are you ready?

tomorrow night is all hallows eve, halloween to most of us. what makes us celebrate this holiday? what makes this so special, is it the thrill be being 'frightened " by little ghosts and goblins or will you have more happy little trick or treaters, actually as far as my family we will be suprised with little or no little kids coming to the door, ringing the door bell . most of the children we have , are not kids in the sense we are would expect. nope most of the kids we get are old enough to drive a car, and vote in the next election, so what do you do when this happens. well if your me, you give them candy and then check out who is in and out of my neighborhood, that is way more important than a candy bar don' ya all think.


i am so far behind on the jolly roger sweater, i have just about completed the front am doing the shoulder shaping now. then its not just a bla sweater anymore, tis actually going to be well



well am off to catch me some zzzzzzzzzzzz's so until tomorrow god bless and keep ya all, and keep on being the good nice person you all are :D hugs for ya all ciao

halloween party

well my son had his halloween party and while it was loud it was fun,. we were going to go out, but decided to just stay home as my back was hurting(what else is new!!!) and while we were playing one of the games, he had this huge spider tacked up on the ceiling , that when you clapped your hands loud it came down fast, well last night one of the kids clapped and the stupid thing fell and almost hit me in the head, must be a wierd thing, cause last year son was the one who got bonked on the head with a flashing pumpkin hehe, but i jerked back for some reason and no one was hurt so thats a good thing. he cleaned the house up today as part of the agreement. so all is well


its getting so cold outside i know we are going to have a early winter. even shadow with his long fur wanted to go into the garage tonight hehehe

i sat around and did next to nothing today. slept in till 9 oclock which is sooo unusal for me and then about 12 layed down and fell back asleep. gosh wonder whats going on, could it be, nooooooo not old age hehehe. omgosh tonight there was a couple kids walking down the road throwing firecrackers which pissed me off b ig time cause i knew it would scare the cats. and sure enough little itsy was outfront looking to hide. i got her back in the yard and she sat in papas lap and fell asleep there like a good girl. hubby sat in the "cathouse" hehe the recroom tonight and just sat and listened to music but it was to cold for me so i stayed inside, i told him if he wanted to start a fire now that was another story but he said no , not tonight so i said fine not coming out :D he was not happy but OHWELL, i can't deal with the cold anymore,. my old bones hurt so bad is not even funny. makes me wonder how much arthritis i do have. i think i am better off not knowing hehehe did work a bit on some comfortghan squares and seriously need to get back to the jolly roger sweater.. i just am not in the mood really. not sure why. all i want to do is laydown and listen to music and read a good book, while there is nothing wrong with that. it sure don't get any work done. well i have decided for sure
that i am going to go through my yarn stash and destash until i can fit it all in the yarn room as i call my craft room(since thats all thats in there hehe) so will be posting both here and on the forums i frequent so that if ya all are interested let me know and i might even sign up for that program that pays for ya, oh yea paypal see am getting old lol. since it would be a easy and fair way to sell it and for people to buy it.hint hint hint i am bad i know, as i have promised but i truly am trying to organize it. please all have patience. as i will get to it for sure.



tomorrow is another day i wonder if i will get anything done then either lol seems like when the weekend comes i am to tired to do much. maybe i am anemic, well have a doc appointment coming soon so will see what he says.


i was given the 3 other people i will be swapping christmas ornaments with and it is going to be fun i know.



has anyone beside my friend donna(buggaboosmommy) finished their christmas shopping. that girl is done in july or earlier. i need her to be my personal shopper i think hehe




i need to make a list actually since there is not many i buy or make for anymore just my own family hubby kids mil/fil and my youngest sister nance and her family, the others sometimes i will give them something small but i don't goout of my way anymore to buy exepsive gifts as most of my family dont evnen give a rip, and while i don't expect them to gush it would be nice to have a thanks or hey i got it(i not only spent the money to buy and wrap the gifts but also to ship them where they need to be) so it would be nice to have a little appreciation.



oh well thats not what christmas is for, gifts are not my focal point , and while i have taught my kids that there is alot more than presents, they are kids and while adult kids,they do appreciate what i make. in fact dd is getting almost completely home made or hand made items, i bought her a small purse from a shop on etsy.com, novelty creations, this site is made by a artist right here in washington, and she is very dependable. she makes alot of bags and some other things so if you are interested. look her up, i also bought another larger bag tonight for dd for christmas for her art supplies, what is nice is it matches the purse listed on a previous post. so far i have those 2 things and the jolly roger sweater and a cute penguin blanket i am going to make her. now for something small like a cd or something and she is good to go. son now is another story although have a few things for him although most of that will go towards his b-day which is next month wow i can't believe it, my son is going to be 25 a quarter of a century old whoaaa makes me old don't it hehehe



well best get my rear in gear and get back to crocheting at least finish the squares for the person i am making for on the ville. i hope ya all have a great day tomorrow, don't forget (unless your in arizona) set your clocks back a hour, yea a extra hour to get to sleep woooohoooo. think i will sleep in? highly doubtful, just will wake up earlier grrrrrrrrrrrrr oh well my kitties will thank me. hubby might not though hehe, most nights i end up back out in the living room anyways so i will maybe just sleep out there anyways and that way won't disturbe him, (maybe , i might try and just stay in my own bed)



hope ya ll had a great weekend and that you enjoy your sunday. glad that all is well with everyone. have been worried about a few people but talked to them tonight so know all is well.


