I quit

11:36 pm | Comments (12)

I’m this close to quitting dyeing ,quitting having a life, quitting anything that doesn’t revolve around my fucking stupid kids. I am so stressed out. They SENSE when I have plans and they ruin them. EVERY FUCKING NIGHT I have planned to dye all this week SOMEONE wakes up screaming and wont go to bed and keeps me up till 4 fucking am. I’m exhausted. I’m frazzled. I CAN NOT dye with them around. If you are a dyer and you can, fucking great you win dyer/mom/human being of the year. Fuck off. you know what I get when I work with them around? Tangled yarn, hurt fingers, YOGURT dumped into my goddamn yarn baths, etc etc etc.

There’s a reason I’m a SAHM, I can’t handle working and being a mom, and now that I’m running so far behind on my wholesale order (thanks fucking sickness that wouldn’t go away!! We fucking passed a cold around for over a month) that it’s not fun anymore and the reason I wanted to dye? Because it’s fun. Because I wanted to make a little money to help pay for my yarn addiction and preschool doing something that was stress free and fun. The kids are ruining the stress free and fun part by never giving me a fucking moment to dye. Right now? I have Anna on my lap crying. Why? Who the fuck knows, nothing hurts, she’s not sick, she’s just fucking pissy.

My parents flew in from CA tonight, they got in late so we wont see them till tomorrow. I wanted to have all the dyeing done by now so I could relax and enjoy the visit, but nooooo my kids are assholes. ASSHOLES.



I still knit!

3:06 pm | Comments (2)

Pattern- Monkey Socks
Yarn- Perfect Day Yarns Free Verse Sock, On Maumee (exclusive colorway for Yarn Haven’s May installment of their sock club)
Needles- US 21/2 Knit Picks DPNS
For- moi

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poor girl

6:15 pm | Comments (2)

Anna is a mini me (only far cuter).

Tuesday she tripped over her own feet and scrapped her knee. Yesterday at the park she pushed a swing and it whacked her in the face, cutting her lip and then later at home she tripped over her feet again and scrapped her knee in th exact same place she did the day before. Ouch!

Last night she did pee in the potty though! After a full day of pissing and shitting herself, ha. And today is more of the same. Blech.

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my mask is slipping off

6:01 pm | Comments (2)

This being sick shit is getting old.

I’ve just been in a funk that’s getting harder to worth through.

I’m very tired.

We started potty training Anna, that girl doesn’t give a shit about pissing herself…

I’m worried about my mom, she’s having a lump removed from her breast tomorrow. She says the doc is 99% sure it’s benign but is removing it to be safe.



sick, Eli & Fling

12:19 pm | Comments (8)

I feel like I’ve been sick for a month. I was really sick a week 1/2 before the Spring Fling, luckily it was just a cough by the time I got there but all that talking aggravated it and when I got home I lost my voice for a couple days, I promptly caught whatever new bug Eli brought home from preschool and once more feel like I am dying.

Eli had his first speech therapy appointment the other day. I have opted to stay in the waiting room while he’s back there because I know I’d just be a distraction to him. He went back with the woman really easily. She said he was well behaved, there are some attention issues and they will work on “wh” question (ask him whats this and him responding with what it is instead of just repeating what is this, etc), yes/no questions and personal question (getting to answer things like whats your name, whats your sisters name, how old are you, etc, he only answers how old are you).

We have had it with how our pediatrician is dealing with Eli’s eczema, we’ve requested a referral to a dermatologist, hopefully they give one and hopefully insurance covers it since they’ve decided to be asses as of late.

So, the Spring Fling… it sucked… kidding! I loved it, I had such a good time! I was worried there for one moment that I’d be miserable. The first few hours in the hotel lobby it was just me and a handful of other flinger’s. Me, Kellie, Laura and Leslie headed out for some sushi, to pick up cupcakes and to hit up a yarn store (because loopy central wouldn’t be enough lol). When we got back a few hours later the lobby was packed. I panicked and ran to my room, called Ben and told him I wanted to come home, I wouldn’t fit in. He told me to take a few minutes and relax and go back down and have fun. So I did. I calmed down, cranked down the AC to cool off (I get all hot and sweaty when panicky), freshened up and went back down. Mingled a little and headed to happy hour and the rest of the Fling went off without a hitch. Ok, one hitch was my new shoes tore my feet up and I was hobbling around like a cripple by the time we left.

I met some really amazing people. Everyone at the Fling was so nice. Have you ever just instantly hit it off with someone? That doesn’t usually happen to me. I’m shy, I’m uber shy. I’ve hit it off right away with 2 people in the last 10 years- Ben and my best friend Jennah. I got on amazingly well with so many people right away, it was amazing, these women where funny and smart and fun, I wish I could take them all to my knitting group! There was one person in particular who I latched onto right away, I joked with her on the first day that if she wanted to get rid of me she just needed to kick backward, I’d probably be behind her. I call her my new foreign BFF, Kellie-

me and Kellie at dinner

I missed her as soon as I got home. :( Why do all the great people live so far away, Jennah in Texas, Kellie in New Zealand! :( She is such an awesome person and I can’t believe just how much I liked her, I mean I knew I liked her online, but talking with her was so easy, not just joking but talking, hanging out, it was so easy and fun, know what I mean? If that wasn’t enough she bought herself in to my heart :P Look what she got me-
new bag
I’ve been coveting a Lady B in dutch treat forever! Plus, before she left she gave me NZ candy which was essentially pineapple flavored Charleston chews, yuuuummy.

