Knitphomaniacs

If you know me at all, you know that I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE my birthday. I like to reflect about what I’ve done in all my years and where I’ve been and what I have accomplished and what I may have even failed at.

This year, my 38th year of life.. I have to say was quite rewarding and I don’t have one day that I can remember anyway, that I’d like to take back and do it all over again. I’m sure there are plenty, but they must not rate that high on the remember scale.

The 2008-2009 year has given me a husband marathoner turned triathlete, when I close my eyes and see Mr Knitpho running into the lake for his first ever open water swim, I get a little choked up with amazing pride. A son who is maturing a little (a teeny tiny bit) bit each day and when I least expect my heart explodes with just how proud he makes us and what an amazing boy we’re molding. The daughter who started preschool and is more than ready for Kindergarten in the fall, who makes me crazy because it’s like walking around with a tinier version of myself but then again, it’s not all that bad. She has big things ahead of her, I can see it.

Outside my little family of 4, I have created a new family of insane friends. I have lived here for 10 years and have been craving friendships like this since I left Tucson. I thrive on friendships, I always have. But I just took my time and found just what I was looking for. These women inspire me everyday as a woman, a mom, a wife, a friend and most recently an Auntie. These ladies make me laugh to the point of tears and we can rally when needed. Not forgetting my long distance friends, my best friends who are not close to me, who know more about me than anyone ever should, who have been with me since before I could drink (legally). Damn, what is better than having and overflow of love in friendships like this.. lucky lucky me.

So, as my 38th birthday nears.. I’ll keep on keepin’ on. Set new goals, strive to be better at anything and everything. Soak up as much as love as I can from my kids who fill my heart & soul … be amazed by my husband who is conquering goals right and left and laugh my ass off at least once a week, usually a Wednesday

Happy weekend, Happy 4th of July, AND Happy 5th of July.

It was another kick ass weekend for Mrs Knitpho. I can’t tell you how lucky I am and how grateful I am as well. Friday night couldn’t have came quick enough, I was exhausted from a busy day of chauffeuring my beloved M’s around… I was the lucky mom who got to a an end of the year preschool party and was sadly depressed when I walked in the doors and realized that EEPS… NO BOOZE. ::sigh:: I managed to keep myself in check for over 3hours with 4 & 5 year olds and other moms and inside no less because of the rain… major drag. Finally, thankful for GPS finder mappy thing on my phone I found my way home otherwise I’d still be out there.. seriously. Then a nice dinner and sending the husbeast off to train (he’s a triathlete you know!) and thankful for raspberry vodka & limeade – always thankful for that.

Saturday.. a “quick” run and then watching it rain like a bitch all day long. I mean RAIN… sheets,buckets,downpour kind of rain. Then me & my peeps were off to a party at my friend Erins house, good food, good beer, good friends – and the husband stayed behind with the kiddies .. what more could a girl ask for? Girl time, it’s what ever mom needs to make it through …. life.

Today.. I went to lunch with a dear friend to celebrate our birthdays and have girl talk. We go to lunch at a local yummy Italian restaurant and WTF.. no lunch menu on Sundays? $20 for a hunk of lasagna? $12 for Bruschetta… we sat down, and stared at the dinner prices and dinner menu for a 1p lunch.. we were so rebellious, we got up and left. I’m so sure, we’re all about good food and lovely atmosphere, but serving dinner only on a Sunday VIA? Your STOOOOPID!
So, we found another yummy restaurant and had LUNCH at LUNCHTIME and then of course hit Starbucks.

Mr Knitpho got a great ride in and avoided the rain and I watched a bunch of gross but funny boys practically kill each other. Hula hooped,jumped rope, colored with sidewalk chalk and laughed til I cried with my Mia.

As Sunday comes to end, and True Blood is about to come on, the wine is about to be poured and the kids will be put to bed.

I am thankful for a fantastic family, amazing friends and a great first weekend of summer.

So, after my love affair with Twilight and yummy Edward Cullen I took a reading break and knitted. I can’t do both, I have to use “that time” to take turns. Anyway! Mr Knitpho started reading the True Blood series, even before Season 1 came out, and then so I started them too… along with my gaggle of gal pals. They all flew through these Sookie Stackhouse books and well, me? Not so much, I’m still stuck on #5 out 9 in the series. Now Season 2 is on and well, if there is a such a thing.. maybe just a wee bit too much vampire going on. So, Sookie and I will have to take a break for a while and see where the wind blows us.

Today my little chicks and I went to the library to see what we could find. I love the library. I love borrowing these books and wonder a bit who might have read them before me and what they thought of the book. Especially Miles & Mia, and I ask them if they think the kids before them enjoy them they way they are? They roll their eyes at me.

I didn’t plan on getting any books today, since I still have to finish Dead as a Doornail .. but then I found these and leaped for them before anyone else could get them. MINE!

I’m Perfect, You’re Doomed and my little red book

Neither of these are ‘deep reads’ but what they will allow me is some downtime reading and quite funny indeed. So, what’s on your summer reading list ??? I’d love to hear all about it, and if you’ve read either of these… please let me know what you thought!

HAPPY SUMMER READING!

hello there! I know it’s been too long and I want reaally do want to brighten up the digs around here, but thats what I hire my husband to do, and since he’s a triathlete now .. my poor little blog gets pushed down on the list of things to do. It still works, so I thought I’d show you a couple of finished objects that I’ve done in the meantime.

First up, some of my awesome girlfriends and I, we all have daughters and decided to do a Knit A Long of a little sweater. Our girls are all range in age from wee little baby (we just welcomed her into the world on Saturday!), then there is an almost 2year old, almost 3 year old and Mia… going on 5. So, we all took a field trip to buy the same yarn and all casted on for the Watermelon Sweater!

