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let me start by saying that kahlo, my nasty cat, just came up next to me in bed, like she’s coming to see me, plops her ass down and drags it across the sheets, wiping poop onto the clean sheets. good morning!! gross. gross. gross. she is remarkably unapologetic.

anyway, i had a nice day yesterday, amy woke me up and we went to ligonier to the yarn store, kathy’s kreations, fran from snb was bragging it up and oh my, she was not lying. it is not posh like knitwits, but it has all kinds of stuff, and loads of it. i got yarn for the shrug i have been wanting to get started, a nice cream color, and two colors of olive green for a hat for jason b. we had lunch at the ligonier tavern, which was super, and i brought home some excellent bread and some chicken pot pie for jake’s dinner, which worked out well, because he had had a bad day and was really hungry.

amy left from ligonier to go back to dc, and then my mom came over and hung out and had coffee for a couple of hours, for the first time ever, and i showed her photos on the mac and the zappos website, which she loved, and bought me two pairs of awesome shoes…yay!! who said you can’t buy love? you really can. i started back up on maddy’s sweater, which is going smoothly, so far, and i made up a buttonhole stitch that worked really well, fran had suggested a bindoff, so i did that with two stitches and then cast on again, and it came out pretty well, is stretchy and looks good.

amy is selling some things, soon, on her website, which escapes me at the moment, some purses and other things which are really cute, stay posted and i will put up the link, when i learn how to do that. amy, i need to get some photos of us…i don’t know if i have any…you only put pictures of m. everywhere…:(…ok, i guess that is all…i’ll go change the sheets now.

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jake and i hung out with amy and jason on saturday night, which was really fun. i had a fairly busy day at work on saturday. dan leaves for tour at the end of the month and then that’s it. kind of exciting.

i have had a headache for most of the week, and was up and down most of the night, at one point saw an ambulance pick up my neighbor one door down. i think i may look out the window way too much. i may have been a cat in my last life. so we got up and got groceries, to my horror and dismay, it appears that walmart does not carry dreamfield’s low carb fantastico pasta anymore. you are skating on thin ice walmart! after that we met my parents and my in-laws at the roadhouse for some steaks and arm wrestling. my in-laws are such sweet people. i lucked out. i have been getting along better with my parents, as well, hopefully that will continue to improve.

i picked up some different shades of purple yarn for the knitted roses i told amy i would make, so i think i will try it in two colors per flower.

i saw in this month’s interweave mag a woman who knits screens for her screen door. i bought thread before to knit with, i may get some fishing line as well. i wonder if i could make a kind of spider web…i am not even sure what i will do with it. i need to get tiny needles and see how it comes out. also, debbie new knits that elven cape which looks like a magical web. amazing.

my mom said she would stop by to try out my sensio coffeemaker to-morrow, although she seemed like she wouldn’t when i talked to her a few minutes ago. heather doesn’t work to-morrow, so she had mentioned getting together if the weather wasn’t bad. i am not sure when amy is leaving, i am guessing early, due to weather and work.

otherwise, just really tired, although not sick other than the migraines. drained and tired. i will feel more energetic by tuesday, and i have a massage appointment, so…yay!

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snb went well. i was really tired and out of it today, so i felt like i was lame, but i think everyone had a good time, though we only had 8 people i think. it is almost nicer to not have so many. more laid back. almost everyone there was seton hill alum so it was nice to talk about it with them. i tried to start handwarmers tonite, but it proved yet again, that i need to do things that are more brainless for that. i end up frogging the whole thing. in the frog pond as they say.
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amy will be around tomorrow, she has a haircut with my hairdresser tomorrow, so i wish her well. she is something special. i will leave it at that. i’m super tired, i hope i am not getting sick(er) again. i can’t deal with it so soon.

i was told that the yarn store in ligonier is huge, so i must go. maybe monday.

the photo is of these adorable knitted roses i made a while ago. i want to make some in more muted colors for amy’s website thingy. i need to pick up yarn for them. she wants some ipod monstas as well, the yarn is not easy to find, maybe something else would work…

pavel and the mouse toy i knitted him
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this is what i awoke to at 5:30 am. i mean, i went to sleep when jake left, at like 3 am so, no problem. every morning, pavel is bored and runs back and forth on the bed smacks me in the face, goes under my pillow. also, i get hot at night for some reason…i used to be a cold-all-the-time person, and turn the heat of and sometimes open the windows as well, and it is freezing when i wake up.