off now to crochet(and eat a ice cream cone hehehehehehe) hugs for ya all god bless and keep you and forever more i hope ya all have great happiness and no sorrow in your lives.remember one day at a time and all will make it thru. ciao for now and god bless you all.

wensdays wunderings

today was a bla day, didn't do much, took a dvd back to costco because somehow(please don't ask me how i could be so dense) i picked up the wrong one so needed to take it back, as i was standing in line, ahead of me was a guy who had bought a bottle of vitamins back in april, he had brought them back today to exchange them for a "fresher" bottle LOL, it was all i could do to not laugh. some people really have nerve, i mean we are talking 6 months peeps. sheeeesh, so anyways as the lady was trying to explain to him how it could not be done, since it was so old, and that as long as the only reason that he didn't want it was it was not as fresh LOL LOL LOL, some people really are gutsy.

after costco i had to go to the drugstore to get my prescription filled(hey isn't that part of a stones song?) lol anyways i needed to go and pick it up today only took me 3 freaking days to get it. i mean how hard is i for the nurse to answer the fax. grrrrrrrrrrrrrr



so after i did that i went to the auto place to get the tabs for my sons car,(what a nice mom i am), then decided to come home and go on my suzee homemaker routine. i baked corn muffins in the cupcake holder, and tried to decide what wonderful culinary dish i would prepare with my two hardworking hands for my dear daahling hubby tonight. he has been complaining i haven't been doing my wifey things and cooking said meals for him., umm honey its like this i feel like somethig the cat drug in and i don't want to bake and cook when i don't feel good, so anyways today i decided i felt well enough to try and make a differet dinner, so while i have been contimplating what to make i decided something with chicken,,


now while i look through all of my things in my cupboards i found some canned chicken breasts, yup you heard right,,canned chicken, so i opened both cans and put in a fry pan with some flaked onion, sliced carrots and celery and let it simmer for about half a hour, making sure that there was plenty of juice simmering, all the while, then i got a wild hair up ny rear and decided to make the corn muffins. while i enjoyed them alot, they just don't seem to have the taste i remember. maybe its because they are missing the honey on the muffins. yup that must be it hehehe anyways then added egg noodles and let it simmer till noodles were done, it was good people hehe, yea me



today also worked on mu dd's jolly roger sweater. i need to finish that asap as i want to make her some more things.


today i got my tax refund in the mail from the county,, let me tell you that felt good knowing they realize because of my disability i don't not only have to pay more, but i actually got a few hundred back from what i had paid, because of my disability and our income being so low. how is that awesome yea jumping up and down in cyber space



this was all done on about 3 hours of sleep as last night in the middle of the night all of a sudden, i kept hearing a beep. every 5 minutes. if that, seems to me it was closer than that, anyways i would fall bac asleep beep, sleep beep went on alll dang night long, stupid smoke alarm batteries were low, so it was worn low, bout 5 am this morning hubby disconnected the stupid thing, i said THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much dear. hense the nice dinner which by the way he loved very much, either that or he was starving lol


so my friends and family i am signing off my dears as i am tired as heck and need some sleep, now to call dd and find out the time she plans on being home as this old lady needs her sleep especially now that i am getting to be a senior citizen hehehe, so i bid you all a good night and a god bless and keep you always , till we meet again in blogland or anywhere else. lock up the smoke alarms and slip into dreamland and lose myself in a good dream(hawaii sounds good) night all god bless , hug one another and don't be mean be nice hugs to ya all :)

my sunday

hey ya all. today i was totally wiped out, i am still extremely tired as to how my days have gone. i did not get to bed untill after 5 this morning as my daughter who is still on my mad list did not get home until almost 5 this morning, and boy am i pissed, i sat and called her cell phone over and over and over until i got her eventually going on 5 am, i needless to say threw the book at her and asked why she had no compaision as to why her dad and i were very worried, even called all the area hospitals, little brat LOL

worked on the jolly roger sweater again but i wonder if i will want to give it to her anyways. i am very tired tonight and hurt pretty bad so will blog tomorrow, shadow was very happy tonight to see us anyway hugs

what a day

today i got up not knowing what i was going to do for the day. hubby was planning on working in the yard, i had been invited well we both were invited to our neighbors sons wedding, but hubby does not do weddings period. would not matter who, except perhaps if our kids get married and then wether or not he wants or not he is going and wearing a tux or i will sit on him
LOL LOL lol
anyways my other neighbor called and asked if i was going to go as she did not know any of the people there and said if i wanted to go she would drive which is a blessing for me , i said yes i had been planning on going to it but just the wedding as i didn't know if i could make it to the reception or not, it was a beautiful wedding and i cried lol, i have known the groom since he was in 1st grade hehe, they made a beautiful fammily together as she has 2 kids of her own. so now there are 4 of them hehe, after the wedding was over my neighbor asked if we were going to go to the reception and i asked medori my neighbor who i was riding with, if she wanted to go and she said yes that would be fun but to let her know if i needed to leave, so we went to it and enjoyed ourselves, was nice to get out for a bit, even if i did feel like hell. and looked almost as bad, i seriously need to lose some weight, but have no clue as to how to do it as i don't eat that much now. anyways back to the subject, we enjoyed ourselves and had some goodies and there was a nice buffet, so ate and we talked briefly with the bride and groom and also our neighbors. then we came home and i was glad to get here too.

