make stuff and sell it on Etsy, all the while pulling her hair out over her current full time job during one of the busiest times of the year! Look out world! NO ONE can Stop this freak of nature as she boldly attempts to keep it all together all the while remembering to go to the bathroom at regular intervals!
What will happen?
Quite honestly it isn't all that bad. My family keeps asking me when I ask one of them to watch Sym for me, if I have a hot date. My response, "Dating? What's that?"
Seriously! I wonder how that would affect one of the already MANY things I have on my to do list each day.
I just finished a little knit hat I made for a friend's birthday. They seem to be avoiding one LesleyD lately though. They are in town for a visit yet they seem to not understand that this lady has a bazilion things to do daily (even though I've told them such) and she just can't drop EVERYTHING to go visit them a billion miles away when gas is horribly scarce here.. See Here's the equation right now, Me + Man = Neglected man. I only have time for one person daily. Her name is the invincible Symi-D who flies in with her magical ability to get her mommy laughing when she is at her pentacle breaking point. I love that kid.
We went to Burger King the other day and she got a weird Neo Pet Toy. I asked her what the name of the pet was. Expecting the actual name of the NeoPet, she instead said "Jub-Jub". I then busted out laughing in the middle of BK. It was the way the kid said it so matter of fact and serious that just threw me off. Damn I needed that laugh. I hadn't laughed like that in a week. Heres' the Grundo named Jub-Jub.

Go Check it out on Burgerking.com. They are pretty groovie toys if you ask me.
I love free gifts with purchase; a funky toy and a nice outburst of loud laughter in a restaurant with only 5 other people in there.
See! Who needs to date when they can have a kids' meal with their angel? Now if I could only get that kid to massage school early, I could really have it all. My back has been killing me!

Cheers ya'll!!

Ps just found this. I definitely wouldn't want my name on this.

Friday Fillins

Friday Fill-Ins #90
And...here we go!


1. There is no need __to smoke but I keep wanting them________.


2. Where in the heck did the __milk go? I know Sym didn't drink it all in one day________.


3. __Worked, did laundry, play on the puter, and go to a football game________ is all I managed to do.


4. Prospects for __a normal guy to date is looking gloomy_______.


5. ___Consistency_______ is the message. (I left yours Grace. I liked it. ;-) )


6. Simplicity and tranquility are __bliss________.


7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to __going home________, tomorrow my plans include __working________ and Sunday, I want to __sleep (as always but can't)_______!

My Weekend

Hey everyone! Did LesleyD knit much this weekend? Yes!! She knit on Sym's Sweater, Swatched for Cherrie Amour and started a hat only to frog it. Yes lots of knittin.
I took Sym out to a Chinese Restaurant too, Golden City. They are the coolest! They are one of the oldest in Birmingham and they have the groovie decor of a Chinese Restaurant too. IF you are ever in the Ham, go swing by there! Just love their many dragons.


Also I went out solo Saturday night! woo hoo!! For the first time in a bit I went out solo Saturday night. I haven't been anywhere where solo in quite a while. Why you ask?
5 Reasons Not to go to a bar solo..
5. You have to buy your own drinks - Can cost you big time but not always!
4. You have to pay the cover charge - Which can be half your drinkin money!
3. You get lots of funny looks from other women. (aw poor you all alone or look at my man and I'll gouge your eyes out.)
2. Men presume you are there to get laid. - Can't woo them too much with your charm. (Least I choose not to.)
1. NO DD! (Which can really end up saving you money cause you drink less)

I decided not to let any of the above reasons bother me. For the first time in quite a bit, I really didn't want to go out alone Saturday night. Weird. Very Weird. Could it be maturity? Used to, I'd do it! Loved the opportunity to be able to meet whomever and strike up a conversation. But with reason number 2 looming, I didn't want to deal with that. It always looms. Men Love ya but sometimes a lady just wants to go out and NOT get laid.
Well Saturday night I was glad I went out! I paid a cover charge, bought 2 Jack and cokes, 2 beers, 3 hours of good music and nice people for a grand total of $22.
The band was Mellowship. They are a cover band, but really good. They even got me off my bar stool when they sang Shimmer by Fuel and it was all down hill from there. I totally enjoyed their lead singer Lane. He came up to the bar for another shot and some water. He was very nice and we chatted a bit. The Lead Guitarist was playing with them or the first time, William. He is a natural big time!! He was wailing on your familiar songs, (normal cover band lineup STP, Pearl Jam, Fuel, 3 Doors Down) but then they did some Stevie Ray Vaughn and Eric Clapton to show off what Willie can do. Quite impressive that Mr Willie was. Overall a damn good cover band with very sweet guys willing to talk to a lovely lady who was out for some good live music and a few drinks!
Thanks Guys! Here's their pic. I'm quite impressed with my camera phone. It took a good pic despite the cig smoke and funky bar lighting.



