You know you are an adult when.....

     You know you have become an adult when a new major appliance is exciting.  Our stove finally gave up the good fight.  I guess it decided it would try to take us with it on the way out.  I smelled gas, we checked the stove and it was turned on and kicking gas into the room.  The boy-child turned it off and about 10 minutes later it was doing it again.  We unplugged it and sent it out the door before it could poison us or blow up our home.  Small details.  We went shopping all over town, looked at stoves and ended up buying one at the first place we looked.  We got the new one home and it is happy in our kitchen.   It is really shiney!  Mike and I have gone into the kitchen just to look at it.

      I started looking around and noticing all those things you walk past everyday.  The muddy paw prints on the floor, the jelly finger prints on the front of the counter. Lets not even talk about the kickplate under the fridge.  That is just tooo scary of a place to go.  I watch too many ccrime scene shows, I guess I have other ways of collecting dna for my kids if they ever go missing.  I can get rid of the fingerprints I have in jelly, preserving thier dna.  After crawling around the floor, scrubbing and cursing myself for not doing it sooner, I got it looking pretty good and then after all that work it was time to cook a meal and make dirty dishes, let the dog in and track more mud in to the kitchen.... AHHHHHHH.  I gave up and called for delivery!!

Hockey Palyers are not right in the head!!

           Hockey players are just not right in the head. Now I understand the game is everything and the show must go on, I grew up in both theatre and “the State of hockey”, but sometimes you should step back and look at life for a second. I am specifically talking about hockey players who lose teeth like Duncan Kieth just did in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. He got hit and knocked out 4 teeth. He had 3 root canals and went back to the game. Now a normal person would go to the dentist and actually take a day off from work, not a hockey player. I wanted to do some research so I went online and searched for “hockey players teeth out” the first entry I got was this one.


amandakaschube ‎: 3rd grade: I lost my front tooth (via a volleyball net) and still went to my brownie meeting that night. I'm hockey player tough. #justsayin

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So what are we teaching our kids????

These are some comments from the night Belanger lost his teeth.

AP Photo/Nick Wass"I knew I was in trouble, but what are you going to do? It's the playoffs," Eric Belanger said Saturday of his injuries.

Belanger says Saturday he "felt my teeth shatter, right away," when Canadiens defenseman Marc-Andre Bergeron's stick hit him in the mouth in the first period of Montreal's 2-1 victory at Washington in Game 5 of their playoff series Friday night. Belanger needed some serious dental work at the arena, getting exposed tooth roots trimmed -- then returned to the ice midway through the third period. He was hit 2 more times in the same place that night; he had to leave the end of the game to get needed medical attention.

I am not putting down the game or the players; I myself am a fan of the game and follow it religiously but it does not change the fact and all this just goes to prove my point –

Hockey players are not right in the head.

Crochet Patterns for Sale

Patterns For Sale

I will soon have my crochet patterns available for sale from this blog.  They will be in a pdf download and will be processed through paypal.  They are currently available on Ravelry.com

The crochet patterns I currently have available for purchase are:

Crochet Felted Monk Satchel

 

Crochet Summer Hat

More coming soon.

Maverick helps with my shrug

I am working on a new pattern that will be for sale on Ravelry soon.  It is a crochet shrug.  I have made the medium size (pictured) and I am in the process of making the Xlarge size right now.  I had some help from Maverick.  I laid it out to measure the width and length and Maverick decided it was a nice soft place to lay down.  I guess it got his seal of approval. 

Trip to Illinois

     Tomorrow I am leaving on a trip. I am abandoning my family for the open road and the search for the perfect yarn store. I go on a few trips like this a year. I am not alone in my quests; I have a friend, who shall remain nameless for the time being. We have to decide on the best pseudonym for her, we will discuss it during the many hours we will be on the road. We thought about Thelma and Louise but that tends to bring up images of murder and cliffs, we don’t want to go there.
       The trips we go on are for fun, we usually have a final destination in mind and eventually get to where we are intending to go. We don’t always take the most direct or time saving route. One trip we took was a 4 hour drive that took us 10 hours to do. We saw yarn and quilt stores along the way and were drawn to them like moths to a flame. We have a Garmin which we have renamed Carmen who gets very upset with us. If you have ever programmed a Garmin for a destination and then not followed her directions you would know she gets VERY upset. She starts telling you, in a very sarcastic voice, to make a u-turn NOW. If you keep going the “wrong way” she gets more aggressive and starts “recalculating” to find you a new way back to the intended destination. We are actually on our second Garmin, I think the first one got so fed up with us, it just gave up and decided it would no longer hold a charge so it would not have to deal with us. Mike would say it was just a machine and could not get upset with us, but I know she secretly enjoyed when we made a sudden turn and she could yell at us. I also think the old one and the new communicated before we left on our last trip. We were at a yarn store, off the path of course, and she was yelling at us to get back to the main highway and she gave us directions to do so, but she instead lead us right into the middle of a trailer park. After we got our breath back from laughing so hard we managed to find our own way back to the highway and continue on down the road. On that trip we also had a small problem when the technology in the car started fighting and we were no longer in control. What was that about computers eventually taking over, never mind Hal? We were trying to make a call with On-star and Carmen decided to tell us where we had gone wrong once again. On-star did not like her interrupting and yelled at us to get rid of the background noise if we wanted to speak to her. Quite an odd experience having the on-board computers gets into a catfight.
      Tomorrow we are on our way to see friends in Illinois. We plan to spend one day traveling to Galena Ill. It is a 9 hour trip as per Carmen. We will see what happen. We will spend the night there and hit the local yarn store and see what else we find. I will keep you all posted as we go. I suppose I should go to bed so I can get up and be ready for a full day of pissing off Carmen.

The girl child turns 21

Hooray Hooray its the 6th of May!

A new baby girl was born this day.

No longer a young pup,

She is now 21 and all grown up!

She has become a lovely young woman

I am proud to say.

We love her just that way.

The Girl-child turned 21 this week.  Overall I am ok with it, but I realize I must have been 12 when she was born.  I don't remember being quite so young but I couldn't possibly be old enough to have a 21 year old.  She is doing well with the boy in the new apartment.  She has grown into a lovely young woman and we are very proud of her.   I am still working in cleaning out the "stuff" she "forgot" when she left.  The craft room is a work in progress.

Hooray! Hooray!

Hooray! Hooray!

It's the first of May

Outdoor Screwing Starts Today!

That, is all I have to say!