Still Naive

Oh Baby

2007-01-26T23:21:00.000-05:00

That's my very last pregnancy photo, exactly 41wks. What a whirlwind. The hubs and I arrived at the hospital on Sunday morning at 7am for an induction. I was the only person there for a couple of hours which was neat, but soon other women showed up and started having babies-I however was not. Inductions take forever. I felt bad for my mom, she wanted to be there for the whole thing (which was really boring) and just about froze in the room. They started with a little pill called misoprostol which is supposed to dilate and efface the cervix. It didn't. I did however start having contractions, not bad but uncomfortable. After having the miso pill they can't start the pitocin for at least 6 hours so you just have to sit and wait. They tell you to try and sleep but that's a big joke. I got a couple of episodes of some weight loss show in on Discovery Health and my mom brought me a video. By 4p the contractions really sucked. I would have 3 right on top of one another and then 4 minutes of down time. I was only dilated 2cm which is sucky progress.

Finally after whining the hubs asked the nurse for pain medication and my good friend the epidural was administered. Once in the dilation sped up and pitocin was administered. Unfortunately I got what was called a "hot spot" this is when the epidural shifts and you have a small area that is no longer numb. My area was right above my left pelvic bone and every contraction was intensified to that one spot. There is really nothing they can do. Luckily it happened about 45min before delivery so I didn't have to suffer longer. My doctor who is absolutely awesome told the nurses to up the epidural in an effort to numb the hot spot. Guess he doesn't like to see pregnant women cry. By 10:37p and only 7 mins of pushing Aiden was forced into the world. He weighed in at respectable 7lbs 13oz and was 19.5in long. Full head of hair (and yes a round head thank god). This pregnancy and delivery were much easier than HP's. I'm guessing second time is a little easier and it helps if you're actually close to the due date.

This is my totally awesome OB Dr. Boulting after the delivery.

Hunter with his new baby brother.

I happened to catch Aiden smiling (5 days old).

Recovery has been a lot easier this time too. You learn a lot from the first baby too. Like, I don't care how bad my boobs hurt I refuse to wake up Aiden. Right now he's sleeping for 3 to 4 hours at a time and I'd like to keep it that way. They tell you in the hospital to wake them up every 2 hours and nurse. Whateva! He's gained 8 oz in 3 days so I'm thinking he's doing all right. More sleep for mommy makes a much nicer mommy.

I'm freaking out man!

2007-01-18T12:31:00.000-05:00

Here I am. Still pregnant at 40wks and 4days. I swear it looks like my belly is just gonna fall off.

Well all my NSTs (non-stress tests) have come out perfect. Aiden is in no way stressed. He's also got plently of fluid to float in-for such a small space. At my most recent visit to the hospital for the NST the ultrasound tech was super nice and took a couple of 4d photos for me. Unfortunately he has a nano amount of space so his face is really smooshed in the photo. If you squint your eyes it's easier to tell what he looks like.

I had my last pre-natal visit today with Dr. B. Yes that's right I said last. As in if Aiden doesn't kick it into gear by Saturday night then we go in for induction on Sunday morning, the 21st. I'll be exactly 41 weeks.

Holy crap I'm gonna have a baby.

4 Days and counting

2007-01-10T19:13:00.000-05:00

For the love of god I'm going to be pregnant FOREVER! I had my 39.5 week checkup today. Guess what? I'm still pregnant. I've had no indication of impending labor, no contractions or other "things" that happen. On Sunday (the 14th my due date) if nothing has happened I have to trek to the hospital for a NST (non-stress test). Basically they hook me up to a couple of machines and monitor me for a few hours to make sure that Aiden is still thriving in womb. If I get to the 21st without having him then I get to "discuss options" with my doctor. He said that the OB society doesn't like pregnancies to progress beyond 41wks. I'm wondering if he's part of that society or if he's just trying to make me feel better.

In other news the nursery is completely done. Here's a couple of pictures:

Yes that's HP sitting in the crib admiring the bird nightlight thingy. I was surprised when I walked in and he was kicked back enjoying the music and chirping birds.

And here's the other side of the room. All I need now is a baby to complete look.

I also borrowed a Boppy from a friend and made a super cute super soft fleece slipcover for it. It has little horses, cacti and cowboys.

