It has been way to long since I have posted. Is there a reason for this? No. I have just been lazy. Yes. Lazy. Shocking I know. But sometimes a girl just needs to be that way. I even have pictures for you of a sweater that I finished from over a week ago that I still have not downloaded from my camera. Anyways…

1) Cadenza sweater: I have completed the body and one arm. I had completed the border on one of the fronts but have changed my mind about the style after picking up the second side and knitting a few rows. So rip rip rip of the second side. I am now knitting away on the new front of the cardigan. I will take pictures this weekend. I am enjoying the yarn. The color does pool a bit but I am of a mind that the yarn is going to do whatever it wants to do and who am I to mess with it? Of course, there are times when you are going for a certain look and perhaps pooling isn’t the desired effect. Normally however, it doesn’t bug me.

2) I haven’t been sleeping. I was severely sleep deprived. I hadn’t slept for a solid night through in months. MONTHS PEOPLE. I was starting to be at the point where I couldn’t even put coherent sentences together and was a spaz. I feel for my friends who had to put up with me. Anyways, last night I crated the dogs, took some pills, cleaned the kitchen, cleaned the bathroom, designed two patterns and then went to bed. (sounds rather manic when I put it that way) I fell asleep around 12ish and slept till my alarm at 6 this morning. YEEHAW. Almost a new woman. Now I am only sleep deprived. Not severely sleep deprived.

3) I bought the Baby Suprise Jacket pattern from Schoolhouse. They faxed it to me so I wouldn’t have to pay shipping AND wait for it to arrive. Which is great. There are currently 2 people in my office who are pregnant and the woman I currently share an office with is going to be a grandmother. They all know I knit so I figured I should probably do something for them.

4) Babette: yes I love her. I have sections 1-3 put together and am working on section 4. It is the “beside my bed while I watch a movie” crocheting. I don’t expect it to be done super quick, I am aiming for Christmas. On another crochet note, I received the book with the Hexagon blanket in it yesterday…

5) I broke down in tears yesterday. I am sure a huge part of that has to do with being so tired I can hardly stand myself. I sat in my car, in the garage (yes the car was turned off) and cried hard for about 5 minutes. Then it was done. I went inside, fed the dogs and sat down to watch me some Big Brother 8. Want to know who won the HOH competition? Oh I’m not going to spoil it here … but lets just say next week is going to be interesting with the double elimination that will be happening.

6) I just obtained the Rowan magazines 1-20 … DO you even want to begin to imagine how pumped I am about this?? That means that my collection is complete. I may have some duplicates but I don’t care. I have been trying to get the whole set for six years!! AND I don’t have to pay for shipping because the woman I bought them from is sending them here when her husband comes up for work! SCORE baby SCORE.

7) Dyeing: I am going to be experimenting with my dyeing again. I do quite a bit of it but at the moment I want to try a few other dyes to see how they will react. I had to stop for a bit because my house was WAY too hot but now that its cooling off again at night its easier to do my dyeing as the added heat isn’t a big issue. I’ll make sure to post pictures of that too once I have some done.

Anyways. This is my pictureless post with my blurbs about what is going on. Have a great long weekend and I will talk to you all soon. With Pictures.

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WOOOOT! Wow. I never would have thought that I was stalked just like I stalk you. So good to know that it is mutual. What a way to warm a girls heart. Who says that diamonds are a girls best friend … I say stalkers are. Well that and yarn. Okay. Maybe yarn comes before stalkers. But you are all still important to me. And hey … keep posting … I love reading and “seeing” into your worlds.

Now. Yarn.

Today a beautiful package arrived at my house.

First off, before I show you what was inside, I have to say that presentation means a lot. I am really impressed with how it was laid out along with that beautiful bit of yarn on the top of the package. Now. I know. You could care less about the package and how pretty I think the presentation was. You want to know whats inside. Wollmeise Sock Yarn.

