Insanity June 26, 2009

definition: repeating the same actions over and over again and expecting a different outcome. 

 

School is out.  Mommy’s going crazy and feels like a broken record.  I have 1 big blanket and 2 baby sweaters that are overdue.  I have a pair of socks that are not overdue.  And I’ve just signed up for knitting the Hedgerow Socks for the Sock Summit Museum.  Yes, I’m one of the disgusting ones who managed to get classes. 

 

On the other hand, I’m done with the sheep!!!  If you have talked to me in the last few months, you know what this project has been.  I always seem to stockpile projects, and then kind of (oh, who are we kidding, there is no “kind of” about it) freak out when they all kind of come due at the same time.  Hence the insanity. 

 

But, oh ho, I have a plan!  The hub and I are flinging the kids off at my mom’s, then dissapearing to Montana for a week.  He’s driving.  Plenty of time for me to knit a pair of socks in the passenger seat. 

 

The question is, can I commit to project monogammy…

call of the wild May 22, 2009

Nobi is our indoor kitty, and for good reason.  She’s neurotic enough while indoors, much less when she escapes for a few moments outdoors.  She prefers to reign from my desk.  I just caught her looking intently out the window.

“What’s up, kitty?  Ohhhh, I see…”

There is a caterpillar crawling across the window screen.  The cat’s tail is swishing and she’s talking to the intruder.

Good kitty.  Nothing like a pane of glass and screen to get in between you and your prey…

Mother May 10, 2009

Oh, how I never imagined the chaos that would enter my life when these two did.

The crazy antics, the startling moments of creativity and intellegence, the squabbling, and then the working together… being an only child, I could never have seen this coming.

I could never have imagined how rich and full my life seems with these two in it.  They’re not the best-behaved kids, but they’re funny, charming, witty, creative, intellegent, and full of all those little details that just can’t be named.  And I’ll take that over clean rooms and organized laundry.

Weekend May 4, 2009

I had a busy weekend.  Friday, my husband’s best friend of 26 years finally got married!

I might have had a “small” hand in “decorating” his truck…

Saturday I had a retreat for one of the aspects of my volunteer life at Bastyr University.  They have a small pond in the middle of the courtyard.  I thought these guys were a statue, until one moved…

Yesterday I went to Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium with this bunch of wiseguys.  And I didn’t even leave them there!

And now it’s time to return to being a somewhat productive member of society.

Cell Camera Madness April 30, 2009

When I had my last camera phone, I didn’t seem to take too many pictures.  Now with my new crackberry, I seem to take pics more, and of oddities.  Maybe I need to carry an actual camera with me?

Click on the picture to get the joke.

“Martha, I think we missed our exit!”

Flushed Away April 29, 2009

So, the bathroom’s been “finished” for a while, barring minor cosmetic work like a bit of paint and baseboards.  I swear this last month has just been on hyperspeed!

 

Proof that I still knit, and occasionally photograph it:

Nutkins, finished day before Easter.  This pattern is FABULOUS for fancy-looking socks, but essentially braindead knitting.  Yarn is Shibui Knits Sock, Colorway Midnight.

Taken by camera phone.

Also, I was a participant in the Wee Tiny Sock Swap of 2009 (already completed).  Here is my sock, made of Colinette Jitterbug, Colorway Gaugin, leftovers of this project:

Sent to SlowKnitter in California, along with a little gifty. 

 

There will be more, just later, I’m behind in other parts of my life, as usual!

A man and his tractor March 17, 2009

A man and his tractor are a beautiful thing, especially if they’re in my backyard digging drain line ditches!

I know why it snowed… March 16, 2009

… hell has really frozen over, because the Health Department has finally granted us a permit for our septic work!!! Stay tuned for dirty pictures tomorrow!

Mad Cow March 11, 2009

Acutal conversation from last night:

Husband: “I’m stressed out because I don’t know what day the septic company will be out to put in the line and I don’t have a timeline to give Bryan to move his trailer!”

Me:  “Dude, it’s the health department, not the septic, just give it some time.  I told you last week that I was told we wouldn’t see anything before Thursday”

H: “I know, but I want to know when it will be done!”

Me:  “Listen, what are you going to do, go down to the health department and yell at them?”

H:  (rather sheepishly now) “I don’t know, I just might!”

 

Yesterday was so NOT a good day.  Imagine many small conversations like this most of the evening.  And they always say that women are the ones who mad cow!

life as a bumper sticker March 10, 2009

One of my favorite bumper stickers is this:

A friend will help you move,
A good friend will help you move the bodies!

We have two 7-foot-deep “test” pits in our backyard from the septic company visit.  The running joke around the house is “bring your bodies over, but make it quick, the window is shrinking for proper burial”. 

The current state of the bathroom is taped, mudded, and textured, now trying to move on to light sanding, ceiling repair, and painting.  Of course, hubby had to go and get a migraine this afternoon, which means another night down the drain.  We’re still keeping high hopes that the heath department will issue a permit this week so we can get new drainlines.  Once we get the permit, it will be a one-day job, and then we can use the drains with abandon!  We’ll still have to wait for the health department to come back out and say “yes, good job, now bury the line”, but we’ll be able to drain until that time. 

 

One day this WILL return to a knitting blog.  At least, I hope so.