while i was gone . hubby was doing yard work, and boy did he do a nice job, the cedar bushes needed to be trimmed a bit since they were so tall and if we have alot of snow it will break them down

well i saw the time and decided to feed the fur babies, you would think one would be happy to have dinner on time, but oh no not my cats, they strutted around me as if to say WHERE WERE YOU!!!! So we put coast in the rec room and blocked the kitty door and let shadow out after he had ate, well all was fine for a while when all of a sudden i saw shadow spurt into a run and i was afraid he would go over the fence, but it was worse, somehow coast had gotten out and shadow went after him with all he had, poor coast, he is such a peace loving cat and for shadow to attack him , well he didn;t know what to do so he ran under my car and pressed himself up next to the tire and stood his ground, well i tried and tried to get shadow finally he came out from under the car far enough for me to grab him, i had to almost sit on him to make him stop. this sucks i hate them fighting all the time and its all shadows fault., so i had to put him back in his kennel, he didn't understand and was crying pitefly, but coast was still scared and would not come out from under the canaopy, poor baby. so you can see how my day went. medori my neighbor who gave me a ride has asked if i want to go out to lunch next week, sounds like fun i told her. so will see

tonight though i am really paying the price for tackling shadow, funny thing, tonight when i went to put him in the garage as thats whre he sleeps cause its so cold outside and i have to seperate them. grrrrrrrrr, poor baby cuddled right up in my arms and went to sleep, he was sleeping so hard he was snorring lol silly boy.


so today was fun, yet a royal pain. i need a vacation any one have a idea as to how i can get one hehehe.

still working on my daughters sweater and also was given some awesome yarn today i got in the mail from my pal sue, hey you girl i love it sooo much, for those of you who don't know what its for, sue suprised me for my birthday, hehe its modedea ariel 10 skeins and she also made me a market bag for when i go to the market. thank you sweetie, you guys spoil me rotten and i love ya all. well guess i should get off here and get some rest, need to put my legs up before they get to be hurting so bad that nothing helps,. so i bid you a good night or good morning which ever the case may be lol god bless and keep you all.am back to crocheting the jolly roger sweater for dd for christmas. i hope she likes it. hugs to you all

oh and i should be having the yarn listed soon, for some reason the pics i took didn't work on my camera for some reason, so have to reshoot them dang it i did it so nice too soooooo please have patience as i will soon get to it, hugs all around

fridays thoughts

today as it happens once a week is friday hehe, i have never been so glad to see the end of the week come at all. its been one of those weeks. but not all was bad, i recieved some truly awesome things in the mail, first i have to let you all know what my fellow blogger(i suck at blogging, she usually ends up fixing it for me) trish did for me, her mom was kind enough to give me a walking stick that she had gotten at a powwow and it has a hand carved buffalo on it. it truly is one of the most awesome things someone has ever given to me, while this alone would truly have been enough, trish decided that she needed the walking stick to be protected so she stuffed the box with yarn , yes yarn yipeeeeeeeee, currently i am crocheting with this awesome 50% mohair and 50% acrylic. this yarn is so yummy i am having a hard time not wanting to just run my fingers through it , the name of it is bucilla melody and can be machine washed. i wonder if my lil sis as i call her would like a scarf made out of it. hehehe, shhhh don't tell her lol inside this gigantic box is so much yarn i don't know where i am going to put it all. my hubby has told me that if it is not out of the dining room by december, no christmas treem talk about pressure. i am trying to take pics of the yarn i want to sell but my camera keeps eating the way it was not sure, i will attempt to post some in a few min to see if anyone is interested. thanks so much for looking if ya do, you can contact me and i can then figure out how much shipping will be. the second awesome thing that happened to me was i got a box from my secret holiday pal at the mania i was not sure who she was. but she left me totally speechless. i recieved awesome things from her,m first off i recived this beautiful pen set. is lovely has 2 differnt size pens in it as well as a heart key chain. she also made me some lovely coasters she also sent me some lorna dunes how did you know i loved them that much, ate half the box last night lol also she gave me 2 chocolate bars which i did share lol, also she sent me a beading tool for me to use with my clay, and she also (talk about generous) bought me the disney princess afghan book, something i have been wanting forever. woohooo she also sent me some black chenille from lions brand. very nice stuff :D she also sent me this beautiful charm bracelet in christmas charms, very very pretty :) also yes there is more see what i mean she sent me a pad and pen set(differnt from the other one)and last but not least, she sent me some yummmy smelling potpourie. girl you made my week i am just thilled with everything you have sent me,

lately i have been feeling very stressed, not sure why except i feel like crud. my back and the fall cold and damp weather just don't get along together, i feel as my daddy would say i have arthur itis mr itus seems to not mind when called by his first name but he does take time to jump right in. i always laughed when my daddy
called it that. i sure miss him and my mom, this time of year we all start thinking about the holidays and how we will celebrate and with whom, most of you i am sure probably still have your parents at least, maybe lucky enough to have your grandparents.


