Category : rambling.
Tomorrow we will awaken to a new decade. 2010 is knocking on our door and I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to invite him in for a beer and some chip & salsa.
In 2009 …
I ran.
I knitted.
I summered in Colorado.
I reunited with classmates.
I celebrated my 13th year of marriage.
I celebrated my 38th birthday
I cheered on my husband to complete a 70.3 IRONMAN.
I cheered on my kids running their own races.
I sent my baby to Kindergarten.
I sent my first born to 6th grade!!! 6th GRADE!
I made good friendships become lifelong friendships.
I went to the circus and braved the clowns.
I saw the real in people, and glad their not in my life anymore.
I started a photo O day blog.
I laughed.
I cried.
I laughed some more.
oh… and I got pulled over for trespassing.
Happy New Year Everyone
Thanks for being a part of my life, my family’s life, my internet life.
I wish you only the best of what 2010 may bring to you.
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My poor little bloggie has really turned into quite the graveyard. I really do love it and love sharing stories from what is going on here at Chez Knitpho – but between all my other online commitments , no thats the word I’m looking for.. all my other online … addictions, something had to give and it looks like the blog took the hit. I mean, Facebook – you know how it is, every day someone new pops up and you have be all stalker like and see how happy they are in their pics, but deep down you know how happy you are that they gained all that weight!! You know I’m right. It’s ok to admit it, I’m right there with you. Ravelry has also taken a back seat, the forums and groups are so bombarded with pointless shit (like what I’m writing right now) and ridiculous groups .. I go to check on my friends stuff and see the new patterns.. and that’s about it. I still love it, don’t get me wrong – but WOW… have you seen some of the stuff going on over there? Twitter.. this is not that big of a time suck, but I do enjoy a quick quip for Martha or Jimmy Fallon or Lord Vador throughout the day. Ofcourse, my google reader and keeping up with my peeps. So, as you see – in between dishes and laundry and playing Operation and Cadoo, I have very little time for blog updates. You cannot expect me to update at night time can you, when the glass is half full, and by that I mean a real glass, half full of vino .. just so we’re clear.
So, bloggieland.. I am back. at least 3x’s a week. Hopefully my updates will include how exciting and thrilling life can be as a stay at home mom.
Stay tuned, and I’ll go find something to write about.
Oh… HAPPY SPRING. FINALLY!
Do I really not have anything to say? That is news itself !!! But, not really – there hasn’t been that much going on here in VERY cold and I mean VERY COLD Massachusetts. We’ve got hit with a couple of snow storms and thats really annoying – then it warmed up for a whole day and by warmed up, I mean like into the 30’s. I was able to go running outside, purely bundled up and did a 3.1(ish) run without collapsing or having to call 911 to rescue me from a snow bank. But, then wham .. back to arctic temps and we all have major spring fever. So, when you rarely go anywhere, there isn’t much life experience happening at the same time, right? Knitting? oh yeah, i’m knitting and I have projects that I want to do right & left. Here is what I am knitting thus far -Bella Mittens, pattern written by one of my knitting peeps and it is HAWT! Mine are turning out a wee bit different from everyone elses, for some reason.. I knitted so SO tight , but they are very warm and cozy none the less. Will make again. The right away. Then, whats on deck? Oh.. I am still trying to finish my clapotis – that’ll come out of hibernation, AND my CPH … MUST FINISH THAT by spring. I should really get on that.
.. Time is going to be limited, with upcoming school projects and the weather (keeping fingers crossed) getting better..so we can head outside!
time flies when your busy doing a whole not of nothing. wait – that’s not true, I am doing stuff – everything except blogging.
first and foremost, my dear friend Danielle had her baby. YAY! She had baby Ryan on Sept 10 and they are all doing fine & dandy. I cruised my arse down to that hospital on the morning of the 11th and had the sincere honor of holding the little guy. Let me tell you, there is nothing better in this world that holding a brand spanking new less than 24hours old bambino.
Are those just the best piggies ever?! YUM!
