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Today is Christmas Eve (duh) In an hour or so Bill and I will be leaving for my parent's house where I will slave away in the kitchen to help mom make an awesome dinner then were will open presents and eat and eat and eat. We decided to have Christmas with my family on Christmas Eve because mom not only had to work in the morning but it makes it much easier for use to take Cayenne to Bill's parents. (Cayenne doesn't like company, and Bill's parents get a lot of visitors on Christmas day, and hardly any on Christmas Eve) I can't wait, I'll be able to finally Visit with my cousin and her new beau. I haven't seen her in forever, and it will be nice to catch up. She just recently moved in to an apartment with him, and has actually been cooking meals and stuff (this is a big thing for her) so I got her some cook books for Christmas. I made my mother a spa kit, with a hand knit face cloth, a microwave rice bag hot pad thingy with a hand knit cover, hand made bath bombs handmade soap from one of our favorite vendors (gotsoap.com) and a little candle I picked up at Michael's. I took a Clementine box and covered it with fabric and put everything inside, it looks really neat. For grandma, I decided to give her a beret I had knit, she seemed to like it a lot when I wore it into town and it looked good on her, so it's now hers, I also bought her a really spiffy cat pin from Etsy and an beautiful pair of earrings for another seller on Etsy. My dad was the hardest to get something for, I found a cute little button on Etsy that says "I kiss my basset hound on the lips" but it wasn't enough (although I did make a really spiffy origami box for it out of scrapbook paper) we ended up just getting him a borders gift card to complete the gift. I feel bad but I never know what to get him, and he does love books, so it's not like it's a waste. Ah well. I hope everybody has an awesome Christmas eve and Christmas day! Tags: family, holidays
Current Mood:  chipper
What's Playing?: Welcome Christmas by Dr. Seuss
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Thank you so much to everybody who sent well wishes to my father. He is home, much earlier than any of us really expected. They did not end up doing the stents like I thought. I'm not sure exactly what the procedure they used was, but they could not anesthetize him during it, and it was quite painful for him. But his recovery time was much quicker. He spent the entire time in the ICU, and is one of the few patients that get released directly from the unit. There was a little bit of a scare when the clot didn't disintegrate like expected, but instead broke into chunks and parts went down both legs. But everything resolved itself smoothly and he came home Saturday evening. I had a very stress full week; one night mother did not call me with an update but instead just called grandmother who later called me to relay the information. The problem was that I had questions about what was going on but could not ask mother, and grandmother only knew a few slight details. So I ended up spending the rest of the night and next day worrying and stressed out more than usual. Mom was unaware that I was worrying; she had simply not called me because she thought I was asleep and she wanted me to be able to get my res. And she didn't know that grandma was going to call me anyways. Anyways, I finally headed home Saturday night, and had my own little adventure. The road I usually take was mostly clear but there were spots where the snow had blown in drifts across the road, making it slippery and treacherous. Well, I came up on one of these spots and began to break. Unfortunately I guess I broke too late and too hard and went into a spin! I lost control of the car and ended up in a snow bank in a ditch on the side of the road. I called bill and then mother to let them know what had happened, and then mom called my uncle terry who knew a guy who owned a towing business. He sent somebody to come pull me out. In the mean time a really nice trooper came by and sat with me wile I waited, he was very nice and helped keep me calm. I was also surprised by how many passers by stopped to offer help and be sure I was OK. I makes me kind of glad to be in my small town little area, I don't think so many people would have stopped f this were in the big city. Tags: family, stress
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Current Mood:  tired
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I'm at my parent's babysitting the dogs while they are away at a party, they will be staying in a hotel afterwards and coming home in the late morning, so I have to watch the boys overnight, and take everybody to the groomer's in the morning. While I was playing with the bays I found the sweater I had made duchess, they had tried hiding it on top of one of dad's filing cabenets. It had been severely chewed on, on button completely chewed off, two giant holes in the body. It was a mess! The way the holes are I can just tell that the left it on the counter or something where the boys could get to it, and they ate it. I bet duchess never actually got to wear it! ARG! I'm so angry, I put so much work into that thing and they just let the boys eat it! Tags: drama, family, pets