That's about my weekend. I did have a talk with a gentleman about a business proposition that will get me on my way to living a more fulfilling life. Send good strengthening thoughts my way if ya'll don't mind.


Take care! Time for me to get the youngin up. ;-)

I leave you with the bathroom door of Pizza Hut. It has been covered with stickers to create a groovie piece of art. Just love my boys at the hut.

Frig art

I realized when I was commenting on Jen's blog that I haven't been showing off Sym's art in awhile!! My darling daughter is really talented at 9 ya'll! I'm not just saying that cause I'm her mom either. I think she has something.

She's after my heart with this one. ;-)


This one is blurry. I need a freakin scanner. I will probably take this to work on Monday and try again.

The details are incredible!!!


I tried with my digi camera to zoom in on the mermaids but FAIL.



Last Sunday I worked at the Hut and she went with me. ONe of the drivers is a sketcher. He had some good paper and graphite pencils. Sym drew EVERYONE IN THE STORE! It was Hilarious!!
I'll see if I can get that one scanned too. ;-)

Happy Saturday! No hula-hoopin was done today. Instead laundry going to be moved to today. ;-)

I leave you with a pic of a wash cloth that I knit up a week or so ago. Don't remember which pattern though. I'm special like that. ;-)

Happy Saturday!

Fun Little Me me

I forgot to let ya'll know who I snagged this from. It was the beautiful and talented and always finding cool stuff to post Grace

The rules:
A.) Go to musicoutfitters.com

B.) Enter the year you graduated from high school in the search function and get the list of 100 most popular songs of that year

C.) Bold the songs you like, strike through the ones you hate (in my case I put a frown in front of the ones I don't like)


Alright so I graduated HS in 1996 and I had no idea how much R&B/Rap would be on the top 100. lol Some I recognized but alot I didn't and had to look up. Was worth the memories though. ;o)


