Don't Poke Me!!

2011-09-05T18:51:00.000-05:00

It's been a crazy few weekends here in our house. Steve and I hosted the End of Season Party for our Sunday night softball league. We had so much house cleaning and yard cleaning to do before everyone came over so that our house would be functional for more than just two people!In the spring we had some guys take down our giant silver maple in our backyard. Below is a picture of my size 6 feet standing on the stump when they were finished. (I'm going to try not to have this post be too picture heavy...but that's what happens when I don't post more often...crap!) We also had them take down a hard maple of some kind as well.So the first few weekends (and week days actually) We spent splitting wood. Steve and his Dad, Ray, did most of the work. I helped sometimes by running the splitter. I moved a lever back and forth while they did all the heavy lifting. Though I did also bring them water and kool-aid when they needed it.During the week I did my best to clean up the house. Honestly...if I wouldn't let it get so messy then I wouldn't have had to scramble to get it clean. House work is soo boring! (but I guess that's when you have to do it for a few hours all at once instead of five minutes every day)This is the room that Baby Ewoldt is staying in...this is the pre-party clean-up picture, but it's only half cleaned out. The huge gray desk is still in there and a few boxes full of yarn...but it's getting there. I only have until September 26th.In other news...I chopped my hair off....Before:After:I am loving it! Short hair is awesome and the people at Locks for Love got all of this!I hope they enjoy!

I really stink at posting to a blog

2011-03-23T16:23:00.002-05:00

So it's already March, my birthday has passed and I haven't written here since January. Obviously I haven't put up pictures of all the things I have yet to finish with my knitting, but that doesn't mean I haven't been busy.

I have been amazingly good. I have not bought yarn, I did a commission project (a small boring scarf with awful yarn I didn't even bother taking a photo of), and I made 2 baby blankets. Other than those things I have been working on existing projects. It's hard.

I work in a knit shop. There is always new yarn, new books and patterns and loads of people coming in making beautiful things that I would just LOVE to try! Though at this point I think I'm starting to lose it. I saw someone knitting a small dog sweater and thought, "That looks neat." Umm....I DON'T HAVE A DOG! Not to mention that I think knitting a dog sweater is silly, mostly because I think small dogs are silly...big dogs don't need sweaters.

I have set aside yarn to buy when I do get down to 3 projects, but I still have a long way to go. I do get to start a new baby blanket for a friend who is having her baby in June. Hopefully that will hold me for a while.

I have 3 projects that are so close to being finished it's almost criminal. I have a shawl that has about 15 rows left which doesn't seem like a whole lot, but the rows are in the hundreds of stitches. Activity rows take me at least 30 minutes and that is when no one is interrupting me. I am making an upside down sweater that was all the rage at the knitting shop this fall. I have 3 more inches and a few ends to weave in. No seaming! So when I do those 3 inches I'm finished. I also have a cardigan that I am test crocheting for my friend. All i have left to do there is the other sleeve, which will be much faster than the first because I don't have to count to make sure that the pattern is working out. And then I need to make the trim.

If I actually take the time to work on these things then there is a possibility that I could have three finished objects by the end of this weekend. Awesome.

I have finished my NORO sweater, I should post a picture, but I don't have a nice one yet. Though it does look awesome. After I finish those other projects it will be time to dive into the pile and pick a few more to finish. I'm actually enjoying finishing these projects. It's nice to be able to add a pair of socks or a sweater to my wardrobe.

I'll have to post pictures, but then next time that I may have a chance to get here with any decent amount of time will be Saturday.

I'm still itching to start something new, especially a summer tank or something, but I need to stay strong. All the money that I don't spend on yarn will go towards going back to Mexico this next winter.

I'm going to knit now...

New Year's Resolution

2011-01-02T21:25:00.002-06:00

I've been sitting on the couch for the past half hour wondering what to do with myself and then I thought, "Hey! I can use my blog for my New Year's Resolution!"

I was at work back in October and some customers were complaining that they had too many projects on the needles and that it was driving them bonkers. I decided then to count in my head the number of projects that I had. When I got to 15 I though, "Maybe I should write this down." I bet you can't guess how many I had. 33. That's more than a project per month! Granted it is projects from the 6 years that I have been playing with yarn.

I mulled that over for about a week and then decided that something needed to be done. Not only do I have at least five pairs of socks that could be on cold feet, but five sweaters that I could be enjoying in this lovely 15 degree weather. So I am not going to purchase yarn or start new projects in the year 2011 until I have cleared my needles to one project. After that I will not allow myself to have going at one time more than three items and no more than one sweater at a time.

My husband thinks this is a great idea. He loves that I have a great hobby, but the sheer amount of project bags and needles and yarn is starting to get to him. He knows about the plan because I'm going to need all the support I can get. He's around me enough to know that if I've been camping out in my stash room for a few days that I've started a new project. I have also told my Monday night knitting group. They all thought I was crazy, until I told them the number of projects that I have sitting around.

You can watch my progress as the months go by on here and on ravelry. My ID there is also Dontpokeme311.

I've already finished a few projects since that wonderful day in October and it feels good. It even feels good to have it all organized and into separate project bags. As of the last count I have 32 projects to complete. That's almost three per month and it doesn't include the yarn that I have sitting around destined for a certain project.

It's going to be hard. I will try to put up a list in the next few days of what exactly I have to do. It should be fun. I'm excited now, but I work in a yarn shop, new fun yarn comes in everyday. I think I'll be wanting to shoot myself by the end of the year.

Anyone else has a good resolution?

