YAWN

I have been feeling sort of "blah" about knitting lately... Tonight I knitted the ears of Shaun but that's about it. I watched the Stanley Cup playoff games between the Avalanche and the Sharks. I'll actually be in bed asleep before 10!

Last night I didn't do much knitting either. I don't know if it's burnout or what....

I have been putting other energy into getting signed up for my fall classes at San Jose City College. Yep. I'm headed back to school to see if this old dog can learn some new tricks. After finishing up my general ed classes I'll go to San Jose State University for my BSN degree. I figure it'll take about 6 years. Any knitting I do will be done before I go to San Jose State. I have a feeling that once I start nursing school there will be no time for anything else as I will be working part time as well.

So many projects - so little time. On the other hand, once I finish nursing school and start to work as an RN - I'll be making more $. More $ means more yarn. More yarn means more knitting! What a wonderful thought. Only my knitting comrades know the excitement this brings. Well, my hubby does too, but I think he's cringing.

Goodnight y'all. Happy Thursday to everyone!

Bedtime post

I was cruising around the net reading blogs and found this. This may answer many things.......


What Finding Nemo Character are You?
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90 degrees

That's the temperature as of 5:15 p.m. "Alan" is big enough that it sits in my lap when I knit. The last thing I want sitting on my lap is wool. I already put Oregon away and it's wool too, so I'm not getting it out either. El Tigre socks are wool too.

So, I dug out a new project. It's a simple one, though. I'm making Shaun. Being a Wallace and Gromit fan, I find Shaun irresistable.

Trading Places

It's not that Oregon is boring - it's very entertaining. I have been a little under the weather for the past few days and my brain and eyes need a vacation. Here's a picture I took before I put it away.



Time to bring "Alan" out to play. :-)

Icky sicky week

I seem to have some sort of gastrointestinal funk going on. In spite of feeling like blech, life pretty much went on as usual this week until this afternoon it came to a screeching halt. I just couldn't handle the nausea. I won't go into the other accompanying symptoms but I won't be going to work tomorrow.



As you read in my last post I went to San Francisco with my family to meet my niece. I took tons of pictures, but this one I took with my knitting blog and the readers in mind. This is a bronze statue called "The Shaking Man". It is outside the Sony Metreon. Yes, you see it correctly. The guy has 3 pairs of hands and 3 fpairs of feet. I don't know about you, but it's the hands that impress me the most. Can you imagine how much knitting we could all get done if we had 3 sets of hands? That would mean all my current works in progress would be just about done!

Speaking of works in progress, I haven't picked up "Alan" in quite some time. I am enjoying working on the Oregon so much. I haven't been bored yet and it's coming along well. I'll post an update sometime this weekend.

I now have a website! There isn't much there but it will be a continual work in progress. I have links on the right side bar to my completed projects page and my future projects page.

Happy knitting everyone and I'm SO glad tomorrow is Friday.

Big weekend

My niece, Lindsay, was in San Francisco over the weekend so we all went to visit her. We had a wonderful day with her. Needless to say I didn't get much knitting done over the weekend. I captured the key events of our day here.

My yarn for my Mom's bed jacket arrived today (Thanks Val). So, I have yet again put two projects I love doing away for now as I want to get this bed jacket done.

For now, "Alan" is on hold. :sigh:
For now, my Oregon cardigan is on hold. :sigh:

Perhaps this will motivate me to get my Mom's bed jacket done. Fortunately it's not that long (just to the waist) and the sleeves are just below the elbow.

That's it for now. Have a terrific Tuesday y'all!

Henry VIII

No, it's not a new sweater I'm working on - it's a PBS special Alan and I watched about a week ago - about Henry VIII and his wives. I took a little quiz and found out I am Catarina of Aragon. Sure, right.........





Which of Henry VIII's wives are you?

this quiz was made by the groovtastic ghouls at Spookbot

Oregon and Alan

I am so thankful for my enabling friends on the KBTH group! Putting "Alan" aside for a while and beginning a new project was hard for me to rationalize. I posted my dilemma on the KBTH group and they came through for me. I was told that it is important to work alternately on projects of different yarn weights and needle sizes, to avoid repetitive stress injury. Of course, who am I to argue with that???!?

Without further delay, here is my progress on Oregon:




Poppy has been watching television and is exhausted. He says, "Goodnight!"

My trip to Oregon

I decided I needed a break from Alan so I spent the evening in Oregon. No, not a break from Alan, but a break from "Alan". You know, the knitted Alan.

No, I didn't really go to Oregon, the state which is above California - the state where my friend Martine lives - but I escaped for a few hours to THIS Oregon....



This is one of my future projects, Oregon cardigan. It has been calling me for the longest time and I was just itching to swatch it.

Tomorrow I will return to my regularly scheduled knitting. Happy Wednesday to everyone!

And then there were 3...

Three diamonds with bobbles in the middle, that is. Here is the latest pic of "Alan".



They say good things come to those who wait. So, I am patiently waiting for Dale of Norway to release the new pattern for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino. I saw somewhere that it should be out late summer/early fall. If anyone reading this might know, please leave me a message. Thanks!



Do you ever wonder what your cats do all day while you're at work? I certainly do! Here is Mia stretched out on the floor relaxing after an exhausting day of whatever it is that cats do while their humans are gone. She is wishing you all a good evening and by all means - don't work too hard tomorrow!

Wow

I hadn't realized it was a whole week since I last blogged! Unfortunately that week didn't turn out to be a very productive week as far as knitting goes.

I have a nephew, Alex, who is cute as a button and simply irresistable. He is a very active child which only adds to his cuteness. I'm sure his parents don't see it quite that way but I figure it's a pre-test to me becoming a grandmother some day; you get to spoil and enjoy them and then send them home. Here's Alex in action - thus the blurriness....