stormious interuptus

damn don't you HATE when that happens?
a small but overly confident storm blew through here a whiles ago.
all puffed up with itself.
ha
it didn't last 10 minutes
all huff and no puff.
however it made me shut the computer down and it is still really dark in here.


For the doll folks looking for my halloween doll I am still working on ........ click HERE scroll down to the bottom for pictures
I will be putting updates on here either today or tomorrow

I am working on the boots for her right now

I am on a really tear right now.
I have stuff to make for competition, as well as the fall seasonal sales.
And inbetween I am making stuff for me.
( me, me, me......... mememememememe........ ok so actually it isn't really for me, but for the house............ but it makes ME happy)

ohohoh and I am making a new fall leave set of bags, ( small shoulder bag/sock tote, little matching tool bag, and large knitting/spin group tote)
I have a tapestry fabric with oak leaves woven into it. I am going to lightly hand tint these leaves in my favorite trio of colors......... ( magenta, orange, yellow)
I didn't start this set yet as I need to find some lining fabric .............
I think I would like a muted sort of fall leaves print.


right now, right this second i am having a blast
ok off to finish the macaroni salad and to finish the boots for the halloween doll
til next time
vi

The Cries of London

First off, I don't understand terrorism.
there are so many things in life that cause pain, 'acts of god', natural disasters, illness, natural deaths, accidents.......I can even understand crimes of passion.

I don't understand how someone could possibly do an act of this much violence to another human being.
how can a person in their heart between them and their idea of god justify this?
I can't even begin to fantom this
I can't get my mind around it.

it literally is too large for my brain to comprehend
my heart goes out to the folks there.
Mengele spoke to her family there and everyone of her folks are ok and accounted for...... thankfully.

Now the post that I had planned for today, I am still going to post, almost in defiance of the disruption that these people have tried to perpetrate.

How I design and make a cloth doll.

while I do start with a rough idea or sketch, ( which I did not scan sorry) from which I draft a pattern and make the body, I am not going to bore you all with that part....... nor with the endless tweaks that I do before I get one actually together so here are the 'work in process' photos

This is the overview of the finished body, with head attached

A close up of the face, this is the color that is most correct.

Wigging fiber just laid over the head to check coloration, this is a warm butterscotch and it is definitely a go. However the color of this picture is way off

the over view of the sewn, but not gathered skirt with hand painted pumpkins.. this color is pretty accurate

close up of one of the pumpkins, color is very off

and on WENDESDAY....... violet did nothing!

for the most part
I got up LATE.........
ok so I was up at 4 AM, but I hung out in the bed with the cats to almost 7am

I ate a scrambled egg, cheddar cheese, cream cheese wrap sandwich for lunch......
I got the mail
I paid the insurance
I argued with the insurance company over a claim that they had originally paid
I talked to the doctor......
I painted pumpkins on one of the dresses for a doll for competition.......
I made tetrazzini

in other words
I did absolutely NOTHING today

( that is my story and I am sticking to it)
I got pt tomorrow......
I was a very good girl and did my excersizes..... even though they HURT
sniff
am I getting ANY sympathy here????

( well I don't get much from bernie either......he said it was good for me)

ok well I am off to finish dinner
and bernie just pulled up
til next time
vi

what the hell is this???

http://blogshares.com/blogs.php?blog=http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com%2F#
???????????????????
oh my!

SOAP, beautiful SOAP!!! Loverly SOAP

I just cut up 10 pounds of freshly made patchouli soap. All slated for a client who can't live without patchouli, ( she wanted 30 lbs-they must be a VERY clean family.........)
I cut it different then normal so there is much less then 40 bars, but some are nice and large for the men in her family.
She is going to be thrilled!

I made it yesterday and now it will join the older more experienced soapies up in the soap room.
They will instruct it on it's future career.....

I worked on another cloth doll this weekend. She is very somber in an Addams family sort of way, without being macabre.
Soooooooooooo I was thinking..............
how about a sort of halloween without being scary sort of a doll?
I have been wanting to play with that sort of theme for a while....