I first heard about this yarn over at Wendy Knits during one of my stalking sessions. Well, I had to check them out. The Loopy Ewe will be carrying the yarn (and they have a great incentive program where for every $250 you buy you get a $25 gift certificate automatically in your account!). However, when I was making an order from them, they didn’t have it in yet, so I went right to the source. I have to say that the service was fantastic. I got an email back asking how vibrant I wanted the colors … these are all “medium” vibrancy. HOLY SCHEMOLY. I am going to make another order at some point just to see what the vibrant vibrant colors are! All in all I got the yarn in about two weeks.

Dogs…a few pictures for you.

Bosco (the BF’s dog) is a 2 year old lab. Whitley and him play pretty hard with each other. Angel sort of just watches. She tries to get in there sometimes and does succeed. But Bosco is a bit scared of her.

As for other stuff. There is some neat things that have been in the works for about 8 months or so that will be coming to fruition soon. I am looking forward to being able to share it with you all! *g*

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Hello, my name is Morgan and I am a blog stalker.

I can’t help it. Honestly. It is almost like an addiction, but worse. Because I stalk blogs. I feel like a peeping tom whose window and bushes is a computer screen and bloglines. I read my Calgary/Canada reads first. Everyday. I am filled with an overwhelming sense of disappointment when the links aren’t shown in bold. It can leave me pissed off even. A fix that I haven’t been able to achieve.

Okay. So you people haven’t updated your blog. What am I to do? Well then I start at the bottom of my Bloglines list and start reading upwards. I do have over 500 blogs that I try to read on a weekly basis. Of course, this doesn’t include links to blogs from some of those blogs or those who don’t have feeds.

Do you people not understand that I am trying to get a view into your world? That I need to get my perverse need fixed by seeing what you are doing. To live vicariously through all of your knitting/spinning and crocheting projects. I don’t have time to do it all … no matter what some of you think. I mean come on … yes I know I have a stash to rival all stashes … but that doesn’t mean I’m actually going to KNIT it all up … give me a break. Some of its just to pretty to be used.

Now, I’ve conversed with you all long enough. I need to go read some more blogs and work on babette.

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Life as I know it right now is good. Busy. Stressful. Tiring. But good. Things in my house are very hectic and demanding but, you know, it could be worse. I have been thinking today about what I am thankful for. I am thankful for my life as it is right now. I am aware that life has a habit of changing at a moments notice and that I have no control over it. I can only chose one path or the other and go with that decision. That is what I am doing now …

Ok. Enough insightful crap. Lets get down to business.

I realized that while I have updated my yarn collection, it hasn’t been here. Rather, its been on ravelry. I am sorry to those of you who either - 1) don’t have accounts yet, 2) have accounts but haven’t looked at my stash or 3) have no clue what ravelry is about - and haven’t had a chance to look at my pictures. Here are a few of what I have purchased these days.

Now, onto current projects. I got my Babette kit in the mail on Friday. I love Koigu. Yes those of you who have been to my house know this … but every time Koigu comes my way I have to stop and have a moment with the yarn. This moment is one where we spend a bit of time connecting to each other. Where the Koigu learns to appreciate my love for it and in return, offers to be a good yarn, allowing me to work it into something special - if/when I decide to work it up. I am working on the first square right now and I think that it may be my main project for a bit. It is an easy piece to work on and the amount of time I have to be creative has been limited to when I am stuck at a stop light and have a moment to knit on Cadenza or when David and I are in bed, watching a movie, until he drifts from the pain medicine. In between the drifting there is usually a need to get him medicine or ice or something else - then the dogs need to go out as soon as I’m settled or Cameron needs something. So its pretty easy to put down and pick up without thinking about it.

OH and a Babette Group has been set up on Ravelry for anyone who wants to join up. It is also open for people who want to do the Hexagon Blanket. Have you seen it? If not you HAVE to go look. I mean it. Stop what you are doing now and CLICK HERE …. I’ll wait till you are back before I continue …

Back yet?

Yes?

Isn’t that amazing??!! I am in ga ga land over it.