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My father has Diverticulitis which usually gives him no problems, but every now and then he eats badly and it gets inflamed. Usually he is in a lot of pain (a 10 most of the time, when he has an episode) so he goes to the hospital, they give his some morphine, yell at him for eating badly and send him home the same day after the pain goes away, with yet another pamphlet about what he is supposed to eat. Apparently this has happened several times this year, every couple of months in fact. But each time, Mom has been there to take him to the hospital and take care of him. Last week Mom went on a two week vacation to Missouri. (she really needed it) Dad had an episode on Tuesday, so he called me, he was going to take himself to the hospital, and everything was probably going to be fine, but he was in a lot of pain, and couldn't put the dogs up, and they needed feeding, and he probably wasn't going to get home in time. So I grabbed some stuff and headed to Watertown. Unfortunately it wasn't just a normal attack; he had a bowel obstruction as well. It was minor, so it wasn't too big of a deal, but his usual doctor wasn't there, something got screwed up on the meds, and he wasn't allowed any morphine, and he needed a tube down his nose to his stomach. (Those things really, really hurt going down) oh and he was going to have to stay over night. (on top of that one of the ER nurses was coping major attitude and being quite rude, I told Mom about it. Did I mention mom is nurse manager of the ER? Yeah, the chick got totally bitched out. "I didn't know it was your husband," Mom told her it didn't matter if it was her husband or not, you don't do that to ANY patient or their family. My Mom kicks ass.) That meant I had to stay over night to take care of the dogs, and run errands for Dad. Dad is home and fine now, on antibiotics for the diverticulitis and his bowels are moving freely again, the tube came out early yesterday, and he was ready to come home this morning. The boys were very happy to see him. I made him some pudding, found some broth for him to eat, and came home. Tags: family, stress
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The wind is being all spooky like today. Work has ended, Bill and I finished up cleaning week at the Chez on Friday, and the last few days have been us at his work or running errands. While in Watertown on Monday, Stacy began making funny noises again, so I have an appointment at Miller's Garage to get her looked at on Thursday. We were supposed to go apple picking today, but I don't really want to drive too much while she is being iffy. LOST tonight, looks like a promising season. My mother and grandmother are away to Missouri for two weeks, dad is left all alone with Duchess and the boys, this should be interesting. We're going to stop in to see him while we are in town on Thursday, maybe he can pick us up while Stacy is in the garage, and we can hang out. Speaking of Duchess, he sweater is coming along nicely, I haven't gotten too far as I'm concentrating on my shawl for Reinbeck, although with the weather looking the way it is, I may be wearing a heavy jacket in stead. That's ok; I'm also working on a nice cozy neck warmer with the most luxurious yarn I have even met: cashmere, silk, alpaca and superfine wool. :: drool :: Tags: family, knitting, vroom, work
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been back for a while, but I've been visiting with the dogs and playing and feeding and such. here's the low down on my Dad: he went into surgery at about 2:30 Aunt Mary, Grandmother, Mom and I went to the surgery waiting room, I made my last post, and we waited. and waited and waited and waited. finally around 7ish we were getting hungry, so Aunt Mary took Grandma and I to get dinner. just as we got here and started getting our food and Mom showed up. Dad's doctor had come in right after we left. The surgery went fine, they just cleared out the clot, and they decided they didn't need to redo the bypass. He kept clotting throughout the surgery. They decided that they cannot just take him off of the heparin and put him on cumadin. what they need to do is slowly wean off the heparin, and then give him the cumadin, and once that takes effect, take him fully off the heparin. his blood clots too fast, too much, to just let him off the thinners for any length of time. this process is going to take a while, so Dad is going to be in the hospital until at least Thursday or Friday. we all got our dinners and ate, called people to give them the news, and then headed back upstairs to be there when Dad got out of the recovery room. Dad finally came up at around 8:10, we saw that he was ok, good pulse in his feet, and slowly coming to from the anesthesia. we were all tired, so we left the nurses to get him settled in and headed back home. Tags: family
Current Mood: tired
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I'm collecting the 'classic' cake recipes, you know, chocolate, red velvet, white, yellow, carrot. My mom wanted me to make her nurses a cake so I could practice. And she decided she wanted a yellow cake with custard filling. No problem, I've made custard a million times for work. And how hard can yellow cake be? So I pop online to one of the cake communities I'm on and search for yellow cake. And I come up with "Martha Stewart's classic yellow cake." Cool, I think, this will be perfect. The original recipe calls for two 9x13 pans, so I'll just cut the recipe in half for 2 9 inch round. Nope, must have been a typo, I only got enough batter to barely fill one 9 inch round pan halfway, I mean, I should have noticed by the amount of flour and other ingredients that I wouldn't take that much. But I put my trust in Martha Stewart, and she failed me. (should I really be this suprised?) *le sigh* So now I have to tort the bastard (have I mentioned I HATE torting cakes?) and it won't be nearly as tall as I would have liked. I should have gone straight to the Joy of Cooking. bah :: grump, grump :: Tags: cakes, family, food, rant