i remember most of the christmas's as i grew up, but one precious moment sticks well in my mind. it was in the mid 60's i would say probably about 1967 when having a bike was the "in" thing to have. we didn't have alot and there are 5 kids to deal with too so asking santa for a big present was the only way to get anything. one year my dad had asked us to wrapped up these huge boxes, we asked him
daddy whats in this, he whispered shhhhhhhh your mom might hear, so we immediatly thought it was for mom, come christmas eve(is when we always opened presents) we all had out gifts given to us and then just as we figured that mom would open her gifts( daddy had told us that he made her a coffee table and end tables to match, he was a awesome gifted woodworker) and the tags had my sisters and brothers name on it along with mine, so when we opened them we thought mom would be so suprised, so when we opened them we about fell over because inside the boxes were stingray bikes, we were in 7th heaven, another time i remember my dad playing all these silly tricks on grandpa, this one year, he had arranged to buy for my grandpa a rare nickel gramps had been eyeing, well of course how could he just wrap a nickle that would give him to much of a idea, nope daddy went and found a small fur lined toilet(gag gift)i think he found it in some catalouge or something, but what daddy did, was get this HUGE box and placed this fur lined potty in it, inside he wrapped toilet paper up and down and all around, anywhere he could stack it roll it stuff it he did, and inside the fur lined potty he wrapped the nickle up and put it deep into the toilet bowl, then closed the lid, put it in the deep box and stuff it full completely with tp, come christmas when we went to the grandmas house for gifts we all opened our gifts and there was one left under the tree, grandpas, so dad passed it over to him and sat back with a smirk on his face and camera ready,. when he opened that up i thought he was going to die from laughter, and you know what gramps did? yep you got it he rerolled all the tp and used it later for what it was intended.. if you have some awesome stories to tell, be it sad happy silly like mine , or just plain special for you please tell us all about it. this christmas is going to be hard for me, it will be the last time i saw my mom alive. she was literely thrilled since she had all her kids together one last time. so mom and dad, grandparents i love and miss you all, you too the rest of the family hugs to you all, now am off to bed as i am just plain worn out, god bless and keep you all and remember treat another as you want to be treated. hugs all around hehe, can't believe how tired i am and how long this wee has been, but because of my dear friends and family(yes i consider trish my sis) take care and good night and god bless :)

my day ho hum

today was a usual boring day got up early, fed the fur babies and sent them to the rec roomexcept shadow who has a kennel all to himself(the other furbabies will have to do) did laundry, washed dishes, had to sit down cause my back went out. talked to my sister for a while, they are going to try and build a new house this next year. yea sis i am so glad.


omg, i was so good today, i went to both michaels and joanns and didn't buy myself ANyTHIng nada zip, got it all for my mate tammie who is down in the ozmans home(and no i don't mean the one and only ozzy !!!!) tammie hon, i was able to get what you asked for, how cool is that hon. will send sometime next week.


tonight shadow was so happy, we let him out early out of his kennel and boy did he have fun, we played with the bamboo stick and the crocheted strings i have tied on it, he ran up and down trees all over the yard. i think he favorite is the cedar tree, it is a different kind of cedar we have in our yard.

spent part of the day with mil, is sooo sad to see her like this, she is only 76 years old, yet she seems so much older . sleeps all most all of the time,, was also very confudsed as didn't even know my daughters name or age,. how come there is so much sadness in our worlds today.


i am tired and worn out,just thought i would pop in and blog, kari i cant ewait to hear about yarn school, i bet you guys had a blast



oh just to let ya all know i will soon have some awesome yarns listed on my blog here for sale very soon, remember the more you buy, the more you will get, and for those who don't know come check it out, you need something special? more special than you can find? just ask perhaps i have it and at a great price am having a great sale god bless and keep you always so godspeed and for those who need that extra push GET OFF YOUR TUSH AND GET BUSY HEHEHEHEHEHE. JUST KIDDING LOL I AM SO BAD LOL
for all of you bloggers out there i am hoping to get trish to help me, any suggestions about it i can make my blog more interesting yet, i know that there must be something i can do to snaz it up, trish darling, girl, get your thinking cap on and see what else you can do for this budding blog(all of the changes that were made, my buddy trish did it, thanks again honey, you did a great job, now to add more to it, i know i have alot to be thankful for, you are so special to me and don't know what i would do without you so THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU LOVE ya all night now hugs and god bless cya hehe

boy was i good

today michaels had a awesome yarn sale, in fact all week long they are having it, i drove right by there. didn't even stop once, not once did i even go in there, what retrainst that was, and at walmart, even though i walked in the yarn aisle, i petted some, looking for a particular one for my new friend tammie in australia, but they didn't have what i wanted so i left, without yarn, is this the begining of my 12 steps towards addiction free of buying yarns? csn i do it again? will see tomorrow when i have to go to joanns for something,(not the one dd use to work in puyallup, but the one in tacoma hehehe,

