I’m Beautiful Like Me.

I did so much today. We did so much today. Well, it has been a long-ass day, seeing how it started at 6:30am for me and it is now after midnight. I would be done with this post already if I hadn’t turned on the Olympics (or if the girl’s gymnastics weren’t on - they are, by far, my favorite event to watch. I become completely transfixed by these young ladies flipping about gracefully with this serious and hard look in their eyes).

The title of this post is inspired by DJ Lance. That’s right, we watch Yo Gabba Gabba! It’s a great show, dammit. “It’s almost time to go. But first, let’s remember what we did today! Can we do it? Can we dance? Let’s do it! A-break it down!”

• Got Joy off on the school bus for her first day back to school. No snags.
• Made coffee, woke up Husband and apologized for being an ass. He accepted.
• Husband made breakfast.
• Put away clean dishes.
• Washed up dishes from last night’s dinner and this morning’s breakfast.
• Turned and finished laundry.
• Stripped the linens and washed ‘em, too.
• Took lunch and the rest of Joy’s school supplies up to her school.
• Husband replaced the bulb in Joy’s room with a CFL bulb.
• Husband repaired the stupid laundry closet door.
• Took Buddha outside for about a half an hour.
• Husband cooked dinner and washed the dinner dishes.
• Straightened out the pantry and the cupboard where all our dry baking goods are kept.
• Took out the garbage. Twice (UGH! I wish they’d start recycling for our complex already).
• Filled out a mess of paperwork Joy brought home from school.
• A ton of virtual cleaning:
  • Cleaned email box
  • Moved 15 GBs of files (mostly pictures) from OS to partition
  • Defragged
  • Ran CCleaner
  • Emptied recycle bin
  • 300+ items in Google reader
  • Unsubscribed from a number of blogs that have not kept my interest.
• Knitted several rows of my Ribbed-for-Her-Pleasure scarf in between everything else.
• Started black beans soaking for some meal tomorrow.
• Gave the boy a bath.
• Stayed on the girl’s ass about keeping her room clean. She did a pretty good job, but not without promises of Klondike bar (what would YOU do for a Klondike bar? …grumble).
• Set coffee pot for early morning.

And now that I have listed out all the things I’ve done, I’m compelled to list the things I need to get done tomorrow!

• Pay some bills with Husband’s last check. Decide which.
• Husband should find out the status of his employment.
• Vacuum.
• Fold laundry that was washed and dried today. And - UGH - put it away.
• Find something - anything! - to knit or crochet. I am almost out of yarn for this scarf and won’t get more anytime in the foreseeable future. I need a project.
• Eliminate the stack of things I’ve set aside for donation some time ago. I’m tired of looking at it!
• Catch up on Plurk. I’ve been neglecting it.
• Maybe wash Joy’s linen, too. Maybe not, I’m pretty over laundry.
• Make some zucchini bread with the last of the zucchini.
• Dishes and garbage, I’m sure.
• If weather is accommodating, go to the park.
• Pick up reserved book at library.
• Other stuff I’m prolly forgetting.

For now, I’m off to bed. Morning comes early! Goodnight!

Perusing the forums over at BlogCatalog minutes ago and discovered a post entitled “R.I.P. Bernie Mac.” Wha?!

After reading the opening post, I googled. And what I found did little to help immediately clarify. However, Reuters confirms Mac’s death. Seems that earlier this week, there were reports that his death was a rumor perpetuated by false calls to various media.

Mac had been hospitalized with pneumonia for about a week and suffered from sarcoidosis. It seems the pneumonia complicated the sarcoidosis. He was 50 years old.

It was only a few short weeks ago since Reuters reported George Carlin’s death. Twist of irony - quite a sad time for comedy.

NKWS (not kid/work safe)

This year on August 31, I will be celebrating my Golden Birthday. I’m turning 31.

Every year, people ask me about what I want and every year, I feel totally unprepared and clueless about what I want. Well not this year! My yarn lust has prompted me to add favorites on Etsy.com and update my Amazon.com wish list. I’ve also got my eyes on a really great needle set over at Knitpicks.com.

The past few days have been slow and lazy around here.

Husband has been focusing a lot on school work. He’s overwhelmed by Statistics. We went ahead an ordered him a book because reading from the screen just isn’t the same and it would have been more costly to print the entire thing out.

I have been plurking a lot. Damn thing is addictive! I insist that - if you haven’t yet joined - you do so at once! And be my friend! I’ve broadened my network of knitting acquaintances and am hopeful to learn something from them. If nothing else, I know that they will appreciate my learning process.

Yesterday, Buddha and I went to the library. I picked up a number of knitting books, including Debbie Stoller’s, which I have already read in it’s entirety. She is just so well-written and easy to read. The boy picked himself out some books, too, including one about baby signs. I’m pleased that I already know most of those signs!

After Buddha went to bed, (which, by the way, has been going much better with Husband home at night) I practiced some different stitches and learned how to increase a couple of different ways. I wanted to keep going, but the boy refused to be cooperative last night and stay asleep, so I called it a night around 1:30am.

I picked up a skein of wool-blend sock yarn a few days before Husband lost his job and I’m very eager to get to that place where I can use it to make a pair of socks. However, I admit I’m a bit intimidated. I’ll keep working my way up to it, though.

And the crochet breakfast project has just went into hibernation. Turns out the yarn I had for toast and bacon is all wrong. I did finish the fried egg, though. It’s really cute and I can’t wait until I can finish the rest of breakfast.

In the meantime, I think I will continue to work on some new amigurumi projects. I’ve got some things in mind, but until I can grow my yarn stash some more, I’m not sure how much I’ll be able to actually do. Yarn is so addictive. A very expensive hobby. Sigh. Just browsing online sites gives me yarn lust! I’ve also got to finish the Circle to Squares project for my mom. I’ve got about half of it sewn together. Once the whole thing is sewn, I’ve got to get a border on there. The local knitters were disappointed I didn’t bring it last week, so I’d like to bring it this week to show off!

Feeling a lot less crazy today. I’ve been online all day, but I’ve been working. I requested to take part in a paid research study about photo websites and I’ve been busy making orders and answering questions in the study. Being busy with a “job” and having something to do, with a goal at the end has been good for me today. Although I got frustrated a few times, I would rate my overall experience to be a good one.

Sheese, I sound like I’m still in the study!

In any case, Husband completed his math course yesterday (with an A, no less!) so he’s spent the better part of today being extremely accomodating to me. That means keeping the boy outta my hair so I can do my work for the study, making me breakfast and dinner (both were totally excellent, so thanks, darlin’!) and providing me with the opportunity to get out of the house. I had intended on heading up to a local yarn store (LYS) to meet some of the locals that do knitting, crocheting and spinning their own yarn, but I decided I wanted to go ahead and finish my work. Husband no longer has classes to attend on Tuesdays, so the next several weeks are open for me to go to the LYS to meet the locals. Instead, I’ve made a lunch date with an acquaintance for tomorrow. And even if Husband hadn’t catered to me as he has today, just having him near has a tremendous calming effect on me. It’s one of the things I love best about him. Furthermore, he seems much more relaxed himself now that his course has ended.

It is also helpful that I’m in the honeymoon phase of Joy’s absence and T is also away tonight, babysitting for P’s girls, L and C. And sweet, amazingly patient Husband got Buddha to bed with ne’er a hiccup.

It’s been a good day. Already 1am on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, which means tomorrow Husband is back to work, but we are going to watch The Salton Sea before bed. So, I’m off!