Let’s see what else… Mia is doing better at coming home from school. We’ve just had a couple of minor episodes, but all is well. My mom still finds this all very funny. I do not.
Yesterday – Mr. Knitpho and I hit the pavement for a 5k race right here in Worcester. It started off sketchy with lots o rain, but it let up in time for start time and this being my 3rd 5k this year.. all I can say is WOW. Me? Runner? Whoda thunk? Afterward, we were treated to free beers and free BBQ… Nana and the kids even scarfed up, what a nice day it was.
That’s about it… oh the blanket. It’s getting all finalized up. I hate to admit, it probably would have been done, except now I am reading that damn TWILIGHT book, and yeah, it’s as good as everyone says it is.
Have a great Monday my bloggy peeps!
it’s gonna be a SCORCHER today. Our temps are supposed to reach into the low 90’s both days this weekend. Now, I for one am not going to complain about this because we had a long horrible freezing ass cold winter, and we all said “I CAN’T WAIT TIL IT’S SUMMER”. Well my friends, summer is here! I am stoked. I am going to replenish the popsicle supply as well as the beer supply as well as maybe one of those buckets O tasty alcoholic beverage supply. Those are DARN tasty when its hot out. Make more iced coffee and maybe even drink some water! I was even wicked smaht and went running before the temps got to much to bear. I told my friend Danielle ( HI DANIELLE!) that while I was on my home stretch, I could already feel it getting hotter.. or was that me! HaHa.. a little hot weather humor. So witty I am. Ok, it’s not even hot yet and my brain is melting, oh that’s because I haven’t had any coffee. I better fix that.
Have a great weekend and stay cool… as in air conditioned. Because your already “cool” if your reading this awesome/boring as hell blog.
I was thinking. I do believe my purpose in life was to be a mom. I can press play on DVD player just as well as the next person. I buy bags of dumdum lolli’s and try to always have popsicles in the summer time, I make a mean batch of brownies and sometimes I do something really great that make my kids think I’m pretty smart. Occasionally. Not alot.. but it has been known to happen. I can’t think of anything right now, but it’s happened. However, as much as I like to think I was put on this planet to be a mother to these two maniacs… I was NOT meant to be a soccer mom. I just can’t take it anymore. Miles is almost done with his season {happy dance} and it would have gone great if we didn’t have parents trying to coach while Mr. Knitpho is actually the coaching, and if we didn’t play teams that their coach is one of THOSE coaches who instill the KILL attitude. A la Karate Kid. You know the scene I speak of, in the dojo when Daniel walks in to check it out .. anyway..(have you seen this, we love it) This last week at Miles soccer games, it was all fine and dandy for the most part. One woman (from the KILL team) commented to her friend but just loud enough on my boys hair.. and that his parents must be hippies. So of course, what am I to do except bitch slap her. Then on Sunday, one of our moms who is one of the insane crazy side line coaches (which is super annoying!) was hawking looooogies the whole time. Yes. The mom. While her two girls were pulling Mia out of her chair so they could sit down in it… and one of her little girls was trying to take the gum out of my mouth. Why didn’t I tell them to FREAKING CUT IT OUT ALREADY… ohyeah.. that’s right. They didn’t speak ANY english. The parents were SO involved in the game, the girls were some how my responsibility. I attract stupid people like moths to flames? Maybe I need to change my perfume. I should make a note of that. We have 2 more practices, maybe.. 1 since it’s raining today. 2 more games. Trophies are on their way. Season done, next weekend. WOOOOOT! Sayonora sweetheart.
Mia’s soccer on the other hand, for the first time since we started went really well. They switched out the instructor who is young and not a mental case. She was super energetic and just really did a fantastic job. I left their quite pleased…since she is a whopping 17years old, she even had the common sense to walk up to crazy baby mama and say…. GET OUT OF THE WAY!! Crazy baby mama was shocked and taken aback.. and gathered her gym floor licking baby, the mush she was feeding it and are you ready for this? PUT THE BABY IN ITS STROLLER! i know!!! Take a minute, I was just shocked. I didn’t have my cell phone (i know, i forgot it,dumbass) or I would have texted each and everyone one of you with a pic to prove it. It was a good day.
