I turned in the final chapter that I was assigned to do, and now I sit with nervous knots in my stomach hoping the editor likes it. It’s had rewriting what someone else has written, so we’ll see how it goes. I celebrated by picking up my neglected pink socks for Grandma B. Pictures tomorrow!! Here’s a photo of how we spent Christmas Day, playing the PS 3 and the Wii

I know that I have been AWOL the last few weeks, but I have one more chapter to get turned in, then we’re off to Atlanta to visit the inlaws. We had a wonderful Christmas (photos of that later) and we’re looking forward to doing it all over again with the niece and nephews next week. Amanda has three shows left and we are all looking forward to the end. She’s had a wonderful time but she’s ready to get back to a normal life. I haven’t done any knitting. Well, I’ve started and ripped the Bird in Hand Mittens twice. I plan on taking them to work on. The Grandma socks are still not done, my November socks are only to the heel on the first sock, and the yarn I had allocated for my December socks are still in the hank and not caked. I guess I’ll take them with  me, as they are portable and I’ve picked patterns that are not too complicated that I can’t knit in the car. I have lace yarn caked and ready, but don’t think I’ll take that. I can’t see how having a 5, 4 and 2 year olds running around will be conducive to concentrating! Seeing as it is now midnight, I’ll leave you with a couple of photos of Callie and Mercury being all cute on Christmas Eve.

Oh, and here’s a YouTube Video of Mercury making all sorts of noise as he sees a bird in the back yard. I’m holding him, so he’s hard to see, but you can hear how excited he gets. A word of warning, he can be very shrill, so you might want to turn down the volume.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Ok, so I’m back. All the photos I have taken are on Amanda’s camera and I don’t know where her cord it to download them to mine. I’ve been working on the rewrite and two of four chapters done, edited and returned. I want to get the other two done next week so I can go to Atlanta and not have to worry about it. All my Christmas shopping is done. I have to wash and do the fleece blankets for my niece and nephews, but those can be done next week as we won’t see them for a week and a half. The Wizard of Oz still has another week to run, and I can’t wait until it’s over. Amanda is having a wonderful time, but I’m really getting tired of going into downtown everyday. But, as any good mother will do, I just bite my lip and keep driving. Oh, and the idiocy of foreign drivers in this state finally made me snap. Earlier in the week, Amanda forgot her beige camisole that she wears under her costumes. I was at least twenty-five minute away from the house (natually she doesn’t remember until I’m dropping her off at the theatre, and showtime is in one hour), so I figured it was just as easy to run to Wal Mart  than to run back home. I should have driven home. Where our WalMart is, there are two  CLEARLY MARKED left turn lanes WITH arrow,  then two straight lanes. In order to turn into Walmart, you have to be in the far right lane of the turn lanes. There are two cars in front of me, and as I go to make my turn, this idiot in the lane next to me, NOT the turn lane, DECIDES TO TURN LEFT IN FRONT OF ME. I lay on the horn and he’s getting pissed off at ME. I get to the parking lot, and park two spaces down, and as I’m getting out of my car, I see him.  I don’t know what possessed me, but I walked over to him and yelled at him that he needed to learn how to drive because he almost caused an accident.Then in a thick Russian accent (or some Eastern European accent) he proceeds to call me a B**** and that I needed to relax. I proceeded to tell him that if he was going to live in this country then he needed to learn how to drive and even better yet, figure out what the left turn lanes meant. I stomped off and was in Walmart for maybe ten minutes total. I was just glad that my tires weren’t slashed or my car keyed. I have never done anything like that ever, but I guess the combination of 1) Amanda forgetting her stuff, 2) me having to go to WalMart the week before Christmas and 3) the stupidity of people who don’t pay attention, finally made me snap and I let him have it. When I finally sat down in the car, I didn’t know if I should be proud of myself for standing up for myself, or appalled that I yelled at some stranger in the parking lot of Walmart! I think it’s a little bit of both.

Someone ’recommended’ that I post today. So here it is. I’m posting to say I’ll have a proper post later today including a FO…granted, it was a quick FO, but a FO none the less. See y’all later.

Wollmeise Lace-Dani

Malabrigo Laceweight-Sealing Wax

 Florida Sunset 12/10/2007

As some of you may remember, I recently signed a book deal for two books to be published in the next year. Well, I received a call from the publisher and the editor of the company and they asked me if I would mind helping on the rewrite to a book they are doing on Orlando. Sure, I have the time, (hubby is in Canada all week..it’s 17 degrees there now. It’s 82 here…he isnt’ happy) and I thought how hard could that be. Apparantly the previous writer plagerized a good bit (most of it,actually) and theyneed a rewrite like yesterday! So this week, I’ll be chained to the computer rewriting this book. I have four chapters in my hand now to work on, and the editor is going through the other six to see what needs to be done. The good news is that I’ll get paid before Christmas and I’ll have my name on three books over the next year. My dad says I need an agent, and raise my fees! Ha, I celebrated by buying yarn. OOH! I got some laceweight Malabrigo in over the week. Oh, my gosh, it’s the sofest thing ever. I’ll have to get  a photo and post it, anyway, have a great week!

AP: Researcher William Gray’s preliminary forecast for 2008 calls for seven Atlantic hurricanes, three of them major.

Hurricane Season 2007 ended a week ago! Geesh people, give us a break!

Hubby is headed to Montreal on Sunday and I’m getting no end of giggles IM-ing him the weather forecast. While I’m all warm and comfortable in Florida, he’ll be freezing his rear end off in ice, snow and below freezing temperatures. What do you expect when you plan a trip for DECEMBER??!! I have been after him to let me make him a hat to wear because his Jayne Hat isn’t exactly business appropriate and he kept telling me he didn’t need one. After seeing the weather for next week, he changed his mind. This will be the Marsan Watch Cap. He wanted it in black and had plenty Cascade 220 in the stash, so I cast on last night. Anyone else see the sillyness of knitting a wool hat while using a palm tree stitch marker? (I made this one and another one last year. I don’t know where the other one is, it might have been in a set I sent off on one of the swaps I did.)

Photo courtesy of LSUSports.net Now it’s on to the BCS Championship in New Orleans!