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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Eye Spy

It's getting cold enough in the mornings lately that I have a cup of hot coffee sometimes instead of my usual eye-ced. Seems like every year I buy one of these little creamers to try when I have it hot. I'm having this one right now. It's really good. I usually like my coffee unsweet, especially if I'm having it with a food that's sweet. Anyway, I didn't have anything else to talk about so I thought I'd show you this one. I was tempted by some of the others like Tiramisu and Eye-talian Cream, and even a coconut one. I'm a huge coconut lover, but I can't imagine it in my coffee and don't want to.

Do you like my Eli Page Divider? Ha-ha-ha. Somebody is bored.

I'm waiting for my new glasses to be delivered. They shipped on Nov. 3rd. What in the heck have they been doing with my package for eight days?? It's just coming from Californ-Eye-A, so I don't know why it's taking so long. Here's what they look like:

I hope they look okay on, but mostly I just hope they last and don't get eaten by a dog. I'm not holding my breath.

I started another afghan last night after frogging that other one. I'm doing the other one I showed you in a previous post called Shades of Coral, except it's not coral. I'll be using the teal, variegated, purple AND green that I also showed you. I'll show you how it looks after I get 14 rows done and use all the colors.

Did y'all click on that picture of Sammi yesterday? I just did, and she's got something purple all over her nose and mouth. I have no idea what that is! I'll have to go outside and investigate the backyard to see if I can figure it out.

Eye've got nothing else for ya. Have a good one.

(Don't even ask me what's up with the "Eye" thing. I have no idea. It just happened, okay? Whatever.)

Posted by Pammy Sue at Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | 4 comments Links to this post

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Not Liking It

Grrr...do you know how many of these crochet hooks I've thrown away because Eli steals them and destroys them? Well, I don't know either, but it's a LOT! These are my favorite hooks to crochet with, but I just can't afford it anymore.

I bought these two books for $1 each at JoAnn's yesterday. There are a lot of really good recipes that I'm going to try during the holidays this year. Of course, I'll share them with you.

This picture made me laugh. Sammi just makes me laugh all the time because she's so goofy-looking. She's the best dog ever though...not a bit of trouble and very quiet and mild mannered. I know a lot of people think pugs are ugly, but when they're yours, they are so darn cute it hurts!

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I've gotten seven rows done on the grotto blanket, but I don't think I like it. I may frog it and pick another pattern. What do you think of that bit of fickleness? I'm not making an entire blanket that I don't like though. It's too expensive and takes so much time. I'm not enjoying doing the pattern much either. It's just too weird.

That's it. I've decided I'm frogging it.

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I watched the memorial service for the Ft. Hood victims today and cried and cried. Ugh. I wouldn't have watched it, but I just happened to be on a channel that was carrying it live. I'm so freakin' empathetic that I shouldn't watch stuff like that. It hurts too much.

And speaking of the Army, I don't know if I told y'all for sure that my son has joined. He barely made the age limit, dammit, before it was too late. He leaves January 19th. Did I tell y'all this? It seems like I did, but I don't remember. I'm trying not to think about it and push it out of my mind every time I do. I just can't think or talk about it right now. I'll have plenty of time for thinking and fretting after boot camp when he goes to Iraq or Afghanistan. GAH. I don't want to talk about it. Just don't even mention it, okay? Forget I said anything. I'll talk about it later if I need to, but don't count on it. I'm serious...NO COMMENTS about it please!

I'm off to rip out my crochet work and start over. Bye.

Posted by Pammy Sue at Tuesday, November 10, 2009 | 7 comments Links to this post

Monday, November 09, 2009

Drum Roll Please...

I present to you...

THE DREAMCATCHER

I'm so sick of these colors. Bleh.

The edging pattern was courtesy of Kate at The Garden Bell. She's got a Ta-Da post today too!

No special reason for the Dreamcatcher name. I just thought of it while pondering suggested Southwest names and liked it.

After seeing Kate's pretty bright blue border color and how it makes the blanket pop, I wish I'd used a brighter color now for the edging. Mine doesn't really show up very well. Live and learn.

I'm kind of disappointed after all the lead-up to finishing this that it's not more spectacular. I'm probably just so sick of seeing it and posting unfinished pictures that it seems that way to me.

Okay, on to the next!

Posted by Pammy Sue at Monday, November 09, 2009 | 3 comments Links to this post

Everything Except...

...working on that last round of my ripple!

I am thanking my lucky stars today that I didn’t have to clean up a huge mess. I opened the pantry door and a can of beans that I had stacked on top of another can fell down and into a big jar of spaghetti sauce. I watched in slow motion as the jar was pushed ever so close to the edge of the shelf, but it didn’t fall off and crash onto the ceramic floor like I expected it to. It just stopped with a small part of the jar hanging over the edge. Whew! That hardly ever happens to me. I swear I make more messes in a day than you can imagine. I spill my coffee CONSTANTLY. I’ve gotten to where I keep a clean cup towel on my desk to clean it up. It’s not a matter of IF but WHEN.

