Work has been crazy, we moved offices and I no longer have any internet at my computer. So I have to wait till I get home which means that I was just to tired this week to do any sort of blogging or uploading pictures.
Here is the first of the FO’s for Christmas.
Arm warmers out of beautiful cashmerino. Birthday present that’s actually done almost a month early!
Mr Greenjeans is about 80% done. Just have to finish the second sleeve and then the collar. Should be done by the end of the week! 
About done with the bottom cableing for my Mr Greenjeans. For some reason this sweater has really taken longer than I am used to, but hopefully by the end of the weekend I will have at leat the bottom & maybe a sleeve done. I would like this done by next week so I can fully start obessing over christmas knitting projects. I have three sweaters and a wrap to complete.
I’m going to frog Matt’s cabled sweater because like a dumby I started from the bottom. Why? My brain must have been on vacation. Why would I do that many cables in sections? I will never finish it & I know it. So this weekend I will do that & hopefully recast on his sweater to get it going again. Then I have a sweater for my dad to complete (I’m thinking a simple neck down raglan with a cable down the front) and the tilted duster for my cousin. THEN I have a lace wrap for my MIL. Lots of knitting ahead. I just have to remember to stay the course!
To much is going on right now and I don’t know how to talk about it. Since I have a habit of carrying on I desided just to give you a picture instead.
Bob, the wonder cat. He does these kinds of things on purpose you know.
And Jorge
Once again Kent’s Moss Stitch Beret. This one is for me. I added length and it’s absolutely perfect for me. The inner lining is left over debbie bliss casmerino the outer is cascade 220 in magenta. (can you tell I like magenta? My shirt matches! LOL)
Even Bob likes it!
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Your date of conception was on or about 8 October 1981 which was a Thursday.
You were born on a Thursday
under the astrological sign Cancer.
Your Life path number is 1.
Your fortune cookie reads:
You can always find happiness at work on Friday. (WHO CAN’T?!)Life Path Compatibility:
You are most compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 1, 5 & 7.
You should get along well with those with the Life Path numbers 3 & 9.
You may or may not get along well with those with the Life Path number 8.
You are least compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 2, 4, 6, 11 & 22.
The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2445151.5.
The golden number for 1982 is 7.
The epact number for 1982 is 5.
The year 1982 was not a leap year.
Your birthday falls into the Chinese year beginning 1/25/1982 and ending 2/12/1983.
You were born in the Chinese year of the Dog.
Your Native American Zodiac sign is Woodpecker; your plant is Wild Rose.
You were born in the Egyptian month of Paopy, the second month of the season of Poret (Emergence – Fertile soil).
Your date of birth on the Hebrew calendar is 10 Tammuz 5742.
Or if you were born after sundown then the date is 11 Tammuz 5742.
The Mayan Calendar long count date of your birthday is 12.18.9.1.7 which is
12 baktun 18 katun 9 tun 1 uinal 7 kin
The Hijra (Islamic Calendar) date of your birth is Thursday, 9 Ramadan 1402 (1402-9-9).
The date of Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 11 April 1982.
The date of Orthodox Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 18 April 1982.
The date of Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent) on your birth year was Wednesday 24 February 1982.
The date of Whitsun (Pentecost Sunday) in the year of your birth was Sunday 30 May 1982.
The date of Whisuntide in the year of your birth was Sunday 6 June 1982.
The date of Rosh Hashanah in the year of your birth was Saturday, 18 September 1982.
The date of Passover in the year of your birth was Thursday, 8 April 1982.
The date of Mardi Gras on your birth year was Tuesday 23 February 1982.
As of 10/15/2007 2:45:12 PM EDT
You are 25 years old.
You are 303 months old.
You are 1,320 weeks old.
You are 9,237 days old.
You are 221,702 hours old.
You are 13,302,165 minutes old.
You are 798,129,912 seconds old.
Celebrities who share your birthday:
| Liv Tyler (1977) | Ruud Van Nistelrooy (1976) | Missy Elliott (1971) |
| Pamela Anderson (1967) | Princess Diana (1961) | Carl Lewis (1961) |
| Michelle Wright (1961) | Alan Ruck (1956) | Dan Aykroyd (1952) |
| Deborah Harry (1945) | Karen Black (1942) | Genevieve Bujold (1942) |
| Twyla Tharp (1941) | Jamie Farr (1934) | Jean Marsh (1934) |
| Leslie Caron (1931) | Olivia DeHavilland (1916) | Charles Laughton (1899) |
Top songs of 1982
Your age is the equivalent of a dog that is 3.61526418786693 years old. (Life’s just a big chewy bone for you!)
Your lucky day is Monday.
Your lucky number is 2 & 7.
Your ruling planet(s) is Moon.
Your lucky dates are 1st, 10th, 19th, 28th.