I have started the Kauni sweater but its harder to put down/pick up. So IT may be on hold. I haven’t decided yet. Right now its in the basement in front of the tv waiting for some love. I decided to do a provisional cast on for this sweater as I am not sure how to do the ribbing. I haven’t finished one repeat yet. Sad. Very sad. And to know that Autumn Rose is making its way to me … *sigh* … oh the decisions.

Then, I am working on a pattern that I was contemplating submitting to Knitty … but with all that is going on I am not sure if I will have the time to actually finish the knitting portion of it. I have the pattern written but the knitting … well that is the part that takes the time. Plus the yarn is cashmere … which … with the heat that we had been having (notice I said “had”) it was too hot to work with. Now its more paying attention to the pattern. Right now its about 1/8 done. I think.

Hmmm what else on the knitting front? Not much. I really need to work on my office at home. I took the tv out of it and put it in the bedroom so that we could watch movies and now my office is even more of a disaster than it was before. I just haven’t had the energy. AND every time that I look at it I feel overwhelmed. Maybe this week I will just go in and tackle it. I know that if I spent a half an hour of just “putting stuff away” it would make a huge difference. I don’t need to do a huge overhaul of it right now but I could at least have it so that its not a pigsty.

Books.

I finished reading a book called “Twilight” by Stephenie Meyer. Its a teen vampire book. I could NOT put it down. Thanks Fiona for hooking me up! My cousin (Fiona) lent it to me with the remark … “her third one is out next week” (this was 2 weeks ago). I love that. Getting turned onto a book just when the next one in the series is out. The biggest thing for me with reading series is that I hate to wait for the next one to be produced. I get so intensely wrapped up in the characters and the storylines that I need to know the next part. One of the reason’s that I can’t read horror/major suspense novels at night is that I take what I’ve read into my dreams and become a part of the storyline. Of course, there are good aspects to that - when a hunky hunk of a leading male character shows up to ravish me in my dreams - which of course I don’t mind. On the other hand. I still have dreams about one Stephen King short story that I read years and years ago where some army guy had a dream/vision (or something like that) and all these huge bad things (squids and stuff I think) were in this fog and it attached this town. Now. I’m not even sure if it was Stephen King’s work (sorry if it wasn’t!!) but I still remember the story. I remember the part about the workers in the grocery store and how everyone was locked inside while the horror in the fog took over. ick.

Anyways, back to the book. It was really good. The Vampires were different than what I’ve read by other authors and I quite enjoyed Stephenie’s take on them. The love story/attraction between the two main characters was strong in a way that left me breathless for more. Yet there was no sex…it is a young adult novel after all. To have the strength of the written word to catch me so completely without all the fluff of great sex scenes is a biggy … I look forward to the sex scenes. I appreciate her writing. It is simplistic yet demanding all at once.  So much so that I am looking forward to tonight, when I can  have a short bath and read a bit more when everyone is settled down for the night!

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Ranting … I really try not to do it very often but there are times, well, you know, when you just have to do it. It’s like verbal diarrhea that just won’t stop. I have tried to hold it back. I have actually waited two whole days to post in the hopes that my disgust may dissolve into nothingness. However, it hasn’t. If you want to skip down and miss the rant go ahead. I’ve got knitting news at the bottom.

There is a new movie coming out on the death of Princess Diana. Give me a fricken break people. Its the paparazzi chasing her that led to the event of her death in the first place. So now a movie has been made to give insight as to what happened on that dreadful night. HELLO!! One, its another way to have her name out there. Two, her name sells products still to this day. Three, its the media yet again using her for their own good. This sort of stuff drives me nuts. Sure I read magazines and watch entertainment shows. But, I am not obsessed with “stars” and their lives. I think that this movie is taking it a step too far. I will support anything that her kids decided to do. Because that is family. But there is no way that I am going to support another media attempt to gain profit from her life and death.

Ok. So the rant is done. Though thinking about it still riles me up. So we will move on.

