For my sister

She puts down my religion, my faith. She's been brainwashed into leaving the Catholic Church and becoming "Christian". We are as much Christian as she thinks she is.

Why do we pray to saints? I read a wonderful way to tell her and I hope the person who said it doesn't mind me borrowing it next time Rita and I have the discussion:

"Asking someone like John Paul to pray for me is like asking you to pray for me. Christians are encouraged to pray for each other. Prayer does not stop with physical death because all are alive to God in Jesus Christ our Saviour."

Going to be a Mima again

Diana called me a little while ago to tell me she's pregnant again. Sammy is going to have another little sister or brother. I'm so happy for them and I'll get to be an honorary grandmother again.

I can only pray that everything goes well during this pregnancy. We almost lost Di in January and she told me that she also had some cancer cells in her cervex and that they removed part of her uterus. She has to be careful.

I just finished reading Dead Witch Walking, the first in one of the series' that Scooter suggested to me. It's by Kim Harrison and was excellent. Can't wait to find the next book. I'm going to check Paperback Swap right now.

Too Busy to Breathe!

So I work eight hours a day and it's half an hour to and from work and half an hour for lunch. Thats 9 1/2 hours a day.

Then I was asked to help keep my previous boss out of jail by catching him up on his ledgers -- three or four years worth. BUT the kicker is that he wants it all hand written on old fashioned ledger sheets. I figure it takes anywhere from one to two hours per month to write out. So I'm going there after work three days a week. I WILL put them on a spreadsheet when I catch them up with this.

Then my 85 year old aunt wants me to her house at least one night a week for supper. That's a cool thing because who knows how much longer I'll have her in my life.

Also I try to meet Beth at Dunkin Donuts for a few hours on Monday nights.

I'm trying to finish my stuff for the knitting exchange.

Orientation for faire is Sunday and after that it will be a few nights a week up at Rich and Liz' working on building props.

And Liz has asked me to make up a few lists for her of contacts that she needs but there's LOTS of places. This will be needed by April 1st -- in seven days!

To top off everything my car started stalling on the way home from work today. Of course it was when I was going down the big hills and cars were whizzing by and being standard the brakes go powerless and I had major trouble stopping.

So I'm taking the day off from work tomorrow and the car's going to the car doctor again.

*sigh*

Spring Knitting Exchange -- what I've learned!

Except for the felting, I finished the main gift for the exchange. With this project I learned some great techniques and they're WAY easier than I thought. I learned how to do a three needle bind off; how to do an I-cord bind off and how to make a ridge around something. And if this felts right, it's going to be awesome!! I'll take before and after pictures and post them here after my exchange partner receives it.

I still have to finish one more item for the exchange and then get a few goodies to go with it. I'm planning on mailing it out next Saturday.

Yesterday we went to the new Borders and Target that opened in the mall. Oh. My. God! WOW! No need to go to Boston anymore just to go to Borders. This place is awesome and blows Barnes and Noble right out of the water.

I bought three books -- Jo Pence's latest, Red Hot Murder; the first book in a new to me series that looks good, Candy Apple Dead by Sammi Carter; and the next one I need to read in Nancy Martin's Blackbird Sisters mysteries, Some Like it Lethal.

Last week we hit Barnes and Noble and I bought The Body in the Attic, by Katherine Hall page; The Trouble with Magic, by Madelyn Alt; Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye, by Victoria Laurie; and a book that Scooter recommended and looks AWESOME, Dead Witch Walking, by Kim Harrison.

At the library I picked up three books in a new to me series by Laura Van Wormer -- Exposé; The Last Lover and Trouble Becomes Her. The author is from Connecticut and lives about half an hour away and it's really cool reading how the characters go to different areas that I know well.

You don't know what pain and loneliness are until you visualize the person you love lying in someone else's arms -- and choosing to be there instead of with you. -- The Last Lover, by Laura Van Wormer

Felting

I have more knitting project that I want to do, than I can even think about completing in a lifetime!

I've been really facinated with felting lately and today I found a blog that has a photo and pattern to make a felted heart bowl.

More felted stuff. These are for a game but they are really cute little bowls.

I'm invisible!

Defending Your Machine is a great blog that helps with all kinds of computer stuff. I ran two checks and found out that my computer is in total stealth mode. My firewall won't let anything in. YEAH!

Another site that I got to from Defend Your Machine is Welcome To The Bleeping Computer Tutorial and I downloaded ie-spyad which will give me more protection from malicious stuff. Actually I downloaded IE-Spyad from somewhere else but this told me how to install it and what it does.

Sam is knitting!

After spending the entire day at auditions for our faire, Southern Connecticut Renaissance Fair, I get home and Sam and Anthony are here.

Last week for her 10th birthday present we went to Michael's and one of the gifts she chose was a knitting kit. So tonight she wanted me to teach her.

We gave up on the kit since they gave you big plastic purple needles -- at least size 15 and very awkward to work with. So I pulled out a pair of size 11 and she picked out some bright purple yarn. I cast on 25 stitches, knit the first row and then showed her what to do. And she's now on her second row, all by herself, doing wonderfully. And so far she likes it.

Breast Cancer site

Please tell ten friends to tell ten today! The Breast
Cancer site is having trouble getting enough people to click on their site daily to meet their quota of donating at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged woman. It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on "donating a mammogram" for free (pink window in the middle). This doesn't cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate mammogram in exchange for advertising. Here's the web site! Pass it along to people you know. http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/