today i felt like hell, back is hurting so bad can not hardly stand it lately.when i went to walmart today i was lucky and found a handicap spot fairly close to a store entrance., or so i thought, i no sooner stepped out of my car when i was verbaly assaulted about how wrong it was for me to par in a handicap spot. this man was probably in his early 60's, and looked a hell of a lot healthier than me, i wanted to slap him, i chose to ignore him and started walking towards the store entrance, when the employee there saw what was happening and since i shop there alot this particulat one and while i don't talk to every employee i do say hello to the greeters at the front. she asked if anything was wrong, this guy was still running his mouth off , so i told her my back was really bad today. she looked right at the jerk and said well honey i don't blame you for parking in the handicaped spot, i guess mr jerk face realized that i didn't use another persons placcard nor did i fake it so i could walk in there. it peeves me something fierce.. then to make matters worse, i got this awful horrible stabbing pain in the middle of my spine that ran around my spine into my hip down my hip into my leg and down my leg into my foot, it almsot knocked me over
i stood there and just gasped as the pain was so bad, do you think any one asked me if i was alright? not only did it cause me severe pain i almost fell, and when i looked up there was like 7 people staring at me. i felt like asking what am i a freak/ i mean i know people don;t like to get involved, but that was a bit much, alright enough complaining, just needed to vent and get that out of my system.


i chatted with friends tonight on line, ya know if it was not for my online friends, i would not have any, friends at all to chat with, everyone has their own work they have to do and their own problems, why bother to see how another person is., kk i promise no more
lol



am working on my daughters christmas present. i am making her the stitch and bitch happy hooker book that has the jolly roger sweater in it. its a skull and cross bones. also am going to make her a hat with that one.


well enoughfor tonight am tired and need bed,


hope all your nights are quiet and your days filled with happiness and joy, god bless you all, chat with ya all later my dear friends god bless and keep ya and happy hooking for ya all :)

my weekend

i can not believe how fast the time is going. yesterday i did not do a whole lot other than bake and cook and do laundry ect. today i worked on my dd's christmas present. am making her the jolly roger sweater in the happy hooker stitch n bitch book. friday,i went all over looking for the newest edition of the crochet pattern a day calendar. NO ONE HAS IT!!! nobody, can you believe this, even costco who has all the rest of the stuff in my universe has none sitting here crying my eyes out!!!!

have not felt real good recently, my back and legs are so much worse, i am finding that even sitting with my legs up is not stopping the pain. i am very frustrated with this in the fact, my orthopedic surgeon who is one of the most kind and caring as well as being a brilliant doctor, has told me to my face there is nothing he can do for me. which made him very upset as he hates not being able to help others.


today worked on her sweater as i am running out of time, sent my reveal package out thursday for my secret pal, but since i have notheard from her i am going to assume she has not recieved it yet so will not say who she is just yet. hehe

i got my silk from regina at fiber freaks and omgosh, should have bought more of it hehe oh well at least i got 5 of them although already promised to another friend as she had ordered some on the ville and had been ripped off by a member who is no longer a part of any of the forums that she frequents, when i heard she had been ripped off i asked her if she still wanted some and she does so am sharing
with her

i got my bejewled crochet hook on friday was not disapointed at all, its a size g with beautiful layers of swirled blues and greens and has a little golden frog on it. frogs i love, dang it i forgot to say that on my interview for the christmas holida swap. oh well thats alright, i will have the chance later if i am lucky enough to get picked by someone special hehe

can't wait to hear from kari how yarn school was. i so wished i could have gone sometime.hope ya had a great time kari


i bought some daffodil bulbs the other day got 40 of them for 5.00 cause it was a big package and it normally was 10.00 for the pack, but as i said they were 50% off and i am so lucky.... now to get some tulips and such.



well its later that i thought and i really need to work on the sweater, i am about done with half of the front and am getting excited thinking how she is going to like it.. oh and i made a new friend in ozland her name is tammie and i think we are going to have a blast enjoying each others friendships. speaking of frienships my dear, i am sorry if i missed you tonight on the chat room at yahoo. was busy with a few other things hon, will chat tomorrow with ya tammie


well its almost bed time and i am beat, so for all of you out there in blog land. i bid you adea. sleep good and be kind to yourself and one another. hugs and god bless

i am soooooooooooooooooo happppy

as some of you know, i made myself a goal originally to make 40 helmet liners, but since i turned 50 thought maybe i could make that many helmet liners, while i was doing this there were some who asked if they could help, of course, no problem, well with the help of 3 awesome people who made 7 helmet liners for me, i continued to crochet and crochet and i made 43 myself so today i sent the liners off to buggaboosmommy, who in turn is sending to her hubbys unit in afghanistan and they just happen to have 50 people in his squadren hehehe, so as i type they are on their way. i took pics and when i upload them tomorrow(am to tired to do it now) will show ya them soon.

