MyThunderbird's Nest

troubles

2007-01-21T17:42:00.000-08:00

Vicki is having some issues with switching over to the new blogger. She can't log in or post or anything. We are trying to fix it.

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a frogging i will go

2007-01-14T23:22:00.000-08:00

ever sing yourself that song as you frog endless miles of yarn. well i do and tonight i did. you ask why? well lets blame it on a over zealous husband who wanted to help his wife clean the house. said husband mixed said wifes crochet hooks, said oh honey, i put your hooks all in your hook holder thingy there. and i looked and sure enough he did, now to my problem. several of my hooks are aluminum and the same color but different sizes. well i have been making my friend fran a shawl and was into making this awesome new original pattern by me :D, and i was using a G hook, well i accidently picked up a H hook, don't ask me why i waited to check my gauge till it was about 6 rows off sides. so a frogging i will go, a frogging i will go, hi ho the frog i go, a frogging i will go. so after i get off this computter in a few mintues, i shall frog it for starting over tomorrow.. or maybe will wait till tomorrow to frog it period.

i hope it looks good , as i want it to be special, she is a very special lady who i am proud to call friend.

now on to other news. we lost, yes we lost the most important game this year, the seattle seahawks lost to chicago bears, who in turn will probably lose to the new orleans saints. who will then go on to the super bowl. now on to the other teams, none of which i give a rip about, but hubby is wanting the indinapolis colts to win, so i shall root for them if they make it as far as the super bowl. either way
in about 3 weeks football season will be OVERRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!! abut then yes you guessed it spring training starts. waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh,

now on to me, as some of you know i pledged to lose some weight this year, i while am not totally obese, am a "little fluffy" . to much for my self esteme to want to stay at that weight, so since the 1st i have been cutting back on junk foods , eatting more fruit/veggies ect. io weighed myself last week and had lost a total of 10 pounds. well today i weighed myself and i haven't lost a blessed pound. maybe a ounce if i am lucky, so now i must dedicate this week to not eatting any junk food. omgosh can ido it, hmmm oh i think i can, no i know i can, but i must have something to inspire me, so what should i reward myself with. anyone know? a trip to hawaii? naw i hate flying lol, how bout when i lose the weight i want, i get to go out and shop till i drop at the yarn store. that sounds fair to me, don't it to you? i mean sheeesh, to be able to sit there and pick whatever i wanted . omgosh, but better yet, just thought of this one, knitpicks is just down the road a few miles,(about 180 or so) and while it seems that it is a long way. in actuallity, its only ahout a 2 1/2 hour trip, going the speed limit too, for those who said yea if you speed. the speedlimit thru centralia and chehalis is 70 mph, which actually brings the total time down for sure. so maybe thats what i will promise myself and it actually combines into the other wish list i have. another place i want to go to is shipwreck beads again. we went there this summer and enjoyed myself alot, maybe i can talk my dd into going there with me, oh wait, when ever she goes with me
i end up buying everything she wants and nothing for myself, i will take myself, or maybe can talk one of my crochet buddies into going when the weather gets nicer.

now for the weather. its been so darn nasty , snow, sleet, ice, rain, wind, flooding,power outages, you name it. we here in the pacific northwest have had it all. some people i just saw on the news , jut recently got their power back on and within days lost it again. i am very thankful that our utility company had the forthought to put all of the wires and the transformers underground. so the only reason we here in this area lost any power was when there was a car accident and they ran over the power box, but even then our great guys who work their heart out, had it back up and running within 1 1/2 hours, yeaaaaaaaaaaaa linemen, hehe

tomorrow is martin luther kings birthday, he is someone i greatly admire, for more than one reason, he not only stood up for his fellow man, but also tried to make people understand, we are all one , you him me, no one is better than anyone else, i truly believe this,. it dont matter to me what color your skin is, wether or not your a happy person or a sad person, wether your rich or poor, sick or healthy, you are all one person who i like to say we are all americans, those who are rich, help those who aren't
those who have a multitude of riches, share the richness of your talents, of your kindness to others, it will make a difference believe me, for instance me, i have a abundance of yarn, more than i will ever probably use in my life time, so this last year i gave over half of my yarn stash away, i gave to several people who all i asked was postage, while i did recieve some postage, some i didn't so i can not any more give to those who i have to ship to, so instead of sharing with those fellow crafters , i wish i could share with ya and help you, but i can not any longer afford to ship to you guys anymore. it makes me so sad, now of course i can donate to my fellow crafters, i can still donate to the sisters of st francis. i need to call and see if they need anymore yarn.

what ya all making now? when i get done with frans shawl i am going to finish another shawl for another friend, finally when thats done, i don't know, really what i am on a wonder at the moments, guess i will see later. knitting something probably iwant to make me something but don't know what .

well am off to dream land, am very tired tonight my friends. tonight i need my beauty sleep so am headed to bed. hang in there , for those who have just he keoooooo popped in am off to bed, goodnight, sleep well, happy crocheting knitting hehe hugs and love to you all,

what is it

2007-01-12T22:33:00.000-08:00

can anyone tell me what this is/ i took this today as i was in snap happy fingers mood but soon lost that

tonight was horrible, i decided to be a nice wife and mother and make dinner(yes i know i should do it every night, but gad i just don't have the energy) so tonight i decided to make bbq and breaded porkchops, i wanted breaded so decided to make both. well i went to check them to see if they needed turning and i saw the oven element looking might wierd, as in glowing bright red, i asked hubby what i needed to do, he came and looked at it and said well its time for a new stove, ACKKKKKK, i said what? he said the element was burning thru, sure enough dang thing burnt darn near all the way thru. now if that had , i would have been invited to see the stove catch fire then perhaps the wall and who knows, soooooo was a good thing i got off my rear end and checked it. so of course had to turn off the oven and take the pork chops out and put in the other oven, of course they all didn't fit, so the breaded ones i fried the rest of the breaded chops on the stove, i really didn't want to fry as it is higher in calorie, but i was hungry so i ate before the guilt trip hit me, all told since the 1st of the year have lost 11 pounds. 11 down , and another40 to go. can i do it, dang straight i can. might take me a bit of time but i will do it . so now back to the oven, i have to bake my mil a cake for her 77th b-day and now i can't, crud now will have to be store bought. :P

this weekend is martin luther kings birthday weekend, we get a monday off work for those who work, now to why we do, martin luther king was a man who had a dream, i like to think we have made some progress towards his dream but we are along ways away from fulfilling his dream, what i ask you to do today, is treat all of your friends like they are all your best ones yet, treat each other with respect and care. god bless to all who beleive. for those who feel different, blessings from me

have any of you guessed what it is yet/ its a ice crystal on my sons car window. i thought it was interesting, and very pretty. and ya know what, i do believe that there is no others and each one is unique. take care ya all and happy crafting

baby its cold outside

2007-01-12T09:15:00.000-08:00

this morning the warm tempture of 14 degrees greated me, as i sit here typing, i am shaking from being outside to long, need to warm up big time.

i slept pretty good, but then i was like a wooly blanket, had my jammies, and then sweatpants and sweat shirt then put my poncho on from fran and my shawl from trish and my shawl from tammie. hehehehe, i was toasty , especially with the warm quilt i had and also 2 heat packs, hows that for brrrrrr

i only slept that way for a while though cause i got to hot, then started sweating the layers away. course that helps lose weight too so it isn't hard to make myself warm up like that. shadow wanted out for about 2 seconds. he felt the cold and meowed and ran back into his carrier in the garage. he is a smart kitty, i am worried about a stray hubby saw at work, its just a tiny little thing,but he was not able to catch it, with temps in the teens and probably alot colder last night, i am worried something might happen to it. hubby says it can get under the building and stay close to the furnace so am happy about that, but am still worried about it. why do people just "lose" their animals, those fur babies have a right to be taken care of and not dropped at a government building that is not set up for them
, it just frustrates me, especially when they can drop it off at the humain society and make sure these babys are taken care of them since its a no kill shelter now THANK GOD
working on my projects as much as possible, but i think i caught a chill yesterday and its hard to make my fingers move good because of the arthritis, thank god for voltaran emugel. jacqui my mate, YOU HAVE NO IDEA, how awesome you are. when you told me about this cream i thought sure i will try it, but i had tried so many before but never heard of it, but oh so willing to give it the old college try, and to my amazment and wonder (no to mention i wanted to jump up in down, course that would have made me hurt more.

i am soooooooooooo tired of winter and we are not even a month into it, grrrrrrrrrrr
hubby was talking about heading to the beach for the weekend, but so far have not found a decent motel to stay in, besides thats a longggggggggg ways away should we be needed for some reason, fil said he fell so i hope he is alright, told him he needed to be more careful after asking him if he is alright, he was laughing about it so am going to assume he is alright, he also didn't have any snowmelt, he said no and he didn't want any, i won;'t use it here of course because of the cats, would be bad for thier skin should they lick them.

well am off to work in the house today, course might wind some yarn instead hehehe, take care all of you my friends, god bless and keep you all. stay warm and safe all who have cold weather.

hello

2007-01-09T23:26:00.000-08:00

hi ya all, thought i would pop in and blog, was going to last night and actually had a post half written and then the laptop shut down as it was to hot, dang it that made me mad, and of course i had not saved any thing so that made me even madder lol, oh well will redo now, no sense in worrying over something that can't be that silly, anyways i started the cathedereal rose window afghan. and today i bought myself some yarn to knit some socks, yes you read that right, the 4 letter knit word. hehehe, actually i am one of those annoying artists who appreciates all forms of art. now to see wether or not i can actually make them is another story lol.

today we have had the wierdest weather. first this morning we had rain, rain and more rain ugh, then it cleared up, yeaaaaaaa i thought, HA, then the wind kicked in, it was so breezy that i saw limbs flying across the yard, not a good time to be out under the trees, but of course that was exactly where i was, since mr shadow wanted out for a run(he needs to be out more) so i let him out and about 15 min later the wind kicked in, so ended up scooping him up and bringing him back in. now the weather people are saying snow by tomorrow morning,. oh joy i always wanted to see this lovely weather from who knows where. i have NEVER seen such stupid weather. and its not just here, in the midwest is warm, on the eastern seaboard is warm, my sis called from virgina the other day and it was 70 degrees and she was wearing shorts. i told her to shush. lol

today i was blessed by the yarn fairy. hehe, well first off, she told me which yarn to buy for socks, then when i got home i found a box from our own dear fran , she had picked me some yarns up down in texas way that we did not have here(i payed her, but she was kind enough to travel to the store and get it for me) inside there was multiple amounts of matrix yarn and carmen both of which i had asked her to buy, but also inside was more matrix for my darling daughter who is so greatful her mom has such a awesome friend as fran. and appreciates it greatly fran. also inside the box was 3 full skeins of big and thick chenille, the kind that is so soft and warm, now am waiting for the yarn to speak to me, also inside(yep there is more, told ya it was a awesome prezzie) there was a jar of her home made jalapena jelly, which i tried tonight and its very good, hot but good lol, she also included 2 packages of tacobell taco mix, i can't find it here and it looks so good, thank you once again

i also recieved some yarn i had bought off of e-bay, a HUGE cone of cotton thread weight yarn and also a big cone of chenilles and a small one also. is nice to know that people appreciate my business also as the seller (fiberoptions) also sent me a small pull skein of chenille also. as a token of appreciation. thank you melanie.

i started the cathedral rose afghan a few days ago and have done nada on it, shame on me, thought maybe you would like to see how far i have gotten. so here is a pic of it

i also lucked out in the book section, i found 2 awesome crochet and knit books at half price books, i lOVE that store. i found today one for 7.98,. the title is the best of workbaset vintage to vogue, how many of you remember workbasket, it ws from this tiny magazine i so did enjoy that little booklet, inside is 35 knit and crochet classics from yesteryear all remade for the 21st century. i also scored with a book that was slightly used(some of their books are) it is called the goodhousekeeping illustrated book of needlecraft. inside it is chock full of many differentr forms of fiber art. inside is embroidery, smocking, needlepoint, patchwork, quilting knitting and crocheting and rug making in a small amount of space, inside is so many awesome instructions i will of course be a master knitter soon. lol
i also bought some red heart plush in black, am working on a shawl for my ins agents secretary, poor sara is ALWAYS cold, so offerend to make her something to help her stay warm, got about 3 rows. also tonight got a nice pm on the ville about my blog here, that was so sweet of you , and you know who you are don't ya darling lol

tomorrow we might wake up to more of that dirty little word
you got it snow, snow snow snow ack ackkkkkkkkkkkk lol. so until tomorrow or whenever i can get my hiney on here i willpost again. i know that if we have snow, it will mess up plans,. but thatsalright, it won't last though for long, . today sent off to hub's uncle some more smoked salmon, what a can or worms we started. with that last box, now they love it,cost another75.00 to send back there]3 more boxes of fish,, well am off to crochet on saras shawl, so adeu to you all god bless and keep you all.happy crocheting, or knitting or whatever ya all want to do with your time :D hugs

2007-01-06T21:00:00.001-08:00

i swiped this off a blog i read.

1. What time is it: 9:02.pm
2 Your name: vicki
3. Nickname: none4. Piercing : 1 in each ear
5. What is the most recent movie you've seen in the theater:? none

6. Eye color: brown
7. Place of birth: Washington, state
8. Favorite foods: chicken
9. Ever been to Africa: No
10. Ever been toilet papering: no
11. Love someone so much it made you cry: Yes!!!!
12. Been in a car accident: yes
13. Croutons or bacon bits: both
14. Favorite day of the week: saturday

15. Favorite restaurants: applebees
16. Favorite Flowers: dahlias!
17. Favorite sport to watch : football,
18. Favorite drink:dr pepper
19. Favorite ice cream: does it have chocolate in it?
20. Disney or Warner Brothers: both
21. Favorite fast food restaurant: tacobell
22. What color is your bedroom carpet: hardwood floors
23. How many times you failed your driver's test: 0
24. Before this one, from whom did you get your last e-mail: fran
25. What do you do most often when you are bored: read crochet blog, chat on im
26. Bedtime: don;t haveone
27. Who will respond to this e-mail the quickest? dunno
28. Who is the person you sent this to that is least likely to respond? dunno
29. Who are you the most curious about their responses to this questionnaire: dunno
30. Favorite TV shows:csi.
31. Last person you went to dinner with: Gak, hubby
32. Ford or Chevy:ford
33. What are you listening to right now: toby keith
34. What is your favorite color: blue
35. How many tattoos do you have: none yet
36. How many pets do you have: 4
37. Which came first -- egg:
38. How many people you are sending this e-mail: everyone who reads my blog?

i snagged it from daisy and thought it was cute. how bout you?

2007-01-06T21:00:00.000-08:00

some days i wonder

2007-01-04T22:41:00.000-08:00

some days i wonder why things happen the way they do. for instance yesterday a 17 year old kid lost his life to another boy who is 18, no on knows why he shot and killed him,all they know is he is dead. and for what? the boy who did the shooting said he couldn't say, he didn't want it in the news
. what was he thinking, related story here if you want to read it

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/breaking/story/6309142p-5501200c.html

tonight we had a power outage that lasted almost 2 hours, shocked the crud out of me, we didn't even lose power in the massive wind storm we had, but for some reason the power gods were not smiling on us tonight. the utility company though did a great job getting us back up and running, now to find out why it happened and hope it don't happen again. i snuggled down on my loveseat with my beautiful shawl my friend tammie made me. tammie lives in australia and omgosh is she talented. this girl is amazing, you should see her work.next time i chat with her will ask her blog and then link ya. its really something you need to see.

i sure miss not chatting with my friends. for some reason lately either i am on to late or they are on to early or we just miss each other, but i am sending a big shout out to all of you who i miss talking to. you all know who you are too don't ya

while waiting for the lights to come back on i made a pair of hand warmers in a pretty red yarn, now mil wants another pair in black so guess i will get to work on it now when i get off.

the weather outside is cold and we are suppose to havecolder temps. was 26 tonight when i went out to turn the kittys heaters back on, when the power went off i shut them off as i didn't want a power surge from them to trip the breaker, poor itsy was so cold, she didn;t understand why mommy shut her heat off and came and sat on the porch to tell me so too, she was like a block of ice, i scooped her up and hugged her to me to warm her up, she was shivering, course she isn't the brightest brick on the wall, silly girl, she also of course wanted treats, so once i gave them to her she went back in the patio.

well am off as i am tired and need to work on those hand warmers, need to finish the red ones then get to work on the other ones too.

havn't done much on the cathederal rose window afghan, what did i get myself into, this pattern is technical believe me, but someday will finish it, am aiming to do it before the fair comes on, that way can enter it, wonder if they would give me a prize hehehe, anyways am off to crochet my way to wisdom and all hugs to you all

HAPPY 2007

2007-01-03T22:32:00.000-08:00

YEP its actually 2007 omgosh when i was a little kid it seemed that 2007 was so far off that no one really thought it would come.

i started the cathederal rose window afghan today and i can tell ya all, its going to be complicated to do, although not hard, just time consuming, i can;t wait finish it though , think it will be a gift for someone ,just not sure who, maybe get ny daughter to help me with it and it can belong to her then, will see i suppose. i am making it in watercolors and pale green, is going to be very pretty,along with black edging.

here is the poncho and hat set. i hope ya like it god bless and keep you always and know that he and i care about you all . hugs to ya all and hope ya like the poncho

pics

2006-12-30T00:08:00.000-08:00

happy new year to you all

2006-12-29T23:12:00.000-08:00

this is in case i get to lazy to blog before new years hehe, actually the next couple days are going to be kind of crazy, tomorrow we are celebrating fil's birthday , it actually was the 28th but no one really felt well enough to go over there , and he really didn't care. he was busy anyways cleaning mil's bedroom out. wow what a undertaking. holy cow the treasures she has. now of course poor mom don't stress over him going through her stuff but its mainly because of her mind not working properly. he found a cool stamp sheet of john lennon, its from the country of chad, and while its not worth a great deal of money. hubby loved it as john lennon was his hero. when he was killed i thought my hubby would go over the edge. my hubby truly is a child of the 60's and 70's hehe

we had a nice christmas, although christmas day was sad for me, i kept it to myself as i didn't want to bring everyone down. the highlight of the day for me was when kristy my dd opened her skull sweater. it soooo made it all worth the hard work and stress of making the sweater. right now am working on more hand warmers for kathy(losing my mind) my package somehow got over looked so now am making more of the hand warmers to send with the package, will get it out next week i promise.

