Birthday Weekend recap...

This past weekend was crazy!  Between my company holiday party and Carmen's first birthday, by Sunday I was spent!  I've been trying to get this post up since then and well...it's Wednesday night and I'm sure I won't have it post until Thursday...so I didn't quite get this up quickly.  Oh well. 

The holiday party went great!  It was so fun to spend time with my co-workers outside of work and the hotel room that the company got us was great!

Special K and I at the party...him in a co-workers cardi

Special K had too good of a time but I'm glad he had fun!  It was my first night away from little miss Carmen and as hard as it was not waking up to her noises, I know it was good for  us to go through with it.  She was home with her Auntie and I heard they had a great time.  This also helped smooth over our weaning but I'll talk about how weaning her went in a separate post.  The morning after the party, we slept in a bit and then stopped for breakfast on the way home.  Once we got home, I was go go go until we got to my FIL's house to start setting up. 

I was very happy with how the decorations I made looked and check out the balloon that the magician at the holiday party made!  He was pretty awesome.

Everyone seemed to have a great time....I won't talk too much but here are some pictures of the event!

Checking out the fishy daddy caught off the dock

The awesome cake that my sister's MIL made her!

Singing Happy Birthday.

Eating my vegan cupcake!

Opening lots of presents!

Happy First Birthday to my baby girl!

Visit to mommy's work.

CGR spent the day with her Auntie today and since my department was having a potluck I asked my sister to bring her by so she could see them and I could see her.  She had so much fun and it was so great to spend a little time with CGR during my work day!  I miss seeing her everyday at lunch.

She seemed to have a blast and enjoyed walking around them many wide open halls in my office...

play with the stress balls...

but she was a little skeptical of the big white guy!

Happy Tuesday!

Crazy, busy life...here's some catch up.

So, we'll start with the pups. They are doing really well. As you can see here that Abigail will make herself comfortable where ever she wants. :)
and Jackjack...well this picture says it all. :)
If you haven't please go check out the Video Episode of the Barknknit podcast posted last week. You can find it here.

I'm doing really good but so busy!! I've stayed late a lot at work lately and my dad is in town with my step mom so we've been keeping really busy!! I have been getting a lot of knitting done but not much spinning.

I cast on a Shawl for the Barknknit listener group on Ravely's Sept Shawl KAL. The pattern I chose is the Traveling Woman by Liz Abinante and using HazelKnits Artisan Yarn in Purple.
I also made a pattern for a car faub holder for Kenny's Step-mom. Hers broke so it wouldn't stay on her keys so I knit her something to help her out.
and here is another pic. :)
Today I also recorded another episode of the podcast and include a review of Namaste's Snap Bags.
and their new clutch!
Let's just say I'm a huge fan of both. The Snapbags are great for projects and you can see everything in them so it's easy to find what you are looking for when I grab something from inside my purse! The clutch is very stylish and I got compliments of it when I took it out with me to a wedding last weekend.

Well...I hope you enjoyed this drive by post. :) I'm off to get ready for some friends to come over for some games. It was impromptu. It all depended on whether Michigan won or not. JK! :)

Have a great weekend!!

Week recap. no knit pics but they are coming...

Hey everyone!! Sorry I've been a blogging slacker. I've just been super busy at work and haven't been spending much time on my computer outside of work. I've spent a lot of time knitting and with my pups and Special K. I did manage to get a podcast up last weekend...and am planning on getting another one up Sunday.

I've been setting some knitting goals and I joined the Ravelympics, which I'll try to post about and share some cool ravatars I created. I'm on Team Bob.

Well, for this quick week recap post I figured I'd share some pictures of my desk at work. :) You have to understand that I used to work at an animation studio and had my desk FULL of toys and paraphernalia. (love that word) So, I have brought a couple but have toned it down. So, here we go...tour of the desk.

Starting from left...here is my line up of Pixar characters! Oh yes, my favorites. I have more of these but these guys made the cut. The box is from two summers ago when I was teaching summer school.

Next up is mid desk. Yes, if you notice I have two monitors. I LOVE TWO MONITORS. I'll share what is on my screen in a bit. The silver thing is something Special K made in one of his machining classes. I thought it was really cool. Then there is my favorite army dude...and you guessed it...another Pixar toy!!!

Then on further left. We have a picture of Special K and my babies!! And this cool flower pens that I created for my desk in my classroom so the kids couldn't steal them. :)

Then here is my cool bamboo plant that was given to me my first day. I LOVE these little water balls...I like to play with them...they absorb back the water that gets evaporated. It's cool.
And last but not least I have this picture as my wallpaper because who could resist the site of them two. I love to look at them to get a good smile. It took a lot to get them to lay there and sit for awhile. :)Ok...now off to finish up some stuff before I head out. Take care.

Happy KNITTING!!!

Dogs On Thursday!!

So, I tried to get a good picture of the two of them but there was a squeaking squirrel who kept distracting them. :) Here's my best try.


They are both doing really good. They love the fact that I've been walking them on long walks in the morning. I love it too!! I'm hoping to keep it up for a long time.

I haven't ripped back the shawl yet but I'm working on the Clapotis and decided until I get some time to just relax and rip it back it's going to stay that way. :) Yes, I know..procrastination.

Well...work was good and they are giving me some stuff to do today. I was pretty excited about it.

We have a softball game tonight at 7pm so I'm going to get a few rows down before I got and try to eat something.

Happy Dogs on Thursday!!!

Week update!!

