It Happened Again

We need to ask someone to help make week ends a tad longer. I can't seem to complete all my desired tasks on such a short time line. The other factor was I down and out with the flu.
It was quite a handy thing I had soup on hand...

which I made!
Creamy Mushroom Chicken Soup made from these ingredients:

Chicken, mushrooms, carrots, cream, garlic, salt and pepper.

I also completed a scarf I was working on for a friend:


I have a few more projects to complete before Christmas, but Napoleon decided it was time for a nap.

I'm feeling a bit rough still, so I am inclined to agree.

Maybe tomorrow I can convince him to let me complete another project. I hope you are all well. Night all. :D

Back in the Caffeinated World

I finally found my coffee maker at Wal Mart. Oh Coffee, how I have missed you.

Now the world is once again safe! It's a cute little machine that I found for a very good price.

I had a great week end. On Friday night after I played cards badly but still had a ton of fun. It was a Euchre tourney. I only go to these once a year. Every time I've been, I've always enjoyed myself.

My friend came over on Saturday and we an awesome time. We made rum raisin ice cream.

Goodness in a bowl. It is loaded with cherry raisins, black currents, and all that natural stuff. I have to watch Rebel though. He is very partial to the rum part.

I also completed my Dragonfly scarf:

I am thrilled with how it turned out. I hope the recipient is just as pleased.

I also started another scarf for a friend:

It doesn't look like much now but give me a day or so......then I hope it looks like something cool. We will find out soon enough.

We also had our first snowfall this year:


It finally put me in a Christmas mood so I thought I would share my favourite Christmas tune with you:



Hope you all had a great week end. :D

There Goes My Week End :(

I hope you all enjoyed your week end. Mine was not very eventful. I just completed and started a few projects for the Christmas season.
Those not so little toques I mentioned earlier? They are out of my home now and hopefully will make some little brains toasty. :D
I completed my first ever tea cozy:

Not too shabby eh? It was meant to be a plain brown cover. I don't really do plain. I add a few details. I do not think the future owner will mind.

I started a striped scarf for another friend:


It cannot be just a plain scarf though:

Ta Da. An illusion scarf in the works. This one is of a dragonfly. I love this technique. I hope the recipient does as well.

So it was a quiet week end for my and the fuzzies. We caught up on a lot of our television shows and even found time for a nap:


I hope the Christmas season is not too overwhelming for you all. I know it can affect me if I let it. We all just have to keep in mind the idea behind the holiday. It is about family, reflection and good times. Not all these can be purchased or wrapped very easily. Just make sure the people that need to, know how much you appreciate them. That does not have to have a monetary value attached.
Enjoy the start of the week kind folks. I know I will try my best to enjoy my week. :)

Storm is Threaten'....

My constant companion for the last three days has been a killer headache. It really halted my progress on anything. I suspect it is weather and stress related.
I also did a number on my hand. I wasn't paying attention and a little incident with a kitchen knife. :(

It's starting to heal.....finally. It made knitting quite awkward.

Oooh! speaking of knitting..Like that segue? I have completed two of my three Transformer Beanies!

Rebel approves.

With the colder weather about I have been looking at comfort food. This was my lunch today:

Tomato soup with Rye bread.

As a snack I had a pomegranate.

I love these things. You have to be very patient to eat them.

Well, I'm off to work on toque number three. Have a great Sunday everyone :D

Divorcée

Tonight I officially started that whole divorce process. We signed what I like to call phase one. From what I understand, the paperwork now gets sent to our nation's capital. Somewhere between six and ten weeks, the paperwork goes before a judge who will then sign off on it. There are more steps involved I'm sure, but that is the gist of the evening's events. This might explain that hyper anxiety I was feeling over the week end. When the actual signing took place though, I was strangely unaffected. I think I've just come to terms with the whole ordeal and I'm satisfied with how things are turning out. I've not felt this happy or relieved in such a long time it astounds even me and I'm directly involved.

I did finish up a knitting project this week end.

