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Celebration Time

As you may know, my husband had to have emergency back surgery the first week of January.  It was a huge surprise to us, one minute he was fine, next minute he needed surgery.  So we did the surgery and prepared for it, but we didn’t even think about the recovery time or what recovery meant.  It turned into a 3 month stint on disability for my hubby and alot of personal loving nurse care from me  for him.     We were concerned for awhile but after therapy and regaining his strength, he actually returned to his job, in full capacity, in mid-March.  He’s got full mobility and we do our regular running every other day.  Were so grateful for his recovery, believe me we heard horror stories about back surgery.  Anyways, the weekend prior to his return to work, we celebrated with a mini-honeymoon celebration in San Francisco.

Here are some pics to share:

Che’ and I by Neptune’s Palace

Do you see that knitted shrug I’m wearing?  I’m so bad, I haven’t shared this FO yet, but I love it!  I need to take better pics so I can do it justice.

I just had to take a picture of this guy, it was so odd, he wasn’t scared of anybody.  I literally walked right up to him.

Ooh, it was St. Patrick’s, look at the bread in the shape of a clover!

Check out this little guy!  They had larger ones, but I just couldn’t resist me a wee-baby turtle!

Now this was pretty cool, you may have caught on my FB page.  I almost took a picture with him!

So what’s on the next post, some fun FO’s to share.  I’ll try to get another post out this Friday!

It’s a mystery ….

It happens once a year, when the weather changes and that feelin’ of Fall is in the air. It starts with a creative designer, Through the Loops, and before you know it, each week you get lil’ snippets of a pattern, for yes,

You only know your knitting socks, but what type of socks?!? Well you know it will be a gorgeous pattern, what else from TTL?

I eagerly anticipate each clue, released each week, the pattern develops before your eyes. Such great satisfaction and suspense!

Here’s a peek at my Mystery Socks 2009….

Twins! Two at a time on one circular, is there any other way? I love completing a set at once! If you don’t knit 2 at once, you gotta try it, it’s very addicting.

I’m using Hazel Knits Artisan Sock in “Whispering Pine” colorway, I felt it call to me for this project.

I’m 1 clue behind, the heel portion, but I’ll catch up this weekend! We’ll see what appears in the next clue *-)

A Mellow Mother’s Day

This Mother’s day was one for the record book, very mellow indeed. I got some good rest in and then my husband took me to Starbucks for a Grande Vanilla Rooibos. I’ve weened myself off of the Venti White Mochas and now have the Grande Vanilla Rooibos, which is just a black tea packet of vanilla flavored tea with steamed milk. It’s de-li-sh! No sugar needed, simple and tasty. For the past two years I’ve been working on changing my eating habits. I had first started out by eating my dinner on a child sized plate with child sized portions, and also eating more in between meals. Then I weened myself down from no coke except 7up, and then down to eating more healthy raw vegetables, and so on. Come to present day and now I only drink plain water, milk, or sometimes juice, no soda. I also eat much differently, more chicken, alot more veggies, no sweets, unless I feel like it. I’ve actually learned to not crave anything sweet, which is pretty cool and I’ve learned to really love water, I never new I could. I tried having coke the other day, and ugh, it was gross to me. I even tried having one of my Venti White Mochas, and boy did I get sick, my system was rejecting it. I’ve also started running for the last 2 months, I run between 1-2 miles every other day, and I’m loving the feeling. I’ve lost so much weight, and I feel great.

A great feeling this Mother’s day, sorry for the digression there, I’m just felt like sharing some of the my adventures. My husband treated me all weekend, just being at my beck and call, even though he really always is for me like that. I had a BBQ’d tri-tip, grilled asparagus, and stuffed mushrooms for dinner, hmmm! Ooh, and a drumstick for desert, YUM-O! Plus roses from my hubby. My kids bought me an awesome Twilight t-shirt from Hot Topic, I love IT! My Mother bought me the book “The Host” by Stephenie Meyer with $40 in it for spending.

Here’s my happy face!

To all Mother’s, “Happy Mother’s Day!”

15 years later

My son said “Mom, do you know where Lincoln is at?” I thought immediately, is that a trick question? It’s not like I’ve never told my son where I graduated from. This he asks because of a wrestling tournament he was set to play at Lincoln High.

Yes, my son is a wrestler, to my surprise! Of all the sports for him to gain interest in, he chooses Wrestling. It’s perfectly fine for me; any type of athletic participation makes me happy. I’m always encouraging my kids to participate in sports. He joined the wrestling team without any coercion by me, which made me even happier.

Regardless, what makes this even more interesting is that his Wrestling tournament is at my former High School, Abraham Lincoln here in San Jose. So it was an overwhelmingly nostalgic Saturday, filled with excitement to see my son wrestle. I never would’ve of thought back in High School that 15 years later, I would be visiting it to watch my 13.5 year old son wrestle.

