I need to read more books

Since about mid-October I have taken a hiatus from Facebook, to refocus and decrease the negative energy and just expended general energy Facebook brings and takes from me.

Amelia’s dress is done!

It felt really good to finish something I started in a timely way. Amelia loves her dress, so much that she asked to wear it to school the day after it was completed.

Plain Bubble Dress for Amelia

“Knit-Together”

Falling apart and a tangent and how group mentality makes me nauseous

I feel like one of those people who age really fast. Like one moment they look young, and the next they are wrinkled and grey. I find nothing wrong with becoming wrinkled and grey, it’s the speed at which it seems to be occurring.

It is a testament to the fact you need to move to stay young, and I haven’t been moving my body as much. My foot/ leg  infection over the last month has been limiting me.

Stupid insomnia

The last couple of night I have been up… WAY past my bedtime. Like really late. I don’t know why other than I am really craving alone time and the only time I can carve out when I know I won’t be interrupted any second and can actually relax is once everyone else is asleep. Then that second wind sets in and well the rest is history. Yawn.

Everything but the kitchen sink Thanksgiving Soup

When faced with about 5 lbs of left over turkey because you 1. Over estimated how much you needed and 2. Overlooked the damn bird so no one really ate it. What to do? Also no one took any leftovers home even after I offered. (Not that I am complaining because I have been eating good for the last 3 days! But the thanksgiving left overs were getting old figuratively and literally.)

Thanksgiving soup to the rescue!

Do you compost ?

Do you compost? We have a couple compost bins running in our back yard. Do they smell? Nope not really. Is it hard? Goodness no! I personally don’t worry about my greens and browns, and just throw it all in and turn it about once a month in the warm months.

Authenticity

Recurring themes abound

Crunchy Soup

 When I started to blog in 2003 it was a venture of personal expression. My hopes. My fears. My dreams. My life.     

Saturday, November 6th, 2004  

Patience is a virtue of which I have plenty.
Are these captions truly reflective of who I am. What can you glean from this? Can you feel passion the of my soul, the perspective of my eyes, the weight of each breath I inhale, the restlessness of my feet? I feel like no matter what I write, or what I project, I remain an enigma, mainly to myself. I am in this self-proclaimed box of a career. I have allowed nursing to define me, I should define it. Though, the meticulous nature of nursing is an aspect of my multifaceted nature.  

I need an outlet of expression.   

I yearn to paint, sing, write, speak, and love.  

Patience is a virtue…

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Knitting Zoey a tunic and pondering

 

It took about 10 days of knitting off and on to make two panels. Alas my lass doesn’t care for her “pretty.” (That is what she calls it, probably because I kept saying how pretty it was.) I picked this particular color because it’s one of my favorites and it’s hard to find children’s clothing in neutral colors. This color just jumped out at me while browsing the selection at my LYS, the Yarnery. It’s Rowan yarn. I have about 3/4 of a skein left, I may make a small matching hat, or a pair of matching mittens. Amelia was quite smitten with the design and has already requested her own. I had Amelia’s started, but in classic sister antics,