( I LOVE halloween, but none of the horror and bloody crap, I only like pumpkins, and ghosties and witches...... maybe an occational banshee thrown in for good measure, although a dancing skeleton is pretty good here and there............... oh and BATS.... love me some bats and black cats......)

so anyway, I have her made, and I am painting tests for her petticoat, with pumpkins on it!, after I do the clothing I will do her hair.
( I switched last year to needle felting hair on these cloth dolls after I got the felting needles in Rhinebeck in October........... LOVE IT, and won't go back to doing it any other way!)

I drew out the next couple of dolls.... I am doing some experiments with cloth so we'll see how much makes the final grade and into the competition at the fair.

I still have the Toadcroft sisters to do as well.......

Hey I got the BESTEST present today!
mengele gave me a delphinium!
I have tried to grow them from seed, but they get about 4 inches high and keel over.
( and I have a VERY green thumb, ask bernie...........he swears I can grow a stick!)
she gave me one she divided off of her established plant so I have high hopes for this one.
wasn't that the sweetest most wonderful thing????
I love delphiniums, they are one of the definative english perrenial border plants, and really beautiful.

So thank you so very much mengele, you have no idea how wonderful that was of you........

I am thinking of what out in my garden I would have to share with you....... as it is not in good shape lately but IS full of obscure medicinal plants........ stuff no one grows anymore but really still work so very well..............?
agrimony?
red valerin

oh one more thing.......... Today our little calpurrnia has been with us a year!
and on july 17 her and her brother will turn two years old!
I just took a nap and little calpie slept up on my chest with her tiny pink nose next to mine.
hahaha
she is my little lady.......... and I am so thrilled that she joined our little family.
whatever did I do without them?
til next time
vi

FINALLY, I took the pictures of this doll finished

head shot


and with the red ribbon.....
oye

channeling bacon part 2

again it happened.......
my husband woke up channeling bacon

is this normal I ask YOU????

he said to me...... 'someone is COOKING bacon'

yea right bernie......and you can smell it even though it is 6am, and the air conditioners are on, AND one of the cats just used the facilities.......
but you smell bacon....

not just any bacon mind you........
PLUMROSE bacon!!!!

then because he is who he is
he also started to smell toast!

ahhhhhhh there is nothing like a sunday morning huh???

in other news, I can't make the weights I wanted to, as the rim weights were recyled by the tire people thursday.
Of course they didn't realize until AFTER I called and they said I could have them.

but I got a pair of ankle weights that I can remove the weights by the pound for 19.00 so it isn't too bad.
( target in case anyone needs to know)

I also stopped at the fabric store and got two new remnets for my bags, one is a dark navy with burgandy flowers very very sophisticated in a traditional sort of way.
and I got a yellow/peach/green with oak leaves, which I plan on tinting with watered down fabric paints in shades of magenta, purple, orange and red...............
however the tinting will wait until I get the lining fabric for that one.

I am thinking of lining the navy one in a dark reddish burgandy, really understated ( especially for me, huh? someone quick see if I have a fever???)

I am on a knitting bag/tote/ tool bag kick lately, even though I have been doing stuff like this for years, now I am determined to have sets for every mood.........
why I DON'T know
but I am
gees.......... and here I am with no closets!

also lately a song is running through my head........ 'wouldn't it be nice'
remember from the 60's..........
only I have changed the words a tad............
hahahah
just a tad......

'wouldn't it be nice to have an ipod
wouldn't it be nice to have a farm
wouldn't it be nice to have some savings
wouldn't it be nice for moron to be gone...............'

hahahah
oh man the stuff that inhabits my mind is SCARY

anyway it is playing over and over in my poor head......... there are other verses as well
that include things like closets and tunis sheepies

ok now I am off to sew dolls and bags........... possible a tunic top if I can figure out WHERE bernie put my rayons

oye
til next time
and I will post pictures so stay tuned
vi

Mengele just upped the anti

oh MY.........
just when I thought it was SAFE and pt was over.......
Mengele informs me that they DID get me approved for 4 more weeks
and guess what else???

she got some new torture devised for me

apparently I have no upper body strength.....
( ah, Mengele, did you NOT say to me......'nothing more then 5 pounds'????? see how good I listened!!!!!)

