urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:elmos_friend Elmo's Friend Elmo's Friend 2009-04-04T04:54:03Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:elmos_friend:268006 2009-04-04T04:54:03Z 2009-04-04T04:54:03Z I feel a little better knowing I am not the ONLY new knitter having issues! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:elmos_friend:267668 2009-04-03T01:33:57Z 2009-04-03T01:33:57Z I had a headache this afternoon. We have 2 people at work, both of whom I like, but neither of them knows what an "inside" voice is. When they are both in the office at the same time it is unbelievably loud. Then of course, everyone else has to talk louder to be heard over the original talkers. Then you add in a plane coming or going and you have a recipe for a headache! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:elmos_friend:267421 2009-04-02T13:24:02Z 2009-04-02T13:24:02Z So this morning I am reading an article about how people/families saved thousands of $'s each year by making changes to their spending habits. Every one of them said they stopped eating out every day, and are down to 2-3 times a week. I have never been in a position to eat out everyday, or even 2-3 times a week for that matter. Apparently I suck! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:elmos_friend:267255 2009-04-02T03:16:52Z 2009-04-02T03:16:52Z We apparently have a new black kitty. Black kitty has been hanging out in front of the house under where the upstairs hangs over the downstairs windows for the last 2 days. I am guessing mostly because it is dry there. Black kitty is beautiful, and doesn't seem to be scared of people, but won't come over to people either. Black kitty looked a little nervous when I took Kaluha out yesterday, but settled down when I out Kaluha back in the house.<br /><br />Black kitty is NOT garage kitty. Garage kitty is black and white and scared the crap out of me yesterday when I went into the garage to get clothes for work. But I think I scared garage kitty too. Once garage kitty went out through the hole in the garage door, he/she sat there staring at me through the hole. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:elmos_friend:266892 2009-04-02T01:34:50Z 2009-04-02T01:34:50Z I have ALONE time! Today I love my alone time, some days I don't want it.<br /><br />I started laundry. I really should change the sheets on the bed. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:elmos_friend:266527 2009-03-30T19:27:04Z 2009-03-30T19:27:04Z I feel crappy today. I woke up with a HUGE headache. The headache is still kind of lingering. So I opted for staying home all day, rather then going on for a little bit. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:elmos_friend:266290 2009-03-30T03:51:18Z 2009-03-30T03:51:18Z I got Muppet's season 3 from stardarkisis and strblysneetch! I also got the Kim Harrison short stories! Granted John will most likely read them 1st, but that's OK.<br /><br />I practiced my knitting more today, it is still horrible. And I worked on Lettie's afghan. I have no idea what I am going to do with the Irish tweed I bought yesterday.<br /><br /><br />Soon it is bed time. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:elmos_friend:266236 2009-03-29T23:21:35Z 2009-03-29T23:21:35Z Also in Friday Harbor we went to this odd little gift store called the Mystical Mermaid. I bought a manatee wall mounted key holder with 4 hooks. Now I just need to find a place to put it. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:elmos_friend:265925 2009-03-29T17:20:49Z 2009-03-29T17:20:49Z We made it to Friday Harbor yesterday. It was cold and a little wet, but not too bad. We spent WAY to much money! I spent a ton of money at the yarn store there. I only bought yarn that mother doesn't carry. I got a hank of Irish tweed, 2 balls of Scottish wool, 2 hanks of chunky baby alpaca, and a hank of hand dyed sock yarn from a small company in San Pedro, CA. And 2 hanks of a yarn from Vermont. The baby alpaca and the yarn from Vermont, mother carries some of their yarns but not the specific ones I bought. We hit 2 of the 3 bookstores in town. John got a ton of books. He ended up over the course of the weekend of finding all but 2 books in a 7 book series. We also found a book father had been looking for. Then we ended up at an antique store where John found a set pliers he wanted and a medical textbook from 1938 that he thought he NEEDED.<br />We had breakfast at the Hungry Clam. It was super good! We didn't run out of stuff to do until 3, which is good, but also meant we had an hour and a half to wait until our flight left. So we went and sat in this little park until it was time to go. Next time I think we will drive up and take the ferry, so that A) we can leave when we are done, B) we can wonder about the island, and C) when we buy heavy stuff we don't have to carry it around all day. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:elmos_friend:265480 2009-03-28T14:26:57Z 2009-03-28T14:26:57Z Apparently John and I will spend the day in Friday Harbor getting wet. Go us! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:elmos_friend:265235 2009-03-28T14:25:43Z 2009-03-28T14:25:43Z A BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ayeshadrema! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:elmos_friend:265064 2009-03-28T05:58:59Z 2009-03-28T05:58:59Z We just got home from seeing Monsters vs Aliens. It was pretty OK. I wouldn't say it is my favorite Dreamworks film, but it is not bad either.<br /><br />The good news is that Park Place books is still open, and has turned part of their store into a King County Library sub station sort of thing. That makes me happy since it wasn't that long ago that the store was very close to closing down and had to ask for donations in order to pay their bills.<br /><br />Now I need to sleep! We have to be up early to try to go to Friday Harbor. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:elmos_friend:264739 2009-03-27T22:25:29Z 2009-03-27T22:25:29Z Mr Tom brought me hush puppies today from a bbq place in Lake City/Lake Forest Park. They also have fried pickles and beignets! Maybe tomorrow I will go get some pickles and beignets. The hush puppies were only the 2nd best I have had, simply because the BEST I have ever had were the sweet potato hush puppies at the bbq place we went to we were in South Carolina for my cousins wedding. But these are pretty dang good!<br />I also went and got some faygo. