gaysknits

i'm beginning to feel like that doll...

the one that has one doll face but if you turn her upside down she has another totally different doll face.  if you don't know what i mean it matters not. the point is that i am feeling up and down,this way and that, here and then there.  the accuweather forecast is driving me to absolute mystery and confusion.  i'm going to stop looking at it. i discovered this fabulous web site and you can pop in any city and get up to a 15 days forecast. so i did it and i do it everyday.  at this point i do believe i qualify as weather obsessed or just downright addicted!  then it changes. it changes daily. sometimes it changes more than once during the course of a day so i quit. i quit looking. all i know is that we are going to have weather while we are on vacation. that is for certain. what kind of weather i cannot say and i do not know. it will be a surprise to me. it may be cloudy and 70 degrees. it may be sunny and 63 degrees. it may shower in the morning or in the evening. or it may not shower at all.  all i know is whatever it does i'm going to be surprised because i quit looking as of right now because i like what i see today!!!  the guy and i go to the beach all the time in the off season. we like having the place to ourselves. it is peaceful and beautiful and absent of tons of people. we can dine at our leisure, shop to our hearts content, visit monuments and tourist attractions and hike for hours without running into a soul.  we like that. with that off season joy comes off season weather but spring or fall i have never been unhappy. i do not plan to go swimming in the ocean i will tell you that much. don't get me wrong i will swim in the ocean all day if it is warm enough but not in the spring...my toes will wade, my ankles and my calves will get soaking wet and i will walk into the surf up to my knees maybe in jeans at least once but i will probably not go swimming unless there is a hot tub to be found on the premises.  all that is left for me to do is pack my clothes and then we will pack the car. i am at peace with my plan and  i am accepting of the fact that this black and blue sweater will not be worn to the beach but will be knitted at the beach...ah well.  i sometimes forget that my knitting is a hobby i have not a demand or a deadline in the world to keep up with.  ahhh! so this is so long. see you on the other side of the month as i will be noticibly absent i am sure for a few weeks and i am not even taking my computer so there will be no beach diaries this year. instead i will have a 16 year old girlfriend along aka the ylgd and a 6 year old boy aka the little guy to occupy my time and energy and of course the dogs and the guy not in any particular order.  later...love   g

maybe i will have something to say....

one day real soon. for now i am busy. super busy.

 i have tons of laundry to do to get ready to go away. imagine this...sheets blankets towels for four!!! the husky needs furminated before she goes in the car. i have squirreled away two books to take...as if i will have time to read!  i cannot decide on a knitting project and just may take the black and blue.  she is looking good...one sleeve is half done & since i am almost at the elbow i must decide what the cuff end will look like.  knitting has been slow not only because i am super busy but i also have a cut on my thumb that is slow healing and it is bothersome to knit and  lets face it cotton yarn is bothersome to begin with.  give me some nice wool.  i never thought i'd hear myslef say that.  i tried to get a new project together to take to the beach but i am uninspired and i am really going to wear this hat at the beach unless of course it is cold, raining and blustery and then i will wear a rain coat!  later...love   g

having donuts with your coffee....

must mean the youngladygrandaughter is here and she is. we are busy little bees this weekend.  i have been coiffed and the beef is marinated and ready for jerking, the dishes are done and the laundry is laundered.  after my hair cut and the ylgd's horse back riding lesson we had lunch and went shopping for props and to see a movie....knowing...it kept me on the edge of my seat  until i figured it out and then i thought it was stupid but the guy and the ylgd loved it...no accounting for taste. then we bought donuts for breakfast this morning.

 

we need props because every once in a while the kooky family feels the need for a family photograph with some new crazy kooky duds....aka props. really  it's mostly the ylgd and i...the guy and the little guy (when he is here) reluctantly join us if only  we make them. besides we have beach fever!  only 12 more days!!!

we needed a new profile pic for our face book page while we are on vaca and we wanted a beach theme.  of course we went overboard...as we usually do. we also had to put the luggage rack together and make sure we could attach it to the van and pack everything we need into it and into the van along with two kids and two dogs and of course the two of us.   no knitting was accomplished in the making of these preparations and in the shooting of these shots...and the guy couldn't resist but i think he missed the point!

and speaking of kooky families...did you hear the one about the crazy lady who went on the web to download a ringtone for her phone and spent a lot of kb's doing it and so her ringtone ended up costing so much that she could sign up for web service to pay some of it off?? they're creepy and they're kooky...mysterious and spooky...later...love   g

just so you know...

