just thinking....

As I sit here and type and eat my mini eggs (yummy!) I'm just thinking.


I know I haven't posted a pic of my puppy lately and since I don't have children yet, this will have to do.

I love my puppy!

So, what else is new. I'm really excited to read my bookclub selection for this month. It's called Escape. Of course almost all the copies of it in Allegheny county are checked out so here's hoping I receive it from inter-library loan in time for our meeting.

I am really looking forward to spring! Today as a beautiful 65 degrees. It got me itching for some spring clothes and to begin working outside. We have a lot to accomplish this year. We plan to completely over-haul the back yard, roto-til everything (except the dogwood tree) and plant new grass. There will be some landscaping done in the front of the house as well. Now if the weather would just cooperate we could get started! Maybe I'm just too anxious to get these things checked off our "to-do" list. I'm just looking forward to seeing the finished product.

Until it gets nice enough to begin work outside I will finish my knitting projects and get the hubby motivated to help me paint the kitchen. I have the color picked out. We just need to choose a weekend to do it.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

inspiration

I have been stalking the Mason-Dixon Knitting book for months now, but I could not bring myself to buy it for full price. (Lets face it people, I'm cheap!) Low and behold, I found it at my local Half-Price books this week, for, you guessed it, half price! It is now mine.

I have looked through it approximately 20 times now and have decided that I want to attempt almost every project in there. Is that too big of a dream? I have already knit several of the ball-band dishclothes so that is one project out of the way. My next plan, besides all the things I'm working on now, including a knitting bag from my S&B book, is the super chunky rug. I plan on finding bags of the potholder loops this week and begin chaining them together.

How many knitting projects is too many??

Now, I need to join or start a knitting group.....

soaking up the sun

I'm sitting here, on my couch, by the window, being warmed by the sun. That's such a nice feeling in the middle of February. Downstairs my husband is playing Rock Band on his 360. In the other room my puppy is playing with her new toy.
Life is good.
Seriously. I never thought I'd be where I am now. I mean, when you're young you try to imagine yourself in 10 or 15 years. I never imagined I would live where I do or own the house that we do. Heck, I never had a pet growing up and now I own a dog, whom I love very much, and for a short time I actually had 6 dogs in my house!
I guess what I'm saying is that despite all the things that I've done wrong in my life, I must have done something right for God to bless me the way he has.

please help!

President Bush wants to cut funding for the RIF program. If you are not familiar with this program, click here. But let me tell you that it is worthwhile, valuable program for children and their families. I remember receiving RIF books in Elementary school. I also distribute books to children in our Early Intervention program.

Please help by sending an email to the President.

time

ok, my friend Chastity said she copied this quiz from someone else. I copied it from her. I hope someone copies it from me.



You are breakfasty, like a pile of pancakes on a Sunday morning that have just the right amount of syrup, so every bite is sweet perfection and not a soppy mess. You are a glass of orange juice that's cool, refreshing, and not overly pulpy. You are the time of day that's just right for turning the pages of a newspaper, flipping through channels, or clicking around online to get a sense of how the world changed during the night. You don't want to stumble sleepily through life, so you make a real effort to wake your brain up and get it thinking. You feel inspired to accomplish things (whether it's checking something off your to-do list or changing the world), but there's plenty of time for making things happen later in the day. First, pancakes.

super fat tuesday

This year commerates the combination of the only two "holidays" that specifically fall on Tuesday.

I'm not very political. I have my views, I only wish I could find a candidate with all of the same ones. Maybe some day. And just for the record, I did not vote today. Does that make me a bad person? Maybe. Will I vote in November? Most likely.

Being the good Catholic girl that I am, I will be abstaining from meat and fasting tomorrow. I will also go to church to receive ashes. I will give something up for Lent. I'm not sure what it will be yet. I would like to give up cleaning, but then no one will enter my home, including myself, so I guess I'll have to find something else.

The part about Lent, that most people don't realize, is that you are not necessarily suppposed to "give something up", but rather better yourself in some way. That could mean by attending chuch more often, helping with a particular cause, or even just visiting a shut-in neighbor. You could make the resolution to pray more often or even to read a few chapters of the Bible each day. It is about sacrifice, since Jesus made the ultimate sacrifice for all of us. Sometimes the sacrifice might be something as simple as your time.

So no matter what religion you practice, lets all try to take some time each day to do something for someone else.

Oh, and since it's Fat Tuesday, go have a bowl of ice cream! (and a cookie!)

sick as a dog

Ok, maybe not that sick, but I defintely feel like crap. Luckily tomorrow is my birthday, perfect timing!
I already had my one-year-older-where-am-I-in-my-life mini-breakdown. Nothing major, just making sure that I'm not missing out on my window of opportunity for certain things, i.e. having children. The hubby isn't ready yet, and really neither am I. We are hoping for a 2010 baby. That seems like a long way off, but really that means we will probably start TTC next year.
I also realized tonight, as I laid on the couch, that prime-time television stinks! Seriously! What happened to the great series like Friends and Everybody Loves Raymond? It's depressing. I better just skip t.v. and read. Oh yeah, and finish that pesky knitting project that's hanging over my head. : )