day to day crap

M starts preschool in a little over a month, so I've been taking him for his pre-school evaluation things. like the pediatrician and the optometrist. yesterday was the optometrist. took FOREVER. M being only 3 would not cooperate which is understandable. then the doctor decided to put the drops in to dilate his pupils and it only worked in one eye so he looked pretty freaky with one pupil really dilated and the other normal. ends up that M needs glasses. a normal range for a 3 year old is +3 in both eyes. M's left eye was +1.75 and his right was +4.75, so he was avoiding using his right. so to even them out we get glasses. went over to the glasses place this morning to pick out frames for him and they do look cute on him. just waiting for them to be ready to pick up. I'll be sure to share some pictures or you can see him at the picnic wearing them. so that's been fun.

husband bought a motorcycle with his bonus money from the National Guard. its actually a good purchase since if he uses it every day for work then it will save us half our gas money each month! we're still looking for a car/van/station wagon to drive the kiddos in and think we might have found one. just waiting to hear back from the lady.

that's it here.

books

These are the 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users.

Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. Add (*) beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend. Even if you read them for school in the first place, put !! next to the ones you mean to read...someday.




Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion !!
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice!!
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad
Emma!!
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner!!
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West *
The Canterbury Tales (intend to finish)
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo*
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility !!
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels
Les Miserables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela's Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People's History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short history of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit*
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

pictures galore...

been awhile since I've posted pictures, but have lots to share, so enjoy!


Stocking hat from Knit Hats, made from scrap yarn.


hat of my own, just winged it as I went along, same with mitten. made from Malabrigo in Cosecha. still need to knit the second mitten.


Jake's Cable Beanie made from Woolbearers Alfresco


Odessa Hat made from Plymouth Dreambaby


another hat of my own making, used Bernat Softee Chunky in dusty rose. used a brown ribbon.


Fetching in Knit Picks Merino Style- Nutmeg
going to redo the top of the mitt as I don't like the CO and its really short on my very small hands.


bibs!

copycat

just copying some others...

1. Where is your cell phone? ………….. on the end table
2. Your significant other?…………………kitchen
3. Your hair? ……………………………….... elastic band

4. Your mother? ……………………………Pennsylvania

5. Your father?…………………………………Pennsylvania

6. Your favorite thing?……………………… laughter

7. Your dream last night?………………….. don't remember

8. Your favorite drink? ………………………. Pepsi

9. Your dream/goal?………………………… to be remembered

10. The room you’re in?…………………….. living room

11. Your ex?…………………………………….. don't have one

12. Your fear?…………………………………… spiders

13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? ................ with a nursing degree and kids in school

14. Where were you last night?………….. Coffea with fellow knitters, then home

15. What you’re not?…………………………. content

16. Muffins?……………………………………… Dunkin Donuts chocolate chip

17. One of your wish list items?………….. lots of yarn

18. Where you grew up?…………………….. IL 2 years, MA 7 years, PA 10 years

19. The last thing you did?………………….. knit

20. What are you wearing?………………….. t-shirt

21. Your TV?………………………………………watching "Mr. Woodcock"

22. Your pets?…………………………………….. don't own any

23. Your computer? ……………………………. Dell

24. Your life?……………………………………… so so

25. Your mood?…………………………………. unhappy

26. Missing someone?……………………….. yes and no

27. Your car?………………………………………. my parents car actually

28. Something you’re not wearing?…….. rings

29. Favorite Store?……………………………ReBelle (duh)

30. Your summer?……………………………… home with kids like always

31. Like(love) someone?……………………… yeah

32. Your favorite color?………………………. purple/orange

33. Last time you laughed?……………….. yesterday

34. Last time you cried?………………………probably Sunday
35. Who will re-post this?……………………..reposters

alone

the husband figure is off to Indiana tomorrow morning with his National Guard unit to help with the flooding there. so its me and the kiddos for the next 5 days. visitors and booze welcome.

cables

I did it. I finally knit cables, aren't y'all proud? It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. These are also not the best pictures of M, but it was nap time so what do you expect?

vote!

okay all my fellow Kentuckians...its time to vote! polls are open until 8 as far as I know.

bibs!

its all Ann's fault, she got me on a bib kick. they're fun though and a quick easy project.

first up is a bib for a friend of mine who is a Penn State fan, lets go Nittany Lions wooo!!!!!!!!


second is a bib for a friend from church who just gave birth to a 10 lb 2 oz baby boy this past Saturday. all I want to say is ouch and I don't even want to think of a baby that size coming out of me thank you very much.

Anouk

and the finished project! I decided to stick with one pocket and seamed the sides shut. its tad bit too big yet, but I'm totally in love with the pattern. I'll definitely be making more of these especially if any friends of mine have little girls.

give blood!

I'm a huge believer in giving blood. It had been awhile since my last donation, right before I found out I was pregnant with Gretchen. so with it being time to start up again I went looking for a place to donate and ended up at Asbury Seminary yesterday afternoon.

so give blood. you never know if you or a family member or someone you know will need a transfusion!