Knitting content. I have no pictures. Why do you ask? Well because I have been busy being a nurse, working and knitting. Starting today I am back on mom duty too. So its a bit hectic at my house. I am working on my Cadenza sweater (see earlier posts for pictures). I am working on the body and have half of one sleeve done. I received my yarn pack from Fun Knits for the Kauni Sweater. Love the yarn a ton. I started it last night. Cast on. Spit spliced as I hadn’t pulled enough for the cast on and knit a half a row of ribbing. Am looking forward to doing more tonight.

Eunny’s new design is out … Autumn Rose … I purchased the kit from Anne at She Ewe Knits. Go take a look at her sweater. It is looking fantastic. I also placed an order with the Loopy Ewe for some sock and lace yarn because I need that like I need another hole in my head. And then there was the purchase of Babette….

Needless to say, this weekend I need to work a bit more on my yarn organization. Also, I have been contemplating doing some de-stashing. Though. I think I was a bit feverish at the time.

((hey to all of my commenters. I read your comments. I love your comments … I’ll try to respond to them too!!))

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SO. I have been holding out on those of you who do not live close to me.  I have a boyfriend. We have been together for 7 months and have been getting slightly more serious as time goes along.  He is older (yes I do like them that way) and has kids of his own.  He understands my dedication to my family and respects the boundaries I have erected.

We have been talking over the past month or so about if/when we want to meet each others’ kids. We decided on Wednesday night that we still were not ready to take that step. We like how things are right now (yes this does mean we have copious amounts of s.e.x. and it is awesome _overshare I know .. but deal with it_).

Anyways. This week/weekend I am out at Chestermere Lake staying with my cousin’s while their parents are out of town. Iain has seizures so needs someone to be with him during the night.  I had taken friday off of work with the thought that I could spend some time with my other 2 cousins just hanging out. Fate has a wonderful way of intervening sometimes and doing whatever she wants.

I got a phone call on Thursday afternoon from the boyfriend (his name is David).  He was getting x-rays done.  To make a super long story short, he broke his Tibia.  It was not a good break though it could have been worse.  So I’ve been dividing myself between the lake and the hospital.  He had surgery this morning and now is on the mending process even though he is in a ton of pain.

SO. Now we get to the story. Because of this accident. I have now met his daughter and spent about 7 hours straight with her. I’ve spoken to one of his sons and will meet the other one tomorrow.  Ralph (my ex) came in to see him twice to see how he was doing and then helped me take David’s car back to his house.  Ralph and I ended up having a coffee this morning to discuss David meeting Cameron (we made a pact early on to discuss who our child meets relationship wise) and agreed that it was ok since I’ll be David’s primary care giver for the next 6 weeks until he can put weight on his leg (it may be 10 weeks of no weight .. not sure yet).

Fate. She is funny. She took what we had agreed upon and completely and totally turned it around so that we now did not have a choice but to integrate our lives that much more.

I fell in love with David a few months back.  I wasn’t too pleased about it because I knew that he didn’t feel the same way, even though he did have strong feelings for me.  He had a big “like” for me.  For the first time ever I have given myself over to my feelings and not tried to control the relationship and where it was headed. Part of why I haven’t blogged about it sooner. I think that I was worried about having it all slip away from me. But now I’m not so much. Since he’s stuck with me for at least the next 6-12 weeks *G*.

The man is on a ton of morphine. He said that he loved me and me being there with his is what made him feel better. In his drug induced haze he would reach out his hand trying to find mine. His daughter says that I’m the best girlfriend that he’s ever had. She likes me. I am extremely happy about that too.

Hopefully, he feels the same about me when the morphine is gone…

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Do you ever walk past a mirror and catch a look at yourself? Do you ever go WOOOOOO babyyyyyy?

 I have been doing that lately when I look at my boobs. Yes my boobs. They are gigantic. Holy crap. Ok so I’ve always had big ones … but now they seem that much bigger. Huge even. I think I am going to have to start knitting cardigan rather than pullovers so that I can better cover/expose these babies depending on my needs.

 Then again. I want to find a super sexy push up bra for my F-G breasts to push them up around my chin … all the better to smother someone with *eViL laughter*

 (knitting content to come later … ok … its really stash enhancement content)

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