That the day I decide to finally create a new home for my blog, Blogger goes completely wonky.

This is a call out there to anyone and everyone who has a Typepad Blog. I’m trying to customize a new one and am not seeing how to do my own HTML. Or, do you have to have the most expensive account to do that? How do I add my own buttons etc?

Someone please help!? I’ll love you forevah! I’ll send you a cool Knitty Car Magnet if you help me too.

I’m off to meet Ramona for coffee and Target and will be back in a bit. The girly has requested that we get Don’t Break the Ice. Remember that game?

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I know this might be hard for some of you out there to understand but it makes us so happy here in Albuquerque when it rains/snows because it never does. Click that to see it a bit better. I honestly can not remember the last time it rained.

What this means to me is this; crappy weather outside means it’s okay for my kids to watch a lot of TV right? Normally I’d feel guilty about letting them watch a movie midweek but hey! It’s raining! Right now is 2:00pm. The girly just went down for a nap and the boy is about to get home. (Early release day) I figure we’re going to have leftovers so I don’t have to cook. I will go to bed around 10:00pm. In my mind that’s a good 8 hours of knitting right!? I have Surface, Grey’s Anatomy & Fear Factor TiVoed and Project Runway is on later. What a fun day. We’ll just have to hope that the Scoutlets play along or “Dey’re owt!” (Poor Heidi Klum)

Ready?
Set?
KNIT!

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I actually slept in this morning and it was so lovely. First of all I would love fo everyone reading this to go and sign up here and support the Boycott of So Fast So Sleazy.

The other bit of news is that I just signed up for Sockapaloooza. I’m excited to be a part of this one. Maybe I’ll make my pal a Jaywalker? Ummmmmmm that would be a NOT! If I can’t get a pair to fit me I don’t think I’ll be trying to fit a pair virtually on a Pal.

My goal today is to finish my first Jaywalker. I’m already to the gusset so I think I might be able to. I’ll slip the girly some Benedryl at nap time so she sleeps a loooooong time. Oh stop. I’m just kidding. Stitch ‘n’ Bitch tonight. I love Tuesdays. It’s really fun to have my girls to look forward to every week now.

Okay, off to get my ass in gear for the day. Girl day with the girly.

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Holy crap y’all! I e-mailed Chantal this morning to let her know about our kick-ass group and voila! I can’t wait to see if we get somew new blood.

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Go here, post it in your Blogs and pass it ON! You hear me????

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Breaking news! Ramona, we got the sponsorship. Noooo…. not a sponsor, sponsorship for our team. I’m proud to present, my final addition to the Olympics.

This team has been made especially for those of us who have had to rip out our Jaywalkers at least one time. See all of the smileys that are banging their heads there on Cara’s KAL? I’m talking to you. We may not even be knitting anything for the Olympics either. We’re just going to bond together and share memories over our frustrations of the Jaywalkers and have a drink together. Or two.

** Remember that Scout has a sense of humor and is in no way making fun of alcoholism. It’s just that these socks have seriously driven me to drinking. I even bought a bottle of wine the other day and I don’t even drink wine!!!**

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What? No one is going to join my team? If that’s the case I may be pushed over the edge and have to join this team then.