I still have a few spots on my kitchen ceiling (yes, ceiling!) from when I dropped a Starbucks’ Frappacino straight down and it landed upright, but the contents flew straight up out of the cup and onto my ceiling! It was like some weird physics demonstration. I laugh every time I notice those spots up there.

Now, for the Grotto Pattern, which color combo do you like best?

Teals & Green?

Or...

Teals and Purple?

I really like them both, but I think I'm going to start with the teals & purple first. We'll see.

So…

I gathered all my strength and got ready and made an appearance in public today. I made a trip to JoAnn’s at about noon. I knew I would finish The ripple blanket today and would want to start something else right away. So I got online and printed a 20% off coupon and left. It’s a good 15 miles or so and I had to get on the freeway. I don’t make that trip to JoAnn’s very often because of that but I really wanted the yarn I knew they had.

So I pile up my basket with a pattern book, yarn, and little stuffed toys for my dogs, which I wouldn’t have gotten nearly as much of if I hadn’t had that 20% coupon. And then I bet you can guess what happens.

The lady tells me the coupon was only good through yesterday! Doh! So I get a pissy look on my face and say, “Well, you shouldn’t put EXPIRED coupons on your website to print. I just heard another cashier give a lady 10% off even though she didn’t have a coupon. Can I at least get that?” And that BEE-OTCH got an equally pissy look on her face and just looked at me like I was a big old cheap-ass. I just stared right back at her for an uncomfortable amount of time until she screamed to the other cashier, who I guess was a manager or something, and said I asked for the 10% discount even though I didn’t have a coupon. Of course, all the other customers looked up at me. (Gasp! How dare she ask for a discount without a coupon! The nerve!)

I swear I was fixin’ to throw a big old hissy fit right there if she had said no. I didn’t drive 30 miles down the freeway to shop at YOUR store with an expired coupon that YOU put on YOUR website only to be turned away! AND I spent almost $90!

But she didn’t say no. Instead she said, “Just give it to her.” Like it was a big sacrifice and I had been given a gift from the JoAnn Gods and should bow down and kiss her feet.

I was almost disappointed that I didn’t get to have my fit. Instead I looked at my cashier like, “HA, you old bitch!” And I got my 10% discount and left. HAGS!

Do you see why I just stay inside all the time and rarely leave my house? I can still feel my blood pressure boiling. Everything is an ordeal. People suck! Except you. I love you.

Now if you'll excuse me, I promised some people I'd finish a ripple blanket today. Stop bothering me and let me concentrate!

Posted by Pammy Sue at Monday, November 09, 2009 | 8 comments Links to this post

No Pics Yet

It makes me laugh that I can be such an idiot sometimes. I really consider myself an intelligent person generally (no comments from the peanut gallery), but man, I can be dumb.

I went to the Fox home page this morning like I always do and started reading the headlines, and this is one I saw:

Ft. Hood Suspect Frequented Strip Club
"Exclusive: Exotic dancer says Hasan brought in beer and paid for lap dances at club near the base."

I didn’t have my glasses on, so I read it as “tap dances” instead of “lap dances,” and I said to myself, “Why would he pay for tap dances? That’s so weird!”

Ha-ha-ha! And then it hit me what it really said. DUH! Good Lord. That’s what I get for not having my coffee first.

I’m going to do some work this morning, a load or two of laundry, and put the final round on that afghan. My shoulder gave out last night before I finished. I’ll be back with my “Ta-Da!” pictures probably after lunch.

Does anybody want to partner with me in my new business? I'm going to open a strip club where men can pay for tap dances. Do you think it will work?

Posted by Pammy Sue at Monday, November 09, 2009 | 4 comments Links to this post

Sunday, November 08, 2009

It's Sundee, Y'all

I love these soft peppermint sticks. I get addicted every Christmas season when they come out. I know they are pure sugar and horrible for me, but I can't help it. It's that sugar is the devil thing again. Can you believe it's the Christmas Season already? I saw the Christmas candy being stocked on the shelves the day after Halloween.

My momma gave me this for my birthday. I'm searching for the perfect place to put it. I may keep it inside the house until Spring and just enjoy it. Then I'll put it out front somewhere and hope no one steals it. I can't put it out back unless I want dogs to pee on it. Fletcher would knock it over for sure too. That's his thing, the weirdo.

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(I'm too lazy to upload any page dividers today...now that's lazy!)

This is one of the ripple patterns I'm definitely going to make out of the 200 Ripples book I bought. I kind of like the idea of using three shades of purple. Or maybe blues or pinks. I'd really like to make the peach, but peach yarn is really hard to find in a soft, worsted weight yarn, much less three different shades. Have you noticed that?

This is the other pattern I'm making out of the same book. I really like the way this one looks.

I love it in these colors and arrangement. This blanket was made by Tigerdog on Ravelry. I'm still pondering what colors I'm going to use.

Tomorrow I'm going to unveil my finished ripple blanket and his cool new name. I'm working on the edging right now while we're watching the race. Can you hardly wait? Me neither!

