Knittin' Fun in February

Well, I have been out and about so much I almost don't have time to knit! Horrors! I am just going to consider this a new beginning - and From Now On I do not give a damn (well, more or less) what anyone thinks about me, so I will post whatever the hell I feel like talking about, so I don't feel like time is passing me by with nothing to show for it. At least it will speed up my typing. I have had it up to my ass with that sorry excuse for a husband, and trying to hide it for years - I'm done!
We split up mid-November, but I didn't want to mention it and ruin everyone's Christmas holidays, but now I am letting the cat out of the bag, and let the chips fall where they may. (And if I think of any more cliches to add, I'll let you know!) I don't think there's anything more stressful than trying to act happy when you're miserable.
Fern was in the 2nd grade spelling bee on Jan. 31, it was fun, and she ranked in the top ten even if she didn't win. All the kids were getting kind of glassy-eyed after 2 hours. She misspelled "traffic", she spelled it t-r-a-f-i-c. Then she was upset and mad at herself, but she got over it. I took (and passed) the test for the Census job (with a perfect score, if you must know), now if they will just call me for an interview, I may be able to get some work. I am just trying to get used to the idea of going back to work after being at home with a buttload of kids for so long! I have told nearly everyone that I am getting a divorce, and so help me, if I can get $99.00 together, I'll do it! I have been hanging out a LOT at Ravelry, whenever I have a minute, so probably I could get more done if I stop checking for messages from the forums. But it's so fun!
At knitting we are currently working on friendship squares for an afghan for Jeanne's 90th birthday, and we need to hurry up, because we are having a party for her on the 13th of March. Her real birthday is the 20th, but her whole family is coming to Texas and she said they were not the type to come to a knitting party, whatever that means. (I think she is referring to the fact that they are from Connecticut, which means they are inherently snooty.)
Also we are working on legwarmers for a friend (Carol) to give to all the girls who go to school with her daughter. She had given her daughter some for Christmas, and all the other girls said they wished they had somebody to knit for them. Awwwww....so when we heard, of course we volunteered to help. One lady (Dot) is a machine knitter, so she is making the "tubes" on the machine, and the rest of us are knitting the ribbings on by hand. Just like making a few sock tops...
As for my personal private knitting, I am working on the Must Have Cardigan, in Patons Classic Merino Wool, natural mix color. (Made popular by the yarn harlot) It is addictive if you like cabling, which I do, I just so happen not to have done any in awhile.
Fern is back now, from going to see Coraline with her father. Him, taking his child out to a movie? Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles...
Whoops, gotta go, I do some of my best knitting watching Frasier on Lifetime.
bye for now!

Does everything really need a title?

Well, I am a real Ravelympian! My chosen event is "WIPs Wrestling", and I had plenty to choose from, believe me. I decided to concentrate my efforts on Rosedale. I started this back when it first came out, but...somewhere up around the yoke decreases, I realized it was going to be a little too large and I lost my za-za-zu about it. It languished in a project bag in the back of the closet, until one day, somebody at knitting was talking about how they had fulled a jacket in the washer to shrink it "a bit". Eureka! I think this is just the impetus my lazy bottom needed! I wasn't interested in finishing cause, you know, I didn't think I'd want to wear it, but now...! I am whipping through those decreases. I am also going to seam up Fern's Party Girl, my friend Nell made a few of these as gifts for her grandchildren, and they are super-cute!
Here's what I did so far today - some baking

(banana bread)


(blueberry muffins)


and Fern is needle felting!

Le Plonge!

J'adore la langue francais! Well, I will try to make a stab at a proper post, the one I did yesterday didn't show up right, so I deleted it. And yes, I am aware that I hardly ever even bother with posting at all, but I happen to feel like it, so I am sitting at the computer, with mon verre du vin, et la musique de Francis Cabrel. (I am entirely unsure if he is French ou Canadien, but it is a c.d. from mon ami Genevieve, so I am giving it a listen. He's fine, but he's no Bernard Tapie!)
I think he is singing something about God having a blond beard, but my French lessons having lapsed, I wouldn't bet money on it. Aaaaanyway...this is the first time in a long time (trop long) that I have been all by myself tout seule at home. Rob took Fern out to rollerskate in the park, and Gemma and Courtney are at WORK! Color me happy! (also une petite drunky! whee!) I am having the fine time, bien sur!
Lessee...how bout some pitchers? I mean, pic-tures...
When Genevieve's grand-daughter Maya was here visiting from Florida, we took a trip out to the country to see our friend Dori, who raises the cutest angora goaties...

Aren't they cute?

Here's me with a little baby girl goat...

Here is Fern, Maya, and Genevieve and kid mohair on the hoof!

Then we went to a blueberry picking farm, and Genevieve's husband Bob got into the act...
They are cute, n'est pas?
Well, that's enough for now, I return you to your regularly scheduled life. Besides, I need a refill!
bye for now

Yay!

I finally got on Ravelry! Now, my only problem is, I can't seem to get off Ravelry. It's so great, it's just crack for knitters, I swear! You can list a project you want to do, and see the 4,983 other people who also either want to/have made/or are making it, and the yarns! THE YARNS! I can just sit and browse Noro patterns to my hearts content! *bliss*
That's really the best thing that happened to me all week, although nothing really bad happened, but it was just ...meh...
But tomorrow, thank god indeed, is Friday! I will be sitting and knitting at Barnes and Noble, sucking down caffe and cocoa, and maybe even finding a new magazine or two...I hear the Holiday Vogue issue is a goodie! And we will be having lunch in honor of Genevieve's birthday! Zut alors a vous, mon amie!

Do Not Adjust Your Television...This Is Only A Test!

Just trying to update everything, Lord knows it needs it badly! You know, sometimes you just can't really tell what's going on, I don't mean tell as in "don't know", I mean tell as in "say", and you need to take a breath, and just say it...my husband is officially a jackass. Anyway, enough about that. I'm going to start over...so here goes.
Well, last night was Texas Against Crime night, the apartments put on one heck of a party, and I won not one, not two, but three candles! Not just any candles, but super smelly candles...raffle prizes, you know! Fern won one of the prizes for the poster contest, a Toys-R-Us gift card, so guess where I get to go after school. (grimace)
On the bright side, it's also library day!