today was paying bills and chatting with the receptionist at our ins company , she looked so cold i asked her sara are ou cold and she said yes i am always cold , so i am going to make her a black shawl. , also have the yarn to make jessie her poncho, see sweetie i told ya would not be toooo long., am going to make your poncho first before saras shawl. also think i want to make my sister sue a shawl for her b-day which is janurary 20th.

tonight i saw on the news. the dictator who killed thousands and thousands of innocent people now has lost his own life tonight. sadam hussein is now dead. i am asking ya all for your opionond in his life and death. do you think the death penalty was to harsh, or do you think he deserved to die alot more painfully, or are you just down in the dumps about more killing. me personally think he deserved to die, but i also think that all hell is going to break loose now, i guess will have to wait and see. i am so sick of war, i just want our troops home and let the iraqi people rule their own life now. i hear more and more of our citizens being killed over there, its time to bring them home, and let th wounds heal.

k enough sad depressing stuff,

what is your next project going to be, is it for yourself or a gift, are you going to spoil someone special/ if so whats the special occasion? i want soooo bad to finish the statue of liberty, but ya know after setting it aside all this
time i will have to start over i am almost positive, thats alright, that will make sure its done right,

well am off to crochet abit before dd gets home,(if i can stay awake long enough.) thankfully is friday i almost forgot it how stupid can i be.

oh on another note. while not intentional i managed to make it 10 hours between pain meds, am trying to cut back a little as they cost sooo much and if i can do withut one of them would be great, although tonight i am sooooooooo paying for it, so maybe not

chatted tonight with friends, glad to hear from so many tonight was worried about a couple as i had not heard from them and thought i would, when i didn't was worried but all is well now :)

new years eve will have our annual party,. today got all the stuff to make it a fun evening. for food i bought the makings for sandwiches, bought both turkey and ham and roast beef, also some fresh veggies , will make a veggie platter, going to make potato salad even though not everyone likes it I like it hehe, so there hehe, also will make a mac salad, and have chips and dips of all kinds cheeses, and crackers asome goodie snacks too like candy, and licorice and well lots of good food, now tomorrow will clean the house up as much as possible and then sunday wait and vaccum, why bother to do that before hand, it just will get nasty again.

not sure as to what to have for like deserrt
i would do cookies but never baked any (blushing here) and not really in the mood to, do we need dessert/ its a buffet so i suppose we do, maybe can whip up some brownies fast, or cake mix cookies, those are fast or i know, no bake cookies, or ice box ones, all those are fast. alright that takes care of dessert, now am i missing anything in the food department, i bought 3 different kinds of cheeses, american in slices, medium cheddar and pepper jack, maybe will get some pavlone, thats also good cheese. oh well am not going to stress about the food anymore, drinks wise we have everything under control, i think its basicly going to be soft drinks, beer and champain for midnight . other than that they can have water, we decided not to do mixed drinks because its to easy for kids to sneak if you have that.although almost all of the kids coming are over 21, i still worry so am taking steps to stop it before it starts. smart right? :D

well i am about worn out now and need to go and crochet some of the stress away i have tonight, my goal for 2007 is to be stress free as much possible.

i am not a youngster anymore despite what that maniac kathy says lol,

my goal also is to not just impulse shop anymore. trying to save up some money since we have nada and thats just not cool in our situation. some day will be debt free once more. might take me a milliom years to do it , but i will

here are some pics from through out the year, thought perhaps you might enjoy them. god bless all of you my dear friends. may your 2007 year be filled with good health happiness and peace on this earth, may you all get your desires and not suffer in anyways that is preventable, to all of you my dear friends i send you hugs , we never outgrow hugs and can always use them so am depositing you a few here so should you need one, just pop inand het one. god bless and keep you, good health and happpiness. and lots of love for your fellow man. god speed to you all and now for the pics hehe well i will have to add them seperate cause blogger is being silly, thats cool will do that
love ya all and ciao for now

merry christmas to you all

2006-12-24T23:26:00.000-08:00

tonight is christmas eve, the day before the blessed event that over 2 thousand years ago when christ our saviour was born. this day i give thanks to god in the highest and on earth peace on earth good will toward our fellow mankind.

i hope you all have a wonderful christmas, tonight i sat here and thought about all the christmas eves we spent with my parents and grandparents. i remember one year in particular, i was about 12 i guess, we were on our way to grandmas house and while we didn't have a horse and sleigh we should have, as it had snowed well over 2 1/2 feet the previous night, and while we were not scared to be driving in it(hey we were kids what did we know) my grandparents lived on the side of a cliff basicly, the street was a narrow winding 2 lane road that left no room for error, daddy was driving we were all singing christmas songs and all of a sudden our tire slipped. and while i was so sure we were going to plunge over that cliff to our deaths, my dear old daddy was able to get out of it with not even a inch to spare. we got to grandmas house and all we could talk about was the car and the snow and all of a sudden we realized hey its christmas eve, family was there and there was presents. well we had to wait our turns and the little ones got the presents first. my youngest sister was a bout 2 and she had just gotten her new baby doll, then the next to the youngest sister opened hers, she also had gotten a doll but was not a baby was a barbie, now that was what i wanted more than anything in my life and here my little sister had gotten one., but it wasn;t barbie, it was skipper, so next came the next sister,. she opened her present and it was you guessed it another barbie. now i was chomping at the bit cause there was one particular barbie i wanted and it was no where to be found. sort of like the nintendo Wii and the tickle me elmo, well finally it was my turn, i had sat nice and quiet the whole time, only saying ohhh and ahh when they opened their presents. so i opened my present and it was the dream doll, it was the barbie bride doll that no one had around kitsap county washington , anywhere , how do i know this, i over heard my parents talking about how i was going to be so dissapointed. well my grandmother was a crafty woman and had sisters in several states. so she finally had gotten one tracked down down in orange county california where my gr aunts grace and mayme both lived. when i opened that doll up you could here me screaming clear across the street, the neighbor came out and said whats wrong lol grandpa said oh nothing, just a excited grand daughter. now most of you think of 12 as a age where girls don't play with dolls anymore, and while that might be true now, it certainly was not true then,. i played with that barbie till i moved out and she somehow got given to my youngest sister. when it came time to divide the stuff from dads house after he died, i asked where all my barbies were(i had all of them that were the best ones, even had a original midge, my sister told me that when dad had moved the last time, he threw all of the dolls into the dump, i cried buckets over that, not because i wanted to play with them but because of the rarity of some of them would have probably paid for a new car for me. and he threw them away. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, whyyyy why why why i asked. cause he was a guy and i didn't play with dolls anymore
sheeesh, that was the one time i got angry at my dad, because he could have asked before doing it but he didnt and of course when he passed away i could not be angry with him at all. i think that christmas and the time daddy made the furniture for mom(thats what he told us) were the most memoriable,as a child. we were at the age when sting ray bikes were the "in' thing. we wanted one sooooooo bad, 3 of us girls, my brother already had one being the oldest, we wanted one in the most fiercestways. but dad said santa could not bring something that big for all of us., we would have to wait till we could afford it. well all of a sudden 3 big boxes were stacked up against the wall, we asked dad, daddy what is that, he said shhhhhh don't tell your mother but i made her a coffee table and end table, but in order to suprise her, i had to put your girls names on it. boy was we suckers lol, so come christmas eve(we always opened everything christmas eve) when we were all excited cause we knew how much mom wanted new furniture and we could not afford any, so we opened them all together and instead of a coffee table and end tables we saw 3 sting ray bikes. we loved those bikes with all of our young hearts. was wonderful and i stil to this day remember the excitement of that evening. mom was laughing cause she knew how much we wanted them. she did get her furniture for her b-day the next feburary , she was born on valentines day, mom and dad i miss you guys sooooooo much, i miss the grandparents too of course, but parents are special rest in peace mom and dad and daddy stop playing games with the vacumm cleaner like turning it on by itselt withouth being plugged in. i know its dad. when i say stop it dad he does. while some will think i am crazy, i swear it really did happen. freaked me out big time

am off to stuff stockings and maybe get a little shut eye before good old santa claws comes and wakes me up wanting to be fed and such, little itsy is the worst. she is always hungry always . she is a growing bundle of energy who runs circles around the rest of the kitties. merry christmas my friends and god bless

december days

2006-12-22T22:00:00.000-08:00

today was the official first full day of winter and i am soooooooooo not looking forward to it,

well this evening as i sit here blogging i am thinking about the crew of the blackhawk helicopter which went down just east of enumclaw, sadly 3 brave soldiers lost their lives in another training mission, i pray for their families that while they might not be out there in iraq or afghanistan or someplace, those men didn't die in vain.that people realize training accidents are just as bad as being in combat because they are training for combat. i am very saddened by this happening 2 young boys saw it happen, i can't imagine seeing something of that magnitude of and not having problems dealing with the stress of knowing someone died in that crash. its just sad

i know i would carry that with me the rest of my life, i pray for the family members and the 3 who lost their lifes, rest in peace brave soldiers

i think this year alot of people are cutting back, yet i saw on the news tonight about a women who boarded a bus in spokane who handed each passenger a envelope with a 50.00 bill in each one. all told it was a very happy thing. i feel so awful this year that while i try and do what i can,its no where near what i use to do, but guess its better than nothing.things this year have just been so bad i wish it was better

i had a scary moment today when my hubbys hip popped out of joint and he fell down,. it scared the crud out of me and i almost had a heart attack myself, had to yell for my son and between us we were able to get him back on the couch, says that his leg is seizing up so i started massage it, it finally let the cramp loose. oh man i felt bad for him i just felt so dang helpless, knowing if he got down on the floor, that i would have to call 9-11 thankfully he was fine but still a tad sore.

my poor dd she made the mistake of not paying enough attention to the hours posted, she was suppose to work from 8:30 am to 1 pm she thought, well they asked her last night if she could work a little earlier around 7 so off to work she went at 7 am, just to find it was not till 7 pm, luckily the manager had her work till 11:30 this morning then she is back there tonight a so she went back at 8:30 till closing., which i hate that shift as its dark and not many people around, but she walks out with security or her fellow coworkers. poor kid she has not had a decent rest in so long, hopefully soon.

i hope everyone i raoked and sent to got their stuff only 1 person so far has said she got it so am hoping that they all get it by tomorrow. the mail is sooooo slow
well am off to get some rest, i wish you all the best of the holidays merry christmas for those who celebrate for those who celebrate yule, happy yule, happy hanukkah,happy kwanzah happy whatever you celebrate.

god bless and keep you always. hugs and love ya all dear friends.

its finished wooohooo

2006-12-22T21:50:00.000-08:00

i finally finished the jolly roger for my daughter for christmas, she is into the goth look and likes sculls at the moment(don't ask me why) but i saw it and she saw it and then i decided to make it a skull christmas, lol i have actually fould located several smaller skulls, i found earrings and tote bags and even purses and wallets, see told ya a skull christmas. i suppose alarge part of it has to do with the movies about pirates hehe anyways without farther adeu' here it is

wow i am sooo lucky

2006-12-20T00:24:00.000-08:00

been a couple days since i blogged, been so darn busy i don't know where start. i guess at the beginning lol, today son woke me abour 9 ish this morning, I WAS MAD!!! til i realised they were probably hungry, so off i went to get my hungry cats food for them, well anyways i fed them and got started on my day i have been running around in circles, knowing i had a ton of stuff to do yet not doing it, so i finnaly was able t, almost finish cleaning the house, i figured i better get some of the raoks out so i did that and now am done pretty much until after the new years

well today i finally did it, i managed to get all of the cards out, well made out, tomorrow they get mailed, also finished the angels and also made the ever alusive fudge done yipiiiiiiieeeee,, so now thats done. got hubbsters crew's stuff ready, tomorrow , next its crochet till i am done with the sweater sleeve for daughters jolly roger sweater, and no i am not don't yet, but i will be, if i have to wrap it up half done and give it to her bewahahahahaha, naw its almost done, heck i haVE 4 MORE DAYS LEFTs HAHAHAHAHAHAH

not much else going on, just thought i would pop in and say hello. will blog more tomorrow god bless you all love ya too

what a day

2006-12-14T16:49:00.000-08:00

omg today i had a horrible day. its not enough that we are going to be hammered tonight and tomorrow with nasty wind storm with wind gsts to over 70 mph. so today while knowing this was going to happen, i decide to go out to the store and stock up on the batterys and maybe get a few other items,. so i go to k-mart, no problem, then i go to the store while i am getting grocerys, this stupid old man decided that i "stole" his parking spot, i should be ashamed of myself blablabla, all because he wanted my handicap spot that i had waited on for over 10 min, he figured he would just chew me out. omgosh people make me sick. so now i have gotten my batteries and grocerys and decide i will stop at the po since i have a package i want to raok out and need to get it in the mail. well instead of going into the driveway of the post office, there has been so much rain that it looked like a small puddle but was actually a ditch filled with water. yes you got it, i drove into that blasted ditch. and of course was stuck, so now am freaking out thinking hubby is going to kill me since i do sometimes do stupid things, so i call the auto club, am on the phone with them for over a hour, in the mean time
i see police go by, i see fire department go by, lots of people lookie lookie lookie at the stupid woman. finally this very very kind man comes up to me and says mam, can i help you, i started crying, he probably thought i was nuts. but i had lost it, just lost it, then another guy came and tried to jack my car up but it was to stuck. i finally get ahead of the auto club, they say oh will be 2 hours, grrrrr this very nice young man in a 350 ford 4-wheel drive pickup with a tow rope, pulled me out, thanksfully no damage to car, and while i am and was shook up, i thank god it wasn;t worse.i thanked him profusly and tried to pay him he said merry christmas tonight this weather is scarying the crap out of me, the wind is picking up now
my kids are both at work
hubby is at dentist, and i need to clean the area away from our fireplace , but am to tired, is not much stuff anyways, just a couple things and dd's guitar. we are suppose to be hammer bad from this storm, they said will
it is going to be almost hurrican strength, thank god everyone should be home,. hopefully but its starting to come in and my dd dont get off until 10. please god don't let it hit till after that. i am soooo tired and worn out, i need a vacation, while this day has not been my worst it comes close, but it was made better by the kindness of strangers who without a thought knew i needed help and that they could do it. i wish i could tell them how much their kindness means to me,. today i felt awful anyways, this storm must be a bad one cause my bones are throbbing, my arthritis is so bad that i can't hardly stand it.,i need to get off here now cause i need to make some dinner for all of us so that even if the lights go out i can feed my family, sorry for the rant, but i needed to get it out of my system. all is well i guess other than we still face the storm, please pray for us and all of the people in the area, there has been so much bad things happen this year. we need more rain like we need to get stuck in a ditch (sticking tounge out)sorry to vent so bad, just am glad ya all care enough to read it hehehe. all is well that ends well, and car is fine, now to ride out this storm, only thing that bothers me is it is suppose to hit after midnight when we all will be sleeping. HA like i could. anyways if ya all would please think good thoughts for me and pray if you do i thank you. i need it right now. life tonight is stressful, i know its short term but its stressful anyways. thanks for listening to me (reading) god bless you all my friends. love ya all

pics

2006-12-12T23:49:00.000-08:00

i am sooo blessed

2006-12-12T23:01:00.000-08:00

yesterday i got a package in the mail from fran who lives down texas way, she sent me the most incredibly bewautiful oblong stole that i have ever seen, will post pics in a minute. she also sent me some yummmyyarn from hobby lobby a place we don't have here, and if that was not enough, she also bought me a awesome flower motif pattern book
i can not thank you enough my friend, i have been busy working on christmas ornaments for hubbys work, got those done and now need to finish kristys sweater. i started that dang thing , sooo excited and now i just want it done. that is a sad sad thing, while i know it will get done before christmas i wish it was done now. oh well maybe will get off here and work on it now, she is gone to chris's her bf and won't be home for a bit more so will have some time to work on it. maybe when i get done with it i will be happier. talked with fran tonight and while we enjoyed chatting with each other , she was tired and so am i.

i found myself today humming along with the christmas carols playing in the stores, went to best buy, looking for a cd for hubby rye cooder, but no luck, so went over to borders, and while i found one there i didn't buy it., it was 22.00, and while i know he would have enjoyed it, not sure he would have with that one it was mostly in spanish. i don't think he would have liked it. so while i was there i decided to mosy over to the magazine section and look and see if i could find the new crochet today i didn't think i would find it, but guess what i did in fact got 4 of them as raok, well 3 will be, anyways here are the pics and am off to crochet the sleeve on the skull sweater . maybe will finish the one and get the other done too hehe hugs to ya all god bless and merry christmas, happy hannaka, happy yule, happy kwanza or happy whatever you celebrate. if i misspelled anything please forgive me i am tired and its late. god bless ya all hugs

i did it woohooo

2006-12-11T00:17:00.000-08:00

today i finished all of the angels i need for hubbys work, yes they are angels and i made 9 of those babies. now its my turn to make some for who I want. people who love my ornaments and wish for them every year, this is something i have done at christmas time for well over 30 years now, only 1 year was i unable to make and give my ornaments out and that was in the year 2000 when i was hurt in a car accident. although hubby helped me make enough that we were able to give those out. sooooooo to make a long story short, it looks like i will able to do it this year too wooohooo hugs ya all

a couple things i have made

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more interesting facts

2006-12-09T22:13:00.000-08:00

i pinched this from michelles blog lol

1. FIRST NAME?vicki
2. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? mydad
3. WHEN DID YOU LAST CRY? Hmm.. saturday
4. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING?
no it hurts my hands

5. YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT? chicken
6. KIDS? 2
7. IF YOU WERE AN
OTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? yes
8. DO YOU HAVE A JOURNAL? yes
9. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT? No, not a great deal
10. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS? Yep
11. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? no freaking wayI'd ever do that
12. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? cinnamon toast crunch
13. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? yes
14. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM FLAVOR? peanut butter
15. DO YOU THINK THAT YOU ARE A STRONG PERSON? I use to be