Now, because Mia is sooooooooooooooooooo long & skinny (i’d kill to have this problem) I had to knit & measure and try on through the whole process. I wanted to make sure it fit her for a while and with her long torso & arms, the measurements on the pattern just weren’t going to work.

So, I was quite pleased with how it turned out and I do have to redo the seeds, I used embroidery thread and decided that a thicker yarn would work better. But, it will be a perfect little summer sweater to wear on those cool Colorado nights…

and for my dear friend who just had a beautiful baby girl… I made this little hat. It was the most gorgeous color purple and well, I think it looks more like an eggplant than a berry, but still supah cute!

So, there you have it.. stuff I’ve been doing. I have lots of other stuff to share with you blogworld.. even though you might have heard my goings on on Facebook, but you’ll just have to read about it again!

Happy Wednesday!

I miss writing.
I missing sharing my knitting & shenanigans with you.

So, it’s time to revamp the look of the blog and get it back up and running.

Hopefully over the next day or so and I’ll have some visitors!

While I was running today, the voices in my head & I were having a conversation about how things are going. Everyone was all a chatter and felt free to voice their opinion about my progress or lack there of. I have been attempting to run and for a year now. I should be well on my way to bigger & better things. Three miles should be nothing to me at this point. Although my speed has increased ( a little) I have this mindset that 3 is as far as I can go and then I’m done. Must get past this. So I went almost 4 on Wednesday and then just 2.5 today.
My goal is to get to the point where I can just run 3 miles every time, without thinking about it and talking myself out of doing less. When is it going to be “just 3miles” , ” a quick 3 miles”. That way I can eventually start to increase my mileage and start again with the back and forth what I think I can or cannot do.

17 days til my first 5k of the year. Must put those voices to rest and shove them to the back of the brain.

Have a great weekend !!! Hopefully I’ll have sort of knitting to show you that actually looks like something!

Do you see what's happening here? She's reading. To me. Green Eggs & Ham. To me. Twice. We could see it coming, we can see her right on the cusp of it all clicking and the words just jumping off the page to her. Today, she made a huge leap. Pretty awesome.

Because two is better than one.. the day just kept getting better. My boy came home with a stellar reportcard of A’s and a dotted with a few B’s. GO BOY GO!

Just yesterday when the girl gave me a run for my money and pushed all those buttons, I told myself today would be better. It HAD to be better. ANYTHING would have been better than Monday. Damn, was it ever!

sunday, originally uploaded by rkymtnmel.

All Sunday mornings should be like this.

here we go again. radio silence here at chez knitpho. it’s not that i have been swamped with loads of stuff, again.. your just getting all my goings on over at all the other internet outlets that I love to hate and hate to love.

so what’s been going on with you? fill me in … even though I’ve read your status updates and or tweets.. so I do know whats going. I still read blogs and love to see what my friends near & far are up to.. so I thought I’d give the ‘ol blog a good old fashioned updated. so here’s whats be going on.

Running. Well, this last week I was down & out. I tweaked my back, with a muscle spasm or a pinched nerve and holy shit did it hurt. I could feel it getting worse and then from being so tense and hunched over – my wSohole body just tensed up and after a week, I’m finally almost 100%. It’s hard not to exercise – I mean when you want to and can’t is one thing, but to not go because your lazy is entirely different. I have a 5k in the middle of May, so I have some ground to make up as I am going for a speedier time. Speaking of races… the mister and my boy ran a 5k this past week ( day 1 of pure back torture) and this race was all about Miles and Sandy was just running with him and supporting our son the whole way. Miles ran in 30:14 and holy cow.. he’s awesome. They both are!

Mia ran too … it didn’t go as well. She started out strong, a quick trip and she was done for the day.

NEXT! KNITTING! ….

i knitted this Jane Austren dress from the new mason dixon book.. details on my Rav … she wore it for Easter and it was just the cutest thing ever. The pattern is a wee bit wonky and the fit didn’t go all that right. .but it looks great.

Mia picked out the deep pink print and we seamed up, added a hem and then hand stitched it to the knitted body.
It’s finally warming up here in the great Northeast, so she’ll be able to get some more use out of it.

I am in the midst of a KAL with 4 friends. We’re all knitting the same sweater for all our girlies. from size wee little baby size to Mia being the oldest. Pics soon.. I hope anyway.

So.. that’s the excitment around here- can you see WHY I haven’t updated. Back is finally on the mend and i am at 98% so I hope to start running again this week.. and with the warm temps – I can’t wait to get out there!!!!

Hope all is well with you blogland… hopefully there will be more to blog about since the sunny weather appeared and Im out of my winter blues funk.

that’s knittin’ and readin’ in case you didn’t know. First up.. knitting. I am I’d say..77% done with my CPH. I have the hood to do and then the rest of the front panels.. but I had to take a break from that – yes yes I was going to power through it and get it done, but well, Mia needed THIS. So, I had some lovely knitpicks shine in Turquoise that fit the pattern perfectly and I casted on the 249 sts. OY VEY! Back and forth 11times of seed stitch and then the pattern with the little lace details – it’s coming a long nicely. UNTIL! There is this one row,where you section off, and 30sts.. bind off 61 sts… bind off .. 30sts. Well.. i could NOT get it! I have tinked more rows on this dress than I have knit! Some things just weren’t working for me, the knitting Gods were against. Determined by a cloudy sunday and a daughter who went out to spend time with her daddy,I got it all figured and moved on.

and Im reading again. This time I’ve started the Sookie Stackhouse series .. and well, I like them vampires. So much that I dream that I have breakfast with them at diners. But they were the 30days of night vampires..and they were MEAN!

Off to do a little K & R in intervals, while the princess sleeps ( a little under the weather ) and the boy watches the ever lovable Batman.