Swifty

Swifty
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Here is my new thing I'm making. Please ignore the gun toting weirdo. This particular one is just a smidge small because I was initially just making the dishcloth and changed course mid way through.

ugh

Happy half birthday to Abbey and me! That must mean it's auntie Becky's birthday. I'm still feeling all ughy from her party 2 days ago. Now instead of getting all drunk and then hung over I just get hung over from meat. I should have known better but there was nothing to eat otherwise. We were going to stop and bring something but of course we didn't. I only had a bite or two but here we are 2 days later and I can still feel it working it's way through the system.

Yesterday I made Portuguese sweet bread but I finished it so late that I have not yet tried it. It looks really good, hopefully it tastes good too.

And I finished the second hat which Ella does not like because it's not blue enough. It's so blue it looks white. It's also a touch too small so I may just give it to Jenna. I also finished the mittens which are connected up and strung through Abbey's coat. Now I have to make Ella's mittens.

I think I'm finally getting a little less nervous about Saturday, things are sounding better and better, it's amazing what happens when you practice. Tomorrow is my rehearsal with the newest group, hopefully that all clicks together. fingers crossed that gail can find a drummer because we desperately need one.

monday monday la laaaa la laaaaa

it snowed.

there is snow in my yard.

I am actually happy about that because maybe now it will just be winter and not this weird going back and forth thing that seems to make me feel yucky.

today I think I will start learning how to make french bread. I do not think there is much to do day 1 but I think I will do it and then I will know.

I have been a knitting fool and now I need to be a going to the post office fool because I cannot finish these socks until I know if they will fit. They are TINY and must go to the smallest footed person that I know, but if they are indeed too tiny even for her then I must frog and re-do.

But oh yes, the knitting, I spent too much on the yarn for the hat but it was soooo nice to work with and has knitted up just as nice. yay for non itchy wool. the mitten wool on the other hand is giving me a rash to work with but I'm hoping that it will relax a little. It still has chunks of leaves from the dye in it and stuff, which is nice too but rather the opposite of the other hand spun and dyed stuff.

Oh, and my new strings!!! Also well worth the spendy because they are so smooth and slidey. Since John's from homeing it I can definitely practice first thing, and then start the bread...

I have realized that I can really like this time of year as long as I don't feel like I have to do anything. As long as I can somehow make myself want to do it I'm ok...

we'll see

Thursday already! Let's see, what shall we do today? I was still really sore and achy at yoga time yesterday so I did lots of stretching and less of crazy things. Off to the gym today and then we are recording at COD which is not really that fun or interesting anymore, but does get the adrenalin going. Can't fuck up, ya know? Tape's rolling. then there is an hour and a half of ballet this evening. That should poop them out. There are 2 girls there who only play with each other and don't allow anyone else to play with them. And it's like, I really like their mom's but what the fuck ladies? A) your kids are disrupting class and B) they are being huge assholes! I just leave and don't watch class anymore but these mom's can sit there and watch an hours worth of this shit every fucking week? They are the 2 teachers too, well, one of them is a teacher and the other is in school to be. I'm really appalled and mortified, though, if you can't tell. Fortunately Abbey and Ella both just participate in the class and pretty much hang out with everybody. At Ballet and at swimming. Nobody like to put their face in the water, yet, that's when we'll have fishes instead of daughters.

I am doing my best not to hurry the finishing work on this blanket but I got a mitten pattern generator and had to at least make the swatch out of my new fancy yarn that came yesterday sot hat I could print my pattern for the mittens... The blanket is so close to done I can't help but finish it today I don't think and then it's on to mittens for the fam.

OK

How was that for a week? Who am I again? Oh yeah.

Time to get this wagon back on the tracks.

Today I need to do the last of the sicko's laundry and get the beds switched back. Abbey was on the bottom bunk this week.

I need to practice for this wedding which is creeping up.

I need to fix this problem with the brain cramps and the socks.

yah.

Phew. I felt so incredibly drained last night that I was scared I was going to get the disease too, but after a pretty darn decent night's sleep with only a couple of wake ups but no get ups I'm feeling better. For reals, I felt like I'd been trippin' with that weird taste in the back of my throat and the imbalanced brain chemicals. I tried to drink a beer but then I just wanted to puke so I went to bed fully expecting to wake up sick. But no. I'm fine. It's all that clean living! ha ha h a nha ah ah a

that's some funny shit right there, mostly because it's true these days. I've only had raw food since abbey went in and I think I even practiced 2 of the days. Gotta get one in today...

John is having meetings all day and is just calling into them from here so I can take Ella to school and ballet later. She's hanging in there, she keeps trying to give Abbey kisses but Abbey of course is still quite cranky.

I did something really stupid with my knittin' project and now I have to figure out how to fix it.

time to make the waffles

making stuff

So I've been going gung ho on these socks, to the detriment of my many other things I should be doing. But they're going to be really super fancy socks...