There was a lot of laughing.
losing it in the elevator
Laure(lala) & Jessica(showmeyourknits)

There was a lot of money spent (remember my haul)-
Kellie, Laura, many others
Loopy Central!

There was knitting… I’d say a lot… but there wasn’t’ as much as I was expecting. I honestly thought my shy ass would be watching movies in the corner and knitting alone all weekend. I moved around and laughed and talked so much that it took about a day for me to really start knitting.
Yarn Perv
Laura

There was sock trying on-
Sara(saradknits)
trying on one awfully pretty sock
(hey, that awfully pretty sock Kellie is trying on? That’s Perfect Day Yarns, baby, it’s Beat Sock in the colorway Jungle)

There was spinning-
Adrienne teaches Kellie to spin

and there were classes. Cookie’s class was too early for my brain to work (9am is too early how sad) and turns out I’m just not interested in designing my own socks. But it was very interesting to hear how she she thinks and to pick up tricks about adjusting patterns and sock construction. Plus she had samples of some of her socks and getting to see them in person made me fall in love with patterns I had no interest in previously.

Before the Fling I was pussying out of Wendy’s class because it was circulars and toe up and I wasn’t feeling the love and didn’t do the homework. Thursday night while out to eat with a group of Flinger’s I got yelled at to take the damn class! I then pleaded not having yarn or circular needles. I was given yarn by Kellie and circulars by Leslie and a copy of the homework from Maya, so I gave in and said I’d go to the class after all. I’m not a Wendy reader, at least I wasn’t till now. After meeting her I can see why people like her so much. And the class? It rocked. I struggled with the 2 circs at first but it turned out to be fun. I did my heel and my toe and I was so proud-
Heels and Toes with Wendy
I already have plans to buy some smaller circs and give toe up on 2 circs an honest try with a pair of socks :)

Last but not least, my roommate, Amy-
me and my roommate, Amy(msknitsox)
I brought her yarn to make up for any snoring and coughing but she said I wasn’t bad to room with :) She was so sweet and lovely, she made a good roomie!

As for knitting while there- I fucked up my montego bay scarf and had to frog it, gah. I’ve given up on the yarn (yarn pirate merino tencel in butternut) it’s now in my trade section on Ravelry.
I finished my Roundabout Socks-
Pattern- Roundabout Socks
Yarn- Knitting Like Crazy, Cherry Garcia
Needles- DPN’s size US1 & 1 1/2
For- me
roundabout socks

and made a big dent in my Monkey socks knit with the Perfect Day Yarns Yarn Haven sock club May colorway On Maumee (which are now hiding from me)-
monkey sock uno

I love that I can spend all morning writing a post in between fits of coughing and not being able to breath.

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Posted by: Sarah
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Loopy haul

2:40 am | Comments (5)

What’s sad is I didn’t go “crazy” and I put back a handful of yarns… now I regret it! Especially when I told Ben I spent xxx amount of money and he says “oh that’s it? I thought you would spend [ insert 3 times what I spent here ]” d’oh

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Loopy Ewe Spring Fling Goody Bag

11:57 pm | Comments (5)

I’m hooooooooome!

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reminder of why I’m glad to no longer live in CA

3:09 am | Comments (4)

I was watching Chelsea Lately on E just now and couldn’t find the remote right away and the next show started, that one about tanning *gag*. So as I’m looking for the remote I get to hear a mother taking her daughter (around 10 I think) in for a fake tan so she’ll be the prettiest girl in her school picture. Good freaking god. Then the little girl says she doesn’t’ want to do it and her mom basically says tough. Really? Your gonna force a tan onto your daughter? As the little girl is getting tanned her mom says something about doing the cheeks so she’ll look like Lindsay Lohen. Really?? Really?? You want your 10 year old to look like skanky, train wreck, almost looks dead Lohen? Afterward the little girl says she likes the tan and now she’s pretty. But she doesn’t smile. She looked like an oompa loompa. Luckily I found the remote then but my god I’m so glad I don’t live in SoCal anymore.

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Posted by: Sarah
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the saga continues

4:27 pm | Comments (6)

Anna’s 3. She has shown interest. Let the Potty Training begin… well once I’m better and by then I’ll be in St. Louis for a few days so Ben will probably just want to wait till I get back… so… start the PTing soon-ish!

Girls are easier right?

Eli was a piece of cake with the peeing, took to underwear right away, hasn’t peed his bed or had an accident in like a year. It was the pooping that caused months and months of problems. I’m hoping Anna has no poop issues. I hate poop.

The day I stop wiping butts I may throw a party.

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Posted by: Sarah
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3 & 4 well visits

6:44 pm | Comments (2)

At Eli’s 4 year doc appointment he was an even 42, 42 inches and 42 pounds.
Anna had her 3 year doc appointment and she is 40 inches and 39 pounds.

Eli will be on Zyrtec again to see if it helps with his eczema from hell.

Nothing new, they are both healthy and fine.

Filed under: baby book, boy child, girl child, life in general
Posted by: Sarah
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