I hope you all will accept that responsibility if it comes to that….At least the girls of JenLa have my kind of sense of humor. See I know a lot of you are Sandbaggers out there. “Ohhhh I’m just a beginner! I doubt I can do something that difficult!” *Trots off and whips off Charlotte’s Web* Get it? Come on now. Be honest and join my team. Shall we revisit the Jaywalker dilemma? If anything pushes me over the edge it will be these flipping socks. I have never struggled like this to get gauge in my 25+ years of knitting. I was going to post this whole funny picture of my Jaywalker that I literally just cut and put to the the side. I refused to frog it. I’d rather buy a whole new skein of yarn than wind that back up into a ball again for the third time. But no. I’m not giving this sock any more publicity until it’s behaving like it’s supposed to. Once it’s being a good little sock again I will reward it with some Blog time. After almost crying at the store yesterday to Franzie, the Sock Goddess, she finally found me a pair of 2.50mm Crystal Palace Bamboo DPNs. For some reason, these are nice and slick and are a million times better than the Brittany Birches I was using before. I love them. And more importantly? I’m hitting gauge baybee! As not to jinx it, I will refrain from talking about it anymore. Maybe 3 is the magic number. We shall see. I wanted to also talk again about how much fun it is to work at the store. I have already met all of the other Abq Knitters with whom I have been e-mailing and blogging with over the last year. It’s so cute how they all come in and ask if I’m Scout. In the past few days I met Rebecca, Jeannie & Cynthia. Then, the funniest one was on Friday when Chris from Stumbling Over Chaos called! I had just walked into the store from grabbing the girly from pre-school and the phone rang. When I answered it I heard, “Oh Hi Jamie……ummmmm this is Chris from Stumbling Over Chaos!” It cracks me up how we all introduce ourselves by our Blogs. She was calling to buy another one of these awesome circular needle cases that we carry that are made my a local woman. If anyone wants one they are $35.00 and are the most kick-ass way to store your circular needles. They come in about 4-5 colors. ( Purple, royal blue, teal and ummmmm red?) I hadn’t even noticed them until she e-mailed me about them. Let me know if you are interested because we will need to let this woman know to get a bunch more made.

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Who wants to join? I’ve been trying to come up with what I’m going to knit for Stephanie’s Knitting Olympics. I know you are all dying to find out. However, I have a lot going on dammit. Yesterday at the shop the girls scoffed at my choice as they knew it wasn’t really a challenge to me. But give the girl a break. I’m busy and want to still play! Therefore I have received some major sponsorship to start up my own team who will sweep the Olympic medals. Just you watch. I’m proud to announce…..

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sandbag

One entry found for sandbag. Main Entry: ²sandbag
Function: transitive verb
1 : to bank, stop up, or weight with sandbags
2 a : to hit or stun with or as if with a sandbag b : to treat unfairly or harshly c : to coerce by crude means sandbagging the government — C. W. Ferguson> d : to conceal or misrepresent one’s true position, potential, or intent especially in order to take advantage of
- sand·bag·ger noun

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I’m not even going to go into anymore details. Feel free to Google it. You’ll know if you’re meant to be on my team or not. We’re going to take over the Olympics man!

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After making 3 pairs of socks with no gauge or needle problems at all this whole Jaywalker thing has me a bit frustrated. I started on 2’s with the 84 stitches. Frogged that and went down to the 76 on 1’s. Yesterday I bought the Susan Bates sock set and switched to metal DPN’s which are soooooo much better but I’m afraid now that the sock won’t even fit on my feet! Anyway. This led me to wonder what everyone out there likes to use when making socks. Now I know it depends on what yarn you’re using but let’s just make Scout happy and go with what you use the most okay? Take the poll and leave me some feedback. Can I have some Jaywalker feedback too please? I have a size 9 foot that isn’t crazy large and I think I made a mistake in going with the 76 stitches. Good thing I’m only doing short ones. Last night my T. said, “Looks like someone’s getting a nice pair of socks!” @*#%@!!

What needles do you use when sock knitting?
	bamboo
	birch
	plastic
	metal
	2 circulars
	Socks? Are you kidding!?
Free polls from Pollhost.com

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I’m tired of doing my girls hair everyday. Oh I know. Those of you with boys or those who can’t wait to have a little girl would have a hard time believing that. But trust me. Some mornings I can barely get myself together let alone another little person. I love her hair too. However, I was feeling pretty damn lazy today which inspired a trip to Jungle Cuts where you can basically get a free week off from hairdoin’ for the low cost of $10.00 including tip. I mean, what a brilliant idea huh?

You know what this means right? Well, let’s add up 5 minutes a day x 7 days and that equals a good 35-40 minutes I’ll gain on knitting this week. Minus the aggravation of doing the hair too and I’d say that’s well worth $10.00. Now I’m off to find my extra-super-strong-hold hairspray so those braids don’t move an inch and I get my week off dammit. I wonder if she’ll sleep sitting up in a chair so they might last more than a week?

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