Just left of normal

It's a bit of a crazy week, we are preparing for an up coming vacation, baby girl is starting to get a runny nose and i have work and appointments this week.

I changed the layout (thank you capt. obvious), I liked the last one but i have thing about not wasting space, or at least wasting as little as possible. I found this one and was happy with the additional column. It is a little simple but i may be able to fiddle with it later. I sort of miss it having that girly touch, but it has to be gender friendly for Sam. So i thought this might be ok. We'll see, might fiddle with it some more.

I thought i had shown you the spun party mints. Apparently i haven't been on top of things like i thought, this is it before it the spin was set. And below is my new ball. I am torn between selling these (and future) hands puns, i feel like i should knit some of them. One reason being that i've never actually knit with a hand spun yarn that i know of. Another being that, how can i sell it without knowing what it would be like to work with - meaning i spin to tightly and it gets to kinky and twisty on itself or i don't set the spin well enough or what other sort of yarn woes may come along with a hand spun yarn. But i don't even know what sort of pattern i should use it for. It isn't really a lot of yarn - which reminds me of a question i had... if i want a decent sized skein of yarn how much roving should i be looking to buy?

It's one of those days... my head has been hurting off and on... i've also been either uncomfortably hot and not able to cool off or just cold. That though is mostly due to where i am in the house. Thankfully our family vacation is coming up like next week so i can just think about that instead. We'll be gone until sometime after the 4th of july (haha twice today i've almost said "until after labor day" - i wish). And i am excited to say that Sammy will be stationed here as of the 5th (he's a nerd for not posting >.<). So i'm really excited and really nervous at the same time since it will be the first time we will be together in person.

On the subject of vacation, i am trying to decide what (and how much) to take with me. We'll be gone about a week and have plenty to do but i am sure we will also have plenty of down time - i mean thats what vacation is all about right? I've decided i will take along two books, one that i have already started and the second i haven't chosen yet. I'm having a hard time choosing, i am flexible as far as genre - whether the author is a good story teller or not is what hooks me. Being a slower reader (i seriously have to read every word) if a book doesn't catch me within the first 5 to 10 pages i move on. Usually i chose subjects that are heavier or thick with story (i can't think of any other way to explain that) but i think i want something light possibly on the humorous side because it's summer and i'll be on vacation. I've read all of the shopaholic books with the exception of the newest, and baby, only because it's not in MM paperback yet. Yes i am one of those weird people that have to have all the books of the same series in the same size of paperback (hate hardcover like a weirdo too). I also liked a couple of Jane Green's books Mr Maybe, Jemima J., and To have and To hold. I tried to read Something Blue by Emily Giffin and Watermelon by Marian Keyes at one point but neither grabbed me (oh, i also tried to read the devil wears prada i was over it on the 3rd page - way to whiny). So i guess i am asking for suggestions. As long as it's a good story that doesn't move to slowly.

I plan to also take knitting with me, i think i am going to take 3 projects with me, my clapotis and 2 smaller ones. I thought about only taking one but i don't want to finish it and have nothing else to do. On the flip side i don't want to only take one big project and feel like i didn't get much done because it's not actually finished. I have this thing about vacations, i have to finish something. Be it a book or a project/craft of some kind, it just has to be completed. If i don't finish something i feel like the vacation isn't complete. -Seeing that outside of my head seems odd but it's totally true- Am i the only person who feels this unusual need for completion?

In other news my close friend of about *makes a face trying to remember* 12 years now i think, is pregnant with her first child due in September and she only just got married this past December. There is a huge long story i can tack onto this about her less than healthy habits, but i won't cause we all have our thing. Actually there are a number of things i could go on about that i guess i just need to vent (not bad things about her just random things about the situation). I guess i'll save it and make a separate post some other time. For now i need to prepare for work. If i don't see you again, Have a good weekend!

You know it's been one of those odd days where everything has just been off. I am sure its the universe's revolt to me not starting the day with my normal routine. I had a few hours left over at lanna's daycare so taking her for a half day, i intended to come home and clean then pick her up in time to bring home to go straight for a nap. I didn't want to shower just to get dirty again, so i was going to wait until after i was done.
When i went to drop off the girl, one of the ladies who is usually laughing and having a good time made a point to say to me that she needs to be dropped off before nine. She didn't yell or get loud but she did seem a bit annoyed which i thought was odd, but to be honest no one had ever told me 9 was the golden hour. When i got back in the car, the clock (which is at least 5 minutes fast) only said 9:15. I don't think i've dropped her off later than nine more than once or twice previously. I know one i dropped her off once at 9:30 but that was only because i didn't know and they didn't say anything then. So i don't know if she was actually annoyed at me or if she was having an off day, she is only there in the mornings half the time.

As I'm pulling out i feel bad because i didn't know and i don't want to look like the delinquent. Pushing it out of my mind I'm off to the store and get most of what i need (which is only a couple things) but completely forget what i was going for in the first place and don't remember that until i pull into the drive way at home.
Trying to keep myself optimistic about the rest of the day not going to pot, i resolve to go out for it later and push on with my original plan. I was going to start cleaning the tub first when i remembered the clog that has been bugging me and think maybe it would be a good time to take out a little tension in a productive way with the "sink plunger". Which is really just a synonym for "crappy plunger"... So an hour, a box of baking soda, half a gallon of vinegar, lots of cursing, splashing, clothes soaking and useless plunging later the water flow has gone from a trickle to a swift trickle. Frustrated i realize it's about 12 and almost time to go get the baby and i have not done any cleaning.

I clean myself up a little, get dry and leave. I can't really get lanna till about 12:30 which was ok with me because usually they have eaten and are putting then down for naps by 12:45. Or at least thats how it's been the other times I've picked her up early and since i had plans to call sam after laying her down i thought it would be good timing. I get there only to find out that they haven't eaten lunch yet... will i catch a break today? By the time we do lunch, get cleaned up and have her down it's just after 1:30. I sit down for a few minutes then call sam. Being that i am a bit late calling him, he's a little ugh. As you can probably guess we have a little tiff about it. Though I guess if i had thought about it i could have seen it coming a mile away.

The only things i did get accomplished today was washing the sheets and plucking my eyebrows, but that was short lived. Getting lanna up from her nap i go to take a shower, which means putting up the gate in her doorway, turning on a cd and giving her some juice. Most often she is perfectly ok and happy to play, however today she wants to have a melt down instead. I hold her, come in and play with her a bit, talk to her and finally shes ok with it. (By the way the bathroom is right next to her room and on a corner so i can see her doorway in the mirror). Since then shes been hanging on me and fussing and wanting to hold everything I'm holding or cry. I still haven't been back to the store and now it's pouring rain *sigh* I can't wait to go to bed so i can forget today and try again tomorrow.