Peer Pressure

2010-04-20T22:01:00.002-05:00

So I've been told that I need to blog more often. I haven't since August! Wow... I work at a yarn shop now and I'm always working on new projects because I can't seem to stick with one long enough to finish it.

Maybe I can improve my writing skills. I bounce from topic to topic too quickly for most people to keep up (sometimes even myself).

We'll see...maybe I can get into the habit of taking pictures and posting the things that I do. It might help me to remember what I did with a particular pattern when I decide to come back to it after 4 months.

Midwest Fiber & Folk, and Family

2009-07-28T09:52:00.004-05:00

These past few weekends have been a tad crazy. Crazy in a good way though.

I’ve been working hard on my OWL for the Harry Potter Knit & Crochet House Cup on Ravelry. Here’s a picture. I have maybe 10 inches left of knitting the lace pattern, and 8 for the cowl neck. The ‘sleeves’ are just an inch or two of ribbing. Yay for drop shoulders! And this needs to be finished by Friday, July 31^st to count. I should be able to make that if I work hard tonight and all day Wednesday.

I was hoping to wear this thing this last weekend…but we’ll get to that in a sec.

Two weekends ago I was at the Midwest Fiber and Folk show in Crystal Lake, IL. I was helping out my friend Bev and her knitted jewelry business Knitter’s Journey. She’s on Ravelry and she has a website showing all of her kits. Here’s a few pictures of the set up. This took more work than you could ever see from the pictures.

See those pretty baskets? Yea…we kinda forgot to pack those in the SUV. And we didn’t realize this until we were already at the show and setting up! Believe me…we couldn’t have all those bags hangin’ out without a basket. So we grabbed some pizza, drove the 2 hours home and then the 2 hours back and got up early to set up the rest of the booth on Friday morning. I think we made good time and got things set up nicely. Needless to say next time I think a checklist will be used to make sure that all things are in the car. ^_^

I picked up some yarn at the show as well as a few of Bev’s kits.

This green yarn is from Frontier Fiber Mill in Indiana. They have their own fiber farm complete with Alpacas and sheep and other sorts of things! This is 400 yds. of worsted Alpaca. It’s sooooo soft! I’m thinking mittens, though it might decide otherwise.

This here is 925 yds. of laceweight wool for $18. Pretty good deal huh? I love it. Sunset colors. This one might have to sit in my stash for a while before I decide what to do with it.

This next yarn boggles my mind. The lady that spins this yarn is blind. BLIND! That means she just feels the yarn. And her tag has Braille on it so that she can tag them herself. I should have gotten a picture of her and her husband. They are such a cute couple and he completely supports her. (She also had a pretty neat calculator that spoke to her so that she could take care of sales.) I’m making the Sylvia Cowl. It’s a light pink thick and thin yarn(ranging from laceweight to a light worsted). I’m really liking how it’s turning out.

Wow lots of pictures!

I left the festival early to go to Festa Italiana at the Milwaukee Summerfest grounds. I felt back for leaving Bev all day Sunday and for her having to pack up alone, but Festa Sunday is a family tradition. We attend church and walk in the procession into the grounds to get in for free. Once that’s finished we promptly walk out of the grounds and eat lunch at the Italian Community Center.

Lunch was a little disappointing. I mean…Italian Community Center…it’s been that for years! I’ve always loved their food, but this year the pasta sauce was terrible. I mean…it was like tomato soup with a little basil in it… I was sad. My German Fiance can make better pasta sauce than that! He actually makes great pasta sauce…so that’s not really fair. I swear he was Italian in a former life.

Other than a disappointing lunch it was a great day. I scored an Italian soccer jersey for $28! The last few years they’ve been rather expensive since Italy won the world cup in 2006. I’m excited for the games next summer. I make a point of watching soccer during at that time. It’s like how I only watching basketball during the College March Madness. I choose when to enjoy certain sports.

That was the end of that weekend. This weekend was an engagement party for Steve and I. Honestly, I was dreading this party. My father wanted to have this party so that people from both sides of the family could meet and socialize before the actual day of the wedding. Sounds like a great idea in theory…but I was scared that it would just be a big segregated party. Thank goodness for Steve’s parents. They really got in there and got to know everyone! I was so grateful that everyone was talking. My father’s brothers and sisters tend to stick to themselves and they were also very good about talking and including everyone. I don’t have pictures of the party…my mom was the paparazzi for that. I’ll have to ask her for some pictures. It was really a lot of fun.

Sunday was our annual Cefalu Family Reunion. Umm….but only half. There are two sides of the Cefalu family. Our side of the family, which is corralled by my cousin Dave for this event, and the other side. We only see the other side at this event every year. Mario is in charge of gathering this side of the family(can’t tell we’re Italian huh?). We missed the reunion last year to celebrate Steve’s Dad’s 60^th birthday, but I guess Mario’s side didn’t show and they did a repeat of that this year. I learned that Mario’s side of the family tends to get into feuds every few years. Not feuds with us, just feuds within themselves. So I guess it might be a few years before we see them again.

It was a good time. A huge softball game with players ranging from age 6 to age mid-forty-something. It was fun to watch. I was playing with the real little guys because of my shins.

Steve and I have started running in the wee hours of the morning. We already woke up at 6 in the morning, but now we have a 5:15 wake up call. It’s been alright getting up, but staying awake the rest of the day was pretty hard last week. This week has been better. My problem now is that my right shin hurts bad enough that I’m limp running…that does not seem like a good thing to me. Today we took a break because it was raining, we slept bad, my leg needs a rest, and we’re a bit lazy. I decided that if my leg feels alright later that we’ll take a walk…if it doesn’t feel better it may be time for me to get it checked out. I’ve already changed shoes, taken a break for a day or two and iced. It doesn’t seem to be getting much better.

