I am taking the day off today to recover from the Bears game last night. To be perfectly honest, it wasn't that cold. It was above freezing, so my sis didn't have to blow torch the pour spouts to keep the beer flowing.

Wednesday night was the Christmas performance at school. It went as well as can be expected and the parents had nice things to say. We will be performing again Wednesday during the day. My mom and grammy are coming to show support.

The newest issue of Knitty is up. I will have to knit Amused. I frogged a sweater and I think I will use this yarn to knit it. I also love the knitted earrings. Upon reading about great gifts for knitters, I came across Knitted Lace of Estonia by Nancy Bush. I have to have all things Estonia since I am Estonian! My dad was born there! Amazon has a 1 - 3 month wait for this book. This won't do since I want to give it to my grandma for Christmas. Luckily, my LYShas a copy. I only hope they have another one for me!

Random musings...

Things are really busy at work. I have a new job at the same school, which requires that I do nearly everything and help nearly everyone. I am not complaining though. Helping people means I have less actual responsibility myself. That works out. Right now, we are preparing for a Christmas show. I am teaching the music to all of the children in the show and with little to no musical knowledge - this is a challenge. I am making it though. I have already invited my family to the show. It's my little baby. I hope it will be successful.

I have most of my Christmas shopping done. I need to get shopping early because sometime in December I start to lose my mind. Hopefully, I can avert this disaster by early planning. The hardest people to shop for are left though -my husband, my dad and his parents. Hmmmm. What should I buy them? I've been watching QVC nonstop for three weeks hoping something would jump out at me.

It's feels great to have picked up the old knitting needles again. There was a while there that I was only knitting while traveling. I frogged some ill fitting sweaters and uninteresting unfinished projects. My mom had a yarn angel drop off about 6 garbage bags full of fabulous yarn. No not acrylic. Actual, beautiful wool yarn - name brands. I was drooling. She very generously let me sift through the stash and pick out the yarn I wanted. Now I have even more motivation to keep knitting.

I have the cuff and about a fourth of the leg done on my first Ocean Sock. I will start the cuff on the second one tonight as to avoid a serious case of SSS.

Stuck in a Knitting Funk

I was on a good roll of starting and finishing knitting projects, but now I am at sort of a stand still. I blame Mercury in retrograde. My alien scarf from Stitch and Bitch has sat on my table for a week now without being touched. I need another snow day to get all of this stuff done.

I ain't no holla back girl!

On Sunday, I got my first teacher shout out. I was riding my bike down a busy street by my house when I heard some kids scream my name from a moving car. I got to thinking, how many professions would your clients scream at you from a moving car? Teaching and prostitution.

Vacation? What vacation?

I may not be officially working, but I am sure keeping myself busy. I started my first lace project. Well, I have started lace projects before, but I may actually finish this one. I am working on the invisibility shawl from Charmed Knits. The lace pattern is perfect for first time lace knitters and the pattern is easy to memorize. In addition to knitting, I am taking down the mirrors in our living room. My husband and I bought this house three years ago deSoldier spite the fact that the mirrors in the living room made it look as if I am about to start my Reebok step class. One whole long wall is covered in mirrors and so far, I've taken down about one-fourth of them. Do you suppose I will have seven years of bad luck? I couldn't get them down in one piece. Today I worked a soccer game at Soldier Field. It was crowded and pretty intense. It's a little funny, but do you know what made my day? Well, I am a huge reality TV fan and I saw Antonella from Bridezillas! I actually work with her. Funny... Simple pleasures people.

Drunken Blogging is Never a Good Idea

Ugh! Today was a horrible day. I am seriously wondering what the hell I am doing teaching. It absolutely sucks. I know in a week I will absolutely LOVE my job because I won't be doing it, but at the moment I feel like running out of my classroom and never coming back. It is so awful. I wish there was no such thing as the last week of school. To try to get these kids to learn things is an absolute joke. I tried to get the kids to do an experiment. Should they have been able to complete it, it would have been fun and educational, but before we were able to get things going, they were throwing the materials around the classroom. What do you do when children are pelting each other with Science supplies? Friday CAN NOT come soon enough. I feel as if the life is being sucked out of me.

Knittin' New

I haven't been blogging lately, but I haven't stopped knitting. I finished Sasha's puppy blanket. It didn't felt the way I wished it would and Sasha eats it, so I can't really give it to her at this point. I am still working on my mom's aran pocket shawl. I want to have it finished for her birthday which should be no problem. She is going to Ireland in October and I am hoping she will bring it with her. It's a traveling shawl of sorts since I brought it on my last few vacations - Seattle, New York and New Orleans. I am not going to bring it on any further vacations though because it's getting to be too large to tote. It takes up my whole carry on bag.


I recently finished a baby blanket for my new goddaughter/niece.








Currently, I am taking a sock knitting class at Chix with Stix in Forest Park. It have the cuff and leg just about finished and it looks normal as of now. Success.