 spinner_mom
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Gender: Female
Interests: my kiddo's and dh, spinning, knitting, crocheting, reading
Expertise: my family
Occupation: Education/training
Industry: Research
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Member Since:
3/16/2005
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| QotD: What's the first exhibit you visit at the zoo? Well, our zoo is set up so that when you go through the front gate you pretty much gotta visit the monkeys first, and then it's off to one side or the other. If I had my choice the first place I would go to would always be the snake house. It's dark, it's quiet, and they have some beautiful snakes, lizards, and critters! I know a lot of you are creeped out by the snakes and spiders, but I find them quite fascinating... when they aren't all up in my house and stuff.  The second best part of the zoo that I always like to visit is the boardwalk. It's like a 2 mile walk all around the back areas of the zoo. Lots and lots of critters and birds back there.
In around here news... Austin finally lost his tooth!!! After about a week of whining, and grumbling, and watching it wobble, it came out yesterday when we were in the van! I tell ya that thing was hanging on for all it was worth! Austin must have vera vera strong gums or something!!!
In gaming news... everyone is waffling! (dh just read over my shoulder and claims he *is not* waffling  ) *passes the syrup* Aion, WoW, Aion, WoW! Once you get to 20ish to mid 20's in Aion the other faction hits like a truck!!! No mercy!!! If 10 yo dd keeps going she will have eight level 22 characters that will go no further. The PvP will frustrate her to no end. 16 yo ds is having a blast and laughs at the ganking. He must take after his mother, yes? Dh *hates* it! He gets all angry that the other side won't just let him get his stuff done. But that's part of the game! He says when he is level 50 he is going to go on an all out gank-fest on the other side! Muhahahahaha! So now everyone has their WoW accounts re-activated just like I wished the other day... and ya know that old saying, be careful what you wish for? Well, here I sit with four kiddo's surrounding me, and they chat my head right off, 'mom what's this quest say' 'mom look at me' 'mom come help me with this' 'mom I want to do that for the achievement. come help me' Now I get to play four other peoples WoW, and have not much time for my own stuff. Feast or famine. I'm either utterly alone, or I've got so many people pulling me in all directions, I can't get stuff done! *le sigh*
In knitting news... I'm up to my eyeballs in Christmas baby hats! I can't wait to get the pom poms on them. They are going to look so cute!!! I am also working on more wool hats for Ships! They need black, and not many people like to work with black or dark colors, because it is sooo hard to see the stitches. I am fortunate that my eyes are still good, and I have a bright sunny window every morning to knit next to. I can do black!
In reading news... today I am going to start New Moon! I've been hearing more stuff about it, and everyone swears it is going to be so good that I won't put it down. The guys (yes guys! I cannot believe how many guys are in love with these Twilight books) at Best Buy swear that it's their favorite!!! I'm just praying it's not gonna be more high school fluff like the first book was. *rolls eyes*
Now I must go unload the washer into the bright sunshine! And then cook lunch. And then I deserve a big ol break! I had to put all the stuff we got at Sam's Club away this morning, and I felt like I was back in the restaurant biz unloading a truck!!! Oh, and we got cool restaurant style plastic tumblers yesterday too. You know like when you eat out at IHoP, the big plastic soda/tea glasses. We put up all our crappy little plastic Wal-Mart cups (probably use them for gardening next Spring), and now when I open my cupboard I smile because it's all bright clear beautiful cups!!! Nice!
TTYL 
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| Happy Friday the 13th!!!! The day where you can blame anything and everything that goes wrong on it just being... today!!! 
QotD: If you could change your name, what would you change it to? I don't think I would want to change my name. For one reason, my parents named me and my sisters with L names, and it's always been a thing when we were growing up and we would be introduced to people, and they'd call us the three L's. Hated it then, but it's kinda fun now. And then most of the time when I introduce myself to people, I'd say about half the time I get someone that says 'you know, your name means ~pretty one~ in Spanish?' I still like it when people say that.  There was a time when I was hooked on Katharine Hepburn movies, and I just loved everything about how she was. I think back then I would have liked to change my name to Katharine! Kate! Katie! But for now I'll just live with the pretty comments.
In around here news... it's warmed up a wee little bit. We've made it to the 60's today!!! Thank goodness. As the day wore on yesterday it just got colder and colder, and by bed time my hands were just cramping up into little curled up messes. Took a while this morning to get them moving again. Thank goodness for dishes and knitting. Nothin like a hot water soak, and a little knitting to get the day going.
In everything else news... not much has changed since yesterday. Still knitting on the same stuff, still reading the same books, still playing the same MMORPGs. LOL I think today I am going to make some cookies! Maybe double batch them, so they last through the weekend. I can do M&M ones for one batch, and the girls have been begging for oatmeal raisin cookies. So that'll be batch number two! I am soooo looking forward to in the next week or so doing Nut Tussies again!!! I'll make a batch for Thanksgiving weekend, and then next month make another big batch for Christmas!!!