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We told my parents about the engagement tonight at new years dinner. (we got free champagne! Thank you Tasha!) I was so nervous; my stomach was in knots all night, I'm so glad Bill was there to keep me calm. I shouldn't have been nervous though... my mothers response? "Finally!! So when should I expect my grand child? Let's see, you'll be 26, that will leave you with at least 4 good childbearing years." :: facepalm :: ah well. Everything went well; I think they were impressed that we already had a lot of the major planning done. All we really need to worry about at the details. And we still have a year and a half to go. (oh yeah, and it seams that my parents are going to help with most of the monetary needs too. That will be nice, although I still plan to not spend much, I don't want anything too extravagant.) Mom even really likes the dress I picked out, and is very excited about finding somebody to make it for me! (I feel like such a little girl, I want to play dress up.) And I have her already at work putting together a list of people to invite. I don't really think her A list will be anything close to ours. But if I at least I have a list of relatives etc. from her, I'll be sure to not forget somebody, which I would be bound to do if I were trying to compile it from memory. Tags: family, holidays, platypus, wedding
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My parents came over yesterday. That was interesting. The have never seen the place before, so I was hoping that by finally seeing where we live that it would make it more real, more final to them. Also they would get an idea of the amount of space we have and stop trying to force stuff on us. We've been in a frantic rush to clean and neaten the place up since mom told me a week ago that they would be visiting. One of the first things my mom mentions when she was here was that the oven door was a bit dirty. And there was a comment about me being my father's daughter because we have books piled up everywhere. *sigh Dad liked it though, he was impressed, he really liked all the books. :D They made a good comment though that we need more chairs. Bill and I usually sit on the floor on nice comfy pillows. And have two chairs for the computer. But when we have gimps (mom had a bad back, knees, and foot, dad has bad legs, and a bad back and neck, grandma's just old, everything is going bad.) over it would probably be nice to have someplace for them to sit where they can actually get up again. Tags: family, platypus nest
Current Mood:  blah
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Well, almost anyways. Bill and I decided that since we were going to be in Watertown today, that we would take the Border's coupon that had pointed out by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mactavish and buy a new cook book (like we didn't have enough already) So up we go Arsenal street, but it was very busy and the traffic was horribly slow, even for a Saturday. So I decide to take a turn and go the back way to the mall via Coffeen Street. But it takes us even longer to even get on Coffeen that it would have to stay on Arsenal. Once we finally get there we barely got 100 feet before there was a trooper car blocking the way! He was letting people go towards downtown, but our way was completely blocked. Our only way out was to go the completely wrong way down I 81. So that is what we did. We got off at the next exit (Bradley St./Clayton) turn around and get right back on 81. we decide to give the Coffeen St. exit a pass (we assumed there must have been an accident farther up, and that was why we were blocked), and go straight for Arsenal. But don't you know it, but there were troopers all over the place blocking of the Arsenal St. exit too!! So we had to go WAY out of our way to the next exit (Watertown center) then drive all the way back home. Once home we turned on Grandma's scanner, and set dad to watching the news to figure out what all the hub-bub was. Apparently why doing some renovating for a new store in the mall, the construction workers hit a gas main, and the place had to be evacuated! Grandma called Aunt Mary, because she has her scanner on 24/7 and we though she might already have known what was going on, and Tasha had been there when they evacuated. Whoa. in the newsTags: bookworm, family, links, news, outside
Current Mood:  weird
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So my aunt calls, She has more yarn from the relative who died. I figure, well from all I’ve gotten there can’t be much left. WRONG!!! So I have BOXES of yarn. And BOXES of lace thread for crochet And BOXES and BAGS of knitting and crochet needles. i went through the knitting needles and grabbed the ones I needed at least one of. But there are tons left. 14", 10" DPN's and circs. And I’m afraid to try and sort through the crochet hooks. (both normal and lace kind) Sooo... uhhhh Anybody need any crochet/knitting supplies? I’m willing to ship to almost anywhere in the US. (near by friends get first dibs, but there is A LOT of stuff) Tags: beyond the veil, crochet, family, knitting
