St. Patrick’s Weekend March 14, 2009

This is a big thing in Buffalo.  Huge even.  The corned beef has been flying out of Weggie’s and the beer is freely flowing.  Parade is tomorrow and a Keg’s and Eggs party at a few friends houses. Should prove to be interesting.

I had my annual review at work this week and it was bad.  My boss and I have never had a very great relationship and it appears to have gotten much worse over the last year.  Now that I have had a chance to calm down, I have to admit he is right on a lot of things and I shouldn’t be angry about the things he was wrong about.

I do need to become more organized.  I have let a lot of things slide in the last year or so and this one is HUGE.  It is a fact that I function better with routines.  I need a sort of ritual to keep me in place.  I need to start with some sort of daily schedule and try it out, tweaking it in places were it rubs the wrong way.  I think I will start from home tomorrow on my day off.  Spring is coming and it feels like I should take a step towards rebirth.

This does not mean that I’ll be frittering my time away in the yarn room organizing cleaning playing.

Maybe the luck of the Irish will wear off on me!

Knitting muses attack February 11, 2009

I was looking through my copies of interweave knits and found this issue.

Don’t know why it was never looked through, but there are some awesome patterns in here for yarn i’ve had mouldering in my stash. This is the copy with Brenda Dayne’s essay on the muses. 5 years later, I’m inspired.

Springtime in February February 10, 2009

48 degrees today.  The snow is gone and I’m twitching.  The pneumonia is lingering, I can work but I am exhausted in a matter of hours.  So off to the office I go.

Facebook is freaking me out.  There, I said it.  I don’t know about you, but I never felt well known or liked in High School.  Now people keep popping up and “friend-ing” me.   I always accept because I don’t want to be snobbish or aloof, but another part says who are these people and where have they been for the last x years.  Whatever.  I’m grumpy today.

Home Sick February 3, 2009

Been yucky for over a week, didn’t sleep last night because I couldn’t breath, Dr’s office tomorrow.

Hello February, when did you show up? February 2, 2009

Hey folks!  Wow, I haven’t been here in a while…so long, in fact, I forgot my password.  Yikes!  Lots of neato stuff has been going on, but I completely forgot to blog.  Well, that and I haven’t got a camera at the moment.  My Cannon Elph, circa 2003 is having battery issues.  A replacement battery for this dinosaur of a camera (2 mega pixels!) is about $50.  A new camera is around $150.  The point is moot anyway because I don’t have a spare $50 these days.  So You, my dear reader, will have to deal with pictureless posts for sideways pictures from the iPhone.

Superbowl Sunday.  An excuse to pig out and lay on the couch in a stupor.  Mr. Bunny and I are staying home tonight.  We have cooked up a feast, you would think there were people coming over.  Sloppy Joe Sliders courtsey of Martha, Potato Skins from Simply Recipes and Cream Cheese Taco Dip from my wee little brain. Yummy.

Haven’t gotten around to joing the gym yet, but to have my 22 weeks to train for the Musselman I need to start training next Monday.  I told my family about my goal of the Sprint Tri before my 30th birthday and they laughed.  I’ll do it, if for nothing else than the satisfaction of telling Mumsey dear she had better stop crushing my dreams.

Merry Hexmas to me! January 3, 2009

Mr. Bunny arrived last night with the Musicman bearing gifts.  A treadmill, a NordicTrack, a heavy bag, and a weight bench.  Wonderful!  This morning I got up and did a half hour on the treadmill while watching the morning news.  Triathalon training will be starting next week.  I have a 22 week plan, and although my family has poo poo’ed the idea I’m determined to get this done.  I do need to remember to get the gym membership thing done Monday.

The house is getting a bit of a reorg.  My deconstruction crew will be here in a few weeks to cut down walls and put some more up.  Fun.

Hello 2009, nice to meet you. January 2, 2009

New Year’s day has been a quiet one around here.  I’m grateful for that.  We had a peaceful night in, slept in this morning, watched the Rose Bowl Parade, shopped for groceries, napped, cooked, lazed about.

Tomorrow I will have my upper attachments removed from my Invisalign’s and will only be working on straightening my lower teeth.  I also need to go on a massive cleaning spree as I was too busy to get to it before now.  The house is a wreck.

Solstice December 21, 2008

Well, we’re here. The light is returning. Having just started the crawl out of my own darkness, this one is a solstice to celebrate. I’ll be lighting a candle tonight and celebrating.

149! November 5, 2008

I haven’t seen a 4 in months!  Woo Hoooo!

Random Thoughts & Election Day November 4, 2008

At the ungodly hour of 5:55 this morning, I rolled out of bed, pulled on some sweats and walked to my polling station.  Sans coffee.  I know!  I was coherent enough to let the lovely election inspections (who could rattle off and spell some seriously long and convoluted Polish names) who I I was and spell out the 12 letters in my entire name.  The lady in front of me had 16 in her last name alone!  I pulled all my little levers and went home.  Woot!

BTW, who is the canidate running on the platform that says the felines get more of the bed than the 2 humans who are 5′3″ and 6′?  I mean really.  I like snuggling as much as the next gal, but the 2 of us on half of a queen size bed?

I’m hoping the flax seeds in my Stonyfield Farm low fat blueberry yogurt will outweigh the poisen that is a Tim Horton’s Double Double.

Working at Wegman’s is chewing up my hand something fierce.  I hope they toughen up.  That job is too much fun some days.

The Turkey Trot is coming.  3 more weeks.  Guess I might want to think about running again.

I am working on lined mitts for Mom, there was thumb drama, but the answer came to me when I was lying in bed.

Sleep deprivation and time chenges.  Blech!  Although my bathroom is super clean!