And that's about all I have for today. I'll try and get in a picture post over the weekend. Not sure how busy we're going to be, but my camera is filling up again.
TTYL
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| QotD: How will you use technology or the Internet to help you plan and prepare this year’s Thanksgiving feast? Ummm, I've been doing this for many many years with out much gadgetry, I think I can handle it without technology! If someone would like to buy me a dishwasher though... I would  love you for ~*life*~! Other than that the turkey goes in the roasting pan, into a nongadgety gas stove, everything gets cooked in regular old pots and pans, and all the dishes are done by me, by hand, in a never ending stream until we sit down to eat!
In around here news... woke up this morning freezing! My legs were uncovered, and cold muscles means leg cramps. Ugh. So I got up and then realized my right hand was all cramped up too. I'm getting to where I don't even feel this stuff no more. I just roll with it. So I got on warm clothes, and I'm sitting here wrapped in a blanket wishing I had worked on my nice warm wool shawl for me. Oh well. And ya think I would grab it up and work on it on such a chilly day. But no, I'm working on hats. Because no matter how cold I am now, there are others out there in the elements. It's dropped down into the teens and twenty's in Afghanistan over the past few weeks! Ellen at Ships is going to need more hats and gaiters for the troops! She won't be accepting them again til the first week in January, and I plan to have a big ol batch of them ready to go! Right now shes up to her eyeballs in holiday items for the troops I'm sure, and she is always accepting donations to get the packages mailed off, so if you can help out with even just five dollars or so, I'm sure she will be more than grateful to get it! Just clickie click the link in my sidebar, and hit the Join Us button if you want to help her get those Christmas packages off and away!
In knitting stuff... I will be finishing off a hat today, and starting another one. I am also going to do a picture tutorial on those baby sweater pieces I've been working on. I have enough of them done for three sweaters now. One set for twins, and then just one extra in two different colors. And last but not least, today I will be working on a blanket that I started some months ago. I made a dishcloth picture pattern with a teddy bear picture on it for the center of a baby blanket. I've decided to edge it in Christmas colors for a holiday-ish blanket for the local hospital. It's going to be log cabin like the other ones I've pictured over at Ravelry. I'll be using greens, reds, and whites, and then trimming it in blue I think. But you know how the hospitals have this blue for boys thing... maybe I'll trim it in deep purple even though it doesn't seem terribly Christmassy.
Dang it! Just checked the thermometer outside and it's 55 degrees!!! In the middle of the day!!!!  Maybe I'll go knit me a pair of leg warmers to match my fingerless mitts! Gah!
In kiddo news... yesterday the girls got to working on my hair. No one here wants me to cut it! LOL So we went with two pony tails. They thought I looked great!!! I thought I looked a bit like a long haired cocker spaniel, but ya know. So then we had to run to the store. And much to 10 yo dd's horror... 'umm, mom. Maybe you should fix your hair?' And I flipped down the visor mirror and was like 'looks alright' and she was like 'I mean like take out the pony tails' I was like 'nah, it looks ok' Of course I could have really really really mortified her and whipped them up into Princess Leah buns. But I just went with mild mortification for now. One day most of my dear children may need a wee bit of therapy.
TTYL
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| Funny stuff today... I'm sitting at my desk humming a tune and 10 yo dd comes over and looks at my I-pod screen. It's blank. She pops an earpiece out of my ear and listens, and says 'Mom, this thing isn't even on!' I said, 'I know' and smile at her. Bwhahahahahahaha! Edit: for inquiring minds, the Ipod was off because I was reading important stuff. I can read fluff and everyday e-mail things with music on, but then I got to the important stuff that I needed to sink in for 16 yo ds's school stuff, and when I need to absorb important stuff, I need the music off. But I still hum.
QotD: What was your favorite class in high school? Science! For some reason all of my science teachers were always the coolest people. All the way from 8th grade through 11th! I didn't do senior year, because the high school that I went to was waaaaayyy freakin over croweded and I was tired of fighting for my space. Three years after I quit high school, they built a new high school across town, and when they divided the student body the other school *and* my high school were both still above maximum capacity! That'll give you an idea of how crowded it was when I was there. Two years after that they built a third high school, and things started being less cramped. But by then it was like five years later. So blah. Yaaayy, for the local community college and their alternative ed programs. And yeah, CC had a cool science teacher also. Except he was also the cool English and Physics teacher as well.
Yesterdays QotD, since I was so busy postin pictures I for got to answer it : How do you vent anger? I don't think I do. When I get angry, I get quiet. It drives people I know bonkers, from my sisters, to my dh. It used to make my mom absolutely nuts! She used to scream at me to 'just blow up already!' I don't think I ever just blow up. If they pest me when I'm angry I end up crying. I hate being angry though. It makes me really really tired, really quickly. I just don't have the time to wear myself out like that.
