I’m slowly feeling better but I think soccer is out of the question for tomorrow. That, my friends, does not make me happy. But seeing as I haven’t had a full meal since Tuesday at Stitch ‘n’ Bitch, it’s probably not a good idea. Did I mention that the boy threw up last night too. Oh fun times! To distract myself, I bring you a beautiful Saturday Sky picture taken tonight.
I need to go crawl into bed again as my back is still killing me.
I would like to thank every single person who wished me a Happy Birthday yesterday. Unfortunately I was so sick I couldn’t reply to each one. I can’t remember the last time I felt this horrible. I was in bed all afternoon & night with a fever and chills. I finally took some advil and that made me feel better for a little bit but as soon as it wore off I was back to feeling like death again. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that I’m over it now.
My Eye Candy for today was the highlight of my Birthday yesterday. Some of you may have seen this already over on Margene’s blog. She spun this for me. For ME. Can you believe it? It’s actually even more purple than in the picture and it’s called Violette’s Dream. So, amazingly, gorgeous. When I opened up the package it made me cry.
She also sent me a copy of the Forest Canopy Shoulder Shawl and wrote, ” You can knit anything you like from this yarn but Susan’s pattern is a good first lace shawl.” And I hate to admit it, but I think she’s right. I might need to make this pattern with this yarn. For now, This yarn is just going to sit in front of me so I can stare at it every day. I love it so much. Margene, thank you so much again. I’m going to cry if I write anymore so just know that I appreciate this gift more than you could possibly know.
Okay. I’m going to stand up and walk around a bit and see how I’m doing. If all goes well I’m going be pampered by my girl Carole for my birthday. She’s taking me out for breakfast and a pedicure. I think it will be a perfect way to spend the day after the day I had yesterday. And don’t worry my friends, I promise to celebrate as soon as I’m feeling up to it. On Sunday we have a babysitter to go out for the evening so that will probably be my Birthday celebration. Have a great weekend everyone and thank you again for all of your wonderful birthday wishes.
Seriously. So. Not. Fair. Supergirl is feeling better but I’ve been a little off since yesterday. Luckily T. was home to help out with the kids as I pretty much planted myself in my chair for the afternoon as my stomach rumbled away. I slept okay last night but my lower back is still killing me. I made the call this morning to try and have a bit of my morning espresso because I don’t think I can deal with being sick AND deal with a caffeine headache. As long as I don’t stand up I’m doing pretty well.
Thank you to everyone who has already come over to wish me a Happy Birthday. Now will you all make me feel better too? Please? Maybe I can run it off? Can you do that with the stomach flu? At least if I get sick I’ll already be outside. Heh. See? I still have my sense of humor so I can’t be that sick.
***10:00am -I’m trying so hard to pretend the extreme chills, lack of appetite and the persisting knife-like pain in my back is just in my head. At least I get to wear my beautiful Sockapaloooza socks made for me by Lucia. If you have never seen these socks they are the prettiest socks ever. I’m off to package up some orders. I promise once I finish that I’ll crawl into bed.***
Did I get your attention? And no, I’m still not knitting lace. However, I am dyeing lace and selling new lace patterns from the Goddess of lace, Miriam Felton, in the shop. I’ve been a bit stressed out about this most recent dye-job because it’s not only for a very important and dear person to me, but it’s for an incredibly important event as well. My girl Bev is getting married and she asked me to dye yarn for her for a lace project. Of course I said yes and was very honored she trusted me enough to dye yarn I’ve never dyed before. We decided on the Zephyr Wool-Silk (See Margene!? You learned me!) and she showed me the painting she wanted to see in the yarn. She specifically wanted the greens to be like the lighter color of grass in the foreground of the painting and similar to the greens in Gimlet. IT’s hard to see in the picture but there are three shades of green. I was worried at first that it might be too bright but after I rewound it, I love it. She loves it too. I can’t wait to see her wrapped up in it on her wedding day. The color really is so, Bev.
I had a whole bunch more to talk about but Supergirl is sick. She threw up last night and then seemed to be on the mend today until about 15 minutes ago when she came out from her nap crying because she had thrown up again. Seeing a lethargic Supergirl breaks my heart. I’m glad that T. was home today because between the two of us we were able to take care of her and completely clean out our garage. The boy went to camp at the JCC for the day. He wanted OUT of here.
I do have to mention that it was a very big day for me. I recycled all of my teaching materials. For anyone out there who is or has been a teacher you know what I’m talking about. I had a 4-drawer file cabinet and three Rubbermaid containers filled with 10 years of teaching handouts/tests/etc. All of my work for English 9, 10, World Geography, and a number of Senior electives have been taking up too much damn space and I’m just not going to ever use it again. It’s gone. I pulled out things I thought could still be used and will bring them up to the local high school. But otherwise I had to let it all go. I don’t ever see myself going back into teaching in a public school again and it was time to let go of that part of me. The weird thing is that I feel free.
