a month til october

and once again I don't have a halloween blanket for my bed...

I don't quilt but am very tempted.... i just want a simple, simple blanket with my retro halloween love...there are a lot of fabrics out there now that aren't cutesy which makes it all the more tempting.. cutsy and me...we don't really get along..and...i found a site that has all the fabrics i like....must...resist.....

There are no words

As simply as I can explain it....
Mom goes to iguana picnics...like a dog park for igs... I have done this too... and then I became a normal adult functioning in society.
Mom dresses up the igs for halloween.. She is an elementary school teacher who lectures on iguanas.
Mom's iguana turned 13 as did her friends... Liz and Iggy.. girl and boy...Liz has had lots of problems so she's small and missing things like her tail.
We don't know any other iguanas that lived past ten besides Coconut, Pickles, Liz and iggy...
Iggy's mom and my mom are both jewish...and their igs are 13...
Breath in....





I need a paperbag, I'm hyperventilating...

I like chocolate milk...

So I like cartoons. Kara likes cartoons.. together, we watch cartoons. Talking to a new knitter Kerry we brought up Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends. While I don't like Bloo, the main character, who is much like the annoying Dr. Grey to Grey's Anatomy, there are a lot of other characters I like. Eduardo is my favorite regular but my favorite complete stupid character is Cheese... he's a lactard like me.

I'm a horsey....baaaaaa

Quit bitching about it and do it...

I've been wanting to go to a Cards Phillies game for a few years... actually I'd prefer blues/flyers but what can ya do.. So I heard on the radio a special where you sit in pavillion seats which work for me and get a ticket plus a hotdog and soda... So I emailed The Krafty One and The Monkey One and we got tickets... hopefully it will be a little less hot in September.
...I think I'm voting for STL.... I feel more STL than Philly geared.

Haven't done it in years...

taken decongestant... Its screws me up big time but as I have sat at my desk for 45 minutes and my right eye has gotten more and more swollen I figure unless I want to work as a pirate today I better take something. At least its early and if I get all strung out on sudafed i won't be lacking sleep this evening.

i wanted to..

make my own tallis (Tallit) (that prayer shaw thingy) for high holidays this year.. any idea how hard it is to find the corners, the tzitzit and the atarah (yoke)...
no?
Well it is.....at least where you don't have to call some old jewish guy who thinks you're a nutty little jewess.

Damn sap

So me and the other resident of my household saw Les Mis a few weeks back.. We both cried. Now I can't listen to the soundtrack without tearing.. I'm feeling like a big flipping pansy... its good music but if it makes me cry I'll need to chuck it out the window.....obviously if i need the tears to stop I'm gonna have to listen to some George Clinton... cause you know p-funk keeps the tears away....

Finished Objects

So i finished two pairs of socks this week... They rock.
Moms socks of hell are also done....

I quit...

Seriously pissed off tonight... I think I'm done with my mystery stole. I don't like the end result so I'd have to redo the first half over again and kitchener it together which I hate doing. I'm at the beginning of chart C which I've struggled with the whole time. I've redone the last 10 rows way too many times. This is the part where you all support me.... My sock knitting is way better from learning all these stitches, I've got lots of fun other yarn to knit with, I can use some of my cascade for it previously planned use of chevron scarf with some orange yarn. So I'm really just out some yarn and half of my knitting for the last few months... but considering how many bad movies I watch I'm pretty okay with wasting hours I won't get back...ask me how many times I've watched underworld and the sequel.

Because I like making a fool of myself

for other's enjoyment. There is a pic of me looking like a damn fool in college that someone took when I tried to cheer her up... nerd glasses stupid face, hunting hat...Totally couldn't run for president if that got out...
So while I could be telling you about my current finished knits, dog agility and general merriment I will instead tell you....my bra is currently on inside out...how did i get dressed today...I drove a car, put in a full days work and yet can't master simple dressing skills. I'm currently chewing gum... but if I have to walk anywhere I'll have to throw it out first.

Listening to: Kanye West, new work out plan

Prairie Rehab

Why is it whenever I get off of 270 onto 44 and see the Prairie Rehab sign an image pops up in my head of prairie dogs smoking a drag and walking around wanting a fix?

All in a regular Friday night....