The last gig of the season for my big band is this Thursday. At least it's a 2 hour throwdown of everything we've been doing, and after my magnificent nerves of last time I'm going to get some practicing in tomorrow and I pretty much get to play most of the day Thursday too so I think I'll be good to go. I'm still sporadically working on Rubber Soul, what a great album. I really need to haul the cello out and start getting ready for this wedding.

Let's see, other things I need to make, ooh, I ordered up a sock monkey kit. I'm sure part of the reason I'm busting my tail on these socks is because I need to clear off the needles so I can start on the monkey. Um, yeah.

What else can I babble on about?

I need to make my yoga practice harder, what I really need to do is to put this one in the morning first thing when I get up so ungodly early and then just add another one in the usual spot.

time to go

Where ya Been?

Just relax, you're doing fine.

Ya ya ya.

Finished both blankets, but haven't uploaded pics because of fear of spiders lurking behind the computer. Ella woke up in the middle of the night screaming about spiders and I can't get her terror out of my head.

Have been practicing some bass just lately again, took about a week off I guess. Realizing again that I must get the cello out. Still time before the wedding, but fast running out.

yoga is all good and is the constant for now, just must.

Still reading the hobbit, but since we're just entering Mirkwood and Ella is already afeared of spiders, well, might take a small break.

Currently knitting socks but really seriously bored with the pattern and wishing I could do something else for a bit, but what?

Things!

I'm having the same sort of middle schmertz as last month ovulation time, although this month's hasn't been so bad... yet...

It would seem to be the weekend and I would seem to be not doing much, except we went to the movies! Dark Knight, best movie I've seen in a long time, but that's not saying much since I don't think I've been to the movies since Star Wars pissed me off. I think I was pregnant with Ella.

Oh yeah, and I've been knitting like crazy on the blanket only to find out that I do indeed need to order more yarn, so now I've stopped on the blue and started on the green in hopes of getting to the part where I need the new ball before it actually gets here. It's a race! Ready set go!!

Yeah, so I was doing that and drinking water and trying to figure out why I have to have this cramping shit twice a month now instead of once.

Abbey & Ella are doing yoga with the Wai Lana lady. We went to kiddie land the other day and had much fun.

It's almost August and we still haven't been camping, which hopefully means that we'll be going to the festival in September...

Phew

Finally this week has pretty much un-busied itself. I think today is the day that blanket baby is coming, so I really need to finish the blanket. I also want to make a CD of this bass book so I can practice it a little. But I'm waiting for the end of naptime because it might get noisy.

Something clicked in my head last night at my gig so that now things are better and I feel way more confident for the most part. It was rather shocking, the difference, but in a good way. yah

hungry

thoughts

so, who knew the cheapo wine was poison? Ugh, I only had 2 glasses I think? Maybe a tad more? Certainly not enough to still be feeling this out of sorts almost 24 hours later.

Still, I'd like to thank the academy, and also my children for sitting so quietly and watching 2 whole shows while I snoozed on the couch. Because then I was able to get up and do a bit of practicing.

The coolest thing to happen to me today, though, was that I was somehow inclined to try Urdhva Dhanurasana out of the blue, why? I don't know. Anyway, I didn't fight it and up I floated! It was so easy that I freaked out and came down and then I was scared to go back up. But very cool none the less. I used to do lots of backbends as a kid but this is the first time in a long time that I feel like I could do one every day again.

the blanket is coming along, I don't think I'm going to try stripes, this time. I'll save that for the next one... (wink wink nudge nudge)

Oh, and in the better left unsaid category, a big old fuck you to my husband and his people for always offering to babysit during nap time. This is not when I need a sitter. For the past 5 years I have been frustrated almost weekly by this phenomenon and today is no different.

blankets

The yarn finally came for the 2 baby blankets that I'm supposed to make, have been waiting for a long time (cue Boston) (just cuz I was listening to great woods 99)

Also practiced today on bass and yoga woohoo for me. It's absolutely amazing how fast progress can be made when one does something every day.

Things I didn't think about during savasana:
- how much I love that little triangle solo during YEM
- I need a bass teacher who won't charge me 50 bucks an hour
- I should go get a jobby job at the music store
- I hate air conditioning

Projects

I just realized that I haven't sprouted anything in a long time. I think it's because it's hard for me to eat them all by myself before they get nasty. I should at least get some amber waves and bake some more bread.

I have been practicing yoga every day for this entire moon cycle so far, although there have been a few days where my practice is more reading and watching videos and meditating rather than the actual sweating part. But I had to make an allowance for my current life-style with the small non butt wiping child. I simply can't always carve out a half hour or so without interruption. I've also been trying to practice pratyahara and plow on through even with the interruptions.

I finished the Jaywalker socks, then they damn near killed me because I'm not used to how slippery my back steps are with socks on. They don't exactly fit right, but I'm not inclined to rip them out, I think I'll give them away.