I was tagged...

I was tagged by Jillsknit with the Six Things Meme.

These are the rules:
1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Write six random, arbitrary things about yourself.
4. Tag six people at the end of your post and link to them.
5. Let each person know they’ve been tagged and leave a comment on their blog.
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

Here we go -
1. I am unemployed.

2. I have 2 kids, 1 hubby and a black golden doodle.

3. Favorite hobbies are perennial gardening, knitting, scrap booking, camping, swimming and reading, but I DON'T COOK!

4. I love to downhill ski.

5. I have a great aunt who is 103.66 and still lives on her own.

6. I used to have a private pilot's license.

Now the people I tag.

Red Hat Knitter
Hexed and Jynxed
Yarn and Chocolate
Krafty Ky
All Things Great and Crafty
Spazerchick

Another day, another set-back

NUF SAID!

Black Friday

Well, I learned why today is called 'black friday'. I guess it is the day that retailer's hope to get out of the red and into the black as far as sales and that the sales numbers for today are an indication of how the holiday shopping is going to be for the season.

Today, no shopping done by anyone from my house. Caribou and knitting for Marissa and I along with some friends. Finished up a pair of mittens today and over 50% on a wallaby sweater. Marissa worked on a hat for a friend - got quite a bit done. Pat put up some 'hanging' stuff at home, including the towel holder and tp holder for the basement bathroom (been sitting around for over a year). Gunnar continued his quest to clean his room (wish Marissa would start that project).

Hope the stores got what they needed, our Christmas will be a little less this year, but that is really a good thing.

HAPPY TURKEY DAY!

Fun Day?!?!?!

Kids are home, expecting a few more of their friends. House is a mess (except the spotless kitchen). So today is for laundry and general clean-up while the kids busy themselves with scrap booking and wii.

I gave the requested Christmas wish list to my dh and kids. My husband had the audacity to say that I had enough yarn! He is probably correct, but really now, who ever has enough yarn stash?

Thought for the day: Why is the day after Thanksgiving called 'Black Friday'? I mean there are huges sales (a good thing), you are probably still feeling well fed (good), and if you don't shop, you can sleep in or relax. Maybe it is the color of the sky when you have to wake to get out to get the great bargains?

Wrinkly Fingers

Well, today was Marissa's day to be cleaning boss. She wanted the entire main floor 'deep' cleaned. She was satisfied with just the kitchen being completed - thank goodness! She is quite the slave driver. Most of the work I did involved water, so my fingers are all wrinkly and my wrists hurt from scrubbing so hard. The kitchen really looks nice.

Tonight we will be watching a movie with popcorn as our reward. I am so exhausted I can hardly get energized to clean up my self. Well, have to move again - have to referee the decision between watching Get Smart vs. Journey to the Center of the Earth.

Productive Week

Friday already?

It is the week before Thanksgiving, who would have know how busy with interviews I would be? I guess I figured at this point that I would be in a holding pattern until 2009. So far, the interviews seem to be going well, 2 more today.

For anyone praying for Sharon and family, if you didn't know, she went home to Jesus on Wednesday evening. I am still praying for her family and the service is Saturday at 11am. God is good, Sharon's pain is over, but the grieving of those left behind is VERY TOUGH!

My daughter (yes - a teen) has declared tomorrow 'house cleaning day'. She plans to be handing out the duties - YUCK - I hate house cleaning. It will be fun to see how she leads us in this effort.

Almost done with my 'barter knitting' - these are fun projects!

Terrific Tuesday

Today I am speaking to four career contacts - YEAH!

Of course the other of life's little chores are awaiting my attention as well - laundry is the BIGGIE!

At 1pm I will be praying for Sharon - replacement of shunt in her head. Please pray for healing and protection for Sharon, wisdom and skill for her doctors, and peace and comfort for Leigh and her 3 boys.

Thought for the day:

I am thankful for good friends.

Coveting Concerns

I am a knitter. You might even say I am a bit obsessed. It is the time of year when sock yarn clubs are opening up for 2009 and I WANT TO JOIN ONE! (In reality I would actually like to join more than one, but I am trying not to be too greedy.) Needless to say, with my employment situation, I will not be getting on any of these this year.

For any of you who are sock knitters - go out and look - they look like WAY TOO MUCH FUN.

OK, I need to be honest. I am not only coveting the clubs, but just the ability to buy more yarn in general! It is so hard to surf the net and peak at e-bay but not be able to purchase. Don't get me wrong, I am not starving for yarn - I am a proud member of SABLE (stash accumulation beyond life expectancy) but I seem to have discovered my 'shopping weakness' - YARN. If you want to get a look (sorry no virtual touching) at some of these check out Blue Moon Fiber Arts, Wool Girl, Sundara, Loopy Ewe, Perfect Day Yarns, Lorna's Laces and ZenYarnGarden. Be careful - they are really nice.

Back to the job hunting work for the day!

Tuesday tidings...

Today was fun. I did the weekly unemployment thing. Applied for a few jobs on-line (Trib want-ads were mighty thin). Went to knitting and worked on sleeves using the 'magic-loop' method. Had to try something new cuz I didn't have 2 size 8 circ's and recently lent out my dpn's in size 8. Good to know alternate methods!

This evening got to read with son - Harry Potter #6 and then watched the Mentalist with daughter.

A few thoughts for the day:

• The less people understand a theory, the smarter they believe it is.
• Failure is good - it brings you experience. Success can make youlazy and arrogant.

• There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend. If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

  In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out, and in which an alarm goes off by going on.

Slackin' Day, Kids Off Tomorrow - AGAIN!

Today is a designated slackin' day. I am planning nothing and WILL NOT feel guilty about it! I am sure that knitting will be a significant part of the day, lots of Christmas knitting to complete. Job outlook is continually interesting - very different from the last time, but 13 years has changed more than just the job hunting process.

Tonight is NW Suburban Knit Night Out. We will be knitting preemie items for charity.

The one good thing about kids having school off is that we all will be sleeping in. But for me, not so late as to miss my Caribou!

Election is OVER!!!

My happiest moment in this whole election is that the

HORRIBLE CAMPAIGN COMMERCIALS ARE OVER!

I guess it is a bit obvious that I was just totally fed up with the negative campaigning - I love the freedom of speech, but what ever happened to "if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all"? I would be much more inclined to listen if I was being told what the candidate stood for and what they hoped to achieve if elected vs. what 'the other guy did/didn't do'.

At this point, the only race in MN that isn't decided seems to be the Coleman/Barkley/Franken senate vote. It is also the only one in which I have VERY strong feelings about (that I am not going to get into here). At this time (11:30pm) the percentages are 42%/15%/42%.

This is a historic election and it is kinda neat to be alive for it. I am sure that there are many in my parents generation (probably in mine as well) never thought that a person of color or a woman could ever get elected. I have to say that McCain made a truly gracious concession speech. Now watching Barack's speech. Boy I don't envy him coming into the presidency in the midst of all this economic turmoil and the Irag war still waging.

Well, after the speech, off to bed.

November Knitting Challenge

The Northwestern Suburban Knitting group meets this Thursday night. I am hoping we have a record turnout for our preemie donations knitting. We will be knitting hats and booties for preemies and donating them. Goal is to see what we can get done in the time we are there. Even if you haven't attended before, come in November it is for a great cause!

Interesting Fact: a correctly sized preemie hat should fit an average sized orange!