Cool stuff

So first and foremost I finished spinning the 87 million pounds (ok really only 1 or less) of pewter grey bamboo roving I bought forever and a week ago. It is beautiful. I am working on plying it and its a bit underplied but I think it will work out ok anyway. As soon as it is done and skeined I will post a pic. :-) Very happy

Sat. was holiday gift (yankee style) swap day for SnB. Weaselmomma is incredible and her gift was a nostepinne, mohair locks and a 2 (I think) oz roving. Absolutely fabulous and i am really excited to start playing with my spinning a little.

I actually finished my sister's sweater long before Christmas along with a pullover, hooded deal for my niece which came out adorable. I started another sweater for myself. Stockinette with some short row shaping to spice it up. Nice to not be doing cables :-) Also working on 2 pairs of socks, a pair of thrummed mitts, flip-top gloves for my dental hygenist (a request) and a pair of fingerless mitts for me. Doing some stash busting for some baby blankets and feeling pretty productive.

School starts back up on Feb 2, so saving up to buy books adn ready to face Alternative Dispute Resolution, Torts and Algebra. Yay huh?

At work, my partner is fabulous with a capital F which makes coming to work phenomenal. Helps balance a lot of the other stupidity I am dealing with here. I work with some very young people with this being their first job. They therefore think it is awful as they have no frame of reference. I however spent 6 years in a much busier system with crappy management at a national level on down and think this side of the fence is heaven!

Overall this year is shapin up ok in my mind. Some nice boys in my life that make me smile and some new rules for my little man which so far are makin him easier to deal with. Finding the positive in things is making things easier and I hope I can keep doing it. Started working out at home today and back on my weight watchers with a goal of 14 pounds lost by March 1st. I can do it!! :-)

Wow....

Apparently I need to focus more on my spelling. I just re-read my last post and the spelling was horrible!! Work is work as always. Had a terrible cranky patient recently who must have told me 3 times to shut up during the call. Not sure why someone would call 911 and then be so mean once we got there. I completely understand how much it stinks to be sick and in pain but totally unfair to take it out on everyone else.

Got some new games for the Wii the lil man and I got for Christmas. I played CSI for about 3 hours today :-) So funny!!

New Years Resolutions

1. I am gonna blog more so I dont hurt people. Hopin if a really do rant here I will have an outlet for the idiocracy I deal with daily.

2. I am gonna be nice to people even when they are stupid.

3. And I will find the positive in all the things that happen.

Today started my day with miserable people who had ntohing better to do than spout negativity to all within earshot. Going so far as to butt in on converations that they were not a part of. Why must some bring down all those around them? I struggle everyday to be psoitive and happy despite what may be going on in my persoanl life yet others insist on bringing all their baggage to work and making it my issue too. Ok Im done :-) Hopefully tonight will bring better emotions.

I know I know

I am horrible and awful and should post more often. You're right I should. SO since my last post, work remains work, where I spend way too much time and I miss out on SnB way too often :-(

I did get to go to Rhinebeck with kaydgirl, animalcopct and tezcatlipoca98!! Yeah for us!

That Big Obnoxious Hat helped us find her the whole weekend!! :-)


For three of us this was our first trip to the New York Sheep and Wool Festival and it was soooo much fun. We left kinda early on Saturday morning and made the 2 hour trek west to Rhinebeck, NY where the fairgrounds are located. There were so many people!! On our way into town we spotted this truck:

I mean really!! Who names a town Coxsackie, then gives a bunch of girls alcohol so we can laugh about it for hours on end even though it was only funny to us? Who does that? :-)

At lunch time we went to the Ravelry meetup and found the rest of our SnB from home which was awesome. Time to compare purchases already made and for the 4 of us to rub it in some more that we had one more day and every one else was going home :-)

After 4 or 5 hours of yarny, fibery, soft good stuff, we decided to make a quick trip to the hotel before the Ravelry Party. We couldn't wait to meet all the wonderful people we know from the site. when we got there we waited in line for the Rav gift bag we were dying for. In it we found a ball of yarn from Webs, a small bag from Della-Q and lots of coupons for all kinds of stuff. Totally worth the wait and then there were Bob cupcakes!!!