This is what I'm busy working on at the moment.

It's much longer...That needs to be finished by tomorrow!! (wow...just realizing that tomorrow is the 29th...crap!)

and then my OWL...which is also a lot farther than this picture. I'll have to do a better update later...but this is what I have to work with at work...

This is a long post…maybe I’ll need to insert pictures here and there to make it more interesting. That really concludes my entry. I need to send some of these pictures to Bev…maybe I can get that finished here at work. We’ll see if I can access the pictures. If not… I’ll add them tonight or tomorrow.

Later this week…how work is screwing us out of money.

Finally

2009-06-26T11:57:00.003-05:00

I get a weekend at home! Though I did have to ask for it. We were planning on going up north to the cabin this weekend with Steve's parents...yea...wasn't really feelin' that. We just spent last weekend in the Wisconsin Dells for his Mom's 60th birthday. I had fun, but I really don't need to see a million people every weekend. It's not even that I haven't had that much time to knit, it's really that I want to spend more time with Steve...alone... We spend every weekend running around with either my family or his and next weekend we're going to be hanging out with friends from Michigan.

Then we'll at least have one weekend where hopefully we have nothing going on. Then it'll be the Festa Italiana weekend and then the Engagement party/Family Reunion weekend. I swear...it's almost like school can't come fast enough for me. I love the break and the fact that for the most part it's warm outside, but I feel like this summer is going to fly past.

On better news, here's what I've been working on.

Making some headway with Steve's jacket. I did also find a zipper and I'm very excited about that.

I'm excited about these, they are fun to make. The pattern only has written out instructions and it's starting to drive me nuts so I will probably be making out a chart pretty soon and sending it to the person who wrote the pattern so that she can make it available to everyone. They are the Regina Mitts on Ravelry. I'm too lazy to link those right now. So I guess you'll just have to deal. I think I might go work on my Aeolian Shawl....even though that won't get me any points for the House Cup. I'm just not really feelin' it this month...

Drunken Post

2009-06-06T00:31:00.003-05:00

Well...

I'm a leeettle drunk-ish right now. Also a little tired. I can't seem to sleep lately. It's hard. It's a good thing I have work or I would become nocturnal like I did when I was without job or school for about 4 months...bad idea. I just like the night better. I guess it just fits who I am. Though most of the things you can do at night involve sitting around or midnight bowling...lol.

I've been working on knitting a lot lately, again. The House Cup has really kept me going. I have to step it up a little though if I want to get 25% of my sweater done by the end of June. Good thing there isn't a lot going on.

My parents are trying to plan an engagment party for me and Steve. That should be interesting. My parents can't seem to plan things very well. It's a little over a month away and the only thing we know is the weekend that we're having it. Supposedly having it that is...ugh...I have a feeling that this will be a nightmare. But I can't really say no, can I?

Well yea...We'll see how that plays out. Things are going well though. No complaints for the most part. It's exactly a year before Steve and I are going to be married. At this point we will be in a hotel room all by ourselves and married...awesome! I think I will be very glad when that is over. And that's basically because of our familes, but I've gotten the vibe that most brides feel that way. I'm just scared that I have a year left of feeling that way.

Probably time for bed before I say something that could get me in trouble down the line when someone finds this that shouldn't, but that's the risk of putting your opinion online...

Update

2009-05-20T17:22:00.003-05:00

So things have been interesting. I've finished a pretty good amount of projects and that's made me happy, but it's all because of the Harry Potter Knit and Crochet House Cup (HPKCHC) on Ravelry.

I have no finished my shawl yet...that kinda went on hold after the sorting and new classes for HPKCHC.

I was sorted into Slytherin! And I'm also on the Quidditch team as a beater! It's all very exciting.
Here is what I've been working on!

For Ancient Runes I'm working on a Rose filet.

For Charms I'm working on Quetish's House Crest bag (in slytherin colors of course)

For Herbology I made a super cute mandrake with an Ipod!

I made a really neat hat for Arithmancy (fibonacci sequence anyone???)

A washcloth with a Dalek on it for Muggle studies.

And a sweet hat that I can stick my ponytail out of for Defense Against the Dark Arts

And...I have also started an OWL. This is a 3 month long project. Hopefully I will be able to get cracking at this soon.

Other than all that crazy stuff things are going well.

Lauren finished her sweater! I have been mentoring her while she is learning the Mattress stitch (i think that's the name...invisible stitch up the side of a sweater?) And she did a great job! Here's a picture of her with her sweater! (now that it's finally getting warm outside...she just needs to add some kewl buttons.)

And...I lied...there is more...

I had an allergy test today. This is what my arm looked like 30 min after the test was finished...it's all shiny from the lotion they used to help make the itching go away.

I have found out that I am allergic to grass, weeds and TREE POLLEN! all the spots on the top row that are big are from tree pollen. The largest one on the right is from Birch trees. I now understand why I was so miserable. (thank goodness we too our birch down this last weekend)

I also got some shoes from this great Lady named Bobbi from HPKCHC. She gave them to me just because they didn't fit her feet and they do fit mine. She will be getting some yummy yarn in the mail soon!

pink isn't usually my color, but these are super sexy shoes and they will get some use!

That's all for now!

Practice Shawl

2009-04-01T14:48:00.004-05:00

As most people from knitting know... I'm working on the Aeolian Shawl from Spring 2009 Knitty. So far things are going well. I wanted to make a practice one because I think it would be a great thing for me to wear at the reception for my wedding.