Late night Boo therapy

So Boo just got a job working at a kennel. He says he doesn't want a desk job, he wants to work with his hands and such. I should be happy that he has gotten a job but its a real struggle. When he talks about not wanting a desk job I think back to his last job. He came home and played video games. Had he worked and then come home and had a house with gardening, dogs, etc would he have been happy? Or recently he was in school and when school was done or the day he came home and had more homework/deskwork. And he wasn't here in a home that requires maintenance and improvement, nor did he have companionship.
So while Boo struggles about what he wants to do with his life I wonder if he had more outside of work/school would he have been satisfied. Before on weekends when I suggested stuff to do (as a nagging girlfriend), it was the weekend, he wanted to relax, or after work... I being the bitch would retort that weekends are when we get done our other work. Our work for our homes... Its that crappy adult thing that we don't realize as kids.. weekends aren't a total vacation... its when we catch up. And he did do stuff... he cooked a lot and it was great but for more sweatful activities that was more my interest. Sure now he is a different person in a different place but when he is with me he knows I will get stuff done. Its like visiting your parents and returning to that teenager you don't want to be anymore. We are at a point where we are changing on our own paths and hoping to merge them but more often we regress to what we were.
I'm trying to be happy for him, that he at least has some income and drive at the moment but I can't help but think about my future and my security. The only security I have is the security I have made myself in St. Louis. And its a security that is unfortunately for one... I can afford me, I can't and won't support a husband and can't support a kid. At least not how I'd want to. All the things he thinks of pursing would requiring me taking a great leap of faith and working much harder and longer for my income that I want to. And I'm honest about that. I don't want to work 7 days a week for long hours.. I do work more than 40 and worry about work more but it would certainly be more in a family business of some sort.
I don't post about Boo much especially the negative, he doesn't read my blog but if for some reason he does, he knows I love him dearly I just fear the unknown, i have worked hard for a steady future and with so much flying in the wind right now its scary. I just keep trucking away hoping that we can find a medium at some point. Right now we both know we are not a state where there is a happy medium for us to be at together and until he finds his path I can't join him in traveling it, so I continue on my own path and have drive by visits from my partner....where I get a glimpse of what we've been, and maybe what we can become if the fates shine our way. I pray for the fates but this radio wave seems to be a bit weak in reaching them.

I miss you

So I still blame me for Coconut's demise.. I could have done better....Well this morning its all rushing back to me as her dr at the end (Not the dr I prefer who moved) has been charged with animal cruelty. http://www.bnd.com/breaking_news/story/99948.html I mainly went to her for drugs because my knowledge of igs is more than a lot of vets....They're an unknown pet...

I also just miss her a lot. I don't want more iguanas but I miss her especially during gardening season and most things i grow were sharable and for the last two summers of having igs I could solely support them on my food which was really awesome.

Don't smoke buddah, can't stand sex, yeah

Kara posted a good question today spurring from our Stitch N Pitch event on Monday....

Mine would be It takes Two - RobBase and Dj Ez Rock..…the problem would then be if i hit a ball I’d want to Roger Rabbit to first base instead of running and actually getting there in time. Plus with having to do it backwards i might veer off to the pitcher's mound.

Parts of Immigrant Song would also work...

I present you with pics from the game..it was too hot to knit and hard to pay attention with all the fun having and chatting...

Not included would be my jeans...which were soaked with sweat.. it was hot.. The trip on the metro link was cool. A different way of seeing the city...

Enjoy my big ass smile... stupid Mr. Ed gums...just like my mom

Filthy and Gorgeus

I'm becoming my boyfriend... he focuses on one group and listens to them to death... Usually someone all Emo (although Teenagers is catchy) or British Misery folks. I didn't used to be this "focused" but I can't stop listening to Scissors Sisters... After Kathy admitted to listening to J Tim and not know who Outkast is I feel as if she might have a mix cd coming...She so coyly agreed with me that last nights train conductor sounded like Andre 3000 but alas...she doesn't know who he is... its okay, I don't know half the knitting stuff she and kara talk about...
I had a proud moment of understanding the Metrolink last night.. guess New York slightly rubbed off on me.. sure, there are only like two lines but hey, I could calmly explain the west bound trains last night and we got home safely...It was kinda cool riding the metro link, especially as a girl who hates public transportation... I know i shouldn't with me liking the environment and money saving but it takes so long and you have to carry all that you buy.. i like my trunk of car and the lack of stinky scary people in it.

nightmare

Last night I dreamt I pierced my own ears... this was a nightmare for me.. I have no piercing... Then at one point I was in surry with Toby McGuire... must be a left over from watching Cider House rules and make jokes about Surries at knitting yesterday...
Pierced my own ears people... terrifying...
Tonight I'm going to Stitch andPitch... Knitting at a baseball game.. Saturday I'm going to Les Mis at the Muny...you bet I'll be knitting while waiting for it to start... I'm a freak people, a freak!

Target

Is there nothing they can't do to a pita chip... I just tried the new Parmesan herb pita... delish...

Day 2

Its been a long time since I've had a bad migraine let alone a two day one so i shouldn't complain. I'm hoping the impending rain will help because the air has been thick here. My regular attempts to thwart the sinus haven't worked yet as I sit here with tingling eucalyptus oil dabbed on my nostrils...
I think the rule should be that migraines come on work days...they you have to work through them and it doesn't ruin all the stuff you want to do on a weekend. I've mostly read and slept this weekend.
I've also picked some zucchini....I have one I'm leaving for a little longer and then I'm grilling that baby up. The weather here has been funny and I've been over watering... then suddenly its the insane STL summers we all know and deal with... these are the water twice a day summers... I'm hoping for some rain because something about it really makes the garden do great...

Boring notes

I have a migraine
My body hurts for some reason...maybe that crappy relative visiting.
I can't find my ear piece for my phone
I dropped four yarn overs when knitting last night...doh..that bad..
I'm reorganizing my office area.