So last Saturday me and some friends ran a 5k, not a huge deal. The profits went to helping fight for gay rights, primarily marriage rights in the U.S and in MN. Any way it was free for children under 13 to join. So my 11 year old son came along. Continue reading
Category Archives: Miscellany
taking moments
I have been busy so, so busy.
We are STILL unpacking, we where getting close, but then we started emptying our storage units and you couldn’t tell we’d been here almost 2 months. Continue reading
If you can’t say something nice…
Something I haven’t included in this blog and most people would have is that me and my fiance bought a house…
almost 2 months ago…
This is big news right?
I should super super excited right?
She’s 111 years old and still has her figure. It’s not fair I know, the bitch.
Plus I have a craft room for the first time ever in my whole life. We just moved in last week, so it’s still a mess and full of boxes, so those pictures to come soon.
But needless to say my yarn is all in the same room for the first time in years.
But the moving process has been stressful to say the least.
I know, moving is almost always is stressful, but I’m really afraid things have been permanently stressed.
On my relationship with my fiance mainly.
A parent already has a fair amount of stress to deal with, a single one even more so. Now add a trying to coach their partner through being a parent. A kid with multiple prescriptions, and problems keeping up at school. My tiny tiny wages keeping me from really contributing financially. Etc, etc…
So I wanted to be overjoyed about the house, but very slowly things have been adding up and adding up.
And what may have been tiny things turn into bigger things.
Now in my mind so much about this house is associated with with those things.
And it’s been near impossible to be really happy about it all.
So I haven’t said anything, because if I can’t say anything nice- specially about my own home,
well should I say anything at all?
what I did last night
I spent a couple of hours on photoshop last night editing a tiny picture of myself. Continue reading
with love
Colonel Meow passed away a couple of days ago.
He was a facebook star and scotch drinking overlord of all humans.
He looked grumpy, but probably wasn’t really, like Grumpy cat. Continue reading
what to post when you haven’t been
So it’s almost two… yep two months since I last posted, and the longer I put it off, the harder it is to just sit down and write something. To write anything. Anything at all.
Part of the truth is I haven’t wanted to be any where near my computers. I haven’t been coding, I haven’t been designing or drawing, or painting… just knitting.
Remember the booties, the ambitious goal me and the fiancé had? Well I worked and worked on them, when I really wanted to be lace knitting, or working on my entrelac cowl or on the custom bike mittens someone asked for. But I spent november and december knitting booties. And that fine, but I like my knitting to engage me, and that why I do complicated projects. Unless I’m bored or tired or burnt out or all of those things and then I knit a rib stitch scarf or maybe even a bootie. Continue reading
some ups & downs
I’ve haven’t been spending much time at my computer,
I’ve been either knitting furiously on the my couch till the wee hours of the morning or at the gym and lifting club.
And it was been a bag of mixed results from the gym.
Last week, a low point – had a work out that left me for the first time not only gasping for breath on the floor but crying. I felt so defeated from it I just lost it. Usually I’m to stubborn t o start to cry or give up. I may slow down, but not stop. Part of it may be a case of sports induced asthma, which I can’t rule out for sure until I have health care and can afford a doctor visit. Not being able to breath is a tough thing to just work through.
High point last week, I have been doing a training routine at the gym called Smolov Jr for about 4 weeks. That’s meant to increase your push press and back squat numbers. So last week we retested and I got 2 new PR’s! My push press increased 15 lb. to 125 and my back squat went up 20 lb. to 205. I didn’t fail any of my attempts either, so given more time I may be able to improve those yet. My fiancee hit his lifetime goal for his back squat too, 405 pounds!
We were both flying high that day. The next we were pretty sore.
Then high point again on last Sunday, at lifting club, I made my goal for my dead lift, I lifted 205.
And yesterday major low point again, I woke up with a sore neck/shoulder on my left side. I went to the gym any way thinking I would work it out.
Nope.