16. SHOE SIZE? 8
17. RED OR PINK? red
18. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? i care to much
19. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST? My dad
20. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO SEND THIS BACK TO YOU? no, only if they wanted t
21. WHAT COLOR PANTS ARE YOU WEARING NOW? black
22 YOU COULD BE 18 AGAIN WOULD YOU? yes
23. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? christmas music
24. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE? Metallic Blue
25. FAVORITE SMELL? Jasmine flowers in bloom
26. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED ON THE PHONE? My sister
27. THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE THAT YOU ARE ATTRACTED TO? Their laughter
28. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON THAT SENT THIS TO YOU? yes, but she didn't send it i swiped it lol
29. FAVORITE DRINK? dr. pepper

30. FAVORITE SPORT? basketball
31. EYE COLOR? brown
32. HAT SIZE? medium
33. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? no
34. FAVORITE FOOD? pizza
35. WHAT WAS THE LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED AT THE MOVIE THEATER? can't remember36. SCARY MOVIE OR HAPPY ENDING? Happy Ending
37. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING? grey
38. SUMMER OR WINTER?
summer
39. HUGS OR KISSES? HUGS!
40. FAVORITE DESSERT? fruit
41. WHO WILL MOST LIKELY RESPOND? n/a
42. LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND? n/a
43. WHAT BOOKS are you READING NOW?none
44. WHAT'S ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? Don't got one
45. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON TV LAST NIGHT? CSI and CSI Miami
46. FAVORITE SOUNDS? Spring (daytime: birds etc, evenings: crickets, frogs etc)
47. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES? both
48. THE FURTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME? california los angelas
49. WHAT IS YOU PRESENT OCCUPATION? none
50. WHERE WERE YOU BORN? washington state
51. WHO SENT THIS TO YOU?
no one

why are people mean

2006-12-09T21:32:00.000-08:00

today i have been having a very hard day,. a sad day a day filled with anger and nasty shouting at me,. why i don't have a clue, today started out stressed, hubby was grumpy as usual, son was on a lets see how much i can agrevate my parents day and for some reason, even the cats were mean and grumpy. why can't i have a day filled with niceness instead people being so darn mean, i wanted to just cry today, my hubby and i while we have not been getting along really well, i thought we had reached a understanding. guess i was wrong, i know i am not perfect, and maybe i could do more but why does he have to be so mean, i am sad this year anyways, i found myself the other day buying my mother her favorite perfume, only when the clerk asked me if i wanted it gift wrapped did i realize what i had done, then of course i felt like a idiot,.

it seems that the more stress there is the more it happens, know what i mean? i honestly feel that no one gives a darn anymore in my family, my gosh i have more care and concern from my online friends than anyone, people who i have never and probably never will ever get to meet, treat me with more kindness and care than my own family, thats so sad, i sometimes wish i could walk out on my family, just pick up and leave, leave the anger and pain away. it seems that ever since i got hurt(6 1/2 years ago) that my life has become a living hell, this isn;'t a pity party either, i know things happen and you deal with it, but why does it have to be sooooo angryand things said with such meanness and hatred, yes hatred, thats how i feel, guess its because i am a burden on my family, i try sooo hard not to b a burden and ask for their help, but i also am human and i need some care and love. i want to thank all of my friends who while we don't see each other and most likely never will meet, a thank you from the bottom of my heart for cheering me up. you are why i get up in the morning with a smile on my face,. not my family who gives me nothing but grief. thanks for caring my friends. i wish i could give you a bunch of hugs abd return to you what you have done for me, k enough whining and yes i know it was. i guess some day things will be better i hope. just thinking that the world is this bad is just about more than i can deal with, k signing off with tears. god bless you my friends, i love you all

p.s the shawl you see at the top of this page was made by one of my best online friends, she knew i needed a hug and she made this out of her own pattern to cheer me up. thanks tammie love, i love it sooo much

a tribute to those who serve and protect

2006-12-07T20:58:00.000-08:00

A Soldier's Christmas

'Twas the night before Christmas, he lived all alone,
in a one bedroom house made of plaster and stone.
I had come down the chimney with presents to give,
and to see just who in this home did live.

I looked all about, a strange sight I did see,
no tinsel, no presents, not even a tree.
No stockings by mantle, just boots filled with sand,
on the wall hung pictures of far distant lands.

With medals and badges, awards of all kinds,
A sober thought came through my mind.
For this house was different, it was dark and dreary,
I found the home of a soldier, once I could see clearly.

The soldier lay sleeping, silent, alone,
curled up on the floor in this one bedroom home.
The face was so gentle, the room in such disorder,
not how I pictured a United States Solider.

Was this the hero of whom I'd just read?
curled up on a poncho, the floor for a bed?
I realized the families that I saw this night,
owed their lives to these soldiers who were willing to fight.

Soon round the world, the children would plan,
and grownups would celebrate a bright Christmas Day.
They all enjoyed freedom each month of the year,
because of the soldiers, like the one lying here.

I couldn't help wonder how many lay alone,
on a cold Christmas Eve in a land far from home.
The very thought brought a tear to my eye,
I dropped to my knees and started to cry.

The soldier awakened and I heard a rough voice,
Santa don't cry, this life is my choice.
I fight for freedom, I don't ask for more,
my life is my God, my country, my corps.

The soldier rolled over and drifted to sleep,
I couldn't control it, I continued to weep.
I kept watch for hours, so silent and still
and we both shivered from the cold night's chill.

I didn't want to leave on that cold, dark night,
this Guardian of Honor, so willing to fight.
Then the soldier rolled over, with a voice soft and pure,
whispered, carry on Santa, it's Christmas Day, all is secure.

One look at my watch. and I knew he was right.
Merry Christmas my friend, and to all a good night.

This poem was written by
Major Bruce Lovely

I found the poem A Soldier's Christmas here: http://www.luvscreations.com/holiday7.htm

fudge for hilary

2006-12-05T23:05:00.000-08:00

hilary rhis is for you, no marshmellow cream lol hugs honey enjoy your veggie fudge

microwave fudge, (this is a semi soft fudge)

3 cps chocolate chips,
1 can sweetened condensed milk,
1/3 cup powdered sugar,
and 1 tsp vanilla

you can add any other ingredients that you want such as nuts or marshmallows(for rocky road) marchino cherries,(yum) or pretty anything that will be solid.
Or nothing at all if you choose

Add milk chocolate chips, sweeted condensed milk, and microwave on high for 2 minutes stir and add powdered sugar and vanilla , add any extra ingredients, put into 9x13 pan until firm, note this must be kept in the fridge otherwise will be extremely soft.

the count is on

2006-12-04T00:08:00.000-08:00

well my friends , the countdown is on, on till that magical moment that always hits on december 25th, cultivating in all of our hard work, blood sweat and tears.

this christmas i told myself, i was not going to stress about anything, so if th packages don't quite get wrapped like a proffesional , if my fudge doesn't get cut and wrapped until after christmas, if that one package you truly wanted from me didn't happen, well guess what, it does not matter!!!! i celebrate christmas to celebrate gods only son being born and brought to this earth at a way for all of us to come together and worship in his name. christmas is not about how many people did you wrong, but about how you were able to forgive and forget. and move on in your life, not to get me wrong, i do still spoil the little stinkers, well little and bit by bit i gatheres round items i think my nieces and nephew who will love what i give them, for my son who went all out today and helped his dad bring the christmas tree and then string lights on until they shined so loud it made my day i come true, christms is about giving and not about wanting for others to give to you, soooooo not happeneing in my neck of the woods..

christmas fudge has always been a staple in our family and my gift to you is to share with you, my hogs delight truly is a special fudge enjoy my friends and god bless you all and hope you enjoy my special fudge., hog s delight
HOGS DELIGHT !!!

2 Cups walnuts broken

2 jars marshmallow crème

3 small pkgs of chocolate chips 18 0z

4 big hersheys bars, I use the special dark chocolate with 2 and then 2 with milk choco with almonds

¼ tsp salt

1 tblsp vanilla
set aside

in med sauce pan, add 1 can evaporated milk and 4 ½ cups sugar, 1/4 cube butter

boil 4 ½ minutes in the large bowl(I recommend not using glass as the sugar milk mixture is really hot and can cause breakage I know it happened to me lol

pour hot sugar mixture into the bowl with the other ingredients and mix until smooth,grease pans with butter then spread in large cake pan(or 2 if they are smaller, I use one size 10x13 and on 11x 14, if you have a larger pan can be put into it to avoid dishes but I sometimes even have had to add another 9x9 dish, so anything that will hold it and also depending on how thick you want it, I try for about 3/4in as that’s a lot to put in ones mouth all at once and I find most people do hehe

bon apetite 

tag your it

2006-11-30T19:18:00.000-08:00

i got this from kari's blog dogwood dreams thanks kari

a meme
Posted in Quizzes, Jokes, and Emails, Oh My! | | November 27, 2006 @ 9:42 pm | by Kari
MEME from Hooked on String

RED
1. Closest red thing to you:my dr pepper can
2. Last thing to make you angry: stupid drivers
3. Do you have a temper: yuppers!
4. Are you a fan of romance: yes just not real mushy stuff

ORANGE
1. Closest orange thing to you: my socks

2. Do you like to burn things: Candles, incense,
3. Dress up for Halloween: no
4. Are you usually a warm-hearted person: yes i think i am
5. Do you have anything against redheaded people: no, in my other life i was a redhead lol

6. Are you usually full of energy: after dr. pepper
YELLOW
1.Closest yellow thing:my hat
2. The happiest time[s] of your life:when i married my husband and had my children
3. Favorite holiday: Christmas
4. Are you a coward: no
5. Do you burn or tan: tan
GREEN
1. Closest green thing to you?: my dragon lamp
2. Do you care about the environment: of course, i recycle everything
3. Are you jealous of anyone right now: no
4. Are you a lucky person:I am the luckiest person alive. i am loved by my family and friends and i feel very very blessed
5. Do you always want what you cant have: NO
6. Do you like being outdoors: Yes.
7. Are you Irish: i have a portion of my heritage thats irish but i am a american
BLUE
1. Closest blue thing to you: purse
2. Are you good at calming people down: i try to be
3. Do you like the sea: i adore the sea, wish i could live there always
4. What was the last thing that made you cry: seeing a child being abused and no one did anything
5. Are you a logical thinker:yes
6. Can you sleep easily: no

PURPLE
1. Last purple thing you saw: my daughters coat
2. Like being treated to expensive things: no
3. Do you like mysterious things: no
4. Favorite type of chocolate: all
5. Ever met anyone in royalty: I met princess di and prince charles in vancouver bc
6. Are you creative: I think so

PINK
1. Closest pink thing to you: nothing i hate pink

2. Do you like sweet things: sometimes but not alot
3. Like play-fighting: no
4. Are you sensitive: yes unfortenetl i usually pay for it
5. Do you like music: yes all kinds
white
1. Closest white thing to you: my sweater
2. Would you say you are innocent: me? rotfl lmao
3. Good at keeping the peace: I try
4. Do you like to play in the snow: Yes..
5. Are you afraid of going to the doctors or dentist: no

BLACK
1. Closest black thing to you: tv remote
2. Ever enjoy hurting people: no
3. Are you sophisticated or silly: Silly
4. Would you like to go to space: yes
5. Do you have a lot of secrets: doesn't everyone

6. What is your favorite color: blue and red, but love all colors
7. Does the color you wear affect your mood: sometimes

tag you’re it

sorry its been so long

2006-11-30T00:03:00.000-08:00

hey ya all sorry its been a while since i last posted. gosh i almost feel like i am lost in space myself, we have had awful weather these last few days, first we had rain till we were floatin away, then the rain turned to snow and now we have freezing rain, oh joy another ice storm, grrrrrrrr, please don't get me started.

been working on some things for christmas, my dd's sweater which is coming along nice . have almost the whole front and back done. hubby thinks she will love it as much as i think she will, today she worked at the tacoma store, and actually listened to me and came straight home. she too felt it would be to dangerous for her to be on the road. thank god she used common sense. she was able to get her phone fixed. well dear friends i know this is short and sweet but i am dead on my feet and tomorrow i have to pay bills

will show ya some pics later, that i took of the snow. not much but the ice on it but thats more treacherous thn anything, hope that your night is full of ideas and fun and laughter enjoy this joyeous evening and i am so blessed to have such awesome and loyal friends. tonoght was so happy to talk with my mate jacqui, was talking to my newest friend shell and we all chated togeher, until we can chat again. god bless and keep you all love ya mates and merry christmas :)

happy black friday hehehe

2006-11-24T01:57:00.000-08:00

alright admit it some of you did it, you braved the crowds the cold and the darkness to arrive at the spot where you can find awesome spectaculater wonderful things at a fraction of the cost. do i sound cynical, i am, i think its a cheap shot that retail does every year to drag people out of there sagging profit margins and make people that they have gotten a bargain, why not just lower the prices a bit and make it fair for everyone.

not everyone can or wants to run around like a harried mom running after a 2 year old who has gone crazy in the mall parking lot.

this year over half of my gifts are going to be handmade and i know that the ones who will be getting them appreciate how hard i work towards their present and how much work it truly is to have me make the gifts, but i am thrilled that dd for one willbe happy as a cat licking cream off of its face when she sees the sweater i am almost done with. she wanted so little this year, she knows how hard it is for me to budget enough to make gifts let alone buy them, i can't wait to see her face when she sees the jolly roger sweater. which i now have the sleeves to make and then to tie all those pesky strings of color off which i adhor. ah well life is nothing but a pulled string sometimes anyways.

tonight as we sat and watched movies with the folks i crocheted as i always do and finished a chemo hat for someone on the forum i belong to. i promised to make this persons brother a chemo hat, its done hon and will ship it out on monday, also finished most of my ornaments those will also go out in mondays mail.

tomorrow am considering addressing my christmas cards but alas am not able to finish the family newsletter i also send out. i need to sit down and think about what i want to write about. this year has been a very hard one for alot of us, not just my family , but many many peoples too, i sit here and think about my friend donna, who's hubby has been gone more this year than he has been home. i pray nightly for his safety and that soon they can be together,. hopefully very soon, i aso think of those who have lost love ones as i have, it hurts so much sometimes it makes me wonder why this happens this way, but i know god has a plan for us all.

kk enough stuff about things that we have no control over, well maybe not all of it cause my next rant is the weather lol, i am SICK of rain, it makes me want to bottle it up and send it to australia or someplace who has a draught.

and now the tempertures are growing colder., my son heard on the news tonight that we may have snow flurries this weekend and perhaps 1 to 2 inches of snow or more starting sunday and continuing next week to be colder and damper yet. poor shadow is going to have to start wearing a sweater if he is going to be out in the weather,. poor baby. tonight he was so precious. the other day when i was at pet smart i found a nice comfy little bed for him to lay on in the garage, tonight i put a small piece of fleece in his bed then layed him down, he started kneeding and purring he was so thrilled wih his new bed, it made my night believe me,

well am off to send my poor battered body into a vertical position and head off into a slumber filled with dreams where the poor turkey is running around with a hatchet screaming off with your head LOL just kidding, i doubt i will dream at all am just to tired. hubby is going out tomorrow to help one of his coworkers celebrate his 21st birthday and i dear friends am going to veggie out in front of the telly and crochet to my little hearts content

ciao dear ones and if ya join in the madness, please rememebr to be safe from cars and other shoppers plese be courtesous of others and above all have fun till we meet again in another post, god bless and enjoy the weekend. :D

happy thanksgiving to you all

2006-11-22T23:48:00.000-08:00

hi for a few, wanted to wish you all a happy healthy and safe thanksgiving. tomorrow is a day we sit down with family and friends if we can, others sometimes we can't but doesn't mean that we can't share a wish for a blessed holiday,

this year is sad for me, my first thanksgiving without my mom and my mil is so bad some days she can't even remember who we are. tomorrow we were going to just have ham, but both fil and mil threw such a fit that i said hec with it and bought a stupid turkey, they said how can it be thanksgiving without turkey, helloooooooo, the pilgrams ate more than turkey grrrrrrrrr. but then i thought to myself, what if its their last thanksgiving, is it really that hard for me to put a turkey in the oven (well yea it is but there will be someone who can do it) and why not give them something they want to eat. so off to the store i went, was going to buy a turkey breast and just cook that, but gosh they wanted 17 dollars for a turkey breast
and so i looked at the frozen ones and they were about 9.00 for a 13 pound one. so thats what i did , i had the meat manager pick one out for me and then lift it into the cart and then had the clerk lift it out and then a young man brought it out to my car. so anyways tomorrow as i cook that turkey i will be thinking of my family and how we always had so many for thanksgiving . i rememeber one year when i was about 10 that we had 35 people at grandmas house and she loved it. course my mom and aunt baked a seperate turkey and brought it too, and we enjoyed it alot,

well off that memory of the week, and on to my greetings for you lol

i hope that you have the best thanksgiving you can have. it might not be the one ya want but think of others who are not able to celebrate it. think of the men and women who are serving in the middle east and otehr places. and most of all, think of those who are less fortunet. to all of you my wonderful friends and family i wish you all the very best thanksgiving you can have, god bless and keep you, take care and if you drink please don't drive, or if you know someone who has to much to drink, offer to take them home and save a life.

adeu right now for all of you who are still reading this long post and god bless and keep you. love ya all my wonderful friends and family . ps. don't eat to much or you might look like a stuffed turkey lol goodnight for now

sunday's musings

2006-11-19T23:06:00.001-08:00

today was a bla bla day. i baked cookies, did laundry, played with shadow, and slept the rest of the day. i woke up about 2 pm and saw that shadow was without food so got dressed(no i still was not dressed) and went out and spent some time with him, he is such a loving boy, at night he snuggles into my arms and goes to sleep with me holding him, baby was acting wierd and i am worried about that since she never acts strange unless something is going on. hope that i am wrong.

i crocheted some more snowflakes for my swap partners as well as the other thing which i am not saying since some might read my blog. so nananananana
lol,

tomorrow have sooo much to do, bills to pay food to buy, and packages to send. yep i got to get a couple sent as i promised i would, for those who have bought its coming margerate i promise it is coming

lol, just have been so darn busy i have not had time hon will get it sent as soon as i can. hopfully by wensday.

i now have the task of finding a tad bit more room in my craft area, since the room is full now am finding hotspots for me to stash the rest. once i have out of here (dining room) i don't want to hear one more complaint against my "mess" mess indeed is nice yummy yarn that i can't get rid of at all, this last year i think i have given over 10,000.00 worth of yarns lols. most of which i have given the nuns but also some to those of you who paid for the shipping and trusted me enough to send it. i did send it as soon as i got the money as all of you who bought from me knows.

