What a week!!!! Let's not repeat this one again, OK???? PLEASE??????
My little guy is THREE!!!!!!!
Here's to a *hopefully* less stressful year than last year, ok, buddy? We went shopping as promised for his birthday. He picked out two pairs of shoes. He was so cute at the store. He put his Scooby-Doo ones on and put his old shoes in the shoe box, put them in the cart and told G'pa..."Let's go. I'm getting THESE ones!" We never even prompted him to do anything with his old ones or anything. He also got a pair of Spiderman ones. He REALLY REALLY wanted the pink tinkerbell ones, but, Daddy freaked, so no Tinkerbell. Then on to Sears we went for the flashlight hunt. this is the one he picked out. Of COURSE he wanted the $35 rechargable one. What 3 year old DOESN'T want the biggest, most YELLOW flashlight???? Well, G'pa's a softy and got it for him. He LOVES it sooooo much. If you see us around town, chances are he'll have that darn thing in his little hand all proud as can be! Then we headed to Chuck E. Cheese for pizza and 3 hours of games. I think Dan and the G'pas had the most fun! We went through over 200 tokens. Thank goodness for coupons!
It was my birthday the day of his party and my parents bought me stuff that day as well. I picked out this in magenta *of course*. LOVE IT!!!! It keeps me sooooo toasty warm! YUMMY! I also got a new nursing bra. All in all a good day....now the rest of the week was NOT so wonderful.
The transmission on my van is being very naughty. If any of you have any good *ju-ju* you can pass on for that...please do!
Dan went duck hunting on Saturday. He was up at 3 am to get there in time. Well, between he and his buddy they got ONE duck. They walked back to his buddy's truck and some idiot broke into his truck!!!!!! Nothing was stolen other than Dan's 12-pack of pop, but, what an idiot to break the windows of his truck! Dan finally got home and I HAD to wash diapers. I had about 3 days worth of Megan's diapers just piling up. Put them in the washer and as soon as it filled and started spinning water came POURING out of the bottom. REALLY POURING!!!! I grabbed a huge pile of towels and a few blankets that were nearby. Still pouring out. Damn it!!!! It took all but 3 of my towels to sop it up. WAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! Thank goodness the washer is under warranty at Sears!!! Called them up and she says to me (with the most sincere voice OF COURSE!) Oh, ma'am....we'll get someone right out there to fix that. How does Wednesday between 9-5 sound?
ME:Um, 5 DAYS from now???? We're a family of FIVE with one in diapers. Did I fail to mention that the load that leaked everywhere was DIAPERS? Ya know, pee and poop filled diapers? Now I have a huge pile of pee-soaked blanekts and towels as well????
HER: That's our earliest appointment. I'm sure it's not as bad as you're describing. If there's any cancellations we'll call you right away.
ME:Really, it IS as bad as I'm describing! Could YOU go 5 DAYS without washing laundry? Just for you?
HER:Ma'am. We'll call you if there's any cancellations. Have a nice day. click
ME:#$%^*&(*)&)_(+)*(&%$#@&*()
I was beyond frustrated. We had planned to go up north the next Day to Dan's parents' cabin (5 hours away) and stay until Monday so he could fix his deer stand. So we went. What a craptastic couple days that was. It was cold and snowy the whole time and all 3 kids were sick. Neither Molly or Seth wanted to go out and play so they stayed in the TINY TINY TINY 10X15 cabin for 48 hours straight. Did I mention the *NO RUNNING WATER* part????? OR NO INDOOR PLUMBING PART????? Well, we finally got ready to leave and I got my period of course. Fell asleep in the van in my last pair of clean jeans(with a pad firmly in place). When I woke up there was a huge 4" across blood puddle in the back of my jeans. This is MONDAY! I still have TWO DAYS until washer is getting fixed. I have to work on Tuesday. I wear jeans to work OF COURSE!