Your opposition sign is Capricorn.
Your opposition number(s) is 8.
Today is one of your lucky days!
There are 260 days till your next birthday
on which your cake will have 26 candles.
Those 26 candles produce 26 BTUs,
or 6,552 calories of heat (that’s only 6.5520 food Calories!) .
You can boil 2.97 US ounces of water with that many candles. 
In 1982 there were approximately 3.6 million births in the US.
In 1982 the US population was approximately 226,545,805 people, 64.0 persons per square mile.
In 1982 in the US there were 2,495,000 marriages (10.8%) and 1,180,000 divorces (5.1%)
In 1982 in the US there were approximately 1,990,000 deaths (8.8 per 1000)
In the US a new person is born approximately every 8 seconds.
In the US one person dies approximately every 12 seconds.
In 1982 the population of Australia was approximately 15,288,891.
In 1982 there were approximately 239,903 births in Australia.
In 1982 in Australia there were approximately 117,274 marriages and 44,088 divorces.
In 1982 in Australia there were approximately 114,771 deaths.
Your birthstone is Ruby <!–
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The Mystical properties of Ruby
Ruby is said to open one’s heart to love.
Some lists consider these stones to be your birthstone. (Birthstone lists come from Jewelers, Tibet, Ayurvedic Indian medicine, and other sources)
Carnelian
Your birth tree is
Apple Tree, the Love Of slight build (HA RIGHT!), lots of charm, appeal and attraction, pleasant aura, flirtatious, adventurous, sensitive, always in love, wants to love and be loved, faithful and tender partner, very generous, scientific talents, lives for today, a carefree philosopher with imagination.
There are 71 days till Christmas 2007!
There are 84 days till Orthodox Christmas!
The moon’s phase on the day you were
born was waxing gibbous.
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In no particular order
(there is no photoshopping of any kind in these pictures, maybe later I will be less lazy & actually edit something)
I love this. I love the trucks all lined up, I love the lights & the colors & the reflections. I love it all. This was taken in New Mexico I believe.
Because I can’t resist getting my picture taken in front of very large animals (refere to the moose picture). The Big Texan in Texas.
I think it’s amazing what you find in the desert, the heat must truely fry people’s minds. Arizona I believe, outside of the petrified forest.
Bob in the car. No they didn’t ride on the dash, that would just be stupid.
*Chicken Butt*
Matt has finally figured out how to get the interwebs on our computers at the parents house. Which means that I will be finally able to upload pictures this weekend on to flickr & ravelry & my dear dear pictureless blog. I have so MUCH to show you!!!
Last night was knit night at Anacapa Fine yarns & the MIL & headed to it. Love it as always. Bought some new us7 needles to replace the ones that I had broke on Mr GreenJeans, finished my wavy wrap (just need to block this weekend!), got a nother stitch counter so I can simultaneously work on Matt’s cabled sweater & the lace wrap that I am doing for my MIL for christmas and…..
I got some Debbie Bliss Cashmerino. In Garent. I’m going to make Kent’s moss stitch beret. So cute, so posh. LOVE. Plus I’ve learned that I DO need a hat at the beach thank you very much. It’s cold down there! How did I forget?
This weekend I will be blocking both the wavy wrap & the clapotios. I also hope to finish the beret & get a good bit done on Mr Greenjeans. I need to sew the zipper into Roam & take some pictures of that and start the lacy wrap for my MIL (it needs a better name!!!).
So yeah, busy but wonderful weekend of knitting ahead. I think I am going to knit some fake isle mitts for my friend Shawna for christmas & a pair of fetching for my cousin. To many lovely northerns I know are allergic to wool! Where is the justice?! Thankfully camel is not apart of the sheep family & is claimed to be hypo-allergenic. Ally you reading that?! Camel is so beautiful & yummy & feels like cashmere! But it’s 30 bucks for 300yd. But it may just be worth it.
gage = 18st 4.5 inch
us 5
co 96st
Row 1: kfb, k2, m1, k1, pm, k1, m1, k12, m1, k1, pm, k1, m1, k56, m1, k1, pm, k1, m1, k12, m1, k1, pm, k1, m1, k2, kfb
Row2: knit all stitches
Row3: repeat row 1
Row 4: knit all stitches
Continue until you have 108 st on back pannel, slip sleeve stitches onto waste yarn
Knit all stitches join front to back, slip 2 stitches between these pannels to create false seam.
CO 8 stitches at begining of next 2 rows.
Knit for 2 inches.