had a pretty nice day although i am verrry tired tonight and am going to close, i hope ya all have a awesome day tomorrow all day, will blog more tomorrow after i get back from getting my meds


now to start on my dd's skull sweater and hat, also perhaps a purse. speaking of, i bought her this on etsy.com, well its not quite the one i wanted as the seller didn't have enough material to complete the bigger one so she is going to make the smaller one for dd. so now to go find it
brb hehe kk found it, how cool is this bag huh, she is into goth stuff right now and i can see her face light up like a million candles.


well ya all am off to bed soon, but before i go, just want to say thank you all of you for your support and care and love, also today i recieved some awesome b-day presents today from jacqui from down under. she sent me alot of goodies, but the one thing she sent to me which has my head spinning was a beautiful white opal ring for my 50th b-day, now how special is that, she even sent things for my dh, will take pics tomorrow of all the goodies. jacqui me mate, love ya darl hope ya all sleep good and wake with a smile on your face. god bless and keep you always hugs for you all

ever have one of those days?

today i woke up chilly, thought hmmm someone left the heat down last night. i get up and odd its still right where i set it last night, hmmmmm very odd, so i decided to look outside, and what to my eyes appeared? frost all over the place, down right stinking cold frost grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

its only oct 10th, we should not be getting frost now? whats up with that. shadow was eager to come outside, lol he felt that cold and turned right around and went to go right back into the garage, while the rec room is heated, the outside isn't . and the inside of the garage gets the residue heat from the house so he is quite warm, all i can say is i am sure glad we decided to pick the garden clean yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa we saved it all hot dawg!!!!


every have a day when you can do something nice for someone who is not expecting it? trust me it feels awesome. well today i have things to do and places to go, people to see so will talk with ya all later, besides the battery on my laptop is fading fast and i want to publish hehehe god bless and keep you all hugs to ya all :)

is it monday already?

dang where did the weekend go? sat hubby and son and i cleaned the garden out. finished harvesting the beans (how i will miss not picking fresh beans for dinner) and the tomatoes(omg i have a huge amount of green tomatos, any suggestions?) seriously i have probably about 50 pounds of tomatos to do something with. while its not as many as last year when i had a record amount of 85 pounds or somewhere around there, its still alot of tomatos


sunday for some reason i slept allll day seriously all day, i woke up about 5, realized i had not taken my meds the night before(which is why i woke up, from the pain) took them, ate some cereal so my body didn't get sick from the meds alone, then when back to bed. got up at 8 fed the cats and got shadow out of the garage and into his own little igloo, got the sunday paper, handed it to hubby, and procedeed to go right back to sleep, next thing i know its 10 am, do i get up, ummm nope, just roll over after telling dd goodbye when she left for work, next thing i know, its 2:30 in the afternoon. i am so not tired right now LOL

on saturday night there was a earthquake centered under mt rainier, was a 4. something 6 i think, while this is odd, the scientists say to not get to alarmed as it was not part of volcanic swarms(ummm this is EXACTLY the way mt st helens started!!!!) while i know i would be safe as i live far enough away and to the west enough and away from the puyallup valley, i should not have any adverse effects should the old man decide to pop his top. but let me tell you, if it did, there would be a whole lot of hurt going on, this area is so populated that should it explode like st helens did, many more people would die, especially when the lahar siren didn't work well last week when tested, actually it didn't work at all in fact.


on to another subject, you should see my house, my son goes totally crazy when it comes to decorating for the holidays. especially halloween and christmas, but especially halloween, its his favorite celebration. every day when i get up, he has added more and more decorations, his latest is singing skeletons, while cute, should they go off in the middle of the night he will be minus some old bones GRRRRR


finished my 2nd scarf for the scarf swap and will send the goodies off on tuesday, since there is no mail tomorrow what is up with that. lucky ducks lol

i am going to be listing on e-bay and maybe etsy.com to sell a ton of yarn,. if anyone is interested in seeing anything before i list it let me know and i will see what i can do to save you some e-bay fees lol well both of us lol

talked with some good friends this evening fran and

donna, and then the famous trish who designed this blog and made it the interesting place it is. without her i would be lost. so thank you trish i love it all.


not much else going on this week, sunday we went to mil's house,. i tell ya it about broke my heart to see her so bad, she seemed to be a totally different person, she didn't even remember i was married to her son and she didn't even know me, yet fil and her doc say its not alzheimers, granted they didn't bother to test so how the heck do they know? i guess they are just in denial. sad though, i love this woman as i did my own mother and its almost as if she is gone too. she called me tonight with fil's help to say she was going to bed. yes thats right, to say she was going to bed. then she asked about the cats. for some reason she seems to remember the older days but not recent. i am crying in my heart.

trying to decide what i am going to get my son for his b-day., hubby and i already said we are not buying each other anything and he didn't only because i could not find anything, but i do know i will get him something.

