Yeah. Um. I’d strongly suggest against watching sad movies where mothers are dying on Christmas eve while eating dinner.
Just um, say No. Yeah, just say no and don’t do it.
Something to keep in mind…if the stupid song about mama needing shoes to meet Jesus makes you tear up, well, imagine what happens nearly two hours into watching a movie knowing it’s based on said stupid Christmas song.
I made my very first scarf!!
No before getting too excited, let’s remember that it’s a no-knit scarf. But I still did it! And I think I’m going to make one more too using this other bulky yarn that I have.
My suggestions, figure out a way to stick that baby still. I used binder clips to clip it onto foamcore. I was then able to hold the foam core between my legs (wrapping the scarf around as it got longer) while tying the knots. It reminded me of making those old embroidery floss, knotted bracelets back in middle school. Just like then, it took a bit to get the hang of the knot making, but once I got going it was easy work.
I also managed to bake 7 mini loaves of quick bread. I’ve got 2 banana nut, 2 banana and 3 orange cranberry (thanks Trader Joe’s for the mix). Now my freezer is nearly empty of our over-ripe bananas.
I’d have baked one more batch, but I ran out of butter for the batter. Of course, I didn’t realize this before considering the entire reason I went to the store was to buy flour to make the damn bread – did I mention that I left $100 later?!?! Insanity, but I know have fixin’s for both Christmas and New Year’s dinners.
Post-Script – Gossip Girl is still one of my favorite shows this season. I love it.
So I’ve been wanting to try my hand at knitting for quite some time. Sadly, I seem to get hung up on my mistakes and my hands start to ache from holding on so tightly. So while poking around the net for a brief bit today (and catching up on my local SnB community – post-holidays I’ll officially give this knitting thing another try) and came across this post over in Moonlight Stitches.
She stumbled upon this no-knit scarf. Hello, no knitting, just tying knots. I so can do that. I even have some cool, chunky charcoal grey yarn I can use that would just be perfect!
So guess what I’ll be doing today besides baking banana bread*. Yep, I’ll be making a scarf. Yeah baby! And then I’ll actually be able to cross it off my 101 in 1001 list. I needed to sneak a peek at that list anyway since I have a feeling I may have done a thing or two on it already.
Yet another reason to love Martha!
* I’ll post photos of my handiwork when I’m finished
Some people seem to think that Blogger sucks My understanding is that the new log in issue protocol is driving folks crazy. Who knew?
Okay, I did. Well, I don’t know if Blogger sucks as a blog platform, but that comment thing just kills me. The more I think about it, the more I realize that commenting on Blogger blogs does nothing to help up the ranking. Granted, I’m not really all that worried about my ranking – I’m not quite a year old here at the kitkat lounge – so it’s not that big of a deal. But still.
I’m thinking the blog community should be a bit more open and oh, I don’t know…like a community. We bloggers, we’re social creatures you know and leaving our links helps to direct traffic to our blogs.
Eh, what do I know. I’m still a work in progress.
Totally unrelated…I think I really, really want to see 27 Dresses. It looks like a fun, chick flicky sort of thing.
It’s a lot of pictures, I know. The funny thing, I have a bunch more that I’m actually not posting. What can I say, sometimes I just have some busy weekends. And sometimes the sky is just too pretty not to take a picture. There is beauty all around.
I just got back from running a few last minute Christmas errands and great balls of Santa! Do not go out there! Everything, even the grocery store is a crazy mess. There are lines of cars just trying to enter the shopping centers! People are cutting each other off and not saying thank you (and you just know how that irks me!). They’re bumping into you and pushing and shoving, and well, downright rude. It’s mid-day, mid-week people – what the hell?!?
Luckily my first stop was at a small, local shoe repair and luggage shop – new luggage for the pre-teen nieces. That only left my nephew so I headed over to Tilly’s. Of course I had a helluva time just getting anywhere near Tilly’s. I finally found parking and headed in to find yep, you guessed it, a line. Not just any line mind you, but a long line with people with their arms full. Slow moving lines. Which of course meant a gift card. Which is fine since we got the HIM CD the other day so we’ll just hand it off to him and he’ll be fine.