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I feel better now. By back still hurts, but after about 1/2 hr of creative stretching, meditating and laying stiff as a board it feels better. And now I’m not quite so headachy and fuzzy headed. Mom wants me to help her with the Statistics test tonight (I have to help he with the online part, I refuse to do her work for her) so I may not be able to go to Bryan’s and watch anime like we had planned. That kind of makes me sad, I haven’t seen him in a while, and I’m going through anime withdrawal. I have everything done here at work. But I still have to stick around until five so I can make up for the hours I missed earlier this week and for the hours I’m planning to miss Tuesday when I go to visit oaksongI keep finding myself being tempted to order something from the Chinese restaurant next door, but I know I shouldn’t because it’s bound to be greasy and bad for me. And I really need to watch my weight, especially with how badly I’ve been eating in my classes. Baking is the worse, all sorts of decedent treats that we have to taste and critique. Yummy. I put a pan full of water on the heater the other day, and have been keeping it full. It’s help somewhat with the dryness in the office, but the metal objects around me are still shocking me far too often. I think it’s a conspiracy. I’ve been listening to my Abba CD a lot lately. My cousin, Tasha gave it to me for Christmas, and I just recently found it while I was cleaning my room. I really want to get the Mama Mia CD now as well. I blame riki_kiki_taco for my addiction. :p My eyes have been acting up a lot lately, making it difficult to wear my contacts. Just another addition to the list of things messed up by my BC. I’m definitely going to have to talk to PP about going on a different prescription or something. A lot of my friends at school are on Depo, but I’m a bit too fond of my period to seriously think about getting it. Although I do have to admit it would be convenient to no longer have to remember to take a pill at the same time every night. Well I guess I’m going to go and read some, or maybe knit until five. Only an hour and 10 min left before I can go home. Weee! Tags: family, food, friends, happyears, owies, skool, work
Current Mood: calm
What's Playing?: Billy Joel - All About Soul
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Eek, well mom threw a fit and even talked to dad about the fact that I was up late lat night talking to oaksong on the phone. Geeze mom, I can take care of myself, just because I stay up late doesn’t mean my life is going to fall apart. Ah well I really liked talking to oaksong, so I’m happy :D and here are a couple of quotes from last night. Think I should be worried? “You are so cute when you’re angsty” “You’re so sexy when you're multi tasking” Tags: family, platypus, rant
Current Mood: cheerful
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Ugh Work was annoying today. Apparently the computer has a vendetta against me... or maybe it's just because it's a piece of crap running off of win 98, which is completely fucked up. And I can't wait until I can figure out where everything goes and how everything is done so I don't need to wait for my grandmother to putz around and explain stuff. Things would go so much faster and smoother then. I go to warm up my car after work (dad fixed it! YAY! THANK YOU DADDY!) and I pull up to pick up grandma outside the front door, and she had forgotten the mail we needed o send out...*sigh. I'll take care of it tomorrow. Should have done it myself, but I thought she would remember. Oh well. I come home and I have one hell of a headache starting. And I see dad hadn't switched my clothed to the dryer like I had asked him to do. *sigh. Great, now that's going to take forever to finish. I come upstairs to take a piss and maybe lay down for a nap. And dad's on the computer trying to order his prescriptions. And of course even though he's done it a million times he still has to have me there to hold his hand. Bah Mom calls and wanted to know of I would go with her to staples to take back the printer she just bought for work. Apparently it's broken. And I told her I was hoping to go see Big Fish with Monica. Btu I wasn't sure because of my headache. And I couldn't get a hold of Monica 'cus dad was on the computer. And I wanted to see if she was online first (that and I couldn't remember her number and needed to look it up) Dad hears me mention him in the other room and starts bitching because I'm talking about him, and wants to know who I'm talking to. Them mom wants to talk to him. And she starts bitching at Him because he's keeping me from talking to Monica. Now I didn't have a problem with waiting until he was done. But mom hadn't given me a chance to explain. So no dads all angry and bitchy 'cus mom bitched at him. And I have a huge headache. I finally call Monica (she wasn't online) and tell her I don't think I can see the movie tonight. And I feel horrible about it 'cus it's her birthday and we've been wanting to see this for a while. But I cannot sit through a movie with this headache. *sigh so now I'm going to go take a nap and wait for mom to come home, and yell at me about dad, and go to staple with her. And maybe I'll be feeling better when I wake up and will be able to at least go over to Monica's later and hang out. Tags: banal, family, owies
Current Mood:  cranky
