Hell Yeah!! DRT 3rd Place Glory!!!!

My team came in 3rd place this year!!! OH I was sooooo worried history would repeat itself.
Here's the photo finish from Emily

http://yarnmiracle.com/2010/10/19/in-third-cause-theyre-faster-than-ewe/



Ok I'm a dork. But so are you

I do this every year...

That's right! If you go to my blog instead you will see a new widgety. Yep I'm in the DRT again! Woot!! It's a freaking end of summer tradition for me.

I'm super exicited and I can't wait till it starts!! I've got everything ready too even though I'll probably be the last one to get the box. :-) Still best to be prepared.

Sym knows when I say I'm doing the DRT that I'm going to be sitting and knitting as fast as I can to try to get the rag completed. I shoot for a 1 day turn around. It's funny actually, I'll tell her that the DRT box is coming in and she rolls her eyes and says "Not again." Johnny however, I haven't warned him about the DRT yet. LOL

Ok Happy Friday to ALL!!!

Now that it is August....

Ah August! The heat, the beginnings of fall, school starting and the annual Dish Rag Tag begins!! I'm already chomping at the bit ready to get it started! Emily at YarnMiracle.com is the incredible brains behind this annual event. For 3 years now the US postal service is bombarded with small boxes filled with yarn and goodies shipped coast to coast in hopes of winning the coveted prize of being the Winner!

Damn this is what keeps me looking forward to August. DRT baby!! IF you snooze you lose! Talk about a rush! Yes folks knitting can give you a rush especially if you have 8-10 people counting on you to knit the dish rag as fast as you can to send it to the next one. I seriously tune out the world in order to get that cloth finished. Calls go unanswered by me, Sym answers the phone. My sweet Sym knows not to mess with mommy during the DRT. I love August just because of the DRT.
Speaking of School starting back, Sym's first day of school is today. This isn't the best picture because it was taken by my camera phone while she was waiting on the bus this morning. She was totally excited to go back to school. I just hope she continues down the eager to learn path. She's so smart and special. I don't know where I'd be without her. ;-)

DRT!!! Just got the box!!

Here's the box. Had it delivered to me at the office got it at 11:45 am. Went directly to LYS and bought needles to start


Ya'll ready? I am! LOL

Here's what Emily sent as a little gift


Here's what I've knitted so far


Yep 9 rows of seed stitch!!! I'm knitting more when I get off work! I will have it mailed to Jaymi hopefully first thing in morn at latest!!I'm off!!!

Time for an Update....

Times are quite crazy lately. Work is work, home is Sym and our BOY cat Izzie. LOL Yes folks our cat is a boy. I castrated him from the begining by allowing Sym to call him "Isabella" but alas, he is a boy. I started suspecting when I saw that he started formin a bump down in the nether region. We had resuced shim from the storm drain when it was little. Luckily Izzie could be a unisex name. If not oh well we like it and we are sticking to it!!

Adolf the cichild demon fish is doing well as well. He is still chasinig cat toys. Yes he chases cat toys. I swear if he was an amphibian he would have hopped out of the tank and eaten Sym and I already. He's such an aggressive little guy that hates EVERYTHING but his nice jug in the tank. I think he actually wants to infiltrate our tank. He does like the food I leave for him but do I get a thanks? No, he just tries to bite my finger off. Yes folks this is a fish I'm talking about.
Sym is determined to catch him on video with her handy dandy camera phone (bought b/c she took care of the crap phone for 6 mo) so as soon as we get the video to the internet, Ya'll will see exactly what I'm talking about.

Doing the DishRag Tag dance this year! I'm the Fearless Captain on the quest to make sure I knit this rag as fast as my fingers allow.
I love the DRT! I've got some buddies already! Let me give a shout out to my hommies on Team # 3-Expe-Dish-ous Raggers!!
I am so psyched to get started!!! I've started practicing a seed stitch dishcloth to practice my technique. I did the same thing last year too when we got to pick any pattern we wanted. I knitted the pattern 10 times (I was the last one to get the box too) and timed myself. Unfortunately I don't have the luxury of practicing this time round. All good though. ;-)

Well I've gotta get back to work.