So now, I am officially finished. This of course is great news since I’m not sure how much more abuse my credit card can take (stupid Amex is still acting up so we’re not using it while it sorts itself out). Tomorrow I’ll wrap and maybe take a photo or two and whooorah! I’m done.
Mind you, I haven’t yet heard from any of the in-laws as to which house we’ll be meeting at or how we’re divvying up the food prep. No worries for us though, I’ve got at least our Christmas morning taken care of – eggs, sausage & cinnamon bun-like strips. Just the right amount of protein and sweet 😀
I was still hoping to pick up a decanter for this awesome bottle of wine that our friend gave us so we could enjoy it either Christmas Eve or Christmas night, but I’m not about to deal with parking at the local mall or strip mall just for that. We have a bottle of prosceco we can enjoy instead 😉
So consider yourself warned & stay away, far away from any store, mall or strip! You can thank me later!
Next up…Wordless (or Not-So-Wordless) Wednesday – it may take a while to get them out of my camera, uploaded and published, but I assure you, it’ll be soon-ish.
I tend to do all of the holiday shopping for us. Even for the gifts my hubby buys me, I usually have to create a very precise online list (or give him a slew of options for something specific, like a watch, through Amazon). So while I’m out and about shopping for others, I often find things that I’d like for myself.
Sometimes, like today, I just buy it (new PJs from Old Navy – 50% off, very cute and quite comfy). But it’s got me thinking…should I just wrap it and put it under the tree and you know, pretend it’s a gift? When you think about it, since it comes from First National Bank of Husband it’s as if he’s buying it anyway, right?
Or is that just too goofy?
I did it! I spent a couple of hours last night wrapping like a fiend. Today I boxed it all up and headed to the post office. Overall, the line wasn’t so bad. Granted, I’m not so happy about having spent nearly $40 on top of the gifts to ship the box to my former roomie. But whatcha gonna do, right? If I’d been on the ball, I could have shipped it last week for probably half the price (damn that Priority shipping!)
But it’s done. And that’s just half the Christmas battle. Now I just have a few things to pick up for the nieces- and nephew-in-laws and I’m completely done shopping. Far from done wrapping, but hey, it’s a start and I do still have a week until I need to present the presents (hehe) live and in person.
Now if only I could find some elves to come and do my dishes and clean my kitchen. Then I’d be a happy Christmasy camper!
So if I just spent the past 45 minutes looking for something inexpensive enough to help me to qualify for free shipping (through Sears, not Amazon*) and ending up spending $6.30 for a three pack of socks and ended up saving $6.25 on my shipping (therefore making my socks a whopping $.05)…I ask you, is it all really worth the free shipping???
* when looking for that inexpensive item to qualify you for free Amazon shipping, check out FillerItem.com. Seriously, bookmark this site!
I tried, but I’m still way, WAY behind on catching up on everyone’s blogs. Instead of freaking myself out, I’m just going to zero out my Reader and start over. I just refuse to get stressed out over catching up, you know?
I’m thinking that I also need to admit defeat in regards to Christmas. It’s a little over a week away and I still have shopping, wrapping and shipping to do. I also forgot about a few friends and cards. I just seem to feel a bit over my head this year. Of course, it doesn’t help that we got a little turned around financially this last month and are just now clearing up that mess.
So I’m thinking it’s going to be a simple holiday this year. The hubby is getting some camera stuff from me and I’m getting the Ladies Who Launch program from him (he might throw in a little trinket or something else, but I’m really not counting on it). All is good though. We’ve had a busy and fun year and we’ve done quite a bit of traveling (not to mention the beautiful necklace I bought myself in Healdsburg last month). So we’ve truly been blessed and I’m okay with that.
I guess I can’t admit defeat with the wrapping & shipping though, huh? Guess I know what I’ll be doing from now until it’s time to get dinner ready.