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On Dishonesty

Posted in Musings, rant on December 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Today I had a rather strange encounter with a seemingly nice man at Chapters. The whole thing started out rather nice, actually and then, whoa, my dishonesty radar went berserk.

Now, if you know me, and I realize that its hard to get that kind of insight from reading someone’s blog, I am a pretty morally relaxed kind of person. Nudity? Meh. Cussing? Double meh. Littering? Well, if you must.

But, stealing from a charity? No way, Jose.

Here is how it all went down. I went to Chapters today to buy a co-worker a last-minute gift certificate. Of course, I went at the time of day when all the street lights aligned and everyone converged on that particular parking lot all at once.

It was busy. The checkout line was wound around past three racks of magazines. The cashiers looked frazzled. And, rightly so, as there were only three of them (but that is a rant for another day).

So, I waited my turn and got to the front of the line, asked for my gift card and specified the amount. He rang it through on my visa and then I went looking for a gift card sleeve – those handy things that make a crappy gift like a gift certificate look like something special and well thought out.

So, he informed me that they were all out and that  he forgot to mention that I could buy one of the special charity ones for a dollar. I bitched and moaned a bit about the fact that I didn’t have a dollar on me and that he had already finished ringing my other purchase through and I didn’t want to put a dollar on the Visa, but that I really needed a sleeve. Really, I don’t know where I was going with it, except that the part of me that needed one really just wanted him to produce a complimentary one from out of thin air or something.  And that’s when he said it….

“You know, it’s all the same to me”.

He looked me right in the eye and practically dared me to take the damn thing. I shrugged, made some sort of non-committal noise and slunk out of the store feeling a very misplaced sense of shame, guilt, and something dirtier that I still can’t put my finger on. I mean, who does that? I get that he was busy, but still it was totally unacceptable. He has a crap tonne of bad Karma coming his way.

Not me though.

Luckily, I returned a missing wallet today to the Police Station on my way into work. Karma counterbalance. Works every time.

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April Showers Bring June… Snowstorms?

Posted in rant on June 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I don’t think the flowers are going to make it. Do you?

Snow storm in June? What the frack!

Snow storm in June? What the frack!

But inside, we are all cozy and warm…

Warm and Snuggly

Warm and Snuggly

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Signs of Spring

Posted in FO's, Monkey, new projects, project photos, rant, Socks, sweater on May 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »

New Pedicure:

Check

Check

New Sock:

also check

also check

Finished baby sweater:

ckeck, check, check

check, check, check

Get your sweater details here.

p.s. I wrote most of this post last night and when I woke up this morning, it was snowing. Perhaps I angered mother nature when I threw caution to the wind and dared to get a pedicure…

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Attention Aunty Tink

Posted in lace, Musings, rant, Uncategorized on April 14, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Might Get Dirty

Might Get Wrinkled

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Whew… We Made It

Posted in project photos, rant, Scarf on December 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »

On the other side of the pestilence that rocked this house, I find myself doing odd things. For example, I constantly think that I hear a baby crying. In the shower, while I am doing laundry, sleeping… and I find myself straining to hear if it is the baby that has been crying for the last 7 days. She’s better now, but I still hear her crying.  

I find myself washing my hands so frequently that they are starting to bleed. That can’t be good.

And, I find myself worrying, waiting for another bout of this to hit at any time and wipe all of us off the planet.

Maybe a little extreme, but trust me, this thing hit fast and hard and left foul smelling people in it’s wake.

In lighter news, in case you think that no knitting was done since my last real post, I have a picture of the simple rib scarf in some of the softest wool known to man knitters everywhere.

 

Malabrigo Scarf - Lettuce

Malabrigo Scarf - Lettuce

I have only a few more Xmas gifts left to go. I think all that’s left on the list is:
- a sock
- a pair of mittens
- 2 toques (those are hats for all the Americans)
- 3 sock monkeys
That’s do-able. Right?

p.s. I think the comments is fixed. Thanks all for letting me know about the problem.

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It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like

Posted in Bunny, FO's, Life, Musings, project photos, rant on November 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Christmas. Baby.

The itty-bitty red thing is done. But, since it’s going to be a present, all I can give you is a sneak peek.

Small Red Knit Thing

Small Red Knit Thing

See, I told you. Red, cabled, small.

 

And, on the home front, things are well. Although, it would be great if someone could explain six year olds to me.

In the last two days, I done a lot of driving. In fact, in the last two days, I have been to Edmonton (3.5 hours) and back. I have also done a lot of work and this morning, I was tired. So, of course, at 7AM, Bunny gets up. She goes into the bathroom, proceeds to go to the bathroom, which would be fine, if she were at all quiet about it.

Nope, instead, she thumps into the bathroom (we really need to take the rocks out of her slippers), yanks up the toilet lid so hard it slams into the back of the toilet, and then proceeds to sing while she is peeing.

And, then she sits there… just sits on the toilet, playing with the flush mechanism and singing… and it gets progressively louder. I mean, she is practically having a bloody rock concert while sitting on the toilet.

