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Absence

LittleWit — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:58:08 +0000

Oh, why hello! Did you miss me? Let’s just say time ran away with me. Sticks N Stitches went really well. I hope to make the time to do a proper post about that this weekend. In other exciting news, for those of you who may have known, The Boy was laid off last April. Yesterday was his first day at his new job and we’re both just thrilled. Although it does mean we won’t be spending every waking moment together, it’ll probably be good for our upcoming marriage. Add a little mystery back in. I hope to be around here more regularly again. I may even do some updates on the wedding planning. Just as a reference to anyone madly googling for ideas.

On a side note, it’s been almost 3 yrs since I started this blog and my 3 yrs of hosting is about up. Leave me a note if you have any good suggestions for hosting companies to switch to. I am currently using Blue Host but the cost has gone up by $90 for the 3 yr bracket. I would like to stay somewhere around $4.50 a month if that’s even possible anymore. Have a great day!

Now you see her…

LittleWit — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:55:06 +0000

…now you don’t. My friend Sparkli was awesome tonight and helped me to crop a person out of some of my engagement photos. I think she and D did a bang up job. Heck you’d never know something was missing if I didn’t show you the before and after. I showed the boy to get his approval before putting the pictures into the photo book we’re ordering for ourselves. I asked him if he noticed any differences and I swear you’d have thought he was reading an old Scholastic magazine. He managed to find every spot that I didn’t even notice. Except of course the one spot I was checking to see if he noticed. hah. I think they look great. If you’d like to play your own game of what’s different here are the pictures:

Before Picture

After Picture

Village Lights

LittleWit — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:08:36 +0000

I took my little to the Village Lights festivities tonight. We had a great time hanging around at Book Loft for an hour before they turned on the lights. Then we hopped in line for the one horse open sleigh rides. She took this picture of the horse when another group was getting on. You could fit 4 people comfortably and squeeze in 5 if you had small kids. It’s a good thing we happened upon the line early as it got long fast and with each trip being about 10 min the wait time was pretty long.

The horse's name was Erin

After we finished our sleigh ride we hightailed it to the other end of the festival to a bakery to try their cupcakes. Then we walked back and had to head home. It was a great time and I will definitely swing by it again next year. Although I may go with the boy so I can partake in some of the adult festivities and drinking.

New Toys

LittleWit — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:56:39 +0000

I have been struggling with the mouse on my PC for several months now (the scrolling wheel won’t scroll up) and I may have broken the stands on my keyboard a couple of months back. I kept telling myself that I would go get a new mouse and keyboard soon. Today was finally the day, we headed off to Target and while I waded through the horror that is printer ink, the boy located the keyboards and mice. ~ As a side note, I feel that printer ink should last for more than just one ream of paper, heck none of them even purport to last for a ream of paper! ~ Most of the keyboards for sale were all fancy pants and wireless. It appears it is time for me to move on up in the world and get with the times. I was mulling over which keyboard to buy when I realized that the Logitech mouse/keyboard set was on sale for $15. And sold! The boy even picked up a set for himself. We’ll use it in the basement to watch our Netflix movies because we are so hi tech. Some day we may even get a TV with resolution clear enough to read the Netflix menu. Once we got home we plugged them in to check out if they would work with our individual needs – I needed mine to work with my KVM switch and the boy needed to be able to game with his mouse. All was well. I can even scroll up! It’s very exciting for me.

Now, the boy is complaining that his mouse is squeaking…we’ll see if it’s still squeaking in the morning. Silly boy.

In other news, that riddle from yesterday, it’s gotten worse. I am totally going to run out of yarn and I can’t decide if I should just rip it out now at 28″ and just re-knit the yarn into a new pattern. Or if I should block the scarf long or if I should just write a note apologizing to whomever receives the scarf for its short stature and give them some ideas on how to wear it all fancy like. Sigh.

Birthday Boy

LittleWit — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:20:09 +0000

Today is the boy’s birthday. We will now be the same age for the next 2.5 months until I level up again. heh. I think I have just decided to refer to adding years on to my age as leveling up. Brilliant! The boy was quite happy with his “old man gifts” today, new slippers from me and clamps from his parents. Then of course I got him a child’s gift – the Lego Advent calendar which clearly says on the box for ages 5-12. It took some persuading but he won’t be opening any of the doors before the proper day. My sister also made a cake which my parents were awesome enough to deliver. Then we spent the rest of our day just relaxing. We have to get back to the grind tom’w. It’s sad to see this lovely 4 day weekend end.

In other news, I have a riddle for you -

How can a scarf measure 10″ length and 15g of yarn used; then 3 hours later measure 21.5″ length with 45g of yarn used? Give up? Me too. Oh well. Hopefully I won’t run out of yarn too soon. Also, it appears that I have the same gauge all the way through but I haven’t taken a precise measurement. Gauge doesn’t count for scarves

Extended Thanksgiving

LittleWit — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:54:18 +0000

This morning I woke up to SNOW! It’s not cold enough here for it to really stick to the ground or anything but it was sticking to the vehicles and the roofs. After we celebrated a little about the snow we headed up to my Grandma’s house to hang out for Thanksgiving. We had a pleasant day, went out to lunch, cleaned out of some of the attic and put up Christmas decorations. While we were cleaning up part of the attic I found my great grandfather’s report cards ranging from 1st grade to 12th grade starting in 1894. They even had my great great grandfather’s signature saying he had reviewed them. It was kind of awesome and apparently we all come by goofing off in school quite honestly. We also found two pictures on tin which was kind of neat to see. I found this great album of my grandfather from WWII. There were also several great pictures of my mother and my aunt and uncles from when they were all little.

