~ Riders of the Storm ~

This week has been very stormy non-weather wise and dark clouds have engulfed us it would seem. It has been rather depressing with all we’ve had to deal with lately. I just want to stay in bed and sleep but that’s not an option.

Today was the first decent day this week. It was quite a relief to have both boys safe and sound at school today. Especially when you consider the problem they have had being able to stay safe and sound at school this week. I’m so glad the weekend is here. We really can all use the break!

I’m hoping to get some more knitting done on the blanket I started back in April of this year. I know it’s taking me a long time to get it finished. I’m aiming for the end of February to finish it if not before then. Then I plan on froging my other two projects and starting something else to make.

Then I need to figure out what to make my sweet little kitten and pudgy monkey. I’m thinking crocheted blankets but I’m not sure. I’ll keep looking around till I find something that tickles my fancy. It’s not like I haven’t got any magazines to look to for inspiration.

Of course I also have to gather together some more fabric so I can make Bubba his I Spy quilt. I really would like to get it done by either his birthday or Christmas this year. I also need to get fabric so I can make Shaggy and hubby a quilt too. Hubby has loved the quilt I made him 11 years ago to death! I would like to make him a scrappy bowtie quilt with smaller blocks. I’m still trying to figure out what type of quilt to make Shaggy though. Any ideas?

~ Cat Scratch Fever ~

Yesterday afternoon the whole family went on a jaunt to South Dakota to visit the younger sister of one of my hubby’s oldest friends. She’s a nice gal and real funny. We get along well even though I haven’t seen her since she was a teenager still in high school. She’s all grown up now with 2 sons and a hubby of her own (man do I feel old). They also have 7 children of the feline persuasion and 3 of the canine persuasion with a few more joining any day now. Angel the female Husky is expecting and Demon the boy is staying by her side through it all. They’re so committed to one another that it makes me think of confining my hubby to a kennel for safekeeping. Oh the joys of marriage!

My hubby, her and I sat around the kitchen table and chatted. Her husband wasn’t feeling well so he didn’t join us till much later. Now, at first I sat next to my beloved husband for it is by his side where I belong. *Gags* Reality check: I just chose to sit next to him so I could sit across from our friend. I got the best seat in the house of course! They were all those nice upholstered chairs on wheels but mine, oh yes; mine had a little something extra that the others just did not have. It came with it’s own carnival ride! It wobbled, it dropped it tilted it drooped all purely for my enjoyment (no it didn’t vibrate).

The pleasure from that chair was not only for me apparently but obvious others in the household purposely sought out this chair for pleasurable reasons of their own. You see, one of her young felines was shall we say, “In Season”. She was cooing and whoring it for all it was worth. Out of sheer horniness this small feline backed her ass right up to one of the rounded chrome legs on this chair! She was really enjoying rubbing up on my chair support! I told our friend that her young kitty had found herself a dildo! After a few minutes of playing balance the fat lady and witnessing the kitty porn exhibition I switched to a wooden chair that was at the head of the table (where I belong).

Now this poor slut of a cat just would not leave my husband alone. We tried explaining to her that he was too big for her and we’d have to duct tape her together. We even told her he was hung like a hamster but it made no difference to this desperate wench. She had her own ideas. She decided she liked his feet better! My poor Husband! This was to be the only pussy he got last night and he couldn’t do a thing with it.

Overall the visit went quite well. We laughed and joked around (mainly at my hubby’s expense) but it was all, good.
Her 2 boys and my youngest were happy to see each other again. They had fun playing video games. Sometime we’ll have to visit them again. Just hope this time none of her cats are in heat. LoL

~ 5, 6 Pick - Up Sticks ~

Here’s a picture finally of all the slippers I cranked out for everyone here for Christmas. The ones to the upper left are Stinky’s slippers made from Encore Colorspun. This yarn is wonderfully soft and very nice to work with. The pair to the upper right is Shaggy the man-child’s tri-colored slippers. They’re made out of the leftovers from his afghan I made him last year for his birthday. The small blue pair to the lower left is Bubba’s and the pair on the lower right is mine. Both of the boys’ slippers and mine were made out of cheap Red Heart Super Saver. The color of mine is called Berries.
The pattern is called “Aunt Alma’s Dorm Boots” and it can be found here: http://www.needlebeetle.com/free/boots.htm



For your enjoyment: A brief candid moment of brotherly love and closeness between Shaggy and Bubba while reading a comic book. Peace on earth at least for 5 minutes. LOL

~ Danger! Danger Will Robinson! ~

Warning: Long rant ahead!

