Doesn't everybody's desk look like this?

Let's see, there's:

Vino - to calm the nerves after dealing with the Youngest
Snackies - almonds to be exact - keeps me away from the cookies
Calculator - for all that mathy stuff
Knitting Pattern - nuff said
Hemlock Blanket project - one of 3 wips going now - now on the 40" cables
Super Secret project - all I can show you at this time

Click to see a bigger mess

On the kid front - I swear that my kids subscribe to the "if a little is good, more is better" philosophy. As if the Youngest hadn't done enough damage to his face over the past month, he added a lovely golf ball sized knot to his forehead this morning before 8:00am. He then fell twice more and turned that goose egg into an ostrich egg. It's humongous, but at least there's no concussion. Small blessings.

I may have to start sitting on that child to keep him from running and tripping all over himself and bashing his head all in. I've got enough gray hair, I don't need for him to keep adding more!

Whole lotta nuthin'

I gotta whole lot of nuthin' for ya today.

I did do some spinning today, but it was in short spurts and I don't have a lot to show off.

Most of the day I've spent the day dealing with a 2 year old who refused to take a nap and is now cranky as all get out.

He also had me playing one of his favorite games. It's called "fall-ning". He grabs my hand or shirt and pulls me down onto the floor with him so that we're "Fall-ning". I'm supposed to land on top of him and squish him. That's it. Exciting huh? Yeah, I think so too. One more game of fall-ning and I just might scream.

I need a few of you to scrape together a few pennies and send them my way so that I can hire a nanny, and while we're at it, a maid. The current nanny and maid is terrible, a great Mommy who plays fall-ning, but a terrible nanny and maid.

Happy Cinco de Mayo

Happy Cinco de Mayo Everyone!


Since I've been having the wrist pain while working on the cabled pullover, I took a break from it over the weekend. And since I get the fidgets when I don't have anything to do, I started yet another project.

I've been wanting to do the Hemlock Ring Blanket by Jared Flood, aka Brooklyntweed. Nobody does knitting ph0tography like Jared and I mean nobody. That's what suckered me into this project, his fantastic pics of his blanket. I picked a darker chocolate brown, #8087 of the Ecowool than his pattern calls for. I love dark chocolate. Mmm, dark chocolate.

Here it is so far:


It looks more like a beret than a blanket at this stage, but it's coming along.

And guess what? I worked for several hours on this on Saturday and didn't have one wrist pain. I'm guessing that it's definitely the cables that are causing the trouble.

I've also been working on my secret project that I can't show you until June which really sucks. It'll be done long before then. I'll probably post a Ravelry link to it when it's done. The recipient isn't a member there and can't get access to see it that way.

I found a site, Pursebuzz.com today while I was messing around on youtube. I was looking for new hairstyle stuff. This is the cutest girl. She has several cute how to hairstyle videos and I'm planning on doing a few of the ones that she demonstrates. Just thought I'd share. She's got beauty stuff as well, but I love the hair how to's.

Cartoon influences

It can now be proven that the Youngest watches wayyyyyy too much Scooby Doo cartoons. He is now running around the house with his arms up in the air making a God awful noise. It took me a few times seeing him do this to figure out what the heck he was doing. He was pretending to be one of the scary bad guys. The first time it was a ghost. I know this, because he keeps saying "Ghost!" as he does it. The next time he was saying "WereWoo!" That would be Werewolf to you and me. Today while he was running with his hands in the air his word was "Muh-my" or Mummy. Sigh.

How can I ever take him to the church nursery when some of his first vocabulary words are ghost, werewolf and mummy? Not exactly what they want to hear coming out of a two year old's mouth.


But. It gets worse. Oh yes, it does. He has also been watching the old Johnny Quest cartoons. The bad guys in those are far worse than the Scooby Doo ones. In Scooby Doo, nobody gets really hurt or anything. In Johnny Quest, people are killed, although you never see it. You'd just see a ship blowing up or something. But, the bad guys go around yelling "kill them!"

So, yeah. Guess what my little guy was running around yelling? "kee-ill! kee-ill!"

If he wasn't so darn cute and funny while doing it, as a Christian mom, I'd be mortified. It's really difficult raising a parrot.