Lincoln High School has a real “classic” look to it, a very nice visually looking school. I remember when I used to go there; I had always admired the architecture of the buildings, and the style. It all still looks the same, with some changes to the Quad area.

The Front of the School

That lawn has seen many a high school student sit and eat lunch.

The Main Entrance

The stoop here, was always very popular with the more social clique’s, I actually have a picture of all my friends posing in front of this back in 1994.

The back area by the Quad

This was a little getaway area, away from the watchful eyes of “Yard Duties”

In the Gym

I remember working out in this gym, and coming here after swim class.

Classic stairs

They sure don’t make them like this anymore; I really do love this school. It reminds me of the school in Grease!

The Hallway

I can still remember my first time going to the school to register for my classes. I had joined late, about a month into the start of the school year for my 10th year. My luck, I had to register during the school day, right smack during lunch time and of course all the students were just “all too curious” to see who the “new girl” was. Even funnier, my cousin was horrified that his “fave cuz” was going to go to school with him. He’s my fave cuz, like a brother, but it was his way of giving me a hard time.

“The Man”

Yes this is the one I met at 9 years old, and remembered him when I saw him in 10th grade that first day of school. We started dating shortly after and now we have 2 teenage kids.. hmmm…

ME

Me, walking into the main building with memories filling my head.

A distasteful addition

This is a new theatre that was added smack in the middle of the Quad area, and it’s horrible. Granted having a full theatre is great for a school, but I was upset that they didn’t match or even attempt to blend in the style with the rest of the buildings.

I say good-bye to my former high school, but it still has a special hold for me, it was the “Lincoln Lions”, and still is, for me I’m a Lioness at heart, both in spirit and in sign.

My how time flies!

Yes time flies when you have too much to do, doesn’t it? It’s been over a week since my last post, I’m so sorry! What have I been up to?

Well I’ve been working on a secret personal project, that for now I can’t share, but maybe someday soon, I’m aiming for later this year. It isn’t related to knitting, but I can’t say that knitting won’t be a part of it. It’s a different passion of mines that I’ve always aspired too, and hopefully I’ll make it happen. It’s the right time in my life for me right now to do this, so wish me luck I would shed more light on “what it is” but for now, I need to keep it under wraps.

The project I’ve been working on requires a lot of research, a lot of soul-searching and a lot of time to think. I’ve slowly started trying to balance my other passions, like knitting, which I love, and need to focus on balancing it more. On top of this, there’s the normal work grind and raising my kids, although their both completely self sufficient, they require more “mental” support from me and my husband. When your kids get to the teenage years, the game changes, and a lot of questions are asked about decisions for their future, about life in general.

It’s too easy when their big to forget about them in the sense that you don’t have to “babysit” them, as it once was required. You know when their babies, toddlers, little kids, they can get into anything, and it involves a lot of “physical” stamina to keep them safe. There’s also planning the college layout for my daughter, which has actually turned out better than planned, because my daughter put the effort forward and was promoted to a TA for her class. Lastly, there’s my son who begged to go to a completely different High School than my daughter, it was first a deliberate “NO” from me, but eventually I reached a compromise with him and I think it was probably the best decision I’ve made thus far for him. It means a lot of commitment on his part, like being responsible for his own transportation, keeping his grades in the A range, and also getting involved in sports. He is now on the wrestling team, it was a major surprise to us, but he did it and now is learning the brains of wrestling. Ok, so are you sick of my life now? LOL!

Onto the more fun stuff and exactly what this blog post needs!

Granted this is a late share, but hey, better late than never!

My Stitches Loot, yes it’s small, I was practicing restraint the whole time, and now that I see what I bought, I’m amazed at how little it is!

From Plymouth Yarns, Baby Alpaca, in a black tweedish colorway, so soft! Suri lace, now this, it is the green ball you see there, this fiber is the softest I’ve felt ever, and that little ball has over 400 yards! There’s also some naturally dyed fiber from “A Verb for Knitting” in black. I love this so much, I just had to buy some when I saw it and I have to say again, WonderMike is the nicest! He was working the booth when Marisol and I visited. Another friend, Leslie a.k.a. Tapmouse, was working the BMF booth and she aptly pointed out the LSS goodie in my hand in the Muddy Bottom Breakdown colorway as being a “Rocky” color, and she is so right! I love it, the beige is just too gorgeous, I just don’t know what to make with it! Lastly I purchased the cutest bull magnet, cause I love magnets! And that’s it for the loot, not a lot, but definitely pleasing.

Now, I have some knitting time scheduled, that’s my plan, to block out specific times to knit otherwise I’ll get lost in my private project if I don’t.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

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