anyways i hope ya all have a great week ahead of you and enjoy our special holiday of thanksgiving and i know that not all of you do, but for those of you who do, many blessings on your holiday and may god bless and keep you always, ciao my dear friends love ya all:)

hey ya all

2006-11-19T00:59:00.000-08:00

hi peeps, how ya all doing, today i cleaned my craft stuff up and out and omgosh, you should see the stuff i found, things i have been looking for and things i had forgotten i had, who needs christmas when you have a over run craft room lol,

i had forgotten half of the things i have made over the years and still have and now i dpn't need to do half the shopping i thought i did hehehe, not only is it handmade but its already finished. so you all who will be getting a gift from me, it might not be store bought but handmade is better anyways lol

chatted with fran tonight and also jean and jess, gosh jess has beeen soooooooooo long sweetie was thrilled we could chat. but sorry to hear the problems ya all are having. hang in there sweetie it will get better.

am working on my ornaments still almost done then starch and send off by the 30th or is it the 20th, shoot better look lol, anyways i am almost done so no worries my partners. it will be well worth it

well i let my son go and pick up the ham, omgosh what a mistake, the boy not only broke the bank with the price(63.00) but he got a 19 pound ham, what in the name of gobbles am i going to do with all that ham. he says he will take care of it so he be doing just that. i am lucky in the respect that i have my son who likes to cook, he will be doing most of thanksgiving dinner, i of course will be doing the sweet potatoes and mashed potatoes and stuffing, he on the other hand is in charge of the ham, in basting it and glazing it and making it nice and yummy hehehe, and ya know something? he might be 25, but he cooks like he has been around the kitchen for many years which in a way he has since i got hurt i can no longer make anything large such as a holiday meal.

been working on dd's christmas present, is a jolly roger skull and cross bones, front is done, back almost then sleeves and sew it together as i dust my hands off of each other

there is a question going around the one of the forums i belong to as to when you put your christmas tree up. if my son had his way it would already be up, realisticly will be about the 2nd week of dec. son has been on a huge buying spree of decorations and i asked him today where he was going to put them all, over at his nana's and grandpas? he said no they are for here. yeee gads and little catfish what am i going to do with all the decorations.

on another note, what is your favorite holiday movie or show that yu watch, this is not just about christmas movies either so when you sit down to watch a holiday movie what is it, and like i said does not have to be a christmas moviem, could be a different holiday movie like even a cartoon, i think my most favorite of all times has to be how the grinch stole christmas, its so goofy and fake, but the theme is what is good and what is evil. something i know most of themselves, my son's is die hard LOL, jk his is a mickeys christmas carol and my dd's is its a wonderful life. another fav of mine too, gosh how many movies are out there, so many we lost count when looking at them it boggles the mind.

itsy was so cute today, little stinker climbed up on the patio roof and would not come down for love or money stinker she loves to explore.

also wanted ya all to know i have not been on much cause the 16th was my son and hubbys birthday and we had a small gathering of just us lol, i baked their most favorite cake, and it only took me 4 hours
yes 4 hours, let me explain how it was. i measured and mixed, sprayed pam on the pan, got it all ready, poured the mixture into the cake pan and put it in the oven. set the timer and went and sat down in the living room since my back was bothering me, well i woke up 2 hours later to see smoke pouring out of the oven and the smoke alarm blaring away. thank goodness all it did was burn the cake, but of course was big fat mess. oh well that will teach me to not sit down and fall asleep. hehe,

speaking of, i am headed off here now and headed to bed, i am beat after working all day and i know tomorrow if i don't get my rest tonight/this morning lol then i am going to be having some serious pain issues what really sucks is i have so much to do and so little time to do it all in.

i have learned though that i HAVE to pace myself and today i sure didn't do that, back right now is doing the stab grab and bam on my back, hips and down my legs, on that unhappy note i am headed to bed. god bless you all and if you don't get a chance or i don't to post or read or answer, i want to wish you all a thanksgiving filled with fun and laughter, good food and plenty of love, god bless you all and i hope that you when you do come back and read this will, please share with me and all who read this what you did for the t-day (or in my case the pig day) we will go over and pick up mil and fil and bring them out, am also planning on inviting his aunt and uncle but doubt they will come, as their daughter often has dinner for that part of the family.

a special wish and prayer for those of you who have loved ones serving over seas in the military, a special blessing for you and your loved ones, and our deepest gratitude and love for your sacrifices, god bless and keep your spirits up, we are with you in spirits too. have a blessed holiday an a wonderful dinner be what it may, turkey, ham even pizza, as long as you are together with another person you will be in our thoughts and prayers. god bless and keep smiling love ya all my friends

hey ya all

2006-11-13T21:48:00.000-08:00

thanks for all of you who have been keeping us washingtonians up here in your thoughts and prayers,. i swear this weather better change soon or we are going to float away :0(, today was not so bad although it did rain and also was windy, but thankfully we had no damage, none whatsoever
today i worked in my craft room, cleaning and reorginizing my yarn supply, while it is getting better it is still way out of the loop hehe. i will be sending the yarn to you margaret as soon as i get a chance to get to the post office. right not am not even close to going yet.

today got another package of yarn, yes i said yarn lol is yarn i had bought last month from spincityarns out of hawaii. she sells on e-bay and i can guarentee she is a great seller. i know a few of you have bought from her and i know you agree.

started another gift for dd this is a belt made like a corset, i don't think i am going to make it quite as large as this one is in the happy hooker book, i also am making in in black thread with a red acrlyic mohair for the outter edge

i need to sit down and really figure out what i am making and giving to everyone for christmas. i know i am almost done with daughters, maybe a couple smaller store bought things, other than that i mostly have hand made for her which she will love i hope.

i know for some of my friends i am making gifts and for a few others will buy something , or maybe give supplies instead. who knows hehe

so what are ya all having for thanksgiving dinner? hubby wants somethinf totally different and i said no we are having the more traditional meal, if he really wants something that odd then will maybe do it for christmas.

i kind of over did it today and tonight am paying the price, my back and hips and legs are hurting so bad, i really over did it, tomorrow i will rest more, although have a bunch of places to go for my dear son, IF i feel better that is hehe.

if you could be anything or anyone you wanted in life what or who would you be? i think i would be a cat, because cats can and do just what they want. they will either be loving and caring or so aloof that you can noteven touch them. lol today shadow was so whiney so i went out to visit him, he jumped into my arms and proceded to kiss me until made him stop. his tounge is soooo rough, but he is soooo loving, i wish things were better for him. instead of the way they are. but at least he has a better life than he had before. but i am still sad for him, if only he and coast would get along. maybe someday.

util tomorrow i ask you be kind to another person and be good to yourself, remember to love your fur babies cause they have the cleanest and most pure love of all, pure love, they only ask for a few things food, clean water and companionship my furbabies are a major part of my life , without them i dont think i would be a happy person like i am, they love without asking for anything hugs to you all and god bless and keep you. hugs and take care

2006-11-11T22:58:00.000-08:00

thank you dear vetrans

2006-11-11T22:47:00.000-08:00

today i want to take the time to thank those of you who are vetrans and have chosen to serve this country at great loss to your own selves in all ways needed. you chose to defend this country. this country who has the most freedoms of any on this earth, and why is this one asks, let me tell you, its because of all the men and women who have served this country and layed their lives on the line for all of us. i for one am eternally greatful for your sacrifice. i get up each morning and thank god that i live in this great country. sure we have problems who doesn't, but i can guarentee that when push comes to shove, americans on the whole will stand up for our rights to freedom, to life liberty and the pursuit of happyiesss,

when 9-11 hit many americans became"patriotic" it was not that horrible tragedy that made me thank a vet and all who have served, although that angered me beyond anything i could ever say, only made me stronger and made me love this country even more. if i were able to be i would be on the field of battle. this is why when i heard about how cold it is in the areas that you all are serving, how i started to think what can i do, sat and made 43 helmet liners alone and gathered 7 more from fellow americans and friends who also salute you. god bless and keep you safe and may your day be filled with the gratitude you soooo deserve. i for one am very proud of our troops and i pray each day that you all come home safe and that all those who are home stay safe. i thank you all . without you, there would be no america as we know it today. your all in my thoughts and prayers every day. god bless you one and all

where has the time gone

2006-11-09T22:24:00.000-08:00

gosh today i looked at the calender and i was so shocked that over a 1/3 of the week gone, we have had so much rain its just terrible. and now the meteroligest says that we are going to be slammed with another one. omgosh its awful

today went to circut city today and bought the new mcafee as my old one was drawing to extinction and since son needed one for his i just bought the one for 3 computers. i will get most of it back thank goodness lol. i refuse to ever use norton again. that was what messed my computer up so bad last year as i was not able to even get on the web, since the norton had over taken my computer and kept shutting it down, when contacted about it of course they denied responsibility, i have talked with so many people and i so wish i had known then what i know now. thank goodness there was no perminate damage. but i still hate norton and all of their policys. i talked with so many people that the same thing happened to them, what i would like to know is how they get away with denying they are reasonsibility, yet so many people have had it happen to them. oh well at least i found out before it totally killed my computer. some people were not so lucky . k about them but i still dislike them hehehe.

found out today all of the helmet liners have been delivered to afghanistan, and the responce is fantastic. so many of these troops could not believe that people here cared enough to give to them(with the helmet liners also was added many other goodies that my dear friend donna gets most of the credit, to you i bow my friend, donna included many goodies for these special heros we have, tooth brushes, dental floss, anything she could think to send to helpful to the wonderful men and women in the united states military.

now i have those done i have been trying to think of what to make now besides gifts, speaking of a new gift, did i tell you all about my special little grand niece i wish i could tell you her name but to be honest i can not remember what my sis told me, i am thinking it was emelia mae, if i can remember her name correctly. will find out before i send her a present, speaking of her gift, i am thinking of making her a darling little baby dress along with a blanket. or maybe just the dress, not sure how much time or energy i have. i also already have a darling little blanket already made, it is pink and has hearts all over it so might give her that as well as sending her the dress, who knows , maybe i will suprise them with both. wish me luck though since i can not remember;(thats a whole nother story hehe) i also am about 2/3 of the way on kristys sweater. i can't wait for her to get it, she is soooo into skulls, speaking of, today i got another tote bag from novelty creations on etsy.com it is the same material as the smaller purse i had made for her, the material is called skullfinity, hehehe, i am so happy this year with what i am getting for her and her brother, today i bought him 2 very nice handsome(he is a guy, nothing is pretty!!) sweaters, one is cardnial red(no it has nothin to do with the world series winners, its just the color of it cardnial red. also have one that is about a heather blue, soft but pretty(to bad son i said pretty lol) i also have boughten him a sweat shirt jacket style, he probably will like this one since he needs it.

today bought myself something i have been needing also, its a lumbar cusion and has some heat and vibration, AND let me tell you, it is awesome, best 12.00 i ever spent on myself

well on that happy little note am off here before i turn the whole pages into zzzzzzzzzz's hehehehe. hugs to you all and god bless and keep you. love ya all my maties

does it ever stop

2006-11-05T19:54:00.000-08:00

omgosh we are drowing in rain, yesterday had 4.5 inches today ovr 3 and tomorrow and each day of this week we are suppose to have at least 2 to 3 in of rain and winds of 55 to 65 mph, sustained not gusts is what i have been hearing
i feel like i need a ark or something, wonder if noah had any plans for the ark printed up hehehe. seriously we are in trouble here with the water coming down so fast and hard. we need some sunshine people. like yesterday hehe,

on the other hand i am so excited since i am almost done with dd's christmas present. making her the jolly roger sweater for christmas and am about half way done with the back all the way done with the front and then need to swipe her sweater she has so i can see how long the sleeves are. i am so excited as i am almost done with it and it has been a while, not because of it being the sweater it is, but because thats one more wip done yes done whoooohooooo lol

yesterday was horrible weather out. hubby got called to work and while it was not in his job description to help with the flooding(he is a engineer not a plumber) he waded in the water with the rest of the employess and helped clean the drains out so the wanter could drain. i think most of the major flodding was caused by alot of the storm drains being blocked and was not any different at work. his boss knows who to call, one nice thing about it though is he will get 1 1/2 times his pay at 6.5 hours, makes a nice bonus for christmas as it will be on this paycheck hot dawg hehehe. this christmas i am making most of my gifts anyways though although son is hard to make anything for as he has pretty much all the blankets and sweaters and scarfs/hats he wants. so i have to think of something that i can buy for him instead. although i may make him something for his car. i like to make sure my kids have a blanket in their car so in case of if they stranded for some reason they have something warm, i also packed their emergency kits with space blankets which while does not seem warm, they actually are very warm as they reflect your own body heat. i have carried those for years and never have had to use them oncebut thats why i am thankfull for them. i know i am rambling hehehe

we had a nice night last night inspite of all of the problems we all dealt with. we watched the premier of our summer movie that we made. son and daughter made us spagettie and meat balls with garlic bread. we had a good time .

gosh it was so nasty poor shadow didn't even want to be out of his little cage in the garage. just sat at the gate and meowed all dang day, i felt so bad for the poor little guy, and today while we let him out early he kept coming back into his kennel, he hates the rain, a little secret for ya, so do i, especially when its the kind of rain we have had.

tomorrow i go to the doc and get my precsriptions which i am very thankful for, just hope the weather doesn't stop me as it is going to be so nice and nasty out they say oh i am sooo thrilled just so happy just kidding hehe

well am off to sign into yahoo messenger and see if anyone wants to chat, hugs ya all love ya heaps and bunches me yup yup its me indeeed love ya all

2006-10-30T23:47:00.000-08:00

are you ready?

2006-10-30T23:21:00.000-08:00

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

2006-10-28T22:49:00.000-07:00

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

2006-10-25T23:55:00.000-07:00

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

2006-10-22T23:11:00.000-07:00

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

2006-10-21T22:35:00.000-07:00

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

2006-10-20T22:25:00.000-07:00

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

2006-10-17T22:16:00.000-07:00

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

2006-10-17T00:38:00.000-07:00

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

2006-10-15T22:30:00.000-07:00

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

2006-10-10T23:24:00.000-07:00

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?

2006-10-10T08:50:00.002-07:00

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?

2006-10-09T00:47:00.000-07:00

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

2006-10-06T22:52:00.000-07:00

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

2006-10-05T23:00:00.000-07:00

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2006-10-01T12:30:00.000-07:00

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

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

hey ya all

2006-10-01T01:39:00.000-07:00

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

what a day

2006-09-28T00:54:00.000-07:00

today went to lunch with hubbys aunt. we had a very nice time, went to johnnys dock in fife washington, we both were starving going in, but for some reason, we both just weren't that hungry so we both brought most of our lunch home . after lunch we went to artco as she wanted to get some yarn as i talked her into going to artco, well i did offer to give her a skein of yarn any skein i had, but she wanted one which closer match her coat.. well you guessed it i was bad., to the tune of lots of money.. oh well birthdays come once a year and this one is for me hehehe. well its late and since i just fell asleep sitting here at the computer so am going to go and will chat tomorrow when i can think coherinetly(spell that way too !!!)] hugs to you all,, kari, hon watch in about the middle of next week for a box... god bless and keep you always your friend ME!!!!!

howdy ya all

2006-09-26T01:03:00.001-07:00

this last weekend, hubby and i went up to seattle to the freemont oktoberfest, it was a beautiful day and we only ran into the troll who guards the bridge over freemont one time. here it is

while this is not the actual stone one which guards the bridge

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/WASEAtroll.html this little bugger is, the one we saw and i have pictured was made by a seattle artist who made it out of paper mache and then clear coated it so it would not melt in the rain. we had a great time although it was rather diffucult for me to ride there and back, but i managed to do so. i saw this raw silk yarn they had for sale, the vendor wanted 8.00 a hank which i would suppose to be about 3 ounces, needless to say i did NOT buy it as it was just nasty sorry looking yarns..

sunday we watched the seattle seahaws beat the new york giants (sorry giant fans) with what appeared to was going to be a wash out for new york, yet they came back and brought it to within 12 points and thats what the seahawks took the win for, moral of this story, don't count your little seahawk eggs lol, , and yes i am a seahawk fan and am glad that they won the game.

we then went and visited my mil and she is just very very fragile, each week i see her fading away to almost nothing.is just very hard to see. :(

then on the other hand today i had AWESOME news, i have been so worried about where i was going to get the next 1000.00 for our taxes, and i had had my doctor fill out a disabled tax payer card for me, and since our income is less than the amount that is covered then i though well maybe we will qualify, well not only did we qualify so i got a reduction, we don't have to pay anymore this year AND we are getting money back. thank god we finally are getting a small break anyways. is a sad sad world where one person can change others lives so horribly and they don't get a break in anyway, thats what had happened to me until today, i found that there are good people in this world and that our government does truly care, i am soooo happy i cried right there in the assores treasurers office, the girl who helped me was sooooooo very kind. thank god there are people who can make a difference, i do my best to be the kind of person that i would want others to be for me. tomorrow will tell you all about my yarn haul i made last week teee heee lol hugs to you all and god bless and keep you all

what is it

2006-09-17T01:39:00.000-07:00

what is this creature that my littlest kitty brought me, can anyone tell me? lol. l let me tell you, this thing was big and had crawly legs with spikes and antenia when it moves up against something, come on all of you super slueths, fill me in on what is sitting in my rhodys now

howdy

2006-09-17T00:18:00.000-07:00

been a while since i posted anything, sorry bout that, been busy and then i fell and smashed my face a bit, but am feeling better now , i have been busy crocheting to my little hearts content.finished the tote for my swap with aunt debbie and am almost done with the scarf. also am enjoying the secret pal swap.

the days have been so gloomy here. sunshine is a thing of the past around here. they are all gone and now fall weather has moved in.

last night i was sitting relaxing and i heard this bang bang bang on the door to the rec room, i opened it up and there was coast, standing on his back legs smacking the door with his head, he was lonely and cold, wanted someone to come in and visit with him And turn their little heater on, is amazing how spoiled my cats really are lol

found some new friends on the chat room at the fiber freaks board. very nice crochet forum with alot of new friends and several old ones. was nice chatting with them all

what have you all been up to, as i said i finished my tote, but don't want to post cause then she might see it lol, sounds like the one she made me is so awesome. i can't wait hehe

today went and bought hubby some new shoes, cost me a blooy fortune, 135.00 to be exact, but these boots are nice ones and since he is not going to be able to retire in the near future, then he needed good solid boots as he is on his feet all day long

i am debating wether or not to go to the fair, after what they did to lori my friend who makes the most awesome doily's, they only gave her honorabe mention and that was so unfair, i might have to work hard to not open my mouth if i do go, although i like to see the awesome work people do, oh well will decide some other time.

