9-6-09
started this project using re-claimed yarn from an expensive wool sweater that was for sale at our local Salvation Army for like $2!!
these are the changes I’m making thus far ->
I am going to put more K2/P2 at the bottom and I’m also doing K2/P2 for the 8sts. on each front side….I am also not doing any sort of cables anywhere as of now….I’m also thinking of not doing the waist dec…will let ya know when I get there…LOL
here’s hoping I can knit this! LOL
I am dreaming of being able to knit the Vivian someday……a friend of mine Pam gave me the pattern & I’d love to have this sweater too!!!!!!!! but baby steps, right???
9-16-09
been sick as a dog for over a week now, so I’ve not knitted much on this project. I am up to the increases after the waist & am already wishing I felt advanced enough to do more than what I have at the edges, but that’s okay. Maybe next time, if I make it again. grins
9-20-09
I am almost to the point where you need to separate the fronts from the back & since I’m not doing the cables I’m confused as to what to do, and what to do with the 12 rem sts they talk about putting on the cable needle. I know that they surely don’t leave there. Do I decrease the 20 something sts gradually or what? I’m so confused.
9-27-09
I was unconfused by my friend Joyce thatotherredhead….grins thanks friend!
I am doing the left front panel and I am hoping that I can finish this grins…….
10-03-09
I have completed the 2 front panels & am now doing the back. I hope to start the sleeves soon!
10-09-09
have completed the back & am now about 1/4 the way into the sleeves. I didn’t have enough reclaimed yarn, now I’m using t-shirt cotton that I have in my stash to finish this. Good thing it’s for me & I’m okay with it. LOL
I can’t believe how slow this knitting is going!
10-19-09
I’m maybe 3” from being finished with the sleeves & then there’s trying to do the hood. Wish I had left the body on cables instead of binding off like the directions said…it would have been easier for me, I think…..but we shall see. If my slowness continues it may be next Christmas before it’s finished.
11-05-09
thank God I’m finished. I will NEVER 1. use reclaimed yarn this way again 2. think I can knit something pretty without messing up. I’m so frustrated with my work. I tried so hard, and it looks terrible. My hubby says it looks great, but he feels sorry for me I think…LOL.
I still have to block it….but I am proud of it in a way that I knitted SOMETHING like this with ‘thin’ yarn.
off to put up this stupid yarn. Now to think of other projects.
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I am kinda disappointed in my hoodie. Nothing to really do with the pattern, it’s mostly me.
I see such pretty patterns on Ravelry, so many pretty projects, and yet I can’t seem to get advanced enough to knit them……grr
a picture of Ezma Louise…she’s not as innocent as she may appear here
today was my first off day in like a week in my long (over) one week schedule and I was being lazy I admit….
Ezma had been asking for food since this AM. As a matter of fact she woke Little Man & me from the bed at 10:30 (shame on me!)…”meow” I’d hear & she’d hide behind the door (or so she thought…kitties don’t seem to realize their ears can been seen even if their eyes can’t)…..
normally, I don’t feed the animals until afternoon, when I get off from work. They usually are hungry by then, and sure Ezma “meow”s while opening the cans, but at 10:30 this AM she decided her tummy was hungry.
I shrugged it off, and told her she would wait until “Mommie had eaten” and she ran down the hall, just knowing I’d feed her.
imagine her sheer fury when instead I went to knit & turn on the TV.
after a few minutes of knitting, I decided that at last “Mommie” was hungry. I get up from the couch & the TV goes blank….
thats strange! I thought to myself…
I then when thru the motions of checking the battery, and the ‘box’ and making sure the surge protector was still plugged up & nothing.
I was frustrated. Madly. I love to watch History Channel, and educational channels on TV, and this was my one day off dog-gone-it!
I even called Mr. Handsome & left a message about thinking the TV had died somehow…..that’s the only thing I could figure out….
FAST FORWARD a few hours & the animals are fed, I’m eating now…and I look where said kitty was laying behind the TV (dresser really) stand, and the TV cord was UNPLUGGED.
tell me Ezma didn’t know how to get me for making her wait to eat! ha ha!
I have a job that sometimes it’s frustrating..to say the least…
there are times that I honestly look Heavenward & pray silently (and sometimes not so)…wondering WHY am I at this place? Especially when I’m being talked down to, talked ‘at’ and all around being treated like I don’t have common sense, not even walking around sense.
today while at work, I had my AHHHH HA! moment.
it was like all the cruel, mean, hateful things that had been spoken to me, towards me, at me…ceased to be important to me, and instead this work friend of mine, so near tears and so tender hearted about her life…..was all that mattered……and it was at that moment that I, too, showed my ‘tender side’ and told her about some of my experiences and yes……..that I would pray for her every time I prayed……
could I have been given this job to be an encouragement to others that are having a hard time like I’ve had in the past & feel ‘helpless’ and ‘hopeless’ like I too did? For a moment in time, in the backroom, I did INDEED feel that way. And it wasn’t about me. It was about HIM. And while I didn’t “force” my views as much as I told her about HIS care, and I hope they understands HE does care. I hope they do.
there are times in your life that you ‘dread’ the day that you will have to ‘answer’ for what you did/didn’t do or said/didn’t say…..and then there are times that you have moments like today where you feel at last, at least one moment in time you were showing Jesus your true heart like “Jesus, I DO love you…I truly do…..with all my being I do.”
