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Now you see her…

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…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. :P 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

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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

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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. :D

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

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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. :D 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 :P

Extended Thanksgiving

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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.