A finished object

Well, I finally finished The Blanket. I started this blanket last year and it was to be a present for my popo. It was the present that I was frantically trying to finish on Christmas Eve. I managed to finish her lap blanket, like two seconds before I gave it to her. She didn't know what it was because it was so small. I explained it was a lap blanket and she was happy. I also asked her if she wanted it bigger because I wasn't sure if it was big enough to comfortably cover her lap. She said no but then changed her mind three months later. She wanted it long enough to cover her shoulders when it got chilly. Of course by then I had already moved on to my next project, which was a set of colorful bibs for my cousin's first child. And so the blanket sat, untouched in my house. Truth be told, I wasn't looking forward to working on the blanket again. It was knit in garter stitch so it was quite boring but it was too large for me to take to places that I normally knit boring pieces at (i.e. the dentist's office). And it was knit in relatively small needles and in long rows so it took forever to make any noticeable progress. Anyway, I recently realized that it was almost Christmas time again and I still had this blanket in my house. I forced myself to work on it and it's finally done! Of course, M*Bark discovered it:

The great pumpkin

Isn't The Great Pumpkin a beaut? This weekend, we went to the pumpkin patch to pick this year's pumpkins. It was the first public weekend of the patch and it was crazy busy. There were so many people there and so many cars in the lot that people were parking out on the street. In the end, I had three pumpkins that went home with me. Two medium size ones (the kine you can't you really carve) and this beauty of a pumpkin. I also ended up purchasing a small pumpkin from Safeway. As you can see, M*Bark had to check out the newest addition to our house. The pumpkins are going with me to school tomorrow because I'm going to have some of my kids talk about small, medium, and large and what better way to illustrate that than with pumpkins?

It starts...

Look what arrived today!
Yup, this year's Christmas yarn arrived today in the mail! I'm glad, I needed a little pick me up. The only thing bad about the Christmas yarn arriving is that it means that Christmas is quickly approaching. I really need to get started soon. We (and by we, I mean me and everyone around me who will put up with the craziness until Christmas) don't want a repeat of Christmas 2006. It was Christmas Eve and I was frantically trying to finish a present. I wanted to...well, what I wanted to do isn't important. It wasn't pretty. The junk thing is, I have two fairly large items to finish in addition to my Christmas presents. And me, being me, had to talk myself out of adding two more items to my already long list (they were a pumpkin hat and a pair of bee booties, in case you were interested). Anyway, here's M*Bark checking my the yarn pyramid:I promptly put the yarn away after taking the picture. I suspected that she wanted to knock the pyramid over and take a ball to play with. We've been having little spats over my yarn lately. I'm having a hard time knitting one of my projects right now because she's fond of the yarn.

Random things

Fall break has come and gone. I'm making myself feel better by reminding myself that the second quarter always seems to go by quickly. I think all of those lovely holidays help. Anyway, Joy and Brad got married! She looks great, huh? Anyway, I learned that I enjoy bossing people around and maybe I'll become an event coordinator person if this whole speech thing doesn't work out.
We also did more home renovation stuff this break. We painted our master bedroom and although it was a hassle to paint it two different colors, it really came out fantastic. We're getting closer and closer to having the house of our dreams.
M*Bark discovered a fun new game. Apparently Lance puts his dirty clothes on the bathroom floor while he's taking a shower. He's really good about picking them up when he's done and putting them in the hamper, so I didn't realize that he did this until M*Bark started sticking her paws under the bathroom door. She's pulling his clothes out from the bathroom and into the bedroom.