This is it finished

And a close up of the fabric pattern

That's all for now. Sorry I've missed so much knitting group. I have to admit I'm a little afraid to drive farther than 20mins from the house. God only knows I'd go into labor not be able to make to the hospital in time-I'll end up having the kid in the car, then I'll have to change his name from Aiden to Mitsubishi or Ford. Maybe Explorer instead of Ford depending on which car I get stuck in.

Ice Ice Baby

2006-12-29T09:52:00.000-05:00

Well a little late but whatever. The Friday before Christmas we decided to take HP Ice Skating. Expeditions like these are really hit and miss, especially with the fact that HP doesn't like to get dirty. Steve laced up some little skates on his feet and they ventured out to the ice. I stayed in the semi-warmth and took pictures. It ends up that HP LOVES to ice skate, steves excited and can't wait to strap some roller blades on the tykes feet and teach him roller hockey

Here is his first round on the ice.

Here is HP crying after Steve decided to skate one round on his own (to straighten out his back) and yes that brown smudge in the bottom left corner is my belly.

Here's their second go round, this time HP had no problems dashing out to the ice.

Happy little skater

And finally to get him off the ice (before Steve stroked out) the celebratory popcorn.

After skating for an hour, Steve took HP to the adjacent rink to watch some guys playing hockey, which HP loved. I would just like to state right now that I refuse to move where it snows. I don't mind visiting but no moving. I hate the cold. Plus I think HP has a nasty cold now from the rink, could either be that he dropped his blankie on the super disgusting floor and we didn't have a spare or from the super cold rink to the 85 degree weather outside. Either way it's no fun.

5 weeks and counting (32 days to be exact)

2006-12-13T16:03:00.000-05:00

Well I'm still pregnant at 35 weeks. That's good in my book. I did have some horrible back pain on Sunday which made me miss the knitting christmas party :( I don't think it was contractions. More likely I pulled a muscle while trying to scrub the grout in the shower. I'm not swelling (woo hoo!) so we may be out of the woods for Preeclampsia. I'm still crossing fingers and knocking on wood tho. HP was born exactly at 5wks because I had preeclampsia with him.

Of course now I'll probably be miserable and go past my due date thus landing me with having a 9 or 10lb baby. I still don't think I'll make it the full 40wks. I have a (painful) feeling in my pelvic region, my assumption is that Aiden has dropped. It's getting a lot harder to breathe and now when he kicks it hurts. No longer pleasant. But really I'm not complaining I want him to stay in as long as possible. We had a trying time with HP's hearing, asthma and jaundice due to being 5wks early I just as soon not repeat that. I should have pictures soon maybe tonight.

Steve is accompanying me to Kobe's for the Gurls Who Purl christmas. Yummy! In other news, HP just fell off the ottoman and is begging me to kiss his knee.

"Mommmmmmeeeee, it hurt my knee. Kiss it, peas peas peas peas". Duty calls I must go and attend to the injured.

Just call me "Sucker"

2006-12-03T21:38:00.000-05:00

So I was not real happy with the kitchen we bought from ToysRUs. Soooo I took it back and bought one from Sam's instead. It's way more than I wanted to spend and it's nicer than my real kitchen. Oh well. You're only 3 once.

Thank god they didn't carry this one:

I'd have a hard time explaining to Steve why we need to add onto our existing house for a play kitchen.

Sexist Remarks

2006-11-30T22:44:00.000-05:00

Ok so we did some major damage at the Super Target last night. We bought a buttload of christmas prezzies for HP. My major weakness is the dollar bins, I love them. Well this week the have pretend food for kids. I bought $15 then Steve made me stop (party pooper) before I bought it all. Only problem is that HP doesn't have a play kitchen. My mission tonight was to go to BJ's and buy a play kitchen (oh and the new collapsible rubbermaid storage containers, btw they rock!). The kitchen at BJ's was HUGE and almost $200. About $100 more than I want to spend. Plus I don't think a pretend kitchen should be better than my real kitchen.

Somehow I managed to get Steve to trek over to Toys R Us. They only had 3 options. The same really expensive kitchen, a grill lookin' kitchen and then a Cook N Clean kitchen set. There was a woman looking at the same kitchens. She mentions that her daughter wants a pink kitchen and she looked miffed that all the kitchen sets were neutral colors. Steve pipes up and says "Yeah we're looking for a kitchen for our 3 year old son". She gets a really shocked looked on her face and says "Oh well I think you should get him the grill and cook, it would be great for a boy".