he complains ALLLLLL the time about retiring, but i am not sure i could stand having him home all day, let alone the finanical ruin it would be. what the sticking point is of course the medical, last time we checked the medical would be over 900.00 a month for him and i, thats almost half of our income before taxes. no way it isn;t happening, if he does most likely we will split up as i will not be able to survive without medical and if we sold the house and went our ways i would have some for a while to live on, after that then medicade would have to take over, is sad when you have been married as long as us that you start drifting apart. i always thought we would never part, but lately have been thinking about it alot, as i know he is too, why do people stay together when they are not happy. i honestly thought he loved me , but there are times now i question it,. and thats because i don't know him anymore, is amazing how when someones life changed due to something out of their control, how it changes people. i suppose i have changed i am sure i have, but am i such a bad person that no one wants to be around me? i never thought of myself as a shrew maybe i am :(

why does things happen to you and then its like your not the same as before, of course i am not the same, i can't do the same things i can't be what he wants me to be, is it my fault or his or anyones? i just don't know anymore. inside i am dying a little every day, i try and be cheerful, but inside i wonder why i am here.does ones happiness from the past keep you together? my parents divorced after 27 years of marriage, we have been married going on 28 now. and his parents have been married togetner since 1950. yet they are not happy, never have been as far as i could ever tell, fought all the time, just like we are doing now. i hate life sometimes, alright i am done with my whoa me pity party time to just let it go for now, tomorrow will not bring me anymore happiness, why should i worry about it anymore its so not worth it to do it, just makes me sad again :(


hope your day is going better than mine and that things look brighter for you, maybe i will crochet myself a little cacoon(sp sucks sorry) or is that right lol who knows or cares. not me. k night ya all hope that tomorrow is a better day, who knows maybe i will hit the lottery. i should have damn it, but i was to nice and let my friend go ahead of me and she won instead. oh well life is like that
a bowl of cheetios its not. tata for now my friends. god bless and keep you all and for those who need my prayers and you all know who you are, you got them sweeties, hope things are better for your family and friends. take care and until we greet each other tomorrow, peace out and god bless. and hug the one you love today. byeeeeeeeeeeeee signing off now till we meet again, happy trails to you

hey

hi ya all, omgosh i did it i actually did it 2 days in a row i posted rotfl .... just kidding , don't have a ton to say but did want to wish everyone a awesome weekend. not sure what we are going to be doing. hubby wants to go to leavenworth washington for the oktoberfest they have there every year. one little problem, i don't have enough meds to cover making the extra trip. but on the other hand and its good news, its still going on NEXT weekend when i WIll have my meds. i hate scheduling my life around my meds, it sucks, i wish that someone would invent a way to stop the pain i have in my life 24/7. kk enough of the pity me thing lol today i baked chocolate chip/pecan cookies, they are almost gone already grrrrrrrr. my family when i do bake seem to snatch it up faster than i can bake it. and i also while deciding to be suzy homemaker, i made some awesome if i do say so myself, biscuits. yummmmy. they too are almost gone, since we had soup and sandwhiches for dinner( i was lazy lol) they tasted good,

now on to crochet. i am excited to say i only have 2 yes thats right 2 more helmet liners to make then i will have the 50 i wanted. i had some help from 3 other people and i thank you guys from the bottom of myheart. i myself have made 41 of these hats and in all told will have made 43. i wanted to make 50 myself, but am just to pooped to do it and need to send them off next week. am sending to donna, buggaboosmommy, her hubby is deployed and we are sending to his squad this year. last year my helmet liners went to iraq and kuwait, this year they are going to afghanistan. along with other goodies we are collecting. i need to make a trip to costco and get some fruit leather since they can have those, also have some hot chocolate, although maybe not enough, dang it will have to buy more oh well lol also am trying to collect the small things like mouth wash and other things that the military does not supply. if any of you would like to help let me know and i can direct you to donna and her e-mail(need to ask her first lol) otherwise i can send them to her too if ya all want to help. we are also trying to get 25 5.00 cards for burgerking and add to their baskets, they can use those on base and get some good old fashioned american junk food lol seriously anything anyone wants to do would be greatly appreciated. if you need to have reciets for the goodies not a problem, we know that alot of others have stolen and scammed us, this is the real thing trust me. if ya know donna from the ville or else where you can e-mail her and she will show you your proof, i need to get my package together and send to her so she can resend it all off to the troops.


for them i want to say, thank you for doing what you are doing, if we did not have our brave men and women in the united states military we would be in a bad way, this country is free because of the blood and sweat and tears of those who give their all. so i salute you all.


i was so glad when i saw the packages i had sent got to their intended places, hope that it helps for all of those who got them. i sent off a package to my secret pal but not telling where its from, hehe, you all will have to guess hehehehe, inside i packed it with tons of goodies. i have to send my reveal package next week too, i am not happy yet with what i have gotten for my sp. so shopping i will go hehehehehehehehe, also will be sending my winter scarf off to my partner this next week. i love doing swaps, its fun and i get to spoil others, with goodies only they would love.

tonight thought about what i am going to make for christmas this year, so far dd is the only one i have picked to get the hand made goodies,. today i told her that this year was going to be rather lean, normally we go all out with gifts, but this year the money is very tight and i told her i was going to be making most of her gifts, she smiled her big smile and said awesome mom, i LOVE what you make me, wow what a great feeling i had then. i talked with my friend fran and we chatted about designs that i am thinking about, fran knows a good pattern for ya. i value her friendship alot.

