finished gown

I finished the blessing gown... ok, the shower was yesterday. Better late than never. I like the way it turned out even though the dog ate (really) the pattern and I had to finish up without it.

electronics part duh?

Just an update on the devil electronics...
*laptop still not fixed (still contemplating throwing it out window)
*got a new phone (thanx luv!)
*mp3 player working GREAT
AND A NEW ADDITION
*keyboard stopped working for no apparent reason on desktop!
GEEZ
so I "borrowed" the keyboard for an extended period from the kidz computer (sorry kidz)

But on a lighter note! I did get the kids' hats finished for winter. I spent all day Sunday crocheting winter hats for the three munchkins... with ear flaps of course. The 2 yr. old runs around yelling "MY HAT? MY HAT?" when we get ready to go out the door. And I didn't finish a moment too soon. We had SNOW Monday... yuck, I'm not at all ready for winter. It can stay on the ski slopes where I am NOT.

electronics from hell

They say that problems come in threes. I think "they" are on to something here. First... while bringing in stuff from the car, my 2 yr. old spills my ever present cup of coffee on my cell phone. After letting it dry for hours it finaly decides I've suffered enough and is going to turn on again... but now it makes an odd crackling noise anytime a button is pushed, can't be good.
THEN my friend got her daughter an Ipod Nano for her birthday, they bring it to my house so that I can show her how to hook everything up and show her how to use it and give her some of my music... damn thing would not do ANYTHING. After googling, reconnecting, downloading, resetting, reconnecting, downloading, swearing... I finaly came to the conclusion that she got a bum Ipod. After calling the Wally World that it was purchased at and dealing with a bitchy "customer service" lady, my friend (very luckily) found the recipt and drove 20 miles at 8:30pm to return this thing for a mp3 player with twice as much memory and all of the cool functions as the ipod for the same price. (would that be a run-on sentence?) The not bitchy manager mentioned that almost every ipod sold in the last 2 months had been returned.
SO she brings the NEW mp3 player over and while trying to hook it up to my not paid for yet laptop, I get... dadadadaaaa... THE BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. After trying to start in every mode possible (to me, not my husband), I gave up, plugged the thing into my desktop, got it going, ssllloooooowly closed the lid to my now possessed laptop (i'm so proud of myself for not throwing it out my window), grabbed my puppy chewed up remote control and commenced watching 2003 no limit texas hold'em.
It's like some bad Steven King movie, all of the electronics are ganging up on us, determined not to be slaves to us and make our lives a living hell with no outside communication, music, or mindless computer games. (cheesy B-movie horror scream!!!!)

long time no see

I'm sitting at work doing this entry on my PDA so pardon the abbreviations.
It's been brought to my attention that I have been neglecting my resposibilities as a proud owner of a crochet blog. I hate to say this but... crochet has taken a back burner since opening this restaurant. I know, I know. Something besides crochet? Trust me, I'd rather be crocheting. This seems more like W-O-R-k. 4 letter word. We've only been open a little over a month and i think we'll do fine once we find our niche. We are staying ahead of the game money wise but not enough to pay bills AND yarn.
Regardless... I have been working on a few things. A fall jacket, still trying to finish that christening gown. Pretty much the same things I've been working on 4 two months. I need to finish a project soon.
well... I had better start feeding the masses. And you all know what they say about the m-asses...

ttfn

Boy scouts teaching kids intolerance

Living in a small LDS community and not being Mormon has many side effects. But when it starts to affect the children, there is a problem. I was raised to believe that I should be able to make my own decisions about what religious preference I would acquire when I became old enough to KNOW what religion was. Not following blindly what older, "wiser" people told me I should believe. Instead, to make up my OWN mind. Now... My 8 year old son wants to join the Boy Scouts. His father and step-father both were members and received their eagle scout badges. Naturally, he wants to join the scouts to do all of the fun things that he sees all of his friends doing. Three years in a row we have put our name on the list and NOT ONCE have we been contacted about joining. I decided to look into this further and found out that my son is being put aside because of the fact that we want him to grow up to make his own decisions. We do talk to him about religion, he has grown up in a religious community with many LDS family members who have tried to convince him that he should be baptized, against our will. The Boy Scouts of America claim that they are open to all boys. BULL SHIT. I feel that my husband and myself have become respectable adults. Neither of us have been in jail. My husband has an engineering degree in computer science and is president of a successful software company. I just opened my own cafe and am pursuing a degree in geology. My children have a good home and have never gone hungry. So why should an innocent 8 year old child be excluded from an activity because he is not religious? Am I teaching my son not to be open minded to ALL aspects of life? NO. Am I teaching my son to be intolerant of people different than us? NO. But this seems to be the message that the largest organization for boys is doing. They are hiding behind their "private organization" excuse. The ONLY pack in this area is run by the LDS church so even if we were religious he would still be excluded if we were something other than Mormon. Am I pissed? YES. When he is old enough to realize why he was not allowed to join the Boy Scouts he will see what is means to be a hypocrite. To teach tolerance and understanding "if you fit in" is a sad thing.

How many U.F.O.'s do you have?

Everybody has those projects that just seem to take forever. I have... 6, i think, in progress right now. a purse, two blessing gowns, and two baby dresses (so i can't count, that would be 5). Not to mention i just bought yarn for 4 more projects. a kitchen housewarming gift, two baby blankets, and a jacket. Not to mention i'm trying to get 2 kids back to school and start my own business (which we finaly found a name for... Fadiemae's). So, to say the least, i have had very little time for crochet. I have had time to go 4 wheeling again though. I'm going again tomarrow for my birthday. How many times can a girl turn 21? We'll find out, this will be my 7th time.

So, How many U.F.O.'s do you have?

Texas hold em'

Brand new addiction! Texas Hold Em' poker on tv! What a concept! To watch OTHER PEOPLE LOSE MONEY! How wonderful it is. It's EVERYWHERE. Me personally, have never played the tables, I'm more of a 15 lines one bet per line on the penny machines type of a person. You wouldn't believe how fast you can lose $20 in pennies. What is that... 2000 pennies? wow. I may just have to try the tables this month in Jackpot, NV. Lynyrd Skynyrd concert! Yipee. I'm excited. Only been to two concerts before. Candlebox and then we went to Poison, Skid Row, and Vince Niel from Motley Crue. I don't think I could hear a thing for a week after that one.
But I digress... Poker, I'm sitting here watching celebrity poker showdown... much more entertaining than watching SERIOUS poker players. I'm going to have to practice my poker face, which is hard when my husbands favorite kind of poker includes stripping. Which by the way, is it cheating to wear 4 layers of clothes?