Superbowl? Big deal. We’re having a “Weather Event”!!!

Oh, sure, the Super Bowl is a thrill a minute for some, but for Middle Earth, snow is the most exciting thing in the world. Even 1-2″ is an event. The weatherdoofs will have us (or, somebody) worked up so that even a small amount of snow will upset everyone!!!  I wish somebody would give them some librium/valium something to calm their jagged nerves.  I suppose if you only predict sun/clouds/rain, then snow would be more exciting.    But, I am more than a tad sick of the hysteria surrounding weather.  Of course, if they divert our attention with “weather events” then, maybe we won’t notice all the other crappy stuff going on.   End of current rant.  No guarantee there will not be another.

I did not get much knitting or spinning done this weekend because I was working a bit on housekeeping.  Mom’s room for one and it’s not gonna be a small job.   That, plus cooking and making pup food and washing and running errands.  You know.  I was busy with not much to show.   At least, I dug in.  That has been the hardest part for me.

So, this is my second week of 3 days of work.  It is weird.  After 37 years, working only 3 days is weird.  Not horrible, but weird.  I’m not certain I can or want to get used to it.   Hopefully, things will change for the better by the end of the month.

I have spent a bit more time on Ravelry.  Not alot, but a bit.  I miss so much because I don’t spend much time on it.  I love looking at the patterns and friend’s activities, but otherwise, I don’t know much about it.  I have tried to read forums and everything, but they aren’t interesting enough for me to check every single day.  It must be me.  I know so many people that spend mucho time on Ravelry and are totally in the groove.  How much time do you have to spend on it to feel like you know what’s going on?  Inquiring minds would like to know.

It appears I’m a bit dull today.  I apologize.   I think it’s just the winter doldrums.  At least the sun shown Saturday and Sunday.  That helped, but I am ready for spring.  Completely ready.

To send you on your way this Monday morning, here’s my soundtrack of the day…..Mr. Bob Dylan singing one my favorites of his “It’s Alright Ma” (I’m only bleeding”.

Have a wonderful Monday.

IT’S FRIDAY!!!!!!!!! I’m confused, but it is Friday

Yesterday, all day long, it was my Friday, but it was really Thursday. This might be harder than I originally thought. Of course, I’m easily confused so we’ll just wing it. HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have a bit of time on my hands these days.   Lots to do, but lots of thinkin’ time, too.  I’m thinking about a life coach.  I think a dear dear friend of mine is one.  I know she does something like that, so I’m going to ask her if she would be interested in taking me on.   I’ll keep ya’ll posted.  It’s really in the “thinkin’” stage right now.  If things don’t start looking better for my job, I will probably need to get a move on, but nobody will every accuse moi of leaping before looking.  In fact, I look really really really hard before I leap.  Oh, and I think about it alot, too.

So, the knitting?   Yup.  Still the Ribbi Cardi and the Christmas scarf.  Not much to show either.

Yesterday, Grover and I went for a good walk.  He slept the rest of the day.  I ran errands and made dog food and stuff, so that today I could work on sorting in the house.   Also, I didn’t feel real well yesterday.   I’m wondering if it’s stress and the winter weather.   I might have a bit of SAD.  I’m fine when the sun shines, but give me a week of darkness and I’m one discontent girl.  Who knows.   Anyway, I’m fine today.  I was just a bit out of sorts.  The pup is doing beautifully with the BARF diet.   I love the name.  That’s what you want to do when you are making it.  Still, he has had more energy and slept better and been more even tempered since I started it.  Can’t argue with success.   It is not inexpensive, though.  It would be if he were a teacup terrier, but he isn’t.  Nothing about him is inexpensive;-D  But, as the old L’Oreal ad used to say “he’s worth it.”

Do you have any big plans for the weekend?   I’m going over to my BB and BSIL’s house tomorrow night for dinner.   My BSIL is a gourmet cook and spoils us with wonderful meals all the time.   Besides, I haven’t seen them for a couple of weeks and I need to make sure they’re fine and give my brother some “hovering over little sis” time.  When we were growing up, he couldn’t have cared less about me.  I was a nuisance and annoyance.  It’s kinda nice to be important to him now.

Have a wonderful weekend, all.  Here is my soundtrack for today.  I love the song and the Byrds do a great version.  This video is disturbing.  WTF?  Duck hunting????  Models with rifles???   Bad synching????  I really don’t think Mr. Dylan had this in mind when he wrote the song.