I completed 6 push-ups and the pain doubled, I could barely move my neck, my arm started going numb. So I left early, by the time I’d gotten home it was worse. It hurts so much, I can barely knit.
I hate just lying around, I like to be doing something always, and injuries like this or when I’m really sick make me unable to do anything else. You just lay there suffering. Maybe watching some horrible TV show or something.
Maybe the universe is trying to tell me to take it easy more, that I need to find peace in just sitting there.
Or maybe it’s a challenge from the universe to see if I’ll ever finish all our x-mas gifts.
so this other blog…
I’ve been reading a lot of other blogs lately or at least scanning them and marking them as read. By the way I’ve been using Feedly since google reader went away, have to say I like it. Design wise it’s easier on the eyes than Google was. I also checked out Bloglovin and while they probably have a better selection of blogs Feedly is a lot faster at loading previews and the actual blogs. And right now it’s free, so there’s my two cents.
But back to my original point, I’ve noticed I am missing something from my crafty blog, I have no theme days or months. Like for example this one has WIP Wednesdays (WIP=work in progress). So I have been thinking maybe I could do Wino Wednesdays? Hmmm…
Or if I want to keep it knitting related I could do FaWIP (FOEVER a work in progress). I could post my almost finished projects that have been almost finished for 1+ year now. I’ve been knitting ten years, I think I can keep this going for at least a couple months.
So tomorrow next Friday, the baby sweater….
DUM DUM DUM…
of drama and yarn
wow,for my knitting friends out there, there is a huge fight erupting over copyrights of independent designers out there in knitting-blog land. And it is getting nasty.
This started as a simple Facebook post, but when I realized I was writing a small novel…
On one side there is a really talented and funny designer/blogger from Alex who writes a blog called a Dull Roar. She’s defending another independent designer/blogger SpillyJane who designs great color work mittens against…
An another independent blogging knitter (kitty-ears.com) who also seems to be a bit of a beginner. And after reading some of her posts, a cheesy romantic who thinks thinking about God should be part of her day and is a house wife I guess. She seems slightly clueless honestly, not evil.
And I have to admit reading some of the comments by Alex in the Ravelry thread are a little aggressive, and sadly not professional. And thats disappointing because I wanted to think she was in the right. The 2nd designer should have also removed her pattern when she learned it was so close to another, because that would be the right thing to do.
And all of this over mittens/gloves with gnomes on them. GNOMES! Happy little gnomes.
And it’s was all topped off with people insulting another’s designers work and calling it ugly and a man-gina. I kind of like it, it looks hard to knit and I’m all about challenges. And if wearing a giant vagina is your thing ( i kid) you might like it it’s called Color Craving.
I really thought the knitting world was more mature than all this.
And I think a lot of people are coming to the same conclusion (example-From flossieknits).
One commenter of the 100’s of comments I waisted my night reading mentioned this, you may have seen these fake ads floating about. No wonder I can live with out regular TV, now I need to watch some Vampire Diaries on Netflix to calm down a bit…
where did thanksgiving go?
We ran out of coffee yesterday, so I went out and got coffee after dropping my son off at school with his life size St. Bernard poster. (It took up the whole back seat!) And I stopped at Starbucks, the one I worked at for 4 years. And it was weird because I’ve only been gone a year and recognized no one that worked there. They won’t have my favorite line of coffee in stock until 2014 (Goldcoast). And they where out of honey. So overall not a rewarding visit, but whatever I didn’t throw a fit. Most of the people there put up with enough of that, I did.
But I really should have, because I didn’t realize it until I got to my car, they gave me a holiday/christmas cup.
So I’m not stepping foot in one of those stores or another that forgets the that X-mas isn’t till December, or at least end of November. I’ll also do my best to avoid any who have moved Black Friday (an annoying enough day) to the Thursday evening before. And as an added bonus due mostly to being broke, we are making most gifts this year, or they are books. Which don’t count as encouraging gross commercialism, because books are awesome.
p.s. I Cleaned my desk off after taking that picture. Sorry.