Well Tuesday comes and the kids and I run to Target to get toilet paper for the first time in almost 2 years(since I can't wash the family cloth wipes we always use) and a few other things. While there Molly & Seth decide (amongst themselves with obviously NO input from me) that the best thing to do at Target is for Molly to make Seth go absolutely NUTS anytime she goes near him. I mean screaming like a banshee and reaching over and pulling things off the shelf and THROWING THEM!!!!!! I am just telling Molly to quit pissing her brother off when we turn a corner and there's a 40'ish year old woman standing there laughing silently with tears rolling down her face. She says "I am SOOOO sorry! You really sound like you have your hands full today!" ME: TODAY???? They're ALWAYS LIKE THIS!!!! That makes her laugh sooo hard and cry some more. I'm sure she talked about us all day to everyone she saw! When I finally get home and make the two of them go to their room to play and an angel calls me at 2:36pm. I was dripping wet, naked from the shower.
HER: Ma'am? Is this Jessica?
ME: Yes...
HER: This is **** from Sears. We had a cancellation and were wondering if we could come by this afternoon to fix your washer?
ME: OF COURSE!!! OH, thank you!!!!~
HER: The service technician is in your area and will call you between now and 5.
ME: THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!
HER: Thank you for calling Sears. Have a nice day.
I did a wonderful naked happy dance!!!!!!! Then the phone rings again. It's the service guy. He'll be there in 10 minutes. In those 10 minutes I got dressed, put pants on Molly and Seth, cleaned the living room, vacuumed it, swept the kitchen and switched over the dishwasher just as he pulled up. In less than 15 minutes the miracle worker was done. I had blown a hole in the pump and he just happened to have the right one in the van. YAY!!!!!! I threw my bloody jeans in the washer along with some towels, since at this point it is 3pm and I have to leave for work at 4:15. They were washed and dried by exactly 4:15!
In the past 36 hours I have now washed/dryed:
***FOUR*** load of diapers alone
4 loads of towels/blankets
3 loads of darks
2 whites
I still have to wash 2 loads of Dan's work clothes, 1 load of towels and 2 loads of sheets. I'm so glad my washer is fixed!
ON THE KNITTING FRONT:
I decided to start a cute Debbie Bliss Cable and Moss Stitch Jacket for Megan. I get a whole whopping TWO ROWS into the pattern and think I made some crazy mistake and tear the damn thing out. Do those 2 rows AGAIN and do the same mistake!!! Tear it out AGAIN! Double check the math on the pattern and it's wrong. Finally decide to google for Debbie bliss pattern erratta. OMG!!! The pattern I'm working on has 12 errors that repeat about 300X. Plus there's a whole section of the pattern that was OMITTED at the time of printing !#^&$%!@#$@#$^&%&^*&%*&*$&##%%#@!#%!@%#
Why, oh, WHY aren't these pattern better proofread and test knit before printing?????
Finally I get the front 2 panels knit and bound-off and the back all finished and bound-off. I go to seam the damn thing up and I hate the shoulders! I then tore out the bind-off on all 3 panels and did 3-needle bind off. MUCH BETTER! It's time to start the stupid sleeves now. I really dislike seaming, so I re-worked the pattern a little bit and ended up just picking up stitches for the sleeves and working it in the round. First sleeve almost done. Once the sleeves are finished I just have to seam-up 7" of stockinette on each side and put buttons on and a hood. The pattern calls for a collar, but, I really don't like the look of collars AT ALL!
Here I am now on it:
Obviously it still needs to be blocked.
This last week I also started and finished mittens for Molly, Seth, Megan and myself. Here they all are!
Mine are out of Latvian Lavendar Peace Fleece. Seth and Molly FREAKED OUT when we went to one of the local yarn stores. I was going to get Malabrigo for their mittens, but, NOOOOO they wanted blaze orange Lamb's Pride Bulky. Fine. Whatever. They LOVE their mittens, though! I knit Megan's little mitts out of Cascade Eco. The sweater is the same yarn as is this hat I knit for her 2 weeks ago.
I also finally finished Megan's baby blanket:
I guess I've been busier than I thought this last few weeks, huh? Once I finish the sweater, I'll be knitting a shawl for my MIL for her cruise in 4 weeks. Um, I'm nuts. The yarn still hasn't gotten here for it yet. I have the pattern and needles, though. I'll post a pic once I get started on it. I hope the yarn comes today!!!!