she has decided I need weight training for strength...........

oh my........
I can't tell you the screaming mass of heat that my muscles are right now.......

and I was informed by everyone that they will 'be really sore in a day or so'

oh man.............
and I need to do this weight stuff at home.

ok
I have some weights here...
but they are too large, they are 10 pounders.
so I need weights and I can't afford to spend a kidney on them
I have thunk
and thunk
and decided to make my own weights that will be able to be adjustable is weight.
and will velcro around my wrists and forearms.
I will use wheel weights from bernie's shop as the actually heavy stuff.
and some thing stretchy for the carrier........... with velcro for the fasteners......... maybe a fleece backing?

I plan on doing the little weighty thingies in tiny pillow of about 4 oz to 8 oz each...... and put them in little pockets in the carrier thingy that straps on.

it shouldn't take me alot of time to make and weight up the pillows

the most expensive part of this project would be the weights, but used wheel weights don't cost anything from a shop.

they are thrilled to get rid of them!

I figure a couple squirts of "DAWN" detergent should take the grease out.

If I am able to do this (and make it work, which I can't see why not) I will post either directions or pictures or something.......

Even if I have to buy the stretchy fabric and velcro I am assuming that it won't cost more then 12.00 for the entire thing!

and I am also assuming that I can do some pretty wild fabric no????
maybe even MAGENTA??????
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
hahahaha
I am thrilled with this whole make the weight thingy
if not really thrilled at the thought of actually struggling to USE THEM

let me tell you, it wasn't easy today, who know that 4 pounds and 5 pounds weights so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!

who knew muscles could get that hot and painful so fast????
oye
til next time.
vi

added to KC, Thank you so much sweetie, but Mengele doesn't want too much strain on my hands, and some of the excersizes involve movements that if I had a milk jug in my hands would deffinately do the carpal tunnel in.
we did discuss that option but she doesn't want my wrists stressed at all.
I am deffinately falling apart here.......
hopefully mengele and this tape will hold me together a bit longer?

three day weekend coming right up

First off let me tell you all........

Bernie has this whole weekend off!

(gratutitous calpurrnia picture)

WE have BIG plans that do NOT include going out of the house at anytime.
hahahaha
( I have some plans for us that do not include being vertical but I digress)

he also has NEXT saturday off but is going in to work on my van......
did you hear that????
amazing huh????
let me say it again louder.........
work on my VAN!!!!
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
now he tells me that I need a new exhaust valve that the old one is burnt.
I have NO FREEKEN idea what the hell he is talking about....
I don't actually care really I just want to hear




three of my baby boy..........that last one he WAS a baby.......... LOOK at them ears.....

'love, your van is back and runs GRRRRRRRRRRRRREAT.........'
yeah baby, gimme some of that tony the tiger growls..........

Then he said he wants to get it into the body shop for a bit of work.....

( someone should put ME into the body shop for a bit of work....... Mengele does her best and my shoulders are so very much better but my boobs are still footstools and my ass is a doorstop for a bank vault.......)

(vi's house at halloween..... think COOL thoughts )

Now I want you all to know that I have a pale blue van.......

I wanted a screaming magenta van with yellow flames and dalmatian spots on it........

Bernie didn't think that was a very good idea
he said.........
'maybe a thin purple pinstripe'
huh?
thin?
pinstripe?


(one of my miniature handpainted birdhouses......... I make a bunch of different ones)

does the man actually live with me?????
has he actually KNOWN me for over 30 humminita years........

he tells me............'it would hurt resale'
ah,
excuse me but my van is 14 years old....
I love it and want to KEEP it
what resale?
resale my pattootee
(will someone please give me the proper definintion of a pattootee also, if you would be so kind)

where the hell was I?
ahhhhhhhhh.......

oh yeah my van.
the other excuse for not painting my van magenta is.......
( are you sitting down??? cause this is a good one)
sit there now
take a deep breath..
hold it
hold it
.
.
.
.
the door linings would clash!!!

thump
yup I just dropped............
who the HELL cares about clashing door liningS?