Okay people currently I'm 8 months pregnant and really hormonal. I snapped back that I didn't ask for her opinion and boys can cook too. She left rather suddenly. We got the Cook n Clean set, it comes with an iron and built in washer/dryer.

Seriously what is wrong with people? Do they not watch TV? Some of the best Chefs are MEN. Hell's Kitchen is one of my favorite reality shows and I would do naughty things to "Good Eats" Alton Brown. I'm still miffed, I really shouldn't be but golly. We already bought the kitchen but my mom said that Kmart has a smaller one for half the price we paid. I just might go and check it out, as I saw online that they have working- with water and everything washer for only $25.

Super cool. The way I figure the more "real" stuff I can get him to do the less work I'll have to do around the house. He's already pretty good with the swiffer and knows the right settings for the dishwasher. Not only that but he likes to be paid in fruit snacks.

Making Room

2006-11-29T23:02:00.000-05:00

Aiden's room is coming along nicely. It's been freshly painted, I've hung up the vintage newspaper, spurs, bits and wall hangings. Steve started on the wood floor this weekend. He worked on it all day Sunday and got three rows done. He really sucks at home improvement and he's first to admit it, he wanted to have Lowe's install the floor and I insisted that we could do it. At least he tries and tries hard. Hopefully (fingers and toes crossed) my dad will help get it finished he's a true handy man and it shouldn't take more than day to get it done. Then I'll be able to get the crib out of storage and I can actually put away all the stuff that's sitting on the futon in the picture. It's a tiny room and the only storage is located in the drawers under the crib and attached changing table.

We're going for a vintage cowboy theme. Lots of blue and red. Hopefully he'll like horses and cowboys, if not, well then too bad.

The bits were from the horse I used to own (and I might add try to kill me more than once). The spurs used to be Steve's dad when he was kid. I picked up a vintage newspaper from the 1800's era- Town of Deadwood. The front page proclaims "Wild Bill Shot in Deadwood, Aces and 8's Deadman's Hand". It's super cool- thanks HBO for getting us hooked then cancelling the show.

I still have to make a name wall hanging. I've got a great idea to use a lasso and bend it into Aiden's name and hang it above the crib. Nothing says love like strangling hazzard.

I also picked out his take home outfit. The women in my family have this problem with buying clothes that match the decor of the room. My mom bought a super cute gown and matching hat with little rocking horses and kinda of cowboy themed- which is what I picked as the take home outfit. My sister bought out Toy's R Us' line of cowboy stuff. Complete with two pairs of little cowboy boots for infants. I can't wait to use the blanket she got, it's super soft and has the most adorable stick figures of a cowboy and pony.

Ultrasound

2006-11-28T23:02:00.000-05:00

I'm such a bad blogger. I blame it on my computer. It's old and only has 2 USB ports, in the back of the cpu. Which means my big pregnant belly is not about to try and crawl under the computer desk to hook up the camera port. Anyway maybe tomorrow I'll venture into that as I have a bunch of great pictures from the past couple of weeks and some knitting stuff to show off.

As of today I am 33wks and couple of days. Two weeks ago I had my 4D done at Prenatal Impressions. It was awesome!! I couldn't have had a better experience. They even had a "Kiddie Room" where HP played while we had the 4D done. I received over 80 pics on disc and a really cool DVD. Aiden however did not want to cooperate. The first 30 minutes or so he spent with his hands and FEET covering his face. After rolling around on the table he finally moved but the pics still weren't optimal. The owner had us go to lunch then come back for another hour to get more pictures. I can't praise them enough. If you're pregnant and want super cool pictures before your little one is born go there.

Here are a couple of pictures of Aiden. Chubby cheeks, looking like quite a porker already. I'm scared.

Here's a full shot of his face

Yawning

And a smirk

I don't know where the butt chin comes from, must be Dana.

Oh baby

2006-11-07T12:49:00.000-05:00

I know I'm a bad blogger. I've been severely lacking recently. Being a full time mom takes up more time than a "real" job. Haven't even gotten any knitting in. Anyway I've been doing some work at a photography studio and they were kind enough to take some pregnancy photos. I would just like to say, dang it was cold in there. But the photos turned out smashingly. Enjoy.