Posted by Pammy Sue at Sunday, November 08, 2009 | 7 comments Links to this post

Saturday, November 07, 2009

No Race 4 Us

We totally whimped out on Friday and didn't go to the racetrack. We both had allergies and a headache and felt too crappy to go sit outside all day and night. We were all ready to go and were about to pack the cooler when I happened to mention that I kind of wished we weren't going because I didn't feel good. That's all it took. Barnaby jumped on it and we agreed to stay home. I was afraid of disappointing him by not going and vice versa.

So we changed out of our clothes and into our comfortable house clothes and snuggled down at home with a dose of Benadryl and Tylenol.

I've been rippling on my blanket today. I should be ready to put on the edging sometime this week and start on my new one. I've picked the ripple pattern I'm going to use, but I need to settle on the colors. It's going to be two solid colors and one multicolor, but I'm just not sure which ones yet. And this new one is not going to be as big. I think I already mentioned that. It's going to be a regular afghan size instead of fitting on a Queen size bed as a blanket.

Blah, blah, blah. Man, I can ramble on about a stupid crochet blanket, can't I?

I'm off to start a new book and read for a couple of hours before I go to sleep.

Posted by Pammy Sue at Saturday, November 07, 2009 | 3 comments Links to this post

Wednesday, November 04, 2009

It's not really November 4th, it's Thursday, Nov. 5th. I guess it says that because I started this entry yesterday and just edited it today.

Are you getting sick of seeing this ripple blanket unfinished? I'll be glad to get it finished just so i can see some new colors. I spent an hour and a half weaving in ends last night. I got them all done, but I still have about 20 inches of ripples left to do before I can start putting the edging on.

In honor of Kate, I think I'll have to name him. He seems like a he to me so I'll have to come up with a good name. Kate names all of hers...and everything else she owns I think! It's more creative and more fun than just naming them "Ripple 1" or "Ripple 2" in pictures.

I watched several episodes of Celebrity Ghost Stories and Ghostly Encounters on my computer yesterday. We don't get the Bio Channel, but I wanted to see these shows. Isn't it neat that you can watch just about anything on your computer these days just like TV? When you watch the video on full screen, you can't tell you're even watching it on a computer. It's just like a TV! My laptop worked better than my desktop computer for this. My desktop kept interrupting the video at the beginning to buffer, whatever that means.

Other than that, I slept. And then I slept some more. It was a very lazy day and I had no energy whatsoever. I was so lazy that I forgot to put a roast in the crockpot we were supposed to have for dinner. We ended up going to IHOP for dinner since we had a coupon for buy one dinner and get one free. We always use those coupons when we have them. It saved us $8.

I did remember to put that roast in the crockpot this morning. I just stuck it in there with a can of Cream of Mushroom soup, a package of dry onion soup, and a little bit of water. I'll add the potatoes and carrots later on this afternoon so they don't get too done and all mushy.

We're heading out to Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth tomorrow. NASCAR is here this weekend and we're going to see Cup Qualifying and the Truck Race. We like to go on that day because there are less people and traffic. We should have great weather for it.

So if I don't get a chance to post before we leave, y'all have a great weekend!

Posted by Pammy Sue at Wednesday, November 04, 2009 | 5 comments Links to this post

I'm so rude for not saying this yesterday, but thank you all for your happy birthday & anniversary wishes! I had it in my heart but just forgot to include it in yesterday's entry.

I love that y'all stop by and take the time to leave a comment.

Posted by Pammy Sue at Wednesday, November 04, 2009 | 0 comments Links to this post

Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Knock-Knock

Who's there?

This really cool door knocker my sister got me for my birthday! Ain't it great? I love it!

Time for me to get back into the swing of things after a few wonderful days off. I had a great Anniversay/Birthday weekend.

Barnaby got me a new digital camera. I'll have to download the software and figure it all out today so I can start using it.

I worked on my ripple blanket a bunch. I think I have about 18 more ripples (36 rows) to go. I'm going to try to work on it most of the day today as long as no work comes in.

I got Jan Eaton's 200 Ripple Stitch Patterns in the mail over the weekend. I had ordered it from Amazon because I'd seen a lot of other ripplers mentioning it.

I also ordered this book, which is supposed to be delivered today.

My mom said she'd come over and show me how to set up the sewing machine Barnaby bought for me awhile back on Craig's List -- how to load the bobbin and thread it. Every time I try to read the directions my head starts spinning and I slam the book shut and move on to something else. I DID NOT get the sewing gene, but I'd like to be able to do the basics and make some simple projects if I want to.

I finished reading Dan Ackroyd's father's book. It was interesting, but not what I expected. I skimmed over some parts that didn't interest me. It was mostly a history of paranormal investigating, psychics and mediums, etc. There wasn't as many personal experiences as I expected and would have preferred.

I'm sure you've noticed by now that I went nuts with the dividers today. Do you like them or are they just annoying? I kind of like them myself. I need to make my own so that they don't have a white background or learn how to make the background in them transparent. I'm sure it's easy to do, but I don't want to spend my whole day on the computer, which is what would happen if I started trying to mess with that.

Have a great day!

Posted by Pammy Sue at Tuesday, November 03, 2009 | 3 comments Links to this post