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Kissing This Month Goodbye, also whining

So this month has been kind of stressful and I am SO BEAT right now that it’s all I can do to not lay down and take a nap right here in my cube. 

I have the biggest cube, so it wouldn’t be that much of a stretch.

This week in particular has been quite, uh, less than awesome.  I was out of town last weekend visiting my sister on Friday and then she came to stay with me on Saturday, and we got some bad cancer news about a family member and that has kind of preyed on me all week.  I’ve been really tired all week and had two after-work-hours board meetings, one of which was four hours long in a cold clubhouse.  I’m kind of surprised that I’m not sick, to be honest.

KNOCK ON WOOD

Anyhoo, I did a little economy-stimulating in the last couple weeks.  For two months I’ve been searching high and low the greater East Bay for a Nintendo Wii, and lo, I snagged the last one at Target a couple weeks ago. Then, a couple days later I was buying a vacuum and lo, there on the shelf in Walmart was one of many Wii Fits.  So I bought that too. 

And I’ve lost 3 pounds using the Wii Fit. I know, right?

I just found Mario Galaxy the other day (the last one at Fry’s – a trend maybe??) and have been playing that.  I heart that game a lot, even though I’ve played the first few levels twice already on friends’ Wiis, so this is all a repeat for me right now.  I STILL need to hook up internet at my place (am piggybacking the local wireless) and get the Wii online so I can share all my ridiculous Miis and download old school games.

Take a look at my yarn wall:

Sock Yarn / Expedit

That is my sock yarn.

I am not done unpacking and may never be.  I am stuck in a quagmire of boxes, though they are certainly neatened up.  Also: where are the grotesques that I made in ceramics?? WHERE DID I PACK THEM OH THOSE MANY YEARS AGO?

I know not. 

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The Year That Was

I made a bunch of stuff this year!

2008 FOs

Made with fd’s flickr toys.

1. Crochet scarf close-up, 2. New scarf, 3. Finished Kaffe Socks!, 4. New Hat, 5. Monkey Socks – Finished!, 6. Crochet Scarf #3, 7. Waving Lace Socks, Complete!, 8. Waving Lace Socks, 9. Swallowtail Shawl – Finished, 10. Woven Scarf, 11. Spey Valley, 12. Malvina’s Embossed Leaves, 13. Lizzy Socks – Finished, 14. GANOMY FAIL, 15. Mini Socks, 16. Rita Mitts – complete!, 17. Roadhouse Mitts, 18. Silk Garden Scarf, 19. Abby’s Mitts, 20. DSC02384

My favorites are the Roadhouse Mitts, the woven orange Silk Garden Sock scarf, and the Lizzy socks.

The most favorite thing though, I didn’t make. My favorite thing is buying the house and getting the new flooring in the bathrooms, which means there are no carpets in the bathrooms anymore! Take a peek:

housemosaic

(and soon I will actually MOVE IN there, hahaha!)

HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!

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Post Holiday Pass Out

I hope everyone had a nice Christmas. We had various celebrations and all were great. My favorite meal was, of course, the deviled eggs, cheese zombies, potato soup, and egg nog that we scarfed at Jason’s house on Christmas Eve. (“Best. Christmas. Ever!”)

Abby's Mitts

I made my sister a pair of fingerless mitts as a last minute Christmas gift, and they went over really well! So that was nice. Abby is an excellent person to give handknits to.

Today we went to Ikea so I could buy some stuff for the house, and I got a Poang chair and an Expedit bookshelf (this is the square 4×4 shelf – for yarn storage in the craft room!). And several injuries because apparently I am a klutz, or I was today anyway.

I was in the bathroom in one of the stalls and there wasn’t a purse hanger thing on the door, so I hung my purse* over the corner of the door, then realized there was no toilet paper so I went to find another stall and I grabbed my purse, but gouged my thumb on the extruding metal where the purse hanger should have been.

I started bleeding like a stuck pig and went to the sink where I bled all over. I finally got it slowed and wrapped in a paper towel.

Outside the bathroom, Abby nursed me back to health with magical liquid bandage and bandaids she randomly had in her purse. I don’t know how she does it! But I was more-or-less back in action thanks to her emergency supplies (and her purse isn’t that big!).

Anyway, so after that we ate lunch and went downstairs to the marketplace and I dinged my middle finger on the cart, then lost control of the cart and ran into something and bruised my stomach on the cart handle, then I dropped part of the Expedit on my foot (though that didn’t hurt so much).

We managed to get everything in the car using the power of physics and went to the house where we unloaded all my other stuff. Besides the chair and bookshelf I got a couple of cheap rugs, some wine glasses, some bag clips, a lampshade, and a big picture of a deer for the wall. (Heh.)

I only went $11 over my $500 budget, which I think is doing pretty well. And was probably all tax anyway.

We’re painting the craft room on Sunday, then on Monday my contractor is coming to rip the bathrooms and lay down linoleum, and then next Saturday we’re moving my storage unit shizzle into the place, which will be awesome!

I still need to buy three sets of curtains and one curtain rod between now and then. And get the cable and internet hooked up.

Anyway, things are moving along on that front.

*Tote Bag

^My mom made that cool purse for me for Christmas.