ok soooooooo
I am going to be happy just to get my little van back that runs ok.......
safe dependable and boring blue transportation.....
sniff
I loves the van......
but would really have liked the magenta
an old broad can dream right???


the terrible two some, their 2nd birthday is July 17, I will probably get them new feather teasers...... as their great gramma ate the ones from last year.. and on tuesday, Calpurrnia will have lived here one whole year!!!!!
til next time

vi

here is where I go to therapy

I am about done with therapy, and as you know even though I call my pt mengele, she is very good and I am getting alot of movement back in my shoulders.
(although she does cause me a great deal of pain on a regular basis...... just so she doesn't think she lost her touch)

I dropped the second 24 hour urine test off at the lab and told them if they drop it again .......THEY will have to take it..... talk about PISS ON YOU......
oye

Ok so we have a three day weekend......YEAH!!!!
I plan on just resting with bernie as much as I can IN THE AIR Conditioning.

I am working on a beautiful scarf for my lace class at the local yarn store, and some cloth dolls for various things. I know I owe pictures to you all.......
yes I know
but there is the picture of where I go to pt...... is that ok?????

meanwhile aside from assorted annoyances going on here it is mostly quiet here

I really need to get to the farm and hug me some goaties.......
not the bucks as they are starting to smell again......( they really start smelling bad as they get closer to the rut)

I have soap and lotions to make and I want to cook another whole freezer full of food.....somehow one almost empty shelf in the freezer makes me crazy.

Bernie appears to be making more time at work, thankfully as we can't live on 35 hours a week.

so I will try to get pictures over the weekend......
til next time
vi

The insurance company is going to give me a heart attack

I am getting the run around from the insurance company...... Unfortunately I have to go through their hoops to get anywheres.
I am trying to get my claims paid. They will only pay part.
That isn't what they told me originally.
soooooooooooo
after I do their appeals process.......( excuse me, isn't that kind of like the fox RUNNING the hen house???)
I will turn them into the state insurance commission.
this is annoying the piss out of me.
WHEN did insurance companies get so outrageous?
and hopefully MORE people will turn them in to the insurance commission in the states that they are chartered in.

I do know that the last insurance company I had to turn in got it miraculously straightened out in 2 hours AFTER the insurance commission contacted them.
I expect the same for this claim.
so I have to do this thing again.
I hate this
paper work and legal crap make me extremely antsy.......

I really do wish I drank.

I need a goatie to hug.....
sniff
I won't be seeing my beloved goaties for a few weeks
someone asked me about them
they are my babies........ all them goaties are my babies
they actually live with carole and diana, but they are mine
yup mine all mine

they listen to me when I call them and if I ask them to smile pretty for the camera they do
so they are all my babies.....
I worry about them all, I can tell if one is not right........ I nag carole about them
I adore my goaties

actually I am thinking we need to keep little thaddeaus.. just cause he is so cute. (I already told carole I need to have him, so if bernie continues to do ok at work, money will change hands and he will be mine on paper)

now I am still waiting on my lamb
we are going to see at allentown fair the tunis breeder...... and hopefully the CVM breeder.
I am thinking of tunis.........
yes I know you all are sick of hearing tunis.

ok so have about cvm?
or california red?

between us, we have corriedale, BFL, BL, texel, jacob, merino, angora goats, cashmeres, & alpaca
so I want to get a ewe that no one else has, we have access to a 100% BFL ram, or.. possible tunis ram.
we of course will be looking to breed for fiber more then 'type'

anyone have any opinions please feel free to post them in the comments

I don't think I want shetland or icelandics......... and we do manage to trade fibers and such.....
( I trade soap a lot .............. or dyed fibers)

til next time
when I am in a better mood
vi

I need a break

we had a quiet weekend more or less.
I locked my keys in the ignition of my van and was sort of stuck down at the Local yarn store all day.
I got a ride home in the afternoon around 4 and a few minutes after I got home....Bernie pulled up.
we waited to the sun went down to get the truck.
we also got a free icecream from the swann guy.......... who was parked down the hill.
Moron neighbor put in a pool.
I reported him for no permit
while talking to the zoning board.......
which has the statues online that STATE no landscaping business on this road......
they informed me that the moron got a permit!
so I am thoughly disgusted..........

