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| Well, it was another great big long weekend of nothing but game play! End of the month and all, it's not like we had money to go out shopping and spending, so it's good we've got things to keep us occupied here at home, and good on-line friends to keep the game playing going til the wee hours of the morning. 
In kiddo news... summers here, but who says we've gotta stop learning. The kiddo's have gone off on this looooong drawn out bit about tectonic plates, and volcanoes, of all things. So for some reason I am here in the middle of *my* summer break looking up stuff, and putting together volcano units, and then we watch videos about eruptions, and then eruptions underwater... and that takes us right into 'well, then what happens to the fish, water, plant life, blah blah blah blah.' And 'why is ash good?' and 'what makes the lava hot?' (I soooo wanted to say trolls *giggle*) just everything you wanted to have to dive into right now now now!!! My children are just no good at turning their brains off for summer break. 
In knitting news... mittens! I can't stop making them. I've tried. It took me two days to crank out one little baby hat between the mitten knitting. Then, I thought I was ok... I was going to do a 6-12 month old size hat out of some bright yellow yarn. I was looking at it. And it screamed mitten! So I ripped back 12 rows, and killed the hat, and now it's becoming a gorgeous yellow mitten. Today though, I am going to stop mitten knitting long enough to make myself a couple of new cotton soap sacks for the shower. I've been promising myself one. Now the bar of soap that I have been using is almost gone, and I said I will not put another bar of soap in that old old yellow cotton sack I made so long ago! I can't shower with no soap!!! So, I must must must get a new one done for me! And maybe a handful or so done for a shelter somewhere.
Now, I do believe since I am caught up on e-mail, and housework, I am going to enjoy a little quiet reading time before I have to answer another jillion questions about how the planet works! 
TTYL 
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| Laugh of the day... got a spam mail this morning that says 'want to spend two nights in Florida!' Geee hummm... oh wait, I already spend *every* night in Florida!!!
Yesterday evening we got a surprise. We were getting ready to go to the store and just as were getting ready to walk out the door there's a knock at the door.  Most shocking, because the only way anyone can get to the door is to climb the gate, so it must be important right!? It was the guy that we're selling the truck to. Well, his son anyway. He was out by the road getting his car hauler thingie set up to hook the truck to! So we get to the swapping of funds and titles, and push the truck out of the spot it's been sitting in forever! And guess whats under the front right tire? A huge turtle/mole/armadillo hole. All the sand is shoved up from the digging of whatever it was that made the hole. Today we will go out and investigate any tracks we can see. Yesterdays pushing of the truck kinda put foot prints and stuff around the hole, so I didn't think to look for animal tracks too. But if anything were in and out of that hole last night it'll leave fresh tracks. I pray there are no snakes down that hole! But it looks turtle-y. But we do tend to have some nasty hissing turtles out this way too. Almost as bad as snakes!
So then we get on the road to the store! I pray we don't find the guy and the truck on the side of the road with flat tires, because that truck has sat for soooo long I'm not really sure how good them tires are gonna hold up. But we didn't see them down our two looooong main roads, so if the tires didn't blow in that far of a trip I'm sure they made it to wherever they were going.
So other stuff from yesterday... the kiddo's were doing puzzles at Jigzone.com and were putting together one and asked me what the heck it was... I looked over and lo and behold... Pacman!!! They were like, 'whats pacman?' So I showed them Pacman on my computer, and made dh grumble about viruses, so when we went out, a stop at the resale game store was in order, and dh got them one game for the GameCube, and one Pacman Collection for the Gameboys and ohmigosh the kiddo's are in lurve with munching little white dots! When I told them we used to play at a game room in the bowling ally and plunk quarters into the machine for each new game they looked at me like I was out of my mind!
And after the wonderful trip down memory lane, we hit the Mart of Wal and got milk, bread, and eggs, and a few assorted things to make mealtimes better! Rice and pasta can get old really really quick no matter how many different kinds of gravy's and sauces you throw on them!
In knitting news... The Maltese Hat is almost finished. It would be finished by now if I hadn't goofed off so much in raid last night. But we had fun. I still got no loot, so if anything drops for me tonight I am totally bidding out the roof for stuff. The dkp system maxes out at 250 and then you just sit there til you spend it on something. I'm praying for a tier piece at this point, because I *know* I can outbid all the hunters and shaman!!! Anyway, I'm off to enjoy this bright sunny day!
