There is a Jebus!

I just found a project I was working on in my locker!!! Oh, how I hate
downtime!

Sent from my iPod

OMG Really

I totally don't get why all of these middle aged women like these Twilight movies so damn much! They are over there talking about a potential sex scene in the next movie... WTF! Aren't the characters all teenagers? Wasn't the book written for teenagers?

I don't think that it would bother me so much if I wasn't bored out of my mind, if I wasn't tired, if my hand didn't hurt, if I had something constructive to do, if there we rent so many bad guys on our unit, and most of all, if one of the women over there, wasn't the biggest bitch I have ever known! I can't stand her, and I never want to see her again if I can help it. When ( not if ) I get this new job, I will give 2 weeks notice, and she will be the ONLY person that I will not miss from here! 

OK, that is all, time to make popcorn, time to see what else I can get done on one of the Xmas gifts I want to make...

BORED TO TEARS

So, I'm sitting here at work. It is quiet. Yeah, that's right, I used the Q word. That is how flippin bored I am!


I got all of my intern work done.I got all of the night work done, I mean, there is still some stuff that I need to do, but they are timed events, so I cant do them yet.
I have had dinner.
I have made envelopes for a series of Xmas gifts.
I have started on another Xmas gift that is handmade, but there is only so much that I can do at this point.
I have TRIED to read my Crochet Patterns For Dummies book from the library. But apparently I am dumber than a dummy? It all looks Greek to me! I actually hurt my head trying to read it! That was just the how to read patterns part. 3rd chapter...Intro was on how to use the book, 1st chapter was just the basics, yarn type, hook type, single crochet. That stuff, I have down, for the most part, I hardly pay attention to yarn type, I buy whats cheap and pretty, as for hooks, I grab one that feels good, we have 7 million hooks. All of this stuff that I have down, if I had read that chapter ( which I did not ) I would not know it when I was done... 2nd chapter was about gauge and garment sizes, again, didn't read it. I don't want to make clothes ( right now ) I want to learn to read a crochet pattern. So, skip ahead to chapter 3... The lower the chapter, the easier the material, right? Isn't that the theory? Well, 3rd page in and I am scratching my head, and re-and rereading things... I am not sure what I expected? I think that I wanted to be able to make the awesome things that my Gramma Bishop made for me as a child. My kids are to old for those things, but at this rate, I will be a Gramma myself before I can make a secret bank hidden in a crochet clown thing. Or a Paddington Bear, or a  generic plain barbie type doll in a frilly crochet dress... Hey, I know how to make that ridiculous frill. I did it by accident, I hated doing it... Second thought, no frilly barbie type doll dress....
I just want to make a damn tissue box cozy! I think that I can figure it out, or "make it work". I have done several things this way, they worked out OK. So, I bet I could make a tissue box cozy. But, alas, should I figure it out, I might go cozy-crazy. You know its true... as I type this Blog, I can see the pieces that I would need to crochet and how to put them together to cozy my toaster...hehehe, Evil Cozy Genius that I might be...
Heck, I bet I could figure out how to make the bank thingy too... That thing was the coolest thing ever! It was a giant canister, cardboard, and it had a label that made it look like coffee. It was so cheezy, so awesome, and of course at the bottom, was the plug, and at the top was the coin slot. Then, my Gramma covered it with this crocheted "doll" thing, Not sure how else to explain it. It had floppy legs, and floppy arms, and a  face ( Have to work on that part ) and a hat, so you could take off the hat and deposit coins. Also, the bank slid out.


Man, that thing was cool!


Besides, I think that there might actually come a point when one family has enough blankets. That has not stopped me, however, I have 2 going right now. 1 that has a quickly upcoming deadline. And one that I have been working on for 18 months almost, and I am pretty sure that My Grrrl has no hopes of it ever being completed! Oh wait, 3 blankets, because I am making one that will be tons of little blocks, crochet together. That one is going to take a wile too, but I like it because I can take it anywhere. I always have room for a small ball of yarn, and the sample block.


I wish that I had known that tonight was going to be THIS slow. I bet I could have gotten away with working on the "deadline blanket" It's kinda big, but we are so slow, I bet I could have gotten away with it.


I was supposed to teach one of the nurses to crochet tonight if we both had time. Well, I have time, and I think she does too, right now, but I just don't have it in me right now.


Hey, I'm listening to Mandy by Manilow? Now, I wanna watch "Can't Hardly Wait"... I'm not sure why I like this 70's station so freakin much, but I do. An hour or so ago, they did a disco Star Wars song. It was awesome...


