Sometimes I shake my head at myself

It is said that to repeat the same action over and over, expecting  a different outcome is the definition of insanity. Well some days  I think I am the walking, talking poster child for insanity. The details of my little repetitive actions are not important, they are not illegal, dangerous or nasty, just annoying to the nth degree and costly.  The important thing is I keep doing it. I know better, I try to make a change but for some reason occasionally a part of my mind shuts off, turns to mush, leaks out my ears leaving me brainless and prone to repetitive idiocy. I land myself back in the same spot over and over. Blarrgh!!! I am so done with this.

As much as I would love to let little Miss Crankypants field these shenanigans I am a big girl, I acknowledge this is a monster of my own making and as such, I need to get control and STOP THE INSANITY!!! ( does anyone but me remember that little catch phrase??), Sigh, I really don't like being the grown up at times but needs must and once again I will tidy up the carnage, all the while promising to endeavour to stop repeating the process. Wish me luck, I need all the help I can get. I am my own worst enemy. So Miss Get Over It and Get On With It will do clean up and we will start again. (For those of you that don't know who I am talking about, the two Misses are my split personalities, I am a true Gemini)

Moving on, last night was a lot of fun. I had my book club here for the evening and then J stayed on so she did not have to drive the half hour home to her family. It was late, foggy and she did not have to do her car pool the next day so staying was perfect. We had a wonderful evening as we always do. Lots of talking, laughing and eating. They are a fun group of women, smart, entertaining and interesting. I always feel the night has been a success when the evening lingers on towards 10pm before someone makes a move to go home. Last night was a good evening. I really enjoy entertaining, I just wish I was better at it.

Tomorrow night, Best Friend will be here for the weekend. Yahoo!! Its always good when she gets to come for a visit. I am hoping to get some knitting time done on the poncho I am working on but that may not happen. We shall have to see how busy the weekend gets.  I really want to get it finished and sent away.

 I have three vacation days coming up this month which will stretch out to 6 days with weekend and stat holiday so I am hoping to go create guns at the crafting on those days. I would also like to paint my third bedroom, the red room. I will share pictures of what I get up to, crafting or redecorating.

I am off to knit and do laundry and contemplate how I can change my foolish ways !!

Toodles

Monday Moment with Minou

One glass of wine you said, what can it hurt you said.

Ding Dong the Christmas Trees are gone

Yes, yes, at long last the trees are back in the basement for another year. I always marvel at how I can at times take a reasonably small uncomplicated process and turn it into to a monumental production. However the trees are no longer in the kitchen, I can shut up about it and move on to something else. Nothing like the prospect of a group of women coming to visit for an evening to get you motivated to do what should have been done long ago.

Moving on, I am off to finish the last of the Winter Festival puppets, then a production of The Music of Patsy Cline with E, rounded of with an evening of mending pants for people at work. Oh who's a wild and crazy girl then????????????

I hope you all are having a lovely Sunday.

Toodles,

Linda

Saturday Stuff

Ok so according to the television the reason my Christmas trees are still in the kitchen is that I am not eating the right kin of yogurt. Who knew????????? Actually I have promised myself that this weekend they are getting to the basement no matter what. Yogurt was not involved, the fact that my book club is coming here on Wednesday is the catalyst that will shoot those trees to their proper place. Nothing like the idea of company to kick your housecleaning butt.

So its Saturday, groceries have been bought, errands have been run, thrift stores have been perused, lunch has been made and eaten, now I am dawdling before tackling the house and returning it to its clean and tidy state. I have an evening of knitting for a reward when I have the housework done. I have some mending and some puppets to finish as well today.

Is a rather grey and gloomy day today, perfect to be puttering around the house and getting the place spiffed up. So enough with the chit chat, its time to get at it.  I may be back later when I have completed my goals for the day!! Turn up the Beach Boys I am going in!!!

Toodles

Linda

Where did my mojo go??

I am just not motivated to do anything lately, no Monday Moment with Minou, no regular blog posts, the puppets aren't done, the poncho is not knit, my house is a mess and yes the blasted Christmas trees are still in residence in the freakin' kitchen. ARRRRRGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! I am annoying myself. Yet I sit here, blogging when I should be crocheting, or making a decent supper. The last two nights its been crackers and lemon honey, not so much a balanced healthy diet.