So, I whisper yell at her to come.here.right.now. So, she loudly (with no hint of a whisper in her voice) says “ok, just a minute” (like she is doing a lot else at the moment). And then, flushes the toilet, forgets to wash her hands and thumps into our room.

So, I say, can you please be a bit quieter? Please?  And of course, she says, sure, no problem (she is a good kid after all).

Then she heads into her room, very quietly, gets out some toys, again very quietly… 

…and breaks out into song again…. very loudly.  

Why do kids do these things? Why is it impossible for anyone under 4 feet tall to whisper? And why do children have the short term memory of a gnat? If someone can tell me, I will be eternally grateful!

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Time Out!

Posted in new projects, project photos, rant on January 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Have you ever had one of those days weeks where your knitting just seems to be jinxed? First, I hit a snag with the yoga mat bag and now, I’ve run into a mess with my SOTS II stole. A misread of the chart has caused me to go back and tink the 15th row of my stole at least 3 times and somehow on the last un-tinking, I have dropped a stitch and now I am completely f*ck*edmessed up. Grrr…. this really is a result of my trying to pick up the knitting while I am tired. So, tomorrow, I am off to my LYS where I can consult the great, powerful and oh, so wise, AuntyTink (lace Goddess extraordinaire) and have her hold my hand through the fixing of the stole.

I am almost through the second, boring, ribbed stitch sock. I am using Art Yarns Ultramerino 4 in color 157. I originally hated these socks; mainly, I think, because they were intended to be another sock design that didn’t work. However, instead of fighting with the design, I instead cast on for some easy ribbed socks and I think subconsciously felt disappointed in myself for giving up so easily. As a result, the socks sat in my UFO pile while I tried hard to ignore them. However, when I put the finished sock on last week, I realized that the yarn is actually well suited to the rib pattern and committed to finishing them, rather than sending them to the frog pond. I am rolling along smoothly now and should have them done by the end of the week at the latest.

Second Ribbed Sock Toe 

And, because the SOTS II stole is being a pain in the arse, I cast on for another project (this is a Ravelry link – pictures of my own knitting to be forthcoming soon). This one is being knit as a store sample for my LYS out of Alchemy yarn and should be off the needles by tomorrow evening. I think that a class on these mock cable mittens will be forthcoming sometime in the next month or so. I will post dates as soon as I have them. 

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Can I Rant for a Moment??

Posted in rant on October 13, 2007 | 13 Comments »

OK, so I don’t often discuss personal issues here because I know that a good deal of the people that come here don’t know me well and therefore, won’t care. But today, I need to vent. If you are looking for knitting content, come back later. I promise more knitting next week.

Some days it becomes a bit much to have two kids and a husband to take care of. There. I said it. Some days, it’s a bit much taking care of just one kid, but we did have the hang of it and things were rolling along pretty smoothly before this baby was born. So, along comes number two and suddenly, I am without sleep on a daily basis. Seriously, I counted the number of hours of sleep I have had in the last week and it averages less than half the amount that I should have had. That makes for a tired and grumpy girl. And, I am sick. I have been sick for the last three weeks. My nose runs, my head aches, and I am exhausted all the time. I am seriously thinking that I have a sinus infection. Makes me think that the half a dozen sinus infections that I had after I had Bunny were partially a result of the lack of sleep I was getting.

I am also blown away by the amount of things that I do around here on a daily basis. I cook almost every night, I do laundry and wash dishes every day, I fix meals and get Bunny off to school every day. I make sure each room of the house is clean every day and try to do one deep cleaning chore every day. I research and sign Bunny up for her lessons and then make sure that she gets there on time with everything she needs. I feed and change and nurture Monkey all day and then feed and change and nurture her all night. I mend clothing and stuffies that have holes in them, I fold and hang up clothing that has fallen on the floor or come out of the laundry. I fix owies and I cuddle children. I make sure that there are bottles in the fridge for when I go and teach classes. And, I make sure that everyone gets what they need all of the time – vaccinations, book orders, Dr.’s, eye exams, dentist, and any other type of appointment you can think of; I make them.

Don’t get me wrong, I love my children and I want to see them grow up happy and healthy which is why I do all of these things, but some days, I want some time to myself. I want to go to bed with TG at a decent hour and be able to spend some time with him. I want him to want to come to bed at a decent hour so that he isn’t grumpy and hard to live with for days at a time. I want to be able to have the energy to enjoy my children and the things that they are doing. I want to have someone else cook the meals for a change and I want to have enough sleep to get over this illness. I want Bunny to start listening better and I want Monkey to sleep longer than two hours at a time. These are things I have no control over and I get that they will get better with time, but it doesn’t make it any easier right now.

So, take the extreme fatigue and pair it with ongoing, nagging illness and it makes me irritable, teary, and super stressed. I have been trying my best to push through it because when you are a mom, you just do. Nobody gives a crap that you have just been up with a baby all night and are exhausted. Mom’s just do. I get that. I don’t want pity, I simply want to vent. I want to take five minutes, on my own blog to complain about how I feel.

If you are still here, thanks for sticking with me. I promise that this will not become a reoccurring theme. Knitting will return shortly. If you see me today, I will not snap at you or start to cry. In fact, everything will be fine because mom’s just do. Trust me, I get that.

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