Bocco

I know, I've been awfully quiet. Things have been, surprisingly, rather dull around here! We do have bad news to report. Poor Bocco lived a short life. He started acting odd Saturday, and this morning, he was a floater. We think he may have had ick. Dan went to the store yesterday and got ick tablets and 2 more Bocco's (1 for Atley and 1 for Charlie.) For about half an hour, we thought Bocco might have been pulling through, but he went back to his little corner he had been in and stayed there. As soon as we put the ick tablet and the new fish in, he had started swimming around like his old self again. (I was convinced he was depressed and lonely because the big goldfish ignored him.) Atley's handling it pretty well. Dan and I were just as sad as he was. We had grown quite attached to the cute, spunky little guy in his short stint in the tank. RIP Bocco. We hope Bocco #3 and 4 will carry on your name well. (Because of course Atley said Charlie wanted his fish named Bocco, too.)

The most amusing part of all of this is when Dan was getting the fish, the lady asked him what he was going to name them. (For those of you who don't know, Dan is 6 feet tall, 330, jeans and T-shirt wearing car guy.) He said he wasn't, and she said, but their fish, fish have to have names! Then, he had to proceed to tell her that they would most likely be named Bocco because that's what fish #1 and 2 were named. I wish I could have seen Dan telling strangers about Bocco. Priceless.

I did get a couple more projects done. I crocheted a Little Ditty Bag for my DADA homework, and I knit Ari a pair of mittens, because she has no gloves! They are like Atley's, but they match her Herbie hat...purple with a pink stripe. I'll try to get some pics up later. (Yeah, I know, mittens are uber-interesting.) I am about halfway done on the leg of my second pair of socks for me! I'm doing Hedgerow and using my Palette in Tidepool Heather.

They're done!

I finished my socks Monday night! (And, I got sucked into watching "Return of the Jedi"...again. Spike, have you no shame!?!? Interfering with sock knitting like that. Atley HAD to see it though, right?)

I LOVE my socks. I am hooked on socks now, and want hand knit socks to wear every day. Must.knit.more.socks!!

The most wonderful invention in the world......

LEGOS!!!!


So, Atley was quiet for like half an hour. I started to get scared. I could hear little noises in his room, but usually, when a child is quiet for THAT LONG, it's nothing good. So, I took the baby to lay him down for his nap and peeked in....he was playing Legos! My SIL got him a little set of Legos that made a train engine for X-mas, and it fell apart. (Dan helped him put it together.) He was sitting there with his little instruction book, dilligently working on putting it back together again! Must buy more Legos!

My socks are painfully close to being done! Note to self...."Return of the Jedi" is not conducive to sock knitting! I wish Spike would stop playing the Star Wars movies....it's so distracting. You know, being a child of the 80's/90's, I am still of the mind frame that it's always cool to see your favorite movie on TV. Do you remember waiting all year long to see "The Wizard of Oz" the one night they played it on TV? Nevermind we have it on DVD now, I still get giddy when I see TNT is doing their Oz weekend. Even 24 hours of "A Christmas Story" is the highlight of my holiday season. Yup, got that on DVD, too. It's just not the same, though! Dan thinks I'm nuts. Something will come on TV, and I get excited. He's like, just put the DVD in so we don't have to watch the commercials. Nope, it's not the same. Must watch it on TV!! Anyway, I will have my socks done tonight!!

Did you guys see it last night!?!

The new Nip/Tuck was FINALLY on!! I wish it would have been SO much longer. Dan officially thinks I'm crazy. Hey, I've been waiting for this for a long time, though. I'm so happy they're back. It gave me a little glimmer of happiness in the world of screaming and falling out of beds.

Yup, falling out of beds....because of the screaming. Melodie decided yesterday she wanted me to do her homework for her. When I refused, (and was told how horrible of a mother I was) I sent her to her room. Apparently she took her homework up into her bed. (The girls have bunk beds.) She screwed around for a couple hours, and when it was time for Ari to go to bed, I called her back out so she could finish in the living room....and she promptly fell off the ladder. Yup, that makes 2 times now that Melodie has fallen off / out of her bed.

I got one of my socks done yesterday! I would have cast on for the second one, but I didn't want to miss any of Nip/Tuck looking down at knitting. Dan was pleased to see one thing he could use to pull me away from the yarnin' though!! I'll be starting some test crocheting today, but I'm hoping to have my other sock done by Saturday. I love my first one already and wish I could wear it. Again, Dan thinks I'm nuts. I think I'm going to be a sock snob now, and only wear handmade socks. (Of course, after I get an arsenal of socks made!)

Another week.....

Well, I finally got the girls to clean their room yesterday. It's not perfect, but they have a floor! And it has carpet! I thought their floor was made out of littlest pet shop and Polly Pocket.

I finished my wrist warmers yesterday. My hands are nice and toasty while I type this! I've still got enough yarn that I think I might be able to make a pair for my grandma out of the same Eco Soft I made mine and my mom's! She's got arthritis, and it got me thinking that it's probably hard for her to get her hands in regular gloves, and she could probably use a little extra warmth on her hands to keep her joints from getting as cold!

I also started a pair of tube socks for Charlie. I wanted to make leg warmers, but Dan says that's too girly. I had to modify the pattern because they were newborn size and didn't even come close to being wide enough for the ham hocks that make Charlie's legs! I think I made it a little bit too big, though. I'm going to make the second one a bit smaller and longer and if that fits, I'll just frog the first one and make one to match the better fitting one!

Tonight, I am FINALLY going to take the kids' pictures for our cards. It got too late yesterday, but I actually got an almost full day of work in again! Dear lord, this check might actually be somewhere close to normal! (I know, I won't have any work the rest of the week now. I just jinxed myself.) Last night, Dan and I gave Ari her Christmas dress. I had wrapped it for her. She's going to wear it in her picture and to her program at school next week. She's so excited for her program.

ETA: Melodie was late for school today! She pulled her not getting out of the bathtub thing again. This time, I know she was late. Ari got in there right when the kids were going to their classrooms. It took another 10 minutes or better for me to get Melodie's hair brushed and her finish her waffle. I just don't know what I'm going to do with that kid! They've instituted detentions at school recently. My friend teaches high school, and she said more than 3 tardies gets detention. Do you think that might actually be incentive enough for her? I asked her today, as she was crying she was cold, if that would inspire her to get ready...she said maybe. Not yes...MAYBE. I give up!

Nip / Tuck

It's finally coming back!!! I've been waiting,and waiting, and waiting, and I finally saw the commercials last night for the new season of Nip / Tuck starting January 6th! I can't wait! Yes, it's a smut show, but I love it. I got hooked on it when they had a marathon a couple years ago Christmas Eve when I was up all night finishing the kids gifts. Now, I'm hooked, and I was completely bummed when it didn't start back in September like it was supposed. A good President elected and Nip / Tuck coming back all in one week. My god, could my luck actually, possibly be starting to change for once? (I know, I just jinxed myself, right?)

Last night, I didn't work on the Puppet Pals. I did get some good work done on Ari's sock, though. I got the leg part done, and I'm starting to work the heel. I'm not quite sure I fully understand the directions, so I'm hoping they work out okay. It looks awful big, though. If it fits, I'm going to keep it for myself....well, when I finish the other one! After I finish this one, I'm going to cast on Ari's Golden Snitch socks from Charmed Knits. I need it for my HP House Cup homework, and if I have a snowball's chance in hell of getting them done before the holidays, I'm going to have to bust my butt!