Have a great weekend!!!!!!!!!!

Is it Random Wednesday again? So soon? Really?

Knitting content. Be afraid. Be very afraid!!! I pulled out my Ribby Cardi. I looked at it and ripped 3/4 of it. I would have a picture, but the one I took was brown. Very brown. The yarn is brown (Cascade 220), but the skies are gray and the color brown does not show up at all. It bothered me a bit to rip, but ya know? I’m happy to be redoing the back. At least, I know I’ll be proud of it.  It’s gonna be chocolate brown and pink.  I started it at least 3 years ago.  I think I need to finish it before the moths get to it.

Today is my Friday, but I will not waiver in my dedication to the announcement of Friday each week.  I’m afraid people would sleep in or worse, not go to work!!!  Or, oh my lord!  Be redundant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Grover loves his new stinky food and eats it with relish (no, not the pickle kind).  He is stronger and spent Tuesday at the cageless kennel.  He was a good boy and had a great time.  Starving when I picked him up.  We got home and I fed him his dinner.  He had his dessert cookie and went straight to bed.  That is one very tired pup.  I’m glad he could go.  He’s been a bit sick of me.

Ms. Stinky McFartbutt is well, thank you.   She is annoying, but well.   I have given up keeping her out of the bedroom at night because it appears that Grover the wunderpup is claustrophobic.   Heaven help me.   Neurotic animals.  But, that makes three of us and we are happy together.

I am on the road to lowering my cost of living.   That, and just getting control of the finances.   I am not desperate or frightened.  I am controlling that which I can control.   I will worry about the other stuff later.  I have noticed, since my grief breakthrough, that I have turned into my mother.  This is a good thing, I think.  I’ve been a worrier and fusser all my life.  My parents could have told you horror stories about me as a kid and young adult, but they are gone now, so just believe me……I was a fussy mess.   As the job situation has changed and gone down I have dealt with it by just not thinking about it.   If I worry, what good does it do?   So, I dwell on the good things in my life.  And, boy, do i have alot of good things.   You all included.  I am blessed beyond measure and grateful, as well.  Sure, I get down, but I am trying so hard to keep my unhappy’s under control.

Now, since I have blithered on and on, I will leave you with my soundtrack of the day.  I love Patti Smith.  I may be in the minority, but this song just drives it home.   “Because the Night” written by both Patti and Bruce Springstein.  Talk about pedigree.   Enjoy!!!

Have a great one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally, January is gone!

What a bleh month. I have endured January with absolutely no spunk or grace. It’s been bitter cold and wet and icky and awful. That, and I have been cut another day at work. To hell with January, people!!!  Now, we are entering February.  The shortest month of the year.  After the next 28 days, spring will start moving in.  OK.  It’ll be really slow, but it will move in.  In fact, I saw budding bulbs yesterday morning.  It’s dark as pitch today, so I didn’t see a thing.  I know gardeners who know exactly what is planted in their yard.  Not me.  No idea.  I’ll let you know if they are daffodils or something else whenever they come up.  Until then, it’s a crapshoot.

I have not knit a stitch this weekend.  I have been spinning with my Golding.  The singles are real fuzzy, but I still love it.  I didn’t think I could spin any slower than I do on my wheel, but I can!  I spin really really slow on the spindle, but I feel so peaceful when I do.

You have all endured the story of Grover’s illness and his inability to eat his regular food.  Well, buckos, I found a recipe that is enough to gag you, but he adores it.   A pound of lean ground beef, 2 cups of brown rice, a can of mackerel, a can of sweet potatoes and a can of green beans.  I chopped up the veggies and mixed it all together.  Damn, does it stink!!!  He watched me put it together.  Then, he moved in a little closed.  I let him taste it and found that I had done good.   I will mix it with his dry food to ensure that he gets all of his vitamins and minerals and that will be his food.  Next time, I’ll use ground something else, and other veggies.  I am supposed to add chicken livers, but couldn’t face it yesterday.  The mackerel alone almost killed me!!  We’ll see if I can cut up the liver.  It’s not happening today and tomorrow doesn’t look too good either.

Because of his illness, he hasn’t been to his cageless kennel for a couple of weeks.  I’m hoping by next week, he can go back.   He just hasn’t had a bunch of energy.  The weather probably hasn’t helped either.

