Catching up

I haven't written anything in awhile. Sorry. Been a bit hectic. Jerico was home for a month. That was nice. I miss him when he's gone. You see, he works on a large Ship 2 mo. on and 1 off. Because of that schedule, he hasn't bought a house or condo. He just stays here in my yarn room. Its always nice when he goes ..lol..cuz I get it BACK! But, I still miss him. He livens the place up with his jokes. For once I didn't get tired of him before he had to go back.

Jyll got HIGH grades at ITT. She's on the Honors list. I'm so proud of her but not really suprised. I always knew she was smart.

Marshall's Transmittion broke in his newish Cougar. So, he has been car pooling with his dad. Which means he has to go to work an hour earlier and get off and hour earlier. Thank goodness Microsoft is ok with that. Damn car has been in the shop for over a week because of the memorial day holiday. He's been riding his bike over here at 4am.. that'll wake you up!!

Bill and I are about the same as always... I keep knitting. The lace wristies are the latest project. Just started them yesterday. They look fancy but its just a 6 row lace pattern with lots of ribbing.

Project of the Month

Making these for my friend Valerie. The pattern is from Heart Strings.

Happy mommys day

Here is what Jerico and my hubby got me.

Marshall got me a new monitor.

Rainy day camping

Rain, rain, Noah and mmm... beer.
Jerico and Marshall enjoying some guy time

LOVE

Gonna have to buy more yarn..sigh
I love love LOVE this sweater. Pattern from White Lies

This is an April SHOWER????

That dark long haired blurr is my son!

This is from when Marshall worked at Silicon Mechanics.
The long version is here
He complains that he got cut and blurred alot in the shorter version.

Who are you?

Try this Quiz.. I found it interesting.

April

Finished the Heartstrings Smoke ring long ago. Made a fluffy pink scarf after ..which I haven't even worked the ends in yet on.
Right now working on a Feather and Fan comfort shawl. Definately NOT in the colors of the pattern page. Ewww! Going to make it as HUGE as I can manage it. So far, I've used the Potluck and some Baby DK. I can see alot of 4 oz balls of yarn around here that would look good with it.

Spent some time and money organizing my "yarn" room aka the spare bedroom. New drapes (fuschia and moss green silk with embroydery) and a 4 and 3 drawer plastic units that got most of the yarn under control. Oh and a round rug with a blue border and flowers all over. The room looks amazing and way less cluttered.

Marshall started his new job for Volt/Microsoft. He won't or can't tell me anything about it. Just that he's being trained and shadowing another guy. Sounds a bit boring but I hope he's paying attention for when the place melts down. Kidding.

I'm finished killing Vampires and the like. Won Oblivion and moved on to Fable which I've almost won. Started playing Final Fantasy XI again but not nearly as much.

Its kinda SPRING
if you count an inch of snow as spring?? Snowed everyday for a week and melted during the day or never stuck to the streets. Weather is the wierdest I've seen in 20 years when I lost sight of all the easter eggs I'd put out for the kids under 6 inches of snow on Easter.

Otherwise, just hanging with my knitting friends...yea girls..and Roger.

One of Those

This was an email but decided to post it also:
A) FOUR PLACES I GO OVER AND OVER:
Village Yarn & Tea, Thriftway, Costplus Imports, Todo Mexico

B) FOUR PEOPLE WHO E-MAIL ME: (Regularly):
Lili, Sascha, Pyramid Collection, Patty

C) Four of my favorite foods:
Prawns (or shrimp), Bacon, Tea, Salad

D) Four places I would rather be right now:
Ireland, Hanging out with my kids, Hawaii (Big Island), Fiber Fest

E) Four people I think will respond:
Ginger, Lili, Sascha, Jyll

F) Four movies I would watch over and over
Willow, Anything Mel Gibson, The Quiet man, Anything Jackie Chan

Microsoft-update

HE GOT the JOB!!

Busy busy

After being sick for a week. Yes, me too! I got busy and finished spinning potluck and grasshopper. Grasshopper is hanging to dry as I write this. Both are very different then I thought they would be. But, Very pretty. Easy to spin. Only 4 oz each. I'm now trying to think what to make with such small amounts. More Mittens? Another Cowl? Who knows.

