Well, I guess I have to get use to do this more often. I know it's been a week or so since I posed.
I finished 4 washcloths (crocheted) for my sister and her friends. I am going to visit my sister Mary in Texas on Thursday and I wanted to take her something. I brought the hand soap from Bath and Body (3 for 10) so I decided to make her and her friends wash clothes to go with it. I meet her two friends, Laurie and Deanne when they came up last year to take a Merry Cox cross stitch class with me. We had such a good time that they are going to all come up and we are all going take another Merry Cox cross stitch class this year. But I wanted to bring them a little something. I used variegate yarn and they turned out really cute.
Also today I went jean shopping - I know, it's a dreaded task but it had to be done. My friend had said she liked the jeans she got on sale at Talbotts so I went there to look. Of course, they didn't have any on sale in my size by I tried on a pair not on sale. I actually had to go down a size. Now, I've been going to the gym for about 1 year, and I've been a little discouraged lately because it doesn't seem to be doing anything. But I guess it is working. I tried jeans on at Talbotts in September and I couldn't get this size buttoned and zipped and this time I could and I could actually breathe!! It's really made my day.
Well, tomorrow is my baby girls birthday - she'll be 23!! Which doesn't seem possible to me. How can she be so old when I haven't hardly aged!!
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Monday, January 09, 2006
Resolutions
Well, the new year is here. It's hard to believe that it is 2006 - it doesn't seem that long ago that everyone was worried what would happen when it went from 1999 to 2000. . . .It seems it was much to do about nothing.
Thought I would put down my New Years resolutions in the hope that if I write them they might be easier to keep. So here it goes:
1 - Get back to the gym I joined my gym last year about February 1. I had my son's wedding in September so I had a goal to work towards. Well, since the wedding it's been mighty hard keeping my self motivated to go. But I decided I need to do this for myself. So, I'm going to go to the gym 3 times a week.
2 - Eat healthier This sounds like it should be easy - I know what I'm suppose to eat and not eat but it is much easier said than done. Grabbing something from the 'fast food' category is so much easier than planning a meal.
3 - Finish/organize projects I really don't have that many UFO's, well at least not in the yarn world. Now, in my cross stitch world that is another matter. I want to get my stuff better organize and finish some of my projects.
I think that is is for not. Don't want to go to nuts, just makes you feel more guilty when you break them. Here's to a good 2006....
Thought I would put down my New Years resolutions in the hope that if I write them they might be easier to keep. So here it goes:
1 - Get back to the gym I joined my gym last year about February 1. I had my son's wedding in September so I had a goal to work towards. Well, since the wedding it's been mighty hard keeping my self motivated to go. But I decided I need to do this for myself. So, I'm going to go to the gym 3 times a week.
2 - Eat healthier This sounds like it should be easy - I know what I'm suppose to eat and not eat but it is much easier said than done. Grabbing something from the 'fast food' category is so much easier than planning a meal.
3 - Finish/organize projects I really don't have that many UFO's, well at least not in the yarn world. Now, in my cross stitch world that is another matter. I want to get my stuff better organize and finish some of my projects.
I think that is is for not. Don't want to go to nuts, just makes you feel more guilty when you break them. Here's to a good 2006....
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Still new
Well, I figured I should write again - the blog thing is still new and I'm excited to do it. I figured out what to blog about - this morning I got up and as I'm walking downstairs I smell the candle I was burning last night....And ALL NIGHT. Yes ladies, I forgot to blow them out. I had lite the one in the bathroom (I ususally keep tea lights in there because they have a shorter burn time) but I had this candle I wanted to use up...Well it's almost gone. Thank goodness I saw it instead of my husband because if he had found it I would have gotten the lecture about 'what am I trying to do, burn the house down'. Like I do this stuff on purpose.
Tonite and tomorrow I'm doing something I don't want to do. One of the girls I coached when I was a cheerleader died. I coached cheerleading when Sarah was in 6th thru 8th grade and then Sarah cheered with her in high school. She was 22 on Christmas day. Her Mom found her dead in her bed on Friday morning. Can you believe it? They don't know the cause yet, they are doing an autopsy. My heart is breaking. This is the 4th kid Sarah's age that has died in the past year. So, just keep my friend Marge in your prayers and the she finds the strength to get thru this.
Tonite and tomorrow I'm doing something I don't want to do. One of the girls I coached when I was a cheerleader died. I coached cheerleading when Sarah was in 6th thru 8th grade and then Sarah cheered with her in high school. She was 22 on Christmas day. Her Mom found her dead in her bed on Friday morning. Can you believe it? They don't know the cause yet, they are doing an autopsy. My heart is breaking. This is the 4th kid Sarah's age that has died in the past year. So, just keep my friend Marge in your prayers and the she finds the strength to get thru this.
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
New Blog
Well, I just created my own blog. Don't think anyone would want to read it. It'll just be rambling on about stuff. But I did it. My daughter will be horrified - her own mom having a blog. Oh well, she'll get over it.
Don't know exactly what I'm suppose to talk about on the blog - will have to ask my friends who already have blogs. Which are mostly my knitting friends. Yes, I am in a knitting group and so far they haven't stabbed me with their needles. You see, I tend to bring counted cross stitch to my knitting group. But, I am trying. I am currently working on a baby blanket for my partner - she just had a girl. I do know how to knit, my Grandmother taught me on one of her many visits when I was younger. She taught me how to knit, crochet, needlepoint and cross stitch. You see, we lived in New Jersey and my grandmother lived in Chicago. So, when she came to visit or we went to visit her, she had projects for us to do. It was nice and it's a memory I have. But, back to me knitting - I don't do it very well. I'm to tense and I strangle my yarn!! I do better with crocheting but my real love is counted cross stitch. I love it and I find it very relaxing. But, I'm determined to knit.
Went to a New Years Eve party with my knitting friends and had a great time. It was a perfect party - we celebrated midnight at about 9:15, they young kids are going to be telling all there school friends that their parents let them stay up past midnight!! They (knitting master Cindy) taught my daughter to knit - much better than me trying to teach her - she probably would have tied the yarn around my neck. But she loved it and took it back with her NYC to work on. That's where she lives and work. My son lives near me so that is good.
Don't know exactly what I'm suppose to talk about on the blog - will have to ask my friends who already have blogs. Which are mostly my knitting friends. Yes, I am in a knitting group and so far they haven't stabbed me with their needles. You see, I tend to bring counted cross stitch to my knitting group. But, I am trying. I am currently working on a baby blanket for my partner - she just had a girl. I do know how to knit, my Grandmother taught me on one of her many visits when I was younger. She taught me how to knit, crochet, needlepoint and cross stitch. You see, we lived in New Jersey and my grandmother lived in Chicago. So, when she came to visit or we went to visit her, she had projects for us to do. It was nice and it's a memory I have. But, back to me knitting - I don't do it very well. I'm to tense and I strangle my yarn!! I do better with crocheting but my real love is counted cross stitch. I love it and I find it very relaxing. But, I'm determined to knit.
Went to a New Years Eve party with my knitting friends and had a great time. It was a perfect party - we celebrated midnight at about 9:15, they young kids are going to be telling all there school friends that their parents let them stay up past midnight!! They (knitting master Cindy) taught my daughter to knit - much better than me trying to teach her - she probably would have tied the yarn around my neck. But she loved it and took it back with her NYC to work on. That's where she lives and work. My son lives near me so that is good.
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