where-i-am-wednesday.

here's where i am this week.
the kids have been gone to my mother in laws
since monday.

i have spent alot of time
reconnecting
one on one
with my husband.


we are always together and we almost always get along
but it is something completely different to be together
without the kids around...
we were able to take the kids to the parade on monday
which they enjoyed...
i LOVE parades...they just make me so happy and excited...
the anticipation, the loudness of the fire trucks, the bagpipes...

i am struggling my way through this book....

so many names...
all the same or so similar,
it's hard not to get bogged down in it...
but then there is so much of it
that i am enjoying
that i know i won't stop reading it,
but i do know it's going to take me a bit to
finish.

watched this movie
and was completely enthralled by it.

planning to watch this movie
tonight and am pretty excited...
love neil gaiman!
love jim henson...even if it is now
jim henson company but hope it
hasn't changed...

working in the garden...

can you spot the tiny tomato above?

spent the day at the beach yesterday with a best friend
and her children and the little boy i look after,

been practicing driving in anticipation of getting my driver's licence
at some point this year...heh heh.

eating strawberry/blueberry shortcakes at 9 at night,

and this is where i have been this week...
how about you?
:)

one down, how many to go?

i finished this little sweater
for a best friend's baby boy
and gave it to her yesterday
with the warning
that it was the first sweater
i have ever knitted
and may possibly...
at some point...
fall apart.

i used the pattern
found here...

also, i would like to thank
everyone that left such sweet comments
about my poem...
i can't tell you how much it
means to me
to hear that people
actually
liked it...
:)

personal poetry thursday...

no explanation.

and there she is
sitting across from me
feeling sexy, certain, silent
burgandy and bronze
wanting to be noticed
without wanting to be seen.

her skirt is full
and shadows are light
she listens to what you are saying
but doesn't hear,
not quite.

smiles are cordial
and vaguely polite.

answers are given
more ambiguous
than right.

and in her head
she is comparing herself
to songs.

summer reading update...

i finished this book last week
and i loved it.

i read her other book years ago
and i remember that i liked it
and that others that read it
at the time also liked it.

i was caught up in this one...
sophie felt like someone i knew...
like i had seen a friend each day...
perhaps i recognized some of myself
in her...

next on the list-
100 years of solitude.

WIP friday...

i have never participated in WIP friday before
but thought i might today
and it actually surprised me
how many things i have on the go right now...
heh.

this is kind of embarrassing...
i keep all of my knitting right here
cluttered on the shelf next to the couch.
heh.

there are four WIP's in the above picture.
one is a buggy-baby-blanket,
one is a pair of ten's jeans in the process of becoming
a skirt,
one is a bookmark for my bestest friend
and two envelopes
waiting to be filled to go to some special blog-like people

above is the start of picture
to be sent to someone else in blogland

the beginning of a baby blanket
in green and yellow
for another best friend
who's having her baby TODAY.
heh.
better put that at the top
of the list.

strawberries and cream blanket
and i think that is the end of my list...
i hope anyway...
a little overwhelming
when i think of all the other things
i still want to do...
heh.
other WIP's found here

*as always, my apologies for the dark pictures...
its thundering and lightning here.