A Prayer

Dear God,
Please save me from the idiocy of many of my fellow Americans.

I am scared now. I do not trust, actually, am deathly afraid of the man who was just elected president.

Please let me wake up in the morning to the news that the projections were wrong.

Please.

Anti-Abortion Measures Can Hurt ALL Pregnant Women

This video blew me away. I am not saying I support vanity abortions, but these laws would make it illegal to consider the mother's health first. How many children would be left motherless because the law made her sacrifice her life in favor of her unborn child? I love my daughter more than anything in the world, and I would gladly give my life for her, but to be prosecuted for ending a pregnancy that could cost my life and leave my daughter motherless? Insanity. I am SO glad I do not live in Colorado.

Socks

I knitted a sock once before...

I started out with size 0 needles like the pattern suggested... only to discover I was getting 10 SPI instead of 8 like the pattern specified. As it was a basic sock formula more than an actual pattern, I just adjusted my stitch count. (first big mistake)

I spent about two weeks knitting on it before it went into hibernation when I had the baby. A couple of months after she was born, I pulled it back out and decided to finish it. I knitted for a week or so turning the heel... tried it on to make sure it fit... All was well. On to the leg.

Here is where the 2nd big mistake came in to play. I decided a plain sock just wouldn't look that good, and so I modified the Ferns and Waves lace pattern to fit the number of stitches I had to work with. Several weeks later I finally finished the sock.

With much excitement and great joy I bound off the sock, and wove in my ends. I pulled out the camera, and sat down in a sunny spot to photograph it on my foot.

I had to fight the damn thing to get it on my foot... and every time I flexed my foot, it rubbed most uncomfortably against my ankle.

*sigh*

So it hibernated for another couple of months next to the unused ball of yarn intended for the 2nd sock.

Finally I decided sock knitting was NOT going to beat me.

I put the first sock away. It remains as a reminder to me to follow directions and not take off on my own when trying a new technique.

The 2nd ball of yarn is up for sale or trade.

I acquired 2 new sock needles in larger sizes.

And I got a ball of self patterning sock yarn as a prize. So I am no longer tempted to try to complicate the pattern.

I turned the heel on the first sock of my 2nd attempt today... and so far it seems to be going VERY well. And the Draco colorway looks VERY nice too...

I am falling in love with sock knitting again. I am not defeated.

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Thought for the day

After my family being in town last week, and my lack of anything to blog about this week that just ended... I'm back.

With a thought received in an email from my grandma-

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

OPEC sells oil for $136.00 a barrel.

OPEC nations buy U.S. grain at $7.00 a bushel.

Solution: Sell grain for $136.00 a bushel.

Can't buy it? Tough! Eat your oil!

Ought to go well with a nice thick grilled filet of camel ass!!!

What will they think of next?

Okay. So I've seen "bacon" bandages before. But this takes the cake. Er, Bacon.

A Bacon Tux. It even SMELLS like bacon. Click on the pic and it will take you to the website.

LMAO!!!

Google Me!

Inspired by some of the other lovely blogs I subscribe to, I decided to post a list of Google searches by which people have found my blog...

wrap sweater baby knit-
She didn't knit it... Although... If she could, I'd be rich.

funny quote motherhood-
Hmm... does "She pooped on me again" count?

home radiator spewing steam, how to fix-
Call the landlady and threaten legal action.

snape's new baby crying-
... umm... Do I want to know?

tampa pregnant my belly button 2008 blogspot.com
What are random mommy blogger related words, Alex.

one button baby sweater-
One of mine has several, the other has none. But whatever blows your skirt up.

my child is strange-
Isn't everyone's?

mick jagger-
I only mentioned him once... how many pages down the search did they have to go?

baby belly 13 week-
Is not very noticeable.

irregular heartbeat baby 37 weeks-
Mmm.... I'm sorry. Any sort of heart scare with a baby is doubly frightening.

funny quote about motherhood-
Another one? Okay. "She pooped on me again, and it got her changing pad, her clothes, the carpet, the bedroom door, and several pairs of shoes in my organizer."

And the winner?
how do you tell difference babies head or butt-
Honey, if you have this problem... see an optometrist I suppose.