Well, I better run. Megan is dripping boogers on my hand. BYE!
My little guy is THREE!!!!!!!
Here's to a *hopefully* less stressful year than last year, ok, buddy? We went shopping as promised for his birthday. He picked out two pairs of shoes. He was so cute at the store. He put his Scooby-Doo ones on and put his old shoes in the shoe box, put them in the cart and told G'pa..."Let's go. I'm getting THESE ones!" We never even prompted him to do anything with his old ones or anything. He also got a pair of Spiderman ones. He REALLY REALLY wanted the pink tinkerbell ones, but, Daddy freaked, so no Tinkerbell. Then on to Sears we went for the flashlight hunt. this is the one he picked out. Of COURSE he wanted the $35 rechargable one. What 3 year old DOESN'T want the biggest, most YELLOW flashlight???? Well, G'pa's a softy and got it for him. He LOVES it sooooo much. If you see us around town, chances are he'll have that darn thing in his little hand all proud as can be! Then we headed to Chuck E. Cheese for pizza and 3 hours of games. I think Dan and the G'pas had the most fun! We went through over 200 tokens. Thank goodness for coupons!
It was my birthday the day of his party and my parents bought me stuff that day as well. I picked out this in magenta *of course*. LOVE IT!!!! It keeps me sooooo toasty warm! YUMMY! I also got a new nursing bra. All in all a good day....now the rest of the week was NOT so wonderful.
The transmission on my van is being very naughty. If any of you have any good *ju-ju* you can pass on for that...please do!
Dan went duck hunting on Saturday. He was up at 3 am to get there in time. Well, between he and his buddy they got ONE duck. They walked back to his buddy's truck and some idiot broke into his truck!!!!!! Nothing was stolen other than Dan's 12-pack of pop, but, what an idiot to break the windows of his truck! Dan finally got home and I HAD to wash diapers. I had about 3 days worth of Megan's diapers just piling up. Put them in the washer and as soon as it filled and started spinning water came POURING out of the bottom. REALLY POURING!!!! I grabbed a huge pile of towels and a few blankets that were nearby. Still pouring out. Damn it!!!! It took all but 3 of my towels to sop it up. WAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! Thank goodness the washer is under warranty at Sears!!! Called them up and she says to me (with the most sincere voice OF COURSE!) Oh, ma'am....we'll get someone right out there to fix that. How does Wednesday between 9-5 sound?
ME:Um, 5 DAYS from now???? We're a family of FIVE with one in diapers. Did I fail to mention that the load that leaked everywhere was DIAPERS? Ya know, pee and poop filled diapers? Now I have a huge pile of pee-soaked blanekts and towels as well????
HER: That's our earliest appointment. I'm sure it's not as bad as you're describing. If there's any cancellations we'll call you right away.
ME:Really, it IS as bad as I'm describing! Could YOU go 5 DAYS without washing laundry? Just for you?
HER:Ma'am. We'll call you if there's any cancellations. Have a nice day. click
ME:#$%^*&(*)&)_(+)*(&%$#@&*()
I was beyond frustrated. We had planned to go up north the next Day to Dan's parents' cabin (5 hours away) and stay until Monday so he could fix his deer stand. So we went. What a craptastic couple days that was. It was cold and snowy the whole time and all 3 kids were sick. Neither Molly or Seth wanted to go out and play so they stayed in the TINY TINY TINY 10X15 cabin for 48 hours straight. Did I mention the *NO RUNNING WATER* part????? OR NO INDOOR PLUMBING PART????? Well, we finally got ready to leave and I got my period of course. Fell asleep in the van in my last pair of clean jeans(with a pad firmly in place). When I woke up there was a huge 4" across blood puddle in the back of my jeans. This is MONDAY! I still have TWO DAYS until washer is getting fixed. I have to work on Tuesday. I wear jeans to work OF COURSE!