Zoning says it is illegal........but grants a permit?

and they are treating me like dirt when I call
they are not beleiving me about the barking dog........
we have a noise ordanence that they can't enforce.
they are hostile about when I complain about this barking dog
which barks all the freeken time........ except sometimes at night
they say they can only do something if the dog barks 24 hours and they pull up with the dog barking

I can't wait to move
I really can't

SOMEONE freeken SHOOT ME NOW

AGAIN with the day from hell
it started off ok
(btw you all are going to be reading this sometime Saturday, however it is Friday night as I type this)
I didn't really WANT to get up at 4am, but I sort of did.......
reluctantly.
However once in the shower at 5 am ,I was a bit more resigned to face the day.

I got on the road by 6:30 am to go to pt, and sat down in the lot there for about 1/2 hour knitting waiting for the pt folks to open. (they were a bit late)

I got mangled for an hour.......
really mangled
first Mengele had a crack at me then Ashley......... ( Ashley is a doll btw, and looks EXACTLY like one of my favorite teachers from high school)
Both of these wonderful ladies that look so tiny........ lemme tell you...... don't let them fool you........
they are strong enough to completely beat an entire defensive line into submission.
I kid you not
them ladies are TOUGH.
and STRONG
damn!
They are tiny skinny little things too......

I told Ashley to go ahead and beat the crap out of me cause while I will suffer today, tomorrow I will be better.
And I am getting better but it isn't fun. I need a polar cap, & morphine to get rid of the pain

ok so I got home, all sore and stiff and aching........
I figured I would start some of the cloth dolls for the fair, and some of the stuff for the craft show that my spin group is going to attend.
Thaddeaus had different ideas...........
5 TIMES that damn cat threw the iron, ironing board and pressing gadget thingy down on the floor.
I swear I am going to skin him and make a hat.
then he ate the front part of the doll

then in pressing what was left of the front part of the doll, I scorched it!
I have NEVER scorched a fabric in my life.......
so I am thinking....... the iron didn't really appreciate those falls huh?
it is only about 30 years old............
maybe I need a NEW ONE????

ok let me take a break............... and the PHONE rings...............

now let me tell you, I was thinking it was bernie........ I was waiting on his call.
or maybe Bethie, or Shaggy ( who does owe me a call btw, you hear me Shag??)
nope it was the doctors office, ( not the shoulder doc..........the other end)
they have good news and bad news she tells me
...............
oh shit
...............
ok give me the bad news.....

(thinking to myself.......that damn thyroid huh? that stupid mass on that damn thyroid.)

the bad news is that the lab DROPPED and broke my 24 hour urine sample and they WANT ME TO DO IT AGAIN.............!

you all can't see me right now.....
picture a chicken that caught it's beak in an electrical outlet and is exploding all over the place.....
yup that would be me
but with less feathers

now I have pt three times next week.........Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.......
I have to pick UP the container Monday......
then I have to start at 5am, ( cause it is when you first get up)
and every single freeken drop for 24 hours has to go in that bucket thingy

fun it is NOT.
the contortions alone to get the samples are enough to give a body nightmares......
and this body has been through pt and already has enough nightmare pain.......

not to mention how hysterically funny I look at 3am balance precariously over the bowl. Hell even the CATS laughed their asses off at me. ( picture fawn on her back laughing so hard her feet are up in the air)

It was a sight to make you blind........
and I am about to do it AGAIN

any one who DOUBTS that the three stooges are running the universe...............
HAVE you been READING THIS BLOG????
trust me on this
larry, moe and curly are now watching over me............insuring that Mr. Murphy is always active in my life......
which they film as the blooper reel for the heavenly christmas party.......
who needs to drink?

til next time
vi
or a reasonable facsimile of vi

late breaking news flash.......

I dropped an entire bottle of my orange ginger blend fragance on the studio floor
just when I thought it could not get any worse.
Imagine if you will, 3-5 oz of a very concentrated highly scented fragrance that I use by the DROP in lotions and by the 1/2 oz in soaps..............

