Boardom & other excuses

Hello all!

Sorry for missing a couple of days. I have been in a weird place. Nothing bad just weird.

I have found that I haven't been as hungry as of late. If there isn't food already prepared for me than I don't know what I want & because I am not really that hungry, I don't eat at all.

Friday night was one of those nights. I walked home & because I knew I had to eat something I went into a corner store. It's called the food Depot. It has all sorts of things that if you went to a real supermarket, you wouldn't pay nearly as much.

Anyways, I didn't know what to eat & somehow settled on tortillas, guacamole & a large bag of chocolate m&m's. Now I haven't eaten like that in years! YEARS! That kind of eating normally is triggered by some emotional upheaval in my mind. But this wasn't that.

Needless to say, I felt like I was hungover the next morning! I had no energy at all.

Well I seem to have recovered from that moment well. I am still not that hungry, but at least there is food at the office that I am making myself eat so I don't pass out.

I was all psyched about going to swim this morning. Wouldn't you know my alarm went of but didn't. So I didn't' get to go. I have fixed the problem & will be getting up tomorrow as per my new weekly plan. I will go on Friday this week as per the contingency plan for holiday Mondays like next week.

Fall Ivy

This is ivy on a church on St Clair West. Again, this was taken in the fall. I loved the change in the ivy from the standard green over to the bright vibrant red.

Snow Day!

I forgot to post a picture for today! This is snow bench!

Why is it called snow bench? Snow reason. It is just what it is. A snow bench.

Hulk angry

So one thing I realise is the importance of patience & not going off half cocked.

In general I am not very quick to anger. I don't like to argue or make that kind of a scene. Every once in a while that all goes to pot & I turn into angry Hulk. Almost no one ever sees that side of me, although I think they know it exists.

There was an incident with a friend.What happened doesn't . It did leave me incredibly angry. You know the kind of anger that makes you shake.

In the hulk mode, my normal instinct and usual pattern would be a big huge screamfest & in the end I wouldn't not feel any better than before the rant began.

This time was different. I decided not to face the issue head on. YET. I needed sometime to collect my thoughts. I walked home. Missed the call. But that was all to help me work out my feelings as I go along. After working through it & sleeping on it, I am ready to deal with it, calmly like an adult & no hulk.

I think this is a large step towards my inner calm & peace. Maybe I can actually let go of something & not keep it with me for a dogs age. I have things I haven't gotten over from ten years ago because of these issues.

Problem averted! FOR NOW!

Have a great rest of the day if you dare!

Housekeeping

Firstly I want to let you all know that I am playing around with the format of the blog. I am not sure if it is just that my aesthetic is changing or that I am figuring things out as I go along.

I have added a new set of links over to the right which would be blogs I read. If you are a friend who has a blog you would like me to put up, let me know & it shall be so.

Bitchn' about knittin'

Last night when I got home Mum & I were talking about my knitting.

As I mentioned in yesterdays blog, I knit a headband for myself on Saturday & I had a bunch of yarn leftover. I mentioned the leftover yarn to my Mum & thought that one of my sister's kids would probably like a headband. She suggested that I make one for my brother's daughter Maya (She has my middle name and has her birthday in March just like me!).

I hesitated only because I am worried that my nephew Siddhartha (Maya's brother) might get jealous that he wasn't getting something from me. You know how kids can be. It's all about being fair. I admit that Siddhartha probably doesn't want a knit headband seeing as he doesn't have the hairstyle for one and he might feel funny wearing one.

So after a moment's hesitation, I went upstairs and grabbed all the stuff for the headband. See as Maya has a smaller head than me I decided to modify it for a child's head. I started at 7pm & finished just before 10pm. I did stop for a couple of breaks so it took less than 3 hrs. I must say that it is very satisfying to finish a project in less than a day. I was worried that I wouldn't get it done before she leaves on Friday. So she will get it. The green is great for her colouring. I also still have half of the skein left. So if I want to I can make them for my other nieces and/or my sister.

I have also knitted some dish clothes for the office over the summer. It is another quick satisfying knitting project that doesn't take too long to finish. One of the summer students, whose last day is Friday, mentioned he would love a couple for his wife. So tonight & maybe tomorrow, I will be knitting those as well.

I have been working on a few large projects as of late. My Mum's sweater which just needs to have the last half sewn together & then washed for good measure is one of those projects. I tried working on that one on Friday night, but ended up freaking out & stopping (I have done mattress stitch before. Hello I already sewed half of the sweater already!). I am going to try again this weekend **FINGERS CROSSED!**

My other big long project is my Dad's arrears log cabin blanket, which I have blogged about before. It is coming along nicely & will be done sometime this fall. I love going to sit at Haley's working on it & people telling me they love it.

My final three projects (not for me, but promised!) are crocheted bags for my sister & the girls. Seeing as it was Avery's birthday almost two weeks ago, I am currently working on hers. I have modified it slightly to make a bit smaller for her. I think that can be done by the end of the week. I will add a chapters gift card as part of the present and then her birthday present is complete. I may start my sister's next, because I was originally going to make one for her up at the cottage, but I didn't have the pattern to work from. Her birthday is past by a few months. Tyler's birthday is in November, so I will get it done by then no problem.

I must say I like the biggish projects, but feel somewhat bad that they take forever to complete.

After I have done most of the biggish projects, I will make myself a shrug that is in a book I have. It is going to be in chunky alpaca wool so it will be a petting shrug that can keep me warm. It will end up looking good with work or casual fair!

Maybe someday I'll post some shots of my knitting. However at this time whenever I try to take pictures of it it is coloured very weirdly.

Simply Squirrelly!

I have had something on my mind a lot lately. Actually it is on my mind almost every time I leave the house. There appears to be mutation in our midst.

I'm talking Squirrels!

Yes it seems that squirrels are mutating!

I'm not talking zombie squirrels or anything out of a horror story.

I first began noticing that the squirrels in the park near my office we're two toned. What was strange about them is that halfway through their bodies would change from black or dark brown to strawberry blond. It kind of looks like they had been dipped in a bottle of Sun-in( That happened to me when I was 13yrs old. My friend on a school trip dumped a whole bottle of it in my hair. I was strawberry blond for a while there!).

Anyways, it was always the bottom half including their tails. It wasn't one squirrel ,it was all the squirrels in the park. I tried to take a picture of them, but those suckers move pretty darn fast when you close in on them. Even with my long lens they would move too fast for me.

So it made me wonder was someone cruel to a pack of squirrels? Was this a new mutation? And if it was, why on Earth would this help them in the evolution of life?

Jump forward a couple of months & I have been noticing that all the squirrels tails are not as thick & bush as the once were. The advantage it that they look sleek & full. I find the bushy tails often looked sparse.

So the question is what is the reason for the changes that are taking place in the squirrel population?

How many times can I use the word squirrel in a blog entry & not be a squirrel expert?

Will I ever get the answers I seek?