TTYL
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| What a day and a half yesterday was! I got up and decided that I just *had* to get stuff done around here. So I tossed in a load of laundry, and then it was straight to the kitchen!!! Things have just been go go go around here lately, and the dishes have been piling right up. And you just don't know how many dishes seven people can use, til ya don't do any for a couple of days!!! Gaaahh! So I washed two loads of dishes, emptied the water, refilled it with new hot soapy water, and soaked another batch of cups, and then ran to hang laundry, and then back to the dishes. All the while the kiddo's were either helping rinse dishes, or picking up the other rooms in the house. After the dishes were done and the second load of laundry was hung out, I went to clean to the corners in the rooms the kiddo's picked up. While they picked up and put away all the stuff I found, 9 yo ds and me went out on the back porch to trim back some of the overgrowth!!! When it rains every afternoon the trellis turns into a jungle!!! Then we came in washed up, sat down and had cold drinks all around. And that was the first time I sat down since I got up!!! Turned on my computer and checked mail for a bit, til the washer stopped and hung out another load. Then went back to dishes. Got all the pots and pans done just in time to start lunch. We're out of bread, so no sandwiches... poke through the cabinets... macaroni shells and two cans of cream of mushroom soup. Wah-lah hamburger helper, without the hamburger! Six more days til payday! Wheeeeeee! After lunch we brought in two loads of laundry, folded it then hung some more out, and then worked on the carpets and floors! After all was said and done, I looked around and all was looking great! After dinner the kiddo's brought out legos, and worked on things that required cutting paper, and 6 yo dd was working on her 100 piece puzzle, and now... the floor don't look so hot. My kitchen still looks mavh-o-lous dahling!!!
In knitting news... yes, after all that house work I ker-plopped and there was knitting. I started on a mitten with the new Impeccable yarn from Micheal's!!! I think I am in *love* with this yarn! It's like a cross between Simply Soft and Red Heart. You get that poofy soft feeling instead of the Red Heart scratchy feeling. I'm going to do some washing with it when the mittens are done though, to see if there is any pilling or shedding. So then we had dinner, and then it was raid time (world of warcraft), so I needed something I could work on by the light of the computer screen while we were waiting on getting the raid set up, or for when we wipe and it takes soooo long for some people to recover. 25 man raids are a wee bit worse than 10 mans, because you have to wait just a bit longer. So I picked the Elizabeth Zimmermann Maltese Fisherman Hat to work on, in a bright lime green color. And by the end of raid I got both the ear flaps done! Today I'll get the hat part whipped up. Tonight is part two of raid, and I will be working on baby hats while fighting a big scary dragon, Hodir, and the cat lady!!! Best news is nothing has dropped for elemental Shaman for the last week and a half, so I have 144 dkp (dragon kill points) saved up to spend!!! I will hopefully win something tonight besides badges!!! There was a ring that dropped last night that I would have loved to have but I bidded low and some goob bidded their entire dkp!!! Ya just can't compete with something like that! LOL
Well 9 yo dd just woke up and tossed in a load of laundry. My washer was going grind grumple crunch crunch. So shes panicking and turning it off. I go over there and dig my arm in up to my shirt sleeve for a couple of minutes, and come up with a domino!!! Dominoes and metal wash tubs make the most horrible racket! LOL Lesson for the day... check your brothers pockets before doing the wash!
TTYL
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| Nice sloooow weekend! We went out on Saturday for essential stuff. Of course I forgot two of the essential things... bread, and eggs. Blah! So now I am trying to wiggle and weasel about meal times, trying to figure out how to make pancakes without eggs... ummm, well they could be drop biscuits... good, we'll go with that. How do you have hotdogs with no bread, or buns? Ummm, you could cut them up, and add them to mac and cheese... good, we'll go with that. I have everything to make cookies except for the eggs too. Can't do nothin about that... so we ate the M&Ms without the cookies. See, there's a way around everything.
Things going on around here... the kiddo's made paper airplanes for all of the ceiling fan blades. Got a bit of yarn scraps to tie and tape them up there, and then put them all on the lowest speeds, so now I have a virtual airport at my house. LOL Now they are taking them down one by one, and coloring them, and adding them back up. It's kinda whimsical. I had my doubts about it at first... but then the little ones can't reach the fans to turn them up faster, so all is good.
In knitting news... I think I'm going to start some scarves, or maybe teen/adult size hats. I've got 14 sets of mittens to seam up, so I need something new to do for a bit. Just finished off 30 something baby hats too, so... I just need something new to make. 10 yo dd found that box of knitted fishes that I made last year, or the year before. She took like colors, blue and light blue, orange and yellow, light green and dark green, and went and seamed them together. For a while she walked around the house with what she called 'fish mittens'! When we couldn't find my bag of poly fill, she stuffed the fish with plastic store bags, and gave them to the littles to play with! Stuffed fish are a hit! Now we need to get poly fill when we go shopping next, so she can stuff some more fish properly, and maybe add some embroidered eyes and smiles, or sharks teeth says Austin, probably cut from felt pieces.
