Finished Project!!!!!!!

YAY!!!! I finished a knitting project tonight. My Broadripple socks from Knitty, done in Opal's Rainforest yarn, the parrot colorway. First attempt at photoing a project while modeling, so sorry if the pic isn't so good. But here they are.

Another Hump Day

Another Wednesday. My cold is slowly but surely improving, still have a wicked cough, but that's about it. Picked Ellie up from the airport at 8 this morning. We're already talking about Beef O'Brady's for dinner - yay! Today is the last home baseball game, well, the last scheduled one anyway. They have a playoff game tomorrow and if they win they play again on Friday, and if they win that the coach would like some more games to be scheduled for next week so that they can "stay sharp". We'll see, I'm not so sure too many teams will be willing to play since most of their seasons are already over. But you never know.

I'm trying to plan out some pages for Elliott's book, but it's not going as well as I planned, I'm not sure why. Maybe I just need to sit down and not have any distractions (i.e. the Indians game or Gilmore Girls). I'm planning on finally finishing the penguin tonight - I've been procrastinating about the feet and eyes for the last week and a half, and since my trip to Jersey is fast approaching, I really just need to do it. I'm still waiting on my yarn order so that I can start the sweater for B, and getting a little antsy. Been reading too many knitting blogs and seeing the multitudes of projects that all these other people have going, have to admit that I'm very jealous. Some day I'll have some pictures of finished projects to put up.

No News

It's been a rough couple of days. No blogging due to illness. I'm still not 100% but getting closer to it. Most of my voice has come back finally. Kind of a boring weekend. LAX game on Saturday - it was so cold and windy, and I may have felt it more than others due to my cold, but whatever, it was chilly. And we lost, both games, to out biggest rival. Not so good. So I took a nap when I got home, and then I cleaned my room. Told you it was boring. Yesterday was a little more lively. Paul, Peggy and Elliott came over for Mother's Day. Tried to not get too close to my nephew so that he wouldn't catch my cold, but I think he's already a bit under the weather. He was kinda cranky and had a bit of a temperature, but it could just be that more teeth are coming in. He already has 6! And then mom and me installed my new ceiling fan - woo hoo! I mostly finished the Broadripple sock pattern from Knitty. I'd started the second sock like a month ago and didn't get around to finishing it til now. That's the trouble with socks, you're all excited to do the first and get it finished, and then you're bored with it by the second one. Anyway, that's all from my world.

Birthday Party

Wednesday was my brother Paul's 24th birthday - he had to work so we had a little party last night. Our neighbor Margie shares the same birthday so we invited her over to share the pizza and cake. My nephew Elliott is getting so big. He's using a little walker to get around now, it's crazy.

He's very much a ham, but doesn't smile until after the picture has been taken. He takes his cue to smile from the flash. It's so funny.

Mmmm, birthday cake!

So that was my big excitement for the week. Baseball has it's first playoff game tonight. Lacrosse plays at home tomorrow. Mother's Day is Sunday and the Perry Algier's are coming out for another visit. Bringing the picture cd so that we can get started on E's scrapbook. Haven't done too much knitting lately, almost finished the penguin for Charlie - have to make eyes and the feet and then attach and Mumble will be ready for the trip to Jersey. I found a pattern to make for Bridget's birthday - I like it better than the one I had already started for her, so I need to order some yarn so I can get started. Speaking of Bridget -here's the latest pic of Kaylee - she's so cute!

Updates

So now that I have recovered from the big weekend, I can write about it. The baseball team won on Friday night - over an undefeated team, which made it all the better. It was so cool to be at the Jake, inside the Jake. Saw some very cool things that I didn't necessarily get photos of. Like the Escalade golf cart - totally wanted to steal it and drive it back to school so I could have it - didn't think that they would appreciate it. Supposedly it belongs to C.C. - I've never seen anyone on it, so if anyone has, let me know. But here are some of the pics - I took alot so I will not be putting all of them up.

This sign just made me smile.

This is one of the four batting cages under the stands behind home plate.

All the guys.

The view from the visitors bullpen. After they had turned off all the lights to kick both the team and all the parents out of the park, they just wouldn't leave!

So that was the big trip. The party on Saturday went well, my horse did not fare so well though. I didn't bother to look to see where he came in at the end. All I know is that he broke out of the gate, v-e-r-y slowly, and I knew that he wasn't going to win. Oh well, I can't always get it right. I don't think anyone at the party picked Street Sense. And so that was my big weekend. Couple of huge weekends coming up - Ellie comes home next week, and then off to Jersey for Memorial Day. Yay!

Big Weekend

Big weekend, starting tonight. Baseball is playing at Jacob's Field tonight. Guess who's going? Guess who's sitting in the dugout? Woohoo. Very excited. Just have to pretend that it's the Indians. Will take lots of pictures so that everyone can enjoy my view.

Tomorrow is party day!! No, not for Cinco de Mayo. It's the first Saturday of May, which as we all know means that it's Derby Day! Yay! This also means Derby Pie - one of the best desserts in the world. Right now, I'm going with Circular Quay to win - haven't seen any of the backstories though, so it could change. I'm a sucker for a good back story. Anyway, bunches of folks coming over for the festivities. Mint juleps and burgoo (sp?). Although I think I may make my drink into a mojito instead of the julep. I prefer the mojito and it is Cinco de Mayo after all. Gotta have a little Mexican-type something for the day.

Saw my handsome little nephew Elliott today. He and Paul were at my neighbor's to cut her grass, so I got to pop over for a brief visit before work. I can't believe how big little guy is getting. He's crawling all over the place and getting more teeth. They grow up sooo fast. But I can't complain too much, he's getting to the fun stages. Infancy isn't as much fun to me as that mobile-toddler stage is. Anyway, he's so cute and so big and just so huggable.

Hump Day

So it's another Wednesday in the life. Busy day today at work. Baseball, JV softball, tennis and track were all at home. Eww, track meet. I hate track meets. Especially during the week, they take forever. It's one thing when you know that you're going to have to forfeit an entire Saturday to a big track meet, it's something else when it's the middle of the week and you're sitting around for 20+ minutes waiting for them to finish running the 2 mile race. Thank goodness the boys and girls run together on that one. My track team is especially annoying. They seem to think that the training room is their personal team room. Whirlpool time is social time. Last week, they had a paper towel fight. Paper towels everywhere, I had to listen to the ice rink maintenance guys complain to me the next day that they had to clean up a huge mess. And then I found that they had somehow managed to get paper towels jammed up into the sucking mechanism of the whirlpool. I don't actually know the technical term for the part I'm talking about, so sorry. A $5000 whirlpool, and they manage to clog it with paper towels. I was less than amused. And when I complained to the coaches, they smiled and tried to laugh it off. Not happy. They have no control over their own team.

Oh well, I could go on for hours about the track team. They are an athletic trainer's natural enemy. In other news, I'm very excited because on Friday evening the baseball team is playing at Jacob's Field. Guess who's going to be in the dugout??!! My brother will be so jealous when I show his all the pictures I'm going to be taking. I will step on the grass of Jacob's Field before the night is over. Woohoo.

That's about all I have to report. Need to do some knitting, haven't picked up the needles in almost a week. Very bad. Very excited about the new knitting book I bought yesterday with my crazy good coupon at Barnes and Noble. Can't wait to make some felted slippers. :)