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i havent wrote for long time. super busy week! i had class wed and trying to keep up with work here at my job is more than enough to keep me busy.
will write more next week

have a great weekend!

long time!

I am still sick, working my butt of at work because the head secretary is gone and it office assistant has been out at doctor appointments so I've been running every which way!
Today I've been coughing my head off at work, I'm sure they appreciate the germs spreading all over, oops.
I need to liven my blog up, I will soon... I don't think anyone reads it anyways though :)

Will post more later this week. My knitting is boring, I just finished a dishcloth for my SIL for her new house and starting another one for my sale in May. yippeeee!

not such a happy tuesday

So I left work early to go to the doctor, waited for almost an HOUR to see him, and he tells me that my cold is in the "viral" stage and gave me a prescription to fill at the END of the week if I wasn't feeling better. Lovely! So I went and bought some Advil Cold & Sinus, that usually seems to help. The line at Walmart was so freakin' long and I felt like crap and I was ready to just abandon my cart and go home.
I finally got home and went right to sleep, for about two hours. Then Chad got home, we ate, I went to bed at 9 and dreamt about KNITTING and crocheting all night long! It was the weirdest thing. But I feel a little better today. I can't go anywhere w/o my box of kleenex though.

So now onto the bad news... Did you hear about the shooting in Virginia? Oh my, thats so sad... The world is a scary place, sometimes Iw onder if I even want to bring children into it.
And on another note, my friend that I met here in town (shes from ND just like me) just broke up w/ her boyfriend, which I think is the reason she lives here. So now I'm worried she is going to move... I guess I'll just need to ask God to send me another friend like her in this town. Its hard being in a town where you don't have any "good" friends. Actually, it really sucks!
I'm hoping that if I go to the knitting classes I could meet someone cool, lets hope so.

Growing up so is hard sometimes!
Hope your day is swell!

the start of a new week.

Well its Monday. The other secretary is gone for two weeks on vacation, which means mucho overtime for me. But, bad thing is, I have a cold. I was bragging because I hadn't been sick for almost a year, and I wake up yesterday with a sore throat and sinus pressure. Oh no! Today is worse, but not unbearable. I am tired... You know that feeling when your body is fighting a cold? I have that right now. And a sore throat. At least the office assistant bought some kleenex soft tissues instead of those crappy cheap ones. Speaking of her, she is already an hour late to due her son being sick. Oh lovely... I just hope she shows up, sometime today.
So I had a big list of things to get done, but I never do get it all done. I guess I just like to get it down on paper. I did, however:
Go out for supper and drinks with my in-laws on Friday night. Drank a few too many coronas with limes at a kaoroke bar and passed out fairly quickly that night when I went to bed.
We replaced our pantry door in our kitchen, white door, looks really nice and bright. Sunday I painted it too.
We decided not to paint our room, too much work this weekend I guess.
So the inlaws were here til Saturday night. I got mad at them because I was outside and they were letting the two little girls (nieces) wear my $60 dress shoes around the house! I'm sure they didn't know how much they cost but hello, don't go in the closet and take things out without my permission. And there was stuff EVERYWHERE That the girls had drug out and who had to clean it up? Yep, me. I made a snarky comment to my FIL, I said well you can pick up your grandkids mess. I thought that was pretty rude. He told me he was going to "spoil my kids rotten" and I said, if you do, I won't let you see them anymore. They do that to our neices and they are little hellions around their grandparents because they know they can get away with it! I will not allow that darnit!
We went to Barnes and Noble and looked at books, so I found the knitting books I woudl like to get eventually. I bought two at Joanns with my 50% off coupons, for my brithday. So I'll need to get those wrapped. I buy my own bday presents, thats kinda unfair! But if I left it to my husband, I would get hunting things. :)

So last night I was messing around with some yarna nd thought, I should try my hand at crocheting. So to sum it up, I learned to chain and to single crochet, thanks to the internet. I am still practicing but I think I need a bigger hook. So I guess now I'm a happy hooker too.
:)

finally friday!

First of all...

Okay just needed to add that. Hee hee! Thats where I belong!

I cannot wait for this work day to be over. Here is my to do list for the weekend:

1. Get house cleaned, just need to do some dishes, de-clutter kitchen table, laundry & put clothes away.

2. Get spring/summer clothes out, go through, try everything on, put unwanted stuff in rummage sale pile.

3. Do errands. Go to Barnes and Noble-check out knitting books; Bear Bear-check out sandals for birthday present; JoAnns--knitting needles 40% off, along with dishcloth yarn on sale, who knows what else, I need to stick to budget though!; Home Depot- get supplies for No. 4 on list.

4. Paint bedroom, replace trim, install new (white) door, replace blinds. The curtains and throw pillows will have to come later, I guess. Oh yeah, take photos of room makeover!