Last night I had a good excuse, I was in the dark, literally. A local business burnt to the ground, thankfully no one was hurt. The hydro pole that services my area was right beside the building so for the entire evening, from 7:00 pm to the wee hours of the morning there was no power at the old homestead. I went to bed around 9:30 as it was getting a little chilly and I was bored. I tried to crochet but I did not have enough candle light to really be able to see well. Gave my self a head ache so I gave up, crawled into bed and had a long uninterrupted snooze. Bliss.

Tonight I have no excuse, seriously I cannot keep avoiding doing what needs to be done. I need an imaginary kick in the pants. I need a tonic, I need......................to smarten up is what I need. It strange, because on the whole once I get going at something, I am happy to putter away at it. I seem to be having trouble getting going. I can pop out a puppet in a couple of hours once I pick up the hook, so far picking up the hook has been almost 4 hours in the thinking stage and still I have not done it. What is up with me???

I have no idea. All I know is that if I eat any more lemon honey I am going to throw up. Well maybe not throw up but its not going to be pretty. Me thinks I should go make some real food, then see if I can't wrap myself around the crochet hook and get hookin'. Mama needs her new stove and the puppets are a means to an end.

Toodles
Linda

Saturday Stuff

Where has the week gone? I haven't done anything so I can't say that it flew by in a flurry of activity. It just seemed to slither by silently, swiftly leaving little to no impact. I blinked and suddenly it was Friday again. I have been knitting on the poncho I have been commissioned to make but that is about all I have done.  Somehow I managed to miss going to see the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The movie has moved on now, I will have to catch it when it comes out on DVD. I enjoyed the book inspite of myself and I really want to see the movie. apparently not enough to actually get myself to the theater in the freezing cold.

Saturday is my usual chore/errand/housework day. Today I have managed to accomplish something. I have so far managed to clean up the living room and then totally make a mess of it again. I finally got the last of the cleaning stuff for my donation basket to the local women's shelter.  (This is my year of giving back and the Women's Shelter is first on the donation list). J and I will make our delivery on Monday. I got the kitchen cleaned, the dishes put away, soup made, two puppets crocheted and a ham baked so I can have sandwiches for lunch next week. (They will go nicely with my homemade chicken noodle soup).

My puppets are going to be raffle prizes at our local Winter Festival, I have a week to get 7 of them made so having two done today is a good start. The University is organizing some books to go with the puppets and they will be up for grabs at the Festival. They acknowledged that it was somewhat short notice but I could hardly say no. I am rather pleased they thought of me. SO I have been crocheting up a storm this afternoon. I had thought I was finished with the puppets for the university but they have ordered a total of 23 more so I am not as finished as I thought I was. I am starting dare to day dream about that new stove again.

I am hanging my head in shame. The Christmas trees, oh the Christmas trees are still not put away. I have decided they want to be a permanent part of the kitchen decor. I cannot seem to  get them to the basement. I had high hopes for it happening today but since I did my face plant outside the elevator at work this week, and yanked a muscle in my considerable butt that connects down the back of my good leg, going up and down stairs is a tad painful. My basement is not really easy access and I just could not make my self face the prospect. So I am starting a new style, fake pine trees in the kitchen, tres trendy, no? It will be showin up in all the decor magazines next year, you just watch.

Oh oh oh I have a picture to share. Its the afghan I made over Christmas: Taa Daa....................

The yarn I used to make it was all given to me by friends who felt I could make use the stuff they had laying around the house. Its so very 70's I love it. I have not need for another afghan in my house so I have decided that it will be our first donation blanket. Most of the yarn came from J's daughter.  I have another one in the works, using all those little yarn leftovers that are not really big enough to make something out of but too big to throw away in good conscience. Scrap afghans are like scrap quilts, they use up little bits and bobs and make something useful. The second one will just be straight stripes but this brown one just begged to be a ripple afghan.

It was the pursuit of this scrap afghan and the puppets that my living room is a total mess again. I have come to the conclusion that my yarn stash is in sad need of some organization. I have baskets and containers of yarn all over the place. It has gotten out of control and will take over if I do not beat it back into submission. Right now its mostly spilled all over the living room. By tomorrow it will be under control again. I need to deal with it. 2012 is the year of paying it foreward and getting it under control.

I am off to start the laundry, then knit the poncho. I hope you are having a good weekend.

Toodles,
Linda

Monday Moment with Minou

Monday....... No Thank You