Row 1: [K31 st, kfb] repeat 8 times 256 st
Row 2: Knit all stitches
Repeat rows 1 & 2 three times
Continue in garter stitch for 16 inches from arm hole. BO loosely all stitches
Work in garter stitch kfb every 4th row until piece measurues 12 inches
Sleeve Lace
Row1: [K2tog] 3 times, [k1, yo] 6 times, repeat till last 6 stitches [K2tog] 3 times
Row 2: knit all stitches
Row 3: knit all stitches
Row 4: purl all stitches
repeat rows 1-4 till length reaches 12 inches
2007 that is. I’m seriously sick of this year. I think everyone around me is sick of it too. 2007 you were not a lucky or happy year.
In other happier news, Matt and I spent the weekend up at Pismo Beach. We drove up to Paso Robels and visited some of our favorite wineries. (Ally! The rasberry champange place is GONE! SOLD! *cry*). Got some great bottles as usual and took some great pictures. How great is my husband? When my camera battery died mid-trip and he knew that the movers had stolen & packed my charger he found me a best buy & bought me a new one. $39.99 for utter happiness. (usually I’m cheaper than that!).
So I took some good wine shots & what not. Saw the elephant seals up in San Simeon which are always super cool. The big males were out on the beach fighting. Picture two VW Bugs fighting for beach rights. Thats how big they are.
Bought some yarn from the LYS up there. As soon as we find the power plug for the wireless router I will flash the stash I promise! God I hate moving.
Oh! Got an offer on the house. The former parent company accepted it (they are reimburssing us the mortgage payments till the house sells and paying the diffrence in the mortgage we owe & what they sell it for) so we are going to be free & clear soon. They are taking a total loss on it, but honestly, I couldn’t care. I do miss my house and I did cry when I saw the offer. Guess there’s really no going back & I’m really officially homeless. Oh and people will say “But you are living with your inlaws! you are not truely homeless” & while I’m not on the streets I am homeless, because this is their home & their house. If I wasn’t homeless I could walk naked from my bathroom to my bedroom to get dressed after a shower.
Going to weight watchers tonight. Time to get back on the wagon. I think I’ve been loosing stress weight but don’t know for sure. I think I look thinner & Matt says so too, but I don’t know for sure. Time to get back to it.
I accepted the job with ICE today. It’s a 10% pay raise from what I am currently earning and it will be a good stradagy to finally split Matt and I up. FTS (our old parent company) used us against each other (like telling my FIL that they would just close down the ohio office & fire both Matt and I if he didn’t do what they wanted him to do) and I never want to live through that again. I think this is a much better route for me anyways, so we will see.
Lots of things going on, I’m finally coming out of my self imposed hiding. I haven’t really been able to deal with my own life since I found out about my infertility and the forced relocation & selling of our house. Slowly I am able to deal with and be there for people who need and deserve my time. Most days I’m still not me and I know it. That’s probably the hardest part is when you know what you are supposed to be like, but some how can’t muster it. Breaking down in your FIL’s office over not wanting to work at the new parent company after you’ve already made the decision to take another better job is just not who I am. I am someone who would kick that weepy chicks ass. The worst part is that normally (not afraid of drugs invented to make you feel better!) I would be on zoloft again just to get back to normal & not weepy. But I can’t. Zoloft + my fertility drugs do not mix. So I would again have to make a choice that I can’t bring myself to make right now.
So many people throw these term around. “It would be my dream to do _______”. Honestly I have to say, that there are a lot of things that would be totally neat to be paid for, but is anyone’s dream really working?
My dream is to be incredibly filthy rich and do nothing. Seriously, absolutely nothing. I would buy two properties. One in Big Sur California, and one in Montana and rotate between them. I would spend my days drinking tea, hiking, knitting, riding horses, and taking photographs. That would be my life and I would love it. My dream is to not work but still be comfortable. Now that would be a nice existence.
The reason I bring this up is because I never knew what I wanted to do as a child. Still now, I have no clue, but now I know what I’m good at. And now it seems that I have two job offers. One where I will continue to work with my father in law and husband, the other where I have an oppertunity to break out on my own and probably make more money while doing it.
Life seems to be zipping by at warp 5, pieces of nasa approved foam flying off and smacking me in the face. I will not lie and say that life is easy right now. I had a complete break down last night to Shawna and my husband, but no one can say it’s not intresting.
Knitting news: I have finished the Clapotis and now it just needs a good block. I have swatched for Matt’s cabled sweater and am going to start the trim of the back tonight. Do I do ribs, seed stitch, garter, linen, or herringbone stitch? GOD! CHOICES! I can’t wait. The yarn is a beautiful shade of blue grey and fine enough to show off good details.
Tonight is knitting group. I’m dragging my MIL along again (I wonder if she minds that I drag her absolutely EVERYWHERE with me?) and I can buy new addi US 7 circs and get back to Mr Greenjeans. Hopefully that is a sweater I will have done by the end of next week. Computers are almost up & running at home so pictures are coming. I promise!
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