Knit Devotion

I robbed this off another blog I read.  I am going to TRY to post 30 posts of truth.

Here’s my list for the next 30 days:

1. something you hate about yourself
2. something you love about yourself
3. something you have to forgive yourself for
4. something you have to forgive someone for
5. something you hope to do in your life
6. something you hope you never have to do
7. someone who has made you life worth living for
8. someone who made you life hell or treated you like shit
9. someone you didn’t want to let go, but just drifted
10. someone you need to let go, or wish you didn’t know
11. something people seem to compliment you the most on
12. something you never get compliments on
13. a band or artist that has gotten you through some tough ass days
14. a hero that has let you down
15. something or someone you couldn’t live without, because you’ve tried living without it
16. someone or something you definitely could live without
17. a book you’ve read that changed your views on something
18. your views on gay marriage
19. what do you think of religion or politics
20. your views on drugs and alcohol
21. your best friend is in a car accident and you two got into a fight an hour before. what would you do
22. something you wish you hadn’t done in your life
23. something you wish you had done in your life
24. make a playlist to someone, and explain why you chose all the songs
25. the reason you believe you’re still alive today
26. have you ever thought about giving up on life? if so when and why
27. what’s the best thing going for you right now
28. what if you were pregnant, what would you do?
29. something you hope to change about yourself and why
30. a letter to yourself, tell yourself EVERYTHING you love about yourself.

This should be interesting and eye opening for me. 

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I ended up, at the begining of October, having my gall bladder removed. Everything about the surgery went fine, except my bladder decided not to work. So after 2 visits to the emergency room and wearing a catheter for 6 days, I was somewhat back to normal.  My recovery was not restful so I’m still trying to get back to where I feel like I’m rested.  Ugh, it SUCKS getting old.

I have been through my first volleyball season as coach of my daughter’s 10U team.  I have to say that it has been an enlightening time.  Patience is not one of my virtues (by a long shot!) but this season has taught me that I can do it. It takes a lot of energy to do it but I can do it.  I now know how my coaches felt and why they repeat things over and over and over and over (ok you get the point) again.  I think I’m going to get a tape recorder for next season to play a recording to save my voice.  I have to say that I didn’t scare anyone off (WOW), all the parents seem to like me (no dirty looks, everyone talks to me after the games), and we have had a good season.  We are 1-4 but we are on our way.  We have 2 more games then the tournament.  I think we can win this thing…ok I’ve said it.  We are playing like a team…a real team. My girls are talking, moving, helping, encouraging, and making things happen. I am so proud.  We are just getting started and if things go right and everyone keeps improving and working together. We could peak at the right moment to make it all the way to the top!  I know we can do it… oh and my own daughter got her first serve over the net! I AM SO PROUD!

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Because I’m having my first non-functioning organ taken out.  Yes, I am old.  My Drs and I finally figured out what is going on with me.  After 6 different test, we discovered that my gallbladder has given up the ghost.  Both my surgeon and my GI Dr said that my gallbladder doesn’t work at all. Not even in the least bit. Not even a leak.  So for now, as long as I stay away from fatty foods, I don’t feel like I’m having a heart attack.  But I’m getting sick of salads, and I think I’m going to turn into a rabbit soon or at least start sprouting ears. 
I’m staying away from fat as best as I can but it seems like in the past 2 weeks I have been just all around feeling like crap.  Just not feeling right, no energy and I’m tired of feeling this way. This has been going on since February.  I will be glad when it’s over. I just hope when the surgery is all said and done,  I do feel better.

It really sucks getting old. 

But on the bright side, I have been working on a few knitting projects. Well more than a few. I started doing a mini sock swap and got into a mini sock yarn club.  I’ve done 3 episodes of the mini sock yarn club and have signed up for the fall season.  Those socks are fun and fast! In the kits, you get enough yarn for a mini sock, a pattern, a stitch marker, a mini sock blocker, and a treat.  The packaging is always so cute and the designs are wonderful and challenging.  If you are interested, the group is here on Ravelry and the club sign up is here on Etsy. 
Here are my socks so far:

I haven’t made the August one yet. The design is a beautiful sunflower. I have been too busy with dr appointments and other knitting I am trying to finish. I have been knitting a long piece of cabled fabric that I will twist around my body, add sleeves and call it a sweater/wrap.  It’s really cool looking. I can’t wait to finish but it feels like it’s taking forever. I really hate knitting scarves and basically that’s what this is.  It’s so boring to me going back and forth with no end in sight.

So when it’s done I will be finally ready for some other knitting…socks and a hat for me! Yeah!