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I stayed up way too late last night. But then again I slept in WAY too much yesterday morning, (until 2) I had meant to get up around 10-11 ish and get my shower etc and then get a hold of Monica so we could hang out and knit and watch movies. But obviously that didn't happen. I had to run around and rush to get dressed and ready to go shopping with mom, we got some 'control top' underwear to give my tummy support while the muscles reconnect and found a really pretty pair of pants that fit me well. I also grabbed some stuff for the office and a few new pairs of 'fancy' panties for myself. It's amazing how sexy a nice pair of panties can make you feel. I finally got a hold of Monica when I got home and she came over and we talked knitting and knitted during the Labyrinth, mmmm Bowie-age. ;) I finally took my shower wicked late and then ended up spending almost an hour and a half washing my hair, scrubbing and shaving. I had to do my final rinse off in ice cold water. Blech. I didn't get to bed until well after midnight and had to get up early to go to the office. It was a mess as usual, we concentrated on cleaning out the desk drawers and re organizing things and getting the bulletin printed out and run off and folded with the inserts. There is still a lot to be done before I will be satisfied with the state of that office. And a lot of it I am just not familiar enough with the official business to organize correctly, so I have to wait until somebody else can come in and help me. Also, the old secretary saw fit to take old files and just toss them in old copier paper boxes and shove them into a corner with no organizing at all. So I have to go through all those and put them in proper order and boxes so they can e taken to one of the storage rooms. So much to do, its going to be a long time before I can just go in and sort the mail, type up a few things print them off and go. But the job will be so easy once I get to that point. I cam home and laid on the bed to pet Booger for a few minutes and promptly fell asleep until mom called me about 1 ½ hrs later to find out what the dinner plans were. It was ok though, Boogs didn't mind, he had curled up right next to me and gone to sleep himself. Soo cute! Well that was my boring couple of days. Yep. Wa hoo... :p Tags: family, friends, knitting, looks, outside, work
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Arg! My parents went out and bought a weight watchers cook book today for me. And then got all angry when I got mad about it. First off it's a normal cook book, which means a good portion (over half) is NOT going to be vegetarian friendly. And second they got it because it has info about the 'points' system and they though it would be good for me to use it for my diet. ARG! I FUCKING HATE DIETS! I can regulate the way I eat and eat healthily on my own thankyouverymuch. I don't need some stupid 'points' system to eat 'right' I mean come on I was loosing weight steadily before the surgery, and that has gone up even more since the surgery. But they still think I'm a kid and don't know how to eat! My mom frigging 'gave me permission' to have a cup of yogurt for a snack the other night when I made a comment that I was a bit hungry. (I wasn't planning on eating anything, just making a comment) I'm going crazy here! And my dad had the idiocy to say "if you knew how to eat right you wouldn't have gotten so fat in the first place!" WHAT!?! Jesus dad, you yourself said people can change; most of my fat was gained when I was a kid, when I used food as a comfort thing, when I DIDN'T know how to eat properly. But now I know, I have learned to eat right, or I wouldn't have been loosing weight! *sigh They piss me off so much. They treat me like a kid and then get bitchy and can't understand why I get so mad. Then the say shit like 'stop acting like a kid and we'd stop treating you like one.' Like hell, I have been acting like an adult since I move out to go to school, but how can I act like an adult when you talk down to me all the time and treat me like a child, hell yeah I'm going to get angry and getting angry over it is being childish? *sigh I soo want to get out of here, but I cant even get a real job (the one at the church is barely part time) until I am fully recovered from the surgery. :: sob :: Tags: bodywork, family, food, health, rant
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Went to Public Health to get my meningitis shot today (bugger cost $75!) Because I still have the drains in I had to wear a skirt to go out, so I wore my long black flowy skirt and a matching black velvety/lacy shirt. And my black high top all stars. (very gothic looking) Anyways, the line was HUGE, because a lot of parents were brining their kids in for flue shots. So while I'm waiting I whip out my knitting and go at it while I wait. Boy I tell you, knitting gothic chicks get some weird looks from stressed out mothers with little kids. On another note, I go in tomorrow to get the rest of my stitches out, and maybe my drains, (but I don't think they will be ready, I'm still draining a lot of fluid, I may have to wait until after the new year when my surgeon come back from vacation.) Also mom got us reservations for 5:00 new year's eve at Cavalario's Cuchina! YAY! Soo yummy. And new year's day I get to try out a new recipe! Weee! Tags: family, food, health, holidays, knitting, looks
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(although I'm sure she's heard it a million times, and may want to kill me for asking) My dad and I were watching the news today and once again there was a news spot about a disaster occurring in California. First forest fires, then rain, then earthquakes, then mudslides. Besides "the weather" Why do people continue to move to/stay in California? My dad is a pessimistic asshole sometimes and is convinced that all Californians are idiots for staying. Which by reading mactavish's journal I know is not so. So why? Because frankly, I'm stuck in the way of arguments, having never lived there. (Discussions welcome, PLEASE, Lets get some action here, my journal is so boring! And I'm interested in what people think.) Tags: extrovert, family