Oy

2006-10-15T21:23:00.000-05:00

Have you ever wanted to know what the most annoying noise in the world is? (*You must have speakers to uh...er..fully enjoy).

Live and learn.

Dang Homie!

2006-10-12T13:18:00.000-05:00

So I had my glucose test today. For some reason I thought the test only took 30 minutes of waiting. I was wrong it's an hour. So I was an hour late to work (what are they gonna do? Fire me? Hardy har har!). Anyway I'm a bit spastic so after the lady handed me the horrible "cola" flavored sugar carbonated water I proceeded to spill a couple of ounces on my stomach and jeans. The I almost ralphed as the drink is really gross and you have to drink like 16oz in under 8 minutes. It's much harder than it seems.

After finishing the drink I got to sit around in the waiting room of the testing place for a hour. Starving. As I had to fast for 12 hours. That's a loooong time when you're pregnant and used to eating every hour or so. I also got assulted by a 4 year old little girl and her retractable measuring tape. She demanded that everyone get measured in the room. After measuring me she wanted to help me knit. I let her unwind the ball of yarn, but that wasn't good enough she wanted to use my needles. My lame excuse of "Sorry, you're not old enough and these needles are very sharp. I don't want you to get hurt", didn't phase her. She kept saying "I won't hurt myself, I won't, lemme try". After 5 minutes of me trying to ignore her, which was hard because she kept stepping on my toes and all but climbed into my lap, her mother saved me. She was lured away with the promise of some gum. I did get some knitting done while waiting only about an inch of work for a new baby kimino (this time in stockinette).

I got called back to have my blood drawn which I hate. I'm not a big fan of needles. Usually I get the lady with the skin pigmentation problem. She's super nice and always uses a pediatric needle and she hums- so that distracts me. This time I got the bloodsucker that must have got her license from clown school. I asked for a pediatic needle when I walked in and she said no, then of course she said just joking. She proceeded to ask me why I wanted a pediatric needle, I told her because I was scared of needles and am an admitted wuss. I know that the pediatric needle doesn't hurt any less it's all psychological but that's cool with me. She agreed then asked what I was having, I said boy #2. She counters with "What? No girls?". So of course I say yeah my husband can't do anything right. Then she tells me that its the woman that decides. Women have boys and men have girls. Huh? I disagree (I know now that this was a bad idea) and tell her "Noooo. The sperm, which comes from the guy, decides whether the child shall be boy or girl". Then she jabbed me with the needle and said "See you still jumped even with the baby needle". Well yeah because she was aiming for my freaking bone! I think she gets her hair cut at Clown School too, it was fro-ee and orange. Steve said she beat up on me because I'm hot and she wasn't.

To help ease my pain Steve took me out for lunch to Jason's deli. Freaking awesome! I recommend the Turkey Jack Panini. Super delish and they have free icecream. Yum.

Knitting, quitting and more

2006-10-10T09:40:00.000-05:00

My mom is awesome. She's super obsessed with garage sales. Well, this past weekend she came over and gave me a HUGE box filled with "knitting crap" her words, not mine. Anyway the box was filled with misc yarns older yarns(mostly acrylic). There are 3 skeins of Caron's in a peach and white combo, a couple of skeins of a really soft fluffy (but not fluffy like the devil yarn I have now) baby blue yarn and some single skeins in various solid colors. There was also a bag of straight needles (various metals, wood and plastic) about 20 pairs. Yay! I've been stalling on buying a pair of 13's so I can do the spiderweb capelet, but now with the garage sale find I got 'em. Best of all there was a Boyle Needlemaster kit. You know the one where it's got different sized needles and you can change out the cables to make them different circular lengths. It's missing one cable and one size 6 needle. But everything else is there. I'm excited to try it out.

Super awesome news. I quit. That's right I quit my job. This Friday will be my last day. I'm gonna be a stay at home mommy again. Which is good because HP really needs to get potty trained. Right now my mom watches him and well, lets face it he's the favorite grandkid, so he's spoiled and is allowed to crap his pants when he wants. I'm done with changing poopy diapers. Lemme rephrase that, I'm done with changing huge, stinky, big kid poopies. Baby poopies I'm ready for. HP poopies, I'm done with, gah, it's like the kid eats roadkill or something ugh he really needs to use the big boy potty. We even got him a spongebob toilet seat (which he shows no interest in).