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I have been away for a while, close to a year now. It’s been a busy year. Not only with my crafty self but with my health self.   I have been having some chest pains lately. I used to have them maybe once a year. Not chest like heart pains but chest pains no less. Usually in my upper right shoulder area.  Well recently they have been getting more frequent and really bad.  They have not only moved from my shoulder area but have grown in strength. Now they are right between my boobs and extend to the right side.  Long story short…went to the Dr. She sent me to a cardiologist (CYA), no problems there (just a slight extra electrical jolt when my heart is put under stress).  Now on to the intergastrologist (stomach Dr) to look at the stomach and gall bladder. 
I have been reading up on this gall bladder problem.  I already can’t eat wheat gluten because of my eczema.  Now because of my possible gall bladder problems, no fatty foods…..

So what’s the point of eating if I can’t have gluten or fat????!!!! Please someone tell me!!! I might as well go live with my SMIL who thinks cooking with applesauce instead of butter makes things taste better.  REALLY!!!! Are your taste buds gone? We fight over who is going to try her cooking when we go to visit.  Our kids even know better than to try her food!!!! How’s that for horrible.  Maybe this is my karma.  I have made fun of her cooking for 12 years now, now I’m cursed to have to live that life style.  Oh Karma how have I ever done you that wrong.  I do my part in Karmic goodness…don’t I? I volunteer, make cookies, cakes and cupcakes for little kiddos, I spend countless hours putting together corsages for the Dances, decorate, stand in the heat, put up with 100 kids for a variety show (notice I didn’t say talent).  And this is how I get paid back?

Such is life..at least I still have my knitting! (and my dear darling Pookie!)

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I’m the only one that gets this.  I can’t be the only one that see the irony in this picture. I don’t actually have a picture of this because it would have been rude to stand up and snap a picture.
Here’s the scene.  My daughter’s karate class. There’s a new sensei. Let’s just say he is VERY short.  While the kids and the sensei is warming up (doing jumping jacks, stretches, running laps) the sensei plays music.  Mostly good music and mostly dance music.  I don’t mind it. It’s mostly from my partying days but that’s a whole other story.   So…the kids start running and the music starts. The player plays the last of one song and starts on another.  Bet you can’t guess what that other song is……Someone has actually made a dance remix of the Oompa-Loompa song.
Of course I start giggling, thinking that someone is going to go over there and turn the song off. But NO! they let it play. So now I am laughing and looking around to catch the eye of another parent who is getting this joke.  NO ONE is laughing.  I  wanted to stand up and say, “You have got to be kidding me! Do you not get the irony? Your children are being taught karate by an Oompa-Loompa!!”
I did what any “off their rocker” person would do…I posted it to FB. Ha! Oh yeah, and sent a text to SCG!

Next time, I will have a picture!

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a long time. I can’t even tell you really what I have been doing. Well, I have been caught up in the Variety show planning. We ended up with 69 acts and over 100 kids. That will wear you out.

I have been sewing a little, not a lot. Mostly things for the women at the bus stop.  Nothing exciting.

Knitting is coming along. I did a hat for Monster girl for Cross Country. Pink with a teal paw on the side.  Then it got warm and she hasn’t needed it. I finished a christmas gift that I have been working on for a while but I kept putting it down to do something more exciting. Then I did a pair of socks for myself. I had to knit one sock twice because the first time it was too big. (I need to take a pic of those.) I bought a whole bunch of yarn…if that counts for anything. I’m now working on Monster boy a pair of pirate socks. I’m designing the pattern right now. I’ve done well so far but it’s the easy part with the toe and gusset. Now I just have to figure out how many stitches to work on the heel.  He wants knee socks. I don’t know where he gets he needs them or why but who am I to deny my son knee socks.

So that’s my life…boring and not so busy but still busy.  Oh and I’m going back to work at my old job. Talk about staying busy. It’s going to be a mess!

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a long time. I can’t even tell you really what I have been doing. Well, I have been caught up in the Variety show planning. We ended up with 69 acts and over 100 kids. That will wear you out.

I have been sewing a little, not a lot. Mostly things for the women at the bus stop.  Nothing exciting.

Knitting is coming along. I did a hat for Monster girl for Cross Country. Pink with a teal paw on the side.  Then it got warm and she hasn’t needed it. I finished a christmas gift that I have been working on for a while but I kept putting it down to do something more exciting. Then I did a pair of socks for myself. I had to knit one sock twice because the first time it was too big. (I need to take a pic of those.) I bought a whole bunch of yarn…if that counts for anything. I’m now working on Monster boy a pair of pirate socks. I’m working on the pattern right now. I’ve done well so far but it’s the easy part with the toe and gusset. Now I just have to figure out how many stitches to work on the heel.  He wants knee socks. I don’t know where he gets he needs them or why but who am I to deny my son knee socks.

So that’s my life…boring and not so busy but still busy.  Oh and I’m going back to work at my old job. Talk about staying busy. It’s going to be a mess!

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My favorite time of year. Except it’s Fucking HOT AS HELL here. I guess I better get used to it. Oh yeah, I’m going to hell anyway…I ate Halloween Candy. Or maybe I’m cursed to Hell! Oh Hell, I can’t remember. Damn it to Hell! Of course there is one problem, you have to believe in Hell to go there.

