Monday, February 28, 2005

Of showers and giddiness

My Mom and Sisters threw me a surprise bridal shower this weekend. I knew I was getting one, just not when, or where. It was so nice, I was completely giddy. I should have caught on though when darling fiance was stalling for time while out shopping. He's so cute.

I'm not comfortable being the center of attention so the whole shower thing was quite weird. I kept saying to my sisters, cousin shannon and my friend Mary "What am I suppose to do?" and they kept saying "you don't have to do a thing, just have some wine and enjoy it". Opening the gifts was such chaos, but so much fun. We had 7 people helping out. My sister liz and cousin shannon were dragging gifts to my sister laura and cousin Cathy who were opening gifts and handing me the opened gift and card. My friend Mary was writing all the gifts down for me, while my cousins Daniele and Christine were taking pictures and making the prerequiste bridal hat. As soon as I get the pictures downloaded from some of the camera's I will post. This hat was enormous and hysterical. It was so much fun and so tiring.

There was one strange thing, Four of my co-workers whom I am close to were invited and came. They brought there own bottles of wine and frangelica. I'm not sure how to read that.

My sister Liz is getting married in August, she has scheduled her own shower for June 4th, we found out that might have to change. She doesn't want to be surprised. This is going to be fun. Her's will be insane, her fiance's family is just as large as mine. I can't wait.

Thursday, February 24, 2005

Public Service Announcement

The following Public Service Announcement has been brought to you by the letters: A.G.H.H.


When involved in work related training courses, repeating the words "I'm so bored, I'm so bored" over and over again 1) Does not make the time pass any quicker and 2) really annoys the crap out of whomever is sitting next to you. Please shut up and doodle like the rest of the class.

Thank you for listening.

Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Spamalot and Socks

AGGHHHHHH!!!!!

Okay, I’ve been wanting to scream since I walked into the office at 7:30 this morning. Now that I’ve gotten that out of my system, I can move on.

The wedding is taking it’s toll on me emotional. There are so many little things that need to get done. I keep freaking out that I won’t get them all done, it doesn’t help that I keep having work heaped on me to the point I feel guilty about leaving early to get things done. My boss told me yet again yesterday not to feel bad, but this was after he gave me three more last minute things to do.

My dress came in and I went for my first fitting. The dress is beautiful, If I can lose 10-15 pound over the next 7 weeks, I will be very comfortable dancing in it. As I heard on Ellen’s show Monday “Do more crunches, eat smaller lunches”

Speaking of Monday, This is what Mom, Sis, Fiancé and I did Monday night:



That’s right ladies and gentlemen, a musical adaptation of the classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The show is still in previews, it officially opens in March. It is the funniest thing I have seen in so long, This has the potential to be huge! Tim Curry, Hank Azaria and David Hyde Pierce are starring in it. If you are a Python fan, and are in or near NYC you will not be disappointed.

I’m very slowly working on a sock. That’s right folks a single sock.



Isn’t she pretty? I’m only 14 rows away from the heel. Huzzah!

Thursday, February 17, 2005

Baby Whites

I caved, I bought yarn yesterday to make a blanket or something for my friends baby. I know I was leaning towards not doing it because I know she will not appreciate it, but my inner voice kept telling me to do it anyway. I didn't go crazy, I bought some Red Heart Teri (I hate acrylic, but this stuff does feel like a tericloth, and I really didn't want to spend $$$ on something that is going to be tossed aside). It's a crisp baby white since they don't know what they are having.

Thursday, February 10, 2005

Sock gone awry

So, I had this brillant idea to knit some ankle socks (which i've only tried before to no avail). I found a universal sock pattern picked out some yarn from the stash, swatched, matched the largest gauge on pattern and went for it. I'm merriliy knitting along the cuff, the leg, heel flap, turn the heel, then try to pick up gusset stitches. First time, I think I got it then realize I hadn't knitted back across my heel flap so i'm now knitting but in reverse of my pattern, so all i'm seeing is purls... DOH! Frog, frog, frog knit across the heel flap, pick up again, start knitting, then realize pretty quickly i'm decreasing in the wrong spot. (Okay bit of a sidetrack now. I have to admit something, I am a impatient knitter, I have a tendency to read too quickly, I read, then knit. Sometimes if I read, looked at my work and reread, I would not do stupid mistakes, but that is me, rush rush rush, Bad Heather!). So I realize my mistake, knit the stitches off until I'm at the point of the mistake, fix it and continue another row or so. I look at my sock. It's horrible. This yarn although matching the gauge of my pattern is too thick for my liking (as a sock) and i'm really doing a crappy job at knitting on two circulars. Here is my proof.

See the lovely hole, obviously I need to really pay attention when picking up the gusset stitches, I probably should have picked up another stitch there and decreased it to avoid the hold. Then there are my joins. That is a horrible line going up my sock, it's not as if i've never knit with two circs before, DOH!.

So what have I learned? Well for one, I need to work on my socks. Practice makes perfect, so I'm going to try again. Second, I'm going to slow the hell down and think before I knit. Hopefully this is just a minor setback. I'm ready to start again. I'm going to try working with the yarn I bought last friday. At least the color changes will keep me amused for a while.



Monday, February 07, 2005

Trudging Along.

Work has been kicking my butt the last several weeks. I'm depressed, cranky and so exhausted. I took a mental health day on Friday to jumpstart me out of it and it seems to have helped a little bit. One of the things I did was visit my lys. I had a gift certificate and decided to browse, I really didn't have a project in mind though so I wound up not using it and instead bought two balls of fortissima sock yarn.

Over the last few weeks I've only finished off a few more rows of charlotte's web and the last of the two iPod cozies. I haven't even had the ambition to felt them. Well, I guess I better stop procrastinating and get ready for work.