So, I spent last night perusing patterns.  I am not finishing anything I have started except for my BSIL’s scarf.  I need something else, so I’ve been looking.

And, because I’ve just been a rambling kind of gal this morning, I will leave you with video my cousin Ellen sent me.  It’s the Starbucks love project.  Watch it because it is fabulous and might just warm you up a bit.

Have a great one!!!!!!!!!

WARNING, WILL ROBINSON. IT IS FRIDAY. WARNING, WILL ROBINSON.

Did I age myself? Well, I don’t care. It is Friday. Not Thursday or Saturday, but Friday. Pay attention, here!!!  I work so hard and what thanks do I get?  None.  You ungrateful brats.   Why, if I could get you over my knee I would paddle you good.  But, it is Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Grover, the wunderdog, is doing better, but not 100% .  I tried to go to choir without him on Wednesday(because I wanted him to get stronger), but he followed me and would not let me out of his sight.  Sometimes having a smart dog sucks.  I would love to say that I was firm and refused to bring him with me, but we all know I’m basically a sucker for the big guy and, of course, he went with me and had a wonderful time.  I’m tops around here, right?   Yeah, right;-P

We have finally come to another weekend.  We are closer to Spring, so I will take this as a wonderful thing (of course it is, but we still have 28 days of February).   I’m ready as I am certain many others are.  I even have started looking for budding.  Dreamer.

Have a fabulous weekend, all.  It will be pretty coldy cold here, but it’s the end of January, so we’ll make ‘er.  Enjoy another Byrds song.  I absolute LOVE LOVE LOVE this song.   “Feelin’ a Whole Lot Better”.

Now, get out and dance and have fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will take any good news I can get, no matter how lame it may be.

Yes, the winter sucks. Big news flash. BUT! People, Daylight Savings time starts in mid March this year. I’m thrilled. It’s only a month and half and some change away. Isn’t that encouraging? Well, isn’t it????

Another piece of good news is this.  I found the camera cord.  Here are the pictures I took while trying to get some sort of shot of Purple Pi.

Oops.  There she is moving in on the kill.

She loves being the center of attention.  I finally coaxed her onto her night-night bed for a photo-shoot.  Glamor, here we come!!!

Isn’t she lovely?   Isn’t she be-ou-tee-full?

Here is the picture of my big bud on Sunday afternoon.  He was starting to feel a bit better and was uncooperative and a tad cranky.  He would not pose, so I had to go outside and take his picture through the storm door.

My reflection in the glass kinda ruins the shot, but you can still see how his eyes were just not bright.  He’s much better and thanks for all your good thoughts and wishes!!!!

Now, I will leave you with a song I heard on my Christmas IPod, here are the Hooters and my personal favorite version of “Lucy in the Sky”

Happy Hump Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, you want to be a rock ‘n roll star??

Me, too. Even in my advanced dotage, I think it would be wonderful to just rock with abandon! But, I am not a rock ‘n roll star, so we’ll just mosey on about our busy lives, shall we? Things are so much better here at Chez McFartbutt. The boy improves every day, but he was one very sick little boy and I was one very upset muthah.  He is still eating prescription food, but he is much more interested in life (and, squirrels).  He is still quite weak, so we are easing back into the walking.  It scared the hell out of me.  I realized there was more than a sick dog going on for me emotionally, but I did not want anything to happen to him if I could help it.  In the end, my desire to avoid possibly dangerous medications and let him try to heal naturally won out and it is just taking a long time for my little guy to get his strength back.

I took pictures of my first object that is being put away for now….Miss Purple Pi.  Because I have misplaced my camera cord , I want you to picture in your mind’s eye, Miss Stinky McFartbutt laying majestically on her warm night-night bed with Purple Pi draped beautifully over her back.   It is a darling picture and I will find the damned cord.

I feel like such a slug.  I have had Margene’s Size 6 Addi turbo needle for about a year now.  I will send it on its way shortly with a huge pile of apologies and excuses (plus, more than a few good wishes for sunshine and warmth).

I have not started a new project.   Aren’t ya’ll proud?   I’ll just bet;-D  Anway, I’m working on my BSIL’s Christmas scarf.  I love the softness of the yarn, but it thins out and breaks constantly.   Still, it will be beautiful when I finish it which I hope to be sometime in the year of our lord, 2010.  I just typed that and for the life of me, I cannot think why.  My brain can do a complete 180 in the middle of a thought.  I would like to think it’s a gift and not a direct result of drug use when I was younger.