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Well today was a nice day. Not too many fights with mom and the family were relatively behaved. Although Tirsa kept trying to open everybody else's presents. :) (she really liked the book Monica gave me for her, had me read it, like 3 times) My parents surprised me and got me a nice black hip length leather coat. In "XL"! It looks so nice and I'm really happy. I NEVER thought they would buy me something like that (maybe the fact that it was on sale from $298 to $78 was a factor ;) I also got some nice sweaters and sweatshirts in smaller sizes that fit me now. Mom also got me a cute dragon ring to replace my snake ring that broke a few months back; they couldn't find another snake ring so they got the dragon instead. It's nice :) A bunch of people got me gif certificates for borders too :D get to buy lots of books! A few people just gave me money so I can get more new clothes once my weight evens out. Dinner went very nicely as well. I made a nice harvest vegetable casserole and everybody liked it, I'm glad, and I stuffed myself silly. :) I really tired myself out today though, and I fell asleep in my chair before everybody left, and they didn't wake me up! :: pout :: ah well. Well, I'm off to bed. Hope everybody had a good day! Tags: family, food, holidays
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We had our usual Christmas Eve snack tonight; I warmed up some brie and cut up apples and other cheese and mom cut up croghan bologna for everybody else and more cheeses. We sat around to kitchen table talking and eating it was fun, and dad 'taught' the kitten a new trick. He now pats you on the arm if he wants something you are eating. And if you line food up along the table edge he'll pull it down one piece by one to eat, so cute! After that we went into the living room and watched Young Frankenstein and I finished knitting a dishcloth for my Aunt Mary, I'm giving a bunch of them to her tomorrow. She's been hording all her old worn out ones since she found out my great cousin Margie can't knit them any more. I still have to finish Knitting my Grandma Homan's other slipper, but I can do that tomorrow because we won't be able to visit them until later on in the week. (We are having people over all day tomorrow, and grandma and grandpa will be spending Christmas with one of mom's other siblings.) I still have to finish knitting Lindsay's scarf and Mel's present but I have until next semester begins because Monica will have to play Santa for me too and deliver them. Earlier today I cut up all the veggies I need for the casserole/stew that I am making for tomorrow's dinner so I can eat. There were a lot of veggies and stuff in it so that was the biggest part. Cooking shouldn't take too long and grandma dug out a special pot for me to use for it so I can cook it properly. Cool! This will be my first time cooking a real meal since the surgery, it feels good. I miss cooking its so therapeutic. Well gotta go wrap my aunt's dishcloths. Night, night all! :) Tags: bodywork, family, food, friends, holidays, knitting
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Went shopping today. My first real trip out since the surgery It was very tiring but I'm glad. I was going stir crazy. I ware a skirt so I could pin my drains inside of it and nobody could see them. Dad and I got almost everything we needed in one trip. And it was relatively docile out, surprising for the Sunday before Christmas. I went to Gertrude Hawke and got people bunches of chocolate, and me and dad got mom a $100 gift certificate to her fav. Clothing store. She hasn't been able to get herself much new clothing lately. Afterwards we went to taco bell my fist soda since about 2 weeks before the surgery. Weee! When I got home I kind of just sat around and knit. Boring ol' me. Lalala. Oops, one of my drains is leaking, gotta go.... Tags: family, food, holidays, knitting, outside
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Knitting my grandfathers fuzzy feet, already finished one, way easy. Trying not to freak out because the surgery is only 3 days away. :: twitch :: Tony said he would e- mail me my finals so I could do them at home. Totally sweet, but he hasn't done it yet, and I'm afraid he may forget, he's spacey like that. Tomorrow is the last day of class. The doctor put me on a liquid diet starting today until after the surgery. :: whimper :: I'm hungrey And I'm going to be even hungrier come Monday when I have to cook in the kitchen again. Blech. Ok, got to finish this giant sock so I can felt it with my laundry. Tags: family, food, knitting, skool
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After panicking about school and the surgery, I decided to start panicking about my Yule presents too. So here's a list: People I already have stuff for: Rachel, Dave, Monica (given early), Lindsay (1/2 done), Eric, Matt, Brandon, Mom. People I want to make stuff for: Mel, Lindsay (1/2 not done), Mom, Dad, Grandma & Grandpa Homan, Grandma Lambert, Tasha (can't decide), Alex, bunches of kitties. People I want to buy something for: Julia, Tasha (can't decide). Yep. And I think I've forgotten a bunch of people too, but his is off the top of my head, so don't feel offended if I did. That and some people I just don't know well enough to get you anything (nor can I afford much anyways) At least I'll have plenty of time to finish making stuff after my surgery. Just don't expect your Yule present till next semester, 'cus there's no way I'd be able to get it to you before hand. lalalalalalalaaaaaaaaa {edit} woops, forgot i already had somethign for mom, hehe, tryign to make things more dificult for myself ;) {/edit} Tags: family, friends, holidays, knitting