Carole and I are planning on going to SnB tonight. I can’t even remember the last time I was able to go. The past few months have just been way too busy. I’m sad to say goodbye to Cari who is moving away but excited for her too. Mona? Molly? You guys going? I hope so! I need to go check on my girly. I think her washcloth needs to be cooled off again.
It’s Spring Break for the kids which means even less time than normal to work on all things related to Scout’s Swag. I purposely worked my heiny off last week so I could spend a bunch of time with the kids doing fun stuff around Abq. I finally had time on Saturday to swing by Village Wools to pick up my big reward for completing the 100 miles by April 1st for Runagogo. Oh yeah, and I also picked up a little something else as a Birthday gift to myself today. This is the yarn for my Poppy. I will put it aside until this fall and then I will actually knit myself a sweater. Scout’s honor! Haaaaa. I’m so funny.
It’s probably not a surprise that I ended up getting the black Cash Iroha. I can’t wait to see what it looks like together. That other little present in with the yarn was a birthday present to myself. Her name is Moxy. This is her description:
Moxy’s got a lot of “moxy”. She’s a real get up and go Ugly, with far more energy than her older brother OX. Moxy’s favorite activity seems to be bouncing off the walls and jumping in and out of mischief. Her giant antennas are always on the look out for a good time, and she can hear a party from miles away. She could hear you coming from all the way back over there! Are you a party animal? No? Would you like to take care of one? No? Well that’s ok because Moxy is here to take care of you. She can take care of pretty much any problem you may have…it’s a gift of hers. For example, see how messy your room is? No problem! See? Moxy is on your side.
I had to have her. She’s a party animal! How could I not get her? My family has fallen in love with these dolls. Supergirl got about four new ones for her birthday and a few little ones followed us home the other day. We kind of have a problem I think. If you don’t know what they are go watch this video. It makes you love them that much more when you know the story behind them. She actually got a Wage for her birthday who already went on his own adventure to the local grocery store. We have some evidence we’ll share later. We decided over Spring Break that we would take all of the Uglydolls on adventures. Today we visited the Rio Grande Nature Center. We had so much fun. Can you tell?
I wanted to thank you all for the comments on the cake and the party. We had such a great time. The cake was delicious. There was just a bit left so I let the kids have a little snack yesterday. Don’t you always want to do that? Eat the cake right out of the box with a fork? They actually each had about 4 bites and were done. There are some pretty funny pictures of them in that set. They are just so silly all of the time. Speaking of them, my time is up. Time to go play.
Big birthday bash tonight for Supergirl. She invited a few school friends and some neighbors over and somehow over 50 people are coming. So much for trying to make it easier by not doing a kid party this year. Oh well. It will be fun. One of her presents was this:
She is going to freak out when she sees it even though she completely designed it. It’s even better than I could have imagined. We got it from the best cake shop in town. She brought in a plate from Oriental Trading Company and told them exactly what she wanted. She asked for white and chocolate cake with a Bavarian creme filling. When they asked what she wanted it to say she said, “Happy Birthday Supergirl!” (She didn’t want her real name on it) That’s my girl. She knows what she wants when she wants it. Huh. I wonder where she gets all that sass? So far this morning I’ve already made pinto beans in the crockpot, worked out, gotten the cake, been to Costco and picked up the Enchiladas. I still need to ship a few packages and hit Trader Joe’s to pick up a few final things. I might actually have my shit together and I still have about 5.5 hours until people arrive. I think more caffeine is in order first. I like being completely ready and organized before everyone gets to my house or I’m too stressed out to have fun. I also want to say Happy Birthday to my mom. She would have been 59 today. I keep forgetting that my birthday is next week too. I also thought I was already 37 but won’t be 37 until Thursday. What happens to us when we get so old we forget exactly how old we are!? I think I’ve been telling people for the past year I was 37 and I was 36. I’m such a moron.
I’m out. I hope you all have a great weekend!
set your TiVo people. See Scout on Knitty Gritty. My show got moved up. Yeah. Um. Can you say -FREAKING OUT?! I thought I had a few more months to figure out a few things before the show aired. So much for Fall of 2007 for the 800 series airing. Vickie told me that having shows airing simultaneously on DIY & HGTV probably made a difference. I’m wondering if the fact that most of the people in the 800 series have books out right now got things rolling? I have no clue. All I know is that I need someone to start working for me yesterday. So there you have it. You can see what a total dork I am in just a few short weeks.