Last night on the channel 5 news here in MN (where Hell does freeze over) they had a story about a Teacher who was arrested in Glenwood City, Wisconsin. Two of my nieces and a nephew of mine go to the school there just like their parents before them. So, I watched the story with great interest.

As the story goes this young woman while a freshman at this school had joined the girl’s basketball team where she met this Teacher/Coach. This Teacher then began stalking this student. Now, if this isn’t bad enough it gets even worse. This Teacher continued to stalk her for the next 3 years that she was at that school. Here’s the kicker, the school KNEW about this (the young lady had obtained a restraining order against the Teacher and the parents had talked to school officials) and the powers that be, kept this Teacher on the pay roll and teaching at this school the whole time! This Teacher was still teaching when he was arrested Sunday!

Now, this Teacher has stalked this poor young woman for the last 7 years! What finally led to his arrest was he walked into her house and went around looking for her. Lucky for her she wasn’t alone and has a big boyfriend that protected her. I’m just glad that the young woman wasn’t harmed in anyway physically by this nut job! Unfortunately, this isn’t an isolated incident because it’s happened before in other parts of the USA.

You’re probably wondering (just as I did when I heard the Story), how could the school sit back and take no action against this Teacher? Well, personally I think it’s a combination of reasons for why this menace was allowed to continue Teaching in spite of his obvious threat to the female population at that school.

The reasons are as follows:

1.) The school district wanted to keep it hushed up to protect their image. (Their image looks really good now, let me tell you!)

2.) They’re desperate for teachers cause they are a rural community. (Many rural communities are in the same sad situation)

3.) The Teachers Union wields so much power that they make it virtually impossible to fire bad teachers for any reason. There are at least 20 hoops (more or less) that the school district must jump through in order to get rid of ONE teacher. (In NYC the school districts must rent space in other buildings for bad teachers (so they are no longer around students) to spend 6 hours a day sitting around doing nothing while collecting their pay cause the district can’t get rid of them due to the Teachers Union)

Here’s what I propose:

1.) The Teachers Union needs to be busted in all 50 states! (This way they won’t have so much control over the wellbeing and education of our children nor be able to place or keep them in danger!)

2.) Once the Teachers Union is busted Legislation should be passed immediately preventing the Teachers Union from re-entering any school district in the USA for a period of 20-25 years. (This allows the schools time to weed out bad teachers, compensate good teachers and lure in more good teachers for the sake of our children. It also allows for reforms to our current school systems in order to educate our children better. )

3.) Legislation should also be past that will limit the wielding power of the Teachers Union so it never is able to reach the level of power that it currently enjoys!

4.) Legislation should be passed making any school official an accomplish to stalking, physical abuse or what not if they are fully aware of this behavior going on and sit back and do nothing to protect the child/children in that school. (In other words, if the Teacher mentioned earlier would have been fired and prohibited from stepping on school property or from attending school functions (of any sort), then that young woman would not of had to live in fear everyday while attending school for her education. Schools are to provide a safe learning environment for our children and they can’t do that when they protect bad teachers of any kind)

5.) Passing legislation that makes school districts and district employees liable in a court of law. No more anonymity!

Now, don’t get me wrong here. I was raised by Union members and was raised pro-union. For the most part I still am very much pro-union. However, I am very Anti-Teachers Union because of all the power they currently have. Due to all this power they have ceased to be an asset and have in turn become detrimental to our education system, to our children, to our government and to us the tax payer. When something ceases to be a benefit then it must be done away with and the Teachers Union needs to go. Even good Teachers pay the price of maintaining the current Teachers Union because they KNOW who the bad teachers are and get brushed with the same stroke the bad teachers get brushed with.

~ If I Only Had A Brain ~

This is my brain not on drugs:

After the boys got home from school I needed to run up to the store for Coffin nails and a bag of chips (I’m craving salt and there’s no salt licks close by). My Hubby had come home before I left and we both wanted Chicken Connection (If you’ve never had it I pity you! Yummy!), for supper tonight. So, I have “Shaggy the man child” get ready to come with me. Well, I head to store at the gas station for cancer sticks and I go into the store and decide to be a nice wife and grab my Hubby a Dt. Dew. Then of course the salt lick is calling my name so, I’m looking at the chips when what do I see but Taco flavored Doritos. They were begging to come home with me (How could I resist? it was a stray!). I go up to the counter and tell the clerk that I also needed two packs of vice to go. I pay up and leave on my merry way.