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:: whimper :: this is going to be a baaad week. It all started today. In the immortal words of Garfield "I HATE MONDAYS!!!!!" First I went to talk to my professors about moving my finals around so I can take them because I will be in and recovering from surgery during finals week. Pope wants me to come in this Friday after my long day of classes all day in the kitchen and take my final for him then. (the last day of classes is the next Monday, but I'll have to do without it.) Then Tony wants me to come in Monday (which is a Friday schedule) after my long day of classes and in the kitchen to take my culinary final which he I'll be changing around because I won't be able to cook for him like he wanted. And to give me my wine tasting final as a take home. I'll have to wait until next semester to take my sanitation and safety final 'cus you can only take it at certain times. And I'm going to have to pay an extra $15 to take it, because the cost is included in the price of the class, but it won't carry over for me. Then after all that stress I came home and called mom to tell her. At which time she informs me that my pre admission testing and briefing for my surgery was scheduled for Friday right smack in the middle of class. Which I couldn't skip because I hade to take my test afterwards too. So she called around nd rescheduled everything. Unfortunately the only time she could reschedule for was TODAY at 1. Sooo I ran over to the hospital and went through all of that. It too HOURS, they poked and prodded me and took blood and made me bleed to time my clotting, and they talked to me about what I needed to eat and my health history and the type of anesthesia I would be under and medications and the whole nine yards. Then I went in to talk to my doctor who would be performing the procedure, and he has this really thick accent and I could hardly understand him but he talked about the incisions (it will look like a very short T with the top part going from hip to hip, yep, I'm gonna be gutted, I'm surprised they won't be hanging my upside down or something... yeesh) and several times during all this crap I broke down crying. I'm so nervous about all of this, I'm scared. I mean they are going to be cutting me open for crissake! And I'm going to be stuck in bed for two weeks. *sigh I'm so nervous and worried about all of this. After all the hospital stuff was done I headed back to my car to come home and take a nap till class. One problem. My car was dead, wouldn't start. All the lights would come on and it would ding and the belt would move, but it wouldn't start. So mom called AAA and it took them and HOUR to get over and look at it. Turns out my gear shifter thingy is going and my car will only start if it is in neutral. But they suggested I not drive it because it would just wear it out even more. So I got it home and had to wait for mom to come home with the van so I could drive THAT to class and prepare for my final presentation in marketing with the rest of my group. Bah By the end of the presentation (which went pretty well) I was so tired from everything today, and my eyes were so blurry from exhaustion and crying so much that I was wobbling and could barely see. My professor said I could leave early and gave me the final (a take home). Mom had come with me because it's my first time really driving the van since I got my license, so she drove me home and I came right upstairs and changed into my glasses and wrote this. Now I think I'm going to go take a loooong hot bath and go to bed. Tags: banal, bodywork, family, skool, stress
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La la la. Not much going on. How boring Just sitting here knitting away. Must remember to take pictured of Monica's kitty hat before she comes back to steal it away. Finished Lindsay's hat while at the hospital with dad, now working on the scarf. It's looking cool, will have to take pics of them as well for the knitting comm. hey Linds... fringe or no fringe? Who wants catnip kitty toys? Hand made. Really. Give me $1.50 and I'll make you one. They are super cute. (I wouldn't ask so much, but catnip is expensive now adays.) gotta make grandma's slippers but I want to finish some of my already in progress stuff first so I don't have so many projects lying around. Although a few different projects at a time are good to keep up the diversity, so my hands don't get bored. I'm halfway through my first arm warmer. They are going to be neat-o. And I wanna make myself a hat. And I have a few other gift thingies I wanna do too. Weee! Ok, back to the knitting. Tags: family, friends, knitting
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I'm back And apparently the post I tried to make while at the hospital didn't go through. Blech. Anyways. Dad is doing ok, he did a lot better than they expected. Hey were afraid that they were going to have to do a lot of messing around and he would have to be in the hospital until Saturday, but once they got inside him it wasn't as bad. They did have to replace the grafts in his right leg and left leg, and they had to put in an extra one in his left to get more circulation. After the operation he woke up really quickly in the recovery room and he was doing really well so they let him bypass the ICU and go straight to the floor after that he recovered pretty fast and they said he could come home today. Mom and I stayed at the Days Inn. It was ok we only had to pay $40 a night because we were staying for the hospital. But Tuesday night some college kids moved into the room next to ours and were up all night partying and playing really loud music. It kept mom and me up 'till 3 in the morning, we even had to call the front desk, but that didn't quiet them down much. So now dad's home. And tomorrow we are going to go pick up Duchess from the groomer (she also boards animals) and moms going to pick up dinner for us at Shelby's. meow Tags: family