its funny how many people i have met online that have become such good friends, i wish i could afford to travel to all of their homes and visit with them all, unfortenetly that won't ever happen, oh well i can dream right?lol


shadow tonight was sooooooooo loving. he kept hugging me and kissing me tonight when i put him to bed, i feel so bad that he has to live in that cage, granted its a huge cage, but its still a cage, but shadow is the one at fault as he will not leave coast alone and trys his best to beat him up, survival of the fittest, he wants to be the alpha male, not happeneing this time lol


well am off to bed, back hurts bad tonight from all of that baking. gosh wonder what i will do when i need to get things done for christmas. ya know once upon a days ago i use to bake and bake and bake all month long , sometimes starting in late november and then freezing them until time for christmas,


i am curious as to what you all do for christmas or whatever holiday you celebrate. for christmas this year, i have alot of things to get done. i'm goin to make dd a quilt with penquins(its fleece and super easy to make) and then got a cute butterfly patterned fleece panel, along with solids for the back. not sure with son, he really has no need to have blankets, he still has the one i made when he was little awwwwww makes mom feel special lol. i know he wants a game for his ps2, but since his bday is next mo will probably get him that. he has a awesome collection going of disney ornaments from halmark, they sing and make music ect. all interactive. so will probably buy him something along that line.

for hubby am so not sure, every year he says why not just not get each other anything, but i am wise to his game as when i had not for our 25th anniversary, and he tricked me and bought my diamond ring, although i guess in some way i tricked him too cause i bought the bbq for both of us. it should have lasted alot longer than now as it is wearing out, 2 years is not very long for something that cost as much as that thing, granted we use it alot, but i still think it should work. longer. oh well live and learn.


so what ya all making now, good things i am sure, please tell me what your making i love seeing what everyone makes. it is so cool to pop online
and find ideas abound, to my dear friends i thank you for your kindness and caring when i whine about my back, i know it happened a long while ago, but some days it just gets to me, i am finding that if i sit and settle down with my legs up, i get some relief.


i am enjoying sewing again after a long while away from it. i think for my lil sis i am going to make her a fleece blanket too and also mil, she needs something that is not so long and fits her better, the ones she has now, seem to hang on the ground from her wheel chair.. speaking of, she seems much happier now since she has been taking the anti depressents. she even told me the other day that she was so happy. that makes me feel so much better, she is so cute, for my 50th b-day she gaveme a card with 2 1.00 bills in it, then when fil was out of the room she handed me over a much larger bill. hehe, in which i bought myself(with frans help thank you dear) a bejewled crochet hook, you can see it here http://www.craftdesigns4you.com/crochethook/bejewelledhooks906.htm its the bejeweled lemon lime frog size G how sweet is that.

well am off to bed and sleep(i hope) otherwise will get back up and crochet lol


for all of you my friends, and those who read my little blog, i thank you all and hope you all have the most awesome weekend and remember. if you drink, please don't drive and if you drive, please don't drink. have lost way to many friends to drunk drivers.


kk enough already night ya all hugs

thank you everyone

hey ya all, sorry been so dang long since i posted. been a long week, as you know i turned 50 on the 1st of oct, and while i have not posted recently i do think of you all often.

first off i want to thank my dear lil sister trish who so awesomely made my blog loo oh so pretty. without trish my blog would be so boring and basic. it now has style, and looks awesome so hugs trish


i have had a pretty good week so far,not doing alot as my bac is giving me a bit of trouble. so have been pretty much resting all week... back pain sucks



got myself some more yarn this week though, walmmart still had some of their nobo yarn for 1.00 so i sucked it up and bought another 20.00 worth, `lol

so i will soon be listing a bunch of my yarns for sale, not just the nobo either. i have wayyyy to much yarn shame on me hehe


yesterday i had a really bad scare. hubby called me from work and told me he was alright and i asked him what he was talking about. well it seems that there was a planned shooting at the high school next to wear he works some kid called in on tuesday night saying that he was going to bring a gun to school and shoot a bunch of people, then yesterday morning he once again called and they were able to arrest him sad that he felt he had to threaten people.

well am off now to lay down. sometimes that helps more than anything. again thank you all of you for the b-day wishes. god bless and keep you always in his care. ttyl bye now :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR VICKI!!!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU


AND MANY MORE........ :)

hey ya all

well today is the big day,. i am offically 39 and holding as my daddy always, said. gosh dad now i know what you meant lol not sure what i am going to be doing later after i get my required x amount of hours of sleep that i need (sure i do lol) today i got a awesome package from fran just for me for my b-day, she said that i didn't have to wait either so i gleefly ripped it open. inside were some fanatstic things, she made me a increble scarf and she sent me so many goodies will try and list them all tomorrow, jasmine tea,some beautiful jewled yarn
stitch markers you would not belileve how beautiful, she sent me patterns for some dragons, both knit or sewn, they are awes0me wickedly cool. she sent me the most awesome hand made stitch markers, with little charms, all tea related lol, since she knows what a tea addict i am lol, there was so much more, will post tomorrow
i am sure i am forgetting something so please forgive me fran, i will take a pic tomorrow and post it at here on my blog as well as other places i visit. hugs hom