I hope that this person can feel my prayers. I pray that Jesus have mercy…and I pray this person knows the Jesus I know….my redeemer, my Savior…my friend…….yes….my friend.
sometimes, there comes along a movie that you know will make you cry your eyes out, but you are drawn to know more about the story behind it because there are few ’shown’ stories of survival of the human condition……
one such movie is ‘Blind Side’ that is starring Sandra Bullock. I researched it, and while I don’t normally pay attention to wikipedia, I thought I’d share with my viewers the story behind this movie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Oher
such a great story of overcoming incredible odds, and not only survival, but also thriving in circumstances…and yes, someone reaching out to touch someone else, and helping them along the way….had this family not helped out Michael, would his story have been the same? Sometimes we have to look past ourselves & see others pain, the others crosses they are carrying….
I am thankful they are making movies like this. I know I will cry my eyes out (I cried reading the story), but I do plan on going to see it.
I am still trying to get use to being back out on the work force full time again, and the ‘rough end’ is dragging here because every-other-week I work 8 out of 9 days. w/o overtime, mind you, because of the way they have our schedules. WRONG!
my home is suffering. The house just isn’t as clean with the rest of the family trying to do it. They don’t seem to clean it as well as I’d like to have it. But, I do appreciate the help….but I just miss being the one that did those things.
I feel like a terrible Mom sometimes because I don’t cook big meals anymore. I just stay too tired. It’s gotten to where I can just barely function. Seriously…I’m that tired.
I keep hoping I will get use to it…but I honestly don’t know how other women get it all in, PLUS do things they love to do on top of that….how do you do it all?
I don’t know how many of y’all know Sheila Cisco (Sisk) but she is my cousin & so dear to me. She has ALS (Lou Gehrigs disease) just like my Mom did & she’s had a rough year. She lost her Dad (Tom Ed Cisco) earlier this year, and is losing many of the freedoms that we take for granted sometimes…..like being able to talk, walk without pain/problems, going to church, etc.
I know what a joy cards/letters was to my Mom, and I’m reaching out to the internet to ask for everyone to send another round of cards to her.
at last count we were over 100, going towards 200 and I’d love to see her get 1000 cards/letters!!!
can you please help?
email me at
bruisin(at)comcast(dot)net
thanks!!!
Kimberly
are strange to say the least.
For some people it can be the sight of sunshine, for others it may be the feeling of rain upon their shoulders…for me it seems it’s emotion…be it bitter, or sweet……when I feel it greatly it empowers me to feel what I love, crave, need, want, dislike, and embrace to a greater degree and thus make the prior mentioned feelings feel even stronger.
life is funny. There are things that happen that make you freeze in your tracks and you are taken back to a place that you hadn’t been to in such a long time……that happened to me today.
my Sugar Momma passed away 4 years ago today…..the sun was shinning and the clouds were puffy and white, and I had never felt so alone in my life…..for the first time in 3 years I didn’t know what to do with myself, and to be honest, I haven’t known really what to do with myself since.
last evening we had pastor appreciation at church & the grown daughters of the pastor got up & sang a beautiful song that took me back to seeing Momma in church before she passed, before the disease took the use of her good limbs, before the disease took her beautiful voice….back in the days when she would beg cousins and nephews to go to the altar…and she got away with it too because after all she was ‘Sara Lou’ and if she wasn’t known for anything else in life she was known for being a little…..different. She could get away with things others couldn’t say…and when she became a Christian she was on fire for Jesus even if she were eating chili at Krystals…..she didn’t care….she had no tact when it came to that. *grins*……
when the girls were up there singing, I felt such warmness inside my heart that I haven’t felt since Mommas homegoing. I can’t decribe how it felt other than it felt like a Sugar Momma hug around it…and it forced me to tears….happy tears of thankfulness that while Momma lost her way part of her life, she got it right & now she’s with Jesus….and what comfort we have in knowing someone we love is there…..with HIM.
