Just another Manic Monday

I am sitting here at work, patiently waiting for the snow to come. This is not making me happy as I will probably have a 3hr commute home tonight. At least I was able to move my car this morning so I will not get plowed in - not that I plan on driving anywhere anytime soon.

I had mentioned before, that my office here in the city is closing and I am relocating to our office in Queens. This is our last month here and things have gotten really really slow. I am looking forward to being busy again.

The cape is coming along nicely - I really can't visualize how it is going to work up - but the pattern is really easy and portable, so I can take it on the bus with me. I can't do that with the FBS or Mariah - Speaking of FBS - I think I can finish it by next weekend - so the next picture will be a FO!

I only watched about an hour of the Oscar's last night while crochetting the shawl - I thought Cate Blanchette, Hilary Swank and Virginia Madsen looked amazing, but I the whole I was not impressed, although can we say black looks like the new black.

Sunday, That's My Fun Day....

Another fun weekend here at knitwitch. Yesterday David, the boys and I drove up to Conn. to the Submarine Museum in Groton.

We had a lovely day just riding around. I took a picture of this bridge 'cause I thought is was cool:
I brought the cape pattern from Lionbrand - It was the hands down favorite. Very, very easy pattern to make, I will post pics when I have a little bit more done.

Today I went to Michael's - I have a $25 gift cert. It turns out I don't have enough yarn to finish the shawl I was making for my Crochetville swap partner so I had to pick out something else. The yarn I was using is from Elann and there is none left so a change was necessary. I bought some yarn I think will be perfect for my swap buddy. I also bought some more beading supplies. I cut out a 40% coupon and bought myself this:
It is a beading board, I also bought more beads to make this: - it is for a fellow RAOK'r - I will be mailing it out tmrw.

Tonight it is crocheting with Oscar. I haven't seen any of the nominated movies - can't tell you what the last movie I saw was, but I love looking at the clothes and jewelry - that is the best part.

3rd time lucky

When I got home tonight the mailman had once again dropped off a goody package from my Crochetville Secret Pal:

5 skeins of homespun in Tudor a very pretty purple/teal/green/cream combo, 2 more CD's: How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb and the Garden State soundtrack. I am downloading the music as I type. Secret Pal you are amazing!!

I went looking and found 2 patterns that I like for this yarn:

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Is it Friday yet?

After spending all day yesterday in a Thera-flu induced coma, I am now back at work and functioning (barely). I won't bore you with list of my ailments, suffice it to say I am not really all here. No knitting was done yesterday - hopefully I will be able to remember the difference between knitting and purling tonight and get some more work done.

All the stuff I have been meaning to post...

Catchy title, huh? After blogger kept eating the end of my last post, I decided I was just too sick to deal with it and left it alone for a while. I still feel like crap, the pernicious evil ( for those familiar with TCM) has settled in my lungs - I should be coughing one up soon, [edit - blogger just ate most of this post too, so it is a lot shorter than originally planned - I am too tired to retype the whole thing]

but I wanted to finish thanking Rebecca at http://itgirl2.blogspot.com for the wonderful RAOK she sent me:
which included a whole bunch of this:
that I have been drinking gallons of in an effort to feel better. Thank you!

I also want to thank my Crochetville SP - she sent me the most awesome gift - Green Day's American Idiot! I immediately uploaded it to my computer and MP3 player and have been happily listening to it ever since. SP you ROCK!

TGIF...

because I seem to have finally gotten the contagious pathogen making its way around blogland. Gives new meaning to computer virus, eh?

David and I had a great day yesterday - there was not much happening on the rails so we went to Saratoga for lunch, we ended up in Utica for dinner and managed to get home before 10:30 last night. I didn't stop at any of the yarn shops I wanted to visit- we either passed them before they opened or after they closed. Still it was a fun day with my sweetie and to assuage any fiberless feelings I was having - I came home to a package from the thoughtful package from

Wednesday update

Yeah it is Wednesday - I have a vacation day tmrw - David and I are driving up to Albany for the day. If anyone knows of good LYS between NYC and Albany - let me know. I have had the Periwinkle Sheep in Albany recommended, so I am planning on stopping there. I will be bringing the FBS with me to work on while David watches trains go by. David has been on vacation all week - as a member of the NYPD he gets a ridiculous # of vacation days, since I don't get nearly as many I am only taking 1 day off to spend with him.

Last night I met my friend Sharon for dinner, we went to a very nice place on 43rd & 9th Ave - Zuni - I would definitely recommend it - delicious food, great service and excellent prices. I had a wonderful grilled Mediterranean Salad and Sharon had the grilled Mahi Mahi.

When I got home, the new issues of Interweave Knits and Knitters arrived. There are lots of things I like in IK, not as much in Knitters.

Will have pictures later.

Happy Valentine's Day

Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! I know I enjoyed mine. This was one of those "only once in a while" good weekends. Friday night we took the boys to Sizzler for their birthday - I can't believe they are 13 today - when I met David they were only 21 months old. We had a nice dinner - Sizzler is the boys favorite restaurant - they love the salad bar. They opened their gifts when we got home - they like them all. Saturday I made biscuits and gravy for breakfast - then left the guys home and went shopping. Bought a great new knitting bag (pic later) and stopped at Smiley's just to look - they are having a sale next week so I will buy then. Went to the best Colombian Bakery in Queens for coffee and sweet bread with guava. The best thing about living in NYC is the variety of food that is available everywhere - I wanted the bread for breakfast on Sunday with my new Adagio tea (LOVE their tea)

Sat afternoon, Marilyn and her husband came over, we had a small cake for the boys - and since we hadn't seen each other since before Christmas, we exchanged Christmas gifts too. She is the best - she and Robert bought me Knit & Crochet with Beads and Knitting Without Tears! We all went out to dinner at Pizza Hut. We do not get to spend enough time together, so it was lovely spending a whole evening with them. Sunday started David's vacation, so he was home. I spent the morning at my mothers then David and I drove out to the Island for paint for his models and just drove around enjoying the sunny weather.

Last night I stayed up to watch the Grammy's because I wanted to see Melissa Etheridge, she ROCKED and got to bed way to late and am paying for it this morning. So please forgive the rambling post I did not sleep well last night at all.