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When Usually It's Nothing has come to and end, because my life has turned into, ah. something else.
I have learned so much from you knit bloggers out there, and made some really neat friends.
I have been diagnosed with terminal cancer and I am blogging the transition to the next phase in my life on my new blog, How Soon Is Now.
Please visit and comment often, it means the world to me.
All for now........
My kitchen is finally finished. What a relief. Seven months of angst.....
Before....
After.......
The end result turned out as it was envisioned but the entire process was fraught with complications.
I honestly did not think it would ever get finished. I could not take the "after" picture from the same spot as there is a new wall where I previously stood.
Walls were moved, floors ripped up, the ceiling was removed, EVERYTHING was ripped out, gutted to the studs. It really was a nightmare.
I remember walking into this house for the first time. I had just driven from Georgia to Virginia, after working a full day. It was very early in the morning, I got lost trying to find my way through the new neighborhood, my cat Uma was sick from the multi state trek. I was tired but excited and my body was running on pure adrenaline. I finally found the street and the new house. All I wanted to do was get Uma from the car to a clean kitty litter box, poor thing. I opened the front door trying not to wake the dogs, who had already made the trip. The living room was crowded with boxes. I sat Uma down and walked into the kitchen and turned on the lights.......
I was distraught. This was the absolute worst kitchen I had ever seen. I almost started to cry. This kitchen was beyond a fresh coat of paint. It was disgusting. I had never seen anything like it. Old and battered is one thing, but old, battered, and filthy is another. It didn't look much better after cleaning though.......
Then the construction nightmare began......Seven long frustrating painful months.........
I guess it was worth it because the alternative was not an option. I know I could have worse problems and I should just thank my lucky stars that we could renovate the kitchen, but still.....
Now that the plaster dust will not be an issue I can really start to paint and hang some art....
Next, the bathrooms. At least they are not as bad as the kitchen was... All for now.....
Yes, I bought some yarn yesterday......I have not knit anything in a couple of weeks, but I did buy some yarn. I just have not had the time. The new job fills up my days, go figure, hahahaha. By the time the evening rolls around I am just so worn out I just don't have the energy to knit. Now that the weather is turning I think I will be spending more time outside running etc.....I do have a new reason to knit as my dearest friend April is with child! I am excited at the prospect of knitting cute little baby things with Mare as my inspiration!
I really enjoy blogging, and I enjoy knitting, and I enjoy blogging about my knitting, but I am not knitting much these days or blogging for that matter. I have decided to blog more even if I do not have any knitting content. There is so much going on that I would like to blog about besides my knitting I thought I would just add it to my blog. Like the road trip yesterday along the George Washington Memorial Parkway see below.......
Or a Short post on how much I love my iPod Shuffle..........Or a post on how much we loved the iPod Shuffle on the road trip along the George Washington Memorial Parkway......Or how terrible my vision is getting and that the Optometrist uttered the word bifocals in my presence.....You get the idea.....
So I hope your will see more posts here but not necessarily all knitting related.....
The contractors arrive bright and early Wednesday morning to complete the kitchen.........I am not holding my breath........Post and pictures to follow that big ole mess......I will keep my cool....I will not curse at them, anymore....Everything works out in the end...All for now.....
Surprise, surprise, I knit last weekend. I whipped up this scarf. well, actually I had already knit about six inches of the thing a while ago. I was itching to knit something....
It is a scarf out of Kureyon, And I forgot the color. It is the stuff I used to knit the Noro sweater James with. I finished the sweater but hated it so I ripped it out. I do however love the yarn.
I followed a pattern from a little Vogue scarf knitting book, at least that is where I found the pattern. One uses two strands of the multicolored Kureyon, alternating rows, to create the stripes. This was even more fun that just knitting with one strand of Kureyon. I washed this baby and the Kureyon softened right up. I ended up with a scarf a little longer than the length of a full sized bed.
I FINALLY felted the kitty bed I knit a month or so ago and Uma just loves it....She is sitting in it as I type......
I know, I know, everyone has a mother......
Who knew, who could know......All for now........
I was tagged by Karen......
1. The total number of music files on your computer....
12.48 GB, 2566 songs
2. The CD I last bought is:
Cafe Roma, hard to describe, see the link....
3. What is the last song you listened to before reading this message:
It's De-lovely---Ethel Merman---in my car driving home from work just now.
I am only allowed to play Ethel Merman in the car....alone...tee hee...
4. Write down five songs you often listen to or mean a lot to you.
1. Unhappy Birthday, The Smiths, I named my blog after a line from this song.
I LOVE the smiths, and I love this song. I exemplifies the smiths for me: happy melody with
maudlin lyrics.
2. How Soon Is Now, The Smiths, This one brings back MEMORIES!
Again, this reminds me of my wild past.....
3. What A Wonderful World, Louis Armstrong, We played this at my fathers funeral.
I love this song and most old jazz standards
4. Insomnia, Faithless, The quniessential trance/house/dance song, reminds me of my wild past
Oh yes, I did have a wild past......
5. West End Girls, Pet Shop Boys, Reminds me of college and grad school.
I love anytthing by PSB.....
6. I am going to pass this to my friend Felicia!
I love music. I hear a song and it usually transports me to a very specific time or place in my life.
My wild past........... I could tell you stories that would curl your hair.....Ask me all you want, I will never tell....All for now........
I completed the knitting part of the bed I was making for my cat Uma. All I did was sit around the house this weekend and knit on this thing. I used scraps of lopi and knit on size 11 us needles.
Now all I have to do is felt it. I have not felted anything in ages. I have not had the time to knit in weeks.