The best good news I finally actually graduated! Wooo hooo! After countless years (I'm so not joking) I finally received my diploma in the mail on Saturday. No I'm not walking, I'm huge and don't want to knock anyone off the stage. I'm very happy, can't really believe that I'm done. Now Steve's contemplating on getting his Masters. I think he should.

PS. Just noticed something. On the inside of the Hershey's Reese's Cookie wrapper it says "Candy is a treat. Please consume in moderation". Are they trying to say something about the way my booty is expanding?

Shut Up! Finished Object!?! No way!

2006-09-14T14:18:00.000-05:00

Thaaaat's right! My very first kimino is D O N E done! Forizzle! I'm so excited. I'm already halfway finished with my second baby kimino. After two more girly ones I'll make one for my very own bun in the oven. Even matching booties and hat. Can't wait!

As for the furry blue crap-ass projects. I've abandoned them all. That yarn is the worst and should only be given to knitters you really really hate. I have one project I restarted with Devil Blue yarn and that's just a plain old ribbed scarf. We'll see what happens. I'm only 3 inches into it, but every time I walk by that project I have to give it the "stink eye" and grumble at it. One day I may finish it. But I'll still be left with 3 skeins of it's evil leftovers.

As for the sickness I think it's past, I'm just a little stuffy in the morning but otherwise functioning. I did have my first pregnancy accident the other day. We have a corner of the yard blocked off as HP's play area. Ya know to keep the riff-raff out (aka the dogs). Well my dad, as sweet as he is, built the short fence but didn't complete it. There's no gate. So we improvised by using a baby gate. Baby gates are a pain to move so we always step over it. Well, carrying a front load now I should really take the time to move the gate. It had just rained and I was walking home from the 'rents house (they live directly behind us). I got one leg over the gate and just about had the second over when our overweight weiner dog jumped on the gate and it snagged my shoe. I went down like a spasic ton of bricks. I got my hands out to break my fall but it was muddy so I slid and landed hard on my left knee. On the concrete. After I scraped what was left of my knee (and pride) off of the cement my wound started to bleed. It hurt really bad and I cried like a little kid that fell off her bike.

Two days later and it still hurts. I've also used a whole bottle of bactine. I think it wouldn't be as bad if it wasn't on the side of my knee. It stings everytime I try to bend it. *sigh* That'll teach me to be lazy. Oh well I'll survive. After all there is knitting to be done.

coughcoughsniffle

2006-09-07T08:42:00.000-05:00

My sickness is full blown now. I need different tissues the ones I have hurt my nose, I want those cream-filled ones. I also didn't have enough time to pick-up breakfast as someone, not naming names *coughhuntercough* was being difficult and didn't want to go to Nana's house today. Now I'm starving.

On the knitting front I have got a pic of my pretty much completed kimino. I just need to add some ribbon ties.

Branching out is a disaster. I was working a lace row when hubby called me at work and I forgot where I was at in the pattern row. Of course since I'm using such a fuzzy yarn I can't even tell where the pattern is. I think I may try and rip back that one row. Or frog the whole thing and make a simple ribbed scarf. This yarn sucks. I also got a pattern for a girlie bucket hat so hopefully that'll work better with the fuzzy yarn as there's no pattern it's all done in ss.

So hungry. Maybe I can sneak out for some nourishment. May have to pull the pregnancy card.

Such a bad idea

2006-09-06T14:35:00.000-05:00

Ok so I'm actually working on my Branching out scarf, in the crappy fuzzy yarn. Gah what a horrible idea. I'm only on row 8 but I see no pattern, it's just too fuzzy, thick and it's taken me hours to complete just those 8 rows (of course I am at work have to answer the phone so that's not helping). Right now it looks like crap. Oh and 27 pattern repeats!?! That's crazy, at the rate I'm going it won't be done until next Christmas 2007. I'm going to keep going in the hopes that something will work out and look ok. Ugh, it's really bad. Thank god it's not for me.

Sickness

2006-09-06T10:47:00.000-05:00

Ugh being sick sucks. Being sick AND pregnant sucks worse. Can't take anything. Blah. I missed knitting group last night because of the onset of the sickness. I think I may have already passed it onto HP. Poor kid, although I don't feel that bad as he's usually the first to pass out the sickness. I was sooo excited to go to knitting group and show off my finished baby kimino. I'll have to take a picture now and post it.