And Rav cupcakes and yumminess to keep us occupied while we waited in the longass line for ALCOHOL!!


Once we got drinks we found a place to sit where we made new yarn friends who were also from Ct!! DariaSen and KiwiSeymour were tons of fun and had a good laugh at us as MamaLadyMedic pulled out from her Mary Poppins bag o goodies: sandwich makings, cheez-its, pretzels, cups, plates, napkins, a corkscrew....and WINE!! :-) Such a good planner :-) As we sat down to eat and drink we smelled something burning... nah it had to be the huge bbq pit that had been lit.... Oh No!! It was the Famed Rav bag, set on fire by the lovely candles on the table by Kylie from Schaefer Yarns.


Now we got to meet the other end of the table and found that we were sitting with the Schaefer sponsors and made more yarny friends. (plus got to see what one of the designers is working on before its really a pattern!! So Cool)

After freezing to death for 2 hours it was time to return to the hotel where we continued the drinking fest and listened to Tezcatlipoca98 make excuses for her silly giggling and comments by constantly saying "But Ive been drinking!!" Soon to become the quote of the weekend! Right up there with Coxsackie and the invisible deer AnimalCopCt swears she saw. Maybe she did, she was the only sober one in the car :-) We finally crashed at about midnight and got up at about 8 to head back for more.

The first thing we run into as we come into the fairgrounds is sheep on leash. So funny to see these girls walking their sheep so we had to get pics.

No Kaydgirl you cant take it home...it wont fit in the car!! But thank you for wearing the Big Bright Obnoxious Hat again :-)

We had made plans for lunch with our new yarn friends and knew we had to hit the Rav meetup to find them. We found not only them but Casey, Jess and Mary Heather too!! They are like celebrities to us, we felt like such idiots but it was fun anyway. And Jess had the most amazing boots on!!

Mary Heather was runnin a bit behind so we got a pic with just her after the pic with Casey and Jess :-)

While at the Rav meetup the fabulous Creative let us know that there was NO LINE for the Yarn Harlot!!! Yet another celebrity and something I had reluctantly let go of as a fleeting dream. We figured the lines would be huge and we would never get up there. Creative was right no line, and I got to have my new book signed and the Harlot held my socks!!

Then she was kind enough to take a pic with all of us!! Yay us :-)

After the Harlot there was a tailgating lunch in the parking lot with our yarn friends and then more fabulous roving to buy. This came in huge balls of colorful awesomeness bigger than Kaydgirl and Tezcatlipoca's heads!! Isn't it yummy :-)

On the way out of town we couldn't resist a pic of the best name ever for an ice cream shop!! :-)

A wonderful weekend with friends that I hope to repeat next year. Next year we are goin on Friday tho and finding out where all the other yarny people are staying so we can party more!! :-)

Another Night

As another night drags in this place, I'm beginning to question how much I truly enjoy working nights. The company is usually good as I love the cops that work evenings and midnights and I deal with them exclusively. The overnight EMS crews work fast, clear quickly and don't take any bulls**t. However, tonight the supervisor is driving me a little nuts. I sincerely appreciate getting some help on a scene but I hate being micromanaged and I even more hate being told what to do by a medic with less experience not only in EMS in general but in my company as well. How does that saying go.....? God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change? I would love a little serenity tonight.

On the knitting front, I finished the test knit baby cardigan I was working on and I am very happy with it. The pattern was easy to follow and relatively well written. I will post pics as soon as the pattern is published and I am allowed. Its kinda neat being the first person to knit something. I have hibernated the Anniversary Shawl and am kicking a** on the Wallaby for the munchkin. I finished the body as far as the underarms and started the first sleeve. I have about 2more inches to knit on that and its done. Then the second sleeve, attach them and finish up the yoke and hood. Its coming along very quickly.