:-( 1. Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix), Los Del Rio
:-( 2. One Sweet Day, Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men
:-( 3. Because You Loved Me, Celine Dion
4. Nobody Knows, Tony Rich Project
:-( 5. Always Be My Baby, Mariah Carey
6. Give Me One Reason, Tracy Chapman
:-( 7. Tha Crossroads, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
8. I Love You Always Forever, Donna Lewis
9. You're Makin' Me High/Let It Flow, Toni Braxton
10. Twisted, Keith Sweat
:-( 11. C'mon N' Ride It (The Train), Quad City Dj's
12. Missing, Everything But The Girl
13. Ironic, Alanis Morissette
:-( 14. Exhale (Shoop Shoop), Whitney Houston
15. Follow You Down/Til I Hear It From You, Gin Blossoms
:-( 16. Sittin' Up In My Room, Brandy
:-( 17. How Do U Want It/California Love, 2Pac
:-( 18. It's All Coming Back To Me Now, Celine Dion
19. Change The World, Eric Clapton
:-( 20. Hey Lover, LL Cool J
21. Loungin, LL Cool J
22. Insensitive, Jann Arden
23. Be My Lover, La Bouche
24. Name, Goo Goo Dolls
25. Who Will Save Your Soul, Jewel
26. Where Do You Go, No Mercy
:-( 27. I Can't Sleep Baby (If I), R. Kelly
28. Counting Blue Cars, Dishwalla
29. You Learn/You Oughta Know, Alanis Morissette
30. One Of Us, Joan Osborne
31. Wonder, Natalie Merchant
32. Not Gon' Cry, Mary J. Blige
33. Gangsta's Paradise, Coolio
34. Only You, 112 Featuring The Notorious B.I.G.
:-( 35. Down Low (Nobody Has To Know), R. Kelly
36. You're The One, SWV
37. Sweet Dreams, La Bouche
38. Before You Walk Out Of My Life/Like This And Like That, Monica
39. Breakfast At Tiffany's, Deep Blue Something
40. 1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin' New), Coolio
41. The World I Know, Collective Soul
42. No Diggity, BLACKstreet (Featuring Dr. Dre)
43. Anything, 3t
44. 1979, The Smashing Pumpkins
45. Diggin' On You, TLC
46. Why I Love You So Much/Ain't Nobody, Monica
47. Kissin' You, Total
:-( 48. Count On Me, Whitney Houston and Cece Winans
:-( 49. Fantasy, Mariah Carey
50. Time, Hootie and The Blowfish
51. You'll See, Madonna
52. Last Night, Az Yet
53. Mouth, Merril Bainbridge
54. The Earth, The Sun, The Rain, Color Me Badd
55. All The Things (Your Man Won't Do), Joe
56. Wonderwall, Oasis
57. Woo-hah!! Got You All In Check/Everything Remains Raw, Busta Rhymes
58. Tell Me, Groove Theory
59. Elevators (Me and You), Outkast
60. Hook, Blues Traveler
61. Doin It, LL Cool J
62. Fastlove, George Michael
63. Touch Me Tease Me, Case Featuring Foxxy Brown
64. Tonite's Tha Night, Kris Kross
65. Children, Robert Miles
66. Theme From Mission: Impossible, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen
67. Closer To Free, Bodeans
68. Just A Girl, No Doubt
69. If Your Girl Only Knew, Aaliyah
70. Lady, D'angelo
:-( 71. Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First), John Mellencamp
72. Pony, Ginuwine
73. Nobody, Keith Sweat
74. Old Man and Me (When I Get To Heaven), Hootie and The Blowfish
75. If It Makes You Happy, Sheryl Crow
76. As I Lay Me Down, Sophie B. Hawkins
77. Keep On, Keepin' On, Mc Lyte
78. Jealousy, Natalie Merchant
79. I Want To Come Over, Melissa Etheridge
80. Who Do U Love, Deborah Cox
81. Un-Break My Heart, Toni Braxton
82. This Is Your Night, Amber
83. You Remind Me Of Something, R. Kelly
84. Runaway, Janet Jackson
85. Set U Free, Planet Soul
86. Hit Me Off, New Edition
87. No One Else, Total
88. My Boo, Ghost Town Dj's
89. Get Money, Junior M.A.F.I.A.
90. That Girl, Maxi Priest Featuring Shaggy
91. Po Pimp, Do Or Die
92. Until It Sleeps, Metallica
93. Hay, Crucial Conflict
94. Beautiful Life, Ace Of Base
95. Back For Good, Take That
96. I Got Id/Long Road, Pearl Jam
97. Soon As I Get Home, Faith Evans
:-( 98. Macarena, Los Del Rio
99. Only Wanna Be With You, Hootie and The Blowfish
100. Don't Cry, Seal

All around the Internet Saturday....Sharing the Love of Other Peeps Blogs!

Blogiversaries
Check out Ms Grace at Lovin Comfort Knits. She is having her Blogiversary. Congrats Grace! She's also having a contest too. Go check it out why don't ya?

Rosemary is having her 2 year blogiversary too! Can you believe it? She's also doing a contest.

Random Hilarious stuff
My buddy Jen at KnittedSpecks has a hilarious video she ganked from Jennifer Mayers on myspace. It is hilarious I tell ya!

The Sneeze had another tree brain growing. You must read the back posts on the whole thing in order to get it. Check out the "Steve Don't Eat it!" too. ;-) Guaranteed to make you pee your pants in laughter.

More funny stuff. Here is Adolf our attack Cichlid to the sounds of Sym playing Madagascar. ;-) Ya'll enjoy! (Give it a while I just uploaded it to YouTube.



PS.
Okay after the upload finished I saw this! IT is pretty funny too. ;-)

Friday Fillins

Friday Fillings #88 Go check it out! It is fun!!! You like fun don't ya?

And...here we go!

1. If I was to walk into your life, ___I would hand you some wine, a ball of yarn and knitting needles and hope you don't stab me with them._______?

2. Catch a bright star and place it ___in Sym's room cause she needs better lighting_______.

3. And you can send me ___wine yarn or chocolate (or all of the above)_______.

4. ___I am searching for a new goal_______ but I'm dealing with a memory that never forgets.

5. I'm the innocent bystander / Somehow I got stuck _____by lightning when you handed me your umbrella_____.

6. What's keeping us apart isn't selfishness, __it's your attitude________.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to __knitting and watching Naruto___, tomorrow my plans include ___hula hooping cleaning and working__ and Sunday, I want to ___sleep__!

Undecided Sweater! Suggestions Appreciated!!

Just found out that the yarn for my sweater will be her by the 9th! I have 6 days to figure out exactly what to knit. I've been scowering Ravelry but can't freakin decide!!
so I need your help!!!