I've gotten a little moxie and have decided to try Branching Out. Of course it may not work out as I'm using Patons Devine and it's a really fuzzy/furry yarn. We'll see what happens. It's "Halo Blue", I'm not crazy about the color but I've got a butt-load of it and have to make something. I think if I complete branching out I'm going to try and dip dye it a darker blue with the light blue still showing. Ok I'm off to continue on my lace-work. Wish me luck.

Sushi Please

2006-08-29T11:37:00.000-05:00

I have started yet another project. Mason Dixon Knitting finally came in at the library and I snatched it up (after 3 weeks of waiting gah!). I have started the baby kimino and am halfway thru the first sleeve.

I'm completely retarded when it comes to following directions and knitting. The pattern calls for Peaches & Cream cotton yarn. I substituted for Sugar and Spice Cotton yarn by Lily. I am using the size 6 needles. No I don't swatch. So of course the kimino looks really small. I hope my friend has a small baby. *sigh*. On another note I picked up the same yarn and color as Adrienne did from Michael's. It's the wool/soy blend from Paton's (SWS). I have NO idea what to do with it. But I love love love the color. Any ideas? Oh and it has to be something for me. I'm not sharing this one.

I also stopped by Sip N' Knit on Saturday and picked up the fabu pattern for the Noni Skinny Tube bag. They didn't have all the colors of yarn I needed so I'll just buy them online later. Hopefully cheaper too. It was super fun tho and my mother-in-law had a great time and picked up a couple of $1 patterns (she just started knitting a couple of weeks ago).

And to sign off here is a pick of me and Aiden at 19.5 wks (from last week).

Crappy photos courtsey of my sidekick phone.

Dang Penises

2006-08-16T11:04:00.000-05:00

Well I had my ultrasound on Monday. This whole pregnancy I was sooooo sure we were having a girl. So sure that I went out a couple of weeks ago and bought $150 worth of girlie clothing. I also bought 3 yards of a pink suede fabric so I could make my own crib set (that set me back $46).

Well the tech asked me if I wanted to know the sex (duh of course) and when she scanned over I saw "it". I started to cry. I felt like such an ass. Don't get me wrong I'm totally happy that we're having a healthy baby boy, but man all that money I spent and the super cool name I had picked out. Then I felt bad because the whole time I was calling him a her (I know he can't hear me, well understand, but still). So I'm over the disappointed of not having a girl. I even purchased a super cute bedding set with a cowboy theme. So it's all good and here are the first pictures of Aiden Dane I'm not 100% sure of the spelling yet. We may go with Aidan but I'm kinda leaning towards Aiden.

And the money shot

Well Crap.

2006-08-07T12:37:00.000-05:00

I'm this close *hands 2 inches apart* to finishing the front of the baby sweater. I've realised 2 things. One is the decreases I did should have been K2Tog. No biggie looks ok. 2nd thing I realised is that I did the decreases on the wrong end. I did them on the beginning of the row whereas they should have been done on the end of the row. Crapola. I refuse to rip back now. I'll just have to remember to do the same on the backside. Hopefully it works out.

Thanks Megan sooooo much for the directions on the links. After about 20 tries it finally worked. Also I should be attending the mtgs starting next week. Skool is done! Yay! I have to skip tomorrow night tho as that's the award ceremony for my wonderful picture and I want to collect my $200 for my hard earned work.

Also, this past weekend (fairly uneventful) we stopped at Boarders books in the mall and I was really disappointed in their knitting section. They had like 6 knitting books. Blech. I really wanted Mason Dixon Knitting, as the library still doesn't have it in of course Boarders didn't have it either. Anyway I found "Itty-Bitty Hats" by Susan Anderson. It's got over 3 dozen knitted hats for babies and toddlers. It's super cute. The first one I want to try is "Olive You" it's kind of a square hat with olives and pimentos embroidered all over it and then "Olive You" embroidered too. Hee hee, Olive You, I love you, get it? I'm so easily amused. First I must finish another piggy pod cover for my teenage cousin. She manhandles mine everytime I see her and drops not so subtle hints like "Wow, I really really like your pig, I wish I HAD ONE". She's really cute and starts school in a couple of weeks so I guess it'll be a back to school gift. I also have to figure out what to do with 40 skeins of assorted Sugar N'Cream yarn I got. I got 3 skeins of each color. Maybe it was 2 skeins. I don't remember all I know was that it was only $1 a skein and it seemed like a good deal. Suggestions always welcome.

