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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Football 2009
Will plays Quarterback quite a bit. He also does other stuff, but I can’t ever remember for sure what the position names are.
Joe is…a Defensive End? I think? He really likes hitting people. And I guess he’s pretty good at it.
They are 0 and 3. It’s pretty demoralizing to lose 53-0, and by the end of those kinds of games, most of the boys aren’t even really trying anymore. The first two games were against the teams that are probably the best in their weight class.
The last game was only 8-6, so at least they are improving.
Mark is helping to coach, only one of the boys (not ours) has informed Will and Joe that their Dad isn’t REALLY a coach. He’s just a ball carrier.
This is the young man that then turned around and told Will that the only reason Will is playing QB is because his Dad is a coach.
In other words, he’s a real rocket scientist.
I have the boys’ football pics from last year taped to my monitor, I guess it’s time to replace them. They look so much older now, but that might be the hair. (Last year’s pics are HERE).
Gross, Mom.
The boys find me to be very annoying at times, and I do my best to be as annoying as possible. Often I will demand that they “pay” me in order to go away and leave them alone.
This afternoon, I was sitting with them on the couch, they were trying to do…something…and I kept asking questions and talking to them and generally being obnoxious. Finally I said “I suppose you’d like it if I went away, right?”
I got the “Duh, Mom” look.
“Well, the only way I’m leaving is if I get a kiss.”
They both rolled their eyes, but Will leaned over and obliged. I got up and sat on the arm of the couch, leaning over Joe. He didn’t seem to think he was obligated and tried to ignore me.
I told him he need to kiss me in order to practice for that day when he was 30 years old and wanted to kiss a GURL for the first time.
You should have heard him groan. “Yuck. I’m NEVER going to want to do THAT.”
p.s. lest you get the wrong idea (and I’m sure no one did, but still, there are stupid people out there…), the kiss was a very quick peck on the mouth.
Footwork
I think feet are kind of unpleasant to look at, so don’t worry, I’m not going to show you my feet, but socks are another story…
These have actually been done for awhile, but for some unknown reason, I hadn’t gotten a yarn needle and finished off the bind-off edge of the 2nd sock.
The sock yarn is Heritage, the pattern is a plain vanilla toe-up sock from WendyKnits using garter rib for the top of the foot and the leg.
I need to get back to figuring out the sock machine so I can make socks faster for my great big feet.
But…if you are hand-knitting socks, I have to say that toe-up is a very beautiful thing.
Had to finish them today to complete my outfit for tomorrow: we’re going Red for the Redhawks — showing our School Spirit! Too bad I don’t like red.
Handwork
Did you know that it’s really hard to take a picture of your hand that doesn’t look dorky? Yeah. That’s why you are looking at a dorky picture of my hand posing with that wool rug.
So, first: the handwork on the wool rug. After finishing piecing the Radiant Star, I started pulling out some old (and I mean OLD) UFOs. This particular project had been cut out, and I had handstitched ONE of those tongues (those half-circle thingies to the left). I’ve now got all of those blanket-stitched plus a backing added. I need to blanket-stitch around the edges of the tongues with black, finish appliquing the strawberries, add some flowers and some more stem stitch, and then assemble the whole thing..
It’s called a penny rug, but…I thought penny rugs had CIRCLES around the edges? These are just HALF circles. And are called tongues. Maybe it’s a penny rug because a tongue rug sounds…wrong…
Anywho.
My hand.
My name is Suzanne and I’m a recovering nailbiter.
I don’t know what happened this summer, but I stopped.
Well, I partly know what happened, but I can’t really explain why I’ve managed to keep them up to the point where those are my ACTUAL nails, with ACTUAL polish on them, those are not fake. And the other hand looks just as good.
(What happened was I thought I was going to be filming some stitching and having my hand in the video. I went for a manicure and had tips and acrylics put on, but there was something wrong with ME, the acrylics and tips, or the application, because…I couldn’t keep the artificial nails on to save my soul. And I did that TWICE. Somehow, in the process, I completely lost the desire to actually pick at and chew on my nails. Sorry, gross, I know. I’m still working on my cuticles, but they are almost all completely healthy and whole, too.)
Now I need to decide which bad habit to tackle next. I told Mark he couldn’t make suggestions.
If I could figure out how I managed to stop, I’d write it up as an e-book and make one of those obnoxious websites to try to sell my secret to all of the other nailbiters in the world.