I threw 3 pounds of kitty litter on it all and called Bethie practically in tears.
I need to stop working now
right now

New knitting /tote bags

ok here are the new bags isolated without being buried in a post

this is the cream and blue toile, it is the smaller bag, either used as a sock knitting bag, or just a hand bag ( pockabook for those who speak 'jersey')




these two are the sock/handbag and the large tote ( shopping bag size)
I didn't take a picture of the lining of these but it is a very nice batik cotton with lots of pockets in the large tote.
enough to stuff all the things I need when I teach or spin group.

I have a cream/blue large bag & tool bag to make next as well as the wild colored set from spring, and a really nice dark tan and burgandy floral set to make.

now onto today.
After PT, I am working on a new cloth doll for this years county fair.
I hope to get the body done shortly, maybe today.
it is supposed to be brutally hot this weekend so I figure I will get that one made, then onto the other stuff for the fair.
I would like at least 15 assorted items to bring.
Premiums are not too bad between 15 and 20 each for first and second place, so I could make enough to justify buying my lendrum dt spinning wheel.

I had gotten a pair of SAS sandals for the deposition, and I wore them the other day to the hospital........... let me tell you guys, they are worth every drop of the almost 100 bucks we spent on them.
My legs did NOT hurt walking in and out of that endless hospital.
AMAZING!

Now I have to go as Amber the senile 4008 year old cat just peed on her pillow..(and then absent mindedly wandered off- time for the trip to the promised land?????)

I swear I am thinking of peeing on her head

And to Amie, who is undergoing surgery today, remember I am sitting on your shoulder...... and whispering funny stuff in your ears... you will be fine.
AND we will 'see you in october' to paraphrase the song..................

til next time
vi

The morning after the day before NOW WITH PIX

closeup of the blue and cream small tote


First off......... mamography hurts........
apparently it is gone but won't be forgotten for days.............. Aspirin or no aspirin
Husbands need to have ONE mamogram on their testicles......... Just one will surfice...
and I get to watch.
and put it on the christmas card

And truly it was so dumb to go from physical therapy to mamography........

'Hi, I'm violet and I am dumber then dirt, someone quick see if there is actually one intact brain cell in the vacuum that is my head'

another thing....... take a BEGINNING sock to knit with you.......not something you are ready to put in waste yarn for the heel........

and also let me tell you
I am NOT going back
I don't care if they find Mt Rushmore in my boobs........with Lincoln pointing the way.......
I am NOT going back

although my boobs did faint at the tightest compression and I FINALLY mercifully didn't feel the last films........
( they have a habit of doing that actually... first they are in agony...........then I don't feel a damn thing at all)

HOWEVER feeling returned when I got home........ and they were NOT happy with me
I was too sick for even icecream
dinner was crap and I didn't care
( did I just say that?)
I couldn't decide if my boobs or my shoulders needed the ice packs.

IS there alternatives to mamography?

if there is why are we still doing it this way?
and why do they send you for ultrasound after
if it hurts so bad why can't they just do the ultrasound FIRST?

ok enough of the mamo thing
even the name trips me up.......... I keep calling it 'mammyogram'
I loath it.
( imagine me saying that with all the loathing I can summon........ that still does not capture the feelings I have....... that is why I resisted getting one until there appeared to be a BIG problem
now I decided to refuse to get another one)

little fawn

I am supposed to take thaddeaus to the vet
I don't think I can
it is going to be really hot today
the vet is over an hour away
we have currently no air conditioning in the van
I don't want a fried cat when I get home

last time I did that whole take the boy to the vet in extreme heat
He was panting all the way home
I was frantic
I don't think I can live with that today after yesterday.


shoulder update,
they finally seem to be getting better.
FINALLY
Mengele told me to keep a little pillow behind my waist when I sit
to help keep my spine upright, and straight
that seems to be working
at first it hurt really bad
now it does keep me up and not slumping
and since I finally got used to it my shoulders seem better when I do the pt exercises
I am actually able to use the muscles I am supposed to be using for them
I know I still have a way to go as we haven't started to strengthen them at all yet but at least there is a bit of progress. So it is looking like no surgery on the really bad shoulder......YEAH!!!!