Teens are retarded

2006-08-04T15:12:00.000-05:00

Around the corner from my house is another house (duh) where a bunch of teens always congregate. I call it the house of "Someone's going to the ER today". The teens have made their own skate ramp (it doesn't look safe at all). The gutter in front of the house is usually littered with broken boards and what not. A couple of weeks ago as I was driving by ER house the group of teens were outside cheering on two other teens that were beating the crap out of each other. When I slowed down they stopped pummeling each other smiled nicely and waved. I kept driving and prayed that my son would atleast have enough sense to wear a mouth guard and gloves.

Yesterday I drove by and they have found a new way to kill themselves. They found a big black plastic pipe, the kind they use for underwater drains or sewage. It's big at least 4 ft tall and it was about as wide. From what I summise- 2 teens had on helmets (safety first of course) and were getting into the tube as the other teen friends were cheering them on (to their painful and slow death I'm guessing). They have a steep driveway at which the pipe was perched at the top and ready to roll down and across the street to...no wait for it.....a ramp into the woods. At least they were wearing helmets.

Finally a knitting post

2006-08-04T15:00:00.000-05:00

I'm pretty sure I have ADD when it comes to knitting. I can't finish anything. I have about 5 projects on needles and another 3 that I put on stitch holders so I could use those needles instead of buying yet another pair. I've picked back up the Embroidered Raglan Sweater from "Knitting for Two" by Erika Knight. I've put it on hold for the past 3 months. The sweater I'm knitting is for my friends son, he's about a month old. I figure by the time I actually finish it he'll be 6months and the perfect size for the sweater. Here's where I'm at so far:

I'm still on the front and slowly making my way thru the decreases. I got a little confused as it said "Decrease" but didn't tell me how. Well actually it said When knitting a fully-fashioned garment, work the decreases 3 stitches in from the outside edge, knitting thru the back of the loops. Say what? I really should completely read my Stitch N' Bitch book. Luckily I'm at work (doing nothing) and logged onto knittinghelp.com and decided to use the SSK (slip as to knit, slip as to purl and then knit something or other). I'm praying that it works. We'll see what happens as I still have to actually finish the front, then the back and 2 sleeves. I should've made a blanket instead.

On another note, how the heck do I add links on the sidebar of my blogger to my other knitting friends? Anyone? Anyone?

I'm an Arrrrteest

2006-08-03T10:11:00.000-05:00

Two semesters ago I took an Illustrator class. Our final project for the class was to take a "portrait" of someone and recreate it using Illustrator. I chose this picture:

And turned it into this using the magic of Illustrator:
As part of the final grade we had to submit the artwork into the school art show. I thought I would win something. I got a big fat NADA. I'm not the greatest, but compared to some of the crap that won I should have at least gotten honorable mention or something.

Hubby convinced me to submit it again to the Seminole County Art Show. I had no expectations. Especially when they called me and asked what medium it was. They don't have a category for Computer artwork. Well lo and behold I just got a call and I won 2nd place!!!! That's out of a 192 entrants. Super cool, now it moves onto the national level or something. I kinda teared up. I'm really happy now.

Personal Hell

2006-07-24T13:42:00.001-05:00

This past weekend I had the *ahem* pleasure of watching my sister's kids along with my own rugrat. It was like a slow motion horror movie. Friday night they came over and our power decided to crap out on us. God love Florida and nights that feel like it's 85 degrees outside. The kids all woke up at 6:30a (wha? There's a 6:30 AM?). By 8am we headed next door to Nana's house to use the pool.

Ok, so my sister's kids aren’t that bad but they do drive you insane. Everything you say or ask them is followed with a "Why?". I can't stand that. The oldest one is snotty and talks back. I really can't stand that, it makes my blood boil. On top of that you have to ask them 4 times to do some menial easy task. Ugh, just thinking about it gives me a migraine.

