day 5

Today it rained a lot. All day. Wet and chilly. No outside work done. Did hire guy to install lights, will be done on tuesday. Got 2 last porch curtains and 1 curtain for Nicole done.
Word to the wise: trying to explain to hungry cats that you have to go to the store to get their food and continuously clawing at you doesn't help, doesn't work. You would have thought the darn things were starving. Came home w/ food, they ate, then promptly took a nap for 6 hrs. Buggers.
Tomorrow we get the lights done. I'm not going for much more than that as it is my lasdt day off. I have a movie to watch, knitting, and some good food around here still. Besides, I got way more accomplished in these last days than in the last year I think. Fence still isn't fixed though.

Day 4

Took day 4 off. It is a sunday after all. Watched some movies and knit on my besotted scarf. After a few errors that only I can see, I am getting the hang of the pattern. Which is good, because the scarf will take forever to make. Tomorrow I work on sewing. The rest of the porch curtains need done, and Nicole from work gave me a curtain she needs hemmed. Also want to throw in some cat toys while I'm at it.
finished The Hunger Games, was a very good read. gave to amy to read next. hope she likes it.
Picked up The Reincarnationist and a knitting stitch dictionary today. The dictionary is for all the oddball blankets I'm working on. I have a lot of little dictionaries in all of the books I have, but not one big one. This one looked the best, and I had a 15% off and my 10% off barnes and noble membership. Seriously, for only $20 a year, this is the only membership I've found worth keeping. And if you know someone that doesn't have it, give it as a gift. You get 10% off everything, even sale stuff, all the time, even online. And you always get these coupons in the email/mail. Way worth it. I swear!

day 3 & don't touch spazzy cat

Day 3 was awesome. Me and Amy hit the Crafting together sale in white bear lake, and while neither of us bought anything there, we did hit it big around the cute little town. Bought some yarn (rule in yarn buying is to buy what you can't find somewhere else), wonderful chocolates at a candy store, great beads at a full on bead store, had a great lunch outside (it was 70 degrees or more, lovely day) and generally wandered and had a great time. The highlight of the day was driving into town Amy pointed out a "polar bear" statue outside a car dealership. about 2 min down the road she says "oh, duh, it's white bear, as in white bear lake." I laughed for about 5 min. I had just accepted that there was a polar bear. Why, I have no idea, but I didn't think anything of a polar bear at a car dealership.

In other news, when your cat really doesn't want to be kicked out of the bedroom at night, and goes to hide under the bed, don't pick him up. See picture. Let's just say Itchy still has a bit of the feral cat in him. The scratches actually go all the way around the arm and up the hand. And it bled. yes, i hit it with neosporin, but today am letting it dry out a bit.

day 2

Slept in again until 10:30. Got the target shopping done, finished a puzzle, and laid the tread on the basement stairs. Yes, the stairs are dirty. but they're basement stairs. All in all pretty good. Still shopping around for someone to install outside lights. Tomorrow me and Amy head out to Crafted Together in white bear lake.

Day 1

First day off, slept until 11am. Went grocery shopping, took out loads of trash and made pie. Yummy apple pie, me and Mom's traditional recipie. 6 cups of apples chunky, not sliced like these weird Minnesotan's do, sugar, flour, cinnamon, and some nutmeg. The only thing I measure are the apples and sugar. Everything else to taste/sight. more flour if the apples are super juicy. I still haven't figured out how to tell if the pie is done on the bottom crust yet, but she's hot and gooey, and smells heavenly. Tomorrow is day 2. Probably put the treads on the basement stairs.

I get some days off

I like my job. I swear. I even got another degree so I could do my job better. But I need some days off. Seriously. My boss (everloving sweetheart that she is) just took of a week and a half to move. Meaning I got to play boss. (ie: Gretchen isn't here. ask later) So I need a vacation. insert STAYCATION. I am taking off 4 full work days to get some stuff done before the snow flies and I go berserkershit out of my mind. I will be attempting to install outside motion lights, put tracking on the basement stairs, grocery shop, and maybe fix the fence. Oh. and I may nap a bit and knit and spin. I haven't done any spinning (as noticed by Cindy) in a while, because I've been on xmas knitting speed. But I had a thought. What if what I spun was part of xmas? Like, ha, here I spun this try to make something from it? Still working on that plan.
If you get random bits of yarn that have a gift tag from me, I spun it. Try to knit with it. Tell me it rocks.

Addendum to turtleneck of doom

Apparently I am too good of a seamer for my own good. Turtleneck of doom was knit in 4 pieces, all seamed toghether. in order to frog, must un seam. Um, who would like to come to my house and help me figure out just what all those strands of yarn were for? And the knots? I am apparently the knotting queen. All I can say is that hopefully none of my other gifted knits will ever come unravelled with the apparent mastery of seaming and knotting I have.
I am seriously thinking about giving up. I have a lot of hours, about 4, into the frogging, and about 1 skein of yarn to show for it. Thats a lot of time > output. Thoughts are welcome.
I also rediscovered my love of reading. I can't believe it but really, I used to read every waking moment, and I haven't really completed a book that I LOVED in a long time, at least a year. The Twilight series, if nothing else, re-inspired me to find obsession-worthy books. I am currently reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Another teen book, but I like it because it is kinda Lord of the Flies meets survivor. The main character is quite a smart chicky. Another book on my list is The Reincarnationist by MJ Rose. From everything I've read, this will be right up my alley.
So, How exactly do I store the enourmojumbous amount of books and yarn I have? Ideas? (I already have one whole room, and DH has said we need a bathroom so I can't make that a closet)