I now have enough Kidsilk Night, in an off white, to make one of the sweaters from the Rowan mag/book. I also, bought 2 balls of pink Rowan Romance yarn to make a scarf..not sure why.

I finished the cowl of purple and green. Its a bit tighter then the others I've made but I like it. It weighs.......nothing!! For weighing nothing its really warm. Wore it to VYT on Thursday because it was raining and windy. I was toasty warm (especially my ears).

On the kid news.. Marshall has had one phone interview with Microsoft and is scheduled for a face to face on Monday. Trying not to get my hopes up. Who knew that some of the worse worry about your kids was after they were grown!

Jyll got straight A's at ITT. She starts actually drafting and using CADD next. I'm at a loss really. She says she doesn't draw. Never taken drafting. We shall see how this goes. She is Artistic so that may be enough. She also did well in Geometry which is a big plus. Fingers crossed.

Knitting and Spinning

Yup, I'm doing both. About half way threw spinning Emma's Dragonfibers Potluck 26 and Grasshopper.

Still working on the cowl I mentioned last time in the purple and green. Its light as a feather. Making a sweater out of this yarn would be heaven!
Got a New Rowan Magazine. I'm in LOVE with ALOT of these sweaters!! I really want to make the one on the cover. There is a kidsilk haze one that looks promising also. I have the yarn..just need another ball and I'm good.

Marshall quit Wowrack..ya know.. I don't think they even noticed. He sent them an email saying "Bye, see ya"really, he said more then that.. and has had no come back. Hope they pay him for his 2 weeks. It just was to stressful for him. He was sick every morning. Was really thinking he had the flu. When he quit..it went away. He's still waiting to hear if they want him back at Pogo. He's not just sitting tho. Lots of little Beta testing short time jobs out there. He's pretty much given up on Unemployment..they keep screwing him over.

My hubby has the flu....he's never sick!! I kept checking his heart but no..its just the flu. Its been going around at work. At least its just the achy coughing kind.. not the hurling kind..hee hee.

I'm still playing Oblivion....but I'm easing back in to Final Fantasy. I missed my friends. Several moved on to Lord of the Rings online game. Which I downloaded but absolutely hated. Its kinda pretty in an old fashion game way. Not realistic at all. With random ambient noises in the background that make you jump and think your being attacked! Bells, hammering and kittens mewing as your running across frozen ground..what the hell have they to do with anything? Anyway... I deleted it.

Trysten turned 6.. Happy Birthday Goofball Boy! The Whole, Wyatt & Jyll family came down last Sunday for Cupcakes and Autobots etc. Its Jylls and Jami's Birthday next. I gave her the pattern for "Here there be dragons" Shawl. Hope she can figure it out. I'd really like one but don't have the time to make one. Happy Birthday Ladies.
Well, if you read this whole bla bla bla.. I love you.. I really do! See you at knitting soon.

Febuary

Just checking in so you don't think I "really" became a vampire.. hee hee (gamer reference).
Jerico came home towards the end of last month. As usual he took over my yarn/sewing room. So, knitting has been kinda slow.
I did finish the smoke ring in the rose brown alpaca. I made it a little to big (who knew I couldn't tell a 6 from an 8 needle) and it had to be "control" felted. Didn't know you could do that? LOL, me either but I figured "nothing ventured nothing gained". Turned out just the right size. Only real problem with it is that its fuzzy and the fuzz gets up my nose. So, I'm making one out of Purple/green malabrigo yarn that I snatched off the shelves of Village Yarn and Tea. SIGH.. like I need more yarn.. is a sickness. Yarn Vampire?
Marshall was fired.. think I mentioned that and got a new job at Wowrack
The verdict on this job is still OUT. He's used to things being done perfectly and they *ahem* are a mess. It remains to be seen if he can downgrade his quality or upgrade theirs.
Jerico has now gone back to his ship and I have my room back. Spinning again.. now that I have my spinning chair back (a comfortable bentwood chair) and the lil tv. Busy spinning the lovely yarn I got from Emma at St. Distaff.
mmm, thats really all the news for now. The weather is clearing and I'm getting Spring cleaning fever. mmm, maybe its just hot flashes.. hee hee
OH OH oh, on a Grandkid note.. Trysten is going to be 6!! Can't believe he's that old already!