it is now 6am here
still peaceful and quiet
I can hear the wake up chirps of the birds echoing on the forrest floor.
I can smell the dew from overnight.
I watched the moon go down
it is so peaceful


blue and cream tole bag just finished & pink large tote finished tuesday which goes with




very shortly moron will throw that damn dog out and the barking will begin
I swear that man should be dropped out in montana or wyoming somewheres......
a million miles from anyone he could possibly annoy.
til next time

make a note......THINGS to NOT do again

1. do not drop a lab specimen off and then run to pt.
2. do not go from pt and rush over to get a mamogram
3. do not call an old friend and try to wash the cat all at once
4. do not eat an egg before cleaning up various substances ejected from both ends of the cat......( see number 3)
5. do not call bethie while trying to type this post (she yelled at me for typing as I am not supposed to be doing that......... mengele said)
6. do not yack breathlessly on and on and on cause you are having an adrenaline rush
7. do not leave the clean dishes in the dishwasher and then pile up the sink........... you will be tired when you get home
8. don't hug the cat until you see if he is covered in his own body fluids..........
9. use a sponge to wash the cat's crate to remove said body fluids......
10. CALL THE VET EARLIER
11. NEVER say you are going to sleep in the following day.......as you will be up and on the road by 6am, with a screaming cat you can't carry (shhhhhhhh don't tell mengele)
12. don't hold the phone with your shoulder fresh from pt, INVEST in a DAMN HEADSET
13. remember to FIND the ice packs for your shoulder before you sit down....... you really will be tired and won't want to get up
14. take tylanol BEFORE mamography............ and then take more when you get home.......
15. learn to drink...... really do that when you are young.
16. and most importantly NEVER CALL JOHN BACK........ he WILL be inebriated and WILL argue with you...........

these few simple rules will make your life infinitely more enjoyable if you remember to observe them

don't say I didn't tell you this..........

cause I love you all and want yous all to be happy

til next time

vi

back to the bump and grind......

it is currently 5:53 am, I am drinking coffee, listening to the morning wake up songs of birds, & typing this.
it is peaceful and quiet
no dog barking
that of course will change in about an hour
when the moron neighbor will put their dog out and it will bark for hours
I have called the dog warden and he has done nothing about it
I called the town about the illegal business.......they have done nothing about it

ok today
I have to run to the lab and drop off that test........ I am so glad that is over.....
the contortions to obtain these 24 hours worth of specimens drove me nuts....... mengele has her work cut out for her today because of it

I am concerned about the whole 'run to the hosptical for the mamogram after pt' thing
I am worried that either I won't find a parking space close enough and miss the whole appointment
or arrive so tired out from walking 17 miles from the FAR parking lot up hill to the hospital....that they will squish my boob and I won't even know.....
as I will be unconcious.......held up by my poor long suffering boob clamped in that machine

oh my......
oh and I best put that roast in the crock pot shortly huh?

AND THE WINNER IS.........
the tote bag
I got that pinkish tote finished yesterday......... it is HUGE so big I could fit thaddeaus in there.
maybe with fawn as well......
I certainly can fit all the girls in there at once.
but it will come in handy for teaching and also spin
I wanted to make a few more, however time was NOT on my side.
I did take a picture so I will try and show you all later.....
I also tried to get new pictures of the little curly headed monsters..............
we'll see how that turned out.

I have fabric to do a blue/cream/yellow toile set of knitting bags and that wild one that I showed you all a bit ago........ I still haven't done that one yet but soon.
And I have a very nice magenta fabric waiting as well.

I want to do a halloween set and a fall set just cause they are so much fun to make

hahahahah
I also love going to spin group with a different bag set for every season.......
Linda from Huntercreek farms........ one day asked me WHERE did I get the matching sets......
I told her I made them.....
she had thought I had cause they matched perfectly
hahahaha
there are some area's I am just anal huh?
til next time
vi

updated at 8:11 am to include
I CALLED the dog warden
they must have heard me as they took the dog in when I got off the phone!
( same thing happened last time I called the dog warden........I am not paranoid however......does seem odd....... as well as the fact that when I call the cops on them they LEAVE when the cop tells me they are on the way)

good morning world

well actually things seem to be all right within my little world today
I have a 'light' day..... ( only that pain in the ass 24 hour urine test ---pee in a nutshell and save it all.....yeah right....... my aim in not that good.....I am a FEMALE remember???)