Today, is also going to be a good day. Mia gets to do a meet & greet at her soon to be pre-school. She is over the moon excited, now if only the diva GOT time, and couldn’t flipping understand that she isn’t staying to go..she’s just checking it out. Time is a big deal to a 3year old. All she knows is 1:00. Is it 1o’clock yet? Are we going to see KungFu Panda at 1? No, it’s not out yet? Will it be out at 1? Can we get popcorn at 1 today? When we go see KungFu Panda. <— this people! is EVERYDAY for the last week. I shit you not.
Rambled enough for now.. I know your all just on the edge of your seat and can’t wait to hear the shenanigans I might get myself into next.
PEACE OUT.
You know, I’m not knitting right. I want to, I really do. But nothing is keeping my attention at the moment that I am in LOVE with. Thats why I am going to do the sweater.. I think I’ll love the challenge of it. Remember if you haven’t yet.. comment on the 2YEARS post below and I will pick the winner and the yarn this week.
So, update #1. Soccer. It was yesterday. Yes, the teacher did indeed show. But, that’s all about all she did. Here I was under the impression that it was a teenager full of attitude..but it was a lady older than me who didn’t know what the hell she was doing. A bunch of 3 & 4 year old girls running around and all she did was say.. hey you.. kick toward that goal and you kick toward that goal. That was the whole ‘class’. Oh and wannabeUBERmom? She was there. With her daughter, who’s 4, who was riding in a stroller, fast asleep through the entire 45min class. Who took out her nonstop eating baby to feed her on the gym floor (ofcourse, right?) and let her crawl while the girls were playing soccer. AND THEN IT HAPPENED. I (semi) cracked. She asked me to watch Mia, so she wouldn’t step on her baby. I stopped. I even said. “pardon me”. She said it again. “I just don’t her to run over ______.” {I can’t remember that baby’s name} Anyway. I took a deep breath and said, yeah.. I wouldn’t want Mia to get hurt. and I did a nice F U smile.. you know the one. The baby continued to crawl where the girls were playing and I told Mia to just play like the baby wasn’t there, because SHE SHOULDN’T BE CRAWLING AROUND THE ‘FIELD’ TO BEGIN WITH!” Is she stupid? Really? What doesn’t she get? I hate her.
Update #2. The birds. They are two days old now. And already getting bigger.
Today they are sleeping a lot and haven’t been as noisy as they were yesterday. The mom & dad however are very loud and have been singing all day. The babies still can’t open their eyes but they have sprouts of little feathers here and there and they are just the cutest things ever. I told my SIL, that I almost want to regurgitate food myself for the little guys. Almost.
Update #3.
I haven’t wrote about this yet. But today.. I am going to share with you.. my toe. A couple of weeks back my 2nd toe on my left foot was hurting every time I ran. One day, Mia noticed that even under the nail polish, it was a different color than the rest. Hmmm. She’s right. I removed the nail polish, only to find a gnarly, nasty, black toe nail. Supposedly you get this when you run… or up your speed or your mileage. Well, I have done all three in a matter of the last month, so all my toes should be black at this rate. It’s gross.. but in a deep demented sort of way, I’m kind of proud of it. A little reminder of how far I’ve come in this dreaded exercise bullshit.
That’s about it from this tired old lady. It is a beautiful day here in Massachusetts and I’m off to blow bubbles with my favorite 3 year old in the whole wide world.
Finally recovering from the crazy weekend..and now it’s Friday! As tired as I was, you’d think I had run the darn thing. I think we’re finally back to normal, whatever that is anyway. I have not knitted a stitch in over a week… I don’t know if it’s the schedule.. the projects themselves, or just my mood? But, I better snap the hell out of it, because my sister in law and myself are hopping the car.. ditching the husbands and heading out to WEBS on Sunday to see Le Harlot, again. Last time, was when we had first started knitting and we were just turned on to her blog. This was pre-blog for me, and I acted like a total dink when I met her. Sarah is laughing her ass off just thinking of the last time I came in contact with the Yarn Harlot… I promise to not act like a total dillweed this time.
