Well a post every 2 months, I'm doing so bad. Right! Obviously my blog has taken back burner to everything else. Let's see what has happened lately:
1. My daughter came from Australia with my beautiful granddaughter, Anika. She stayed a short 5 weeks and every waking moment not spent at work was spent with them.
2. I did see the Yarn Harlot. She is funnier in person than in print. I had a great time and met a new knitting friend (whom I owe roving). I also got to go to several LA yarn stores; the Knit cafe was a big disappointment but the Stitch Cafe was fabulous (they dye their yarn for sale and very friendly).
3. I finally went to the Seattle area to see my parents. They live a bit north near Bellingham. Also go to see my good friends Lori and Tim with their boys Kai and Zane.
4. Sent Sarah back to Australia. I plan to spend summer there.
5. Now back in the overly stressed hectic world that is my life. And it seriously cuts into my knitting time. I just started teaching clinical nursing so for the next 6 weeks I'll comatose as I try to do that, teach health and, yes, I have a day job that I go to.
Well it will probably be mid Dec. before my next post.

to exhausted to knit

Nature decided to unleash it's fury last night. No not in the middle of winter but the night before my 7:30AM class in the summer. We had fabulous thunder and lightening, the likes of which have not been seen on the Central coast in the 20 years I've lived here. It was quite specular and I'm sure I would have appreciated it if it wasn't 2am. I have a hard time appreciating anything at 2am. It's supposed to happen tonight but I doubt it will. I'm sure Murphy's law will step in as I have 5 days off of work and can sleep indefinitely. I am too exhausted to knit; my brain feels fuzzy. If I don't get a nature show tonight, I'll get 5 days of glorious knitting. Take that Murphy!

exercise knitting

I finally have time to use my new recumbent bike. Now I can knit w/o guilt. Talk about multitasking! I can exercise, knit and listen to podcasts. When football starts, podcasts will be replaced by Sun ( and Mon.) football.
Work just cuts into my knitting time. Today was spent getting ready for class on Tues. I'm really enjoying teaching again though. Just wish I didn't need to sleep!

Knitting with friends

A lovely Saturday was spent knitting and shopping with friends. We've been having great sunny weather so it was perfect for knitting. In fact it was so warm we knit at Anne's (yarns at the Adobe) big room. The 5 of us (Eileen, Nancy, Jenni, Steph and myself) enjoyed a some knitting and (of course) yarn acquisition. Then it was on to fleece works in Morro Bay. What a find! I'm not a spinner but this certainly got me thinking about it. The roving is so soft! I did find some great, white merino blend that will be fabulous for dyeing ( I don't do that either, but I will!).
We then headed up to Cayucos for tea at the Cass House ( a restored Victorian). It was a lovely time with yummy treats and great tea. Several knitters did the tea tasting. I didn't know tea could be so varied. The only bummer of this nice day was that Ball and Skein in Cambria closed early so we didn't get to shop there. I'm a bit miffed, as they knew that 5 knitters with money were going to show up at the end of the day. I'm glad Jenni called to let them know we were on the way otherwise we would have driven all the way up there only to be disappointed. Oh well, Eileen's likes my business so I'll just go there (closer too)

knitting atrocity

While enjoying the company of friends and doing some pub knitting, I experienced a most astonishing knitting atrocity. Even now it's a horrid memory.
As I was sitting and knitting, talking to my friend Dave, an idiot, jerk, scum bag plopped 2 croquette's( fried potato balls) on my knitting needles . Yes fried goo sitting a top my needles in mid-knit. Outrage does little to describe my response.What type of evil, asshole would do that? I let go a torrent of explicatives that let him know he had committed a most egregious act against a knitter. I doubt he will show his greasy face there for quite sometime.

Slow to start

I know I'm slow to get going but you know it's knit or blog. Hmm! Then there's that darned thing called work that gets in the way of both. I think I will improve my Dragon naturally speaking software so I can knit and blog at the same time. heaven!

My blog

This is my first attempt at blogging; so we'll see how it goes. The topics to be covered will be varied but will include knitting ( my passion), my friends ( they're a lot like Sex in the City), my beautiful new grand daughter (Anika) and sometimes my work ( I'm a diabetic educator, nurse practitioner and instructor at our local community college).
I'm not the best writer so this will be good practice for me