Thanksgiving

This year most of us have a lot to be thankful for.  There's a lot of scary stuff happening in the world right now and I think we need to be thankful for what we have and what we don't have,

I myself am thankful that my family is healthy and whole.  That my husband has a decent job (and I am thankful that he continues to work there, even though it's not exactly his dream job).  That I no longer work in retail and that I get to stay home on Thanksgiving and Black Friday (for the first time in 13 years!).  That my husband gets to stay home with us because his boss decided to close and still pay them all for Thursday and Friday.

I am thankful that we have food to eat (Everyday, though I will take our Thanksgiving spaghetti feast for the win!), a roof over our heads, cars to drive and places to go.

I am thankful I have yarn to knit, books to read, materials to sew and a sewing machine to sew with, along with video games to play.

I am also thankful that we didn't get 10" of snow last week like my mom and the Quad-Cities (and multiple other places), did.  ;)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Meh.

It's weird, because I usually love this time of year, but right now I just can't get into Halloween.  I have my two wreaths up from last year, and that's it.  I do love the cooler weather.

The sad thing is this meh attitude is creeping into everything.  I had a huge pile of library books, and I would guess that most of them went back to the library with only a chapter or two read.  A few of them were good, and A Red-Rose Chain by Seanan McGuire was outstanding.  I'd been waiting for that one and it was so nice to read something that lived up to its promise.

I tried a few new series, some I thought were ok, and I'll give the next book a try, some of them just made me want to never read another thing by the author ever again.  Yes, Jim and Joyce Lavene, I am talking about you!

One cool thing that has happened, the kiddo has joined her Knitting Club at school and is knitting hats for the homeless and cancer patients.  We knit together a few nights a week while we watch CSI on Hulu, haha.  I'm working on her second pair of socks in the Greenwood Fiberworks Stardust in Watercolor that I bought in April.  We decided on the Vanilla Latte pattern, because it has just enough detail to make them fun to knit and it doesn't over shadow the pretty yarn.  I'm about to the point where I'll need her to try the first sock on so I can see when I need to start decreasing for the toe.

The scary thing is, after these are complete, I am out of sock yarn!! Hubby seems to think I have enough pairs of socks and that I should find something else to knit.  :(  But I love the portability of socks.  Instead, I am going to start knitting my own hat.  The kiddo bought me yarn for Christmas last year, and I think I am going to use it for an Acadia Cap.  I love the thick, warm looking band and I have some leftover sparkly red yarn that I think will make the band even more fun.  And really, it's time to push myself out of my comfort zone and try something new and the cabling on the band is a good place to start cables.

We're also going to go pick out some material this weekend so I can make Isabel a knitting bag.  She's using one of my backpacks , but since it is knit, it's not the best thing for a project bag.  She's got a ziplock baggie inside actually holding her needles and bits and bobs.  I offered to sew her a bag with some pockets that she can keep stuff in instead.

My plants are crazy, my little cherry tomato is slightly confused about the season, there must be twenty tomatoes on it now and at least that many blossoms.  It and my jalapeno have moved into the house for the winter.  We'll keep them going as long as we can.

The kiddo also lettered in Academics for last year.  And she was elected VP of her Interact Club (The Youth version of Rotary).  What started as a mandatory class project ended up something she enjoyed and has continued with.  So proud of her!