Someone is Watching Me

This weekend, Skizye and I got out of town for an afternoon/evening to go to a wedding. It was one of those really traditional Catholic weddings. An hour long, beautiful bride, lighting candles, Communion, standing.. sitting.. kneeling.. standing.. sitting.. etc. Then there was the three hour gap between the wedding and the reception. Three hours!

We headed over to a friend's house. He lived closer than we do. The boys sat around and played poker. Our hostess took a nap because she worked in the morning. I took full advantage of this time to work on the Baby February Sweater. I actually got most of it done. Only the sleeves are left and I have to wait to knit on those until I borrow some size 8 double points.

It turns out that as I sat there peacefully knitting, I was being watched. There was someone plotting to do something to my yarn. I finally tossed my project into my purse and threw it on the couch. Within seconds, my stalker pounced. Quite literally, he pounced.

Meet Marley. Well, not the dog, but the cat.

"Finally, she walked away from that yummy smelling wool.""Needles... in... the... way.""Just need to grab it here and...""I got it! I got it!"

Needless to say, Marley was given a length of yarn before I left. For being an anti-social cat, he sure did like me once I gave him that yarn. And just for fun, here is a picture of the two of us, cause my man is lookin pretty hot. Of course, the one picture of me, my belly can't be seen because of the table. That and black is so slimming ;-)

A Busy Afternoon

I had a very busy afternoon the other day that was filled with a few knitting funnies. It started as I was leaving work and has to do with a trash can. Here's our trash bin outside of the office. It has a cute little fence around it so that people driving by don't have to look at a nasty trash bin. I always take out the trash and then head back in to finish up my end of day duties. This particular afternoon, I empty my trashes before the hygienist, so there was a bag sitting by the door as I was leaving. I grabbed my purse, knitting bag and the trash and headed out the door. Guess which one I threw away?

My knitting. Fortunately, as I threw the bag over the little fence, nothing fell out. Because I so would of been dumpster diving. The doctor grabbed it for me instead. There was a lot of yarn in that bag. All of this...It's my first project for the Battlestar Galactica game that I am playing on Ravelry. Also, I don't own all of this yarn. Senora Fuerte and I went in halves to buy the yarn. When I'm done, she is going to make a pair of these Rainy Day Gloves, too. I was laughing so hard about throwing it away, that I just had to share.

After that I picked up Chiquita and headed to Michaels to buy the yarn for my Raider Training, also part of the BSG game. This is the only yarn I will be buying for the whole three month game. I'm trying to use this as a way to stash bust. I also know that I am going to get a lot of heck from some of you for going to Michaels (I'm such a yarn snob that it annoys my friends. Well, all the friends except the ones I've made something for with my fancy yarn). This is going to be a blanket for Chicklet. I bought the exact same yarn that I used to make Chiquita's blanket (seen in the background). It should be interesting crocheting instead of knitting. The funny part of our trip happened while I was waiting for someone to meet me at the help desk. There was a ball too high for me to reach. As we were waiting, other balls in hand, a lady walked up and asked the girl , who was barely walking over, if they sold knitting yarn. Then she saw me and pointed. I told her that we were headed there right now. Of course, I had to plug WWKIP Day and invite her to join me and my knitting group. Everytime I go to Michaels, I see someone in the yarn section and attack them with the come to my knitting group line. I can't help myself.

I'm now going to bug you to join us for WWKIP Day. I added a link with all the info in the upper right corner. If you aren't local, I encourage you to use the website and find a location near you. See, can't help myself.

Body Parts

There are some parts of the body that the sun should never shine. Really.

I know what your thinking, "Geez, your pregnant, don't you think you could cover up a little. It's not like showing it off is going to make the kid come out any sooner." But it's not like that.

We were in Palm Springs for the holiday weekend. It was a ton of fun just hanging out at the pool. Yeah, now your thinking, "Oh, Palm Springs, it was one of those hotels with the clothing optional pools." Yeah, Palm Springs can be fun, but we were at a family oriented place.

Actually, it was a really cute place. This is the only type of hotel that I want to stay in for the rest of my life. We went with a big group of people and hung out at the pool all day long. Chiquita was in heaven. With all the other kids around, we finally got to see all of those swimming lessons pay off. When it's just us, she never wants to swim on her own. Add other kids and she's doing cannonballs, diving under water, doggy paddling. I was impressed.

Getting Dad during the Water Balloon Fight

I on the other hand spent an afternoon in a mesh floaty. My chest, top part of my belly and my knee caps were all that were sticking out of the water. The result was my chest, top part of my belly, and knee caps getting sunburnt. The belly looks really funny. It's like a snow capped mountain. Only the bottom half is tan/half white and the top is red. Not lobster red, just itchy, spotty red. This wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for that one body part. The point of the story...

She's actually missing three teeth right now.

The inside of my belly button is BURNT. It hurts. It's suppose to be happy and protected cause I have an in-nie. It hasn't popped out, but it is flat and exposed. Now it hurts. Well, now that it is the end of the second day afterward, it doesn't really hurt that much anymore. But how funny I burnt my belly button. And my knee caps? That one is just odd.

Oh, no knitting got done because it was 95 degrees out and I was working with wool... and that mesh floaty was calling my name.