I'm making this shawl in Knit Picks Gloss Lace. It's a great yarn!! I love working with it. I'm also using size 6 beads instead of 8. I've already decided that for the wedding I'm not going to put beads on during the yucca chart. Just too many beads that will be directly on my shoulders (Beth was right...it is rather cold)

but anyway! Here are some pictures of my progress. I get to start working on the next chart!! My 12 repeats are complete! Hope you enjoy!

UGH!!

2009-03-30T13:38:00.003-05:00

Ok,

So maybe if I can keep up with this thing will I put it on Ravelry and actually let people read it. It's been over 3 months since my last post. Though I did get engaged and have another wedding to attend/help with and now things are starting to wind down before spring break.

It's not like I don't have things to blog about, it's just that I don't really find it fun to come home after a day of work sitting in front of a computer and then go and do it all over again on my blog. Stupid work and blocking things. We'll see...maybe I can find a way around it.

Anyway...I have plenty to tell, but I'll wait until I have kewl pictures. I just got a new sewing machine for my birthday! So I'll have plenty of crafts and stuff to share!!! Yay!

That's all for now. Back to work and then knitting group tonight! These people are awesome!

Wow, What a weekend

2008-12-15T19:38:00.003-06:00

Well work has made it nearly impossible for me to keep up with this. They had to go and block all social networking sites. i can't get on facebook or blogs at all anymore unless I want to use 10 minutes at a time of "quota time" for browsing extra curricular sites. I find it a little lame, but I can understand why they have to do that. I don't always have work to do so I'm not really using it to procrastinate or anything, but I'm sure a lot of other people would.

So anyway, now to start a fun story about my weekend...

It really started on Thursday night when I went over to my boyfriend's parents' house to spend the night. Steve wanted to use his dad Ray's truck to go deer hunting in the morning. So we went out there that night so that Ray could use Steve's car to get to work and Steve could use the truck. We spent that night setting up the new Wii that his parents just bought. Which was followed by a game of bowling and then Steve playing a game of baseball and losing miserably.

So then Friday I spent the morning playing on the Wii and knitting while Steve went hunting and his parents went to work. The day went by fairly quickly. Around 5 some of Steve's cousins came over to decorate cookies and I was there to help. Steve and Ray went out to see the new Bond movie which they said was pretty good. I was completely exhausted by the end of the night because the kids are really loud and they just take a lot out of you because they are constantly going. I love them to death, they are great and I have a great time with them, but they really are a handful. So we went home Friday night and got to sleep in our own bed again which was great. We sleep in a queen at home and when we stay over at Steve's parents' house we sleep on a twin. It's a bit of a difference.

Saturday we spent shopping and Steve was a little cranky after that so we took it easy for the afternoon. Then Steve said that he wanted to get some shopping done for my Christmas present so I let him do that while I sat at home and worked on my knitting project for Christmas gifts. I seriously don't want to look at them anymore, but there's really no turning back now.

So at this point it's getting a little late and Steve's been gone for a few hours and I'm wondering where he is because he really doesn't like shopping so I had no idea how he was out that long. He called me while he was on his way home and said that we should go grab some dinner and then walk through the lighted parks in downtown Milwaukee. So we went to Chipotle (great restaurant) and then went out walking. We also walked along the river walk because that was what we did the first time that we hung out over two years ago.

So we had walked around for a while and I was getting ready to get back to the car and go home and get warm because it was cooling off and I was a little tired. He took me over to a gazebo type thing in the lighted park and proposed to me!!!! So now I'm engaged!! I was so excited. I said yes right as he finished the question!! It was great. He picked out the ring all by himself and it's exactly how I wanted it.

So we spent Sunday calling people and showing up at his parents house again to tell them. His mom screamed her head off but she's super excited. So that was basically my weekend and now I'm procrastinating doing my take home final for sociology, but i should get going because I just read through the questions that I have to do and there's no way that I could finish them in the morning. This sucks... O well...I'm engaged that's totally awesome!!

Ugh

2008-08-20T19:54:00.002-05:00

Well,

I hate the work network nanny. I can't blog anymore while I'm at work. It's rather unfortunate. I really have quite a bit of time to do that at work, but now I have to do it at home.

I start school next week Monday. That should be interesting. Maybe I'll have time to blog while I'm at school. but who knows.

I'm really not feeling good tonight. Hopefully I'll feel better tomorrow. I have no idea what I'm going to do if I don't I'm supposed to do training tomorrow and have an audit interview. I don't even know what we're talking about at that audit. So I guess I'll have a lot of work to do in the morning. Should be grand.

I guess I'm going to go. There really isn't a whole lot else going on. Just working on my socks. Woohoo!

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2008-07-28T13:12:00.003-05:00

I still have quite a few things to do on my to do list. I finished a lot of things, the short term things obviously.

I actually took quite a while to get my laundry done. I only did one load every 5 days or so. I finally caught up. I have one load to do tonight, but that's from the weekend because we spent a night at Steve's parents' house and then were busy all day on Sunday.

I have my MATC e-mail, but I'm having trouble logging into the computer database to sign up for classes. I might have to make a trip there on Wednesday to get my classes before they are closed.

I haven't even touched all of my junk that my sister brought over, and the only time i did anything with my dresser was when I got dressed in the morning. So that still needs to be done. i might have to do that tonight while Steve watches Scrubs. That's really starting to drive me nuts. I pretty much spend my time sitting on the couch listening to it and working the HP scarf for Peter. I'm getting pretty far pretty fast on that thing, hopefully I can finish it before the movie comes out. That would be perfect. I'm almost done with one of the socks that I'm making. They are a little bit big for my feet, so I'm thinking that I might give them to my mom or something. That would be kewl.