i'm not completely disappointed with myself. mostly i see the irony in my wicked ways.  the shoes, the yarn, the knitting of sweaters i promised i would not knit.  my job is another story and it seriously stresses me out to the point of tears and dismay but i did put in a request to be moved out of my position...not than another will be perfect and wonderful but it will most definately be less stressfull.  i love my position and for years i have thrived on deadlines and pressure and stress but not anymore. it has affected me in physical ways and i cannot over come it.  i was hesitant to switch positions but at this point in my life i am tired and my stomach issues have dragged me down and i am unable to medicate myself for the problem because of the glaucoma issues i also have and i hate to say this but my job has to have down time built in these days or i will continue to melt down and i worry  about having another stroke and one that will leave me no so lucky this time.  i am no spring chicken you know.   the beach is only 13 days away...yesssss. i scheduled a haircut today....yessssss.  i am making progress on my black and blue. i love it so far.

it is being designed as i go so it is taking a little longer than it would normally take for a project such as this.  this yarn has a black dye and it gets all over my hands while i knit with it so it is creeping me out but i love the results so i think the creep is well worth it...in this case.  i am on the first sleeve and have not yet comitted to a sleeve shape.  i was at first thinking boxy and straight so it can be worn as a jacket or used like a sweat shirt and worn over every little thing. then i was thinking bell shaped at the cuff cause those are so pretty. then i was thinking maybe a slimmer but straight sleeve right to the  wrist and beyond so it is a nice long to the thumb sleeve...i love my sleeves looooong. so i don't know yet. i am still contemplating. 

so far i have used a little picot edge for the hem and some applied i cord for the front...knit in reverse because i am so clever!!!  these cute closures...love these. i have not yet found a use for these uber super cute knitting bags i bought at the dollar store but if i finish black and blue i think i will take a little scarf along with me to knit at the beach and these little bags will be perfect.  or maybe a pair of baby booties or a hat  or i may take some of the  skeins of nature cotton i have left over from other projects and knit  another cap sleeve version of this cardi  so i can double check my pattern notes and make adjustments...oh wait a minute i have no pattern notes on this!!! i'll be sure to try to get some for possible pattern offering  but all of that may require too much planning so i may stick to the little scarf for some knitting for dummies on the deck at the beach!!! yay!!!  going to the beach!!!  the accuweather forecast promises 76 degrees on the day we roll on to the island in 13 days! really!  yay!!! later...love   g

these green gloves make me wish....

i was a smoker again.  i dare say that's not exactly the daily wisdom you were hoping for so let me start over and say that  if i was a smoker i'd love to have a pair of these green gloves...or if i was a knitter i'd love to have a pair of these.  oh wait a minute i am a knitter and it just so happens i have...well no i don't have a pair of these i have only one. same number i've had for quite some time. one green glove.  this is my knit at work project and obviously i don't do much knitting at work.  it is march already. i resolved a lot of things in january about my behavior for the year and it is march so let me take stock of what i have already become a miserable failure at in only three short months.

i resolved not to buy any yarn and knit from my stash and although i  spent days looking for new yarn to buy for a couple of new sweaters that i had my eye on i came to my senses and  i did not in fact buy the yarn  and if i remember correctly i  believe that i have not purchased any yarn this year...yet...so far so good.  i resolved i would not buy any more shoes this year and was doing splendidly until i bought that pair of boots from  the clearance rack a few weeks back.  i am a total sucker for the clearance rack.  the fact that they were only $20.00 for a pair of tall tan boots with a low wedge heel and that they look so awesome with skinny jeans and are so comfortable that it makes me smile doesn't  change the fact that i bought a pair of shoes after i resolved not to and i am a failure at that  too and to boot the guy reminds me regularly that i owe him a new pair of shoes...he needs new tennis shoes so i could say it was a public service because he will not be walking around in tennis shoes with the soles flapping about anymore while refusing to buy his own...and after all why should he when he has me.

  

i resolved to take a morning break and a lunch break everyday at work and knit or eat.  i have not accomplished this goal. i resolved this in an effort to keep  sane and keep me from crying at my desk in the late afternoon from sheer frustration and exhaustion and today once again i did not knit, i did not take a lunch break i worked until i cried and i resolved to quit my job as an intake worker.  there you have it. failed  failed and set myself up to fail again when i do not  quit my job in the intake deptartment...i never siad i would quit my job just where i do it so there is hope that i won't fail at this most recent resolution.   soooo anyway i meant to finish this glove this week but i did not.  hey no body is perfect least of all me. later...love