I hope the recipient likes them.

Napoleon is not really that impressed.

He does not like when I spend time with anything that is not him.

I was also working on toques for a client. I'm going to have to rip them apart....again. These little tykes have surprisingly large noggins.

I found a cheap attachment thing for my headphones for my PC at WalMart. I really missed my music. It helps keep track of time and just forget about whatever happening in the day. I guess the proper term would be an adapter of some sort. It has the pink and green ends that fit in the tower and another part that your headphones plug into. I'm very happy I found this little device. Now I can rock out into the night.

This is the song that stuck in my brain at the moment:

Catchy isn't it?

It feels like things are happening now. Soon I will have this little piece of paper that says I am no longer married. I'm good with this. :) A whole new set of adventures will happening. I am in a very good state of mind. :D

Questions I Have

I always have questions. They are usually questions that deal with my own state of mind. I am not vocal with my feelings. I like to squish them down and try and forget about them. I know. That is not healthy. It is how I deal with things. That was actually the reason why I started this little blog. It was an avenue for me to just ramble on about whatever popped into my head. It has helped. I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed, but I have.
So what do you all do when you start to feel anxious? I have this little feeling in the back of my mind that something is going to happen. I'm not sure if it will be positive or negative. That does not help with the anxiety. Then again, maybe nothing will happen at all. Maybe I am thinking way too much internally and should just relax and let whatever may come happen and not worry. Yea. I don't see that happening either. I've always been a worrier. I come by it honestly. My mom worries about everything as well.
This week end I am going to make it a point to just relax and try to forget about all those pesky little things. I have a bunch of televisions show to catch up and several knit projects to complete as well as some drawings and paintings to work on. That's my plan anyway.
If anyone has some strategies on how they deal with stress, I would love to hear them.
Talk with you all later. :)

AKC

I finally learned what that means. Actual Knitting Content :) If it were not for google, I would be clueless with all those little acronyms you see in the online forums.
I have been knitting like a fiend lately. That's what happens when hockey season begins. I have a plan with regards to all that left sock yarn in my stash. I've been storing it in a plastic bag in my stash trunk for when I have an idea of what to do with it all.

I can make these little squares in all sizes and later sew them together. The goal is to actually make a blanket. If my attention span runs out, they could possibly become a scarf or a scary amount of dish clothes. We will have to wait and see how this plays out.

I've also been working on Ocean Toes socks from Cat Bordhi's New Pathways for Sock Knitters.

The yarn I'm using is called Ravish Me. its Superwash fingering Merino from Jumbo Gems. I ordered this online ages ago. I actually ordered two skeins of what I thought was the same colour but it turns out one has more pinks and reds than the other skein. I'm ok with that. It makes things more interesting, difficult to photograph though. A variegated yarn never shows up the pattern for me when I try to take pictures of it.

Finally, I've been working on some toques for a few people based on my Transformer design. I hope I'm not sick of this pattern by the end of this experience.

So far I'm enjoying it. I work on them when I catch up on my television programs, like Dexter, Bored to Death, and In Treatment.

Alright. That covers the knitting content!

I also made banana bread.

It might have made a thunk sound when I took it out of the pan....It is still really tasty though. The fuzzy demon children love it.

This has been one of my frustrations for the week:

...my laundry. I have had this one load of laundry sitting there, all ready to go, for one week. Every time I check to see if there are machines available, I'm foiled. Yesterday, I went down to the laundry room to check. There were all sorts of machines available. I literally ran up the four flights of stairs, because the elevator is way too slow, to grab my laundry. By the time I returned, all the machines were occupied. I think it's a conspiracy. Someone must wait to see if I am in need of a machine. So this will be my new mission this week. To complete my laundry.

My camera is still not working. I just learned that I can take pictures as long as I do not use the flash. It just means I have to hold really still to snap a pic. Yea for challenges. lol.
I think that covers my week. I hope you all have a great week end and the time change didn't interfere too much with your activities.