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:elmos_friend:264526 2009-03-27T13:15:02Z 2009-03-27T13:15:02Z I practiced some knitting last night. The knit stitch I have, but I always think I forgot how to purl so I try it, then go to the knitting videos and watch and realize I am purling correctly. No idea what that is about. I might actually attempt a project soon. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:elmos_friend:264405 2009-03-27T00:40:10Z 2009-03-27T00:40:10Z I want hush puppies, not the shoes, the food. I believe I will go over to Celtic Bayou tomorrow after work and get some. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:elmos_friend:264171 2009-03-26T01:10:17Z 2009-03-26T01:10:17Z Apparently, they told my cousin that the results from the MRI would take a week or more. I cannot even imagine having to wait a week when you have just been told you have a brain tumor! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:elmos_friend:263724 2009-03-25T13:27:27Z 2009-03-25T13:27:27Z I needed comfort food, so I made corn pudding/corn bake last night. I made John try some. First he said it wasn't very good, then he said it was OK, then he said he could see himself growing to like it, finally, he said it was actually quite good. That is both good and bad. Good because he liked something new that he swore would be icky, and I LOVE to do that to him. But bad because now he will eat most of what is left and I made it for my comfort not his.<br /><br />Just in case you were wondering, corn pudding/corn bake is a mid-west thing. One of my co-workers made it for our holiday potluck and people who are from this area had never heard of it before. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:elmos_friend:263671 2009-03-24T13:22:11Z 2009-03-24T13:22:11Z Grandpa called at 7 Saturday morning to let us know he was home. And to tell us that my cousin has a brain tumor. She has an MRI today. Apparently she was having really bad headaches, was tired all the time, and had started falling down a lot. Hopefully it will turn out to be something they can tale care of relatively easily, considering it is a brain problem and all.<br /><br /><br />John and I are going to fly over to Friday Harbor for the day Saturday. I have been at my job for 2.5 years and this is the 1st time I have taken advantage of our free flights. Hopefully the weather is nice. It doesn't have to be summer type weather, but dry would be good. Mr. Lee mentioned renting a car and driving around, but I think I want to not drive for the day. But I will figure it out. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:elmos_friend:263284 2009-03-22T17:07:04Z 2009-03-22T17:07:04Z I made french bread from scratch yesterday. It tastes fine, but is a little heavier then I like. I hadn't made bread from scratch for quite awhile, and since I had all day to myself yesterday, I figured it would be a good time to do it.<br />I don't know what I will make today, but I feel the need to make something. I bought a bunch of brownie mixes the other day, maybe I will make brownies. Or cookies. I don't know.<br /><br />I think I may take a nap today. I am tired. And I have a headache. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:elmos_friend:263076 2009-03-20T21:32:34Z 2009-03-20T21:32:34Z Rascal LOVES cornbread! We have a new sort of Thursday thing at work. One of our reservationists makes soup. She keeps a crock pot at work and brings her pre-mixed containers of soup and we have soup. Well yesterday, one of the other reservationists decided to bring cornbread to have with the soup. I LOVE cornbread, but John doesn't like it, so I rarely make it since I DO NOT need to eat an entire pan of cornbread. Anyway, I brought a couple pieces home with me and I was eating one with my dinner. When Rascal came out, John asked for a chuck to give to him. I am not sure, but he may have swallowed it hole! He kept begging for more and tried to climb John to get it. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:elmos_friend:262775 2009-03-20T02:05:26Z 2009-03-20T02:05:26Z Today sucked and was good all at the same time.<br />Bad<br />Our good marketing persons father passed away very unexpectedly either late last night or early this morning. Needless to say she left for North Carolina this morning. Very sad.<br />Another co-workers father-in-law had a stroke yesterday. Again, very sad.<br /><br />Good<br />One of my co-workers, whom I like a lot, offered to lend John and I the money to go back to Michigan this summer. We will be OK, but it touches me that she cares enough to offer me financial help. She is such a good person, who has had a LOT of bad things happen over the last 5 years.<br />I went to pay my Target and Lane Bryant bills this afternoon and decided on a whim to run over to Gamestop to see if they had anything I NEEDED. And they had a used copy of My French Coach for the DS. I have been trying to find that game since I got my DS.<br />I came home and John was already home, so he put the box back on my truck and then I cleaned my truck. It looks so nice inside. The outside is still filthy.<br /><br />Now I need to eat dinner. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:elmos_friend:262474 2009-03-19T02:12:28Z 2009-03-19T02:12:28Z Natasha Richardson died today. This makes me sad, I really liked her. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:elmos_friend:262187 2009-03-18T00:15:53Z 2009-03-18T13:13:51Z All I want is a shamrock shake for St Patrick's Day. Yet all the McDonald's near my house are out of shamrock shake. I am not amused.<br /><br /><br /><br />Edit. John found me a shamrock shake. He was my hero, at least for a few minutes last night. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:elmos_friend:261973 2009-03-17T13:07:15Z 2009-03-17T13:07:15Z I made a chocolate swirl cheesecake last night. Then this morning I remembered that we are already having cake at work today. So I am trying to decide if I should take it or not. If I don't take it today, John will get into it and I won't be able to take it to work at all. Maybe I will leave it home since I generally take everything to work. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:elmos_friend:261776 2009-03-16T01:50:22Z 2009-03-16T01:50:22Z We made it to lunch. We had a good lunch. Lettie brought her granddaughter Tessa with her, probably because Tessa is sandwiched between 2 boys and needs girl time.<br /><br />Once we got home I finished the 3rd towel for the store, now I can work more on Lettie's afghan. I also need to practice knitting.<br /><br />And Detroit was the 1st team to clinch a play-off spot today. They also set a new NHL record for getting to 100 points for 9 consecutive seasons. GO WINGS!