For anyone waiting for GoKnit pouches in the bigger sizes, they are in! I will get more small pouches in on Friday. I also just restocked the Heal my Hands and should have a whole shipment of tape measures in today or tomorrow.
I leave you with this picture I took this morning. Nothing makes me happier than when I can wear shorts and tank tops again.
Supergirl thanks each and every single person who wished her a Happy Birthday. She had a fantastic day yesterday. We still haven’t even had her party yet so the celebration continues through Friday. Then I can pass out. Oh wait. I can’t. Soccer, soccer, soccer. And T. has his first bike race this weekend. Oh well. Sleeping is overrated right?
Okay, well not really until 5:15pm but close enough right? My baby is 5. My little Pisces fish born in the water is not such a baby anymore. I still can’t believe in just a few short months she’ll be getting on the bus with her brother to go to Kindergarten. I now have an 8 & 5 year old. It just amazes me I have such big kids.
I love this little girl something fierce. I don’t know if it’s because I lost my own mother or not but I feel like we have an extra special bond. I love teaching her all of the things my mother taught me. It is how I keep my mother alive. When I ask her to cook or bake with me and I see the excitement in her eyes I remember what it was like to do those same things with my mother. When I tell her that she can grow up to do whatever she wants I mean it. My favorite thing about her lately is how she refers to herself as Supergirl. “Supergirl is going to do really well in soccer today! Are you talking about Supergirl? Supergirl isn’t afraid!” This girly just makes me laugh.
In a little bit we are headed to Whole Foods to pick out chocolate covered strawberries for her special snack at Pre-K. Yeah, whatever happened to cupcakes or cookies? Nope. Supergirl knows what she likes. And hell, she’s got good taste. Here is a little collage of Supergirl through the years. I think every year I will continute this tradition. I love looking at all of these images next to each other.
I love my little girl so much. I’m truly proud to be her mother. I’d like to think that wherever my mom is, she thinks her granddaughter is pretty damn amazing and it pisses her off that she doesn’t get to tell her in person. And now I just made myself cry so I have to stop this post. Some days it just hits me out of the blue and I guess today is one of those days. I miss my mom. Dammit.
*** She loves her custom Splink Supergirl too. And that’s a new Uglydoll. His name is Wage and he’s best friends with Babo. I think she’s bringing them both to school with her for share day***
Once again I’d like to thank Adam (who dyes fantastic yarn too!) for helping me with the signup for Round II. There were almost 175 people in the lottery for 53 spots. I have already emailed all of the lottery winners and they have until tomorrow afternoon to pay. If at that time there are people who haven’t paid I will do another lottery to pick replacement spots. Er, I mean Adam will run another lottery. Thank you all again for signing up. I already have ideas some really cool ideas for Round III…..
Sorry for the lack of knitting content around here. If I haven’t been up to my eyeballs in GoKnit pouch orders, I’ve been dyeing yarn. (there were 108 orders after that Knitter’s Review article) For the first time in a year I actually decided to not take custom orders for a week so I can catch up. I’m learning that sometimes you just have to say no in order to save your sanity. The other big things this week is that a certian little girl turns 5 tomorrow. Big day in the Scout household. I’ll write more about that later.
Once again congratulations to all of the lottery winners!
First up, Saturday Sky. Taken at 8:00am.
I also have a skein of Prepster for sale. Somehow, a few specks of black/purple got on it and being the perfectionist I am, I didn’t feel comfortable sending it to the person who ordered it. Click the picture to see what I’m talking about. It’s a totally pretty skein of yarn and even though yes, handpainted yarn is never perfect, I know those teeny few spots are there and already re-dyed it for my customer.
And finally, remember that you have until 6:00pm MST tonight to sign up for the Scout’s Indie Club lottery. Read about it here. Then it’s closed for a whole year people! Since I’m doing every other month for 6 months on this one I won’t do another sign up until March/April 2008. Speaking of Indie Swag……I am off to dye this month’s yarn. Did I forget to tell you who the swag is from this month to tease you a bit? Just a little ole pattern from Kate Gilbert. Yep. And it’s incredible. Just wait until you see it. The final month of the first round of the club is going out with a BANG! I plan to get it in the mail by the 23rd or before.
I almost forgot. If you live in New Mexico can you please follow this link and click on the demand button to get Amy R. Singer to come to Village Wools for a book signing. She said it really helps to show her publisher where people want her so I started this up. We’re up to 37 demands already so get those clicks in! Also, I’m so excited my friend Stefanie Japel aka Glampyre Knits, is coming to Village Wools on May 5th for a book signing and trunk show. She’ll be there from 1-3pm so make sure you come down to buy her new book fitted knits and get her to sign it!
18 shots of espresso