I haven't touched the blanket or the plastic canvas things either. Those are things I tend to work on when Steve isn't around. I don't want to start those duck or goose pictures until I have more of my other stuff finished or more organized.

I've done quite a bit of going through the knitting and crocheting sites and playing my game. Maybe I'll have to do that tonight while Steve watches Scrubs. Sometimes he'll play with me too, and that's always fun.

I haven't found my camera to take pictures yet. I want to find it before we go up north this weekend. I think it would be nice to have my camera with me.

On another note...I'm looking into getting hermit crabs again. I love them so much, but I don't think that Steve is really a fan. It might have to be something that I keep in the "crafty room" so that he doesn't have to see them. I don't want to get them until after we get our fish though, and he doesn't seem to enthusiastic about that either. I want to eventually go to furniture deals and steals and see if we can find a table that would work for our walkway to hold the fish on. It's going to have to be able to hand quite a lot of weight and have to be relatively thin so that people can still walk into our house.

I miss having crabs because you can actually interact with them. They don't talk back or anything, but you can hold them and feed them and stuff like that. I still have my set up from the crabs at my parents' house. I think that I will definitely need to take the car this Wednesday and go home and get it while Steve isn't there. I might want to see if there's anything else at my parents' house that I need. Maybe I'll have to make some Banana bread to take up north. That would be a great breakfast thing. That would be wonderful. I know that if i go to the pet store I will end up coming home with a new crab but I can't do that. Not when I'm going to be going up north for the weekend and won't be able to take care of him. Maybe I"Ll be able to find one while I'm up north and convince Steve to let me take him home. Or I might have to sneak him home. That would be interesting.

Well yea...I guess that's all for now. That was quite the scattered post. But that's how my brain goes.

Wondering

2008-07-22T15:24:00.002-05:00

So sometimes I wonder where I'm going in life. I have a really good job right now working as an intern. I'm getting paid way more than I ever have in my life and it's really nice. Though it's still not enough to hold me over completely.

There's no way I could afford my own car right now or help to pay with the mortgage payments. Steve is paying for the house all on his own right now and I feel terrible about it sometimes. He's trying to manage a budget for himself and for me and we're not even married. He's got enough money to do that, it's just that I feel like I don't contribute enough. I do my fair share of house work and I do have to deal with him being cranky nearly every single night of the week, but I'm still not sure it's really fair. He says that he doesn't care about that at all, but I don't know if I buy that. I guess I'm just paranoid that I feel like I'm stealing his money.

I'm just going to have enough money to pay for school next this year. I'm probably going to have to go to MATC and try to save up enough money to pay for UWM next year. There's no way that I'm going to be able to graduate in 3 years. It'll be at least 3 1/2 which I wish wasn't the case. I guess I"m starting to get a little stressed about this whole thing again which isn't good. It's like I can't stop thinking about all the things that could go wrong. I get the feeling that Steve really thinks there is something wrong with me.

I sometimes wonder if he's waiting to see if I can get back on my feet before he wants to commit to spending the rest of his life with me. That thought just makes me worry more so I really need to stop doing that. As long as I keep cool and do well in school this next semester I know I'll be on a track to do a lot better.

Well I guess that's all. I don't feel like writing an entire novel again. It would be nice to waste a bunch of time, but there just isn't that much to write about this time around.

My to do list

2008-07-21T14:54:00.003-05:00

While this probably isn't the most interesting blog in the world, it's good for me. I have a lot of things that I want to get done preferably before Christmas. Something things on this list are things have I have to do tonight, those are closer to the top of this list. Then there are the things that are more long term and will hopefully be finished before my blogs read 2009.

1. Do the dishes (obviously a tonight thing, and will be repeated many times)

2. get my stuff for MATC in order.
a. get e-mail started
b. finish signing up for classes
c. order books online

3. laundry (it's been about a week)

4. Go through my dresser and get rid of things that I don't wear anymore.

5. Call and make a doctors appointment.

6. Try and finish the two plastic canvas cross stitch pictures that I have half done

7. Finish the blanket I started a year ago now. I'm about 1/3 of the way done so far. Idk if I have enough time in the world to finish that before x-mas, but it's worth a try.

8. finish the socks I'm working on.

9. go through all the stuff that my sister brought over from my parents house. Right now it's all just sitting in our spare bedroom taking up space.

10. Call around and see if people have desks and whatnot that they want to get rid of for the spare bedroom that I'm turning into a craft/study room.

11. Work on Peter's HP scarf that I promised him for last Christmas. I think he would like it if he received that.

12. Find a place to take a yoga class, or a find a yoga DVD, it would be a good thing for me I think. I think I should at least try it.

13. Finish going though the knitting and crocheting database and find stuff that I would like to make and keep it updated (this is another ongoing task like dishes and laundry)

14. Playing my game (MapleStory) and getting my archer to level 30!!! It's taken me forever because I don't really have all that much time to play, but I want to get this done by at least when school starts. So that it won't be as much of a distraction that way. And I need to add my friend Adam to the list of my friends so that we can chat while we're on.

15, Work on the two cross stitch things that I bought to put in our bedroom that Steve will like.

16. Take pictures of all my projects that I complete and possibly the ones that are incomplete and keep track of when I finish them. Maybe start a notebook with all of my projects. and when I work on them and such.

Well I think those are all of the things that I need to do. That covers a lot of stuff. And I don't even have homework or projects to work on yet. That'll be great when that comes around, it'll really take away from this other stuff.