My new job is just great. It has taken some getting used to being out of an academic environment but I do not regret taking the position. Everyday brings something new and so far, knock on wood, all of the people I have come into contact with have been swell. I am just now, after six weeks, getting used to the idea of this thing called work, hahahahahaha!
The kitchen counters will be installed on the 11th of February and everything else installed on the 14th....I am not holding my breath......I just want a home cooked meal........All for now.....
We saw this...thing....today and just had to have it. I am not sure what it could be. I suspect it is just some strange thing that needs to be siting in my new kitchen. It is hand blown glass and rather orange.
Nothing new to report on the kitchen. I suspect it will be another month before I am able to actually prepare a meal in my own house. I am so tired of eating out and eating out of a microwave. Oh well, at least it is orange....see below......
1. I am 40 years old, but don’t feel it.
2. I was born and raised in Saginaw, Michigan.
3. I left home shortly after graduating from college.
4. I have a BA in history, an MS in library science. I am also a nurse.
5. I never wanted to have children, even when I was a little child. Ask my mother….
6. My dogs, and cat are my children.
7. My animals have been better to me than many people in my past.
8. I will eat just about anything except veal.
9. I do not like sweet potatoes, but I will eat them.
10. I am a rabid bleeding heart liberal Democrat.
11. I share my life with a misinformed (tee hee) republican.
12. I believe there is still hope .
13. I think it is in bad taste to discuss religion, money, or politics with people you are not very
closely related.
14. #13 has served me very well…..
15. My mother taught me to knit back in the late 1960’s.
16. I was the model of a perfect child.
17. I rebelled after I completed graduate school.
18. Most of my twenties and early thirties are a big blur.
19. I used to read a lot. Now I read only a couple of books a year.
20. I do not suffer whiners easily.
21. I try to respect everyone, even if I do not see eye to eye with him or her.
22. I have several tattoos.
23. I took out my piercing recently.
24. I was voted class prep in high school.
25. I still prefer plain, clean cut, preppy clothes.
26. I could wear penny loafers and Birkenstocks everyday.
27. I used to wear my hair long, down to the center of my back.
28. My hair is short now.
29. I weighed 125 lbs in grad school.
30. I weighed 200 + lbs a couple of years ago.
31. I now weigh 165 lbs @ 5’9”
32. The 200+ lbs were happy weight.
33. I love going to the beach, but not at 200+ lbs.
34. I love my Macintosh computers and anything Apple!
35. We have five computers networked around the house.
36. We have several computers just sitting there.
37. I could live the rest of my life without cable TV.
38. I do not wait in lines.
39. If it takes longer to check out than it did to shop in a store, I will leave.
40. I HATE Wal-Mart, but still shop there.
41. I will shop at Wal-Mart gladly as soon as the workers unionize. It WILL happen.
42. I subscribe to Vogue, W, The Utne Reader, Macworld, Game Informer, and The New Yorker.
43. I love watching DVD’s but hate attending movie theaters.
44. I LOVE Ethel Merman.
45. I have really bad allergies.
46. I personally do not use drugs but I think they should be legalized.
47. I have no respect for drunk drivers. I cannot even try to respect them.
48. Diet Coke is my breakfast.
49. I used to love to drink, beer, liquor, but don’t drink much anymore.
50. I love a frozen margarita.
51. My favorite movie is Hannah and Her Sisters.
52. I love Woody Allen movies.
53. When I was a child, all I could ever think about was growing up and leaving home.
54. I always viewed my education as the ticket out!
55. I had anything I needed as a child but was not happy.
56. I am now happy; I have been “home” three times since leaving in 1987.
57. I am not one of those bitter people who blame all their problems on their unhappy childhood.
58. I don’t blame anyone, really, for anything.
59. I tend to be very self involved.
60. I go to church every week.
61. I think about leaving the church every week.
62. I have been present for the birth of a child.
63. I have held someone while they died.
64. #’S 62 and 63 are the most profound things I have ever experienced in my life, so far…..
65. I think everyone should tell their friends and loved ones how much they appreciate them.
66. I used to have lots of acquaintances, now I have a couple of good friends.
67. I keep in touch with one person I knew from high school.
68. I just moved to a new state (VA).
69. I am starting a new job running a medical library in two days.
70. My parents were divorced when I was five or six years old.
71. I never saw them together until my Honor Society banquet my senior year of high school.
72. It was tense. I flipped a coin to see who I would sit with, I remember flipping the coin but not who I sat with.
73. I love Sandra Bernhard
74. I used to drive a Jeep, I now drive a truck, and I really miss the Jeep.
75. I am not much into cars. I am thinking about another convertible though.
76. I love coffee.
77. I prefer butter to margarine.
78. My favorite meal is polish sausage and sauerkraut with mashed potatoes, cut up and mixed together.
79. I love wearing fleece, especially since moving to a colder climate.
80. I have nieces and nephews I have never met.
81. I have siblings I have only talked to once in the last ten years. There is no bad blood between us.
82. I find it very hard to respect fundamentalist Christians.
83. The only thing I respect about Ronald Reagan is his daughter Patty and his son Ron.
84. I have only spent one holiday with any family members since leaving home in 1987.
85. They came to see me.
86. I do not like to travel.
87. I have a weakness for electronic gadgets.
88. I have to many digital cameras.
89. I used to spend all my money on art.
90. I have enough art to fill several houses.
91. My current house has only two pieces of art hung.
92. I wish I were taller.
93. I wish my hair would either go all gray or stay brown.
94. My hair has been every color imaginable, from cherry red to platinum white.
95. I wear reading glasses when working on the computer a lot.
96. I do not know where my reading glasses are presently.
97. I have about 40 wristwatches.
98. I wish I were more stylish
99. Writing this list was easy.
100. I did not include any of the juicy stuff in this list, tee hee.
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