I think thats about all, I'm usually lazy on the weekends, it just depends on my mood I guess. Id' like to finish knitting my bunny and get that done. I'm going to try some baby booties for my next project for a co-worker of Chad's. They are having a girl in May or sometime around there.

And, exciting news! I decided to use some vacation days to go see my lovely friend Ashley in Denver. We are planning to do some knitting and check out the yarn shops there, do more shopping, eat sushi, drink martinis, you know... the norm for us ND girls. :)

Hopefully in June I will be traveling out there, can't wait!

Have a good weekend!

its almost friday?

Wow, this week is going by pretty fast, but I'm not complaining. I guess having Monday off helped matters.


Today was super tense at work, not fun. Even the new girl made a comment, so I know I'm not just dreaming it up. I just worked at my desk and didn't really talk to anyone.. glad thats over!





That new show, notes from the underbelly, is on tonight. I can't wait to see it! I was so not digging that october road or sky show at all.. and I was mad because where did Men in Trees go?! I love that show! Never on anymore though, :(





Okay so call me crazy, but I saw this crocheted blanket and I love it... I think I should learn to crochet too... or do i?! Do I really need to buy even more needles?? You can make some really cute stuff by crocheting that you could never achieve with knitting, and vise versa. I think they are both great skills to have. So... I'm going to watch some videos tonight and see if I can get this crazy thing figured out. Pam does it, so she can always help me too.





I tried a new dishcloth, then somehow I dropped a bunch of stitches. I tried to frog it and pick up stitches but I just got mad and now I have to restart. *sigh*

Its called the "Feather & Fan" and it looks sorta weird here, but my mom had some in her drawer and I really like them. Especially since they aren't square. I'm planning to make a few to sell at our rummage/craft sale. Super easy pattern too.

You can find that here: http://www.jimsyldesign.com/~dishbout/kpatterns/knitting.html

I better get supper started, or something.. :)

Biscuits and sausage gravy for us tonight!

completed projects so far

It isn't much, but I took some photos of my dishcloths so I thought I'd post them.

Very complicated for me when I was beginning, but easy as pie now!

I think... I am ready to move onto new projects.

The heart cloth was my first, a few mistakes, but I'll always love it.

This one is a star, I gave it as a gift to a good friend. (Cone purchased from Walmart.)

This was also a gift to my friend, notice the row I knit in the wrong stitch, Oops!

This is the "bee stitch" minus that row in the middle, that was knit on the wrong side! oops!

And this cloth was for Chad's aunt. A sweet little lady so I knit her up something nice in a country blue.

whats for dinner?

I want to try to do dinner posts sometimes.
Tonight, we are having mashed potatoes, country gravy (got a mix at bread store, hope it turns out okay.) and chicken fried steak.
I guess we can use those cube steaks from the beef we bought last winter, oops!

Here is a recipe for the chicken fried steak at allrecipes. com http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Southern-Living-magazines-Chicken-Fried-Steak/Detail.aspx

It has 308 reviews and I think they are all good. Hopefully I don't screw it up. I think I can actually pop them in the deep fryer....(I hope!)

master bedroom makeover

So since we bought our first house last May, we are really getting into this home improvement thing. We've painted the living room, kitchen, guest bedroom, and Chad's "man room". more on that later...

So we've decided our next project to tackle is the master bedroom. The walls are mint green, which I loved when we first moved in.. now, not so much loving them anymore.

So now, I'm thinking a pear or apple green, but not too wild. We have recessed lighting in our bedroom (thanks to my handyman electrician husband!). One day we were driving and I saw a salon that had the recessed lighting effect with that green and it looked so great.

I want our bedroom to have a nice relaxing spa-like feeling. I mean, if you can't relax in your bedroom, where can you?!

Once we paint, then I can finally hang up some wedding pictures in there.

I also want to get the pottery barn knock off spiral votive candle holder from Target, I can't find a picture right now of that...

Here are some color inspiration pictures for our room. We will be re-doing all the trim in white also and replacing the yucky 80's wood door with a nice white four-panel one.

What do you think? I really like the last one, but toned down just a bit. I'll be sure to take pictures of before and after. :)

first things first.

Well.. I guess I should introduce myself since this is my first post. I have no idea who will actually read this blog, or if anyone will...

So anyways, I'm living in Montana with my husband and we have been married for just over six months. The first year of marriage is quite interesting and a little trying at times, but we are getting through it.

I'm a legal secretary at a business law firm, I do all kinds of stuff and I won't go into that because its boring... but I'd like to be a paralegal in 5 years, I'll set a goal for myself for that right now.

I just decided to start a blog for my thoughts and my projects. I'm kinda turning into quite the crafty little lady, so I thought I'd start blogging and I can keep track of progress and my family and friends can see whats happening in my life.

So.... here we go!

I decided to add a photo of my the night of bachlorette party with my hometown gals. I had such a rockin' faux hawk that night. Ahh, I miss my long hair.