WorkME (shh): MIA me

Yeah so I've been MIA from my poor little blog. I mean it's to be expected because that's just how I do. I've been meaning to post. Have like 5 different topics to cover, including but not limited to TouristyME adventures in Philly & NYC, podcast obsession, and knitting obsession, and ListyMe (needs a better name). So this is just me checking in to say I'll be back with a ton to talk about. So many ideas are swirling around in my head. Can't wait to share em. Ok back to being WorkME (shh)

CraftyME: Urgh Being a Grownup sux....

So, I've finally completed a big-girl knitting project. The world famous Clapotis shawl from Knitty by way of Ravelry (RAV). I am so proud of me. This is a big shawl. Way bigger than the hats and fingerlings and dishcloths that my newer-knitter skills have completed. But it's only a big-girl project, not a grownup one.

 The reason it's not a grownup is because of the yarn. Its redheart shhhh. In my defence, it's red heart soft and not supersaver. Not that good ol s.s. doesnt have its place in the world. Some of my earliest, most used blankets were crocheted w/s.s. Anyways, about midway through the Clap I made myself a promise. If I completed it and by the Ravelempics deadline, I would go to the LYS and actually buy some Grownup yarn.  And I would make another because I loved the pattern.

So, finish my Clap I did. And purchase my LYS yarn I did as well. Although I slightly cheated and brought the yarn 2 days before I finished. Hey we had yet another snowstorm so LYS was having a 1 day only snowday sale. You would have cheated too. 

 Unfortunately my wallet is not as growed up as my knitting skills are becoming. Even w/ 20% off I could only buy 3 balls of the yarn as opposed to the 8 skeins TheClap requires. That's ok I knew I'd find something else to make. And today I did. Again thanks to RAV and Knitty, I've decided to tackle.....Citron.

Another growed up pattern using my growed up yarn. But.....

I'm sad.  Even though I waited ALLL day to finish work before I caston, I have to be a grownup. Dont wanna but I must. I must go downstairs, fold the clothes in the dryer, put in the ones in the wash and add another one. And I have to wash the stupid dishes too. Then and only then can I obtain a hit of my new drug, Knitting.  Being a grownup sux.....

HungryME: Makes no dang sense....

So let me tell you a little something about me now. Even though I'm sure that it will become more apparent as time goes on. I love to snack. Hate to eat. Love to snack. Food makes me sick. I'm so over it. Food is boring and I am sick of eating the same ol stuff day in and day out. I wish THEY would invent all new food just so I can have something new to eat.
But I LOVE snacks! Give me a snacky-type thing any time any day. Oooh and don't let it be a cake-like substance. Watch it. Of course there are some ME-esque rules as to the what qualifies as a snacky-type thing, but I'll save that for another time.

One snack that I'm soooo luv'n right now is this Handful of Everything trail mix! Its chock full of yummygoodness , cashews almonds, yogurt covered peanuts, dried apricots mango peaches pineapples coconut cranberries GOLDEN raisins(not the yucky black ones) and choolate chips. I think that's everything. Yo when it comes to this stuff....to quote my dearly missed Gram "I don't have the sense the Good Lord gave to a fly". Seriuosly I can't stop eating it. I eat it til it makes my stomach hurt. And then I eat somemore! All day long I've been in&out of this canister. I'm such a glutton for punishment. Makes no dang on sense.

SleepyME: 3/1/10 11:32pm

Most nights, just before I take my glasses off and call it a nite I check my iPhone one last time. Tuck in FB & Twitter. Make sure gmail & yahoo are bedbug and spam free. And weather channel & local news so I can ponder the morning's wardrobe selection while I sleep.
Well tonight I add what I hope will be a habit. Reflections on the day. Hopes for tomorrow. My nightly prayer is generally the same as it's always been. Please lord watch over us tonight. See us through another day. Please let it be free of drama, stress, anxiety. Please let me BE.
Today I was so exited for all the possibilities that await this site. Spent hours researching. I hope the momentum continues so that I can see the ideas in my head manifest into reality.
bedtime philosophy: tonight it's deep. tomorrow it's HUH?!?! Goodnite. SleepyME

HappyME: March 1 6am-ish

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So this was the scene I stepped outside to find this morning. Yeah so what's so special about it, one may ask. Well, I'll tell you. This scene made my day. You see, normally when I leave out of my house to go to work @ 6am-ish, it's dark. Like barely dawn dark. Last week I noticed that I didn't have to turn on my highbeams on the back road to work. But after being snowed in and working from home the past 3-4 days, I really noticed the change. And @ 6:30am when I'm pulling up to work it was real live daytime out. (although i was pulling up to WaWa's for my coffee instead of clocking in, but hey I was only 15 mins late)

And as if my day wasn't already a little brighter, it's the first day of MARCH. A month that contains several of my favorite holidays including the Ides of March (Beware!), St Patrick's Day ( I'm selfproclaimed Irish, Jamaican-Irish to be exact) AND THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING!!!!! So yes even though I'm from CT and have seen it snow the last weekend in APRIL, I had a whole lotta pep in my step today. Because Winter your days are numbered. Soon temps will rise and trees will bud. Then you, the Hawk, and good ol' PhillyGasWorks can kick rocks!!!!!!

MommyME: It Never Fails...

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No matter what time I have to get up in the morning, it never fails. Somehow some way my kid will find a way to wake me up 1/2 hour to an hour earlier than needed. If I have to get up at 7 then she's calling me @ 6:30. If my alarm is going off @ 5:15 she's yelling Mom @ 4:45. And she never wants anything! She goes back to sleep. Meanwhile, I'm stuck in the space of too early to get up but too late to go back to sleep. Another blissful slumber interupted. Le sigh.

CraftyME: Lightbulb moment Sunday @Panera's

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Today, CraftyME was LuckyME. I got to spend like 3 hours chilling and knitting @Panera's. I was trying to finish my largest knit project to date, the CLAPOTIS for the Ravelympics. So while enjoying my coffee and brocolli cheddar soup bowl (yummo), I had a great idea.
Lately I've been thinking about my poor little oft-neglected blog. I so want to be a blogger. I want to share the shenannigan's that go on in my brain. But I can never figure out who I want to be in this blog. Which me to share as it may be. My crafty side or my crazy side. My happy go-lucky side or the dark depressed side. Surely people who share my love of knitting and crocheting don't want to be brought down by my forlorn woe-is me side. So alas I don't blog.
But today I realized, dude I don't have to choose. Why should I? If I did it would be a lie. If I made a oh look at my happy knits blog, it would have like 3 entries. Today I realized that I could just be me, just like I've always wanted. I dont have to choose 1, I'll just share them all. Whoever is present at the moment, that's who will share. It just might work.
So here we go! Again! Yes, I'm gonna try it again. Let's see how far we get this time around. I make no promises, I make no guarantees. But as they say if a tree falls in the forest and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?...... IDK but I'm just gonna keep on trying keep on BEing. ME (CraftyME)