Quietish

It seems my posts are becoming more and more infrequent. I suppose I ought to get back on the ball. Let’s see, what’s going on with me this week?

Justin is out of town again. So it’s just me and the kids. And cats. And dogs. Before you get any ideas, let me warn any of you would-be robbers. I believe I could cause great damage if someone were after my yarn, or appeared to be after it. Just sayin’.

Besides doing kid stuff, I have plenty of knitting to keep me occupied. Hm, you know I haven’t really shared many in-progress pics lately. Just finished things. Well, here you are:

Some socks out of Heavyweight Socks That Rock:

New shawl, Icarus:

So I’ll be fairly happy. And if I can scrape some time at night to play some games with Justin online, I’ll be even happier ;)

Something lovely came in the mail the other day; I got a letter from my cats’ vet office telling me that Callie had been selected as their “Cool Cat” for December. I hadn’t “submitted” her, but did happen to leave a photo with Dr. Peakheart the last time we were in. You can see it on the website, but I took a screenshot for viewing later, as they appear to change that page each month :)

seems to make me forget I have a blog. Some quick updates for ya.

1. Yup, Jamie is cute. She wore her hat while waiting for dance class to start on Monday.

2. Ginevra is cute too. Cute + in a basket = even cuter.

3. Someone finally relented and allowed the wearing of the bike helmet. Seems as though this move was worth it.

4. Justin took me on a date Friday. It was to a place that had signs like this:

5. Don’t worry. We’re still alive and happy (and still have all of our limbs.)

dingdingding SPS bonus!

6. We went to Galveston today. The kids had fun building a sandcastle with Grandma and Grandpa while getting more wet than should be allowed this late in November.

7. My fingers have stayed busy. Observe:

More on that later.

Can you tell I just now emptied the camera of this week’s pictures? And that we went out of town for T-day? Anywho, we’ll be home tomorrow night. Catchya later.

Having a good time down in Katy.
Knitting like crazy on Ariann.
2 more inches of collar to go and then I’ll attempt to find somewhere to block her.
Justin is in Florida now; Left yesterday.
On Sunday, though, he dragged me into a haunted house.

I hate haunted houses.
Especially ones whose entrances appear to be bloody, gaping holes in giants’ skulls.
Kids are doing good.
The G-Parents had bought the kids bikes.
Jamie loves hers.

She’s very good.
Cian does not want to wear a helmet, so he has yet to ride his.
Halloween today, yay!
We have pumpkins to carve and costumes to assemble.
Back to knitting for now though, I guess.
Here’s a pic to make up for missing SPS this week.

I had intended to make a more thoughtful post, complete with pictures and witty things to say. However, it is late and sadly I fear that if I don’t get to bed soon, tomorrow will be a less-than-enjoyable day.

The fam and I are heading to Katy, TX tomorrow to be with more fam as Justin will be working on some RADAR in Florida from Monday to Friday. The kids will get to trick or treat with the Grandparents and I will get to bore my poor mom-in-law to death with an endless stream of knitting blather.

I shall have Ariann with me for the car ride and despite a recent unfortunate ripping out of several inches of her, I believe she will be completed in the next couple of days. I should be able to get quite a bit done on the car ride down, anyway. I’ve also packed the yarn and my plans for the next sweater I’m knitting, for Kelly’s cool kid, T.

I of course will have access to my email and the blog, etc. So I need not say goodbye. If you are one of those I know in the Houston area, feel free to email me about my plans (or lack thereof) and to poke me for my cell phone number.

For those lurking around Mustang, OK, hoping to break in, steal our things (which don’t amount to much value, I must say) and rifle through our sock drawers, be warned. We have 2 scary attack kitties, as well as a very grumpy downstairs neighbor that you will surely want to steer clear of.

I posted the other day about being happy that all I have to knit on now is my shawl? Right. Wanna see how I spent my afternoon yesterday and morning so far today?

1. new Pomatomus sock
2. new John Mayer album

I had to have a sock for a long-ish car ride! We’re in Ft. Smith again for a coupla days.

Callie is too.

You know what I like least about staying in a hotel?

It’s not the strange-place factor, nor the fact that all they had left was a smoking room due to a Biker’s rally coming up. It’s not the teeny tiny trash cans nor the lack of refridgerator. I can deal with the kids’ cabin fever and I don’t really mind the saggy mattresses. No biggie, really.

I just loathe the way housekeeping tucks the top sheet and blankets in so tight that I can’t feel anything from my neck down. And when I bust a gut to finally get them untucked, the fitted sheet pops off the mattress. I simply cannot stand fitted sheets that wont stay on the mattress. GROWR. I’m a bit particular about my bedding.

Alright, I feel better having posted. And what’s a blog post without some pictures?

The fam at the park last night:

Jamie on a swing at said park:

Cian in front of our hotel this morning (wearing his “Skater shoes”)

when they plan to be locked in a hotel room in the (middle of nowhere) Ft. Smith, Arkansas with little kids and no car for a week.

A: The following…

1. books
2. toys
3. puzzles
4. PS2

Of course.

5. HP and the Philosopher’s Stone for bedtime reading.
6. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Chess
7. a chessboard

In other words, geeky stuff.

8. Fortunate Traveler

9. Castle Sampler (it’s Justin’s)

10. Jamie’s unfinished sweater

11. sock for Cian

12. Branching Out that they’ve been working on here and there for their Grandma, but had not posted yet.

13. Peacock that is too big to spread out enough to get a good picture of.

and most importantly…

14. their whole stinkin’ desktop because they hate the laptop that is available.

Leaving tomorrow for Ft. Smith, as you may have surmised. I obviously shall have access to email and stuff.

So the fam and I shortly will be loading up the car and heading down to Katy, TX to watch the beautiful and talented Sarah graduate from high school.
WOOHOOO, Congratulations!

I *should* be able to blog but, you know, we’ll be visiting and stuff so who knows what will end up happening.
I’ll have the cell, and email access, and knitting, and whatnot.

You know what I’m looking forward to though?

Seeing whether or not the noisy construction guys get the rest of that concrete poured before we return. That’s probably an overly optimistic hope.

Yes, my life is that exciting. lol

One of the freakiest things I have ever witnessed was something I saw last night as we drove towards home from our weekend in Texas. We hadn’t heard about the fires in Texas and Oklahoma until we were right up on them. Amy called and warned me just before we got to about Paul’s Valley, which was apparently where the roads had been closed earlier.

The roads weren’t closed when we went through. Shortly after I hung up with Amy, we smelled the smoke and saw the horizon glowing. Although it was dark I could see that on both sides of the road we were driving on, the grass (er, everything) was charred and the trees glowed orange.

There have been no deaths in Oklahoma, but I know the damage is tremendous.

so that I’ll have options while holed up in a hotel room this week.

• Reading Material

• The Last Battle
• Eragon

• Fairy Tale Sampler

• Nymphadora2 (crossing fingers hard that I will not run out of yarn before the end; it is quite close.)
• yarn for potential new pair of socks
• yarn for new (tweaked from the original pattern) scarf project

Oh, and stuff to keep kids busy.

Please do not panic; I’ll have the computer, email, cell phone, etc, etc. I shall be reachable. Although I should be busy all Friday visiting with Roberta and company. Eeee!! :)