Well Tuesday comes and the kids and I run to Target to get toilet paper for the first time in almost 2 years(since I can't wash the family cloth wipes we always use) and a few other things. While there Molly & Seth decide (amongst themselves with obviously NO input from me) that the best thing to do at Target is for Molly to make Seth go absolutely NUTS anytime she goes near him. I mean screaming like a banshee and reaching over and pulling things off the shelf and THROWING THEM!!!!!! I am just telling Molly to quit pissing her brother off when we turn a corner and there's a 40'ish year old woman standing there laughing silently with tears rolling down her face. She says "I am SOOOO sorry! You really sound like you have your hands full today!" ME: TODAY???? They're ALWAYS LIKE THIS!!!! That makes her laugh sooo hard and cry some more. I'm sure she talked about us all day to everyone she saw! When I finally get home and make the two of them go to their room to play and an angel calls me at 2:36pm. I was dripping wet, naked from the shower.
HER: Ma'am? Is this Jessica?
ME: Yes...
HER: This is **** from Sears. We had a cancellation and were wondering if we could come by this afternoon to fix your washer?
ME: OF COURSE!!! OH, thank you!!!!~
HER: The service technician is in your area and will call you between now and 5.
ME: THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!
HER: Thank you for calling Sears. Have a nice day.
I did a wonderful naked happy dance!!!!!!! Then the phone rings again. It's the service guy. He'll be there in 10 minutes. In those 10 minutes I got dressed, put pants on Molly and Seth, cleaned the living room, vacuumed it, swept the kitchen and switched over the dishwasher just as he pulled up. In less than 15 minutes the miracle worker was done. I had blown a hole in the pump and he just happened to have the right one in the van. YAY!!!!!! I threw my bloody jeans in the washer along with some towels, since at this point it is 3pm and I have to leave for work at 4:15. They were washed and dried by exactly 4:15!
In the past 36 hours I have now washed/dryed:
***FOUR*** load of diapers alone
4 loads of towels/blankets
3 loads of darks
2 whites
I still have to wash 2 loads of Dan's work clothes, 1 load of towels and 2 loads of sheets. I'm so glad my washer is fixed!
ON THE KNITTING FRONT:
I decided to start a cute Debbie Bliss Cable and Moss Stitch Jacket for Megan. I get a whole whopping TWO ROWS into the pattern and think I made some crazy mistake and tear the damn thing out. Do those 2 rows AGAIN and do the same mistake!!! Tear it out AGAIN! Double check the math on the pattern and it's wrong. Finally decide to google for Debbie bliss pattern erratta. OMG!!! The pattern I'm working on has 12 errors that repeat about 300X. Plus there's a whole section of the pattern that was OMITTED at the time of printing !#^&$%!@#$@#$^&%&^*&%*&*$&##%%#@!#%!@%#
Why, oh, WHY aren't these pattern better proofread and test knit before printing?????
Finally I get the front 2 panels knit and bound-off and the back all finished and bound-off. I go to seam the damn thing up and I hate the shoulders! I then tore out the bind-off on all 3 panels and did 3-needle bind off. MUCH BETTER! It's time to start the stupid sleeves now. I really dislike seaming, so I re-worked the pattern a little bit and ended up just picking up stitches for the sleeves and working it in the round. First sleeve almost done. Once the sleeves are finished I just have to seam-up 7" of stockinette on each side and put buttons on and a hood. The pattern calls for a collar, but, I really don't like the look of collars AT ALL!
Here I am now on it:
Obviously it still needs to be blocked.
This last week I also started and finished mittens for Molly, Seth, Megan and myself. Here they all are!
Mine are out of Latvian Lavendar Peace Fleece. Seth and Molly FREAKED OUT when we went to one of the local yarn stores. I was going to get Malabrigo for their mittens, but, NOOOOO they wanted blaze orange Lamb's Pride Bulky. Fine. Whatever. They LOVE their mittens, though! I knit Megan's little mitts out of Cascade Eco. The sweater is the same yarn as is this hat I knit for her 2 weeks ago.
I also finally finished Megan's baby blanket:
I guess I've been busier than I thought this last few weeks, huh? Once I finish the sweater, I'll be knitting a shawl for my MIL for her cruise in 4 weeks. Um, I'm nuts. The yarn still hasn't gotten here for it yet. I have the pattern and needles, though. I'll post a pic once I get started on it. I hope the yarn comes today!!!!
Well, I better run. Megan is dripping boogers on my hand. BYE!
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