Goin to Vegas!

Well - I am really getting excited!! I am going to Vegas for a conference and my lovely baby girl, who's 23, will be there also!!! It'll be exactly 1 year since we've seen each other and I know that it's going to such fun to hang out and talk, talk, talk without a phone attached to the ear!!! But - I know that when we each have to go our seperate way - it's going to be the worst!!!

When I get on the plane people will think I'm a freak crying like a loon... what do I care? I'll knit and cry and eat the measly 4 peanuts they give me - what a great flight!!

I can hardly wait till she moves back home - do you hear that Tiffygirl???? I'll be patient!! And by the way my sweet girl - check out the quotes below and really embrace them!! I know that you are capable of so very much - so dang talented!!! Do what you love - the money will follow - and even if you don't make a million dollars - you'll be so happy doing what you love that it doesn't matter!!

Now - if I could just figure out a way to knit for a living...

On to knitting talk:

I've started a new sweater... the Rusted Root. I just love the sweater pattern... although it's been kind of a pain. I bought some yarn, I did a swatch - got gauge... cast on... knitted about 25 rounds and looked at it and realized that this yarn was not the right yarn for it. The leaf pattern was just not going to show... so I ripped it out, went and got a different yarn - Berroco Ultra Alpaca - $7.50 a hank. Can't beat that!!! Swatched. Got gauge and cast on. I don't know what I did - but I fall asleep more often than not when I knit - so that might be the problem! But I've had to rip out and cast on like 5 times!!! ugh!!!

Sleeping and knitting just do not go together! I think it might be like counting sheep? I'm counting stiches instead and so then I fall asleep.. but hey - be proud of me! I hold my needles all night long in one spot, I've yet to poke myself or my husband... sometimes he'll take my knitting and set it aside if he wakes up and sees me... but sometimes I'll hold my knitting for hours while I'm asleep. And the really goofy thing is - I'll wake up, see my knitting, knit a few stichesk, fall asleep, wake up, knit a few stiches, fall asleep... it's a very vicious cycle!! But! I get a lot of knitting done this way - the only problem is - I generally screw it up since I'm sleepknitting and who knows what pattern I'm following.

Does anyone else have this problem? Maybe I should write a book - Sleepknitting! A whole new craft! And perhaps I could figure out - how do I Sleepknit for a living - since as we've all just learned - when I knit - I fall asleep - do you see how this could be a problem? Seriously!!

Quote for the day:

The first step is to find out what you love - and don't be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.
~ Barbara Sher

Second Quote for the day just for the heck of it:

Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are capable of greater things than we realize.
~Norman Vincent Peale

On a serious note - Darfur - What are you doing?

Dear Friend,

When the Jews were slaughtered many people said "I didn't know." And many wondered how our world could allow such an atrocity. I ask you now - please - do not be one of those who say "I didn't know!!"

Everyday, the 2.5 million people chased from their homes in Darfur face the threat of starvation, disease, and rape, while the few lucky enough to remain in their homes risk displacement, torture, and murder.

For the last few months I have asked – what can I do? I can only pray for these people – there is nothing I can do. And then I realized that was a lie, I can do more!! While I continue to pray daily for the people of Darfur I have also chosen to do all I can - I sign every petition I can find and write letters to every politician and newspaper that I can. I can also get the word out to everyone I know and that is why I am sending this to you!

This situation is unbelievable, morally repugnant, and just plain sad. Please, I ask you - to inform yourself, and then tell everyone you know. Do something, anything, even if it's only signing an online petition. We can not sit back and watch innocent people die by the thousands and say "I didn't know”. Because - now - you do know!

This is the Holocaust of our generation!!

We must continue to do all we can. We must do the right thing.

“The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.”
– H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Would you please join me in calling on President Bush and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to do more? Please?

Visit http://www.savedarfur.org to do so. Do not ignore this situation!!

Other sites you can visit:
http://www.ushmm.org/conscience/alert/darfur/index.php?content=contents/01-overview/
http://www.darfurgenocide.org/


Thank you and God bless you!


I expect to pass through this life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Action is the antidote to despair. – Joan Baez

When a man has compassion for others, God has compassion for him.

I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter; to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all. – Leo Rosten

Doing my part the best I can!

Since I have no idea how to set these things up or anything - I am doing it this way! Sorry for the unprofessionalism!

Deal of the day!

So - ok - I have not posted since the 12th... at least I can say it was not the 12th of never (everyone old enough to remember that song - sing along!!)... so anyhow - here is my obligatory post. Not too much exciting!

I bought some new yarn last night - some of the Eco yarn - it's like 420 yards!! for $10.95? Holy cow! Peruvian wool - and it's a lovely shade of Brown. Like I need more brown things... I wear black, brown, shades of brown, green and shades of green. So - I am planning on making a self designed sweater. I really did not want to spend a whole ton of money for something that will end up somewhere not being worn... in the pile of misfit knits... so I thought heck - $20 and change for 840 yards of yarn is tooooo good to pass up!

If you are lucky you will see my progress on the sweater - that is if anyone happens upon this silly little blog (besides my daughter) - then someone may just see how my sweater knits up. Otherwise, itll just be Tiffygirl who gets to see the progress from afar.

Quote for the day: "When we can laugh through our tears, we are being given a powerful message. Things may be bad, but they cannot be all that bad." ~ Allen Klein

I promise to try... to really, really try to post often!

So - the blog thing - again!! The idea appeals to me... I love to read the blogs of others... and I really would love to use this forum as a way to show the knitting that I am forever knitting and never finishing. (it's a form of knitters ADD - there is always something to knit!!)

So I will promise to try... to really, really try to post often! I know for sure that at least one person will read this - my beautiful daughter who lives in Hawaii!!! How I miss her!!!

Ok - on with the show!! Visit often if you can and try to hold me up to my promise!