In the evening my Kentucky relatives drove up to visit. We had a lovely visit and got to look at the pro wedding pictures from my cousin’s wedding this summer. We were chatting so long that we lost track of time and the boy and I had to scoot out so we could get home at a decent hour. I can’t wait to see most of them again at Christmas.

Happy Thanksgiving

LittleWit — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:34:21 +0000

Wishing you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving. We’re off to have a wonderful day at the in-laws and with our new friend who is coming along to join in all the food and festivities. I hope your holiday is a wonderful one!

More organizing and housekeeping

LittleWit — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:26:34 +0000

Today wasn’t a very awesome bloggable day. I had a grumbly tummy most of the day which I decided to combat with an hour nap after work. The nap was good especially since I had a puppy to snuggle with. After the nap I got the boy’s birthday presents all wrapped up so he won’t accidentally find them in my cleaning frenzy. I also started to get things around for a finishing party we’re having in two weeks. I even grabbed my mending box out of the closet to see what all needed to be taken care of. It turns out I had a brown pantsuit, brown slacks, 2 black sweaters, a blue top and a red turtle neck that would all be very useful things to wear right now just hanging out in the mending box. I think I will go ahead and see if I can’t get on the ball and get those fixed up. Heck I can’t even locate the problem on one of the black sweaters.

After that discovery and my second or third (doh!) moment of the week I decided to focus on sending out requests for donations for Sticks N Stitches. Keep your fingers crossed that I am not the only one going into work tom’w! Hopefully we’ll hear back soon.

Quick Hit – Sticks N Stitches update and other random musings

LittleWit — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:02:06 +0000

Things I accomplished today and/or have going on. (What an awesome lead in…)

So at the gentle nudging of a member of the Mid Ohio Knitting guild I created an event page on Ravelry for Sticks N Stitches. I can’t believe I forgot to do that! You can find the page here. That should be a much more effective way for me to get an idea of attendance levels.
I have a napping boy and dog on the couch. It’s pretty cute.
Karaoke is in store tonight to amuse the Iowan who is in town for the holidays.
I also need to set about looking at stitch dictionaries but I am feeling rather lazy.
Ravelry has new sorting features for stash yarns. I love it. I also love looking at my stash by color because well for some strange reason I just love my color sense! Shocking I am sure Not to mention all the awesome yellows I found recently are all at the top of my page saying “hello good morning it’s a beautiful cheery day!”
I managed to locate the recipe for dinner rolls for Thanksgiving dinner Thursday at the in-laws. They look so delicious. (the rolls not my in-laws!)
There are 6 completed repeats on the Christmas knitting I am working on. I think there may be 15 repeats total. We shall see. I am only knitting until I run out of yarn. I would like to get this finished this week. Thankfully there will be some car trips and oh that’s right a four day weekend!!!
I have potentially 3 more knitting projects and a crochet project to be done before Christmas. Anyone taking bets on whether I will finish?
The boy made dinner tonight. Potato and double corn chowder in bread bowls. It was awesome. Oh and he went to the grocery store and bought me yummy juice. Win!
On that note I need to wake those two up so we can go to karaoke.

Stuffed Silly

LittleWit — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:30:04 +0000

Today the boy and I headed to his Grandparents G’s residence for their Thanksgiving meal. They live in an assisted living facility that is run by absolutely wonderful people. They served us a meal that consisted of your choice of a salad and then a plate full of ham, turkey, sweet potato casserole, green beans, mashed potatoes and a roll. Then assuming you had saved room it was your choice of dessert – pecan pie, pumpkin pie or iced sugar cookies. I opted for iced sugar cookies with ice cream on the side. Needless to say no one left hungry. The staff told us later that they had 120 guests come in for dinner in addition to the full house of residents they usually have. It was so seamlessly organized it didn’t feel like a large deluge of people coming to eat awesome food! After we gorged ourselves we hung around for a few hours chit chatting. Then the boy and I drove home by way of my parents’ house. You see we had to pick up a friend who is staying with us for the week. My parents’ dog.

I had debated going home and dog proofing the house first, since of course I didn’t think of doing this earlier in the week, but I decided against it. Of course as soon as we walked in the door with her I could see everything in our house that was in just the right spot for her to get into. So we set about putting things out of her reach and doing some general picking up. While picking up I made some great headway in adding more clothes to the pile to donate. My sister came over and relieved me of many of the camisoles that are too short for me anymore.

Then I set about putting away a box of crafts that has been sitting around unpacked since our move. While going through the box I found something that I had been requesting as a Christmas gift – a walking foot for my sewing machine. Turns out I no longer need one because umm I’ve had one for 5 yrs. It seemed odd to me that that my “quilting sewing machine” didn’t come with one but came with all the other optional accessories. I attributed it to being a cheaper model or something. I’ve reached a point in my sewing where I thought it might be useful to have one so I located the part online and noted the location for the boy requesting it for Christmas. It was in my room the whole time. Silly me.