Maybe I am just too much of a perfectionist for my hobby. I am so frustrated with my knitting right now I can't stand it! I keep trying to get things right. I messed up the Throw I was making for soon to be niece and I still can't figure which side I messed up on. I messed up the scarf for my father-in-law , and now I have messed up the market ( Read more... )

Ok, so I haven't been around for a few days.  I haven't checked my e-mail, facebook, Lj...nothing.

But I have a good reason-Really!

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Ok, so I have to look at the bright side of things.  Good things that happened today:

• Got almost all of the laundry washed,  dried, folded, and put away.
• Gave the dog a bath, a new flea collar, and bed.
• Washed dishes.
• Paid someone to come mow my lawn and weed-eat. (oh so worth it!) Plus he will work on my mower to see if he can figure out what's wrong ( Read more... )

A lot happened yesterday so I am updating about it today.  Not necessarily in chronological order.

My favorite Icelander arrived yesterday:
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

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Thomas is an amazing child.  Today he was looking at a magazine, Kids Discover magazine about Glaciers.  The entire magazine is about glaciers.  There are 35 pictures of glaciers in this magazine.  On page 9 in the upper right hand corner he sees a picture and excitedly runs to me pointing at it showing me saying, "Look mommy, this is the glacier ( Read more... )

Rosie didn't have to have surgery after all...yet. When they did the second x-ray, to look at her pelvis from another angle, before they operated. They discovered that she did not, in fact, have a hernia. She does however have several fractures on her pelvis that will take several weeks to mend. After the bone has mended some, we will bring her ( Read more... )

1. Leave me a casual comment of no particular significance, like a lyric to your current favorite song, or your favorite kind of sandwich, maybe your favorite game. Any remark, meaningless or not ( Read more... )

( Yet another problem with the car )

Princess Elle is driving me nuts! Both her grandmother and I have plans in Knoxville tomorrow, early in the day and told her she was welcome to come, make plans, do her thing until we were ready to go home, me after lunch with willowdragon mom at around 2p.m. So she asks me at 11:15 if she could go out in Knoxville tomorrow, at 4:45-6:45 to a lazer tag party ( Read more... )