anyway, i was almost done with maddy’s sweater when i realized i had done the decreases on the button side instead of the seam side, so i had to rip out the whole right front. i am taking a break from it. i can’t bring it tonight because it has decreases and buttonholes, and i learned from the last snb that if i need to think at all about what i am doing, i’ll screw it up.

i have a pattern for a bikini which i think i am going to try to make into a halter top to wear over tank tops. we’ll see how it comes out.

i’m excited to see everyone tonight…Karissa! i haven’t seen heather in a week, terrie’s awesome mom. i think we will have a good turnout, although rich forgot to put the time on the flyer. i need to start an email list tonight…remember. also, i want to take photos. knitwits put it in their ad in the sunday paper, but put that it is every friday…maybe it will be. it would be fun. ok, i better get up, i need to get flyers made to give out tonight. oh, also amy is coming home this weekend, so we are doing something saturday and hopefully jason b. will come out with us. possibly the sweetest, most gentle person in the world. next to my husband

simone’s headband
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i made this for dave because he was wearing tshirt sleeves on his head to keep his new dreads back. anyway, i knitted this in a 2×2 rib, and i think i may make one for myself, it covers your ears, too. i think he liked it.

maddy’s cardigan 1/2 done
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this adorable creation is a little cardigan i am making for my niece who is going to be 2. i made a matching headband with a knitted rose on it….

i got my hair done before work today and their new massage therapist gave me a 15 minute chair massage for free, so i made an appt for next tues. my back is always sore, maybe it will get my week off to a good start. i feel ok, tired, but ok. dan was chatty at work, i guess he feels relieved. i guess that someone must have taken that letter. there aren’t that many people that could’ve or would’ve, i think you know who i imagine it must have been. it rhymes with mess. anyway, i bought a new planner for work, the big ones and for once i can have only myself. it is strange to think about all the things i do that i won’t have to do anymore, won’t have to take anyone else into consideration. i can remodel and not worry about someone else’s image. feels good. exciting.

snb to-morrow. i am on it. rock!!

i just feel so emotionally drained. not upset. just tired. when dan was telling me that he was leaving, i didn’t try to protect him, warn him, mother him, i hope he does well, i hope he gets his act together. i need to start looking out for myself now, and stop letting my husband and loved ones absorb all the backlash. now i just have to decide if i should remodel this shop and still tattoo and pierce by appt or if i should start fresh. i need to talk to the landlord and see what he would help me with and go from there. it is exciting, i can have a beautiful, classy shop, unlike what i have now. even all my bamboo plants in the shop are dying, which seems like an omen of things changing. when i tattooed jason today, we talked a lot, i feel like he is the brother i never had, i mean one i can feel close to, i don’t want to worry for no reason, i want to feel happy and successful, not broke and stressed out and sick. i have so much in my life. such wonderful friends and family. not many people can brag of such fantastic in-laws, they are so supportive and loving. it seems as though my parental relationships are getting better, i hope that continues. i just find that at this point in my life, even if i care about someone, if they don’t treat me as i treat them, i’m gone. i learned that the last time i was single, it seems like we should be born knowing it, but after the last really bad long termer, like a prison sentence really, when i dated, i would get up and leave in the middle of the date and never talk to them again if they made me feel uncomfortable. screw that. if i feel better alone, i have no reason to have anything to do with that person or situation. that should apply to all of life i think. i have the option to to something the way i want to do it and be successful and make my life better and my husband’s life better, so he doesn’t have to work so hard to take care of me. i can’t control being sick, but if i change things to appointment only, if i stay home for a fews days because i am sick, i can. i feel like this is what was meant to be. i have an odd feeling of excited, scary, well-being. i need to just talk to the landlord and find out what he thinks. i guess i should try to sleep, i have been tired since 4p.

lion fur scarf
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this is a scarflette, i will post a photo of it on, i am not sure what to do to fasten it, but it looks so nice on…like a lion!!! it’s greeeeeeaaat!!

ipod monstah
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i made this for jake, it is an ipod holder/monstah. i thought it came out adorable. it was made with darice poodle yarn, which comes in a small skein, but looks super cute. i made this a few weeks ago.

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i worked on jason today. it was nice to see a friendly face first thing. we chatted and then dan came in later and talked to me about leaving. in like 2 weeks. its ok though. i feel like this is what is supposed to happen. i guess even if you try to slack, life makes you get your ass in gear, or get left behind.