my birthday is fast approaching,amazingly enough i am going to be 50 years old, or is that young, its a wierd feeling being half a century old.

in 50 years so much has happened. so much more for my generation the baby boomers who have so much going for us, should be thankful that we are all able to be here and live with the changes, i remember when we got our fist television, i was 4 years old, my parents had little to no money so we just did not have a tv. i remember to this day how exciting it was to watch tv and see the adds and shows in black and white,

then came color a few years later for us.color tv had been around for a while but we didn't have it even though my dad had gotten a better job.. it was amazing to watch all of the shows in the 60's we didn't get to watch alot, we were kids and kids played outside alot, we didn't have video games or stereos in our rooms, cell phones, our own tv's, we had if we were lucky a small transistor radio, and it came with a tiny ear plug that you could barely hear out of it lol, i remember the first video game system
actually i have it its called pong, i also remember the times of unrest, when kennedy was elected president and when he was shot. i remember the 1st man on the moon and when martin luther king was assasinated also, good times and bad that was the turbelence of the 60's when the 70's came so did high oil prices, yet today i would dance a jig to have the high prices we had then as the ones we have now far outweigh the inflated prices, i remember sitting in line at the gas station and sometime splitting the time with hubby as we had 2 cars.well a car and a truck lol, and how mad people got when they had to wait to get 10 gallons of gas, thats what we were allowed

to me its just amazing to see how much things cost

i met my hubby while visiting my aunt and uncle and they lived right next door to him, and to this day we both can't believe how fast we fell in love. marriage is something i take a serious stand on, for myself, yet i have no opinions on others as they need to make their own decisions on wether or not to get married or even to stay that way. hubby and i have been married for over 27 years. can't believe how fast i have gotten old. is 50 old? some say yes, that when you are the one turning it like me, right now i can honestly say i feel old.

life gives us these challenges, right now my challenge is to deal with my back pain on a daily basis. it is getting worse yet they did all they could(the docs ) life moves on faster some days other days seems as if they will never end

today i worked on some comfortghan squares for gina, she has a special lady she wants to make a comfortghan for and i am glad to help,

well enough of my whining about getting old, i refuse to admit i am old, even thougn i already am , tomorrow is another day. god will help me make it through the day let alone another year.

i took my car down for emmisions , i hate that, its so unfair when someone lives out of town a ways, they don't have to worry about the emissioms even though they are overhalf of the reason the roads are as crowded as they are. work on the cross base highway is suppose to start sometime in the next century , that will help traffic to slow down

i saw on pac ave that there is going to be a light right on the street next to ours. wooohoooo hot dawg, we have needed a light there for years. thankfully it should help the traffic, o.k off my high horse now .

does anyone have anything really special they are going to make, i think i am going to try and do something free form, thinking possibly a sweater for my daugheter, or gasp maybe one for me, i can;t believe how old my kids are. amazing enough they both still live at home, my son says as soon as he gets a full position(please pray that he does very soon he is going to buy a house

and daughter is still at a loss as to what she wants to do with her life. so until she does and then does it i can almost guarentee she will live at home. thats alright, i make sure they help around the house which helps me
. well i am rambling on and its getting late, need to get off here and get some crocheting done before i head to bed. kari hon, am still praying for your family and especially your uncle sweetie. take care all of you dear friends, tomorrow is another day that never comes because tomorrow is never far away lol i know i am rambling, i promise i did not have anything to drink lol hehe, just am tired and i know your all probably snoozing now too, to all ofyou who are reading my words, i thank you, for all of you who post here , till the day of tomorrow god bless and keep you and hugs for you all, goodnight till tomorrow lol

sept 11th least we forget

2006-09-08T23:16:00.000-07:00

on monday it will be the 5th anniversary of the most horrible act of terrorism that has ever happened to the united states.

recently i wrote a post in honor of one of the true american heros who gave his life fighting the terrorists on united airlines flight 38. i sit here tonight thinking about how much our country has changed since this fateful day, would you have it any other way? do you object to all of the changes that people have to go through just to get where they are going. personally, i say hey if its needed then we should not object. people have a problem though sometimes when "big brother" steps in and changes our lives. Mr Horrock, i know you did not die in vain, today our country is more prepared for these horrible things that these cowards have chosen to subject us all to, i recently saw on the news that the government had chosen to show binladen meeting with his cowards. i hope that some day this mad man is caught and that the world is a safer place. but will we ever really be safe again. i like to think its possible, as our troops fight the world terror, ours lives still are in danger. please take a few minutes this monday to ponder how this act of terror has changed your life. also please take the time to think about our heros who gave their lives that fateful day and continue to give their lives, the ultimate sacrifice in irag and afghanistan and other areas around the world, remember september 11th is patriot day, fly your flag and thank a vet or service member, please let them know how much you care. i have talked with alot of people who serve in the military. they are thankful for the people who care about them, your a american, show your support, . thanks for listening and reading this post. thanks for letting me say how i feel. to all of you who are out there with your lives on the line. i salute you. god bless you all and this great country we live in, hugs and blessings to you all

howdy

2006-09-06T01:49:00.000-07:00

been a while since i actually sat down and blogged so here i am lol, not doing to much right now, working on a couple of squares for a comfortghan for the croc hunters wife and kids. as many of you know , the crocodial hunter died this week due to an encounter with a sting ray, which somehow pierced his chest wall and pierced his heart killing him almost instantly. well some of my fellow crochetfriends and i were talking and it was brought up that maybe we should make a comfortghan, when asked how we would get it to them, evidently they have the addy of th zoo he ws affliated with and also there was talk about terri's parents addy so i am almost done with the 2nd one and finished the first one so is almost ready to send off,

in other news i have all but 4 helmet liners done, just need to sit down and finish them now before i send them off to the troops

also am almost done with the shrug from the annies attic crochet magazine, its a pretty raspberry colored alure. so soft too, and then i need to finish a purse i am making for another swap. oh and also 3 ornaments' sheeesh its adding up now
lol lol also need to get busy making my dd's jolly roger sweater.

the weather here has been just awesome, nice warm days and cooler nights,getting cold our way and before ya know it, we will have frost,

oh boy did i make a haul today, walmart had its nobo, no boundry yarn

clearenced for 1.00 each skein along with some soft and fluffy baby yarn and some more nice yarn, alure, which is the yarn i am making the shrug out of :) anyways to make a long story short, here i am standing there trying to make up my mind which skeins to buy, when something came over me and it said buy them all, buy them all, buy them all!!!!! so i did hehehe 73.00 and 71 skeins of yarn tax ya all know is high here in washington state,

also tonight i picked a huge collander of green/purple/yellow/ and the heirloom ones which i don' know the name of but i still have the seed package. these beans are odd looking, they are long and flat yellow and light green, with purple blotches all over them, it really reminds me of when i was growing up and in our garden(which was huge) we always planted a long bean called oregon giant, beings as the bean was over 15 inches long at times hence the name.

also picked a few sweet 100 tomatoes and a medium size one. let me tell ua all, nothing and i mean nothing beats the taste of a fresh ripe tomato right off of the vine.

i had a scare tonight when itsy came up missing, she missed her dinner and that is not like her at all, she is always there for dinner, i called and called her, she was no where to be found. i finally gave up and came inside. well in just that short period of time , my son came home, and called and called her, we had tried everything eslse' finally here she comes, popping her little head over the fence, little stinker so all is well in my little world, till tomorrow(or whenever i manage to post, somehow i find myself so tired that i don't want to even do anything, well dear friends and new ones too, god bless and keep you safe from harm,so from me to you, giant hugs and happy hooking , and knitting too, goodnight

HUGS

where did the summer go

2006-09-01T00:47:00.000-07:00

where did summer go i ask, hard to believe that it is september 1st, summer has come and gone once again for another year(unless your in australia or places due south.)

children around the world are moaning and groaning as the new school year begins. gone is the carefree days of summer where they could run around barefoot and play till dark, even catch fire flys.

gone are the days of wanting to go to the beach or river to relax after a long hot day at the office. gone are the carefree days of eating ice cream cones or having a grilled hot dog. gone but not forgotten.

soon the leaves will start changing soon, beautiful colors of gold and red and brinze.

soon the holidays will be upon us, but the one thing we can always count on, is that

summer once again will come around. once again 9 short months soon will flow back into

the dog days of summer. what did you do on your vacation?

what i did was a variety of things. first i started it out by wracking my leg and muscles up, tore a tendon and quite franly, screwed myself up by not watching where i was going

at the begining of june i decided that while my time was not i wanted to do something to help our armed service members keep happy and warm, what i decided to do is called helmet liners.

i made a goal to myself and others that i was would make 40 hats to help our brave warriors warm, to this date i have 34 made and soon will reach the
goal, now my question for myself is HOW DO I STOP !!!! i have gotten so i can make these babyes faster than you can say awww to a squirming baby.

so will keep you posted as far as my helmet liners go, i have had some help with a

few of them , 5 to be exact, tyhe rest i did myself, 3 made by a special friend , and another 2 by my buddy fran who lives in texas, when being told abut what i wanded to do, right away jumped and knitted 2 more.

i am also working on christmas presents as i sit here an type away lol

am almost done with a shrug for my oldedest niece. she loves her presnts she gets from me.

well is late and i am beat. till tomorow i bid ya all a great day ahead and a awesome night, happy crocheting my friends

half way there !!!!

2006-08-19T23:10:00.000-07:00

for those of you who don't know i have made it my goal to make and donate to the service people 40 helmet liners, you ask whats a helmet liner, basicly its a stocking hat that the service member wears under the helmits hence the name helmet liners, the purpose is to keep them warm in the cold weather. people think its warm over in iraq and afghanistan, which it is in summer but winter is another story, well today i finished the first half of them, i made 15 myself and had 5 donated by 2 very sweet and kind and caring friends. so i am at the half way mark and only have another 20 to go, cheer me on and let me know i can do it lol,. huggggggs to ya alll

hey ya all

2006-08-19T02:23:00.001-07:00

thought i would stop on by and tell ya about a new place i been buying some yarn and a place where you can't go wrong

http://www.crochetknitandmore.com/. this site is run by non other than our very own kathy hudgins. i have known kathy for a number of years now and find her to be a awesome seller as well as buyer., check her site out and you will not regret it. she is a very honest person and will not steer ya wrong. and besides she has some wonderful yarns on sale hehe, thanks ya all and have a faantastic weekend hugggggs

hey ya all

2006-08-19T02:23:00.000-07:00

yeaaaaaaaa

2006-08-14T01:28:00.000-07:00

my daughter who i told you all about in the last post, is feeling alot better, hubby asked her what percentage she was and she said about 80 % so yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, she ate a good dinner and in fact ate good all day today. i am so happy . i hate when my kids are sick, well when anyone in my family is but especially my kids. which include both 2 and 4 legs lol. today was a awesome day, hubby and son reconditioned the basketball court and my job was to keep the cats off till it dried HA HA, fat chance, merwyn decided she was going to walk where she wanted and to heck with the rest of us, so there were these little paw prints hehe, well friends am off to zzzzzzzzzz land as i am i realy tired too. so thanks once again good night for you all and hugss from me to you

happy birthday brother

2006-08-13T00:27:00.000-07:00

today is my brother michaels 51st birthday, happy birthday big brother, is odd i am going to be 50 this year. i know mom threw you a party last year and i am so glad she did. well hope its a good one. hugs and love big brother your baby sis

hey

2006-08-13T00:20:00.000-07:00

hi ya all, sorry i have not blogged in a couple days. my dear daughter who i love with all my heart has gotten sicker than she has been in a long time. i took her to the doc yesterday and he was very concerned. thought it might be menengitis, but what it is i believe is a bad sinus infection combined with a virus. her temps have been spiking at like 103 and 104, but today thank the good lord they broke and she is feeling somewhat better. her little neck and shoulder muscles are like rocks, i know just how she feels as mine are always like that due to the whiplash injury i suffered 6 years ago.part of hers is that also as she was in the car with me when we were rear ended.

thankfully today she ate more and was able to take more medicine.. i did not sleep hardly at all last night for worrying about her. got up checking her like every 15 min but thank the good lord he interviened and she is on the road to recovery,

we were suppose to go to some friends house today , every year they throw a HUGE party on their lake front property. spends 1000.00s of dollars on it and we were not able to go today due to kristy being so sick. now they are mad at us. i tried to explain why we could not come, was not like we were the only ones going tobe there. , but we had planned on going, but ya know when your kids are sick(or hubbys for that matter) you drop everything, so oh well, if they can not understand then i can not help it and they can be as mad at me as they want.

so today spent the day trying to rest and relax a bit, but seems like it was every 15 min i heard mama, can you do this ect. she i think just wanted to know i was there . poor baby,. but this afternoon she finally slept so i did too, gosh slept like a log too, but then hubby was here if she needed anything. tonight we sat outside and enjoyed the evening, you can sure tell its soon going to be fall as the air is cold at night, last night and this morning my heat actually came on, which is amazing considering i have it set at 60 degrees, so i was cold this morning, course i grabbed my handy dandy heat packs and made them all nice and toasty warm, just in time to hand them over to dd, but then i went ahead and made more, i have several heat packs and am going to make some more rice packs. they are awesome either cold or hot. works better than store bought and a lot cheaper too lol

finished my dear friend janes shawl i was making her and will show pics as soon as i take some, she is going to love it i hope anyways after i finished that(which its my own design hehehe) i worked on another helmet liner, and finished another one tonight. i am so mad at bernat i could spit nails. i didn't catch it either till i was all done either, but i was using the desert cammo yarn, you know the one which has browns and tans and creams ect in it, well seems that 2 of their skeins i recently bought and made the helmet liners with, have shades of lilac and purple instead of brown. OMG was i mad, i made 4 hats like that, so now will give those to the rescue mission here in town and make more helmet liners. i had 12 done counting the 5 fran and another person sent me(thank you whoever you are i greatly appreciate it) so now am back to 8 but soon will make the difference up, my goal as some of you know is 40, think i will make it? i think i will especially if the people who said they would help me reach my goal send me at least 1 or 2 helmet liners, if not thats alright too, i can make them, am also hoping to write a little note card to tell them that i care about them and send them hugs from me what do ya think? think that would be alright?

well i also got my purse swap partner and will be getting busy and making you a awesome bag, large in size due to your having to bring alot due to your children who you need to carry things for. also am going to spoil you with lots of goodies, hehe

tomorrow will go to mil's again, is so hard for me to go there and see her like she is right now. please send good thoughts and prayers for her also.

well am off to crochet some more helmet liners. i figure if i do 2 a day will make it easy by the end of sept to have them all done.

what are you guys all up to/ any special projects? i also have a secret pal on the ville and also the mania . so am going to be a busy gal, which is just fine with me, besides making christmas goodies. not sure just yet what i am , but i know my sis and her kids will get something special. kaie my oldest niece, she adores what her aunti makes her. well till tomorrow or next time i blog which ever comes first lol, hugs and special thoughts for you all, take care and keep crocheting and stop in and let me know what your making, and show pics too if possible. will have picks of the shawl soon. till later by dear friends. god bless and keep you all hugggggs from me to you. :)

the main pod plant

2006-08-10T10:43:00.000-07:00

this is where the "pod" came from

2006-08-10T10:38:00.000-07:00

here is a picture of where the pod came from. this is at point defiance park located in the city of tacoma, washington and located within ruston town limits, yes there is a town within a city here,. how strange is that hehehe now without farther tado drum roll please ......

what is this?

