still in the old place

well we still haven't left. we ended up sticking with the original plan and are leaving this coming up friday the 28th. i have been so busy with getting the stuff out to the garage for the moving sale which went pretty good but we still have some items to get rid of before the move. I also been working my butt off at my job and cleaning the house and packing up and all the fun stuff! I so cannot wait to be gone and settled in already! I hate this moving crap, lol. my place is so tore up it's depressing me big time. I cannot stand a mess like this but there's nothing i can do about it till we get everything cleaned up and packed in to the cars. My last day of working is Tuesday and I called out of work last night cuz I wanted to get stuff done and watch my shows. Right now I'm washing all of our dirty clothes so that they can be either bagged to be used once we get there or packed to use till we get there. I still gotta do the change of address thing, the post office is way over on the other side of town and I don't want to pay a buck to do it online, lol. I have been keeping up with my knitting/crocheting though, whoo hoo. lol. I finished my daughter's scarf and finished my son's (did both in half double crochet) and i st st knitted my scarf with a size 19 needles and i have to say i did a pretty impressive job. oh i forgot to mention, i put fringes on all three so they look very impressive, lol. I'm currently working on 2 needle mittens for my son but it's taking a little longer to do. I had to frog 2 times, once because I missed a step, the second time because I missed another step then my son got ahold of them and took them completely off the needles but I was able to get them back on safely and didn't have to backtrack, whew. After I finish his mittens, I'm making a pair for my daughter then my husband wants me to make him a hat (although he don't deserve it at the moment for his lack of helping with the move) then i would like to make myself either mittens or gloves.

I did finally do some shopping for my spoilee so I'll be getting that out to her today (I should pick up my change of address form while i'm there..............hope i don't forget it) and I hope she likes what I sent her. Just a little something to keep her content till the next package comes :)

Well I must get dressed and get back to slaving........I mean moving and cleaning and tending to the kids who seemed to have turned in to demon children the last few days (probably cuz alot of their stuff is packed up, poor hunnies)

I'm not sure when I'll be able to blog again but as soon as I get the chance I will update yall and hopefully I can start posting pictures again.

thank you so much secret pal! and update on me

sorry this is sooooooo late, she sent me a package like 1 1/2 weeks ago and i'm just now getting to posting this. forgive me!

she sent me a skein of pink chenille (?) cotton yarn which is too cute! to make dishcloths with and she sent me a multi-colored skein of cotton yarn, it's primary color is black then it has pink, purple and some other colors. i'm not looking at it right now so not positive on the colors. i also got a cute card, jelly beans and some bubble bath soap. thank you so much! i really truly appreciate it!

i had to pack the yarn away though (**cries softly**) because i'm moving! i'm moving to connecticut to live closer to hubby's family. we were supposed to leave at the end of the month but we're having to leave next monday (the 17th) due to some unexpected events so i have a 2 days to get everything together for the moving sale on thursday then make sure the place is nice and spiffy clean before we leave on monday morning. i'm so not happy about having to leave this soon but hubby tells me that we'll be in a better place in life in 6 months. he better be right or i'm going major yarn shopping to put myself in a better place (**giggles**)

i did already send my spoiler my new address so buddy if you're reading this, you have to send any packages from this moment forth to the new address. lemme know if you read this :) i'll probably email it to ya, lol.

i still gotta shop for my spoilee, i feel so bad but i've been swamped with work and all this moving crap but she won't be sad once she does get a package from me. i hope to shop for her once i get to connecticut so that she'll get something for this month.

i'm gonna miss the people that i've made friendships with here and also the ladies that i formed a knitting group with. i know that i will still keep in touch with them but it's saddening to know that i won't see them in person for awhile if ever again. i know that i will make new friends where i'm going but it's hard to let go of something you already have.

on to my knitting/crocheting update:

i used the yarn from the ebay yarn i bought (posted somewhere in the archives) and made my daughter a scarf. i finally finished it yesterday and she wore it to preschool and showed it for show n tell. isn't she just too cute? lol. i'm a proud mommy today! i'm working on a scarf for my son as well cuz you can't make for one and not the other (at least i can't do that to my kids). i'm about 1/4 done so good progress on it. i'm hoping to get it done before the weekend so that he can wear it by then since it's supposed to get colder.

i'm working on a baby blanket which is about 1/2 way done but i'll have to ship it to the lady that i'm making it for (she's donating baby tubs with items in it to charities and i wanted to help, this was before i knew i was moving)

i'm working on my first sock still............it's about 1/4 done.....who knows when that thing will be done.........maybe we should do a pool on it? lol.

once i get over to connecticut i would like to make 2 needle mittens for the kids and flap gloves for hubby and i but we'll see how that goes :D

so that's all for me...........for midwest knitters volunteer who has my site, i will probably not be posting again till late november or early december which is when i hope to be settled in my new place