I am a bit of a song/poem writer, and most of the time only Jesus & I get to know about it…….but all day today this song (or will be song) keeps going thru my mind, and I know that it will soon come out thru my fingers onto paper….and it is all inspired by this pain, grief, agony, sadness, happiness, hope (filled) heart, secureness, & insecurity…..I don’t know what kind of writer of song I will be, but I know it will have the following in it
♫…I refuse to be sad…♪
I can’t wait to share it all with you, as soon as Jesus is finished with the song I have in me.
I always feel like I’m waiting on my life to begin…waiting for a happier future, a more secure future, something other than the sadness, insecurity things that I’ve had before and it hit me today that just as the deciples that were on that ship during that storm, I’m exactly where Jesus wants me to be……..warts and all……and while I’m planted here, I want to grow…and we all know that if we are ever going to see a rainbow, we gotta stand a little rain, am I right?
life is a series of triamphs, and trials and thru it all Jesus should be the anchor of it all….sometimes the nightmare of my childhood awakens me in the night & I’m left a trembling, sweating, scared mess & then I remind myself that it’s no longer life for me…and then I lay there & talk to my Jesus & I can honestly see where He was protecting me, and someday after a while all of this will be worth it……someday, I will understand every single thing that has happened…..but now……..I do not. I can not. I can not lean upon my own understanding, I lean upon Jesus.
I have moved down here to Savannah, and it’s so close to Heaven, I can almost imagine how wonderful Heaven will be….my family no longer sees me, and doesn’t know my day-to-day goings on most times…but I’m happy, and safe, and closer to God than I ever have been. I can’t help but compare it to Momma & what’s going on with her. I can’t see her, but she’s safe, happy, and closer to God then she’s ever been. I don’t know her day-by-day going’s on, but I take comfort that He’s in control. Wow…I get it. I hope you get it too.
Longing.Missing.Heartache. Yep. I know all about those things…but I’m slowly learning patience.Understanding.and hope.(don’t forget faith!)…and I know that I guess I’m doing all right. Yep. I’m all right.
so, Sugar Momma, I know by my faith, and by your faith that we are going to be okay. We will be all right. I will miss you every day of my life, and there will forever be an empty place in my heart that I don’t know will ever be filled…but, I know that every single tear I cry here will someday be wiped away by HE WHO DIED FOR ME. What a day that will be folks. What a day.
I love this gospel song
What a day that will be
when my Jesus I will see
and I’ll look upon His face
the One who saved me by His grace
when He takes me by the hand
and leads me thru the Promised Land
what a day, glorious day, that will be.
I can not imagine no sorrow, no burdens or pains, but I know that my Jesus promised such a place….and that’s where I’m going.
I know where I”m going,
don’t you wanna come too?
yep. I see the typo…but that’s okay…….it’s okay to NOT be perfect. grins.
Supergirl made the paper for some of her volunteer work!
Supergirl volunteering!
shrimp
its Tuesday, and that means 2 things:
1. it’s one of my rare off days
2. it’s “eat somewhere new” day
this past few weeks my tummy has been causing me issues, so I’ve stayed home mostly, but today I was craving Chinese!
lately, I can’t get enough of egg rolls, even the store kind, so I knew what I was getting……
The place that I chose to eat at was
Asia Restaurant
Chinese and Japanese Food
11812 Middleground Road
Savannah, Ga
it is a small establishment, and is located in a small mall……but well worth the stop.
I arrived just after 11 (their opening time), and was immediately feeling my tummy growl at the smells in this place. It smells like wonton soup & onions, oh and rice too! Amazing! yumm-o!
there are only like 3 tables in there, and when I arrived I had 3 people in front of me……immediately I thought this place must be good to have a line already!
I placed my order of
wonton soup
egg rolls
house rice
when you go, be prepared to wait a while. I had to wait 20 mins, but was kept entertained by the cook in the back. He has wok cooking down to a science! It was educational, if nothing else.
$11.00 later, I sit at my console eating my first taste of Asia Restaurant…and here are my thoughts:
the rice is AMAZING!! You get full size meat and the rice isn’t overcooked. Even the shrimp is HUGE!.
egg rolls are crispy without being overgreasy and they taste home made. The cabbage is at the cusp of being undercooked (which I love!) and the egg rolls have carrot pieces large enough to see, but not too large to overwhelm the egg roll. Man, I’m glad I got 4 of them.
now, the wonton soup? ekkk. The soup its-self is good, but the wontons are a little dough-y. I’m not sure what recipe they used, as the wontons aren’t the texture I’m use to, and I won’t eat another wonton *ewww*. The soup is a darker color, and the bits of onions are just perfect for the soup. Just avoid the wontons.
all in all, I give it 7 out of 10 stars. The people are friendly, and nice…the place is clean, eventhough small…and the food for the most part is very fresh, and it’s so fun to watch them prepare it. The only negative thing (other than wontons) I saw in the place was the length of wait to get my food…..other than that, it was good!
friendly to all