2006-08-10T01:08:00.000-07:00

hey ya all, look at this pic and see what it is, i actually loved the looks of this but i still am not sure of the name of it, but its sure odd, what do ya think?

ack what a month already now

2006-08-08T01:35:00.000-07:00

i am about at wits end, today while driving down meridian in puyallup- hubby says there is something wrong with the brakes in his car, the same one that just last week i spent big money on, as soon as we were able to get it back home i called the dealersm where we have all of our cars and truck fixed, and the manager said bring it in as soon as possible so we did, then we were still going to head up north today, a, we were headed for seattle center. did we get there ??? nope lol, dd got a call from her boss wanting her to come in so she said yes she would do that., so instead we went to point defiance which is a beautiful park, i will have to find som e pics of it and show ya, so now we await the news wether its small and easily fixed or if its going to cost me a arm and a leg. the funny thing was, son and hubby were going to head for las vegas this morning, but son also was called to work, i believe that things happen for a reason and we were not suppose to go to seattle today and the guys were not suppose to go to las vega otherwise the car would not havehad the brakes it did, so for this i am thankful, everythng for a reason and a time for everything. so i am thankful that we did not leave earlier and hit the freeway, otherwise would have been there and gotten stuck and even with towing, i can guarentee that no tow company is going to come 35 miles away from our home and would have cost us a bundle. thans for letting me vent, now am off to bed in hopes that tomorrow is a better day god bless and keep you all and hugggggggs from his ppk

hey ya all

2006-08-05T00:32:00.000-07:00

i am a happy girl now. i have sent my yarns out and both people who ordered from me love the yarn. i am thrilled that they like them, sonia i am soooo happy you are happy with the yarn, what a ordeal that was and hopefully we can find the lost boxes of yarn somewhere. let me know hon if there is anymore you want to buy, jacqui my mate, what can i say, i love ya mate

finished 2 more purses today. omgosh so cute, one is copper colored chenile, very soft, am going to line it with maybe a tanish material, also am thinking about adding beads to it, give me some imput peeps please.Lol the other shines. the other purse i i used a a mixed yarn it has a very fine thread which also has a bit of lurex in it. not much and i took a pic so you can see them(hopefully that is lol) well the copper colored one is not quite true on the colors but what can one expect with a camera phone lol. the other one too is not quite true in its color, but as close as possible, will take better pics later with my "real" camera LOL huggs for ya all till tomorrow. god bless and keep you. waving goodbye as i fall asleep zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

In honor and memory of Michael R Horrocks

2006-08-05T00:01:00.000-07:00

i want to let you know some my dear friends, this man was one of the souls who lost his life on 9-11, he was aboard united flight 38, the plane that the brave men and women american heros wrestled control from the terrorists and saved the lives of many people even while losing their own.

mr. Horrocks was 1st officer aboard this flight, he was 38 years young. he left behind a wife and child(ren). i do not know this family nor did i know Mr. Horrocks. my goal here is to honor a brave man who despite knowing he was going to die, helped wrestle control of United flight 38 away from the cowards who highjacked this plane.

i have said and will say a prayer for these brave souls and mostly for the loved ones they left behind.

i also wish to thank the family of Mr Horrocks for allowing me the honor of telling you about him and also for helping me to put a face to one of the victims of one of the darkest days in american history,
we must not forget these brave heros, for they gave the ultimate sacrifice. to Mrs. Horrocks and your child(ren), i will also include a special prayer for you and your family. and will light a candle every day when i go to church for mass. and even the days i don't go to church, will light a candle for them here at home. your family

has gone through one of the worst things a family has to go through. for you isend good thoughts and prayers your way, and a hug too just to show you i care. my friends and i have talked about doing a quilt to honor the victims, and while some are not able to do that right now. i am going to make a quilt square with Mr. Horrocks name and his age on a square myself, then when this quilt is put together i can include it., this is something we have talked about and is a way to honor our heros. to the family, god bless and keep you. your in my thoughts and prayers and i will never forget the sacrifice your family has gone through to help keep this great country free. we will never bow down to cowards like the losers who cowardly took control of those fateful airliners that day thinking they could make a difference in their cowardly way of thinking. only difference they made was it made our country stornger and we pulled together for the victims and their familys. god bless and keep you, your loved one is forever remembered and never forgotten. hang in and try and remember. he helped save thousands of lives while living the ultimate sacrifice and giving his life along with all of the others who perished that horrible day. god bless and huggggggs and prayers for all of you

thank you for allowing me to tell the world about your hero, he is also my hero now too, because now i have a face and a name to know and when i pray for his family that they may have some peace. 2001 seems so long ago in some respects. but not in this respect. only time will help heal your sorrow, some days will be good others bad,but your hero will always be mine too. thank you for letting me say this.

hey ya all

2006-08-01T23:10:00.000-07:00

hey ya all, been a while since i blogged, there are a few reasons for it too, mostly i am so darn tired at night i forget to read let alone write in a blog.

starting with the 23rd of july as some of you know was our 27th anniversary is the 23, but the kids and inlaws made a happy day for us inspite of all of the issues going on with mil, on the 22nd, was very very nice. then on to the 23rd. i fell again and this time i smashed my self up pretty bad, i skinned my knee like right on the knee cap and life in general has been a downer. then on sunday the 30th, i fell again and broke the knee cap open worse. i swear i am having a meltdown lol.but inspite of all the stress and pain and issues, i have been very blessed to have gotten some awesome roaks and holidays in july. also have been able to send a bunch out which made my day. on monday was able to get jacquis package off along with some goodies for her and her family which makes me so happy. not much else going on. trying hard to figure out a way to make something differernt. finally finished the fluffy stuffy for miss kitty over on the crochetmaniac board, now just need to get her addy once again and need to send it to her i hope she likes it, i made a couple things and frogged them as they turned out awful, and one thing i refuse to do is give someone something i would not like myself have missed not talking to ya all, but my yahoo has been all messed up, finally got it fixed i think

i got some awesome deals again on crochet books at half price books,imagine only paying 5.00 for a hardback book from either annies attic or leasiure art books which charges way more than that, and its not old books either, is books that are new and date. a note to anyone who quilts, they have the most awesome selection of quilting books i have ever seen. i have been wanting to get in and make my hubby a special quilt although i doubt i will, he seems to have the same concept as his mother, if its nice its to nice to use. case in point , the star afgan i made for my hubbys birthday, ended up waiting for some one to love it( another case is my mil) i made here a nice quilt 2 years ago and its just beautiful, it to sits on the back of the couch.GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR, oh well its hers and also hubbys and they can do what they want. but i want my special things around me so i need to make myself something special i am thinking. i wish i had gotten the quilt my grandma and i worked on together, but as most of her good stuff it just disapeared along with many other items. i have fond memories of grandma and i sitting at the sewing machine and sewing these little pieces of material into stars then pressing them ect. maybe thats what i will make a quilt, i have tons of material as well as other stuff like ummm yarn as i blush lol

I sent out sonias replacement yarn , taught me a valuable lesson, to not use the post office and to get ins, my dealings have been very frustrating for not just me but sonia and kathy also who i am sure felt like she was not getting her moneys worth. but i honored the deal as it was my fault that it was not ins and tracked and now can only pray the post office can find it and deliver it. so sonia hon, it is on its way, hope ya like it alot. i tried to duplicate the other yarns hon best as i could. anyways i know you will love it sweetie.

any ideas as to what to make, i am just at a stand still, fran and i talked about maybe making some bags with pacific coastal animals on it perhaps. well best close and hope this will post as it said that i lost my internet connection till tomorrow, god bless and keep ya all hugggggggs till tomorrow my friends. Keep crocheting away

what a weekend

2006-07-25T23:45:00.000-07:00

some days things happen to you when you least expect them too, was one of those weekends, well on sunday was hubby and my 27th anniversary and the i am not sure if i told anyone, but our kids had a little get together planned for us for our anniversary. almost every single year since my son has been about 8 years old, he and his sister(he does the majority of it) throws us a anniversary party. well maybe party is not the main word as he had plans for his dad and i and his grand parents and sis and himself, , well saturday we were given our timeline we needed to stick to so it would all be a suprise , so got ready and we took off and went to hang out and do something until 6 pm,(it was 11 am,) first place we stopped was a fireplace n grill shop, well we found some parts to our hibachi, the original green egg,( man can yo cook on those babys!!!) well the day passed, and we stopped for lunch at a place called E/9and its name is exactly what it use to be, a old fire station, well i asked to see a
menu as i was hungry and i ordered a french dip sandwhich, i finally got food and found it had mold on the bread, ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, so i waited and waited for the girl to come back, no girl so i finally got up and walked up front and told them about it, they were all oh i am sorry i can make you a new one really fast, by this time i am gettin dizzy from not eating and nauseated. well it finally came and i ate it after caefully checking the bread. we finished the meal and i said to hubby, lets go, we went to another pub that had ac in it , killing even more time, well then we started for home, as it was close enough, well as we were headed home,son calls and tellsme you and dad can come home anytime, nana and grandpa aen;t coming, i knew my mil was going to pull this crap, so i told hubby we needed to go there and find out what the heck was her problem, well as we are trying o drive there our speedometer went all wonky and the car just sort of went bad, no juice nothing so we pulled into his parents house i told him, hon is the alternator. he is like no way, guess what it was lol alternator and is bein fixed as i type, well tomorrow that is. but its in the shop now, well we stopped at inlaws house and i asked her why she did not want to come, she just said she was to tired, so i told ehr that she was being selfish as i knew not anything major, just her mood, i told her that she needed to get out, andmore importantly fil did, so i pretty much bullied her into coming. well of course we all had a great time, the kids bought us a awesome patio set . just beautiful, so i finally was happy for that day. move forward to next day, we had a great time the night before and sunday as i was enjoying myself and i wanted to get some fresh water, only to turn and tripped landed flat on my knee and back, i hurts so bad don't hadly want to stand on it. oh well i guess its better than it being on my back where the other part of me fell, anyways we had a nice time, but it sure was a adventure and not one that,i would want to have happen often lol . now to throw that rug out reminds i need to do that lol what a weekend huh? LOL

ack what a hard hard day i had

2006-07-19T23:55:00.000-07:00

today was one of those days, you just pray gets over as fast as possible, ever had one of those? i did today. started when i woke up late, then i went out and took shadow for a walk, well then after wards i tied his leash to the hose (we have been doing it now for 4 days and it worked just fine) well today while i was cleaning house, i looked outside and i about had a heart attack, i could see shadow was not on his chair, and the hose was no where to be seen. so i raced out there to see where he was, and i saw he had slipped out of his harness, and was running free, i was like oh crud, and called and called him, shadow was no way going to come to me, he was enjoying his freedom. one might ask, why do we have the cat on a harness and leash, well its like this. shadow is new to our house and the other 3 kittys are being so mean to him, they either shun him or they hiss at him, and he is such a gentle soul, when they hiss at him, he crys
he hates they don't like him. finally i coaxed him out of the bamboo with a can of food, and as soon as he came forward to eat, i snagged him and put him back on the leash, any suggestions peeps on how to get the others to accept him, he is a nuetered male and is about 2 years . and the 3 others are baby age 11 years, coast, age 4 years old siamese, and of course itsy, the young one. who is full of herself, but is also a sweet heart
they all are in their own way i guess lol.
anyways that was part of it, then i hurt my back trying to get the garden weeded.and can hardy move at all tonight. the weather is getting warmer and i wish i had ac, and then lets see what else can i complain about in my vent hehehehe. just kidding, but i did have one of "those" days lol. god bless all.

i also finished a shawl i am sending to a young lady named katie who currently is batteling cancer and i told her aunt i would do my best to help her, and so i made her a shawl so she can wrap herself in it with hugs from me each time she does.

i also was able to chat with some friends online tonight, enjoyed chatting with fran and also priscilla. donna went awol on me. lol, just kidding, she was talking with her hubby who is stationed somewhere in the middle east. is nice she can talk with him now
i posted a few things on the forum tonight and i am at this moment uploading some pics

it is suppose to be in the mid 90;s and of course i can't find a ac anywhere. oh well can always use my car lol,

well i am tired and headed to bed. hope ya all are having a good week, i will chat with ya all a bit later. god bless and keep you all. here is my shadow. isn't he a cutie isn't he. love ya all night now
well guess it is not going to let me post shadows picture tonight so maybe tomorrow i can show ya my little fur baby, god bless you all

i did it again lol

2006-07-15T01:31:00.000-07:00

i started out today with the best intentions of getting my dining room cleaned out of my craft stuff(yes still LOL) and while i was able to go through 3 more boxes of yarns and start another get rid of bag, or 2 or 3 actually, i really didn't get done what i wanted to. hubby is all well you know if its not done when i start vacation thats what i will be doing., brat trying to blackmail me cause he knows i really want to go somewhere and do SOMETHING THIS YEAR that i will work like a little doggy to get it done so we don't have to spend our whole vacation dealing with my craft room, and while it was hard to get rid of i did get rid of a lot of the yarn and thread, course it about killed me but hey what can i do. its either the yarn and thread or my vacation, and we all know i can buy more yarn afterwards bawahaaaahaaaa lol, also i am giving the yarn and thread to some special ladies who while they are not rich in any form are very nice and kind people who do a lot for charity. i was able to help them with supplies. so in some small way i was helping too , i love to help people and have had a great feeling doing this for others. you all know the saying
what goes around comes around. and some day i will get mine rewards for helping, although really i get them every time i see someone smile. that is all the rewards i want.

today was interesting to say the least. i took shadow out of his cage in the garage and proceeded to put his leash and harness on(seems wierd having a cat wear a harness and a leash) and mr. shadow was raring to go so i opened the garage door and let him out, first thing he does, is head directly towards the gate , i then clicked him to the patio door , and went in the cage and cleaned his liter box up, so then he was ready to go, only one small wee problem, seems shadow had decided to use it again
oh well is not a big dealrovided
the bad thing about taking care of shadow this way, is he needs to adapt to the area much an we are doing our best, but i still worry aout him. if anyone has any ideas as for how we can we can take care of him, not really take care of as more like prevent him from leaving the yard. well enough of shadow and his silliness this weekend is a good guys nationals for the old old cars, and he normally goes with our daughter but since she will be in seattle going to a concert seeing the horror pops and the reverand horton heat should you get the chance to go see him do you will laugh yourself silly lol so guess its up to good old mom to go to the show with him, provided my back stops illing me i have to climb in the cage for shadows liter box and i so thats part of why it hurts so bad i am sure. well am off to bed providing dd gets her rear in gear and comes home or at least texts me to tell me she has her keys which she seldome takes them so signing off here before i fall asleep and leave you all wondering where i went to lol good night to all god bless and keep ya in his care. huggggggs love ya all peeps
'em

i did it again lol

2006-07-15T01:30:00.000-07:00

yipeeeee i know my sp

2006-07-14T23:53:00.000-07:00

today i recieved a package in the mail from non other than my secret pal shella85222, her real name is michela tapia and she rocks you guys. this girl spiled me ROTTEN, i have been so blessed in my life to have had her be my secret pal, its kind of funny too, cause last sp the spring one, i had her name how cool is that

this darling girl made me not one not 2 but 3 more doilies, this on top of the prettiest blue doily she made me and sent in the first package. she sent me 3 awesome packages, and in this last one, not just the doilies, but also she knows my weakness for tea pots, and bought me the cutest ones i have ever seen. one is a little car teapot, one is a iron teapot, one is a telephone teapot and one is a small normal shaped teapot, she also sent to me the cutest little picture frame that is shaped like a teapot, also she sent me 2 darling little frog figurines as she knows i collect frogs, also a little cross stitch kit with what else a frog on it, she also sent me 3 balls of thread. and 3 annies crochet magazines and a crochet digest magazine non of which i have issues of(these are back issues wooohooo), and she also sent me 2 booklets with shawls and ponchos , and the directions on how to make them. what a special friend she is., she has spoiled me rotten and i am very thankful and blessed to have had her have my name. we often don't pamper ourselves the way one should as the kids are forever demanding something(yes even grown up children do this) so i once again say to michella, thank you sweetie from the bottom of my heart hugggggs to you

my itsy is missing

2006-07-11T23:26:00.000-07:00

my lil kitty itsy is missing, its just not like her to take off and not come when i call, she has been kind of upset since we brought shadow home but today she actually went right up to him and rubbed her nose on his saying hello, i am just worried sick, it makes no sense for her to dissapear without a trace. am hoping that she is just sleeping somewhere, i don;t think i can bear it if i lost another fur baby. she is the sweetest little girl. today i sat on the lawn swing with her and she wwas so content, purring and kneading for me all over , just a sweet little bambina.

i am so tired tonight, its been a long few days well i guess its been a week since shadow came to visit us. i am sorry to whine when people have a legitimate problems.

am working on a pretty blue shawl; made out of a pretty ladder tyo=pe ribbon yarn. will post a pic when done with it.

am off to check for itsy again, please pray that itsy comes home safe or if you don't believe in prayer, then send her some good thoughts and i will keep you all updated when she comes back
note i said when she comes back, if its the middle of the night will post tomorrow, am off to look for miss stinker puss. i swear kitty she is giving me a heart attack. hugs

i was raoked

2006-07-08T16:15:00.000-07:00

hat
I Was raoked yesterday, what a great suprise it was, i had had a hard day and when i got home and found that waiting. all i can say was i was so thrilled, dd and her bf were here and i opened it and said loudly wooooohoooo, lol, they thought that was funny but then when dd saw what it was, she was so excited for me knowing that someone out there cared enough to think of me and send me something so special, i again thank you from the bottom of my heart, i will never forget you what you have done. hugs

ooops

2006-07-07T00:35:00.000-07:00

wanted to let ya all know, i messed up my blog, i was playing around and trying to change it a bit and somehow i lost everyones info, if you would like to be added to my blog, e-mail me, you all know my e-mail that was up there right? if not leave me a message here with your info on it, truly sorry but i goofed big time and my dear friend and fellow blogger trish is going to walk me through it, so please bear with me and leave your information for me once again. thank you all of you, especially you trish and sonia too for helping me before. i should know better than to touch any buttons, my inner child just could not leave it alone, lol thanks for understanding. huggggs

2006-07-06T23:55:00.000-07:00

this is a poncho i made, its for sale for 45.00 including shipping, although if you want to have ins, you will have to pay extra. i will not be responsible for mail sentwithout ins. its very reasonable,not sure how much exactly but can find out for ya . if interested in it please leave me a message here with your information as to where i can reach you. after i see your information will contact you with information as to where to send payment. thank you and hope you enjoy it.. it was alot of fun making it. i used a new yarn called rave crochet. its made by royale, j&p coats inc. please leave comments if you like it or are interested in it, or just to say hello lol

happy 4th of july

2006-07-03T22:31:00.000-07:00

hey ya all, wanted to post really quick and wish you a happy freedom day. at least thats how i look at it lol.

today was crazy, started out by going out to pay my bills, half way to the po got a phone call from hubby. shadow is sick again, so i dropped what i was doing, which was buying grocerys for the party tomorrow, and came home, got the carrier
and went down to work and got him. had to take him to the animal er as my vet was packed and had no openings,

well shadow has another absess, and is still w

aiting for the doctor to do surgery on him, they have to give him some meds and help him sleep and go in and clean the wound out. now the really awful part. the money it is going to cost me lol. i wish we could really afford pet ins. shadow now will cost me a grand total so far of almost 1100.00, gasp faint send me to the bank lol, but what is money when it comes to someone or thing you love. this cat is crazy about my hubby and hubby is crazy about him, he loves him sooooo much, what else could i do, , my hubby is having a really hard time coping with alot of things right now. he wantsretire and he so hacn r to carry prescription service and the ones which do, will not carry mine, what am i suppose to do about that?
i need a hug or 2 or 3 guys lol

back to the 4th

half of my company called tonight, and told me, after i went to all the trouble of getting everything ready for all of my guests, well now they can't come, so what am i suppose to do with all the food my son picked up for me, guess i will freeze it, also we thought mil and fil was coming, now who knows
and everyone is so stressed and depressed, i just can't understand why things happen like they do, one thing after another. just a pain in the battttotttte

anyways dear friends now my rant is over., uptil another thing gets my goat,

ever wonder where that saying came from, i do but don;'t really know. wish i did lol

anyways dear friends. happy 4th of july to all of you, please be safe and watch all of the kiddies, more deaths and injurys occur from people playing the wrong way wih fireworks, children and adults somehow, they just don't think.

