Only in Oklahoma...

Okay then... After that little bit of joy...

Rickey came home early because of snow Thursday. By Friday afternoon it was 60 degrees and sunny. He went back yesterday since he had come home early... and I would have been on here and up to my usual hijinks, except I slept all day. Don't ya love migraines?

Of course I woke up at 8 this morning feeling entirely better... except my sinus infection still isn't completely gone, and my head is still stuffy. This would not bother me too much except I am supposed to have a dentist appointment today. I'm wondering how I am going to breathe while he is filling teeth.

Anyway... off to get dressed and ready, only to come home with my face numb a few hours later...

Knitting Knews 12-31-08

Today we will discuss UFO's.

And for those of you not hip with knitting lingo:
UFO=UnFinished Objects, not the ships the little green men ride in
Frog=Rip out
Frog Pond= The place unloved projects go when I decide to rip them out and recycle the yarn instead of finishing them.

I have several UFO's right now. 2 that I had termed "eternal" UFO's.

Eternal UFO #1, the HP house scarf.
Started around August 2004.
Approximately 50% finished.

Eternal UFO #2, the Poncho intended for Tiff's birthday 2005
Started around February 2005.
Finished(!!!) January 2008.
So it's only 3 years late. At least it was a surprise present.
Now I just need to get it mailed out. And pray it still fits.

As for my other UFO's, I have decided that unless I am actively working on them still (aka pinwheel blankie and baby sock) I will frog them and prep the yarn for re-use by the end of February. So the projects that hit the frog pond are: the beginnings of an afghan that was intended for an ex-boyfriend's mother, the sleeveless sweater with a BIG gauge problem, and the dratted headband that should NEVER have been started in fuzzy yarn. The rainbow scarf and the crocheted project bag, both of which were about half finished, are already gone.

Today's Weather

It is currently 20 degrees with a snowing sideways chill of 2.

*sigh*

And I need to go get groceries. I am trying to decide if I should wait for it to clear up some, or go now in case it gets worse later.

Apparently, as bad as it looks out there, the roads aren't really that bad. I just saw somebody drive by doing at least 35, and they haven't even sanded Broadway yet.

I made an interesting discovery today.

Now I have to wonder how Google sorts search results.

Go to Google. Search for "strange business" (without the quotes). Scroll to the bottom of the page, and check the result that is 3rd from the bottom.

WOOT!

Of course... it had to be the post that was probably the grossest I ever made that made it to the first page on a Google search result...

Although, if you use Google.co.uk, and search "view from my bedroom" you'll find one of my entries as the 5th result on the page. My world domination seems to be starting off stronger across the pond for some reason...

Anyway, I'm feeling a bit better, aside from the foot in my ribs. Head is still a little stuffy, but not so much that I'm dizzy anymore. Rickey called from his buddy's cell, and when I tried to call him back, I discovered he wasn't in the same room as he was last time... and I don't want to call his boss this late... so I will have to wait until tomorrow to call him... he'll probably be pissed... but he COULD have mentioned his room number when he called earlier...

I'm making a good bit of progress on the pinwheel blankie... 2 11 round stripes left, then the border, and threading ribbon through the eyelet rounds I made to break up the monotony of that much stockinette stitch. When it's done it will be approximately 36 inches across, so not huge, but still... the final round will have about 550 stitches. I think the total number of stitches will amount to somewhere around 32000. It's a serious labor of love... and I will never ever make one of these on needles this small ever again. Unless I have another baby. Or someone pays me a LARGE amount of money.

Some cops...

Should be a little more understanding. For a woman in her position, $123 is NOT a small amount. Honestly... *eye roll* A warning would have been sufficient.

TAMPA, Fla. - Gina Boyd's day already had soured when her 3-year-old daughter began vomiting in her Dodge Caravan. Then she got a traffic ticket. Boyd, 27, got a $123 citation from a Hillsborough County deputy on Monday after she made an improper U-turn to attend to her vomiting daughter.Boyd is a stay-at-home mother of three whose husband is in the Army. He is currently serving in Iraq. Boyd realizes she violated the law but wished the deputy had exercised discretion upon seeing why she had made the improper turn.

Sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter said Boyd committed an illegal U-turn and got a citation for it.