Today was my Lil Man's first day of school and I might as well not have even existed. I walked him into the second grade hallway, he put his things in his locker area, walked in to the classroom and never even turned to say goodbye. How do you like them apples!?!? Guess my baby is growing up. Hope he still needs his mommy for some things. :-)

I have done some spinning but not an insane amount, been really busy getting ready for a wedding and a trip to Rhinebeck over the next few months. Both of which should prove to be entertaining. I am the seamstress for the wedding and currently have 4 bridesmaids dresses and one flower girl dress in my living room. 3 of them are done and of the last 2 one doesn't require a lot of work but the very last one is gonna take quite a bit of creativity, which is why it is last :-)

All in all things are going OK, still single. Some days I love it others I hate it but every day I deal with it. I have learned that I will be OK and I am in charge of my own destiny. I will make my life what I want it to be regardless of the people around me. That makes me happy.

Rant

So I am a slacker that hasn't blogged in almost a month. Oops!

I am still chugging away at the Goddess Knits Anniversary Shawl. I am on row 12 of 96 of the final clue. Then edging.

Here is the Wallaby for my niece. Coming along well and should be done for Christmas.


I am also still chugging away on the sweater for my sister and a few other miscellaneous Christmas gifts. I signed up to start Mystery Stole 4 and will probably hibernate the Anniversary Shawl during that time.

On the work front, I currently have no regular partner which usually means a decent person who I like works with me. Tonight is an exception. Not a bad woman just a strain on me. She tries my patience and my love for my job. I have found in this career that the person you work with tends to rub off on you, in both positive and negative ways. I almost always mirror the attitude of my partner. Now I'm not sure whether that is a character flaw on my part or simply the nature of being human but the problems arise for me when I pick up negative habits. My partner tonight has a tendency to be irritable and snippy with patients, family and staff. I struggle most days to keep a smile on my face as I deal with people in the most difficult and at times scariest situations they have been in. It is my job to stay calm, collected and make order out of the chaos I have been sent to. This particular co-worker makes that difficult as she frequently professes how much she hates people and yet, here she is working with people. Her career choice boggles my mind. So far we have had only one patient so as long as the night continues in this fashion I should make it til tomorrow morning with no major mishaps! Hope I didn't jinx myself :-)

The shoulder is doing better, sore tonight for some reason. Maybe its a psychosomatic fear of PT in the am that is doing it. I keep reaching wrong too which isn't helping. I missed an appt with the surgeon last week that I am going to chalk up to a major brain fart during the mourning of my uncle. Hopefully they wont give me too much of a hassle and also in my defense they never called me to confirm the appt. Oh well, blame all around I suppose.

Time for a rest, maybe another round on the Anniversary Shawl. A funny time to try to sleep. I bet if I do a call comes in!

Yeah!!!!

I got my wheel today! I am so very excited, it has been a very good fiber week. Finished the round blanket, finished the mystery shawl which is blocking on my bedroom floor and now my wheel is here. What more can a girl ask for? :-)

I tried a bit of spinning with it this afternoon after having to put it together and I am a bit disgruntled as it was way more difficult to get a nice even yarn than I was expecting but I quickly got the hang of spinning with a drop spindle so I think I will master the wheel as well. Im gonna try to take it to SnB tomorrow morning for some spinning lessons with Jenny :-)

I have also joined a yahoo group that knits for charity. Got a lot going on and need the distraction of helping others. So far I have used up some left over bits to make a few squares. It mindless and distracting which is exactly what I was going for.

I have done a few more rows on the Anniversary Shawl and have about 10 left til I can go on to the next clue. There are 96 rows in that clue then on to the border so maybe another month or so. The rounds are over 500 stitches long so they take a bit. I loved doing the lace but the round stuff is killing me. I think Ill stick with end to end rectangles :-)