am curious as to how you all celebrate the 4th,

we are having a bbq, with fireworks in the evening after the day turns to night lol. so from my family to yours enjoy your day and if you light fireworks keep safe . god bless and keep you all hugggs

hey ya all

2006-07-01T01:01:00.000-07:00

hi been a while since i blogged, been so darn busy can;'t believe how fast the days go by, i have been working on some new designs and also taking care of my mil, she has some serious health issues that were not being addressed , but i got fil back on track lol, also been cleaning my craft room out, almost done with it, still have a bit of stuff in the living /dining area, but it will be taken care of tomorrow since hubby will sit there and say i told ya so. men phooey :-( lol, i been making belts and started a new purse, its a pretty shade of blue in bernat boucle'. all nubby and soft , but yet sturdy. i think i should probably line it though anyways.

i also was blessed enough to find some awesome cammo yarn,. my joanns has started carrying the bernat desert cammo and i got a few skeins to make some hats for the troops. i was talking with buggaboosmommy(donna) about it and she told me how different colors are only permitted for certain times, so while i can make the cammo yarn ones for the troops, they can not wear them when they are off duty i guess and sleeping, so will also make totally black ones as she told me this would be acceptable. thank you donna for the info sweetie. so my new goal is not the 20 hats i had vowed to make, its now 40, 20 in cammo and 20 in black so that the service member can have 2 to wear. i am sending them through donnas hubby and i know he will ,make sure they are given out right.

today was a lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnng day, course since i had to go to the north end of tacoma to pay my cable bill, i just sort of had to sneak over to artco, where i was tempted oh so tempted by 1.00 skeins of yarn. bought a few and also got myself this beautiful purple cotton which normally sold for 16.95, for around 3.49 or so, what a deal huh? so i had to of course get myself enough for a shawl lol, all told i was pretty good, i deserved it aftr all the crud this last month , right concious? lol

well 2 weeks to go on the spring secret pal swap, lori is doing a great job maintaining the swap, its not easy work, especially when there is always going to be some who bow out and then people who swap in good faith, get left out, i hate that and have in past helped change that and would again in a heartbeat.

my poor fur babies, idiots around here have been popping fireworks all day and all night. my oldest girl named baby, she is so stressed, she just slinks around the yard, i finally got her to go in the cat house(our rec room), is a safe haven for them and am glad she went in there. itsy of course did whatever big sis did, she follows her around like she is the queen, course sometimes itsy has to chase the queen, and baby lets her know it is not acceptable at all lol. coast , he just lays under my car with his ears back,. ya know i don't mind fireworks on the 4th, i can make arrengments for my fur babies to be safe in either the rec room or the garage, either keeps them calm, but how can i be out there 24/7, stupid heifers if ya ask me, maybe someone should blow some up near their ears and see if that changes things.

i feel so darn bad for all the fur babies every where. we have alot of stray kittys who hang out next door and sneak over her to here to grab a bite to eat. lately i have just been putting some food on seperate for this one beautiful cat, we call white paws as yes you guessed it, he has white paws. i think he might be itsy's daddy as he has been here watching over her since she came to us, yet he will not let me pick him up or even feed him. so just leave food out for the poor thing and hope it gets it and not the raccoon. mr rocky raccoon has his nerve, he pushed my sun flower plant over and dug around in it, until there is hardly any dirt left for the poor thing. i did not plant it, its a spin off out of the sun flowers. think i will actually be able to harvest anything from it? oh and another thing. them blasted crows, have pulled out almost all of my bush beans that i had planted, they(the plants) were up over 3 1/2 inches and now they are all dead now except for a small area, anyone have any ideas/ anything hon, will gladly accept any information to help control those pests. i hate when aomwething i have worked so hard on, is ruined, you don't know how hard it was for me to plant the beans. so now instead of them being ready, come july 15th , but instead should i be able to get them in tomorrow(depends on my back). so please wish me luck. i put some wind spinners around the garden area, but the crows are not afraid of anthing darn them. the rest of the beans which are pole beans, and so far so good, although it has a wire fence to climb,. well will only hope that all is well with it and that i get some veggies out of all of my hard work. lol, well am off to crochet a bit before i head for bed. is late and need to get off so will takema break from this computer , my eyes are tired. for all of you who will celebrate the 4th of july, the birth of our great nation, please take a moment and think about how your able to do what you want, when you want and with who you want with(well within reason of course) and say a quick prayer or think a good thought and thank a vetran. or one of our many service members who are either active or in the reserves(they are active now lol) anyways thin about why we can do the things we have done and how their many sacrices and that includes the familys theyleave behind as they head out to protect us from the enemy. i for one salute you all and thank you from the bottom of my heart. god bless all of you and god bless our wonderful service members and the united states of america. thank god for the right to be free, its not a given any more, blood shed and tears happens every day so that this world becomes less evil and more good. thank you all of you, hope ya have a nice 4th of july, keep it safe and sane and please try and watch the kiddies, this time of year, there is someone who will lose a finger or a hand , or even worse their lives. take care and chat with ya all later hugsss to ya all. hehe

my bucket purse

2006-06-26T00:37:00.000-07:00

this is my bucket purse i made yesterday and finished today and mil's house i was bored and needed to design something , think its a good one? hope ya all have a awesome week, and if your where the sun is making it hot, stay cool and keep that sunscreen on, god bless and keep you, keep on crafting my friends. hugggggs

just a wondering

2006-06-21T10:16:00.000-07:00

hi, i am running a poll to see something that has been driving me nuts, its about cats lol

1. do you own a animal? yes or no

2. if so what kind of animal do you have ? and why?

3 is it only my itsy who is spaz can, and likes to sit in the middle of my iris's and now there is a perfect ring of her laying there? lol(trick question there hehe

seriosly, number 3.

does your fur baby get treated as well as your own children? maybe better?

and why ?

number 4 if you had to choose between saving for a vacation, or spending money on a fur babies vet care that would save its life, what would you do, ,

number 5

if i am to snoopy for you to want to participate, just tell me silly LOL

thats all i ask, now i will answer my own questions.

1. yes, i am crazy enough to be a mommy to 4 of these furbabies

2. my fur baby is a cat, well cats, but one in particular is hilarious lol

3, yes my fur babys get treated just as good , or to be honest, maybe better than hubby and kids,(secret for this,. they don't sass bac lol)

4. the vet bills baby, cause they are part of me, (i have done this too lol)

5 course i am snoopy, why ask this poll otherwise lol now have fun peeps thans for participating in my oddball questionare hehehe, what good friends you are lol

why i am thankful

2006-06-20T21:02:00.000-07:00

i am writing this tonight in honor of those around me who have not been as blessed as myself, while i don't have alot of money(who does), i have my freedom to say what i want, i have my family for without them where would i be. i have my wonderful friends who without i would never make it, to you especially donna and fran and jess, i am very thankful for you all. i guess tonight i am feeling a bit down, i have heard that my uncle who i adore, his cancer has returned, and that while i did not know it, he moved to las vegas to be near his daughter and her family. i am sad, as i was not given the chance to say goodbye, but what is goodbye anyways, who says goodbye? shouldn't we say godspeed, i send them on their way with gods blessings, so uncle ron, i hope your happy tonight. i am sorry i did not get to see you. maybe of we make it to vegas this summer can come and see you.

on other notes, i am very happy jess got her package, still waiting to hear if sonia got hers. where would 2 big boxes full of yarn go, somewhere its floating around in postal hell. i mailed it may 24th, today is june 20th. almost a month. grrrrrrrrrr, so sonia dear, will soon be blending more yarn for you, should you want anything special please let me know. where ya at anyways girl.

i know that most people think the po is awesome, i at this time, am truly PISSED!!!!

i already have the chenille yarn i just bought spoken for, but have lots of cakes of other chenilles and other yarns for sale, tomorrow am going to blend more together and hopefully will have the pics with the prices posted soon.

on that happy little note am off to make my dear man something to eat. he is hungry again, and then have some chemo hats to make. am making a couple for josh, whos mom is one of our members of crochetville. josh is 18 and a true insperation to me. so tonight will be spending more time crocheting and less time surfing or blogging the web.

hope ya all had a great weekend, its not all that warm here today, but weather peeps tell me it soon will get warmer. can we say sunshine and ice tea?

i am so ready for some nice weather. my garden is slowly growing, if the stupid crows and raccoons and itsy would leave it alone. i planted 12 corn plants, we have 7 left and of those 7 they are non in very good shape. hoping the seeds i planted will soon sprout and then once again will have to deal with the stupid crows. i swear they do it to torment me,

tomorrow am dedicating my day to finishing my craft room, it has to be no mercy on it now as i have truly ran out of room. priscilla z pm me at the ville i want to know if you want more yarn or not, and when we can meet to give it to you

oh i also have to brag about the goodies i got yesterday at the joanns which is going out of business. it is now closed, but yesterday everything was 95% off on one side and 85% on the other. you could buy material only if you bought the whole bolt, and while most was not my kind of material as it is moe for suits ect. i looked around and found a bolt of denim that has a print on it that looks like a snake skin,. but is all blue. well there was 8 yards they said, actually had almost 10 when i measured it, and i payed the grand price of 4.00 for the bolt. that was 50 cents a yard hehe, then i also in my search, found some brown cordaroy, with chamoflaug like prints on it, there was 5 yards they said
i counted almost 7 when i measured it,and for that i got it for 2.50 less than 50 cents a yard. i also found a pair of knitting needles that are made by lions brand(expensive normally) for 50 cents, all told i spent a grand total of less than 30 dollars there, i got some needlpoint kits, some quilted sets for a small lapquilt and a pillow. selling normally for 11.00 at joanns on clearence. once again 50 cents. hehehe i love bargains don't you, now to figure out what to make. i know it was a impulse buy, but i truly have ideas for the materials and some of the rest i plan on reselling for a discount for the buyer, while making me a little money hehe.

i have to laugh listening to hubby. is the 5th game of the nba finals and he wanted dallas to win, but dallas screwed up big time, i am staying out of this one big time baby!!!!!i guess it means gary paton who for years played for the seattle sonics, will be getting a ring this time LOLah life is strange sometimes. well until tomorrow dear friends. i bid you adeu. and god bless and keep you. keep crafting, i want to see results soon LOL hugggggs

yarns for sale

2006-06-16T23:08:00.000-07:00

hi, as some of you have read, before on others sites. i have a over load of yarn to sell, my loss your gain, help me clean my craft room out

i have a large variety of both brand name and also hand blended by myself for your custom order. if i can't help you, when you need yarn, no one can

lol. i have chenilles, fun furs, cotton blends, wool blends, alot of soft yarns of various fiber content, even good old worsted weights

and cotton for many uses. such as pot holders, wash rags, dish cloths, an also dish

towels.

please leave me a message if you are interested in seeing any of the above yarns I

. will try and get pics up here soon so you

can see the yarn. thanks for reading this and god bless and keep you. hugs

warning rant ahead

2006-06-15T22:30:00.000-07:00

i am so mad tonight, as you all know, 4th of july is drawing near, and while i love watching fireworks as much as the next person, i do NOT appreciate having my kittys scared out of their whits by some over zealous moron who does not know the calender date , and that while my babies are contained on the 4th as they really freak out, they should not have to be kept in a frigging cage cause someone idiot decideds he wants to blow his finger off or whatever. give it a rest please. every year it gets earlier and earlier for the fireworks, while i love them as i said, i don't want my babies having heart attacks and dying cause your being stupid. so for those of you out there who are doing it in my area, PLEASE FREAKING WELL STOPPPPPPPPPPP, otherwise will have to hunt you down like the dirty dawg you are and see how well you like listening to the sounds of screetching cats on a tape for hours and hours. and yes i would do that believe me, in a heart beat. course this might be after i turn your scrawny rear ends in for shooting illigal fireworks. kk enough said. hopefully if anyone is doing this reads this,. they will understand. is not fair to our fur babies. itsy was so stressed as soon as i picked her up to comfort her, she bit me and bit me hard, not no love nip with kisses later, nope she chomped right down big time
and baby who is going to be 11 this year, she was petrified and found a cubby hole under my car which she would not budge, if i see it happening, believe me it will not be for long.

alright rant over lol

am working on teresa's belt, we are swapping each other, she made a purse, i wanted a new purse, i am making a belt, she wants a belt/ hey it works for us.thats another idea my buddy donna and i are going to do with each other. we both need cheering up for different reasons and have decided to treat each other to a small suprise at least once a month. for june we are going to do bookmarks hehehehehe,. boy do i have a good one fo you in my mind, just need to make it happen girl.

glad you had your starbucks day and enjoyed the package even if it was a box full of zip locs lol, that was to cute with the kids. they will keep you going and going and going like the energizer bunnies
lol
till tomorrow my dear friends i send you a big hug, i can't wait till next week, as school gets out , will be interesting to watch the neighbor kids LOL, hugggs ya all vicki

i made a haul

2006-06-15T01:42:00.000-07:00

today stopped at my local joanns which is closing, and found their yarns were 70 % off, well you know how much i have comtrol about yarn i know i need it like a whole new game for me, needless to say, i got a ton of yarn i know shame on me, some i will use, others will sell, just wanted to share hugggs

did your mother ever do this to you?: major vent ahead

2006-06-12T01:01:00.000-07:00

i was wondering all of you nice moms out there, did you ever have to track your child down by calling a list of numbers. tonight i had to do just that. i tried and tried to get ahold of my daughter all evening, she never leaves me numbers that she is going to be at, so i thought and thought about how i could find her. by the way she is fine, and it dawned on me, my cell bill, it lists every number she calls. so i started looking through the numbers, found several that were called multiple times
amd then looked at the times, now i know she calls her "boy" friend(is just a friend she claims) late at night and same with him to her, so i called that number. well a girl answered the phone sounded just like my dd, odd i know, but i played along anyways, i told the girl i was kristys mom and that i was looking for her as i was worried. she has to get up and go to work at 3:30 , its now 12:45, she just walked in the door. well i told her i had tried to call her and find her as we were worried, well of course she went crazy and said don't you ever ever do that to me again
ect ect ect. i said then don't force me to. i swear that i am about ready to kick her butt out the door, she has no regards for her dad and i and is more involved with her friends than anyone. its sad as we did not bring her up like that. well now i got that out of my chest , i will not be rambling on over and over till tomorrow, got thru that. while i know she is now mad as a wet hen at me, i shall ignore her and continue to use whatever means i need to make sure she is alright. i know she is supposed to be a adult, but i think a adult should have more compassion and caring for her family, and i feel she has a long ways to do.. so if i have to call people at midnight to find her, i will, can ou blame me, wouldn't you want to know where your child is when you have called her over and over and no answer. i am hoping that tomorrow when she has a chance to settle down, that she will listen to her dad and me. we need to come to some kind of arrengment, i can't take this much more. thanks for letting me vent huggggs

hey ya all major rant ahead

2006-06-04T01:54:00.000-07:00

sorry have not been blogging for a while, things have just been crazy. had some problems with itsy the first of last week and have been running around helping her too. and a bunch of other boring stuff hehe

i am so upset with the united states post office, see i am a complete dunder head and forgot to get tracking numbers on a few of the packages i sent out. and now these same packages are missing, although should they never be found i will certainly remake the packages and resend them to the people getting them it still burns my rear end to think that somehow the usps lost huge boxes of things with postage worth over 50.00. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

now on to better things, see how easy i am to get along with. i will be posting some yarns i have for sale this week and if you are interested please let me know, brandy i know you are and will show you first choice.

its been a nasty rainy few days and i am getting kind of fed up with the weather. it seems to be raining most of the time(although today we were blessed with a semi dry day and were able to bbq)

i am in the process of making a friend a belt(you know who you are don't ya love!!!) is one of th few things i have not really made a lot of and am not finding it all that hard. also doing some comfort ghan sq and also i need to finish the blankies for Ro. almost done with them and that made 2 of them done. hope it helps some one.

well its 1:47 am and am off to hit the bed, snooze time is drawing near and since i have to get up in a litte more than 3 hours is pretty tiring(hubby leaves for work, then i usually try and go back tobed but seldom make it

hoping to blog more tomorrow, missed ya all, i need to read some blogs too, today has just been harder for some reason. am just tired i guess
so to all of you from me, god bless and keep you, and also please keep my family in your prayersl my siblings and i are having a rough time right now, thanks for all of your kindness and caring. without you all where would i be. love ya all

help i am drowning in yarn

2006-05-30T00:47:00.000-07:00

hey all, want to help this poor old lady swim her way to the top of the yarn pile? omgosh this weekend hubby decided to clean his garage out, in the house came 8 more boxes of yarns and stuff, i said where did this come from, having forgot my son snagged it and put it out there about 6 months ago, i am soon going to have more yarn to get rid of., anyone want to buy some from me, i sell cheap , really cheap lol, i was able to go through a couple of the boxes today but omgosh, i a worn out thinking about it. i admit it peeps i am a yarnaholic (sticking my tounge out) this weekend all we did was work around the house, hubby wants to have this HUGE party for the 4th(i am so against this, i remember what happened last time we did this)but is his wish and since he does not ask alot of me and generly lets me have my fix when it comes to yarns, i told him i would do my best to get this done and finished so we can repaint the inside of the house before the big shindig, HA, i will be suprised should he paint my toenails let alone the house, is the truth have had the same ugly color in my kitchen since i moved here 30+ years ago.maybe i would be more inclinded to grt my stuff done should he actually do the work he says. hehe

i got my Crochet mag the other day and dd says there is alot of things she wants to have me make for her(seeing this could be a few choice christmas presents i thought to myself wooohoooo) its very interesting whats in there and while some it will not appeal to, her it did, woohooo.

not up to much else, have pt for my leg again tomorrow, just when i thought it was getting better, my leg cramps up on me and i fell this morning. yes i am alright , but madder than hades because now i have to start the therapy pretty much all over again, i have hideous bruises on my leg and hip. just when ya think its getting better, something jumps up and bites ya in the rear. maybe its a temporary pain and will go away before to long(one can dream can't one) i am almost done with my lovey for Ro's babies, would have been done along time ago with the other blankie i made, but my dear darling 3 year old niece, miss abby, decided she wanted a blankie for her baby and this one was to big and she somehow got scissors from here when sis was visiting and decided to cut her self a new blanket. needless to say, i cried when they left.my sister was moritfied and i told her no don;t worry was not your fault, was mine for not hiding the scissors, and while you might be thinking abby could have been hurt? they were safety scissors, blunt ends and used for scrap booking, now of course my main mission in life once i finish the blankie for Ro is to make said niece a blankie for her baby.jeeze lousie.

well my dear friends am off to bed as i have therapy again tomorrow and while i am not feeling so hot i will try and refrain from screaming as i go through the steps for stretching.

