Day: April 6, 2006

My Secret Pal, Catherine, revealed herself to me in a fantastic non-fibery package. SHe knows us so well, Donald (a Thomas & Friends engine for those of you not in the know) for Trevor and the 311 Greatest Hits album. Let me tell you, you can never go wrong in this house with 311 & any Thomas accoutrement!

Thank you Catherine, I now look forward to snooping on your blog & leaving random, sometimes meaningful, comments!

And in other sp news, I can reveal who I have been sending to, Shara of Shara’s Chatter. It was a great round this time & I am so pleased to have ‘met’ both of these gals! I hope we can keep in touch! Thanks for making this so fun!!

My mother taught me that if you don’t have anything productive to say then don’t say it. I feel what follows is productive!

If you don’t like the photographic effect of my personal apad photos, don’t look at them. And if you have a problem with my camera settings, too bad! I don’t care if you don’t like the size of the pictures, it’s my blog & if I want them that large then I will post them that large. Why should I go through all that work of knitting sweaters with intricate details and then post tiny photos where you can’t see those details?

Don’t bitch to me about having to use your scroll arrow. That sure took a lot of effort on your part to be snotty. Thanks for getting my attention, you must need it!

I love how they say they will tow us if we are parked in the street but don’t show up as of 1:53pm! They even said that we wouldn’t be able to use the street at all so we had to park either off of calle real or winchester canyon for the day if we had errands to run. Who’s the big badass that’s gonna stop me now??

Good luck City of Goleta, getting the entire street re-slurried by 5pm. I am not parking off the street for another day because of your mismanagement! Some of us have lives! Oh, and I won’t complain about work not getting done that doesn’t need to be done anyways!

get off my back! I finally sewed up the two tank tops that have been completed, blocked & ready to be seamed for over a month and a half! The chevron rib tank is fun, really long. Longer than I expected it to be. Helps when you actually take in what you read on the pattern, duh!

The other tank is what was supposed to be the diagonal t-shirt from Adrienne Vittadini. It is a tank top now. Hated the sleeves! I am just trying to figure out how to wear it, I guess the strapless bra is called for! I have to experiment & cross my fingers I don’t have to sew in a liner of some sort. It is defenitely a nipple show-er! And we all know how much attention those get, huh girls??

Alright, I am off to bed now! Hope your weekend was productive!

Today was a nice day in Santa Barbara. Fiesta underway, nice sunny day after the marine layer blew out. Great day to go to East Beach for a little sun, swimming & beach volleyball of course! Oh yeah, and some knitting  

Last night on the XGames one of the hosts had on a cabled beanie, very cool. So my man asked me to make him one like it. So far we have ribbing and a lot of swearing at the cable patterns I decided to use. Damn math! Right now it’s at a point that I can’t even add or subtract without a calculator. I guess being tired does really retard brain cells.

There are a few good beach stories but the best one follows:

There once was a boy named Trevor. He is 4 years old. This boy has a tendency to drop “trou” wherever & whenever he feels the need to take a pee. This same boy has a habit out of running way far away down the beach chasing seagulls (refer to the scariest moment of my life). So Tracy, George & I are sitting in our beach chairs this afternoon just chillin’ when we notice Trevor running far down the beach & looking over his shoulders at us to see if we are watching him. About 50 yards away he stops, looks at us, hurries & drops his pants, pees (for about 15 seconds), pulls his pants up & runs as fast as he can back towards us & past us. He then stops & looks at us. George & I had the lucky task of parenting. Teaching the beach etiquette of peeing in the ocean is rather important to a beach loving town & family! Luckily even though there were  a dozen or so people immediately around where he peed, noone seemed to notice a kid whizzin’ in the sand!! Amazing what kids do! Even though he was 6 feet away from people it was okay to whip it out & piss as long as he wasn’t in arms length of mom & dad!

On another note, the other 2 kids had a great time finding crabs in the seaweed they pulled in from the ocean

Oh yeah & another thing about that Trevor, he loves to eat seaweed, or as we have come to call them “sea carrots” while he says over & over “what’s up doc? what’s up doc?”

Oh and before I forget, he is addicted to coffe (thankfully we drink decaf now). Here he is after stealing my coffee cup yesterday morning & hiding out in my bedroom.

Notice the coffee stains on the front of the shirt & how gigantic my mug is!

Happy, oh so happy!

Tyler & Sadie always have a great time at the beach. It’s a damn good thing too because we go weekly in the summer time. Who wouldn’t living a mile from the ocean??

 

It’s not very often that I torture you with pictures of my kids so just suck it up & enjoy!

That is Tyler, he is almost 7. He is my autistic child.

Trevor, he is 4 & the entertainer in the family!

That is Sadie, almost 8 and the radist daughter I could have hoped for!

Just for the hell of it here is a picture of the man playing beach ball. He’s in white, brown & blue shorts. Sorry it’s a far off picture!

Oh & that hill behind the volleyball courts is the Santa Barbara Zoo, more precisely it’s the lion & giraffe habitats. Some days you can see the giraffe’s from the beach. Too awesome!

And finally I decided to make a hat based kind of on the japanese hat that thuy likes, out of some of my very own handspun yarns.

I made it fitted so it’s not quite so floppy but it’s defenitely an interesting shape! I just worked straight up in the round until it was the length I wanted. Bound off 3 of the 4 sides. Continued the 4th side until it was long enough to fold over & sew and VOILA! There you have it! Done on size 11 & 13 needles made it go really fast! Not too keen on the colors of the yarn but they were the yarns I had enough of in the same gauge to work with.

SO happy weekend everyone & I will see ya’ ’round!