I’m on row 179/266 on the lion. I’ve slowed down since I’ve been traveling for work, but I’ll finish at some point. :)

I went to Dallas for work. While I was there, we ate a lot of Italian food……not great for dieting, but it was delic!
I also got to hang out with family while I was in town, so that was a lot of fun. Especially hanging out while the little neices had bath time (shampoo horns and mohawks were made). :)

Then I went to Houston for work.
managed to squeeze in:

• catching up with a friend and her little one.
• seeing lil bro’s new casa Sat.
• hitting the local yarn shop with SIL (who crochets) -Surprisingly, they did not have any locally dyed yarn…..I hope at some point they do get some in since I think it would make a neat gift for a friend that knits or crochets.
• dining with the fam. for dad’s 60th birthday Sat. night
• a high school prom after dinner (was chaperoning with SIL)
  This was a lot of fun. It is enjoyable to just people watch and soak up all the glitz and glam and pretty dresses without having had to worry about what you were wearing or how your hair looks overmuch. I recall all the stress that went into my prom and how I even stressed over if my lipstick was going to match my fingernail polish exactly. In hindsight, it probably would have been better if they didn’t match. :) – but luckily, I got a prom do-over in college with TH when we went to Ring Dance. :) Same dress, but I look a lot less ridiculous. :)…..next time I run across my prom pic, I may scan it in for you all to get a laugh at.

  At prom, there was a girl crying…one couple that had to be broken up b/c they were a little tooooo close……a congo line……a yoyo club……a girl with a dress that made her look like Wendy from Peter Pan (she was evidently about number 3 in her class so I’m sure she’ll be very successful in life)…..girls wearing dresses with trains…..girls with tiaras……girls wearing huge white dresses (what will they wear when they get married?)…….girls wearing elbow-length gloves….girls wearing sneakers with their dresses……..girls in civil war sized ball gowns…..a guy in an MJ outfit…..a guy in a sailor uniform……a few drunk kids…….there were top hats, but I didn’t see any canes and I saw exactly one guy who was watching where he was walking so as not to step on dresses. Prom was a lot of fun the second time around. :)

• some beach combing with Dad on Sun.

It was a great weekend! :)

Then Monday, I drove back to Austin and got to spend a week in my own bed. While celebrating Memorial Day, we went tubing Sunday. That was a TON of fun! :) I’m already looking fwd to doing it again at some point this summer. :) Today, I’ll enjoy the holiday and then it is back to work tomorrow. :)

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!


(5/31/2010 9:12 am)

Well, I’ve got 100 rows left of stranded colorwork left before the lion is complete! :)
I thought at one point that I might not finish, but now I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Here’s a photo of the floats on the back (I haven’t posted a pic of the front recently in case TH gets curious):

The one thing that has really paid off since I’m doing fair isled instead of intarsia is that the time I figured out I’d made a mistake two rows back, I was able to drop a couple of stitches, pick the correct color up and redo the stitches(using the floats rather than the original strands) and correct the mistake without having to rip out two rows! :)
Yay for floats (I prefer to say floats rather than “strands” b/c it makes me think of coke floats.)! :)

The Stars won Friday night in a great game. Krahn had 43 saves and Jamie Benn got a hat trick. The final score was 5-3 and I was thrilled! Hopefully they’ll win again tonight and advance. :)
Go STARS! :)

In other news, I saw Iron Man 2. If you liked the first one, I think you’ll enjoy it. I did…..except for the 15 year old boy next to me that couldn’t seem to resist repeating EVERY single quotable line after it was said and making noises too. He was wearing a national guard shirt, so maybe he’ll go into the military and learn to be quiet. His dad shushing him sure wasn’t working. And he was drinking milk rather than soda. I can’t imagine him on sugar!
Tip for parents: If you know you have to shush your kid during movies, have them sit on the end near the aisle.
I managed not to tell him to say anything rude despite the fact that he almost ruined the movie for me…….so, that was something.
and just last week, I was thinking that I don’t really have a problem with repetitive noises (like people clicking their pens or microwaves beeping)…..but you let a teenaged kid talk over my movie…..well, that’s another thing entirely.

Happy Mother’s Day to my mom, Grammy, Grandma Katie, and my MIL.

Everyone else, Happy Sunday! :)

(5/9/2010 4:29 pm)

I’m 60% of the way through the world of warcraft blanket!

I’d like to thank the academy …
and my dog and TH for their patience. :)

How can I only be 60% done?
It is already long enough to cover me while I work on it….

The good news is that I have planned for a margin of error.
Should the early part turn out too long, there will be a foot pocket.
Should the part I’m knitting turn out too long, I’ll stop knitting. :)
When I get to Seventy percent, perhaps I’ll have TH close his eyes and I’ll measure. :)

I’m sooooo glad to be making progress. I cannot wait to be finished!
and then assemble my state fair blanket! and then get to work on all the other stuff I have my eye on! :)
oh, and at SOME point, I should finish the poor crocheted Santa! :) – at least by next Christmas. :)

Peas out! and HAPPY WED! :)

(5/5/2010 10:52 pm)