It's Tuesday!

If you know me, then you know Tuesday's are my day off work. This is a very important day for me. Usually I have mega errands to run, occasionally have doctor's appointments, and since it's fall I have my wonderful women's Bible study that I've been doing for several years (love those ladies!). Well, today was Tuesday. That in and of itself made it a wonderful day. I slept in until 8am (yippee) and went to Bible study which was wonderful even though it was raining and not all that warm. On the other hand, being a little cooler afforded me yet another excuse to wear my new sweater and those pink lemonade socks I made!!!

Now, that sounds like a pretty mundane day so far, right. Right. Well, after class I got an idea of how the set up will be for Saturday's craft fair at church. Yes, I'm doing a craft fair. Yikes. With my Mom and Sis and Son. Double yikes. I've been knitting dishcloths and scarves like a fool most of the summer on top of all the other knitting I've done and I just truly hope I sell something and don't feel like it's all been a waste. I have hope that it will at least be a fun day with my family. At least.

So then the sun started shining. It turned actually pretty outside as occasionally it rained while the sun was shining. God's just a little crazy like that! What a gift.

Then I had a meeting with another musician tonight. I wasn't going to get all hyped up about it, but he was really nice. He is a singer/songwriter looking to branch out and try new things and wants a girl to sing with. After meeting him I realize that I really want this to work so I'm trying REALLY hard not to get super excited as he told me he was still "interviewing" two other women. So, finger's crossed, I'm going to try to put this out of the front of my mind and just let happen whatever's going to happen.

So that was my Tuesday. Now I'm home to watch Biggest Loser which I adore and knit some more. It's a sickness I tell you. Sick. And I love every stitch of it!!!!

Happy Tuesday.

I did it!!!

I finished my first sweater!!! I was so excited to be able to get it done in time for our fall uniform colors to change at work (which is this week) and just to wear it in general now that the weather's turning cooler and I love wearing sweaters in the fall and winter. The pink is perfect and I wore it to church this morning to several compliments (thanks!) and I felt so pretty and fresh!!! What do you think????



This is the sweater by itself and here's me wearing it...



For some reason when my hubby takes my picture I look like a dufus, so please excuse the expression, focus should be on the pink sweater anyway, right!!!!

So now I'm ready to start another project, this one really turned out well. I did learn something though... buttonholes. Do them right or they look goofy. Mine are NOT perfect, but I'm going to live with them since it's the first sweater I've made. Next time I won't settle for mediocre buttonholes I tell you... never again!!!!

I had no idea...

I just looked at my friend Bam's blog and she had this thing about being Canada on it, so I took the quiz and looky.....

You Are China

You adhere to the ideas of loyalty, honesty, sincerity, and duty. You respect authority and age. You believe in social harmony. You are big and bold. People consider you to be someone with a lot of potential. You are coming into your own right now, and you are figuring out your place in the world.

What Country Are You?

I had no idea!!!!

If you're the praying kind...

I have a friend who needs prayers. She's a co-worker of mine as well but a friend for several years whom I adore. She's a young lady who's very sick right now and our prayers for her need to be many. If you're the praying kind, I'm asking for you to pray for Anne.

She's having what the doctor's right now are calling "complex migraines" which basically means they don't know what or why she's having symptoms. The symptoms she has, besides a massive headache like a vice squeezing the top of her head (sometimes it's in other locations) are numbness in her entire right side of the body and very confused state of mind as well as delayed and garbled speech. It's as if she's had a stroke. This has happened several times over the past couple of years, but they are getting more frequent, more severe and are not really clearing up. She's missed several days (weeks actually) of work which is hard on her family as well.

So my requests for prayers are obviously for her health, we need her to get better for herself and her husband and two pretty little girls who need their mama. We also need her back at work!!! Today she had an MRI (finally!) and although we don't know anything yet, we pray that this will help the doctor's come up with a diagnosis that they can treat quickly and completely. She's a young woman and should not have to live like this. No one should for that matter.

If you're the praying kind, I know that Anne and her family would really appreciate any prayers you can send up. I thank you as well. Not only do I need her at work, she's a dear friend and I miss her greatly. This whole situation is breaking my heart.

Hugs and prayers and love to you, Anne! We miss you!!!!!

Another weekend...

It's been a nice weekend, very pretty outside and calm and quiet inside. Seriously, I haven't been super productive, except on my sweater!!! I'm getting so ready to wear it and it's coming along nicely.

Here's the body...




And I even got a whole sleeve done today. Helped that I'm going with a shorter than normal sleeve length, but this should work well for me!




So pretty good weekend all around. Now I'm sitting at the computer putting off a quick project that really needs to get done tonight, but it won't take long, I just have to make a quick cd of some songs for a meeting with a fellow musician I have scheduled for Tuesday!!! Of course, I have no idea if this is the right thing, but I'm keeping my options open. I feel like that's the only way to get my "career" started, even locally, you know! And I have another one tentatively scheduled for the week after.. so that's a good thing I suppose. Neither one of these contacts are blowing me away, but I'm hoping that meeting them in person will change that. Hard to tell what someone's all about just from a few emails, you know! Not like I've read their blogs or anything... maybe I should ask if they even have one... now THAT's an idea!!!!

Ok, so I'm off to enjoy the evening... what there is left of it.

Oh, by the way... my small family grew by one this week. I have a new cousin!!! She lives in California, and I hope that someday I'll meet her, but I know that's not likely since I haven't met her big brothers in person yet either... I miss them still. But she's a lucky girl, with awesome parents and two big brothers and grandparents that love the crap out of her!!! Oh, and all us extended family do that too....

And I'm converting from a die hard Lion's fan to a Giant's fan. Eli's cuter than John anyway....

Ahoy matey's!!!

In honor of National Talk Like a Pirate Day... I found this out on Ravelry and just had to play along so I could get a picture of myself with a parrot!! Very cool! And very Jimmy Buffett like am I! I'm not so good in talking like a pirate, but I did find a quiz (thanks Coggie) and found out my Pirate name....

My pirate name is:

Dirty Bess Kidd

You're the pirate everyone else wants to throw in the ocean -- not to get rid of you, you understand; just to get rid of the smell. Even though you're not always the traditional swaggering gallant, your steadiness and planning make you a fine, reliable pirate. Arr!

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Arrrgh... that's probably enough swash-buckling for me... I have grass stains to get out tonight.

Just a quickie...

... sort of. Since I spent the weekend knitting I thought I'd share my progress on the first sweater I've ever done!! Here's what I have so far. There are 11 repeats of the lace pattern done and from what I can tell I'll need roughly 20 before I do the bottom garter edge. Then it's off to the sleeves, which I'm a little nervous about because I may either have to learn a new technique or use a smaller needle, either way makes me a little shaky. Here's a quick pic, don't mind the yarn tails...



Other than that, I've been reading a great series of mysteries this past few weeks and I'm LOVING book 4!!! Today was the first day of my new season of Bible study that I do with the women at my church. I love it and although it is more work, it's so rewarding that I don't mind. I'm sure this one won't disappoint!!! There are even a few new ladies joining us this year which is always fun, more friends to get to know!!! Yippee!!!

Hopefully I'll be able to finish the sweater soon, the pic I took last weekend didn't show up on the camera since the batteries must have died mid-shot! That's ok, there's more to see now anyway. Off to knit some more and help kiddo's with homework!!! Oh, and maybe I should start some supper.. we'll see!!!!