Oh Snap! Part 2

This week will be a guest blogger. It is J, the wonderful husband of Shamaree. I am filling in for my wife because of a recent accident that she had. On Friday 10/19 she was in Denver with B and a friend and her daughter to go ice skating. I got a call from her saying that she had fallen and hurt her knee. She was unable to come home that night and spent the night in Castle Rock with her friend. The next day she somehow got in the car and drove home, picked me up and we went to the urgent care center to find out that she had broken her knee cap! Yea, like that only happens in mobster and gang movies doesn't it? "I am going to bust both your knee caps!" So now she has to see a specialist on Monday and he schedules surgery on Tuesday. She has the surgery on Tuesday and everything goes well. Now she has some wire holding together her knee cap and cannot walk, popping pills to keep the pain away. She is not able to get on the computer, which is downstairs, but she has been able to do some knitting, although she has complained about being unable to obtain the right materials to knit.
Hopefully she will be able to scramble down the stairs shortly to update this blog with all the new projects she has been doing and to tell her side of the story. Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers as she takes the time to heal. She will be in a knee brace for about 8 weeks.

More Cowbell

I gotta fever...

Oh-Kay Oh-Kay...

So, I've been negligent, I've been a bad blogger, I've been a big loser. But I have an excuse...and you know what they say about excuses. I'll not repeat it, this being a G-rated blog and all, but really, my excuse doesn't really hold any water. No, I haven't been running so much that I can't blog, I haven't had my hands tied up in wool, I've been doing nothing that would restrict me from keeping you updated on my life, it is just that there is NOTHING going on right now that is blog-worthy. Nuthin. I haven't fondled any yarn in weeks, I haven't knit much more than a few rows on the Angel's Rest (I'm about half way through the foot) and I haven't gotten started on anything else. See, aren't you wishing that I had waited until something really noteworthy happened before I went and blogged. I'm just wasting your time right now. But how about some pictures of my fabulous kids to make you feel like you tuned in for a good reason? Will that do?

Flap Happy

Or My Best Pick-Up Job (since my husband)

Or As The Heel Turns...

Huh, how about that, if I spend a little bit of time knitting on something, it actually grows. How about that?

goal and rest

Today is the last day of summer...and...Well, I am so happy that I can hardly contain myself. I actually met a goal today, and then went above and beyond the said goal. I ran a mile, then another and finally a third, and for good measure, I ran another quarter of a mile. That makes my three miles by the end of summer officially met. Isn't that exciting? Now, I need a new goal, any suggestions?

In knitting news, I have been working on the angels rest sock here and there, but I am waiting for a certain pattern to come out to knit for a friend. I am a bit preoccupied with finding just the right wool for that certain pattern which will remain nameless, because in case she checks in, I don't want to spoil a surprise...now everyone is going to be expecting a knitted surprise, and thinking that it is for them. I'll tell you that it is for a friend who depends solely on public transportation. There, if you thought it was you, and you don't ride a train to work and the grocery store, you were wrong. Sorry, you'll have to wait your turn. Anyway, back to angels rest, I have been plugging away somewhat inconsistently since the beginning of time, but I am actually using the entire swim team hour to work on it. And by George if it isn't growing. I should be done with it by the end time if I keep up the hard work. Part of the reason that I am so bad about working on them is that they are for me, and I obviously don't need any socks at this moment, if I were in dire need of socks, it might put a fire under my feet. The other thing is that I really don't enjoy knitting lace that much. They will be beautiful when they are done though, maybe I'll wrap them up as a Christmas gift to myself, if they're done, that is!

We (the progeny and myself) went to a garage sale down the street this morning. I am a garage sale junkie, and would waste all my money on other people's crap if J would let me, but I have not been to any lately. Anyway, I got Mimi the cutest little dress up outfit, and a Robin Hood hat for Jack that is actually from the real Nottingham. Only, I can't take any pictures because my camera is on the Arkansas river today. J has definitely earned a few fishing days, in between the Bose speaker and working his tail off in the office, going in at 6:00am on your day off qualifies you to take a day to your self.

I have been reading some of the "classics" lately, and I have to say that I think I am enjoying them more now than I did in college. I am not sure that I really read as thoroughly as I was assigned to. Many great books were merely skimmed to get through them. I finished Pride and Prejudice the other day. What a great book! I started Emma yesterday, and next in the queue is a re-read of Moby Dick. I am having fun reading them and then discussing them with my literature buff friends. Ahh, nothing to make me feel so smart as to have some scholarly discourse about a classical text...I feel smarter just saying it, now where are my schoolgirl glasses to complete the illusion...

You've been warned...

Never trust a face this cute, cause while she is chaming your pants off, she is also ripping the pages out of all your library books and doing this to your walls:


That is permanent marker, people, on a rented wall. So long deposit.

One happy birthday

What can I say? I'm a spoiled little brat, but I am really, really happy. My poor husband got so tired of being ignored when he called to me and hearing me sing at the top of my lungs while I listened to my iPod that he got me the best birthday present ever. EV-AH. He got me my Bose SoundDock which I have been coveting from nearly the moment that I got my iPod. You may remember. I have the best husband ever. EV-AH. Now, how to repay his kindness...