Next stop was the LYS (local yarn store for those out of the loop) to see if they have the new Vogue knitting magazine. I was in luck for she had just got them. I couldn’t just get the mag and leave that would be rude. I looked around for a bit (translation: I molested the yarn and they liked it!) then I paid for my mag and left. I was going to check the grocery store by my house for the mag but I figured I’d support my LYS instead. Of course by the time I left the front of my coat was soaked from all the drool. It was rather embarrassing for “Shaggy the man child” to see his mother in such a condition. He told me next time to wear a bib or get on meds.

We are finally making our way to our ultimate destination, the holiest of all chickendom, Chicken Connection. I wanted to have a quick smoke on the way and went looking for them in my purse. SURPRISE!!!!!! They weren’t there! What? How can that happen? Where did they go? Shaggy if your messing with me you’re so going to be grounded! But, there were NO cigarettes in the car at all. Now, I knew that I had just bought 2 packs when I was at the gas station and then it hits me. I left them on the counter at the gas station. So, after we got the food we had to stop back at the gas station on our way home. When I walked in the girl had them in her hands and gave them to me. Talk about feeling stupid. Tonight I think the Scarecrow would even feel smarter than me.

~ Change, Change, Change! ~

If you read my previous post and clicked on the image with my coffee table in it you would see in the enlarged image my change jar. It was so full that the lid rested on top of the change and didn't shut at all. Well, on top of the over full change jar we had to put the overflow of change into a plastic cup. This morning I needed smokes and of course my Hubby is at work and I don't have any money. So, I decided to turn in the change. I go to the bank to turn it in and I'm thinking oh it's only about 50 bucks but low and behold it was 85 bucks and a bit of change! That's pretty good for 5 months worth of saving change.

Now, I'm pretty happy about this minor windfall (I know, I'm easily amused) so, I call up Hubby at work to tell him the news. Well, I ended up leaving a stupid message, which dampened my enthusiasm however briefly. I then decided to head on over to my local pushers, I mean Starbucks and get my usual (cafe mocha grande with whip). I'm on my way home when my cell rings. It was Hubby wanting to know where I was. I proceeded to tell him that I was on my way home and that I left him a message about me taking the change to the bank because I was all out of friends, I mean smokes. Now mind you at this point I have yet to inform him of my recent purchase from my local sin dealer.

He then says to me, "And you went to Starbucks."

Ok, at this point, I start sweating like a crack addict being busted by a cop (not a pretty site). I knew I was busted so I admitted my guilt while thanking who's ever in charge that Hubby was at work and not waiting for me at home. lol Then I had to know how he knew that I went to get my fix and he didn't say. It's freaking me out man! Is he using a crystal ball or what? I'm going to have to find out when he comes home tonight how he did know cause it's driving me nuts. Yea, I know that's how you keep a moron in suspense and yes, today the shoe fits. LOL

~ I Can see clearly now the gloom is gone! ~

As you can see by the pic to the left of “Shaggy the Man Child” the Living room in my new home is rather on the dark side. I was beginning to wonder if I was going to need to call in an old Priest or a young Priest to fix the problem. The dark red wall is the longest solid wall in the whole room. It has only one large picture window but unfortunately if faces north so it doesn’t really get a whole lot of light. The other 3 walls were painted this pukey khaki like color that seemed to change from tan to greenish baby crap depending on the light. Now, if I wanted baby shit green on my walls I would just go borrow my little pudgy monkey from her mom and let her have at it but at last, that’s a no go. So, I have been living here feeling like I’ve been in a cave until this past weekend!






As you can see from my pics I now have a bright and light grey-blue Living room!!! It’s so much brighter, sunnier and appears larger than it ever did before. Of course now I have to repaint the window trim to white and get new curtains too. Plus I’ve already been eyeing up the piano for a paint job but Shhhh…. Don’t tell my hubby! LOL
I’m loving my new Living room! I can actually see my children when they are in there with me! Got to get some art and what not for the walls but that will come in time. Next is the kitchen! But only after I stop hurting! LOL