I think what I'll do with number 16 is that I'll take one of the diary's that I bought and just keep it with my craft bag and update that whenever I work on something and add a picture whenever I finish something. That would work out great. Now we just need to get our printer set up and I need to make sure that I can take pictures with my crappy camera that don't look totally terrible.

I'll have to keep everyone (maybe the one creepy stalker that reads this...) up to date on how I'm doing with this list.

I think I'll go visit Steve since his meeting should be over by now.

Annoying People

2008-07-17T13:59:00.004-05:00

Ok,

So I sit next to a girl named Angie. She's awesome and I have a lot of fun working with her. I just can't stand this guy that comes over to talk to her at least once a day, and it's usually two times. He spends all of his time telling her what she should be doing with her life and I just want to kick him in the nuts every time I hear his voice. I'm usually very conscious about trying to be tolerant of people and not judge them on stupid things like an annoying voice and things like that, but I can't help it with this guy. He's already annoying because of his " I know more than you" attitude and then he's got an annoying voice to go with that. One day I thought I was going to kill him because he was giving Angie a hard time about an event that she put together. I guess she was completely wrong on the type of food that she had there because not everyone likes lasagna and that even though there was a vegetarian version that it wasn't enough because some people don't like pasta and then the only thing that they could eat was the salad. I guess I just didn't know that there were so many things to think about when coordinating a meal for that many people, but he honestly didn't give her any slack. I guess this guy is the main person in charge of the renovation that we're doing here at DRS. We're actually starting to see more visual improvements, but I still don't think there is any way that they are going to make their deadline on all of this, and there's no what that there is going to be enough room. The only way there is going to be enough room is if they get rid of people, and they claim that they aren't going to do that. I think that's a bunch of bull shit.

So anyway, things at work are going alright aside from that guy. I had so much stuff to do this morning that I didn't even check my yahoo e-mail until 11!! Most of the time I hit 8:30 and I'm out of things to do already and on the web goofing around. It was a nice change of pace, time really flew by because I had things to keep me busy that were somewhat using my brain. That's my other problem besides not having enough work. Most of the time when I get work it's something so mindless that it just makes the day go by even slower. I've learned a little bit more though, so now I'm getting into better tasks that actually make me think and analyze things. I should really be working on one of things right now but that's alright.

I'm getting a little excited for going to see Batman tonight. I know that I'm going to be dead tired tomorrow, but that's what Midnight showings of movies do to you. I'm going to have to get up early to take Steve to work and then I'll probably go back home and sleep some more before I really get up and go over to MATC to schedule my classes for the fall. I really hope that things work out well for that and that I"ll have time to go to work as well. I don't know if I was to try and go to night school or not. That could be a little weird. And then i wouldn't see Steve at all. I would still have my work time though...That might be the better idea...Then Steve doesn't need to have someone else take him home. He can either drop me off at school or let me take him home and then I can take the bus back to Brown Deer Rd. I'll have to look that up.

Ok, not wasting anymore time, looking all that stuff up now...toodles.

Internet and Other Stuff

2008-07-15T13:40:00.004-05:00

So I finally got internet at my house on the 9th, yet I haven't written on here since the 7th. Things got a little crazy when our air conditioner crapped out on us. That and I don't really feel comfortable writing on here when Steve is around. I know that he would be able to find it no problem. It's not like I really say anything bad about him, it's just nice to have something that he doesn't have to be involved in all the time. I know that he would ask weird questions and other things if he was reading this all the time. It's not like I'm really talking to anyone on here. I doubt anyone that's stumbled across this site has even stopped to read past the first two sentences of one of my blogs.

I really want to start getting pictures up on here. It would really help if I could find my camera. It would be great to find it so that I could take pictures of the few things that I've finished knitting the past few weeks. I still have a few projects that are in the works that I just need to sit down and finish before I start something else. I would love to make some of these kewl socks that I found on the FreshIsleFibers.com Harry Potter section. It's something that I've wanted to make for a while but I can't seem to find the time or I forget about them.

I have to get up early tomorrow even though I'm not going to work because I'm going to go give blood. I really wish the Brown Deer Donation Center would let me donate plasma. It's just more efficient than donating whole blood. We'll see though. I can't keep driving out to Waukesha all the time with gas prices going up so much.

Anyway, I made a new friend on facebook the other day. He's really got one of the kewlest names I've ever heard. I found out after adding him as a friend that he's from Greece!! How awesome is that?! He's my sister's age. Just about 13 years old. It seems weird for a 20 year old to be talking to someone that young, but I think it's pretty kewl. It's not like I have any bad intentions, it's just nice to make a new friend. Maybe I'll have to start being a pen pal with him. That would be great.

I guess that I could try and find something to do here at work, but I just don't feel like working after that lunch I had. Steve and I went to a Chinese Buffet. It was excellent, as it was last time we went. That was back in May on the day of my interview here at DRS. That was a crazy day. Never again will I drink an iced coffee from McDonald's before going into an interview. That thing kicked my butt so far into high gear I was shaking all afternoon. And I only drank half of it.

Well I think I'm going to try and print off those patterns for those socks so that I have them in my hand when I get home tonight. I told Steve that we should have a no computer night and spend some time together watching a movie or something. I still can't sit still even when I'm watching a movie. So I'll make sure that I have something to knit while I'm sitting there. Hopefully I won't have to think too hard and I'll be able to make some kewl looking socks that I can wear sometime soon. Too bad I can't wear skirts at work, otherwise I could show off a bunch of kewl socks. Damn pants and close toed shoes rules. They need to clean this place up.