And in gaming news... because you know I get worked up about it, just like I do knitting and other stuff, so ya gotta sit through a paragraph about it, even if you don't understand it. So dh has kinda come back to World of Warcraft. He's been on the PTR (private test realm) Blizzard (the company that puts out WoW) does testing for new content that they are going to launch. So dh copies a couple of his level 80 characters over, and tries out the new stuff and submits little surveys about how he likes stuff, or what could make it better. The big new stuff coming out next patch is cross server PUG (pick up group) dungeons! Basically you click a button, and it puts you in a group with people from all over, instead of just on your server! Tonight they are going to have developers in the PuG dungeons with people, which is going to be soooooo cool for all the geeky WoW fans. In my own WoW news... paladins are so freakin over powered!!! I've been playing mine for the past two weeks or so, and I just... have no words! Once again I am grouping with friends and we are blowing stuff up on our alts, and it is just too much fun! Sure wish all the kiddo's and dh were back in WoW full time though.
In knitting news... top secret Christmas presents underway. And 10 yo dd is pesting me to make her a pair of slippers out of the Interweave Knits mag. It'll take sock makin skillz, and has heel turning and everything. I've only done that a few times and had to fudge my way through it, making crap up as I went along. My socks still looked like socks... I'm just hoping the slippers will come out ok also. She has picked a yarn in the color Deep Violet. Keep your fingers crossed for me.
And with that I am off to read my book! I skipped reading it yesterday. I forget why. Must have been busy with something. But I have an hour or so to kill now, so I'm going to pop on my WoW fishing and read for a while.
TTYL
Edit: Dear Mr. Hat reminded me what day it was! In new knitting news... I will be working on 6x9 rectangles for Handmade Afghan Project! Check out all the cool blankets we as a group of volunteers have made! Also cool pictures of put together events and some of the people that make all of this possible! Salute to all the Vets, and all the fallen and their families!
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| What a day! Dh got my printer drivers reinstalled so everyone got math worksheets! Yaaayy, me! I swear Austin would be soooo booted straight to wherever they boot nutball kiddo's, if he were in school. His math worksheet took him twice as long, because all of his numbers have 'icicles on them'! His answers are amazingly correct, and he's starting to learn carrying, so yeah, go ahead and add them icicles if you must! 10 yo dd decided to put her math aside after just a few problems, and go into the kitchen and cook a can of mushroom soup. She used the whisk, and whipped it into a frothy idunnowhat! She says it tastes good, and I guess that's all that matters.
I got to wash my hair this morning! Yaaayy me, again! I try and get it washed at least twice a week. But I swear it is getting so long, it is getting to be a chore to wash. I am considering lopping it in half. And it's almost three hours later from the washing now, and it's still damp. Some days, I hate my hair. I think I'll go with braids for the afternoon. It's windy out today, and I don't want to look like a frellin muppet out there with my hair blowing about.
And in knitterly picture goodness...
Here, finally, is my picture if Mittenz 09 challenge. Better late than never, eh? They were mailed off on time, except to be able to enter into Ann's drawing for goodies you need to have a picture to show, and my capabilities to show them were out to lunch. And them grotesquely Pinque ones are for you Ann, cuz I you!
And here are the mittens, hats, and scarf I sent to Sandy. If you've been over to the Bridge blog you've already seen them though. The mittens and hats that are green and red are made from some yarn that was handed off to me from a good friend who controls her stash habits a whooooole lot better than me!
In critter news... Here is a picture of the box turtle we had up on our porch a couple of months back. Poor critter got up there, and then couldn't find his way back down. A storm was rolling in, so he was trying to dig his way off the porch, so lucky me got to go help the critter back into the yard.
Here is yet another Mothra!!! Every now and again we get one. This one was a very vivid color compared to the one from last year that was grayish and light light brown.
And here is our latest cat that's been hanging around. I'm calling it Marbles. Cats that hang out any length of time around here get names, so we remember who we're talking about. Like I can say Tom and Jerry, or Grawp, or Boots to dh and he knows exactly which stray cats I'm talking about. Here's hoping Marble won't get scared off by the bears in the neighborhood... or eaten! Do bears eat cats? I wonder? Plus we've got the dogs next door now, so cats don't generally hang around here much anymore. And I can't put out food for the strays because of the bear. Stoopid bear!
And that's about all for now. The kiddo's are bugging to walk to the mailbox, because our movies are in there. They all blasted through their school work, and are now pleading to go get them. Of course once they are outside and the wind is whipping, and they can hoot and holler, no one is gonna come back in to watch a movie! I do believe the fall weather has finally gotten here. Off and away...
TTYL
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