My first week at my new job has been good. I've been doing a lot of observing and will be excited to start answering questions and get into the meat of things. My co-workers are nice and I'm glad to be working with them. I've started getting up and walking the dogs on long walks before work so that's made me feel great. This week has been flying by and I haven't had much time to post this week...better luck next week.

I've been working on my shawl and realized that I made a mistake about 5 rows back so I guess I have to rip it again. I've been switching back and forth from the shawl to the clapotis and I have to admit now that I have to rip back it's been put down for this week. I'll sit with it this weekend and rip back. I might need a beer or two to get me through. ;)

I haven't gotten any knitting done during work hours. I haven't really been taking full lunches but i did do 2 rows of the 9-5 socks during lunch yesterday. I left the sock at work and just plan to work on it during lunch for a while. I need to get the shawl and clapotis done...well, not done but I need to work on them. :) I still need to wash the sock yarn from the first 9-5 sock so I'm not ready to finish the first sock....I know I'm stalling but it will all get done. My plan is to get the sock done but the end of June and as much as I can on the other two. No biggie. :)

Well, it's getting to that time where I need to start convincing Special K that the tv needs to be turned off so I can sleep good. It's an every night battle. I like to fall to sleep in silence and he likes to watch tv until he can't hold his eyes open and then turns it off and falls asleep. If I'm tired enough I'll just fall asleep with it on but sometimes I just can't ignore it. :) The joys of a TV in the bedroom. Let me tell you I fought it but lost.

Ok...hope all is well. I'll try to get a DOT post up tomorrow after work.

Happy Knitting!!

Weekend without Special K

Special K flew up to Ohio today to be in a wedding of a friend. I miss him already. He left this morning and he'll be back sunday night but it's the first time I'm the one left behind not the one leaving....It's sad watching him go. :(

I spent the afternoon and early evening over at my sister, CZbrats house. I worked on some knitting and just hung out. It's been a crazy day with the network being down at work and us having some online training we had to do....Lesson Plans to be turned in and PowerPoints to be made. :) It was nice just chilling over there with no stress. We went out to dinner for my nephew Surfer Boy's going off to college dinner. He's only going over to Orlando but we just wanted to give him a little send off. He seems excited and his parents seem a little sad but they will all be ok.

Tomorrow I was planning on painting the cabinets in the kitchen at the new house since we can't move in until next Friday even though we have the key but I don't know if I'm going to. I really need to work on my lesson plans a bit more and finish up those PowerPoints too. I just plan to sleep late and wake up when I do and whatever motivates me I'll do. :)

Tomorrow night is Stitch 'n Pitch!!! I can't wait. I won't talk too much about it because hey this isn't my knitting blog but it's stitching/knitting at the baseball game. If you want to read more about it head over to Barknknit. :)

Ok...everyone have a great weekend. I'm going to be missing my beau very much and happy to see him on sunday.

Getting ready for school.

Yes, I know I've been mentioning that schools starting soon. Two weeks from yesterday to be exact the little children are going to be entering the classroom. Next week us teachers officially go back to school. I've been back already for two weeks working on this program we bought. The program which is a student information systems for us with a grade book and some websites will be a great step forward for our school. It also hasn't been the easiest thing to organize and get up and running for my sister, Fleas and me. We've needed other peoples help for information and half this stuff isn't our job anyway....but as it always happens we get to do the work. This has left me little time to work on my classroom...well, I haven't really wanted to stay at school all day when I'm not really getting paid to. :) I really want to enjoy my last free week of vacation. Next week I have to be there most the day and am getting paid to. The following week it's teaching time so that's it....Summer is over.

I still haven't packed a single box in our apartment for our big move. Special K and I have discussed that this weekend is all packing and maybe one fun outing. :) I want to see Bourne Ultimatum!! He's going to be up in Ohio next weekend for a wedding and then the following weekend on the 25th we move into the new house. EXCITING!!! But I really need to jump start the packing bit.

This week....

This week has been CRAZY. First off I'm not used to working full 8 hours a day and then add a 40 minute commute to and from work and you got a frazzled, tired gnat.

Last night was pretty bad because I had taken on a tech task for the Parent Association at school. It was due this morning so last night was the time to do it. I got off work at around 5 and drove home, swinging by to pick up the last of the task and headed home. Was starving so I quickly walked the dogs, made scrambled eggs and toast for dinner. Worked on task. Went over and finished task at Fleas and then got home at almost 9pm. Special K was glad to see me home but when I ran down and got the laundry and proceeded to fold them while he was doing dishes, changed and climbed in bed exhausted he was a tad upset. We ended up staying up and talking instead of what I had wanted to do....SLEEP.

This morning was our running morning but as we woke up at 5:15 we both agreed we needed sleep. :) But promised tomorrow would be a running day.

Ok....so my job...it's boring and they don't really have much for me to do so I've been uber reading blogs(mostly knitting blogs because I'm OBSESSED) and yup you guessed it. Sneakily knitting behind my desk. :) I've gotten caught once but all that was said was "knit one, purl two" Can't beat that. :)

I've also decided to make a knitting blog. :) You knew it would happen. I can't help it. It's Bark n Knit. I haven't posted anything as of right now but I'm probably going to repost that post on here from yesterday. It would be a good start. :) I hope none of my three readers are disappointed that I'm making another blog...I actually deleted abb's training diary for this one...so I'll keep up with both. :) Enjoy. Hey just think if you don't really want to hear about my knitting you don't have to read that one. :)