TWC and other stuff

2008-07-08T07:59:00.002-05:00

So we're finally getting internet at our house! That means I'll be able to post more often.

That's if the internet works. We've used Time Warner in the past and they haven't done the best job. For almost an entire month we had some super shotty internet service. I didn't work early in the morning or after about 9 at night. If they were trying to do something to fix other problems it would have been nice to know about it.

I had a few mornings where I needed to finish a little something on the computer and all of the sudden the internet would crap out on me. It was really frustrating and stressful. I guess I don't really have that problem anymore. I'll have school, but it's going to be a lot easier now that I won't be at MSOE.

I really want to get a new computer, but it doesn't look like I'll have enough money for that. It would be great because Steve's computer is kinda dying. I've been keeping a look out for computer deals. I check nearly everyday, but I still haven't found anything really worth throwing $600 at. Anything less than that really isn't a quality computer. I'm not looking to spend a whole lot of money, but reviews online are very helpful. It's nice to look at what other people have to say about things and then hop over to the store and buy it.

I really can't follow a logical train of thought this morning. My friend Erin might be coming over for dinner tomorrow night. That should be fun. I hope that the guy from Time Warner is gone by then. I've heard they have a tendancy to show up late. Like 2 hours after their scheduled time. I really don't want that to be the case tomorrow. I'd like to have that all done before dinner is ready. He's supposed to come from 3-5 sometime, so if he is there on time he'll be gone before 6 without a problem.

We have a guy coming to service our air conditioner tomorrow too. That'll be around 1:00. I have to remember to have Steve write out that check for me. That should be a blast.

I should probably get back to work for a while. Maybe I'll have to write more later. I finished another knitting project, so now that I'm going to have internet I'll be able to post a picture of it!! yay! That'll be a good thing. I'll start to online scrap book my creations!!! woohoo!! OK, toodles.

Weekend Can't Come Soon Enough

2008-07-03T13:18:00.003-05:00

Wow,

so today has been interesting. it should also be interesting for me to type it. My typing is completely off today. I can't figure out why I'm having so much trouble.

Anyway,

STEVE IS FINALLY HOME!!!

I'm excited can't you tell?? So that was a good feeling last night when he got home. It was really nice to see him.

I'm at work right now. Steve is here too though he didn't want to be here that long. He was just going to stop in and wirte up his expense reports and head home for the rest of the day and pick me up at 4, but he got roped into doing work because Byron is a jerk. Steve gets back so Byron decides that he can leave for the holiday weekend and Steve can just finish his work for him. I think it would have been better for Steve to have helped out at Rockwell if he was gonig to have to do work today. The unit arrived and then they decided that the unit was too heavy to move with the equipment that they had there and that they needed to bring it back to DRS to get it off the skid it was on. So Steve's getting super pissed about that because if they miss their test dates next week then they won't get a chance to test again for about 4 months!! That's pretty nuts. And if he would have known that things weren't going to go well he wouldn't have busted his ass while he was in Illinois to get his stuff done.

So I'm sitting here waiting for my manager to go over the report that I'm supposed to send out. I sent it to him about 3 hours ago and he still hasn't looked at it. I just reminded him about it because he finally came back after disappearing after lunch and he's talking to another girl that I work with about something else. I really would just like to send that report out because it's done and his manager would like to get it and he's the one that my manager is looking at it for. He's making sure that his manger doesn't have anything late and I already told him that he doesn't So I really don't know what's taking him so long.

We might go to see the fireworks tonight at the Lakefront with my friends from high school. It all depends on how Steve feels though. I kinda wanted to know by now so that I could let people know, but I guess it's going to have to wait.I'll be texting them later today saying that we're not going to be there. I just hope that I remember to do it before they wait for me for dinner.

It's kinda fun to write these long blogs, it helps me get through the day even if it does only take me 5 minutes to write even when I'm typing like crap. I doubt anyone would want to read it though, but that's ok. I guess it's time for me to end because there's nothing else of importance to write about. Not that anything I already wrote was all that important.

Steve is coming home!!!

2008-07-01T12:59:00.002-05:00

So Steve is coming home tomorrow!! I can't wait to see him and finally not spend all the time in the house alone and go to bed alone. It gets really depressing after a while. I just don't know what to do with myself half the time. I feel like I've spent the last month just cleaning.

He's going to finish up testing within the next hour and then they get the fun task of taking apart the chamber where they were doing all their testing and get the unit out of there so that they can ship it back to Milwaukee. Steve has a few things that he needs to get done tomorrow morning, but then he gets to leave for home.

There are a few things that I need to get cleaned up before he gets home tomorrow which means that I need to get them finished tonight. There's a chance he could get home around 10 tomorrow morning and I might not get up until 8. I don't want to have to scramble to get things done. That would be a nightmare. I really don't have a whole lot to do. I would like to get the rest of the boxes in the computer room looked through so that we can start shaping that area of the house to what we want. I'm not sure if Steve still wants to get a new computer or not. If I could afford a new laptop then he really wouldn't need to get a new PC.

I was going to go and look at my money situation again today. It seems that I have a little bit more money that I thought I did. That's always a good thing, but I'm not sure it's enough to spend on a computer. I just don't want to be at $10 left in my bank account while I'm trying to go to school and work at the same time. And then that $10 will go towards going through hunter's safety which I also need to get going on. I've gotten more into figuring out what I'm doing for school next year that I forgot about that whole thing.

There's no way that I'm going to get a class in before August which is when I'll really need to start focusing on getting all my shit together for school and make sure that I have enough money.

