John Mayer Rocks

Ah....I got to see John Mayer in concert and I just thought I would say he rocks! This is one artist that I can honestly say was better in person!!

Yea Friday!

So its Friday, what could be better, well if it was Friday at say, 5:00... Or I know, if it were some kind of holiday, yeah a friday holiday...one can only wish...

Tonight I have plans to drink wine and attempt to make potstickers (blame this Alton Brown episode that I saw on Food Network where he made them) They look so good and i thought it might be neat. Then again I do already have a package of potstickers in my freezer from trader joes...hmmm...

I wanted it!!

http://www.knitterlythings.com/shop/ updated her shop yesterday and I so wanted to buy yarn, but then I think about all of the neglected yarn under my bed in that plastic container and I feel guilty. Guilty because I don't have the money to spend on more yarn and guilty because I really don't need to get more either. So I refrained... I didn't want to, but I did....I want to see someone knit up this beautiful colourway!!

Post Office

Don't you just hate it when the dang post office never puts out those boxes you need. So then you wait in line til someone says oh does anyone just need to pick up mail, yada, so I pipe up yeah I just need a box. I figured that I would go to the self print kiosk and print out my label there. Which takes like seconds right? You would think so UNLESS, you were the annoying lady in front of me at the kiosk, who obviously sees I am all dressed up for work, with ONE box, credit card out and ready to swip. Is she nice and let me go first, NO....does she take forever printing, adhering and swiping her card slowly for all five boxes she has which are all going to the same place, all the while stopping to ask the post man if she can put her box into his bin that he is emptying, one box at a time....OF COURSE...Okay, I am getting like five boxes next time and printing postage from home.

Knitting Group Love

So last night I was feeling a bit lonely and trying to motivate to do something other than stay at home and mope. So I packed up the knitting bag and drove to Ventura to go to the Anacapa Fine Yarns knitting group that meets on Thursday nights. Its always been a little awkward for me to make girlfriends, I think partly because I was so close with my dad growing up and the other part was because I had some prior bad experiences. So I took a breath and just walked in and sat down. Let me tell you these women are hilarious!! I laughed so much and everyone was so nice and welcoming. It was nice to be around other women that share the same passion for the craft as I do. I told them that I had sort of been made fun of for my knitting and you know give the old, are you a grandma comment. These ladies were disgusted for me, which just justified how I felt when I get "put down" about it. Overall it was a great night, I stayed until the shop closed at 9 and am looking forward to going back next week :) Thank you everyone that was there last night, those I talked to and asked me questions especially!! It has been hard making friends in a town where you don't really know anyone and for the first time in a long time I felt comfortable and welcome. Just re-affirmed my thought that knitting rocks! So what if I am a knitting nerd??

Love it!

Sometimes a margarita just needs to take place... Okay I am sure the very few that read this blog, if any...are women. Maybe I am being neurotic but I have been dating a guy three months and have been getting that urge. You know the one that want to know where things are going? So are we dating, you my boyfriend, wanna be, or just generally how do you feel??

Now its not like I enjoy having this conversation, in fact it usually makes me feel nauseous. Alas I know that in my heart I have to move forward, speak the words. So I did and I am left feeling almost the same way. I get the I like you a lot, okay...that's a good sign. I just don't like talking about this stuff it makes me uncomfortable and maybe I am not as fast as you are...okay..

Ugh now I am still confused...

Is my horoscope trying to tell me something

So I read my horoscope this morning and this is what it said:

As you know, dear Aries, you have reached a turning point in your life. The hardest part about making this decision is, as usual, saying farewell to your old ways. The past can seem so cozy and reassuring, especially when the unknown looms. It takes strength and determination to leave it behind. But whether it is a matter of your career or your love life, you have personal goals that cannot be sacrificed or denied.

After this year being one of the hardest ever, sometimes I wonder what now?? Last year I thought this would be the year I would get married, be remodeling my house and thinking about family. Now that everything has changed, part of me is thankful and part of me is lost. Living in a town where I don't know really that many people has been strange. Things in the cube farm have been rocky. There are days I ask myself what am I doing here? I think that part of it is that I have met a new wonderful guy that makes me smile after months of hearbreak and the other part is I have too much pride. As great as moving to an island spending all of my time in the water and living for free was awesome, pride is keeping me. I love my parents dearly and would be living with them, its a difficult thing to swallow, giving up part of my independence, swallowing my pride.

Maybe sometimes we just need to suck it up and make that leap. So confusing... and the topper of all of it was my mom had to put down my dog, she was sick and had heart failure. My crazy little chica is in doggie heaven now....

What to knit with malabrigo or manos del uruguay

I have both some malabrigo bulky and some manos yarn and I have been at this point where I don't know what to knit with either of them. I would rather not do a hat or a scarf because lets face it, it doesn't get that cold here in Southern California. Ideas??

Who the heck is positive parrot...

So July 1st the hands free went into effect, and the cops are out in full effect. I should know I got a speeding ticket last week, ugh, trying to get home to take my mom to surgery (even worse since I was trying to do a good deed). Driving her car..didn't even realize how fast I was going = expensive$$ ticket, (WAH!!!)
So I really need to sell off some stuff now! I know someone wants to buy the Namaste Cali bag, its very cute, I will throw in a cozy... I have officially started pay speeding ticket fund. Now I have to do the whole traffic school thing, cross your fingers for me that I can do it online. Sitting in a room listening to someone talk for hours doesn't sound like any fun. Maybe I can knit, haha, they probably woulnd't like that huh?
So knitting time, I need to find some. Maybe this 4th I will relax and find some knitting time, but I doubt it. I still have organizing and stuff to do from my move, which yes by the way was over a month ago. Yikes!