Oh I'm Alive...Well, Kinda

Quick update. New Computer, means New games, means not much blogging.
First thing, I bought for the new computer was the game Oblivion and all its expansions. At the moment I'm am rushing around killing everything and just realized.. I've turned into a Vampire..geeez! Don't you just hate when that happens!!!!
Lots of things have happened since I blogged last.
I finished one the cowls/smoke rings I was working on. After I'd totally finished it I realized it was to big..OH NOW, I check the needles. Pffft! They were 8's and were supposed to be 6's.. *Smacks self in head* No biggie.. so I control felted it. Just enough that its just the right size. Only problem with it now is that its fuzzy and tthe fuzz gets up my nose and eyes. So, now I'm making another of non fuzzy yarn in a lovely Purple and Green handpainted yarn. Oh ya.. on size 6's...*blush*.
Also, New is Jerico is home for a month. So, my yarn room is pretty unaccessible but I'm very glad to have him here. AND... Marshall lost his job. Why, you ask? Beats the shit outa me?? From what we can tell he made to much money and they had to cut back. No worries tho. He already has had a walkthough of a company he's wanted to work for .. for years.. and not building server racks but possibly just working with them. Believe me .. theres a huge difference. Some kids grow up wanting to be policemen or Firemen. Not my kid. He wanted, more than anything, to be a Network administrators assistant. Not, the guy that over sees but the guy who fixes and troubleshoots. Gives ME a headache.
So, I'm knitting and trying to figure out how to become un-Vampired... I hate being a vampire ..all those skin melting sun problems. Hee hee

My new baby

Been saving up for years. Finally thanks to my wonderful son, Marshall and Newegg
I'm the proud mommy of a new computer. It looks huge but its really not much bigger then a large notebook. Instead of needing its own cubby shelf it sits next to my monitor. Ain't she pretty? Her name is Sorcha..lol (from Willow).
Marshall built it for me and did his voodoo magic to get all my files from my old hard drive to the new HUGE one..I'm so excited.
THANK YOU MARSHALL.. your the best

And the Knit goes on.. and on.. and.....

This lovely pattern is from Heartstrings
I made a cotton one years ago but wanted something warmer so I'm making it from a rose/brown alpaca that I got at Oregon Flock and fiber
I love how simple..but elegant this pattern is. Pictures of the finished project in..mmm.. a month. Ya, that should give me the time I need..lol

Grandma Rose, Rest in Peace

Turner, Rose Alma
Rose Alma Turner passed away in peace and comfort on January 18, 2008 at her home in Yelm, surrounded by her loving family at the age of 77. Rose was born to Oscar and Mary (Brown) Wollin in Wenat- chee on February 10, 1930. She grew up there and later moved to North Dakota to raise her own family of six children. Rose loved to bowl at the Yelm Prairie Lanes. She also loved animals, especially cats and dogs. She always fed the hungry strays that wondered around her home. Flowers lit up her life and eyes; all types and all colors were her favorite. Rose always looked forward to trips to her home in North Dakota to visit her children. While there, she'd also take part in pow-wows. Rose also liked to go fishing, whether in Washington or North Dakota. Church was very important and a source of strength to Rose. She was very involved in church activities and often volunteered at the Yelm Senior Center. Rose is survived by her children, Melisa Lenoir (John L. Sullivan), and Rose (Ron) Bellanger, of Minnesota; Pam Pfeiffer (Lon Russell), and Calvin Lenoir (Beverly Houle) of North Dakota; and Carol (George) Fulford of Virginia; sister, Mary Goff of Montana; eight grandchildren; two adopted grandchildren; five great- granddaughters; several nieces and nephews; special friends, Chuck and Shirley Blannford, Sue Taylor, Virginia Hatcher, and many others. Rose is preceded in death by her husband, Richard in 2004; daughter, Melinda; and both parents. Arrangements are under the direction of Mills & Mills Funeral Home in Tumwater. A Memorial Service will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 24, 2008 at at the Yelm Prairie Christian Center at 501 103rd Avenue NE in Yelm.

Hee hee.. A walk down memory lane

Name this gizmo....
maybe I should give a prize to the first person who can name it.

Happy Girl Friend and Sisters day