The yarn is
Uruguay Chunky
Fiber Content 70 % wool 20% Baby Alpaca & 10% Sily (Very Soft and great next to skin no itch!)
Total yardage bought 803 yards (but can buy more if needed)
Yarn ball Gauge: 3 sts to an in on US 10.5

Bought from the lovely website Littleknits.com.
Here's a direct link to the yarn: http://www.littleknits.com/proddetail.php?prod=UrguayChunky105



So far....Here are a couple of patterns I've been thinkin about (Remember, this is my first Sweater to ever attempt!):
Cherie Amour from knitty

Pugmama's neck from the Knitting fool Sweater Generator

That's all I got so far. HELP!! Please!

My First Sym Sweater

(Please excuse the pics. My camera sucks! I swear it isn't a user error.)
Okay 2 years ago I bought an issue of Knit It! magazine.


Inside this incredible issue were SEVERAL patterns I wanted to knit. The deal sealer on this issue was this pattern!


So Part of my stash acquisition was to buy the yarn for this sweater for the Syminator. She needs one quite frankly and if I don't knit it now she'll never be able to fit into it!!
She wanted different colors so here they are....


This will be my very first Sweater. I call it the Sym Sweater.
Yeah has a nice ring to it. That is all go back to your business.....
One more sweater project to happen soon as well. Just waiting on UPS to deliver it. ;-)
Toodles

Our Labor day weekend

Sym and I had fun. Friday was Sym's B-Day sleepover and let me tell ya'll. Hanging with 7 little girls for over 12 hours isn't a picnic. Especially trying to get them all to "go along" with what you have planned.
I hate feeling like my efforts are fruitless but I keep forgetting that kids in the 6-9 range tend to not give a frag about any body else's feelings at times. I forget that they are just kids. I guess because Sym is so grownie.
Adults can be the same way too. Sym's 3rd birthday was like that. It was the first one I threw at our house at the time. I was serving hamburgers and hot dogs and my family had the gall to say, "Where are the onions and mayo? Oh you didn't get those? You should have. What's a burger without mayo?" (An EXTRA amount of disgusting white oil coating is waste of damn good beef if you ask me. Your breath is far better wtihout the onion. Trust me I'm saving you. None of that was actually said but seriously ran through my 24 year old mind at the time.) So I really haven't thrown a party at my home for Sym with family since. It was my first time doing it solo without my mom helping me. I never threw those kind of parties before and to have my family.. well let's just say I've forgiven them and moved on. This year was no different. The grownups had dinner with us at China Doll. I am still avoiding actually throwing a party that involves the grownups of my family.
It is amazing that sometimes kids take on that same kind of mentality. "I messed up and don't want to finish my project!" "I don't want to draw on pillow cases. I don't like them!" "I don't want to watch Harry Potter! I want to watch Lord of the Rings" OMG! I gave them all a lesson on demo-crazy Majority rules and you just have to fraggin deal with it! ;-) That kept me sane as well as my frequent balcony visits to smoke.
All in all the sleep over was great! The kids were good overall and I want to throw it again soon! This time I think I'm going to keep it in the 9-10 year old range.
Saturday morning was fun, I made them pancakes and took Sym and a few of the girls swimming. I had great adult conversation time with the parents. I felt sane again. LOL
I worked Saturday night at the Hut. Made some good cash and then for the first time in 2 years I went to southside with an old friend I hadn't seen in a LONG time. You might remember Eric? Yeah it has been about that long since I last saw him. It was he and his friend that I'll refer to as Cherry Pie. Reason being, she was dancing to hippie music (the band Earthbound) as if she was on that music video. ;-)
We had a blast. I danced all night with a nice gent that twirled me around till I was dizzy and I didn't even spill my drink or burn anybody. ;-) Go me!


Sunday was recovery day. Sym came back home around 3 with T & K. They ended up spending the night. Monday was shop till you drop day! We shopped with Sym's birthday money. I got to buy also some things for our apartment to make it not look so blah boring. Sym bought 2 Brat Dolls, a Barbie house, a case for her DS that had decals for it too, Sims Castaway for the DS and that's about it I think. I bought 2 small rugs (1 for bath 1 for kit), a cookie sheet, a 5X8 area rug, 3 pieces of art for our living room and more multiplayer video games. Also got yarn for Sym's Sweater that I'm starting tomorrow. It is getting to be sweater time ya'll!! It is about time I gave knitting one a shot! lol I'll show ya'll yarn pron and pattern etc soon. ;-) Also Misc stuff was purchased too. Like cutesy coin purses and funky bracelets and head bands. Loverly!
We had a blast and now I leave you with a pic of my new living room.