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Information from: The Tampa Tribune, http://www.tampatrib.com

sick

miserable...

I'll be back when I'm better k?

Have you ever seen

a puppy dreaming? You know, how it's laying there and it's paw starts twitching and you can tell it's dreaming? I've seen cats do it too...

And I can feel Kahlan doing it.

Normally it's her hand twitching like that, right up next to one of my hips. Right now? A foot. In my ribs. Fluttering and twitching. It's cute really...

I swear, this kid is an endless source of amusement for me right now. And she proved my dentist wrong today. I get the feeling she likes proving people wrong. My kid for sure...

Anyway, I went to the dentist today. It was supposed to just be an exam and a few x-rays, get to know the new dentist type stuff... Until he saw my x-rays. He decided one of my teeth was so bad it needed to be fixed TODAY. And since he had it numb, he fixed the one in front of it too... Apparently the sealant that had been put on there when I was younger failed. Oops. *sigh*
So, as he was numbing me, she was DANCING. And I was laughing a bit. And as the anesthetic kicked in, she dozed off. No big deal, and I don't really think it was the medicine, she was just tired. She had been really active for over an hour, and she was just ready to take a nap.
And so he told me that as soon as he started drilling the noise would wake her up. Nope. Not the slightest twitch. But within an hour of leaving his office she was kicking harder than she ever has before.

Contrary child...

Once in a while...

... I actually agree with something our government is doing.

Administration officials are focusing on rebates of $800 to $1,600 for individuals and couples and so-called bonus depreciation to allow companies to deduct 50 percent of business investments made this year. Democrats say the package also should include boosts in unemployment benefits, food stamp payments and the Medicaid health care program for the poor and disabled. Talks between Pelosi and Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, have focused on smaller tax rebates of perhaps $500 for individuals.

Like Bush, lawmakers would not discuss what a compromise plan would look like, stressing cooperation rather than potential differences over details.

"This is about one thing in this package: Is it a stimulus?" Pelosi said "So whatever it is that we are considering, it must meet that one criterion: Does it stimulate the economy? Does it put money into the hands of those who will spend it?"

(Link to full article)

Yes. Seriously. Give me a spare $500 and I could and probably would have it spent in less than a week. Maybe a day if I really tried.

I would pay some bills, go out and eat, buy some yarn, have some coffee, buy some clothes and little bits of cuteness for Kahlan... I would pump it all back into the economy in a hurry...

So send me my money Mr. Bush!!!

Emotional Train Wreck

He's been gone less than 24 hours and I already miss him.

Damn.

I wish we could afford to turn the cell phones back on... we will be able to pay the bill in like 2 weeks, but I really wish there was someone we could borrow the money from until then or something...

I think not being able to even talk to him is making it worse. Of course, pregnancy hormones are no doubt contributing to the title of this post as well...

I'm tired, hungry, thirsty, sleepy, bored, but nothing I do helps. And thats when I realize I'm lonely.

Me, the anti-social one in the family. I actually really miss somebody for probably the first time ever.

I need to hurry and have this baby so I can be me again and not this blubbering emotional wreck.

TGIF

I have a foot in my ribs. When I stand up, I don't feel it. But sit down for any reason? Oops. It's back. Now, I love my baby dearly, and usually it's fun when she kicks. But she's being a little BRAT today.

*sigh*

On the up side, Rickey just called from his buddy's cell phone. They are already through for the day, and will be heading home in about an hour or so. Then they have to pick up a trailer and drop it off at the office once they get back to town, and will probably be home around 3:30 or so. So I'll get the hug I've been dearly needing all week about 4 hours earlier than expected.

I swear, I never thought I'd miss him near as much as I do... and I'll only have him for 2 days before he has to go back to work. *sniffle*

I know that he's off working because it's a good job... and I know that if he was not working and was back here 24/7 I'd be wanting to throttle him. Damn pregnancy hormones.

I'm a bad knitter. I haven't worked on anything since Wednesday night, and even then I didn't finish but a few rows on the headband I'm making for the Monthly One-Skein KAL on Ravelry...
And I probably won't get any knitting done today either, as I have to straighten up the house before he gets home...

Which is why I need to quit blogging and blog reading and go clean...
At least cleaning generally involves standing up so I can convince Kahlan to remove her feet from my ribs.