So yea, I guess that's what's going on in my head today. I'm at work trying to get stuff done, but I keep getting interrupted by e-mails from my boss asking me to do different things. He's not even in the office. I guess I shouldn't complain because I at least have things to do today. I spent all of yesterday and Thursday the week before doing absolutely nothing. And no one had anything for me to do either. I guess that's how things are going to be for a while though and I hope they don't start giving me too many things to do because then when I go to school and start working less I won't have as much time to get it all done. But at least I'll just come to work and get what I need to get done and that will be it.

Well I guess I should get a move on. I might have to bust out of here early again tonight. It's not like anyone cares. And no one's going to tattle on me because it's not like they get a whole lot of work done during the day anyway.

This is a really long post. I really need to start taking pictures of things and putting them on here. It'll be really hard though since I'm not really allowed to bring in any computer devices from outside the company. That'll start to ruin stuff and whatever. I guess I'll follow the rules. I was supposed to get an e-mail from someone from Timewarner today so that I could set up a time to get internet at our house. Ok, time to go.

Work is boring

2008-06-30T12:22:00.004-05:00

So I'm at work. They NEVER have anything for me to do here. If there is anything, it takes me about 5 minutes to complete, or it is some monotonous task that makes me fall asleep because it requires no brain power whatsoever.

I've been wasting my time on Facebook today. And looking at the two majors I'm deciding between for this next school year. College really is a bummer sometimes. I just want to go to school now, but I have to wait for the fall because I didn't get my act together soon enough for summer classes. That was really stupid. There's nothing I can do about it now though.

I'm looking into a Computer Science or Computer Engineering Degree. I'm thinking that the engineering one is not going to work out for me. I'm just not good at electrical stuff. Half of the classes are electrical engineering classes that will most likely kick my butt. Not that I don't want a challenge, but I just don't think that's really my thing. I love the programming and stuff, but not the EE.

Steve's been really supportive about it all and that's a good thing. I don't know where I'd be if it weren't for him. He said he'd even help me if I can't make the payment for school all on my own. As it looks right now I'm going to have to pretty much empty my bank account when school rolls around, that's not going to be fun.

Hopefully I can get over there sometime this week and get that all figured out. I want to do it without Steve because I think that it's something that I should be capable of doing on my own. If there are things that I need to talk to him about later then I will, but I don't want him there asking all the questions for me like I know he would. I just don't want to be a child anymore.

Well I guess I should get back to work. The rest of the day should be pretty uneventful. If not you'll hear about it tomorrow.

Another Boring Day

2008-06-29T11:49:00.003-05:00

Well,

Yesterday was interesting. I went to visit Steve at work and I wasn't planning on staying the whole time but he got really disappointed when I said that I was going to leave so I kinda had to stay. It wasn't terrible, but it was definitely boring. I feel bad that he has to do that everyday. That would drive me insane.

I brought my knitting with me, but I forgot a scrap of waste yarn, so I had to stop once I got to the thumb hole. I'll bring it with me again today though so that I have something to do. I'm also going to bring the other two movies that I brought down for him to watch. He forgot to take them with him this morning. I'm going to take the fishes with too because my chicken tastes pretty bad without something to dip it in. There was really nothing to lose by taking it though.

So hopefully I'll get a picture up of my knitting when I finish it. I have a camera here with me. So I should take a picture before I leave tonight and then don't have the internet for a while again.

Time for me to pack up my things so that I don't have to do it later. I want to watch the olympic trials without interruptions.

Fresh Start

2008-06-28T09:04:00.002-05:00

Ok,

So it's been about a MILLION years since my last post. Ok, so not really that long, but about 7 months. Things kinda went crazy. I made it through my volleyball season. I decided that it was my last year on the team. I got pretty terrible grades my first quarter at MSOE this year.

Second quarter started, and I nearly died. I was pitching and going to captains practices and wearing myself out going with Steve to his volleyball games for work. Most nights I really shouldn't have gone because I had tests to study for or homework to do, but I just didn't want to do it. I had lost all motivation for school this last year.

Softball finally started, I was made one of the captains which was awesome. And basically the only pitcher. We went to Michigan for a tournament and got our butts kicked and when we got home I got my exam results for second quarter. They were terrible again and my parents pulled the money. And needless to say, I couldn't afford to pay $8,000 to go to school third quarter.

So I've been out of school since February. I finally found a good job in May. I'm working as an Intern at DRS Technologies. My plan now is to go to MATC and take some classes towards a computer science degree at UW-Milwaukee. I tried to apply there first and wasn't accepted. Probably because I had a 2.0 at MSOE.

So that's where I stand. Maybe I'll finally start using this thing more often. I kinda feel like I need to remind myself. I don't even had internet at home yet. So I can only blog when I'm at work (if the net nanny doesn't block it) or at home. Right now I'm in a hotel in Wheeling, IL waiting for my boyfriend to get out of work so that we can go enjoy some dinner together. He's been down here for almost an entire month now. So I decided to come visit since I didn't have anything better to do.

He just bought a house and he got to stay there for a week and then a few weekends this past month. So he's a little frustrated that he has to live out of hotels when he has a home back in Wisconsin. And I'm frustrated because I'm living in a house all by myself that I don't even own. It's great.

So that should catch up all that's happened in the past few months. At least the major stuff.

Maybe I'll start posting my knitting projects in progress on here. That would involve me getting a decent camera though. O well....

If only life were simple.

woohoo

2007-11-10T18:33:00.000-06:00

So here I am.

Starting a crazy blog.

Who knows how often I'll be here.

I'm planning on taking lots of pictures.

Sounds like fun right???????????

I hope you have a great night.

I love you all!!!!!!!!!!

TOODLES!