Famous Last Words

In my last post I mention Youngest not being well and that it looked like she was on the road to recovery. An hour after that post, I was on my way to the emergency room with her. I thought she had appendicitis. 8 hours later it turned out that she had a kidney stone that had became stuck. This is waaay not good! She only has one kidney and I kinda freaked (quietly so's not to freak her out). Long story short, it was removed yesterday and she is on the mend.
Oldest came as soon as she was called and spent the first night in the hospital as I was asleep on my feet. I was with her last night and tonight she kicked me out as soon as the nurses set her up with the DVD player.
If she continues to drink her IV will be removed and she might be home sometime tomorrow. I know she's feeling much better as she's was starting to giggle this afternoon. I had to leave for a couple of hours and her nurse was going to wash her hair for me. They had an experience! The 'showerhead' fell off the hose and water went everywhere! Not a way I would recommend to clean the walls or floor but Youngest has clean hair.
I'm home for the night with cell phone on in case she needs to call. Love Muffin and Little Man are here for the rest of the week, we have lights, heat and presents for under the tree and life is good.
Merry Christmas to all.
PS - my sister had gastric bypass surgery yesterday and is doing well. She should be on her way home tomorrow as well.

I Win! (I think)

I've been adding my stash (S.A.B.L.E. x2) into Ravelry. Ho Boy! I've only gotten a few boxes from the storage room (ala back half of the garage) and well .... you decide.

http://www.ravelry.com/people/thefibergoddess/stash

See the first tab? See that number? How did I let it get so out of control??? Mind you I haven't even started with the hand spun or the realllly good stuff that WILL NOT be put out there.
I was on a roll with this until Friday afternoon when the snow started which has not stopped! Husband has cleared a path twice to the door in between fixing my car.
Oh yeah, yesterday after clearing it off and shoveling the snow from around it, I tried to start it. Well, it was the original battery to the car which is 12 years old and it was 12 degrees out so I guess it was time for it to die. I now have a brand new battery and can go get my Honey Dew Chocolate Raspberry coffee today. Only I'll have to clear my car AGAIN.
And Wanda has been visiting. Thursday night she ran to the back door to worship at the feet of Husband. And has pretty much been miserably when he hasn't been around. See!

But she has been outside a few times. Right now the snow in the backyard is deeper then her so I've kept her to the shoveled walkway.


And she is definitely a hot house flower.



And snore! I'm not sure who is louder - her or Husband! At the moment, she's on the couch with Youngest who kept Husband and myself up all night holding her head and cleaning up messes. Not sure what the problem was/is but it seems to have run it course.
I'm off to try and get another storage box to add to my Stash or got get coffee or maybe just snuggle under the covers and finish a project or 2.

PS - did I mention we're in for another storm on Tuesday?

Curses

Ok, so it's not officially winter. But it sure is looking like it. I took the dogs out at 6 am and the walkway's were wet. Hard pellets hit my face and I was instantly pissed. The grass is almost covered and I'm sure the back deck is slick as a hockey rink. I've got to find my boots, then clean the dust off of them before I can hit the S.A.B.L.E. for a new project.
Youngest is being a PIA cause she wants to go Shopping and neither me or Husband wants to move out the door. I'm out of coffee and waiting for a phone call before I go out at which time I will stop and get a can.
All I want to do is bundle up with a hot cup a', yarn and a good movie and not have to do anything.
But we need food and clean clothes so I'm hoping to get a couple of hours today of knitting in.
Well, at least the white stuff waited until December to start. I just hope this is not a preview of the rest of winter.

This and That

Wow, it's been awhile since my last entry. No cookie for me. Been working and knitting - alot! Lately I've been on Ravelry (thefibergoddess) getting my projects, stash and needles input. Since the beginning of November I've gotten a few things done and today I added pictures! Now if I could just figure out the 'instant messaging' part, I be cooking with gas. We went to the in-law's as usual for Thanksgiving and had The Boss with us. She went home with Oldest yesterday and I do miss her already. With her help I was able to clean a lot of clutter out of the kitchen. She and I came up with a plan! I'm going to get her a couple of weekends a month and we'll work together on a project around the house to whip it into shape. For what ever reason, Husband and Youngest can't/won't help out and I can't keep up with them. The Boss really likes to be busy which makes her the perfect helper for me. I can stay in one spot and hand her stuff with orders as to what to do with it and she does it.
Once Husband gets home, I'm going to be boiling the turkey for soup. I need to warm up the kitchen, which will warm up the rest of the house. I ran out to the S.A.B.L.E. and it's COLD out side! So it looks like soup and home-made bread for supper tonight.
As much as Husband claims to be a cat person, he seems to get along pretty well with all the dogs I've brought home to visit. Check these out -

Well, he's pulling into the drive with my coffee so I'm off to make soup and bread. Stay warm and I'll try to be a better blogger.

House Guests

I've have a few house guest overnight. Their quite, mostly respectful and a whole lotta fun! They've visited before, sometimes overnight and sometimes just for the day.
This time they arrived just before dinner and they'll be going home just before bedtime.
Meet Little Man and the Love Muffin.



Little Man will run and get his squeaky toy's for me to play with him. But he's so small I have to be careful with him here at the house. He can make it up the stairs but not down. I've got a baby gate across the stairs and he doesn't even bother looking at it.


Love Muffin is just that! She loves to be petted and will sit on you. If you don't pay attention to her, she'll give you a tap on the back of your leg. What she really likes it to have her belly rubbed.

Pretty soon, I'll be seeing them on a much more regular basis. I took a job with their owner and I'll be starting in a couple of weeks.

Now, I just gotta make it through the next 2 weeks at my regular job before I can play!

Meet and Greet

Since I've got the new swanky computer and have uploaded a whole camera full of pic's, I thought I would show you a few.

This is the Oldest when she was about 4 months old.

This is the oldest 2 years ago. She is doing the Cotton Eye Joe, wearing her father's hat, in a strapless dress. What you can't see is the WHOLE skirt of the dress wrapped around her arm. I was impressed!

This is me with my girl's. Oldest is about 8 and Younger is 3. See, even back then I still had the braid.


This is Younger last year when she turned 23!


This is Brother on his wedding day almost 20 years ago with Husband.


This is Husband at the restaurant we took Oldest to for her birthday. He forgot his glasses and borrowed mine.


This is The Boss at 2. She was telling someone that she WAS opening her present and their's was next.


This is her at her mother's birthday dinner. Any questions?!


This is The Gift. She was 5 hours old in this picture


This is The Gift at my birthday dinner. Yes, she is mostly that happy.


And just so you know where I get my knitting from


This is my Mom's big sister.

Cha! Cha! CHANGES!!

I went from this

to this yesterday.

A brand new, nobody else has used it but me, computer! I think I'm in love .....

Of course this is the result today -

Reinstalling software can be a pain, but since I organized where I kept them, I was able to get most of what I needed to reinstall done. Including the software and cable to upload ALL the pictures from the digital camera. Hence, these pictures!
There are still a couple of things on the old computer that have not been transfered over, but I can live without them for the moment.
Does anyone have a disk for Outlook 2003? I have a registration number but no disk (the last place that did the install stuff on the old computer did not give me a copy of anything!)

And Junior WON!!!! Youngest is a very happy girl.

Oldest is almost to Disney World and from the phone call that Husband got, The Gift is not happy. Sounds like she did not get the travel gene. I can't wait to hear what The Boss has to say about all this.

Oh and check this out



I made this over here - http://www.mylivesignature.com/

I think I'm becoming a bit of a computer geek LOL