Time Sure Flies When You Are Having Fun

I don't know where the time has gone since I have last posted something on my blog. My college bound child has made this abundantly clear and has for some time now been nagging me to update The Rose.

Just to let you know that I haven't been sitting around eating Bon Bons and watching TV, I have actually been fairly productive.

I spent about 5 hours on Saturday with like minded friends at a craft day and worked diligently on a sweater I am trying to complete by Christmas. It will be a gift for the college bound child and it is no secret. The fun part will be in 1) getting it completed 2) seeing how it turns out 3) trying it on the college bound child while trying to convince her that if she doesn't like it, more than likely a poor homeless needy person would love to have a nice warm sweater with a pouch, a hood and strings to tie shut and keep the wind out that was lovingly hand knit by "Moi". Hours I tell you, hours have been invested in this creation. I have been working on this since June 2007. I add the year because if you have read my previous posts you will remember that it once took me over 20 years to complete a Ripple Afghan.

The sweater is a lovely shade of green with a contrasting stripe of cream. I got the yarn at a yard sale and THEN decided to make something more than just the socks and afghans I have been working on. It really is a stretch on my knitting abilities. I have NO idea what size it will turn out to be, I think somewhere between college age kid size and my size. At least I hope so. If it adequately resembles a sweater when I get it done perhaps I will post of picture of it. So far it is shaping up but that can only be attributed to the loving attention and assistance I have gotten from my knitting buds.

I also have a pair of socks going on DP needles that are to be a gift, the final product will decide who utlimately gets the socks. Sigh! My lack of perfectionism and impatience will be my undoing someday.

Hubby and I have been doing some home remodeling. The kitchen needed a new coat of paint and just a general update. We purchased a breakfast nook for our quaint (small and dated) cooking-dining area. Sort of reminds one of a diner table that you would find in some old time cafe only without the years of wear and tear and names carved in by pen knives. I gave my kid sister a heck of a deal on the old claw foot dinette set and hutch with the etched rose glass and leaded doors. I loved that set! It looks very nice in my sister's home and she has it decorated very nicely. I guess then you could call it a win win situation. Only problem is now I need to buy new light fixtures and try to decide what motif I want to go with in the kitchen. I have been leaning toward grape patterns and that is only because the last few craft fairs I have attended I have found tea towels with this design on them. You know the kind I mean, someone either knitted or crocheted a top on them so that they may be hung on the stove handle as a decoration. They are STRICTLY for decoration and are much too pretty to really use.

Hubby moved the Crossbow equipment out of my office and I in turn had to take the bookcases out of his garage, kind of a swap. That took a wee bit of time because in case you were not aware of it, my life long ambition is to collect as many books as I can. I love my library.......hubby mumbles and grumbles anytime we have moved and swears the boxes get heavier AND multiply. Hmmmmmm. Interesting. :) My office is a lot more user friendly now. I even have room to stretch out on the floor as I pretend to do exercises. shhhhh. Don't tell anyone about the pretend part. K?

I got an email this morning from a friend of mine and thought I would share it with all.

Here is the Washington Post's Mensa Invitational which once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

Here are the winners: 1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.

2. Ignoranus : A person who's both stupid and an asshole. 3. Intaxication : Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. 4. Reintarnation : Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
5. Bozone ( n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
6. Foreploy : Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
7. Giraffiti : Vandalism spray-painted very, very high
8. Sarchasm : The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
9. Inoculatte : To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
10. Osteopornosis : A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
11. Karmageddon : It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.
12. Decafalon (n.): The gruelling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you
13. Glibido : All talk and no action.
14. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
15. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web. 16. Beelzebug (n.) : Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
17. Caterpallor ( n.): The colour you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating. T

he Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. And the winners are:
1. coffee , n. the person upon whom one coughs.
2. flabbergasted , adj. appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained.
3. abdicate , v. to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. esplanade , v. to attempt an explanation while drunk. 5. willy-nilly , adj. impotent.
6. negligent , adj. absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.
7. lymph , v. to walk with a lisp.
8. gargoyle , n. olive-flavored mouthwash.
9. flatulence , n. emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.
10. balderdash , n. a rapidly receding hairline.
11. testicle , n. a humorous question on an exam.
12. rectitude , n. the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
13. pokemon , n. a Rastafarian proctologist.
14. oyster , n. a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism , n. the belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
16. circumvent , n. an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.

Now......this has been a nice informative and interesting post, don't you agree?

Hope all is well with you and that you ALL have a wonderful rest of your week.

RRR