By 11:30am the boy had gotten out of the pool as he was cold. The girl shortly followed-not by choice. She smarted off to me and I made her get out as punishment, and no swimming for the rest of the sweltering day. My buoy was the only one left bobbing in the pool. Hubby came out and asked why the girl was coming inside. I told him about her behavior; he walked back over to our house to check on the electrician. We live directly next door it's a 10 second walk. The kids were inside changing. Steve walked back over to check on the kids and the boy told him "Sissy is on the phone". Steve asked her 3 times whom she was calling and 3 times she lied and said no one. 911 called us back to make sure there was no emergency. Then the sheriffs department stopped by to verify. *Sigh* at least she didn't call a 1-900 number. We made her (through tears and sobbing) apologize to the sheriff for making the phony call. Her punishment was no birthday party and no swimming for the rest of the weekend. Unfortunately it was more like punishment to us, as we had to listen to her whine all weekend.

I had mentioned in an earlier post that HP got a new bunkbed. That opened up another can of worms as all three kids wanted to sleep on the top bunk. We ended up splitting them up, girl on top bunk, HP on bottom and boy sleeping in a different room. We very quickly found out that he's the instigator and general shit disturber.

I found out this weekend that boy sleepwalks. He slept walked into HP's room and peed on the floor and himself. I believe weekend was really about me not getting any sleep. I was actually looking forward to going to work and being away from the kids.

By Sunday night we were done with taking care of 3 kids. HP was especially over it as he could be heard in his room screaming "GET OUT! Get out of my room!!!". Bedtime on Sunday night had been drastically moved up to 7:30p instead of 9pm. If we hadn't done that, we would have ended up with fewer kids than we started with and an alibi nowhere in sight.

I must say though, girl was brave and yanked out her own loose tooth. After we told her she would get money for it.

Birfday

2006-07-20T15:29:00.000-05:00

HP's birthday is coming up pretty soon. I've decided to get him a fish. I figure it's about time for him to learn about death, being the big 3 and everything. Here is my magnifique choice:

He will adore me even more now. Spongebob is his god (at the present moment, last month it was Elmo).

We recently got him a new bed. A bunkbed, totally awesome. However, he still wants me to sleep with him. Thank god we got the one with a full on the bottom. Now if I could get him to ditch the fleece blanket we'd be golden, it's like a million degrees sleeping with that thing. Last night he was especially needy, he held my hand until he fell asleep. Made me a little teary eyed, he's super sweet. Really I guess I needed the hand holding more than him. I did wake up at 2am with a sweaty little hand still in mine- I still love it, sweat and all.

Kids these days....

2005-08-31T10:45:00.000-05:00

Ok, so I consider myself young. Not teenager young, late 20's young (and when I turn 29 in the not so distant future I will stop counting). I'm very slowly finishing my degree in Graphic Design (woo hoo 2 yr degree has taken me 4 yrs). I'm now down to the crappy classes that really don't have anything to do with Graphic Design. Take for example my Environmental Biology class. I guess I can incorporate my graphics knowledge into my term papers or something.

Anyway that's not really the point. I guess my point is kids these days don't know how to A. Listen and 2. Think. There's a girl in my class and I say girl because I really don't think she's older than 17 (and that's a stretch). She must own stock in the color pink. First week of class I thought oh how cute she's color coordinated- pink purse, pink shirt, pink shoes, pink fingernails and a pink bow in her hair. Second week of class I thought how tragic her name must be Pepto Bismol. Once again she was dressed in a long sleeved pink shirt, a pink tank under that, pink tinted sunglasses and even pink stitching on her jeans. Also she's blond. I have absolutely nothing against blonds, I am even blond and have a blond child. I love blonds, but this girl, she is the reason people make fun of blonds.

So we're in class and the professor is asking about what theories we know about, string, evolution etc. Then she moves onto Laws. Stick with me people it's about to get good. The prof. says "You know laws, like, there was this guy sitting under a tree and an apple fell and hit him on the head". Before anybody else could answer Pepto pipes up "Johnny Appleseed!". I'm not lying. Oh my gawd. What the hell is wrong with youth today that they don't know about Isaac Newton and his law of GRAVITY. That's right people Johnny Appleseed is the one who discovered gravity by (and I'm making a wild guess) eating apples and realizing that all the seeds he spits out fall to the ground, thus he comes to the conclusion that there is gravity.

I'm tempted to find out what school she went to, to learn "Appleseed's Law of Gravity" so I can be sure not to enroll my child there. There's also a theory of "Adapt or Die" I've got money on her not adapting.