i want to especially thank my dear friend whos hubby serves in the air force, and while he serves in "active duty" donna serves in the reserves, making sure things are going smoothly.

speaking of donna, she is a good friend i met on crochetville, her name there is buggaboosmommy, well come next fall she is going to be doing

this http://www.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=158775&supid=128304440

please read her story and should you feel so inclined please donate to this worthy cause , i am going to pledge to send as much as i can afford to save up this summer, course now i am on a yarn diet so i should not have much new yarns of course, unless someone comes up with a awesome bargain hehe

well peeps am off to bed since my old body is so far out of tune do to me falling , i am going to try and sleep and see what i can do, till tomorrow dear friends i send you hugggggs and lots of love and blessings. remember, don't ever put off till tomorrow what can be done today., it will just be that much harder to push your way through it all, believe me yarn stashes this big should be against the law LOL rotfl lmao huggggggs to all of you[]]]

thank you to our brave troops

2006-05-27T12:39:00.000-07:00

i just wanted to pop in here and say thank you to all of our wonderful military familys, this memorial day, take a few minutes to tell a service member and their family that you appreciate them and all they sacrifice. for without we would not be the free nation we are today.

i have not blogged in a while as i have been cleaning out my craft room and trying to depart with some of my yarn stash. i have been selling a but of it and also for some of my friends who payed postage i sent them a box of yarn or 2 or 3 hehehe, but of course i have to also build up my stash of other yarns. hehe, mostly i have been selling though.

its been a hard thing to have to do, but i really do have to much of stuff and need to just spread it around lol

what are you all doing for this holiday weekend? we were going to go to the ocean for the weekend, but when i saw how much motel and hotel prices are at the beach well lets say it is not happening. not sure what we are doing besides having a bb, i know one thing i am doing is thanking our military past and present, yes even future for their sacrifices..

well need to do some more picking out what i am getting rid of and selling, so am off to do that, if ya don't hear from me soon, call the yarn police and tell them to start looking for me as i have been yarnnapped LOl hugggs to all of you vicki

mothers day

2006-05-15T00:55:00.000-07:00

my mothers day was a day filled with happiness and some sadness. first the good stuff lol hubby and kids let me sleep in as long as i wanted( i snoozed till 10 hehehe then my son made me breakfast, he mae the most yummy thin pancakes and also he fried bacon up for us(i know that its way bad for me hehe but once in a while , ya just got to be bad LOL!!!) had that along with a glass of sunny delight. all of the good things for breakfast, then hubby offered me the newspaper first dibs on the paper (i ususally get it when everyone else has read it amd i get stuck trying to put it back together lol, then i went outside and saw my fur babies. itsy was so tired this morning, lol. i guess she stayed up late chasing things around lol, well after all of this i sat dowm with my crocheting and started working on a special present i am making my secret pal, sure hope ya like it hehe,. then we went over to lowes to find mil something. we found her a lovely lilly plant with 20 blooms on it. well then we went over there and enjoyed ourselves, the kids gave me a new shirt is darling has k0 had a bbq for dinner hamburgers which are so not my favorite but is my mil so i said that fine. the sad part is i thought about mom all day. she was in my thoughts allllll the time. every mothers day
i would always buy her a huge bottle of her favorite scent, gloria vanderbuilts. she loved that perfume and i was the only one of all 5 of us kids who would think to buy it or have enough money to buy it . i splashed some on myself and it in a way helped me more than anything.HAPPY MOTHERS DAY MOM i love and miss you so much.

then i crocheted some more, and now am blogging, thats my day, how was yours those of you who are a mom happy mothers day, i hope you were spoiled right nice and until tomorrow i say see ya and send ya one of my huggggs. god bless you all

its friday woooohoooo hot dawg!!

2006-05-12T23:02:00.000-07:00

today was interesting to say the least. i had taken those bugs that hubby dug up out of the garden down to the wsu extension center to see if they could identify them. there were 5 of the master gardeners in the office and not one could identify that bugs either, i left them there as the master bug man will be in on tuesday and it will be interesting to see what they actually are. i hope they are nothing horrible as i am a organic gardener and i would hate to have to use something i don't want to.

then i went to costco, boy oh boy, we spend so much there every year, was actually glad to upgrade to the executive membership as i make as much as they charge
. how that works is you are guarenteed at least in this program.still for some reason can not get photobucket to open, which is so dissapointing, well maybe tomorrow,

am bored with all of my projects. i seriously want to make something that jumps out at me. something people will ohhh and ahh , any ideas?, i am currently working on a few things. my partner over at crocher maniacs is reecie, and i am making her a couple of cute things(at least i think they are cute i hope she does too) i also joined another secret pal swap on crochetville. and i think we are also going to have one on the crochet maniac site also. is sooo fun swapping with others and trying to keep it a secret. my last partner who i sent to did not have a clue and when i found out it was michelle who was my sp i was sooo suprised, i got some awesome stuff too. she and her daughter had made some bath goodies and i got beeswax candles and omgosh soooo much. knitted and crocheted washcloths. so soft and lovely.

well i had a little crying bout tonight when i started thinking about mom once again, mind you i am weeping for myself and my siblings no for mom, cause mom is the lucky one and has peace. today my dd made a photo collage and it had a lot of pics of mom and me on it, which while she did it to make me happy,it made me sad(she did not know this as i am a expert at hiding my feelings ) but now thinking about it its a nice thing to have. hey mom, happy mothers day. i love and miss you
i want to than everyone who has been so kind to me

on another note, i will be needing to go through more of my yarn stash. i have gotten rid of probably 30% of it, but hubby has a point, the room needs to breath, and that seriusly causes me to have to destash probably about 6 more boxes. if any of you are interested in buying any let me know. i of course will take pics so you could see, but most of the boxes would have maybe close to 50.00 worth of yarn and all i am asking i 15.00 plus postage. i saw a post the other day from someone on e-bay had less yarn than i and sold it for about 35.00, so see folks i am 20.00 cheaper. please let me know if your interested. i also am selling lots of yarn. i have several balls of ping pong yarn by benat, in almost every color they have. am asking 3.00 a skein for that(this yarn sells for 6.00 a skein) and if you buy 9, then the 10th is free, will also combine shipping if you want. i also have patons pebbles yarn, and alot of other yarns. am hoping to get them up here on my blog once photobucket starts working . also am selling alot of my work, if your interested, make me a deal, if it sounds good i might just make ya a deal, i figure it this way
sure i could hold on to it
in hopes that some day someone might buy it, or i can maor both of us. well i am off to bed, am so tired tonight. all that walking around at costco wore me out. oh for those of you would have been such good friends, tonight i sat up with my leg down on the floor, i have not been able to do this for 3 weeks, also this morning i was able to crawl back into our bed and actually slept for a couple hours this morning, so told hubby i was going to try and sleep in our bed once again, sure its quiet out here but its not comfortable at all to sleep on the love seat either, kk now i am real going LOL huggggs to all of you. god bless and keep you all in his loving arms. jesus loves you all and so do i in friendship i bid you good night

how was your day?

2006-05-12T00:12:00.000-07:00

today i had pt, physical therapy should really be called pain and torture lol, but my therapist debbie is awesome. she knows exactly which muscles to move to make the problem areas better. today she actually worked on my back and while it hurt like the devil, it is not bad tonight which i thought it would be. she uses acupressure and omgosh is awesome as far as helping me. when i say owww she backs right off. i woud highly recommend her and the clinic where i am going.

well after that had to go to town to see about a few things and me being the always thinking yarn fairy that i am, decided to go to michaels(shhhhh don't tell joanns lol) and i found some awesome bargains. mode odea ticker tape ribbon yarn. normally sells for around 9.00 a skein, well today they must have seen me coming, i found alot of this wonderful yarn for only 1.00 a skein, yep you read that right. 1.00, i guess they figure will just super clearence it out so the new stuff will have a home. thought about going to handcocks which is a fabric/yarn shop here, but refrained as i was sooo good
, well i was bad, but just not at handcocks lol, i also bought from michaels 6 skeins of a lovely shade of pin/rose patons grace, i love this yarn/thread, i am going to combine it with a rose colored lurex and make a shawl. speaking of, i have been winding yarns and will soon have them posted on my site for sale.just have to get the pics uploaded. i also bought some size 3 thread as it was such a lovely color of blue,, i then left the store while i could lol more later on that lol

then i drove to joanns by the tacoma mall, and proceded to buy several yards of patriotic material, i want to make a awesome quilt, not a big one, just one big enough to sit warmly with. i know its not even summer , but i wor slow with fabrics, lol i also bought enough of the other material to help make my purse liners and also have decided i am going to try and make a patriotic purse out of the materials too, i also grabbed 2 bags they had on sale. its a summer type bag great for carrying your towel and stuff when you go to the pool or beach or if your like me, i will use it for a fast crochet project bag to carry along. i have a tendacy to carry much more than i need and its stupid cause it makes the bag to heavy for my back then i hurt and the cycle repeats itself yadayadayada. when d saw the bags she quicly grabbed the one i thought she would like and said oh for me?:-), i said well sure why not. tomorrow since its her day off i am going to have her help me finish my craft room and then that will be done so i can move into the kitchen and go through it all and get rid of what we don't eat/or use. is all good things, but if your like me,, when your shopping something jumps out at you and you think oh that sounds good, i will make this when i am not feeling like cooking(which lately has been alot as i can't stand on my leg much.) but then when i approach the family about what would they like for dinner, suddenly my quick easy meal has gotten stuffed in the back of the cupboard. see i have something to admit to, i am a huge packrat, and i mean HUGE, i so have decided that what i am going to do is the things i am doing with my craft rooms. find it all good homes, maybe make a little money on the side. yadayada, i have taken pics of several of my old pattern books that i am wanting to sell and hopefully tomorrow i will be able to list some of them. i mean these are old, like frm the early 30's i think there is even one where its more like the early 1900's, like 1909 or something like that. i also have a ton of newer old crochet books from the 70's on to present. i will be listing these here before i try and sell them on e-bay, if there is a particular book you are looking for(besides the cathederal window afghan one,) then either leave me a message here or over at the ville send me a pm or also at crochetmaniacs. i can retreive messages at all places

i even found one on irish crochet that i am debating keeping, although i was also thinking of someone who might enjoy it more than me. will have to think on that one for a while.

today started out pretty nice then got kind of ick for a while but then cleared right up, very nice. we are suppose to even have temps in the low 80's the first of the week wohoooo.course everyone will bitch and moan about how hot it is, its either to hot or to cold, never just right for some people. me, if i am cold, i grab a sweater, if i am to hot and its a really hot day. i drive my car with the ac on to the mall or where ever its cooler. lol, i wanted to get a air conditioner for here but that would also have to consider removing a window and putting the darn thing in the window, which while is nice to have the cool air, there have been several cases last year and am sure will be the same this year, of people actually breaking into ones home while yanking the ac out of the window frame. while most people are honest your going to find more than a few who are just looing for a easy targer.

tonight i visited with princess trish(oh hey girl i got something else for you hehe0 and donna and also jacqui down in oz land. today jacqui FINALLY got her package i sent well over 3 months ago, i sent her a bunch of different coffes and i suppose the custom dogs smelt the coffee and figured there were drugs there. sorry doggies, only coffee as i don't do illegl drugs ever. she said she has never seen so many different kinds and flavors of coffees, i sent her 12 different packages of coffee. she should be getting her next package too, she bought more yarn from me, and while it was a profit, it was not such a amount as to break her. i so hope she likes her next package. hehe, decided to not tell you jacqui darling lol

sad news today also, i heard on the 5 oclock news that a 2 year old toddler and fallen out of a 2nd story window and landed on her head on concrete. please keep this family in your thoughts and prayers. i personally of course donot know them, but it still made me so sad for her and them, i pray that she is alright and not permently damaged or even worse killed from this fall., if i hear any more will update you right away. thanks for caring about this child. i hope she survives quickly.

today played with my fur babies, itsy was chasing her pink string i made her around and around the yard, was so cute, then coast (the siamese) he comes strolling out yawning as if to say, hey pay attention to me, and for baby i am not sure how to describe her. think a quiet,shy,tasmanian devil, HAHAHAHAHA, she gets into her moods and is so cranky want to shush her up by putting her in her bed, course the last time i did that, i still have the scratche scars from her.

sunday is mothers day, this day is going to be hard for me, the one day i could honor my mother is really going to be hard for me this year since mom is still so much a part our lives, we won't forget her ever,

am going to try and get some pics on this blog tonight but if not then maybe tomorrow when any of you come calling lol
so i bid you all of adeu god bless and keep you ALWAYS IN HIS CARE. HUGGGGS TO YOU ALL YOUR FRIEND vicki

ps,blogger sucks tonight for pics will put them on tomorrow. sorry guys :( huggggs

well its done, sorta lol

2006-05-07T00:15:00.000-07:00

today helped(meaning showed and informed hubby where things were to be going in the new garden time) hubby with the new herb garden he built today.( yes i give him full credit) we had decided that we really did not need this huge garden area that we had made into the herb beds when we moved the main garden last year. we moved it where it would get more sun, it started off being where our maple tree was, but since this tree was totally rotten inside and we were worried it might fall and damage the neighbors green house so had it taken down. i cried though, as it was a old growth maple, well over 150 years old.(i counted the rings). but it had to go so away it went, well last year in its place we planted the main garden their and believe me, it was well worth it. this is the area where we had tomatoes that were well over 9 feet tall. hehe, well today was one of those cold dreary days and i was glad that we were able to get it all done before it rained which it is doing off an on now lol.

i started a new project for a friend on the crochet maniacs where i am a member as well as on crochetville. it is a nice place, come check it out some, it is a accesry swap and my partner is non rather that reecie. i am not going to say what it is just now as my swap partnere might read this blog. lol, needles tosay, hehe, nice try lol, well not much else to say right now so with no farther ado, here are some pics of the garden we made and worked on today, hope ya all had a awesome days huggggggs

what a

2006-05-01T23:18:00.001-07:00

today was a nice sunny day, a day that i thought i could get in my car, go and get some fur baby food, hit the dollar tree for more yarn hehe, and then go to walmart, well it was packed as usual. tons of cars, limited parking, only thing miles away it seemed like, well as i was driving saw a couple of ladys getting ready to pull out of their spot, so i put my blinker on, stopped and waited for them to pull out, as i sat there patiently waiting, this suv is motioning me to ask if i want that spot, i nodded my head yes, again she motioned me
again i nodded my head yes, then she drove right up to my car window and says
you know that that spot is only for handicapped person, i said yes i know that, she then looks at me and says nastily, well then why are you waiting to park there, you don't look handicapped to me, i did not bother to even with that remark, as it was so stupid, it just angers me that because i drive a sportier car, and not some old lady, does not mean that i am not handicapped. and i feel is not their business to know how i feel or how my health is affected basicly i want to tell them to take their smart ass comments and stuff it side ways where the sun don't shine, and by that i mean their smart ass selfs lol.

then after i got in the store and am riding around in one of those cool carts that are electric, well i can not walk much right now and they are my saving grace believe me,the stupid thing bogged out in the frozen food section. thankfully one of the people who works at walmart saw i was having diffuculties and helped me put the cart in commision, and finally had to go and get another cart and put all te grocerys in that one, they were very kind and courtias at the store. helped me in any way they could. i wish i could tell their bosses how much i appreciated them today.

when i got home, hubby had already come home. major ohoh, i have to start getting home before him, he gets a tad upset cause i make him move his truck out of the way lol, anyways when i got home he tells me he wants to go and get gas for the mower, and also gas in his truck , which we did then came home and dropped it off. so son could mow the lawn. which he didn't do the little stinker, well tomorrow is another day, and i know he will do it. well then we went to the local hardware store called mclendons, is a family owned and operated business which i like to support,

and we got 8 bags of steer manure and also 4 huge bales of peat moss, my neighbors are going to hate me when that stuff starts seeping into the soil, which it will soon and make it a nice warm cozy place for my plants and seeds to grow.

so thats how my day went, what did you all do, and did ya have a good day? come one share with us all,

this is a special hug to my friend buggaboosmommy, sweetie i know how hard it is. hang in there hugggggs

and this is another special hug for my dear friend and lil sis trish, sweetie tomorrow is another day and hopefully b will get his butt in gear. let me know what he says lol huggs and love to all of you

enjoy each day , because you never know what will happen to you, as the song by tim mcgraw, live like you are dying. and enjoy each and every day. god bless and keep yu always my friendss. god bless and huggggs

new forum

2006-04-30T00:06:00.002-07:00

hi i just wanted to thank kathy and all of the mods who have worked so hard to make a new forum for those who were a tad dissapointed in another board that everyone belongs to, well kathys site is this

http://crochetmania.myfastforum.org/index.php

it has a lot of fun things and alot of very nice people, while i myself am not quitting the other forum, i will be a active member in both places, and yes i know alot of people feel that they want to leave the other board,but i am not one of them, and i am enjoy this board to.

this weekend has been interesting to say the least, hubby got up early, bought 5 am, woke me up as he headed out the door to go to work, i was so tired i went right back to sleep lol,

he was gone about 3 hours, did not have to work to long, now i am thinking, that was fast, then went back to sleep,. lol, i woke up about 10:30
daughter had gone to work, son was in his room working on his paper for his masters class in education, and i looked around more, no hubby, what did this hard working man of mine do even when i told him he did not have to do it all LOL, this man of mine who is dead tired now, cleaned out my veggie garden, is over 30 feet on both sides and almost 20 feet wide. i got dressed and went outside, this darling man of mine had cleaned the entire veggie garden out. he now has it ready to add the fertilizer, i am curious as the kinds of plants you all raise. this year i think we will go with a couple of heirlooms and a couple more traditional tomato plants and thats it . also will have beans peas, carrots lettuce, peppers ect. oh and going to try corn. (last year we went a little crazy with the tomato plants. grew 14 differnt kinds, and when we harvested we brought in over 84 pounds, yes pounds lol.)

will see if it gets hot enough to actually grow here, well friends i am off to crochet, have some blankies to make for a friend named Ro over at the ville' is for little ones who have lost so much due to hurricane katrina, i have one almost done and am ready to start another lovey as they are called. i hope these children find some comfort in all of those who has participated. when done with the blankies will take a pic and post for ya to see. night for now hugs and god bless and keep you and send special blessings for you all