So weekend funny convo with the kids in the van about soda. We're cheap, and stop at the 7-11 for sodas before going to get our dollar burgers. I would go even cheaper and say bring bottled water and a couple of canned sodas from the fridge. But it's such a long ride to town the sodas get all drank up before we get to the burger place. So when you go to 7-11 there is Coke, and Pepsi, and punch, and root beer, and orange soda, and, and, and... So dh usually gets Coke, and then one of the kiddo's gets to choose something different. This time it was 9 yo ds's turn to pick, and he picks Pepsi, but Austin begs and begs and begs 'please get root beer!!!' So since 9 yo ds got Pepsi anyway, one of the things added to the list for the store was a 2 liter of root beer. 9 yo ds asks: 'geeeze why does he like root beer so dang much!?' to which Austin says, 'the best thing about root beer(bear) is that its got BEAR in it!!! Rawr!' And we all crack up! I hadn't noticed, but all this time the boy has been calling it root bear! So now we will probably forever call it root bear! Nom nom!
And that is about all I have for now, because the kiddo's are looking to bump me off this computer because they can make guilds on Free Realms.... wheeeeeeeee! Oh yeah, and 10 yo dd *can read*!!!! Ok, so this kiddo is my worst ever, most biggest worry about will she really be able to read good enough come evaluation time, and then over the weekend she totally shocked my socks off telling me about what a quest in one of her games said!!! I was like wanting to grab her up and hug, and cheer, and celebrate, and she just looks at me with that dull 'moooom, I *know* how to read' look! And I'm like 'but I don't *know* what you know, and you never read anything out loud!' and she waffles and worms her way out of anything to do with reading anything. But good golly she can read those quests all by herself, and it's new parts of the game that I haven't seen yet, so I know it's not a repetition thing! And once again, I am amazed, and feel good about evaluation time! Woot! Now if I can just get the paperwork part of it all together.
And that's the weekend wrap up.
TTYL
Side note: And I cannot color my post because Xanga is giving me a 505 error, so hopefully it's readable against the background.
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| Well about an hour or two after I last blogged dh came riding home in the van! Woot! It was just the battery. Deader than dead can be! They switched it up, and all was good again. So way back when we bought the van, the dealership had told dh about some feature where you could pop a thing if your battery was dead, and it was like a little mini backup battery that would start your engine just once or twice I think. I dunno, dh never found it. But with all the poking around the van that dh did, waaaayy in the back of the glove box he found a filter! For the AC that comes into the van! Ohmigosh was that thing dirty and crudded up!!! So next month first thing on the list of things to buy is that $41 () filter! That ought to make the van smell much better! Not that it smells bad or anything, but just the dirt that was on that filter was enough to see that the air coming in is horribly blocked... and probably not so fresh. And who would go and make the place you insert a filter be the back of the glove box anyway??? Geeze!
So after all that our lawn mower/trimmer repair fund is totally gone. Luckily the house next door to us is still vacant so we blend into the hood. It's boonie out here and if your lawn is down, it's because you have too many people parking on your grass anyway, or pets that eat it.
After all the hubbub with the van I was ready for a rest... but we still had shopping to do, sooooo... off and away we went. To the computer store, and the yarn store (see I thought van repair = dead broke, but I guess we were pretty ok, because I got to yarn shop ) I got some of the new Loops and Threads yarn from Micheal's that everyone is talking about. I like how it feels already, time will only tell how it knits up, and washes. And we grocery shopped at the north Wal-Mart, for which I was sooooooo happy! The one south of us is reconstructing and I *hate hate HATE* it now! They moved the prescription place to the dead center of the store, like where the place you try on clothes is supposed to be. They switched the food stuff all around, and they have like the milk freezer away from the wall so when you're in the chip aisle now you are looking at this big blank silver wall of the back of the milk box and a bunch of exposed pipes. Of course when you go around the corner to get your milk, and eggs, and cheese and stuff, you go into this big L shaped area and you get to the end of it, and there's no way out, so you have to go aaaaaall the way back around and through the chips to get back to the rest of the store and the meat and lunch meat section! I tell ya stoopid people are designing this thing! And you can't *find* anything! They have an aisle marked for Juice, and yeah there's juice in it, but there is no drink mixes. They are allllll they way on the other side of the store! So you go over there, and they have drink mixes and like peanut butter and sunflower seeds on the same aisle! They always used to keep the sunflower seeds and peanuts together on the beer aisle, but now if you want peanuts they are with the chips and popcorn, but sunflower seeds are with the juice! Yeeeeah, that makes total sense!!! So it's things like that that make me hate the south store.
And then we came home, and I put away groceries and got everyone fed, and then came over here to sit at my desk and be mom-ed to death. Mom get me this, and mom read me that, and mom mom mom mom mom. I need a new spot to be. My desk has been overrun by mommers. Dh says I'm pmsing. Funny thing was... my computer was acting up, and he had to sit here for an hour or so the other day to work on it, and they did it all to him and it was hilarious to watch as he sat squished between them all, and they were going dad dad dad dad dad! And then he'd try to get out of my chair... but you *can't* because you are surrounded by *their* chairs, and you have to wait for them to move so you can move! Hee hee, priceless!
So now I am going to go toss in another load of laundry, and go knit for a while. Because I need a relaxing day with nothing breaking... it's kinda hard to put a crack in a knitted hat, or a pair of mittens.
TTYL
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