trying to keep up...

well i'm a little behind schedule...i wanted to have both socks done by today...but one's better then none...i'll cast on the second one tonight...

dami has been sick for the past two days...nothing like having a fever...cough...runny nose...sore throat...and congestion...poor little guy...i wish i could be sick for him...

i've been thinking...maybe i'll cast on the february lady sweater...my mum plans on visiting towards the end of march...who knows...maybe i could even have it finished by then...

on the needles...socks

on vinyl...strange and beautiful by aqualung...

look...

here is a picture of my socks...

i'm truckin' away with dads socks...i'm on the heel and hopefully i'll get one finished by the end of this weekend...and possibly the second one started and finished by midweek...i'm also going to cast on him another pair of socks so that i can keep rollin'...

i took dami to the dr for his 2 yr check up and he's not even on the chart when it comes to weight...i've been forcing him to eat more and writting down everything...he's like his mommy...doesn't like meat much...nuts, eggs, and good ol' penut butter have been doing the trick...

dani continues to get into trouble at school...that damn his mouth of his...he's not even sly about it...and to think i've just started with his teenage years...

on the needles...socks...socks...and more damn socks...

on vinyl...a day in the life...by the beatles

happy feet...

these will be dad's 2nd pair of socks...every time i call the parents he just happens to ask me where his socks are...initially i cast on the guitar man socks...but frogged them...instead i've decided to go with the masonic lodge pattern...the pattern is easy to memorize and seems to be knitting up rather quickly...

lj and i made a pact with one another...to finish a pair of socks a month...this will be much harder for me to accomplish then her...that woman is forever knitting...however i have serious case of second sock syndrome...and never enough time to knit...well that's not all together true...i get alot accomplished when i tend to knit from 11pm till 4am...and shit i would do it every night....it really wouldn't be a problem...well...maybe a small one...that i happen to be one nasty miserable bitch the next day...i personally don't have a problem with that...however the ones around me do...

on the needles...masonic lodge socks

on vinyl...i walk like jayne mansfield...by 5,6,7,8's

v.day...

well i finished the dishcloths por dani...just in the nick of time...his teacher loved them...

as for valentines day i bought the boys cards and let them pick out something...ricky and dani decided to go with nerf guns...and dami picked out some motorcycles...my dearest husband and oldest are running around shooting at each other and anything else the bullets will stick to...while the wee one is collecting and distributing the discharged bullets....as for me...i'm dodging bullets while blogging...

on the needles...i just cast on for dad's socks...

and on vinyl...shankhill butchers by the decemberists

work it...make it ...

dani threw a monkey wrench at me yesterday when he asked me if i would knit his teachers dishcloths for valentines day...as you can see i didn't feel like knitting up your traditional red...pink...and white...i've only finished 1.5 out of 6...however i have until friday so i should be good to go...i still have to knock out a hat for ricky's mom who leaves next week...it should only take me a few hours so i'll cast that on now...that way i can drop it off to the post office this evening...i'll have to use something from my stash...most likely it will be knit picks sock yarn...not exactly my first choice...but it's available...yeah i know that i've been blogging about knitting up this hat for over a week....and it should be no surprise that i still haven't learned my lesson....yup...i still wait until the last minute...what else is new...oh...and now that my socks are almost finished...the weather is warming up...go figure...

on the needles...ballband dishcloths...my socks...and a hat...

and on vinyl...harder better faster stronger by daft punk

once...twice...three times a lady...

i guess three's the lucky number...i've knitted up these socks so much that i don't need the pattern anymore...it's stored in the good ol' memory banks indefinitely...i'm not sure if that's a good thing or not...however i couldn't resist knitting them up for myself...especially after knittin' them up for my mum and grandmum...i love the pattern but this is it for awhile...i'm using araucania ranco multy and the color is bonfire...i'm almost finished the second sock...and then on to dad's sock...i'm still trying to figure out which pattern to choose...i think it will most likely be the guitar man socks...

i thought that maybe some fresh air and getting out of the house would do us all some good...so i loaded up the car and took the boys out for a early dinner to five guys...i have to give it to them...they make a good burger and fry's...however...ricky now feels worse...his fever is back and he's curled up on the couch wrapped up in his blanket watching the tele like a little boy...i feel so bad...he actually called in sick friday and saturday...it shocked the shit outta me...cause he never calls out...so far i'm the only one who hasn't been bitten by the bug...*keeping fingers crossed*

on the needles...embossed leaves socks for me...and on vinyl bizarre love triangle by new order

oh canada...

well they are finally complete...it took me longer then usual...but then again i kept rippin' the bitches back...instead of pushing on...i did it not once...but twice...the first time was when i was about one pattern row from finishing the foot and the other time was when i was on the third row in the decreasing of the toe...why i ask myself...well i guess because sometimes i do stooooopid things...however the good news is tomorrow they will be will be on the way up to canada to keep my grandma's tooties warm...too bad i couldn't hand deliver them...

my mum's back home...i guess that she's getting back into the swing of things...for some older people my parents sure do seem to keep busy...they always have something going on...i have to seriously knock out some socks for my dad...otherwise he may just end up wearing holes in the pair he has now...

the boys have been feeling under the weather lately...dani was home from school for two days with migraine headaches, a slight fever and a cough...i took him to the dr's on monday and he tells us that rest is the best...now dami seems to have taken on his symptoms...he's been really fussy with a slight fever hopefully by the weekend everyone in the house has passed the winter flu bug...

i started reading dani's book twilight yesterday and it's really not that bad...i'm almost finished and then i'll start the next in the series...new moon...he wants us to watch the movie when it comes out on dvd...i think we have a few more weeks before it hits blockbuster...

on the needles...i'm going to cast on some socks for dad...some socks for me...me...me...a hat for my mil...and maybe the february lady sweater...

on vinyl...never miss a beat by kaiser cheifs