So, until I can find the damned camera cord, I will leave you with The Byrds and “Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man”.  Nah.  I’m messin’ with you.

Have a wonderful Monday!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yippee!!!!!!! Finally. Why, oh, why, did this week feel so very long?

I apologize for my lack of imagination, but Grover was very very sick yesterday. We were up all night on Wednesday. He vomited and Esau yelled, so I was exhausted and worried, and he was sick. Oh, and Esau was her annoying self (thank goodness one of us was normal). Finally, last night, after laying in one position all day (12 hours), he got up last night and went outside and then came back in and drank and went back to bed. He is still not up this morning, but he wags his tail when I talk to him, so I am grateful for the improvement. Looks like it’ll be a quiet weekend here at Chez McFartbutt
I think I might take some time and and peruse the manual on my camera and see if I can figure out what button I pushed to make it unusable.  Of course, it might have been more than one.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.   I leave you with my soundtrack for the day.  The Fabulous Kinks and ” Tired of Waiting”

Have a great one!!!!!!!!!!!!

Random Wednesday AGAIN!

It’s like clockwork, people. Every single week, a Wednesday rolls around. Amazing. Simply amazing.

I have actually started on the UFO thingy. I will post a picture when I get the biggest thing I have to do, done. It has just been sitting looking at me. Accusingly. Such a bitch.
So, to avoid talking about it without a picture, I will mosey on to the next random thing. I got a fabulous deal on exclamation points and question marks. You best get used to seeing them all the time. It will take me all year to use them up, I’ll bet.??@!!?????!!!!  I threw in the @ sign because I got them as an added bonus!!!

Now.   Since I have brought you up to snuff on those things, I will discuss our bizarre weather, folk.   We have had fog every single day for, like, ever.  I don’t ever remember fog consistently for over 5 days.   Weird, huh?  When it’s not too terrible thick, I love it.   Grover acts like the Hounds of the Baskersville are after him.  When he does that, he totally creeps me out.   You would howl if you could see us, pre-dawn, walking in the fog with him looking around every few steps and me looking after him.  What a pair.   It’s just so “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, ya know?

Finally, my job is getting shakier all the time.   It has made me a relative wreck this week and by doing so, pissed me off.   I am an adult woman with a brain and everything.   Like I would be the only person in this position?   Pulleeeeeez.  What a cry-baby.   I am (and, damned well should be) grateful for all that I have.   This anxiety is hard for me to understand.   I don’t have alot of patience for it, anyway, so I don’t really know how to deal with it other than to get mad and work through that.   Sounds strange, doesn’t it?   I have used rage and anger to work through everything in my life (except grief….can’t do that).   I think my family are born with anger and learning to deal with it is a major growth issue.  Well, I can do that.   I can use my anger to move through so many situations.  I just thought as I got older I wouldn’t have this anger issue anymore.   I guess I figured menopause was like a lobotomy.  In some ways it feels like it;-D

I sound melodramatic, but I’m not really.  It’s just a function of my personality.   Strange, eccentric, bizarre.   I got it covered!  So, I will leave you, once again, with my soundtrack.  Here is a favorite, “When I Fell For You” by Buddy and Ella Johnson.

Have a great Hump Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Changes are happening as we speak, and/or orientate

This weekend was interesting for me. I finally noticed how bad my house was. It bothered me so much, I cleaned and cleaned.  It still isn’t good, but it sure is a damned sight better.  So, knitting and spinning didn’t happen so much.  Actually, after the heavy cleaning, my arthritis was so bad I couldn’t even hold the needles.   I’m much better now, but it cut into my time.

I have also come to the conclusion that I need to go through my UFO’s and be brutal.   Either get them done, or rip ‘em and put the yarn away for another day.  I have so many plans and have so much trouble completing anything.  I think I need to be tough.

Can you sense the change here?   Yup.  I’m back.  I still hurt and I’m going through Mom’s stuff little bit by little bit, but ya know, I care and I want to live my life.  I know I will backslide, but for now, I’m grateful for the breakthrough.

Since I have no cute pup or kitty pics today, and virtually nothing to talk about, I will leave you with my soundtrack of the day.  I don’t know how you feel about this performer, but I adore her.   She is visually stunning and has a voice that could knock down a linebacker.   Here is Lada Gaga and “Speechless”

Have a wonderful Monday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!