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Wow, I'm slow about getting around to type stuff up for LJ. Well last night after spending the day in Oswego (thank you for the presents Rachel!) Dave and I headed home. It was rather uneventful until right outside of Pulaski. You see just as we were slowing down for the speed zone a young deer ran out in front of us. *SMASH* We ran right into it, it went flying then tried to get up but we hadn't finished decelerating yet so it went rolling into the hood and bumped the windshield before rolling of, getting to its feet (holding its back right leg up, with a large gash in it) and running into a nearby field. Dave pulled the car over and we sat there for a second catching out breath and trying to get our hearts out of our throats. I got out my cell and called my parents while Dave got out to inspect the damage, then he got back in to call his parents. All that was broken was the left hand headlight cover. That's it, no dent, no scratch, nothing. Dave handled himself beautifully. He stayed calm took charge and did everything right. I was really impressed. He didn't swerve which would have either put us in the oncoming lane right under the crest of a hill, meaning oncoming traffic wouldn't see us till it's too late, or we would have gone into a HUGE tree. And also would have caused more damage to the car because we wouldn't have hit the deer head on, which would have resulted in crumpled corners and a dead deer. And he didn't swear or cry or shout or carry on, he kept calm and cool. We got home and Dave checked the car out one more time then came in and relaxed a little bit and got hits wits together before heading home. Wow. Tags: critters, family, friends, outside, stress
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I finished all my registration stuff today. I'm taking 18 credit hours next semester. GARDE MANGER NUTRITION QUANTITY FOOD PRODN PRINCIPLES OF BAKING 2 BARTENDING MANAGEMENT TECHNICAL WRITING That's a lot, but I think I can handle it; most of it is cooking in class. (or mixing drinks ;) In other news my car threw its alternator belt again last night on my way home from class. Dad had to take me to class this morning, and he can't put the new belt on until it stops raining, so he'll probably have to take me to class tomorrow too. My grandma wants me to make her a pair of slippers for Christmas. But I had to order the needles I need for them off the internet because none of the stores in my area carry them. I now have a pay pal account. Blah. Tags: family, knitting, skool
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So I wake up this morning, and I'm freezing. I figure it's just really cold out and close my windows and throw on a sweater. Then I go downstairs, it's still freezing and dad is all bundled up. Our heater is dead and the guy can't come and fix it till noon. Bah! So i cut out of there and go driving looking for some local craft shops I looked up on the net. My car is nice and toasty, but I can't find a single one of the shops so I give in a head home. It's still cold. Mom and dad run off to go grocery shopping and I stick around and knit waiting for the Agway guy to come fix our heater. The guy finally comes and gives us 10 gallons of fuel, 'cus dad thought we were out. We weren't out of fuel, we had blows a circuit. So the poor guy had to try and figure out which circuit it was and replace the breaker but the power boxed were originally labeled in pencil so he couldn't figure out which went where. Eventually he figured it out. He then came back up to tell me that all the seals are broken and we can't fill up with more fuel until they are fixed 'cus otherwise the whole thing will blow. But otherwise it's all fixed and we have 10 free gallons of fuel. Now I'm just waiting for the house to warm back up and my parents to come home so I can give them the news. Tags: banal, family, knitting
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There is a domestic dispute going on in the house that shares fence between our lawns. I can hear the woman screaming. I feel sorry for whoever she's yelling at. In other news, my car threw a belt today. When dad installed my new alternator he didn't tighten the belt enough and it escaped today on my way to school. I didn't know anything as wrong until the battery light came on. Boy that scared the crap out of me, especially considering I was on my way to school, and still had to drive home. But luckily nothing bad happened. Dad and I have to go out tomorrow and get a new belt and put it on before class, so I can drive. I'm glad we can fix it so easily because I was really gonna be pissed if I couldn't go to Oswego this weekend. I can't miss the MTTB. Aaannnnnd, I finally mastered ribbing when I knit, and am working on a scarf. It looks all pretty. After that I'm going to make a nice shawl. I have like, 4 skeins of this really pretty blue and white yarn that somebody gave me that would be perfect for it, and I bought myself some 10 gauge knitting needles the other day, so I'm all set. The pattern I have is wicked easy too even I can do it :) Weee! Tags: family, friends, knitting
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