It's -6 degrees. Brrrrrrr

For some reason, I don't remember it getting this cold this early in December. Thankfully we have a nice blanket of snow so our heat is staying where it should be. But brrrrrr, it's cold outside. DS was asking to go outside yesterday. I had to tell him as soon as it warmed up a little bit. Problem is it didn't really warm up. We did take a short trip to walmart and that cured him, lol.

Not making much progress on the blanket. I finished that first blue square and I've been kind of stalled. ... Didn't help that DS decided to "play" and he ripped the yarn and those first few rows I had on the needles had to be tossed cause I don't know how to repair the yarn. ... *Big sigh*

In the next few weeks, or maybe later, I'm gonna have to work on a painting project. If you know me than you know I hate painting. :-( But it's for a good reason.

Also found out some bad news on Friday. So that kind of threw everyone in a funk for the whole weekend.

But on the brighter side my place got clean and for the most part I feel rested. I'm just not looking forward to the fit I will have to deal with when I bring DS to daycare. He does not want to go out. Not sure if it's cause of the cold or becuase he wants to watch TV.

The chair

Long story short: About 6 years ago I took an upholstery class and had a chair as my project piece. For reasons I care not to go into I wasn't able to finish the class. Thus my chair languished for years in my garage half-ripped apart BEGGING to be taken care of.

Last year about this time I (with some nudging from my guy) decided to finish it. He helped me tons by scouring sales on ebay to find "just the right" leather and the finishing nails. He helped me put on the back of the chair. He can hammer better and straighter than me since he's a carpenter. Well, then I stopped working on the chair when I got to the seat. Can you believe *a year later* I still haven't finished the chair? Tonite I started puttering with it. It's time to put this pony to bed, lol. Know what? I don't think the leather is gonna fit! AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! This is so fustrating cause I cut the leather bigger than the original piece. If I want it to fit there is got to be almost no padding. *shaking head*.

Here is CeeVee checking it out.

Come to a conclusion

I am a bad Nablopomo'er, lol. Thanksgiving really threw me off.

*sigh*

Well, I'm back to working on the blanket for my DS. I started the fourth square last night. So only 5.5 more to go. At the rate of 1/2 square a night I figure I can get it done in plenty of time for Christmas. IF I don't do any other knitting. *big gulp*

I also started reading

I've only got about 50 pages left. Very touching story. Learned A LOT about the Packers too, lol. I won't discuss anything about this book since I know a woman in my mom's group is waiting to read this book and I don't want to ruin it for her but we all know how this one ends :-).

Messed up already

I already went a few days without posting for Nablopomo (or something along those lines). I have pretty good excuses actually. I had company this weekend, I finished the second mitten on Sunday and Monday I had to work :-(.

I didn't have anything terribly exciting going on anyways except that I learned about Igoogle from my SIL. Oh how neat is that?! So, of course, I had to tell my boss about it and she's loving it, especially for home since we have Macs at work and they already have the neat widgets. Even my coworker got on the Igoogle fan train and opened a google account (hee hee).

Mitten

I finished my first mitten this morning. Ended up bringing DS late to daycare because of it, but it was worth it. I think I sat with the pattern in my hand for about 45 mins. last night trying to grasp the part of the pattern after you finish the thumb and have to pick up three stitches around the thumb. Finally I just did what the pattern said but I ended up passing the stitches back to the working needle or something. In any case I got it done. It didn't take very long either. Of course I haven't taken of photo of it yet but will post soon as I can.

Hopefully Sunday I will be able to start the next one. I have company this weekend and don't think I will be able to start it before then.

On another note, I've been listening to Lime and Violet. OMgosh they are funny. I feel like I'm sitting in the living room with a couple of girlfriends and just being silly and fun. I do hope they do a new podcast soon. I haven't had much opportunity to listen to many other knitting podcasts. But another one I've been enjoying is manic moms (or something like that). Very insightful stuff.

Anywho, that's my ramble for the night.

Darn it, I want that button!

I feel this urge to have the Nablopomo button on my blog. That cat is just calling to me. I think what I will do is just write from date to date rather than the rest of the month of November. That would work, right?

Isn't it cute? There really is no reason I can't blog everyday. I sit in front of a computer so much of the day that it almost seems rediculous. (Yes, I know I spelled that wrong but the coffee hasn't kicked in)

So if I count yesterday that means I only need to blog every day until December 13. That will leave 12 days for Christmas shopping. (Oh no, did I say that?)

So here we go, off on another great adventure.

November is NaBloPoMo! (try saying that 3 times fast)

I was listening to Manic Mommies today and discovered November is NaBloPoMo. Well, that's all fine and good but I just heard about it so I guess I can't really participate in it since the month is nearly half over. Besides, I usually don't have a lot to say other than I thought about knitting but didn't get to cause my son took my time. :-)

Honestly, I work, come home, clean, play with my son, knit, exercise, sleep (not necessarily in that order or all in the same night). Course it could be neat to look back and see that on such and such date I actually DID something.

Since started this blog (however long ago it was) I had no clue what I wanted to write about. I knew I should keep it happy and not speak unkind words about anyone -- not that I would!!! And it's already undergone one "revision" so to speak. I wasn't thinking about posting about my knitting when I started this. This was just a place to put my rambly thoughts. I guess that goes to show how much I've matured (grown) :-P since then.

I have been thinking about changing the template but I have no experience in doing that. I thought I was so cool when I learned some basic html. Basic html is not gonna help me on this one.

Well, in any case, I may still check out NaBloPoMo cause they have a cool badge with a cat on it. And we all know how much of a cat person I am.