Today is the ONLY day in over a week I am home all day......Hence the test being done today.

I am blissfully unencumbered and wondering WHAT to do with myself on this day off.

(for tomorrow is mengele followed by boobs being squished yet again..................)

I can't decide!
I want to sew a new knitting bag......( some folks eat potato chips, I sew bags)
I am knitting a new scarf for the yarn store as a sample for one of my classes
should I bake some muffins?
how about sewing a dress or tunic for me?
there also are the Toadcroft sisters to work on..........
**they are a really interesting project I have been working on, on and off for a while now- they are a trio of fabric dolls, who lead 'interesting' lives... they also have a handbound book with their story in it.......
I have the book written, most of the illustrations drawn......... and I have one of them done..
hahaha
I have two more to make then their 'props'
now they are 'interesting' like I said.........
so their props are things such as little pet bats, small dolls with pins and string... stuff like that....
hahahaha
you should HEAR the story
it made me laugh so I imagine it will all come together well at the end.

when I do finish them I am not sure what I am going to do with them.


ok back to stuffs here

we are sueing the moron neighbors, they have dumped dog feces as well as tons of other debris on our land.
They cut our trees
their dog tried to attack us, they are a pain in the ass
as I type this, it is 7:10 am, the dog has been barking since before 7.......
good thing I get up early huh?
I get about 2 peaceful hours then the dog is out there barking........ constantly.

lets see........
tomorrow I better remember to crock pot in the morning as I have to leave here at 8 I believe
I won't be back to late as my call back for the mamo is at 1:30 but I may also have to go to ultrasound on it again.

hey I made the BESTEST roast the other day.
and I took the easy out on it, instead of mushroom gravey from scratch...........
I threw a can of cream of mushroom in it.......with mucho extra garlic and onions....... slow cooked in the oven..........................
TO DIE for
I ate the last of it last night... as bernie was really late getting home so he told me to eat.

don't tell me I didn't tell you all

anyway..
any suggestions as to my projects will be welcome
you can just post them in the comment section if you all would
til next time
vi

ok got a call from the endo

I have to go to the Endocrinologist.
Those of you in the know.........will know that they are the vampire doctors......
they take 5 or 6 gallons of your blood every three months......
then give you awful meds that make you so sick you don't actually HAVE blood to give them
( the tests seem to be worse then the disease here I think)
anyway........ at the rate I am going with the doctors.......I just may be at my goal weight a bit PRIOR to 100 years.......

there I will be all shriveled up........ icecream carton clutched in one hand.....spoon in the other.....
too weak from LOSS of blood to raise the spoon to my lips,............ this is what endo's do..... test after test and before you know it.......you have lost 35 pounds and all of it is fluids.

do you think they can do intravenous iv of icecream? I mean if I have just plain vanilla without blueberries or anything like that? since I doubt the berries will get through the iv needles huh?

ok lemme see
I am very tired......
and I will probably just sleep
tomorrow I gotta pee in a bucket for 24 hours......
fun huh?

AND it needs to be kept in the FRIDGE!
this time however it isn't in a clear gallon like they used to do, so it won't be mistaken for a cold frosty beer....

and no we won't go there...........
so don't ask

oh my.........
gee I can see it now..........

'hey vi, what did YOU do on your summer vacation?'

(me) oh I got all my blood sucked out by the lawyer and the endo.....
they buried what was left of me with a cardboard cut out of my favorite icecream flavor..........
sniff

ok til next time
vi

oh man

ok the deposition is done......
thank goodness....
we did fine according to our attorney
no one wanted to see all the evidence.
and we have a ton
we are waiting to hear now.........
however the moron neighbors were late!
can you beleive this?
so I don't know what is going to happen
however the opposing council admitted to our attorney that his clients are 'combative'
oye