Back to my favorite holiday. I love the colors. I love the costumes. I love the decorations. I just wished you could have haunted houses in your house again. Too many wack jobs running around to do that anymore. But as someone pointed out, there were probably just as many wack jobs back then. It’s just now you have more media outlets to hear all about it. 

Here are DD and DS this year in their costumes I made for them.  We have Tinkerbell and Captain Jack Sparrow… see if you can guess who is who…..

They did a fantastic job collecting candy for Mom and Dad!!!!

Happy Halloween Everyone! And Merry All Saints Day!

I’m not one to bully people around. I don’t like to be told what to do so I try not to do it to other people. Well, except for my kids. I give them enough rope to hang themselves with, but usually in public I will correct them if they are being a pain or obnoxious. On that note, here’s my story (and I’m sticking with it)
Just a few weeks ago, we went on a Disney cruise. And yes, it was fantastic and I would recommend it to anyone who has kids as well as those who don’t have kids. Most of the time the kids are in the kids club or at the kids pool, two places you don’t have to be anywhere near.  We had a wonderful time except during the Pirates in the Caribbean party. Well, let me restate that….we had a great time at the party also until some 10 to 12 year old girl tried to push past my daughter to get in the front row. My daughter had already been pushed around once. I asked the girl to back off and her mom told her that she was being rude to move to another place. This one however tried to push and squeeze in between my daughter and her friend. The reason I knew this is because I was right there watching not even a foot away.  I tapped the girl on the shoulder and asked her not to push my daughter. I also said that there wasn’t enough room for her there. She could stand behind my daughter and see just fine (her being about 1 ft taller than my daughter and could see over her head).  She gave me a very funny look and left. I thought, “good one less I have to worry about.”  A few minutes later she comes back and tries again. So again I tap her on the shoulder and ask her not to push in front of my daughter. Her father taps me on the shoulder and asks me not to talk to his daughter. I politely said,  “There’s not enough room for her up here and she is trying to push in front of my daughter. If she would stand behind my daughter she will be able to see.” He says,” There’s enough room for her where she is.” I said “She’s trying to push in front of my daughter and if she touches my daughter again I will ask a Disney employee to move her.”  Then I turn my back on him basically tell him (the short shit) that I wasn’t afraid of him. 
I mean really, you saw what your daughter did and your going to defend her. What has this society come to. If my daughter or son and told me that someone laid a hand on them. I would have done what he did to see what was happening. But when I saw my daughter/son do what she did. I would have had my kid’s head! How rude is that. Toward the end of the night a little kids came up with his mom. He couldn’t see. I asked my daughter to let him stand in front of her so he could see and she could see over him.  See, I’m not rigid. I will help when I can and not hog the front row. Just don’t start pushing around my kids and being rude. I will fight you over that. And like a mother with her cubs…I will pull out all the stops and play dirty.

Don’t Tempt Me!

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An S for sucka!!! I was very (VERY) active in the PTA for my DD’s school last year. A little too much but I like to help out and it keeps me busy.  I have met some wonderful people and have found some even more wonderful friends.  One of my friends is the President of the PTA. She’s an amazing person and a great friend (no really). Such a good friend that she talked me into (didn’t take much) being the VP of Programs.  Like I said, make mine an S on my forehead! I have a REAL problem with saying NO to helping friends.
I have 4 programs to plan.  The first one is the 2nd week of school.  It’s an ice cream social where the kids eat ice cream while the rest of the PTA committee heads coax people into helping them. We have a wonderful group of parents that really support our school which I am so grateful for. I have heard horror stories of no parent participation.  It helps the kids so much to have their parents support them at school. I think it really fosters a future of helping parents when they see us volunteer and devote our time to their causes. 
The 2nd is a Variety show. Notice I said variety and not talent. This should be fun (as in I would like being hit with an orange in a sock more). I haven’t attended one of these shows because well, I have seen enough “recitals” with my nieces to know that I don’t want to go. And now, I get to head one. Oh for the love of Buddha! It’s not the kids I’m worried about. It’s “those” parents that I’m going to have a problem with. You know the ones who think their kids are Britney Spears or Miley Cirrus.   And you know it takes all I have not to tell them to please find the nearest Dr. to do an cranial/anal inversion.  Like I said…this is going to be FUN!
The 3rd is going to be my fav (if I can do it.)  Get this, the Orlando Science Center will come and present the Human Gross Out tour with special guest DR BOOM.  Oh man, I’m so excited.  DR BOOM comes and blows shit up scientifically! Then on top of that we get to learn about burps, farts, poop, snot and all those bodily functions that make us.. interesting! Ha! I am going to be the most hated/loved PTA member in the history of our school’s PTA. I can’t wait!
Then it’s my last program which is Basket night and thank Buddha again that I have committee heads that specifically do that. I don’t have much to do but help there. YEAH! Basket night almost killed me last year when I was head of the food committee.  Glad I don’t have to do that this year. You can’t even imagine.
I’ll keep you posted

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