So, we’re on spring break here in lovely Massachsuetts. I was thankful for the school break on Tuesday and even Wednesday..but now I’m done and with everyone home, including Mr. Knitpho.. the walls are closing in on me. It’s hard sharing my personal space.
I hope to cast on something to knit while watching the Harlot do her thing, make a list of what is my priority to start knitting with yummy yarn to be found at WEBS. For MY Clapotis, for MY Central Park Hoodie.. those are my main two priorities.
Have a great weekend…do something fun. Our temps are about to drop from lovely high 70’s to rainy 50’s & low 60’s. SUCK! But, that’s New England for you …
On Monday, you’ll hear all about our adventures to the great yarn store, the Harlot, YARN!, and how I acted.. which is always a little iffy.
TTFN
Just dropping by to say hi to everyone. There is so much going on this week .. that I’m quite ready for it to be over. Actually we’ve made it over the hump and now its smooth sailing until Saturday..then Sunday.. then the big day on Monday. Mia survived or shall I say I survived the ballet recital yesterday, the newness of it all has worn off an you can tell that she’s ready to hang up her ballet shoes for a bit and slip into some shin guards. I’ll be happy when it’s officially over in a couple of weeks and I can be done with those moms. They were JUST as insane at the recital .. loud, inappropriate laughter, letting their littles one crawl up and over to their older sisters while they were ‘performing’. I was thankful I wasn’t taping this one, because it would have been a total waste. 
But she was beautiful and danced her little heart out.
In other news…
I got a haircut and a highlight. WOOHOO. I was in DESPERATE need… DESPERATE I tell you. I’m quite pleased and will look fabulous for my husband when he crosses the finish line on Monday. I had to look good in those pictures, instead of with horrid looking roots you know! So.. happy happy me.
Also.. you’ll have to look for me (and my nice hair) ..(oh and my husband) at the Red Sox game on Saturday! Then ofcourse we’ll go BACK to Boston on Sunday and be there for Monday and so you’ll have to check in to see where Sandy is at during the marathon..I’ll post more about that over the weekend.
Hope all my blogfriends are good and you are enjoying springtime. It’ll be nice when things settle a bit and I can go back to knitting and crafty goodness.
One major April event down… one to go. My man’s birthday weekend was a good one. FANTASTIC weather on Saturday..not so fantastic on Sunday, but we dealt. Thanks for the birthday wishes for him, it helped ease him into next decade of his life just a bit more! So, now that this milestone event is done and over with, it’s time to move onto the next! Marathon Monday is one week from today, and he’s ready! He’s nervous.. but he’s ready to run. The week is going to be busy with chaos and general crap. Mia the ballerina has her FINAL (thank GOD!) ballet recital on Wednesday… and we still have that pesky science project to not only just work on.. START! Yes.. we haven’t even begun. GREAT! It’s due in two weeks!! Next week is spring break though, so hopefully we’ll be able to rock it out. We have a birthday party on Saturday to go to, and HOPEFULLY I’ll be going to Fenway Park with my hubby to see the Red Sox Saturday night and ditch our.. I mean leave the kids with their favorite Aunt & Uncle! Then, we’ll go back into Boston on Sunday and overnight there…and then ofcourse, the 26.2 on Monday.. for him,not me.. but you knew that!! I hope I meet Lance Armstrong.. or should I say.. I hope Lance Armstrong meets me! Here’s hoping. Unless I become a total dolt, which has been known to happen when I cross paths with anyone who has even the smallest amounts of fame, I’m sure security will pick me out pronto!
In the meantime, I’m knitting when I can… all sorts of projects in all directions! I hope I make to Wednesday night this week too!
That’s about it from this lady, and now back to the mountains of laundry that await. It’s NEVER ending!
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