Holy Moley!!! Lots a going on...

Well ladies and gents, I've done it. I've returned to the part time job at pizza slut. I'm delivering pizzas again to build up my Sym Birthday and Christmas nest egg. I know ya'll are already used to me not post much anymore but it is about to get even more sparse unless I am at the day job and just bored.
I'm getting really tired of things at the day job but a little bit worried about just quitting. I would hate to leave my team lead. She's super sweet and both of us have put so much into our jobs that it is tough to just walk away.

On the knitting front, I've been rather sparse with that too. I've only been knitting on Callie's wash cloths in which I've already knit 2 and started a 3rd. I hope to finish it tonight and give them to her on Monday. That's if I am not totally exhausted after delivering tonight.

I was hoping to win the Florida lottery, but I didn't. Would be nice if I did though.
I have lots of things I need to take pics of for you lovely people. The camera in the D house stinks though. It is on my list to get a better one once I get the Sym stuff taken care of.

OH!! I've signed up for the Dish Rag Tag Sequel!! I suggest ya'll do the same! It is a fun Kal!!!
Go now and sign up if Emily has room!!!
http://dishragtag.yarnmiracle.com/people/new


Lots of love to ya'll! I'm still reading your blogs and leaving comments when I can. Big hugs!

Yay!!! It's coming back!!!

Yo!! I'm so excited!!!
Dish Rag Tag part deux is around the corner! Woot!!!

http://yarnmiracle.com/2008/07/17/dish-rag-tag-the-sequel/
So excited!!!
Gotta knit dish cloths!!!

:o)

On its Way!!! Dish Rag Tag Team 13 Rocks!!

(Ya'll I've been trying to write this post all week! I've been that busy!)
As ya'll can see in my ever growing side bar, I've been apart of the yarn miracle Dish Rag Tag. Emily the Hostess with the mostess announced the winner today. Our team didn't win but we had a blast!! WE all Got prizes!!! Susan sent me some wonderful goodies!! My camera sucks doggy doo so I haven't taken a pic to do it justice. Susan took a pic of the goodies before she sent them to me. Thanks Again Susan! You rock!!!!

The package arrived at Emily's yesterday afternoon. I hope we got second or third! We worked so hard on those cloths! I did too! I had a jammed packed afternoon!
I had to go home and get Sym's violin, soccer gear plus a snack and water. Then I had to haul ass to pick her up and rush her to violin lessons by 5:30. All the while I started my dishrag for Emily. Then immediately after lessons, we rushed 4 miles down the road to her soccer practice. We got there by 6:15 and practice started at 6. I knitted away on Emily's dishrag. Oh! I made her the petal dishcloth because I knew I could knit her up in 2 hours or less!. Well while sitting on the soccer field I screwed it up! I had to undo the 3 petals I had knit during her violin lessons and the first 10 minutes of soccer practice. I started it up again, this time ending where I KNEW I would remember where I was at. 3 Petals of 12 down, 9 to go! We got home and I sent a message to the Tag forum to let the ladies know that I had the box and was working diligently at getting my dish rag knocked out! I finished that bad boy in 1 hour and 30 minutes total knitting time! Go Lesley! I woke up the next morning, was 45 minutes late to work because I waited for the post office to open at 8:30. I was first in line buddy!! I didnt' mind really because after knitting the dishrag I started knitting a sweat towel for Sym!!!
She loves the colors and I will hopefully finish it tonight so she can have it for her first game tomorrow. I met some nice ladies at the post office too, one a crocheter and the other was a nice French lady who gave me some accent pointers. :-)

The box went out and I am uber proud of myself for getting that bad boy out the door in less than 24 hours. It doesn't compare to some of the incredible ladies on my team. Rebecca picked up the box at 12, knit her dishrag, repacked the box and had it back at the post office by 5!! That's incredible! She even skipped lunch!! She freaking rocks!!! Thanks Lady!!!

This has been so much fun and VERY Exciting and I've loved every minute of it!!! Thanks Emily for an awesome game!!

XOXO
Lesley
PS. Frige Art Friday will be posted tonight. Sorry. It has been a hell of a week!