No knitting, no tv, not much of anything except test taking and reading! I started Jennifer Crusie's new book "Bet Me" during lunch at work yesterday and I got hooked into it! But, I had a test last night as well. So, being the good student that I try to be, I put the book aside, studied for my test when I got home for work, got to school early, and took my test. Since it was a test night, we were let off early. I went home to celebrate it being over by getting back into that book - and I just couldn't put it down. 3am this morning I finished :-/ What can I say. . . it was a good read! I'm sure I'll be tired tonight, so I'll watch tv and knit on some easy project like my scarf. There will be no sweater work or shawl work that requires extra thinking!!

I finished the other pair of socks!!! Not only that, I finished my daughter's scarf as well!! So, here is a picture of the socks:

And here is the scarf:

Now to go watch the last episode of Sex and the City. . .

Well, I posted my Friday Five, but I also wanted to post a little about my week. Part of it was spent sick in bed. Such a bummer. I was even too tired to read or knit much. But, I'm feeling better now and I was able to both read and knit yesterday during lunch and after dinner! I've almost finished my multicolored socks (yeah!!), and I did finish my bell lace socks!!! I took a picture last night, but by that time I was too tired to get up, turn on the computer and load up the pictures. So, I figure I'll finish the other socks this weekend and have a couple of new pictures to put up next time I log on!

TGIF!!

For most of the weekend I was really not feeling too well. Actually, I'm still not feeling too well, but decided I should go into work and try to last out the day. I'll see how I do. . .

Over the weekend I spent a lot of time sleeping, resting, reading and knitting! I spent the day out of the office with my husband on Sunday. I threw a pillow on the floor, brough my food, kleenex, books and knitting and just relaxed while being with him so he could get some work done. He got a lot of work done. As for me, I finished one book, turned the heel on one pair of socks, and read the Sunday paper. Not too bad for feeling sick! If I can stay up tonight, I should finish that pair of socks and then be able to post a picture!!

My husband always tells me I'm an impulse buyer, and I guess it's true. The good thing about it though, I wait until I've saved money to spend it. The bad thing, I rarely buy what I've been saving for because something else seems to catch my eye! As it did yesterday. . . My husband wanted to window shop for laser printers for his office. I thought that would be great because I've been saving for a new PDA and I wanted to check some out. I was pretty proud of myself that after we looked carefully at the new PDAs, I was going to go home and think about which one I wanted, and if I still needed to save some more money. Well, on the way out I saw an internet router for $50. $50 is so cheap so I picked one up, and one cable to connect one of my kids computers. The cable ended up being $25 on sale for only 25 feet, but I thought it would work. Out in the car, my husband asked me what I bought - so I told him. He had some good questions for me though. Like, "which kid are you going to network first," and "where are you going to run the wires?" I had not really thought about that, as a matter of fact, I hadn't thought about much except that it seemed cheap! So, we go into the next store so he can do some more price shoping, and he sees a wireless router for $10 more than what I spent. Then he points out that the wireless adapters for each computer are only slightly more than a short cable, and it would network so much nicer. Yup, he was right. I should have researched it all first. Then again, if I had, I probably wouldn't have bought it all! So, back to the original store where my husband returned the original items, and I bought the slight more expensive, but better suited stuff. Add to that one extra one for the other kid (can't do one and not the other), and we came home with enough stuff to network our house. At the register they asked us if we wanted someone to come in for free (we had bought enough $$ to qualify) and set it up for us. No way we BOTH said - how hard could it be!! Well, 6 hours later with the help of my husband and my dad, the system was set up!! As payment from the girls, they had to clean their rooms completely (okay, they are still working on that one, but considering they got home from work at 6pm and then left again this morning at 8am, I can't complain because they were doing it), and buy a Carl's Jr. low carb burger for myself and my husband for dinner. But, it's up and running fairly smoothly now. And already my husband wanted the internet while I'm working on it - so now he's logged on to another computer!! Yeah!! But I won't be buying my PDA any time soon now. :-/

Besides all of the shopping, my husband also fixed my dryer (yeah!!), so I did laundry, cleaning and a little bit of reading and knitting. Not enough to make any comments on though! So today, it's a day of rest, the pro bowl, and knitting!! I hope to make some good progress on both scarfs I'm working on!

I went kayaking through some wonderful caves.

2. What one thing would you like to try that your mother/friend/significant other would never approve of?

It used to be parachuting, but I don't want to do that anymore! In the present, I could think of a few things. . . mostly things like kayaking and skiing!

3. On a scale of 1-10, what's your risk factor? (1=never take risks, 10=it's a lifestyle)

Right now it's a 3. When the kids leave it will be closer to a 6! Oh boy, I'm the wild one :-/

4. What's the best thing that's ever happened to you as a result of being bold/risky?

I met my husband.

5. ... and what's the worst?

I could say something funny. . .but I won't! The worse is that I sprained my ankle.

You are a PHOENIX in your soul and your
wings make a statement. Huge and born of flame,
they burn with light and power and rebirth.
Ashes fall from your wingtips. You are an
amazingly strong person. You survive, even
flourish in adversity and hardship. A firm
believer in the phrase, 'Whatever doesn't kill
you only makes you stronger,' you rarely fear
failure. You know that any mistake you make
will teach you more about yourself and allow
you to 'rise from the ashes' as a still greater
being. Because of this, you rarely make the
same mistake twice, and are not among the most
forgiving people. You're extremely powerful and
wise, and are capable of fierce pride, passion,
and anger. Perhaps you're this way because you
were forced to survive a rough childhood. Or
maybe you just have a strong grasp on reality
and know that life is tough and the world is
cruel, and it takes strength and independence
to survive it. And independence is your
strongest point - you may care for others, and
even depend on them...but when it comes right
down to it, the only one you need is yourself.
Thus you trust your own intuition, and rely on
a mind almost as brilliant as the fire of your
wings to guide you.You are eternal and because
you have a strong sense of who and what you
are, no one can control your heart or mind, or
even really influence your thinking. A symbol
of rebirth and renewal, you tend to be a very
spiritual person with a serious mind - never
acting immature and harboring a superior
disgust of those who do. Likewise, humanity's
stupidity and tendency to want others to solve
their problems for them frustrates you
endlessly. Though you can be stubborn,
outspoken, and haughty, I admire you greatly.


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The first half of the Superbowl was just okay. But the second half was fun to watch! Which means, I did a lot of knitting in the first half, and not a whole lot in the second! I finished the back to my sweater and cast on the front. Now I get to work on a pattern, which is a lot more enjoyable! I also finished the shape-it scarf. My friend was right though, I didn't use a good yarn for it. So, I'm happy that it's done, but I'm not really caring for the final project. Maybe I'll take a picture and put it up this week and see, then again. . .

Back to knitting. I also cast on the edge of my fancy scarf for the scarfalong and worked a few different yarns all with some kind of blue!! I'm about 1/3 through with it, but I really want a new yarn to go in the middle. This is one project I will try to get some pictures of this week and put up. It's just so much fun to pick up yarns as you go and make the scarf! I made one over the holidays and I've worn it a few times. I also have the yarn for a second one with browns as the background color and I can't wait to start that one. That just leaves the scarf for my daughter that I keep wanting to start, but haven't bought the yarn for yet. I really do plan to go out at lunch today. . . I hope!