I'm so tired, and bored. I wish that I could go home since there is nothing for me to do... Makes sense to me, I bet it makes sense to My Grrrl too...


Oh, that figures, I said I want to go home, there's nothing to do... Now, there are labs printing up... Gotta go hand em out...


Well, I guess that is it?


We plan on working on the bookcase door today, hopefully we will! I will like to see it all done! I'm very excited to see it! If we do, there will be pictures posted Thursday...


That is all for now. I think that I will go make some popcorn!


Yummy

Stoopid Trees...

There is no real story behind these pictures, other than I was hoping that they would turn out neater than they did.

Why I'm posting them is simple. As an act of defiance!

Ha ha trees! We won!

 

As you can see in that picture those trees were getting WAY to close to those power lines, so they had to go. So, one day, not sure why, my Grrrl and I got back there and cut them down. With a dull axe, and bent handsaw! There were many bruises and contusions, and scraps, tears, curse words, and a few times people were stuck back between the back of the shed and the debris.

  

However, now those dang trees are all drying out to be our firewood next year! 



Late Bloomin' Punkin 2010

This pumpkin didn't even start growing until like September. It was weird

This is a few weeks of growth, it got some weird fungus on the leaves.

I thought that it looks neat!

Here is the leaf from farther away.

I seem to have a thing for close ups, huh?

I think that this little twirly grabby things were neat!

This is damage to the damaged leaf!

Another neat grabby thing!

I Love My Morning Glories

This is my FAVORITE picture of my morning glories, hands down!

I love the way they are basking in the morning sun.

In a large print I have of this in the "Gallery",

you can see a spiderweb.

I love the way the colors are so vibrant and joyous.

This picture is joyous!

This is one lonely purple shamrock leaf in my morning glories.

Sometime early on in the spring, I had this shamrock plant from my Grrrls Gramma

hanging in our kitchen.

Our cat Maynard, decided it would be a great idea

to jump ON the planter that was hanging.

Well, chaos ensued, and when we cleaned up the mess

I just threw out, what I thought was a dead, or dying plant.

I tossed it into my "pseudo compost heap".

Basically it is where plant waste goes during every season except Summer.

This one purple shamrock came back, and sprouted among the green.

It was really surprising, and neat to look at!

This is a cinder block edging treatment that My Grrrl did a few seasons back.

The first year we did Johnny Jump Ups in them.

The morning glories just go where in the heck they please.

That is how they wound up here.

They didn't get much bigger than this.

Honestly, I think it is because they knew that they would have nothing to grow up.

No way to look out upon the world.

This one, and the following 2, I like because of the contrast between blurry and clear.

 I wish that I knew how I did this,

where the flower is blurry, but the leaves are not.

Same here, but, alas, I don't know how I do it sometimes.

I just do!

I like all of the grabby vines in this picture.

I also like how one flower is open and awake to the world,

and the other is not!

I just like this picture because even ugly babies need love...

 I mean, the flower has seen better days. But the colors are

still so vibrant, trying to still being pretty...

Well, how am I supposed to fix something I don't even realize is wrong?

So, I had a "breakdown" moment this weekend. Some stuff that I didn't realize was festering, was festering. So, when I realized it was bugging me, I wasn't around my Grrrl to talk to her about it, so I wrote a note in my iPod. Then, when I got home, I didn't want to ruin our evening. I guess that I figured that I would talk to her when the time seemed right. Well, the time didn't seem right until a different, but somewhat related subject came up. So, instead of talking about it, I broke down, and got crazy ( not as bad as normal ) but it wasn't good.

I would like to add, in my defense, that, the delicate subject matter that was being "discussed" when I had my "moment" might have made my "incident"worse. I was embarrassed by my vulnerability at that moment...Not wanting to look stupid in that sort of moment. That, is another epiphany that I just had.

Another thing that happened tonight, when my Grrrl mentioned that she wasn't going to get around to doing something, I guess I sounded more bothered by it than even I realized I was. So, she texted me and said it would get done. I know that she has other things to do tonight, so I should understand, but this is something that had been left over from last night, basically. And, for a split second what went through my head was "Well, you didn't get to it today, and you re not going to get to it tonight, what have you been doing all day?" Fair or not, that is what I thought. I know she is probably doing stuff tonight, laundry, and I know that she did the kitchen laundry today, partially. Anyhow, I am glad that she is doing the kitchen, I dislike coming home to a dirty kitchen, and I am glad that she is taking care of this for me, and the family!

OK, well that is all, I just spent my first break blogging this, and I still didn't my coke! UGH!